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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Wars of Position: The Construction of an Antifascist Public Sphere in Spain, 1931-1939, Carter David Barnwell
A Social History of Native Residents of Washington, D.C., 1835 to 1973, Rachael K. Cassidy and Rachael Cassidy
The First Twenty-Nine: A Microhistory of the Original Pilot Group of Navajo Code Talkers, Zonnie M. Gorman
History In the Present Tense: News and History on The Radio, 1924-1944, Steven R. Kostelecky
A Dream Deferred: Communism, Secession, and the Decline of Hardrock Unionism, Dominic Alexander Treadwell
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Slavery and Architecture Across the Mediterranean, John Behnken
“THE WILD ONES: VIOLENCE, VENGEANCE, AND SENSATIONALISM IN THE BORDERLANDS”, Leah Candolin Cook
Challenging the "Unexceptional": Marguerite of Provence, Thirteenth-Century Queenship, and Power, Katie Despeaux
“Great Excitement”: Violent Incorporations of the American Southwest, Joseph Hall-Patton
Ayllus and Haciendas: Social Reproduction of Community and Reciprocity in Nineteenth Century Ecuador, Laura Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Church, Law, and Literature: The Interconnected Social Structures of Domestic Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, Sarah E. Fairbanks-Ukropen
THE BLUFF AND BLANDING FIGHTS: RACE, RELIGION, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM IN PROGRESSIVE-ERA AMERICA, Reilly Ben Hatch
Visionary Women or Suspected Witches: The Shifting Use and Construction of Reputation in Accusations of Witchcraft During the High and Late Middle Ages, Megan E. Hattey
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" Ethnic Mexicans, Urbanism, Culture, and Politics in Emerging Silicon Valley, 1940-1980, Alexandro J. Jara
“FOR ALL YOU KNOW, I MIGHT BE A BLACK PANTHER”: HOW THE NEWS MEDIA CULTIVATED WHITE ANXIETY IN THE UNITED STATES AND BECAME A MODERN PANOPTICON FOR BLACK POWER, Caitlin Grace Leishman
"For all you know, I might be a Black Panther": How the News Media Cultivated White Anxiety in the United States and became a Modern Panopticon for Black Power, Caitlin Grace Leishman
Gathering Around a New Fire: The Bemo Family, Interracial Marriage, Race, and Power in the Mvskoke Nation, 1870-1897, Michelle M. Martin
INTERRELIGIOUS INTIMACY IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN, HERO L. MORRISON
Alternative Chicanx Educational Activism in the U.S. Southwest, 1935–1975, Moises Santos
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Immodest Immortality: Emperor Maximilian I's Artistic Program and the Ambraser Heldenbuch, 1504-1519, Jessica Cochran
The Transformation of Identity in Early Medieval England: Continuity, Disruption, and Creolization, Michael Sean Limmer
“Don’t Make Fun of the Residents!” Revisiting the Sunbelt’s Vanishing Communities: Mobility and Suburban Development, 1900-1990, Jerry D. WALLACE
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
El Pastor: The Life and Ministry of José Ynéz Perea, 1837–1910, Benjamin Rankin Davis
Remembering New Mexico's War: Service, Sacrifice, Suffering, and the Surrender of Bataan in Wartime New Mexico, 1941-1946, Elena Marie Friot
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Beach Bodies: Gender and the Beach in American Culture, 1880-1940, Margaret Elena DePond
Clever Cleric: Saint Wilfrid of York and the Complexities of Power and Authority in Seventh-Century England, Olivia E. Gannon
Little Farm Hands: Rural Child Labor, Family, and Memory in the U.S. Southwest, 1890-1940, Jairo E. Marshall
Urban in Nature: Yosemite, Cars, and California's Cities, 1913–1970, Guy McClellan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
THE POLITICS OF RELIGION: THE IRISH AND PROTESTANT DISPUTE OVER HOUSING IN DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND AND SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1920–1960, Aleja N. Allen and Aleja N. Allen
Reckoning with Violence: Counterinsurgency, Prisons, and Gang Truces in Los Angeles and El Salvador 1979-2017, Sarah L. Knopp
Contested Education, Continuity, and Change in Arizona and New Mexico, 1945-2010, Stephen D. Mandrgoc
Blackdom: Interpreting the Hidden History of New Mexico's Black Town, Austin J. Miller
The Transition of Papal Politicization as Demonstrated through Pope Gregory IX and His Adversaries in the Thirteenth Century, Emily Northcutt
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Fruit, Fiber, and Fire: A Cultural History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico, William R. Carleton
Buried History: Reclaiming Native Diplomats in Congressional Cemetery, Rachael Cassidy
AFRO-PERUVIAN CREOLES: A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF AFRO-DESCENDED PERUVIANS IN AN ERA OF NATIONALISM AND SCIENTIFIC RACISM, Daniel S. Cozart
The L. & H. Huning Mercantile Company: A Case Study of Mercantile Conquest in the Rio Abajo Region of New Mexico, 1848-1880, Ricardo S. Gonzales
Emperor Charles V and Sultan Süleyman I: A Comparative Analysis, Samantha Goodrich
Pesher, ha-Zonah, and Teshuvah in Solomon’s Apocalypse: Text and Context of The Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson, Natalie E. Latteri
"Not Your Mother's PTA": Women's Political Activism in Twentieth-Century America, Jennifer Lynn McPherson
