Dissertations in Progress
PhD Candidate, ABD
jordan.bergstrom@wsu.edu
Dissertation title pending
PhD Candidate, ABD
samantha.edgerton@wsu.edu
“Better Than Being on the Streets:” Oregon, Idaho, and the Battered Women’s Movement
Sam Fleischer
PhD Candidate, ABD
sam.fleischer@wsu.edu
“Twentieth-Century Women’s Olympic Basketball: Gender and Political Crossroads”
Daniel Fogt
PhD Candidate, ABD
daniel.fogt@wsu.edu
“Crossing Borders: Marriage and Gender in Netherlandish Refugee Communities in London and the Rhineland, 1565-1600.”
Aaron Jesch
PhD Student
aaron.jesch@wsu.edu
“Charlie Reeve and the Radical Culture of the IWW”
Hsinshuan (Pamela) Lee
PhD Student
hsinhsuan.lee@wsu.edu
“Empire and Disease Prevention: the British Crown Colonies and Qing China in the Nineteenth Century”
PhD Candidate, ABD
james.schroeder@wsu.edu
“An American Foreign Legion: The Recruitment of European Refugees for United States Military and Psychological Warfare Programs during the Early Cold War”
Recent Alumni Dissertations
Atkins, Gregory: “America’s Theopolis: Boosters, Businesses, and Christian Nonprofits in Colorado Springs, 1871-2000.” (2018)
Binczewski, Jennifer: “Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630.” (2017)
Bolingbroke, David: “Atomic Restoration: An Environmental History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.” (2021)
Bond, Trevor: “Why Should We Have to Buy Our Own Things Back? The Struggle Over the Spalding-Allen Collection.” (2017)
Booth, Ryan: “Crossed Arrows: The US Indian Scouts, 1866-1947.” (2021)
Chowdhury, Amitava: “Horizons of Memory: A Global Processual Study of Cultural Memory and Identity of the South Asian Indentured Labor Diaspora in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean.” (2008)
Grav, Hans-Petter: “Vesterheim in Red, White, and Blue: The Hyphenated Norweigan-American and Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest.” (2017)
Hardyway, Fred: “Songhai’s Fall: The Role of Scholars and Blacksmiths in the Adoption, Adaptation, and Rejection of Gun Technology in West Africa, 1464-1612.” (2020)
Herzog, Shawna R.: “Convenient Compromises: A History of Slavery and Abolition in the British East Indies, 1795-1841.” (2013)
Kipers, Kevin: “Switchmen in the American West: Worker Unrest and Radicalism along the Early Twentieth-Century Transcontinental Railroads, 1893-1910”. (2022)
Kotin, Daniel: “Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic: Music, Memory, Recreation, and Nationalism in Trinidad Calypso, Ghanaian Highlife, and the African Diaspora.” (2020)
Krotke-Crandall, Karl: “The Holocaust in Russian Life: New Perspectives on Soviet-Jewish Memory”. (2021)
Link, Amanda Rae: “Spectors of Empire: Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937.” (2015)
Martin, Nicholas: “From Crying Blood to Capitalism: The Transition of Tribal Leadership in the Revolutionary Era.” (2020)
Maxwell, Mary Jane: “Journeys of Faith and Fortune: Christian Travelers in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth-Century dar al-Islam.” (2004)
McCormack, Carey: “Collection and Discovery: Botanical Collection in South and Southeast Asia, 1754-1885.” (2018)
Moreno, Mark: “World at War: Mexican Identities, Insurgents, and the French Occupation, 1862-1867.” (2011)
Perry, Katherine: “Mau Mau in the Metropole: The British Conservation Party and Kenya’s State of Emergency, 1952-1960.” (2018)
Powell, Randal: “The Day Soon Cometh”: Mormons, the Apocalypse, and the Shaping of a Nation.” (2020)
Reimann, Melanie: “They Would ‘Grant Canada at a Usual and Accustomed Gathering Place’: Cultural Survival and Preservation Across the US-Canada Border by the Sinixt Nation and the Confederated tribes of the Colville Reservation.” (2020)
Rhett, Maryanne: “’Quasi-barbarians’ and ‘Wandering Jews’: The Balfour Declaration in Light of World Events.” (2008)
Rond, Terisa Jeanine: “Altogether Useless’: Women, Crime and the Creation of Unfree Labor for the British Atlantic Colonies, 1660-1783.” (2014)
Selmanovic, Amir: “Self Managed Tuzla: The Development of a Working Class City.” (2015)
Shin, Dong Jo: “Sinicization with Socialist Characteristics: Han Control Over Ethnic Koreans in Northeast China, 1921-1976.” (2018)
Song, Sikang: “Building a Smoking Society: Culture and Ecology of the Tobacco Industry in North China, 1902-1937.” (2017)
Stack, Brian: “In Certain Western Areas of the United States: Bestiality, Animals, and Sexuality in the 20th-Century American West.” (2021)
Traver, Barbara: “After Kourou: Settlement Schemes in French Guiana in the Age of Enlightenment.” (2011)
Wang, Ai: “City of the River: The Hai River and the Construction of Tianjin, 1897–1948.” (2014)
Wemlinger, Cherri: “Making their Voices Heard: Expressions of World Opinion to the League of Nations during the Italo-Ethiopian Dispute (1934-1938).” (2012)
Whelchel, Aaron: “The Schoolmaster is Abroad: The Diffusion of Educational Innovations in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire.” (2011)
Wiecko, Cynthia Ross: “Guam: At the Crossroads of Spanish Imperial Militarization, Ecological Change, and Identity in World History.” (2011)