Recent ISU History Department Ph.D. Graduates in the HOTS program

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
Dissertation: "Mathematics is a Gentleman's Art : Analysis and Synthesis in American College Geometry
Teaching, 1790-1840"

Jason Chrystal
Dissertation: "The Taj Mahal of Sport : The Creation of the Houston Astrodome, 1957-1967"

Herbert Folsom
Dissertation: "Small Steps and Giant Leaps : Lunar Cratering Theory from Galileo to Neil Armstrong"

Philip Frana
Dissertation: "Coordinating the Experts and the Masses : The Professions of Health and the Creation of American Community Health, 1915-1940"

Gustavo A. Gutierrez
Dissertation: "Occupation and Displacement in the Old Northwest: The Role of Three Technologies"

David Harmon
Dissertation: "American Camp Culture : A History of Recreational Vehicle Development and Leisure
Camping in the United States, 1890-1960"

Byron Paul Mobley
Dissertation: "The Ingenuity of Common Workmen : and the Invention of the Computer"

Paul Nienkamp
Dissertation: "A Culture of Technical Knowledge: Professionalizing Science and Engineering Education in
Late-Nineteenth Century America"

Edy Parsons
Dissertation: "Facing the Aliens : Asian American Identity through the Eyes of Both Cultures, 1870s
-1940s"

Lester Poehner
Dissertation: "The Future's Not What it Used to be : The Decline of Technological Enthusiasm in
America, 1957-1970

David Seim
Dissertation: "Rockefeller Philanthropy, Economic Research, and the Structuring of Social Science,
1911-1944"

Robinson Yost
Dissertation: "Lodestone and Earth: The Study of Magnetism and Terrestrial Magnetism in Great Britain,
c. 1750-1830"