| Name | Advisor(s) | Doctoral thesis | Date of PhD | Initial post-graduate position | Subsequent position | |
| Vicky Shen | Raja Adal | "Sweet Archipelagos: A Multispecies History of Sugar and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific” | 2025 | Research Associate and Assistant Director, World History Center, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Bryan Paradis | Laura Lovett | "Trees Against the Tide: Cherry Blossoms, Tourism, and Washington’s Potomac Park, 1909-1975.” | 2025 | Lecturer in History, University of North Carolina Wilmington | ||
| Manuel Robles | George Andrews and Lara Putnam | "Here We Are, Here We've Been, Here We'll Be!": Global Politics, the Mexican State, and the Afro-Mexican Struggle for Ethno-Racial Rights, 1990-2020 | 2024 | Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | ||
| Chelsey Smith | Lara Putnam | A Generation Rising: Education for Freedpeople in Post-Abolition Jamaica, 1834-1872 | 2024 | Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | ||
| Ana Fumurescu | Gregor Thum | National in Difference: Primary Schooling, Citizen-Subjects, and Imperial Notions in Romanian-Administered Dobruja, 1878-1920 | 2023 | Legal writer, Fragomen | ||
| Yagiz Yildiz | William Chase | Left Radical Internationalism, the Fracturing Second International, and Founding of the Third International, 1910-1920 | 2023 | Research fellow, HSE University St. Petersburg | ||
| Corey Brazile | Robert Ruck | Before and After Title IX: The Persistent Entanglement of Race and Gender in Women's Collegiate Sport, 1892-1992 | 2023 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Leonardo Moreno | Marcus Rediker | The Rise and Fall of Cartagena de Indias: Maritime Economies, Labor, and Crisis in a Caribbean Port City (1578-1700) | 2022 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Matthew Plishka | Lara Putnam & Molly Warsh | Cycles of Crisis and Adaptation: A Multispecies Political Ecology of Late-Colonial Jamaica, 1870-1960 | 2022 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Amherst College | ||
| Jacob Pomerantz | Molly Warsh | Building the Bridge: Labor and Colonial Governance in Seventeenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados | 2021 | Field examiner, National Relations Labor Board | ||
| Aura Jirau-Arroyo | Lara Putnam | Our University: Nation, Diversity, and Student Protest in the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, 1952-1981 | 2021 | Teaching Postdoctoral fellow, Albion College | Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University | |
| Artan Hoxha | Gregor Thum | Sugarland: Socialism and teh Transformation of the Albanian Countryside | 2020 | Researcher, Institute of History, Tirana, Albania | ||
| Yevan Terrien | Marcus Rediker | Exiles and Fugitives: Labor, Mobility, and Power in French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1769 | 2020 | Visiting Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | ||
| Johnathan White | Lara Putnam and Laurence Glasco | It Was All a Dream...Pittsburgh's Musicians Local 471: Collective Memory and Alternate Truths | 2020 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State Greater Allegheny | ||
| Jose Andres Fernandez | Lara Putnam | Jamaica in the age of Development: Petitions, Small Farming, and Agricultural Planning, 1895-1972 | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Costa Rica | ||
| Bethany Wade | Lara Putnam/Reid Andrews | Enlightened Burial: Death and Science in the Spanish Caribbean, 1800-1870 | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University | Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University | |
| Adam Brode | Gregor Thum | Pride of Place. Interethnic Relations and Urban Spaces in Riga, 1918-1939 | 2019 | Data Analyst and German-language Specialist, Financial Compliance Industry | ||
| Alexandra Mountain | Rob Ruck | Rough Ice: The Education and Labor of Young Male Ice Hockey Players in Canada, the United States, and Sweden, 1950-1980 | 2019 | Allan H. Selig Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin | ||
| Marcy Ladson | Edward Muller | We Didn’t Start the Fire: Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania Before the Marcellus Boom | 2019 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Jesse Olsavsky | Niklas Frykman/ Marcus Rediker | "Fire and sword will affect more good:" Runaways, vigilance committees and the rise of revolutionary abolitionism, 1835-1860" | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu Province, China | ||
