Carnegie Mellon University

Predoctoral and Doctoral Projects

James Russell Pryor, “Work, Nature, and the American Dinner Plate: Making Chicken in the Twentieth-Century United States,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2013).
Jessica D. Klanderud, "Street Wisdom: African American Cultural and Community Transformations in Pittsburgh, 1918-1970,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2013).
Kevin Conor Brown, “The Great Nomad: Work, Environment and Space in the Lumber Industry of Minnesota and Louisiana from the 1870s to the 1930s,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2012).
Fidel Makoto Campet, "Housing in Black Pittsburgh: Community Struggles and the State, 1916-1973,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2011).
David Marshall Struthers, “The World in a City: Transnational and Inter-Racial Organizing in Los Angeles, 1900-1930,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2010).
Charles Franklin Lee, “Carnival of Blood?: African American Workers and the Building of the Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, 1897-1912,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2006).
Robin Dearmon Jenkins, “Rivets and Rights: African American Workers and Shipbuilding  in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1890-1948,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2005).
Susannah Feeney Walker, “For Appearances’ Sake: African American Women’s Beauty Culture from 1920 to the 1970s,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2001).
J. Trent Alexander, “Great Migrations: Race and Community in the Southern Exodus, 1917-1970,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2001).
Liesl Miller Orenic, “On the Ramp: Ground Service Workers in the American Airline Industry, 1930-1970,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2000).
Ancella Bickley Livers, “Defining Ourselves: gender Construction and the Creation of Pittsburgh’s Black Community, 1925-55,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 1998).
Donald Earl Collins, “‘A Substance of Things Hoped For’ : Multiculturalism, Desegregation, and the Identity in African American Washington, D. C., 1930-1960,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 1997).
John Hinshaw, “Dialectics of Division: Race and Power among Western Pennsylvania Steelworkers, 1937-1975,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 1995).
Katherine Chilton, “City of Refuge: Urban Labor, Gender, and Family Formation during Slavery and the Transition to Freedom in the District of Columbia, 1820-1875,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009).
Jessie Barbour Ramey, “A Childcare Crisis: Poor Black and White Families and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009).
Rebecca M. Kluchin, “Fit to be Tied?: “Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984,” (Ph. D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2004).