Dissertations in Progress
The following students are currently working on their dissertations.
Dissertator: Laura Arata
Advisor: Robert Bauman
Dissertation Title: Building Freedom in the Territorial West: Sarah Bickford and Virginia City's African American Community, 1870-1930
Dissertator: Gregory James Atkins
Advisor: Matthew A. Sutton
Dissertation Title: Evangelical Mecca: Government, Business, and Christian Organizations in Colorado Springs
Dissertator: Beth Erdey
Advisor: Robert McCoy
Dissertation Title: Conservation versus Conservatism: Federal Public Land Policy and Environmental Politics in North Central Idaho, 1950-1970
Dissertator: Shawna Herzog
Advisor: Heather Streets
Dissertation Title: Prostitution in Colonial Singapore: Selling Sex in the Heart of Britain's Asian Empire
Dissertator: Torsten Homberger
Advisor: Ray Sun
Dissertation Title: Fashioning Fascism: Constructing the Image of Hitler's Storm Troopers
Dissertator: Heidi Kyle
Advisor: Ray Sun
Dissertation Title: Gatekeepers of Oblivion: The Behavior and Motivation of Female Personnel of Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen
Dissertator: Lee Ann Powell
Advisor: Jeffrey Sanders
Dissertation Title: Culture, Cold war, Conservatism, and the End of the Atomic Age: Richland, Washington, 1943-1989
Dissertator: Nathan Roberts
Advisor: Steven Kale
Dissertation Title: Organizing Revolution in the French Empire: Anarcho-Syndicalist Labor Organizations in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, 1890-1918
Dissertator: Terisa J. Rond
Advisor: Sue Peabody
Dissertation Title: Such Wretched Creatures: Women, Crime, and Colony in the British Atlantic World
Dissertator: Christopher Schlect
Advisor: Matthew A. Sutton
Dissertation Title: Protestant Culture Wars in the 1930s
Dissertator: Kristopher M. Skelton
Advisor: Robert McCoy
Dissertation Title: Trapped in the Fur Trade: Debt Bondage in the Rocky Mountains, 1820-1825
Dissertator: Benjamin J. Smith
Advisor: Robert McCoy
Dissertation Title: Democratizing the Columbia: A History of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council
Dissertator: Sikang Song
Advisor: David Pietz
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Dissertator: Philip Travis
Advisor: Noriko Kawamura
Dissertation Title: Rouge State: The United States, Nicaragua and the Cold War Roots of the War on Terror
Dissertator: Laurali Turner
Advisor: Susan Peabody
Dissertation Title: Madame de Genlis: A Study in Politics, Gender, and Manners
Dissertator: Jacki Hedlund Tyler
Advisor: Peter Boag
Dissertation Title: The Power of Political Chatter: Constructing Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Development of Oregon, 1830-1860
Dissertator: Ai Wang
Advisor: David Pietz
Dissertation Title: River, City and People: The Hai River and the Construction of 20th Century Tianjin, 1897 – 1949