| Dan Holland | Edward Muller | Communities of Resistance: How ordinary people developed creative responses to marginalization in Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980-2010 | 2019 | Part-time Instructor, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Mirelle Luecke | Holger Hoock/ Marcus Rediker | Topsail Alley: Labor Networks and Social Conflict on the New York Waterfront in the Age of Revolution | 2019 | Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut | Supervisory Curator, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum | |
| Christopher Eirkson | Ruth Mostern/ Evelyn Rawski | Ideas of Empire in Early Ming China: The Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Chinese Imperial Visions, 1368-1500 | 2018 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College | Academic Advisor, George Washington University | |
| Bennett Sherry | Diego Holstein/ Pat Manning | Crossing Lines: How Transnational Advocacy & Refugee Migration Shaped the UNHCR in Turkey, 1960–1988 | 2018 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Jack Bouchard | Marcus Rediker | Towards Terra Nova: The North Atlantic Fisheries and the Atlantic World, 1490-1600 | 2018 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick | |
| Stephanie Makin | Gregor Thum | The Catholic Conundrum: The Role of the German and American Catholic Communities in Creating the Cold War World, 1945-1955 | 2018 | ORISE Fellow, Europe-Mediterranean Directorate within the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Washington, DC | Historian, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Indo-Pacific Directorate, Washington D.C. | |
| Nyri Bakkalian | William Chase | The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan | 2017 | Staff, Qualitative Data Analysis Program, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Jonathan Sherry | William Chase | Stalinism on Trial: Spanish Republican Legality, the Soviet Union, and the Performance of Justice in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 2017 | Visiting Professor, University of Miami | Assistant Professor, Averett University | |
| Kelly Urban | Reid Andrews/ Alejandro de la Fuente | The Sick Republic: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Politics in Cuba, 1925-1965 | 2017 | Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama | |
| Francisco Flórez-Bolívar | Reid Andrews | En sus propios términos: Negros y mulatos y sus luchas por la igualdad en Colombia, 1885-1947 | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Cartagena (Colombia) | ||
| Katherine Parker | Seymour Drescher/ Holger Hoock | Contentious Waters: The Creation of Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain, 1669-1768 | 2016 | Hakluyt Society Research Fellowship | Research Officer, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. | |
| Christopher Myers | Seymour Drescher | Steering The Seas of Reform: Education, Empirical Science, And Royal Naval Medicine, 1815-1860 | 2016 | Processing Brokerage Clerk, Vanguard | ||
| John Galante | Reid Andrews | Distant Loyalties: World War I and the Italian South Atlantic | 2016 | Assistant Teaching Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | ||
| Titas Chakroborty | Marcus Rediker | Work and Society in the East India Company Settlements in Bengal, 1650-1757 | 2016 | Post-doctoral Fellowship of Historical Studies, University of Texas-Austin | Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Shanghai | |
| Jesse Horst | Reid Andrews/ Alejandro de la Fuente | Sleeping on the Ashes: Slum Clearance in Havana in an Age of Revolution 1930-65 | 2016 | Resident Director, Sarah Lawrence College in Havana (Cuba) | ||
| Oana Adelina Stefan | William Chase | Vacationing in the Cold War: Foreign Tourists to Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970s | 2016 | Post-doctoral Fellow, Central European University in Budapest | Research Associate, European University Institute, Florence, Italy | |
| Anthony Comegna | Van Beck Hall | The Dupes of Hope Forever:" The Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Movement, 1820s-1870s | 2016 | Assistant Editor for Intellectual History, Libertarianism.org and The Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. | Academics Programs Design Manager, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University | |
| Andrew Behrendt | Irina Livezeanu | Travelers of an Empire that Was: Tourism, Movie-Going, and the Formation of Post-Imperial Identities in Austria and Hungary, 1918-1944 | 2016 | Undergraduate advisor, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Pittsburgh | Assistant Teaching Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology | |
| Steven Pitt | Marcus Rediker | City upon the Atlantic Tides: Merchants, Pirates, and the Seafaring Community of Boston | 2015 | Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University | Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University | |
