MA Theses and PhD Dissertations in American Studies
2022
Balius, Quincy: (Chair) Alex Harmon
Monumental Memories: The Bear River Massacre, Gendered Settler-Colonial Violence, and Decolonization in Public History (MA thesis)
Gaston, Marcy: (Chair) J. Mitchell Vaterlaus
How Do They Feel About Cooking?
Ready, Tyler: (Chair) Robert Bennett
Fear in the 21st Century
Sward, Sandra: (Chair) Robert Rydell
Embedded in Stained Glass: America's Civil Religion
Zignego, Jordan: (Chair) Dennis Aig
The Structure of Cultural Memory: The Photography of Tom Wright
2021
Aspenson, Ceilon: (Chair) Walter Fleming
The State of the Field: Contemporary Native American Art
Griffiths, William (Co-chairs) Mark Fiege and Alex Harmon
Our Last Cast: The Future of Salmonid Angling in the American West (MA thesis)
Leary, Courtney: (Chair) Mary Murphy
Documentary Photography, Climate Crisis, and Immigration: Migrant Mother as a Lens to Understand Contemporary Migrant Stories (MA thesis)
Narotsky, Emma: (Chair) Mark Fiege
Humans and Howls: Wolves and the Future of Animal Communication (MA thesis)
Powers, Andrea: (Chair) Susan Kollin
American Fantasies and Imagined Histories: Ethnic Play and Settler Colonialism in Twentieth-Century Wyoming
Sulam, Barry: (Chair) Eric Austin
Saving Cultural Resources By Learning Places
2020
Biehl, Mary: (Chair) Walter Fleming
Mary Meigs Atwaer: The Many Lives of an American New Woman
Davenport, Hannah: (Co-Chairs) Robert Rydell and Michael Neeley
The Changing Face of Folkloric Transmission: Bigfoot and the American Psyche (MA thesis)
Hanson, Daniel: (Chair) Susan Kollin
Western American Spectral Studies: Haunting in Film, Literature, and Landscape
Keesee, Angela: (Chair) Mary Murphy
Green Onions: Kitchen Design and Foodways in Mid-Century Memphis
Roberts, Brent: (Chair) Robert Rydell
“Steady Hammer:” Origins of American Counterterrorism in the Dime Novel World of William J. Flynn
Robinson, Tonya: (Chair) Susan Kollin
Manifest Americans: The Modern-Day Appropriation of the Agrarian Myth
2019
Savoie, Gianna M.: (Chair) Michael Reidy
Our Storied Sea: Crafting a Collective Narrative of the Ocean Through Accompaniment (2018)
2018
Medicine Horse, Cassidy Anne: (Chair) Matthew Herman
Locating the Transgender Other: Alterity in 21st-Century America
Woodcock-Medicine Horse, Jennifer Neso eoo’e: (Chair) Robert Rydell
Green Museums Waking Up the World: Indigenous and Mainstream Approaches to Exploring Sustainability (2018)
2017
Baehr, Ninia: (Chair) Mary Murphy
Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Right to Decide: Reproductive Freedom, Self-Directed Dying, and Women's Autonomy
Coletta, Sarah Louise: (Chair) Robert Rydell
No Little Plans: Making and Breaking the 1992 Chicago World's Fair
2016
Bull Chief, Emerson Lee: (Chair) Matthew Herman
Belief Ways of the Apsaalooke: Development of a Culture Through Time and Space
Zeilinger, Lisa Ann: (Chair) Kristin T. Ruppel
An Aesthetic Framework for the Question of Indigenous Feminism, Autonomy and Leadership: Confronting a History of Colonial Male Dominance
2015
Boyer, Pamela: (Chair) Sara Waller
We Have Met the Star Trek Aliens and They Are Us (MA thesis)
2014
Merriot, Ivy: (Chair) Sara Mast
Exploratory Research of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel Acting as an Indigenous Place-Based Pedagogical Instrument for Learning Sky-Earth Relationships, Skywatching Fundamentals, and Celestial Mechanics
2013
Hill, Jennifer: (Chair) Mary Murphy
Midwives in Montana: Historically Informed Political Activism