| 2015 | Wessel, Ginette, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning |
| “Mobilizing Food Vending: Technology Community and Urban Space in the American City,” 2015. |
| 2015 | Saylor, Elizabeth, Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic Language |
| “AfifaKarm and Modern Arabic Literature,” 2015. |
| 2013 | Burga, Fernando, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning |
| “Planning the Immigrant City: Cuban American Spatial Politics and the Transformation of Miami,” 2013. |
| 2012 | Nam, Sylvia, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning |
| “Phnom Penh: from Politics of Ruin to Possibilities of Return,” 2012. |
| 2012 | BouAkar, Heba, Ph.D in City and Regional Planning |
| “Contesting Beirut’s Frontiers: Urban Development and the Spatial Production of Religion in Political Difference,” 2012. |
| 2011 | Lopez, Sara, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “The Remittance House,” 2011. |
| 2010 | Pietro Calogero, Ph.D. in Architecture |
| “Planning Kabul: The Politics of Urbanization in Afghanistan,” 2010. |
| 2010 | Doctors, Steven, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “The Collaborative Divide: Crafting Architectural Identity, Authority, and Authorship in the Twentieth Century,” 2010. |
| 2009 | Rojas, Carmen, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning |
| “The Revolutionary Urbanism: The Battle for the Streets of Caracas, Venezuela,” 2009. |
| 2009 | Tierney, Therese, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Situated Networks: In [Re]search of the Public,” 2009. |
| 2008 | Murphy, Stacey, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning |
| “The Politics of Benevolence: Managing Homelessness in San Francisco,” 2008. |
| 2008 | Gabiam, Nell, Ph.D. in Anthropology |
| “In Order not to Forget: Dignity and Development in Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps,” 2008. |
| 2008 | Sanyal, Romola, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “An Architecture of Displacement: Spatializing Identity and Refugee Space in Beirut and Calcutta,” 2008. |
| 2008 | Mukherji, Anuradha, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Negotiating Housing Recovery: Why Some Communities Recovered While Others Struggled to Rebuild in Post-Earthquake Urban Kutch, India,” 2008. |
| 2007 | Hom-Cary, Stephanie, Ph.D. in Italian Studies |
| “Destination Italy: Tourism, Colonialism, and the Modern Italian Nation-state, 1861-1947,” 2007. |
| 2007 | McPherson, Sean, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “A Tradition of Change: A History of Chita Dashimatsuri, 1600-2005,” 2007. |
| 2006 | Toxey, Anne, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Tides of Politics Traced in Stone: Modernization, Preservation, and Residues of Change,” 2006. |
| 2006 | Cousineau, Jennifer, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Making the Northwest London Eruv, 1988-2003: The Construction, Representation, and Experience of a Sabbath Space,” 2006. |
| 2006 | Rujivacharakul, Vimalin, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “The Rise of Chinese Architectural History: Cross-Cultural Studies and the Making of Modern Knowledge,” 2006. |
| 2005 | Dyckman, Caitlin, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning |
| “Loval Government Roles in Water Conservation” 2005. |
| 2004 | Gruen, Jason Philip, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Manifest Destinations: Tourist Encounters in the Urban American West, 1869-1893,” 2004. |
| 2003 | Pieris, AnomaDarshani, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: Penal Labor and Colonial Citizenship in Singapore and the Straits Settlements, 1825-1873,” 2003. |
| 2001 | Alami, Mohammed Hamdouni, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies |
| “Al-Bayan wa l-Bunyan: Meaning, Poetics, and Politics in early Islamic Architecture,” 2001. |
| 2001 | Ginsburg, Rebecca Ann, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “At Home with Apartheid: The Cultural Landscapes of Suburban Johannesburg, 1960-1976,” 2001. |
| 2000 | Catillo, Gregory Alan, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Constructing the Cold War: Architecture, Urbanism and the Cultural Division of Germany, 1945-1957,” 2000. |
| 1999 | Hosgrahar, Jyoti, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “The Development of Delhi in the 20th century,” 1999. |
| 1999 | Kezar, Zeynep, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “The Making of a National Capital: Ideology and Socio-Spatial Practices in Early Republican Ankara,” 1999. |
| 1997 | Bartu, Ayfer, Ph.D in Anthropology |
| “Heritage Politics in Istanbul,” 1997. |
| 1997 | Chattopadhyay, Swati, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Depicting Calcutta,” 1997. |
| 1996 | Thake, Conrad Gerald, Ph.D in Architecture |
| “Architectural and Urban Transformations of a Citadel in Malta,” 1996. |
| 1995 | Sadek, Rula, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning |
| “Housing Policy and the Making of the Nation State: Jordan, Kuwait, and Lebanon,” 1995. |
| 1994 | Pamuk, Ayse, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning |
| “Convergence Trends in Formal and Informal Housing Markets: The Case of Turkey,” 1994. |
| 1994 | Fuller, Mia. Ph.D. in Anthropology |
| “The Architecture of Italian Imperialism in Libya,” 1994. |
| 1992 | Leaf, Michael, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning |
| “Land Rights for Residential Development in Jakarta, Indonesia: The Colonial Roots of Contemporary Urban Dualism,” 1992. |