| Madalina Veres | Pinar Emiraliogliu & Patrick Manning | Constructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment | 2015 | Junior Fellow, Central European University's Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, Hungary | Postdoc, American Philosophical Society; currently Director of Corporate a& Foundation Relations, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia | |
| Ahmet Izmirlioglu | Pat Manning | Clashes of Imperial Authority: Commercial Tribunals in the Ottoman Provinces and Istanbul, 1847-1880. | 2015 |
Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, Department of History
| Lecturer, University of North Carolina Wilmington | |
| Victoria Harms | Gregor Thum | Destined or Doomed? Hungarian Dissidents and their Western Friends, 1973–1998 | 2015 | Post-doctoral Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany | DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins | |
| Katharine Phelps Walsh | Bruce Venarde/ JenWaldron | Parturition and Print in Seventeenth-Century London | 2014 | Adjunct Professor, Wright State University | Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Brian Shaev | William Chase | Estrangement and Reconciliation: French Socialists, German Social Democrats, and the Origins of European Integration, 1948-1957 |
2014 | Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Professor, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands | |
| Suset Laboy Perez | Alejandro de la Fuente | Minor Problems: Juvenile Delinquents and the Construction of a Puerto Rican Subject, from 1880-1938 | 2014 | Public Relations/ Creative Consultant | ||
| Samantha Lomb | William Chase | Speaking Out: Popular Dimensions of Stalinist Authoritarianism: the Discussion and Implementation of the 1936 Constitution | 2014 | Lecturer, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia | Assistant Professor, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia | |
| James Hommes | Evelyn Rawski | Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and ‘Foreign Hero | 2014 | Teacher, Trinity Christian School, Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| Lars Peterson | Reid Andrews | In the Shadow of Batlle: Workers, State Officials, and the Creation of the Welfare State in Uruguay, 1900-1920 | 2014 | Assistant Director for Development, Brother’s Brother Foundation | ||
| Nicole Bourbonnais | Lara Putnam | Out of the Boudoir and into the Banana Walk: Birth Control Campaigns and Reproductive Politics in the West Indies, 1930-1970 | 2013 | Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| Alejandra Boza | Lara Putnam | Negotiating Indigenous Autonomy: Politics, Land, and Religion in Tierradentro (Colombia), 1905-1950 | 2013 | Assistant Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica | ||
| Julien Comte | Lara Putnam | Syphilis and Sex: Transatlantic Medicine and Public Health in Argentina and the United States, 1880-1940 | 2013 | Academic Advisor, University of Pittsburgh | Bilingual Technical Product Analyst, HCL America (onsite at Google Pittsburgh) | |
| Laura Grantmyre | Maurine Greenwald | Conflicting Visions of Urban Renewal: Visual Representations of Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1943-1968 | 2013 | Adjunct Instructor, Point Park University | Instructor of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Mary's School, Raleigh, NC | |
| Natalie Kimball | Reid Andrews | An Open Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-2010 | 2013 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University | Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
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| Kavin Paulraj | Lara Putnam | Jamaica Brasileira: The Politics of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil | 2013 | Musician | ||
| Alyssa Ribeiro | Edward Muller | The Battle for Harmony: Intergroup Relations Between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1950s to 1980s | 2013 | Lecturer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania | Assistant Professor, Allegheny College
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| Oliver Bateman | Peter Karsten | Law, Society, and Judicial Politics: State Supreme Courts and the Pursuit of Educational Equity | 2012 | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington | Independent journalist | |
| Mathew Casey | Alejandro de la Fuente | From Haiti to Cuba and Back: Haitians' Experiences of Migration, Labor, and Return, 1900-1940 | 2012 | Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi | ||
| Roland Clark | Irina Livezeanu | European Fascists and Local Activists: Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael | 2012 | Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University | Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK | |
