Doctoral Dissertation Defense
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL BULLETIN
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.
University Graduate School Announcements: Upcoming PhD Defenses 2019
"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
University Graduate School Announcements: 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
"Born in the U.S.A. / Made in the G.D.R.: Anglo-American Popular Music and the Westernization of a Communist Record Market" by Sven Kube
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
University Graduate School Announcements: 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
