The Department of History prides itself on the quality of research undertaken by our graduate students. Some of their recent research is listed below.
2024
- Jacob Kennedy, “Barbara Dane: The Forgotten Activist.” Advisor: Natasha Zaretsky
- Haley Wells, “Knocking at the Door: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James Montgomery.” Advisor: Andrew Baer
2023
- Hayden Batt, “Disenfranchisement Voter Suppression in Alabama 1865-1965.” Advisor: Natasha Zaretsky
- Donnae' Hampton Advisor, “Preceding Footsteps: The History of the Southern Negro Youth Congress.” Advisor: Andrew Baer
- Henry Smith, “Nero’s Eastern Policy and the Peace of Rhandeia.” Advisor: Walt Ward
2022
- Esteban Arnold, “‘The Cloak of Social Feeling’: Alfred Adler’s Gemeinschaftsgefuhl in Practice and Memory.” Advisor: Jonathan Wiesen
- Christopher Bertolini, “‘To Create a New Image of Women’: The Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment in Birmingham, Alabama, 1972-1982.” Advisor: Andrew Baer
2021
- Shelia Blair, “
Non-Human Agency in Environmental History.” Advisor: Andrew Baer
2020
- Tammy Blue, "The Evolution of Racism Through the Lens of Lynching Rhetoric and Memory." Advisor: Andrew Baer.
2019
- Logan Barrett, "The Civil Rights Struggle for Black Economic Opportunity in Birmingham." Advisor: Andrew Baer.
- Mary Katherine Armbrester, "Our Friendship and Our Enmity: British Imperialism and the 1921 Cairo Conference." Advisor: Andre Millard.
2017
- Stephanie Keller Womack, "From Despised Temporary Governor to First Elected Governor of Louisiana: The Vindication of William Charles Cole Claiborne." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.
- Christopher Long, "Mounting Mermaids on Alligators: Establishing the Georgia Continental Line." Advisor: Brian Steele.
2016
- Michael Barrett, "Racial Segregation: Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in Birmingham, Alabama, 1950-1960.” Advisor: Colin Davis.
- Nadejda Bontcheva-Loyaga, "Latin American Immigration to the Deep South: Community Responses in Birmingham Metro Area, Al (1995-2010)." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.
2015
- Tyler M. Malugani, "The Business of Forgetting: How Atlanta became a Future-oriented City, 1865-1895." Advisor: Colin Davis.
2014
- Thomas C. Mclemore, "Cooking With Caste Iron: Food System Modernization In Birmingham, 1910-1964." Advisor: Robert Corley.
- Jennifer E. Stitt, "Duty for Today, Hope for the Morrow: Alexander Crummell's Communitarian Ideal." Advisor: Brian Steele.
2013
- Terri Hicks, "Oak Hill Cemetery, A Reflection of Early Birmingham: 1871-1913." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.
2012
- Samuel "Yana" Davis, "The Odyssey of the Lotus: The Evolution and Journal of Buddhism's Most Egalitarian Teaching from Asia to America." Advisor: John E. Van Sant.
- Susan Elizabeth Hunter, "Subsistence Homesteads in Jefferson County: A Successful 'Experiment'?" Advisor: Robert G. Corley.
- Scott Kennedy, "Vote, People, Vote!: W. C. Patton, the NAACP, and the Birmingham Black Community." Advisor: Raymond A. Mohl.
- Jessica Newman, "Berry G. Jackson, alias Berry Clyatt: Murder Witness and Murderer." Advisor: Harriet Amos Doss.
2011
- JohnMark Allen Edwards, "From Brown to Bakke: Race change and the Birmingham City Schools, 1963-1983." Advisor: Tennant McWilliams.
- Cheyenne N. Haney, "Dreams of a Far Away Land, Japanese Immigration to Peru, 1899-1950." Advisor: John E. Van Sant.
- Joshua S. Hodge, "Reconstructing the Southern Populists: Alabama Farmers before Political Revolt, 1884-1889." Advisor: Brian Steele.
- Forrest C. McSweeney, "Contracts, Consent, and Fate: Framing the Chinese Civil Service Examinations as Mechanisms of Social Conditioning and Political Domination." Advisor: John E. Van Sant.
2010
- Kaye Nail, "Birmingham's Jewish Women and Social Reform, 1880-1980." Advisor: Raymond A. Mohl.