| Jacob Pollock | Pinar Emiralioglu | The Geographicall Compass: History, Authority and Utility in the English Voyage Account, 1660–1730 | 2012 | Senior Historian, Office of Treaty Settlements in Wellington, New Zealand | ||
| Oscar de la Torre Cueva | Reid Andrews | Freedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-1950 | 2011 | Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma | Assistant, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte | |
| Niklas Frykman | Marcus Rediker | The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic Revolution | 2010 | Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College | Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Kenyon Zimmer | Richard Oestreicher | The Whole World is Our Country: Immigration and Anarchism in the United States, 1885-1940 | 2010 | Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington | ||
| Sharika Crawford | Reid Andrews | Under the Colombian Flag: Nation-Building on San Andres and Providence Islands, 1887-1930 | 2009 | Assistant, Associate Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD | ||
| Tracey Jaffee | Reid Andrews | In the Footsteps of Cristo Obrero: Chile's Young Catholic Workers Movement in the Shantytown, Factory, and Family, 1946-1973 | 2009 | Lecturer, University of Dayton | ||
| Eric Kimball | Marcus Rediker | An Essential Link in a Vast Chain: New England and the West Indies, 1700-1775 | 2009 | Assistant Professor, Utah State University | Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg | |
| Katherine Sorrels | Gregor Thum & Jonathan Scott | Austrian Jews and the Idea of Europe: Reformulating Multi-nationalism as a Response to the Disintegration of the Harbsburg Empire, 1880-1939 | 2009 | Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati (2009), Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati (2018) | ||
| Tania Boster | Jonathan Scott | Better to be Alone than in Ill Company: Jeremy Collier the Younger: Life and Works, 1650-1726 | 2008 | Program Coordinator at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Director, Student Leadership Programs; Assistant Director, the Bonner Center for Service & Learning; Oberlin College & Conservatory | |
| Clayton Brown | Evelyn Rawski | Making the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN | Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University | |
| William Conrad | Van Beck Hall | Development in Extractive Communities: Ridgway and St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 1850-1914 | 2008 | Executive Director, Stackpole-Hall Foundation, St. Marys, PA | ||
| Craig Marin | Marcus Rediker | Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1793-1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City | 2008 | University of Rhode Island, Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence, RI | Instructor, Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Mass. | |
| Ellen Walsh | Alejandro de la Fuente | Advancing the Kingdom: Missionaries and Americanization in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Gannon University, Erie, PA | Assistant Professor, Governors State University in Illinois | |
| David Gerlach | Irina Livezeanu | For Nation and Gain: Economy, Ethnicity and Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-1948 | 2007 | Assistant, Associate Professor of History, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ | ||
| Joanne O'Connell | Edward Muller | Understanding Stephen Collins Foster, His World and Music | 2007 | |||
| Christopher Magra | Marcus Rediker | The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution | 2006 | Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, CA | Associate Professor, University of Tennessee | |
| Curtis Miner | Edward Muller | Level Playing Fields: The Democratization of Amateur Sport in Pennsylvania | 2006 | Senior Curator, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA | ||
| Tina Phillips | Evelyn Rawski | Building the Nation through Women’s Health: Biomedical Midwifery in the Early 20th Century China | 2006 | Assistant, Associate Professor, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA | ||
| Steven Schroeder | Van Beck Hall | The Elementary School of the Army: The Pennsylvania National Guard, 1877- 1917 | 2006 | Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa. | ||
| Gregory Wood | Richard Oestreicher | The Problem of the Old Man: Manhood, Class, and Retirement in the U.S. 1910-1950 | 2006 | Penn State University, Erie, Pa. | Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md. | |
