Ph.D. Alumni Archives
Blair Stein (Ph.D. April 2019)
Dissertation Title: "All That is Solid Melts into Air Travel: Environments, Technologies, and the Modern Nation at Trans-Canada Air Lines." Supervisor: Hunter Heyck. Current Position: Assistant Professor of History. Clarkson University.
Margaret E. Gaida (Ph.D. July 2017)
(Duke University / B.A., Physics, Philosophy; University of California, San Diego / M.A., Philosophy; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2012)
Dissertation Title: “From Damascus to Rome: Four Centuries of Reading and Practicing Islamic Astrology in the Latin West”; Supervisor: Rienk Vermij
Current Position: Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Caltech.
Julie H. Grissom (Ph.D. May 2014)
(University of Oklahoma / B.A., Classics; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2004)
Dissertation Title: "Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650 - 1810"; Supervisor: Kathleen Crowther│Abstract (pdf)
Current Position: Latin Instructor, Southmoore High School, Moore, OK
Jared S. Buss (Ph.D. May 2014)
(University of Oklahoma / B.A., History; University of Wisconsin, Madison / M.A., History)
Dissertation Title: "Willy Ley, The Science Writers, and the Popular Reenchantment of Science"; Supervisor: Hunter Heyck│Abstract (pdf)
Current Position:
Henry T. Zepeda (Ph.D. May 2013)
(Thomas Aquinas College / B.A., Liberal Arts; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2008)
Dissertation Title: “The Medieval Latin Transmission of the Menelaus Theorem”; Supervisor: Steven J. Livesey│Abstract (pdf)
Current Position: Post-doctoral fellowship, Max Planck Institute, Research Group on “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”, summer 2013; Post-doctoral fellowship, Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL) project, Munich, funded by the Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften and hosted by the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich, partnering with the Warburg Institute (University of London) and its new Centre for the History of Arabic Sciences in Europe (CHASE), 2013-2015
John Stewart (Ph.D. May 2013)
(University of Oklahoma / B.A., Letters; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2008)
Dissertation Title: “Chemical Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Physiology and Agriculture”; Supervisor: Peter Barker│Abstract (pdf)
Current Position: Assistant Director, Digital Learning, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Oklahoma
Melissa Rickman (Ph.D. May 2011)
(University of Oklahoma / B.A., Anthropology and B.S., Botany; University of Oklahoma / MLIS; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2003)
Dissertation title: “Making the Herball : John Gerard and the fashioning of an Elizabethan herbarist”; Supervisor: Steven J. Livesey and Karen Reeds│Abstract (pdf)
Current Position: Registrar, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma
Cornelia Lambert (Ph.D. August 2010)
(Salem College / B.A., Biology; University of Florida / M.A., History)
Dissertation Title: “‘Tricks upon travellers’: Robert Owen, New Lanark, and the choreography of character, 1800-1826”; Supervisor: Katherine Pandora│Abstract (pdf)
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Kathleen Sheppard (Ph.D. April 2010)
(Truman State University / B.A., Sociology and Anthropology; University College London / M.A., Egyptian Archaeology; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2006)
Dissertation Title: “The lady and the looking glass : Margaret Murray's life in archaeology”; Supervisor: Katherine Pandora│Abstract
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Previously: Post-doctoral fellow, American University, Cairo (2010-2011)
Sylwester Ratowt (Ph.D. May 2009)
(University of Oklahoma / B.S., Astronomy; University of Oklahoma / MLIS; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2004)
Dissertation title: “Discordant Consensus: Dialogues on the Earth's Age in American Science, 1890-1930”; Supervisor: Peter Barker│Abstract
Richard (Rick) Tison (Ph.D. June 2008)
(Oakland University / B.A., English; Baylor University / M.A., Church-State Studies)
Dissertation title: “Lords of Creation: American Scriptural Geology and the Lord Brothers’ Assault on ‘Intellectual Atheism’”; Supervisor: Stephen Weldon│Abstract
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Cedarville University.
David Steffes (Ph.D. June 2008)
(Cornell College / B.A., History, Economics and Business; University of Oklahoma / M.A. 2004)
Dissertation title: “The ‘Eco-Worldview’ of Charles Birch: Biology, Environmentalism, and Liberal Christianity in the 20th Century”; Supervisor: Hunter Heyck│Abstract
