Recent Theses

2024-2025

Thomas Ernst
“Etajima: Officer Development in Imperial Japan”
Erin Hvizdak
“Death Becomes Her: Posthumous Evocations of Legendary Women of Color From the 18th and 19th Century Atlantic World”
Ray Matsumoto
“Constructing Identity Through Power” Analyzing War Responsibility Discourse Through Zainichi Koreans and Abandoned Japanese Settlers in Manchuria”
Elizabeth Smith
“Beauty in the Face of Horror: Fashion, Femininity, and Identity during the Holocaust”
Alison Moon
“Ecumenical Protestants, American Orientalism, and Interfaith Dialogue, 1890-1968”

Berit Davis
“Testing Their Mettle for Metal: Masculine Adventures, Gender, and the Economic Exploitation of Miners in the Cariboo Gold Rush, 1862-1867”
Kenzie Deppe
“Midwest Drag: Black Community, Resistance, and Perseverance”
Camilla Nisco
“Shaping Japanese Society Through Childhood” Themes of Change and Continuity in Cultures of Education and Play in Japan 1945-1952″
Timothy Varney
“Macarthur’s Forgotten Children: the Allied Occupation of Japan and the Burakumin”

Madison Barben
“Between Brethren and Fatherland: German Methodist Relations with Nazi Germany and American Methodism, 1933-1939”
Victor Moore
“The Style, the Song, and the Celebration: Black Power and the Changing Cultural Dynamics of Trinidad and Tobago, 1969-1973”
Jessica O’Rourke
“Newcomers in Latah County, Idaho: A Public History Approach on Cultural Adaption in the American West, 1871-1921”
Anne Schobelock
“‘Where Women are News’: Dallas and Houston Feminist’s Periodicals and Activism on the Era, Abortion, and Antirape; 1970-1981”

Kyley Canion-Brewer, MA
“’What Remains?’: Decolonization and Erasure of Memory in the History of the AfricaMuseum, 1897-2020″
James Cornelius, MA
“Executive Influence and the Opposition Discourse of John Taylor of Caroline: A Contextual Study in American Party Development, 1793-1794”
Adam LaPorte, MA
“How the Eagle Blocked Out the Sun: American and Japanese Aeronautical Engineering and Aircraft Production During World War II”
Delaney Piper, MA
“Farm Bound: Landscapes of Self-Sufficience, Dependency, and Penalty in Pacific Northwest Poor Farms”
Mario Vega, MA
“A Citizen Same as You and I”: Japanese American Student Relocation to Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Wa 1942-1945

Cole Robinson, MA
“Negotiating Sovereignty Within the British Atlantic: Text Mining the Discourse of Colonial South Carolinian Elites, 1869-1776”
Qianni Shen, MA
“Behind the Glory: Revealing the Hidden Memory of Chinese Air Force Pilots and Japanese Kamikaze Pilots 1931-1945”

Halderman, Christopher, MA
“The Militarization of the Puget Sound: A Gateway to the Pacific, 1880-1900”
Hitchen, Matthew, MA
“A Republican Education: The Politics and Ideology of Education in Columbia City, New York. 1777-1850”

Edgerton, Samantha, MA
“Better Than Being on the Streets: Oregon, Idaho, and the Battered Women’s Movement.”
Hagadone, Zachary, MA
“Palantines and Print Culture: Imagining Migration and Identity in the British Antlantic World.”
Johnson, Amy, MA
“Wanapum Dispossession and Persistence on the Mid-Columbia in the Atomic Age.”
Johnson, Joshua, MA
“When Bretheren Walk Together: Immanuel Tremellius (C. 1510-1580) , Jewish-Christian Conversion, Christian Hebraism, and Reformed Christianity.”
Menard, John (JT), MA
“Scottish Ale: Bert Grant and the Rise and Fall of the Yakima Brewing Malting Company 1982 – 2005.”
Schroeder, James, MA
“Programs of Denial: Unlocking the Gates to Skilled Immigration Through Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1947”

Briere, Laura, MA
“More Than Meets the Eye: The Shoshone-Bannock Response to Education at Fort Hall, Idaho 1904-1946.”
Cassiere, Katrina, MA
“Assobiando Dixie: Confederate Exiles in Brazil.”
Gumm, Sarah Beth, MA
“Tis the Best Joy that Anyone Can Ask: Progressive Era Women’s Clubs in Tacoma, Washington.”
Oller, Emily, MA
“Righteous Violence: Gender and the Stormtroopers, 1923-1933.”
Smith, Taylor, MA
“Closeted Tongues of Fire: The Holiness Movement, Pentecostalism, and the Rise of Evangelical Cooperation in the 20th Century.”
Svehla, Amanda, MA
“Communication and Power: Letter-Writing and the Elizabethan Court.”

Gilleran, Sean, MA
“Carl Sagan’s Groovy Cosmos: Public Science and American Counterculture in the 1970s.”
Ockerman, Megan, MA
“It’s the Water”: A History of the Olympia Brewing Company, 1896-1983.”
Torres, Renee, MA
“Emissaries for the Lord: American Protestant Women Writers and Missionaries, 1930s”
Webb, Brianna, MA
“Helmut Kohl: In Search of a Unified Past”

Anderson, James, MA
Thesis Title: “Seeing America’s Alps: Visual Media and the Creation of North Cascades National Park”
Hogstad, Jason Thomas, MA
Thesis Title: “Splitting Hares: Eastern Oregon Pest Control and the Urban/Rural Divide, 1900-1925”
Rau, Calen Edward, MA
Thesis Title: Of Monumental Importance: World War II, Hungarian Nationalism, and the Commemorative Landscape of Budapest
Dennis, Michael (Mickey), MA
Thesis Title: “An Un-American” Objection: Mennonite Conscientious Objectors and American Antagonisms in Kansas During World War I”

Ford, Joni, MA
Thesis Title: “Lowered Expectations: Mary Walker and the Disappointments of Mission Life, 1839-1848”
Kinsella, Tyler, MA
Runyan, Nyssa, MA
Thesis Title: “The Greatest Adventure: American Volunteers from Leland Stanford, Jr. University and the University of California, Berkeley, in the American Field Service, 1916 – 1918”
Schraeder, Sarah, MA
Thesis Title: “The Long Road to Memorialization: A History of the Development of the Esterwegen Memorial, 1945-2011”
Stack, Brian, MA
Dissertation Title: “Sodomists and Citizens: The Washington State Sodomy Law at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Wells, Jacob, MA
Thesis Title: “The Devotio Moderna; The Radical Reformation, and the Ideal of Inner Spirituality: 1374 – 1554”

Franklin, Robert, MA
Thesis Title — “Matanuska? Mister, She’s Tough”: New Deal Agricultural Settlement in Alaska, 1933-1940
Grube, April Mae, MA
Dissertation Title — From Honeymoon to Massacre: Memory and Remembrance of Marcus Whitman, 1847-1962
Patterson, Katherine Joyce, MA
Dissertation Title — Inferiority, Sexuality, and Motherhood: Methods and Representations of Female Holocaust Rescuers
Vickoren, Daniel Joseph, MA
Dissertation Title — Seeing Red From the Pulpit: Shifting Perceptions of Mormons and Pentecostals in American Society During the First Red Scare