| John Donoghue | Marcus Rediker | Racial Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624- 1661 | 2005 | Assistant, Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago, Ill. | ||
| Scott Giltner | Van Beck Hall | The Art of Serving is With Them Innate: Hunting, Fishing, and Independence in the Post-Emancipation South, 1865-1920 | 2005 | Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo. | ||
| Andrew Haley | Donna Gabaccia | Turning the Tables: American Restaurant Culture and the Rise of the Middle Class, 1880-1920 | 2005 | Assistant, Associate Professor, American Cultural History, University of Southern Mississippi | ||
| Scott Hendrix | Van Beck Hall | The Spirit of the Corps: The British Army and the Pre-National Pan-european Military World and the Origins of the American martial culture, 1754-1783 | 2005 | Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio | ||
| Betsy Konefal | Reid Andrews | May All Rise Up: Highland Mobilization in Post-1954 Guatemala | 2005 | Assistant, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary | ||
| Susan Corbesero | William Chase | The Anniversaries of the October Revolution, 1918-1927: Politics and Imagery | 2004 | The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pa. | ||
| Gabriele Gottlieb | Marcus Rediker | Theater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750-1800 | 2004 | Assistant, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University, Michigan | ||
| Anthony Novosel | William Chase | Nikolai Bukharin: Alternative or Interregnum?
| 2004 | Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Randy Scott Smith | Marcus Rediker | The Liverpool Mercury: The Voice of Middle Class Reform 1811-1820 | 2004 | Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Michael Snow | Edward Muller | Pittsburgh Politics and Social Activism Between 1960 and 1980 | 2004 | |||
| Andrew Hall | Richard Smethurst | Japanese-Run Education and the Construction of a ‘Manchurian’ Identity in Manchukuo, 1931-1945 | 2003 | University of Northern Texas, Denton, Texas | ||
| Charles Hier | William Chase | Party, Peasants and Power in a Russian District: Winning Peasant Support for Collectivization in Sychevka Raion, 1928-1931 | 2003 | Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | Assistant Lecturer, University of Akron | |
| Paul Clark | Richard Smethurst | The Kokugo Revolution: Ueda Kazutoshi, Language Reform and Language Education in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
| 2002 | Assistant, Associate, Professor, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas | ||
| David Doellinger | Irina Livezeanu | From Prayers to Protests: The Impact of Religious-based Dissent on the Emergence of Civil Society in Slovakia and the GDR | 2002 | Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of History, West Oregon University, Monmouth, Ore. | ||
| Michael Ervin | Reid Andrews | The Art of the Possible: Agronomists, Agrarian Reform and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, 1908-34 | 2002 | Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash. | Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department | |
| Joan Mohr | Edward Muller | From Immigrant to Civilization: The Czechs of Allegheny City, 1873-1907 | 2002 | Independent Scholar | ||
| Jorge Nallim | Reid Andrews | The Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina: 1930-1946 | 2002 | Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College | Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada | |
| Benjamin Reilly | Seymour Drescher | Interviewing the Opinions: Principle, Practicality, and Politics in the Trail of King Louis XVI
| 2002 | Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar, United Arab Emirates | ||
| Rosalina Rios | Reid Andrews | Making Citizens: Civil Society & Popular Mobilization in Zacatecas, Mexico, 1821-1853 | 2002 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Jennifer Ford | Edward Muller | Landscape and Material Life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1798-1838
| 2001 | Interpretive Solutions, Inc., West Chester, Pa. | ||
| Leslie Hammond | Fritz Ringer | The British Progressive Contribution to the League of Nations Ideal | 2001 | Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Robert Kirkland | Peter Karsten | Observing Our Hermanos de Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950-1964
| 2001 | Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif. | Commander of Army ROTC at USC; faculty member, Columbia College & USC | |
| Vadim Staklo | William Chase | Harnessing Revolution: The Communist International in Central America, 1928-1935
| 2001 | Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. | Associate Professor, George Mason University; Project Manager, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT |