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