College of Liberal Arts

Department of History

Dissertations in Progress

The following students are currently working on their dissertations.

Dissertator: Chris Allan
Advisor: Orlan Svingen
Dissertation Title: Locked Up!: Fear and Loathing and the Creation of National Parks in Alaska

Dissertator:
Paul Dean
Advisor: Noriko Kawamura
Dissertation Title: INGOs and U.S. Foreign Policy in Nicaragua

Dissertator: Marc A. Entze
Advisor: Orlan Svingen
Dissertation Title: Deconstructing the Countryside: Railroad Abandonment in the Pacific Northwest Wheatbelt

Dissertator: Katy Fry
Advisor: Laurie Mercier
Dissertation Title: Silent Pioneers: Japanese Americans in the Washington Oyster Industry, 1900-1950

Dissertator:  Jon Middaugh
Advisor:  John E. Kicza
Dissertation Title: Cultural Transmission Between Mexico and the United States, 1920-1946

Dissertator: E. Mark Moreno
Advisor: John E. Kicza
Dissertation Title: Mexican Nationalist Warfare: Insurgencies, Identity, and the French Occupation, 1862–1867

Dissertator: Terisa J. Rond
Advisor: Sue Peabody
Dissertation Title: Beyond Moral Outrage: Women, Gender, and Slavery in the British Atlantic World

Dissertator: Birgit Schneider
Advisor: Raymond Sun
Dissertation Title: The Civic Reintegration of Demobilized Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht and the Imperial Japanese Army after Unconditional Surrender 1945

Dissertator: Benjamin J. Smith
Advisor: Robert McCoy
Dissertation Title: Public Participation and the Northwest Power Act of 1980

Dissertator: Barbara Traver
Advisor: Sue Peabody
Dissertation Title:Merchant Women in the Francophone Colonies

Dissertator: Cherri Wemlinger
Advisor: Heather Streets
Dissertation Title: Italian Colonialism in East Africa: Cooperation Between Muslims and Italian Colonial Administrators 1890-1945

Dissertator: Cynthia Ross Wiecko
Advisor: Heather Streets
Dissertation Title: Militarization in a Changing Landscape: Intersections of War, Ecological Change and Memory of the Pacific War

Dissertator: Aaron Whelchel
Advisor: Heather Streets
Dissertation Title: Empire and Education: British Educational Policy at Home and Abroad in the Nineteenth Century

Dissertator: Laurie Ann Whitcomb
Advisor: Raymond Sun
Dissertation Title: Re-construction and Rebirth? Women Holocaust Survivors in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Person Camp, 1945–1950: A Case Study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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