University Graduate School announcements
According to Official University Policy (380.030), a dissertation is a formal and systematic discourse or treatise advancing an original point of view as a result of research. The dissertation defense announcement is an invitation to members of the University community to observe and participate in the defense, thus the defense must be held on a business day during the regular term. The defense must occur at the time, date and place of the announcement and all committee members must be in attendance. Upcoming Dissertation Defense Announcements will be posted here.
Scheduled PhD defenses
PhD Defenses 2024
"African Derived Dance in Nineteenth Century Trinidad, Havana, and Matanzas, Cuba," by Anna Wilhelmine Oppenborn
- Start: November 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Okezi Otovo
- Location: University Park, SIPA II, Room 301
"Crossing the Atlantic: The Impact of the Anglo-American Antislavery
Relationship on the American Abolition Movement" by Kathrine Faircloth Griffin
- Start: June 28, 2024, at Noon. Major Professor: Dr. Jenna Gibbs
- Location: MMC, SIPA II 301
"Beyond the Surface: Early American Patriotic Material Culture, 1780-1865" by Megan Scallan Melvin
- Start: June 28, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Kirsten Wood
- Location: MMC, SIPA II 301
"Between Ink and Power: The Politics of Cuba's National Press in the Late Republic (1940-1958)" by Richard Denis
- Start: June 18, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Michael J. Bustamante
- Location: MMC, SIPA II 343
"Hacking the Law: Enslaved Litigation, Freedom and the Digital Archives in Late Colonial New Granada, 1760-1810" by Tabithia Kay Kendara Holman
- Start: March 29, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Bianca Premo
- Location: MMC, SIPA II 301
PhD Defenses 2023
" Between Disgust and Pride: The Homosexual Subject During the Criminalization of Homosexual Sex in Urban Colombia (1936-1980)" by Hector Valero Lopez
- Start: June 28, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Victor Uribe-Uran
- Location: MMC, DM 370
" Anti-Germanism in the American Southeast During World War I" by William B. Gonzalez
- Start: June 26, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Gwyn Davies
- Location: MMC, DM 370
PhD Defenses 2022
" Vanguards of Liberation: Progressive Catholicism, the Student Movement, and Political Culture in Latin America, 1960-1973" by Sandra Milena Londono-Ardila
- Start: November 10, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Major Professors: Dr. Ana Maria Bidegain and Dr. Victor Uribe-Urán
- Location: MMC, DM 370
" Twice Enslaved: African Slavery in the Colonial Florida Indian Trade" by Clinton Hough
- Start: October 25, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Kenneth Lipartito
- Location: MMC, DM 370
Beyond Honor: Historizicing Sexual Coercion in Late Colonial Lima, 1750-1821" by Morgan Gray.
- Start: June 23, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Bianca Premo
- Location: MMC, DM 370
The Unusual Suspects: The Bourbon Reforms and The Inter- and Intracolonial Mobility of Africans and Their Descendants in The Spanish Caribbean" by Trevor E. Bryant.
- Start: June 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Bianca Premo
- Location: MMC, DM 370
PhD Defenses 2021
" Atlantic Legacies: Free Women of Color and the Changing Notions of Womanhood in the Long
Nineteenth Century" by Marie Stephanie Chancy
- Start: September 3, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Rebecca Friedman
- Location: MMC, DM 370 & Online, via Zoom
We Have the Land Titles.” Indigenous Litigants and Privatization of Resguardos in Colombia,
1870s-1940s" by Gloria Patricia Lopera Mesa
- Start: June 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Victor Uribe-Uran
- Location: MMC, DM 370 & Online, via Zoom
Our Representative on This Island: Local Belonging and Transnational Citizenship among Syrian and Lebanese Cubans, 1880-1980" by John Ermer
- Start: June 16, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Bianca Premo
- Location: Online, via Zoom
- Start: March 26, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Rebecca Friedman
- Location: Online, via Zoom
PhD Defenses 2019
Charles A. Dana, the Civil War Era, and American Republicanism" by Eric Rivas
- Start: November 8, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Gwyn Davies
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
Black and White Notes: Segregation, Urban Renewal, and Integration Through Pittsburgh's Locals 60 and 471." by Nathan J. Seeley
- Start: October 30, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Kirsten Wood
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
Manufacturing Sin on the Frontier of Heresy: Bishops, Franciscans, and the Inquisition in Cuba During the Long Sixteenth Century, 1511-1611." by Leonardo Falcon
- Start: October 11, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Sherry Johnson
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
Fighting Rebellion, Criminalizing Dissent: Governmental Responses to Political Criminality in Mexico and Colombia, 1870s-1910s" by Adrian Alzate Garcia
- Start: March 20, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Victor Uribe
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 358
PhD Defenses 2018
"Shades of Liberalism: Lawyers and social, political and legal transformations in nineteenth century Cuba" by Ricardo Pelegrín Taboada
- Start: November 15, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Victor Uribe
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
"The Racial Equation: Pan-Atlantic Eugenics, Race, and Colonialism In The Early Twentieth Century British Caribbean" by Christopher Davis
- Start: November 2, 2018 at 2:15 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Okezi Otovo
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
"Britain Can Take It: Chemical Warfare and the Origins of Civil Defense in Great Britain, 1915-1945" by Jordan Malfoy
- Start: March 7, 2018 at 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Gwyn Davies
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
"Pennsylvania's Loyalists and Disaffected in the Age of Revolution: Defining the Terrain of Reintegration, 1765-1800" by René José Silva
- Start: March 19, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Major Professor: Dr. Kirsten Wood
- Location: Florida International University, MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
"Developing Medicine: Cuba, Modernization, and Public Health, 1898 - 1945" by Jessica Allison
- Start: March 26. 2018 at 12 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Noble David Cook
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 445
- Start: March 29, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Major Professors: Dr. Kenneth Lipartito, Dr. Jenna Gibbs
- Location: Florida International University, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 370
PhD Defenses 2017
"Reading Spaces: Nation and Popular Learning in Nineteenth-Century Lima" by Gracia G. Solis
- Start: November 15, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Co-Major Professor: Dr. Bianca Premo & Dr. Victor Uribe
- Location: Florida International University MMC, Deuxieme Maison building. Room: DM 353
"The Bible Against American Slavery: Anglophone Transatlantic Evangelical Abolitionists’ use of Biblical Arguments, 1776-1865" by Ricardo Rodriguez
- Start: November 15, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. Major Professor: Dr. Jenna Gibbs
- Location:Florida International University MMC, SIPA, Room: DM 335