"There Was Nothing There For Us”: Environment and the People at Bosque Redondo, Kaveh K. Mowahed
Kit Carson's Last Fight: The Adobe Walls Campaign of 1864, David A. Pafford
Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policeways, Community Control, and Power in San Francisco and its Hinterlands, 1846-1915, Darren A. Raspa
Refuge, Resistance, and Rebellion: Humanism and the Middle Way in the French Wars of Religion, Thomas E. Shumaker
Cultural Belief in the Supernatural from 500 to 1500: Change over Time, Significance, and Dispersion of Ideas from Augustine to Shakespeare, Stephanie Victoria Violette
Royal Daughters in Anglo-Saxon England, Alice Wehling
Jewish Culture in the Christian World, James Jefferson White
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
HUSHGAH ADIISH THE BADLANDS LODGE: A HIDATSA CULTURAL HUB ON THE UPPER-MISSOURI RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Michael Barthelemy Jr
Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598—1912, Maurice Crandall
My Brother, My Slave: The Social and Cultural Role of Slavery among the Navajo, Neil Dodge
"SED NEQUE SILENTIO PRETEREUNDUM": AN ANALYSIS OF THE MIRACLES OF SAINT WILLIAM OF NORWICH, Sarah Rose Edwards Obenauf
"Basically Intelligent:" The Blind, Intelligence, and Gender in Argentina, 1880-1939, Rebecca Ann Ellis
Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, Sarah Elizabeth Fairbanks-Loose
"Crimes against the Order of the Family, Public Morality, and Decency": Sexual Violence and Jurisprudence in Coahuila, Mexico, 1871-1931, Sandra Elizabeth Lara
"Yes, No, Maybe": Loyalty and Betrayal Reconsidered: The Tule Lake Pilgrimage, Ella-Kari Loftfield
Commemorating Controversy: Place-making at the Birthplace of the Bomb, Ellen D. McGehee
Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile, Carson Emily Morris
Britain and the Anglo-Saxons in Late Antiquity, Todd Morrison
God Dogs and Education: Comanche Traditional Cultural Innovation and Three Generations of Tippeconnic Men, Eric Tippeconnic
Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity during the Franco Regime in Spain (1939—1975), Ian Kent Winchester
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Somos Indígena: Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965, Jacobo Baca
Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s, Jordan Biro
Plan Perquenco and Chile's Indigenous Policies Under the Pinochet Dictatorship, 1976-1988, Scott Crago
Fanaticos, Exiles and the Mexico-U.S. Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929, Julian Dodson
The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II: The First Twenty-Nine, Zonnie Gorman
WE SUBDUED THE BODY BUT NOT THE COURAGE': POPULAR LITERATURE, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, AND CEREMONIAL RITES OF POWER DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT, 1550-1598', Breanna Griego-Schmitt
Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s, Nydia A. Martinez
CONFLICT, TENSION, STRENGTH: THE HISTORY OF ST. PAULS MISSION, ST. LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL, AND ST. STEPHENS INDIAN SCHOOL, 1884—PRESENT', Donna Peterson
At the Sea's Edge: Revisiting the Origins of Native Seamanship in Southern Arabia, Christopher John Stachura
The "Free Road": Indigenous Travel and Rights of Passage on the Missouri River, Christopher Steinke
Impossible Heights: From Mining to Sport in the Mountain West, 1849 to 1936, Jason Strykowski
An Empire of Dust: Thomas Benton Catron and the Age of Capital in the Hispano Borderlands, 1840-1921, Bryan W. Turo
El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion, William Veeder
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Beyond the Missions: Ethnogenesis in Colonial Paraguay, 1556-1700, Shawn Michael Austin
Raising the Bar: Consumption, Gender, and the Birth of a New Public Drinking Culture, Adam Blahut
R-0: Race, Sexuality and Single-Family Zoning in Denver's Park Hill and Capitol Hill Neighborhoods, 1956-1989, B. Erin Cole
The Last Apache "Broncho": The Apache Outlaw in the Popular Imagination, 1886-2013, Leah Candolin Cook
Sophie D. Aberle and the United Pueblos Agency, 1935-1944, Kathlene Ferris
Monsters at the End of Time: Gog and Magog and Ethnic Difference in the Catalan Atlas (1375), Thomas Franke
"Lesbianas Presente:" Lesbian Activism, Transnational Alliances, and the State in Mexico City, 1968-1991, Lucinda Grinnell
Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West, Brian King
Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs, David Korostyshevsky
Invention and Contention: Place, Identity and Memory of the Spanish Past in the American Southwest, 1848-1940, Brian Luna Lucero
Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West, Guy McClellan
Power and Property Relations in Rus and Latin Europe: A Comparative Analysis, Yulia Mikhailova
Livestock, Land, and Dollars: The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico, Jon M. Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
THE FORGING OF CASTILIAN LAW: LAND DISPUTES BEFORE THE ROYAL AUDIENCIA AND THE TRANSMISSION OF A LEGAL TRADITION, JAMES E. DORY-GARDUÑO
Dennis Chavez and The Inter-American Ideal, 1936-1962, John Granato II
The Ethereal Promise: Progressive Ideology, Internationalism, and Propaganda In World War II Radio Drama, Steven Kostelecky
Contested Spaces: Protestantism in Oaxaca, 1920-1995, Kathleen McIntyre
