Tim Ballard

Dissertation Title: "The Missionary Enterprise, Racial Conflict, and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, 1945-1980"
Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair); Jeff Wiltse; Robert H. Greene; Quan Manh Ha (English); Molly Worthen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - History)

Patrick Mulford O'Connor

Dissertation Title: "Tobacco Politics and the Reconstruction of Governance in America, 1862-1933"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour, Jeff Wiltse, Rob Saldin (Political Science); Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University - History)
Placement: History Instructor, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont

Joshua Pretzer

Thesis Title: "A Capitalist's Social Gospel: Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus and the Promise of Upward Mobility, 1875-1921"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Jody Pavilack; Tobin Shearer (African American Studies)

Patrick Swart

Thesis Title: "Blasting the Farm: Chemical High Explosives and the Rise of Industrial Agriculture, 1867-1930"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Jeff Wiltse; Leif Fredrickson (Independent Scholar)

Paul Thompson

Professional Paper Title: "'How about the Tariff and Homestead?': Homestead, Tariff Rhetoric, and Federal Powerlessness in 1892"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair); Richard Drake; Chris Muste (Political Science)

Scott A. Barnett

Thesis Title: "A New and Familiar Power: The Rise of Pentecostalism Among the Blackfeet in Montana, 1940-1975"
Committee: Tobin Shearer (Chair); Kyle G. Volk; Dave Beck (NAS)

Caleb Wright

Thesis Title: "The Beautiful Game as a Soviet Game: Sportsmanship, Style, and Statecraft during the Golden Age of Soviet Soccer"
Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Jody Pavilack; Clint Walker (MCLL)

Jonathan Del Buono

Thesis Title: "'The Business of Empire: American Capitalists, the Nicaraguan Canal, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1849-1858"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Jody Pavilack; Eric Schluessel (Political Science)

Garett Tree

Thesis Title: "The Russian Mission: Seventh-Day Adventism, Bolshevism, and the Imminent Apocalypse, 1881-1946"
Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Tobin Shearer; Clint Walker (MCLL)

Jonathan Hall

Dissertation Title: "Hounded: Dogs, Humans, and the Rise of the American City”
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Mike Mayer; Jeff Wiltse; Kelly Dixon (Anthropology); Chris Pastore (History, SUNY-Albany)
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Montana

April Gemeinhardt

Thesis Title: "'The Most Poisonous of All Diseases of Mind or Body': Colorphobia and the Politics of Reform before the Civil War"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour; George Price (African American Studies)

Dan Kamienski

Professional Paper Title:"Prescribing the American Dream: Psychoanalysts, Mass Media, and the Construction of Social and Political Norms in the 1950s"
Committee: Mike Mayer (Chair); Robert H. Greene; Lynne Koester (Psychology)

James Vaughn

Thesis Title: "Federal Cultural Exchanges and Jazz Diplomacy, 1956-1964"
Committee: Mike Mayer (Chair); Robert H. Greene; Patrick Peel (Political Science)
Placement: University of California-Riverside, Doctoral Program in History

Rosalyn LaPier

Dissertation Title: "The Piegan View of the Natural World, 1880-1920"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair); William Farr; Wade Davies (NAS); Trent Atkins (C&I); Frederick Hoxie (University of Illinois)
Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Montana

Randall Williams

Dissertation Title: "Green Voters, Gun Voters: Hunting and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States"
Committee: Dan Flores (Chair); Kyle G. Volk; Robert H. Greene; Chris Pastore (History, SUNY-Albany); Sara Dant (History, Weber State University)
Placement: Editorial Assistant, Montana Historical Society

Chelsea Chamberlain

Thesis Title: "Why Wait Until They Commit A Crime?: Moral Imbecility and the Problem of Knowledge in Progressive America, 1880-1920"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour; Jeff Wiltse; Susan Pearson (History, Northwestern University)
Placement: University of Pennsylvania, Doctoral Program in History

John Dunkum

Thesis Title: "Anatolii Vasil'evich Lunacharskii and the Soviet Theater"
Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Richard Drake; Clint Walker (MCLL)

Jordan Graham

Thesis Title: "We Are Against Socialized Medicine, But What Are We For?: National Health Policy and the Eisenhower Presidency"
Committee: Michael Mayer (Chair); Jeff Wiltse; Robert Saldin (Political Science)
Placement: History Instructor, The Holderness School (Plymouth, New Hampshire)

