Graduate Student Outcomes

Masters Theses in Progress

James Ersfeld, "US Military's Plans for Manned Lunar Outposts 1957-1961" (Dr. Ferenc Szasz, Director)

John Granato, "Dennis Chavez and US Foreign Policy in Latin America 1933-1962" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Susan Schuurman, "Genocide in Context: The Chemical Attacks on the Kurds in Halabja, Iraq, 1988" (Dr. Patricia Risso, Director)

Ian Winchester, "Constructing Nazism: How Nazi Germany Was Presented in Franco's Spain During WWII" (Dr. Enrique Sanabria, Director)

Doctoral Dissertations in Progress

Stephen Andrews, "British Public Schools, Rugby, Ethos of British Empire and Hunting" (Dr. Jake Spidle, Director)

Lisa Brown, "Comparative Colonialism: The Highland Clearances and the Trials of Tears" (Dr. Margaret Connell-Szasz, Director)

William Convery, "Reconstruction Colorado: Race, Gender, Nation, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction-era West" (Dr. Virginia Scharff, Director)

David Corcoran, "Lessons of the Day: Race and American Foreign Policy in Colombian Classrooms" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Sonia Dickey, "Sacrilege in Dinetah: Indigenous Water Rights, Environmental Activism, and the Damming of Glen Canyon" (Dr. Margaret Connell-Szasz, Director)

Janine Dorsey, "Indian Schooling: Episcopal Mission Teachers and Students in Alaska and South Dakota, 1873-1953" (Dr. Ferenc Szasz, Director)

Laurie Hinck, "Gender Mountaineering" (Dr. Virginia Scharff, Director)

Adam Kane, "Manhood and Manifest Destiny: James Henry Carleton and the West, 1840–73" (Dr. Paul Hutton, Director)

John Kemp, "Museums, Material Culture, the Middle Ages, and National Identity in 19th-century Germany" (Dr. Charlie Steen, Director)

Kim Klimek,"The Cultural Construct of Medieval History: 12th-Century Intellectual Life in Paris and Its Interpretation of Medieval History" (Drs. Jay Rubenstein and Charlie Steen, Directors)

Erik Loomis, "The Battle for the Body: Work and Environment in the Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry, 1880-1940" (Dr. Virginia Scharff, Director)

Scott Meredith, "Garden City: Environmental History of Missoula, Montana" (Dr. Virginia Scharff, Director)

Margarita Ochoa, "Nahaus and Spaniards in the Colonial Family: Gender, Ethnicity, and Society in 16th-Century Mexico City" (Dr. Kimberly Gauderman, Director)

Sarah Payne, "Cleaning up after Sex: An Environmental History of Contraceptives, 1880's-2006" (Dr. Virginia Scharff, Director)

Jeff Pearson, "Phillip St. Geroge Cooke: On the Vanguard of Western Expansion" (Dr. Paul Hutton, Director)

Colin Snider, "Middle Class Formation During Brazil's Military Dictatorship" (Dr. Judy Bieber, Director)

Sue Taylor, "Women and Slavery in Venezuela, 1750-1854" (Dr. Judy Bieber, Director)

Carolyn Watson, "Citizenship, Religion, and Revolution in Cuba" (Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, Director)

John Howard White, "Itaipu: Gender, Working-Class Community, and Military Rule in the Paraná Borderlands, Brazil and Paraguay, 1954-89" (Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, Director)

Blair Woodard, "The Aesthetic of Enemy Making: United States and Cuban Relations through Popular Culture, 1945-2005" (Dr. Samuel Truett, Director)

PhD Graduates: Employment and Dissertations

Jonathan Ablard • Assistant Professor of History, University of West Georgia
"Madness in Buenos Aires: Psychiatry, Society, and the State in Modern Argentina" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

James Barrera •
"'We Want Better Education!' The Chicano Student Movement for Educational Reform in South Texas, 1968-72" (Dr. Barbara Reyes, Director)

Chad Black • Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee
"Logics of Governance, Legal Culture, and Social Authority: Constructing Gender in Trans-Independence Ecuador, 1765-1857" (Dr. Kimberly Gauderman, Director)

Bruce Erickson • Visiting Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University

Alfred Brichta Lopez, O.P. • Assistant Professor of History, Dominican College
"St. Rose of Lima (Rosa de Santa Maria)"

Lincoln Bramwell • University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Wilderburbs: The Rise of Development in the Rocky Mountain West, 1060-2000" (Dr. Sam Truett, Director)

Samuel Brunk • Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso
"Zapata: Revolution and Betrayal in Mexico" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Elaine Carey • Assistant Professor, St. John's University in Jamaica, NY
"Women and Men on the Threshold of Modernity: A Cultural History of 1968 Mexico"

Judy Featherston • Independent Scholar
"The Development of the Tile Industry in New Spain" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Carlos Herrera • San Diego State, Imperial Valley
"The King’s Governor: Juan Bautista de Anza and Bourbon New Mexico in the Era of Imperial Reform, 1778-1788"

Rebecca Jager •
"Native Women as Culture Brokers" (Dr. Paul Hutton, Director)

Betsy Kiddy • Albright College
"Brotherhoods of Our lady of the Rosary of the Blacks: Community and Devotion in Minas Gerais" (Dr. Judy Bieber, Director)

Andrae Marak • Franklin College

James Martin •
"Development of Tourist Industry in the Early 20th-Century Caribbean" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Suzanne Pasztor • Associate Professor of History, University of the Pacific
"The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Susan Richards • Instructor, Central New Mexico Community College and University of New Mexico
"Imaging the Political: El Taller de Grafica Popular in Mexico, 1937-1949"

Jeffrey Sanders • Assistant Professor, Washington State University

Carlos Salomon • Visiting Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

Amy Scott •Assistant Professor, Bradley University
"The Rise of Lifestyle Politics, Hip Capitalism, and Micropolitan Urbanism in Boulder, Colorado, 1960-95" (Drs. Virginia Scharff and David Farber, Directors)

Bradley Shreve •
"Red Power Rising: The Origins of Pan-Indian Activism, 1944-69" (Dr. Margaret Connell-Szasz, Director)

Barbara Sommer • Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
"Negotiated Settlements: Native Amazonians and Portuguese Policy in Pará, Brazil, 1758-1798" (Dr. Judy Bieber, Director)

Michael Stanfield • Associate Professor of History, University of San Francisco
"Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in the Putumayo, 1850-1914" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)

Tiffany Thomas-Woodward • Assistant Professor, Auburn University
"Desiring Nation: Prostitution and the Struggle for a Cuban Identity, 1870-1920" (Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, Director)

Martina Will • Assistant Professor, Texas Women's University
"God Gives and God Takes Away: Death and Dying in Colonial New Mexico, 1760-1850" (Dr. Linda Hall, Director)