Sorn Jessen

Thesis Title: "July 4, 1865: A Nation in Search of Itself"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair); Anya Jabour; Dave Beck (NAS)
Placement: Little Big Horn Battlefield, Department of the Interior

Jeff Meyer

Thesis Title: "Alpine Experiments: The National Parks and the Development of Skiing in the American West"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (Chair); Richard Drake; Bill Borrie (Forestry & Conservation)
Placement: Aspen Historical Society, Aspen, CO

Patrick O'Connor

Professional Paper: "A Public Revolt Against Spitting: Education and Politics in the Progressive Era"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (Chair)
Placement: University of Montana, Doctoral Program in History, George M. Dennison Fellow

Robert Rutherford

Professional Paper: "More Dangerous than Murderers or Traitors: Conscientious Objection to Military Service in the Post World War II Era"
Committee: Mike Mayer (Chair); Kyle G. Volk; Patrick Peel (Political Science)

Kyeann Sayer

Thesis Title: "Religion, Russo-British Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy in Anna Ivanovna's Russia (1730-1740)"
Committee: Robert H. Greene (Chair); Mehrdad Kia; Ardeshir Kia (Anthropology)
Placement: University of Hawaii, Doctoral Program in History

Kayla Blackman

Thesis Title: "Public Power, Private Matters: The American Social Hygiene Association and the Policing of Sexual Health in the Progressive Era"
Committee: Anya Jabour (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Sara Hayden (Communication Studies)
Placement: Research Historian, Historical Research Associates (Missoula, Montana)

Ian Stacy

Dissertation Title: "The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Tobin Shearer; Sara Dant (History, Weber State University); Nancy Cook (English)
Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of History, Whatcom Community College (Bellingham, WA)

Michael Dax

Thesis Title: "Grizzly West: The Story of the Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Jeff Wiltse; Michael Patterson (Forestry)

Sydney R. Gwinn

Thesis Title: "Conspicuous Consumption: Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, CO, 1882-1915"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Kelly Dixon (Anthropology)

Dylan Huisken

Thesis Title: "'We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable': Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (chair); Dan Flores; David Beck (NAS)
Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

David J. Brooks

Dissertation Title:"Restoring the 'Shining Waters:' Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Jeff Wiltse; Jody Pavilack; Tobin Shearer; Nancy Cook (English)
Placement: Executive Vice President, Heritage Research Center (Missoula, MT)

Cody D. Ewert

Thesis Title:"Lessons in Loyalty: American Patriotism and Education in the Progressive Era"
Committee: Kyle G. Volk (chair); Anya Jabour; Jeff Wiltse; Tracy Steffes (Education & History, Brown University)
Placement: New York University, Doctoral Program in History

Heather A. Mulliner

Thesis Title:"Between The Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert Line and Louise Chapman"
Committee: Anya Jabour (chair); Jeff Wiltse; Jill Bergman (English)
Placement: New York University, Masters Program in Archives & Public History

Bennett G. Sherry

Thesis Title:"King of Kings: Human Rights Rhetoric and Regional Security in the Shah’s Iran, 1968-1978"
Committee: Tobin Shearer (chair); Robert H. Greene; Richard Drake; Mehrdad Kia (Anthropology)
Placement: University of Pittsburg, Doctoral Program in History

Virginia L. Summey

Thesis Title:"Gender, Justice, and Jim Crow: North Carolina Judge Elreta Alexander in the Long Civil Rights Era"
Committee: Anya Jabour (chair); Tobin Shearer; Eduardo Capulong (Law School)
Placement: University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Doctoral Program in History

Nicholas R. Van Hole

Thesis Title:"Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatment"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (chair); Richard Drake; Sarah Certel (DBS)

Randall Williams

Professional Paper Titles:" ‘Prime Mover’: The Boone and Crockett Club and the Bear-Cattle Wars of Kodiak Island"; "The Sportsmen’s Press and the Politics of Anti-Sovereignty"
Placement: University of Montana, Doctoral Program in History

Molly Varley

Dissertation Title: "Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory of Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Anya Jabour; Jeff Wiltse; Angelica Lawson (NAS); Nancy Cook (English)
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History & Political Science, Meredith College (Raleigh, NC)

Aaron Hyams

Thesis Title: "Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Traditions, 1921-1971"
Committee: Michael Mayer (chair); Dan Flores; Ramona Grey (Political Science)
Placement: Marquette University, Doctoral Program in History

Ahnie Litecky

Thesis Title: "Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair); Michael Mayer; Anna Prentiss (Anthropology)

Elizabeth Ryan

Thesis Title: "We Thought We Should Do Something Ourselves': Citizen Participation and the Denver Model Cities Program"
Committee: Michael Mayer (chair); Kyle G. Volk; Jon Tompkins (Political Science)

Zoe Ann Stoltz

Thesis Title: "Camping to Permanence: Montana's History of Mobile and Manufactured Home Use"
Committee: Jeff Wiltse (chair); Dan Flores; Jon Axline
Placement: Montana Historical Society, Reference Historian

Greg Gordon

Dissertation Title: "Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), David Emmons, Jeff Wiltse, Richard Drake, Jill Belsky (Society & Conservation)
Placement: Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)

Rodolfo Villarreal-Rios

Dissertation Title: "Independent Internationalism in Practice: Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Mexico from 1919 to 1929"
Committee: Michael S. Mayer (chair), Jody Pavilack, Maria Jose Bustos Fernandez (MCLL), David Aronofsky
Placement: Columnist and Adjunct College Teaching

Nicholas C. P. Vrooman

Dissertation Title: "Infinity Nation: The Métis in North American History"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Bill Farr, Jody Pavilack, Harry Fritz, Jeff Gritzner (Geography)
Placement: Independent Writer

Leif Frederickson

Thesis Title: "Still Blue: An Environmental History of Flathead Lake"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Martin Nie (Society & Conservation)
Placement: University of Virginia, Doctoral Program in History

David Keightley

Thesis Title: "A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong–their History, Culture, and American Journey"
Committee: Michael Mayer (chair), Harry Fritz, Steve Levine (Mansfield Center)

Erica Stukel Probst

Thesis Title: "Joseph Dixon and the Bull Moose Campaign of 1912"
Committee: Michael Mayer (chair), Harry Fritz, Jon Tompkins (Political Science)
Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

Ian Smith

Thesis Title: "From Subsistence to Dependence: The Legacy of Reclamation and Allotment on Quechan Indian Lands, 1700-1940"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, David Beck (Native American Studies)
Placement: Research Historian, Historical Research Associates (HRA), Missoula, MT

Rueben Swindall

Thesis Title: "Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection"
Committee: Richard Drake (chair), Robert H. Greene, Marton Marko (MCLL)
Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

Melissa Thomasma

Thesis Title: "The Lawmen Faced the Outlaws, No Badge Upon a Breast: Historical Memory and the Legacy of Henry Plummer and the Montana Vigilantes"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Ken Lockridge, Louis Hayes (Political Science)

Anna Amundson

Thesis Title: "Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II – Era War Brides in Montana"
Committee: Mike Mayer (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Janet Finn (Social Work)
Placement: Florida State University, Doctoral Program in History

Shawn Bailey

Thesis Title: "Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885–1915"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Jeffrey Gritzner (Geography)
Placement: University of Montana, Doctoral Program in History

Milena Oganesyan

Thesis Title: "James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991"
Committee: Michael Mayer (chair), Paul G. Lauren, Mark Johnson (Mansfield Center)

Leslie Weidow

Thesis Title: "Montana Zion: American Communalism in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Kyle G. Volk, David L. Moore (English)

Peter Aagaard

Thesis Title: "The Rewilding of New York´s North Country: Beavers, Moose, Canines, and the Adirondacks"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jeff Wiltse, Paul Krausman (Wildlife Biology)
Placement: Teaching Secondary Education

Doris Swann Avery

Thesis Title: "Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Jody Pavilack, David Beck (Native American Studies)

Margaret Caldwell

Thesis Title: "Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy"
Committee: Richard Drake (chair), Robert H. Greene, Paul Dietrich (Liberal Studies)

Andrew Endorf

Thesis Title: "British Foreign Policy Under Canning"
Committee: John Eglin (chair), Linda Frey, Louis Hayes (Political Science)

Katie Green

Thesis Title: "The Mirror of Nature: Chesapeake Perceptions of Wilderness, 1650–1787"
Committee: Dan Flores (chair), Kyle G. Volk, Phil Condon (Environmental Studies)

Peter Olsen

Thesis Title: "Mistaken in the Man: The Life, Death, and Estate Trial of John McClellan"
Committee: Harry Fritz (chair), Dan Flores, Jeff Greene (Political Science)

Rodolfo Villarreal-Rios

Thesis Title: "Independent Internationalism and Nationalistic Pragmatism: The United States and Mexico Relations During the 1920s"
Committee: Michael S. Mayer (chair), Jody Pavilack, Maria Jose Bustos Fernandez (MCLL)
Placement: University of Montana, Doctoral Program in History