Hai Nguyen | PhD

• Dissertation title: "The Hidden Memory of the Vietnam War: Examining the Motivations of Soldiers on the Battlefields"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Justin Simundson | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Propaganda Images and Manufacturing Consent in "Free" Vietnam, 1950-1963"
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Lane Sobehrad | PhD

• Dissertation title: "The Past in Prologues: The Origins, Form, and Function of Introductory Material in Medieval Historical Works"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Sean Webb | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Christianity and Community Identity in Yokohama, 1859-1873"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Patricia Pelley

Emily Acosta | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Jeremy Brown | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Olivia Bursch |  MA

• "Nos Sentimos Libres: Healthcare, Socialism, and Women's Liberation in Castro's Cuba"
  • Advisor: Dr. Laura Calkins

Naomi Chapman | MA

• Dissertation title: "Messaging through Music: Representing Cold War America in India through Classical Music"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Darian Condarco | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey

Dean Conrad | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Jacob Collier | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Jacob Baum

Jeramey Gillilan | MA

• "Citizen is, as Liberty is, of American Birth: The Pennsylvania Gazette and the French Revolution"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Gretchen Adams

Mansell Gilmore | MA

• Thesis title: "Community, Identity, and AIDS in the Urban Indian Intellectual Community of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1996"
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

Joel Mathews | MA

• Thesis title: "Les Nouveaux Sans Culottes: A Social History of ROMADs During the Vietnam War"
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

John McCullough | MA

• Thesis title: "Breedlove: An Empire of the Air, 1938-1946"
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Garret McDonald | MA

• Thesis title: "Prisoners at War: Soviet Forced Labor and the Second World War"
  • Advisor: Dr. Alan Barenberg

Bill Randolph | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

Josh Reese | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Sean Cunningham

Gavin Rogus | MA

• "From Common Criminals to Destroyers of Liberty: Perceptions of the Army in Seventeenth Century England"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Casey Scarpati | MA

• Thesis title: "Agents of Modernization: American Books in South Vietnam, 1946-1964"
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Jase Sutton | MA

• Non-Thesis MA
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Heather Turbeville | MA

• Thesis title: "Spices, the East India Company, and the Origins of Anti-Dutch Sentiment in England in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Laura E. Cannon | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Situational Solidarity: LULAC's Civil Rights Strategy and the Challenge of the Mexican American Worker, 1934-1946"
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

Ming-Syuan Jhong | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Operation Babylift: Bringing Cold War Orientalism Home"
  • Advisor: Dr. Randy McBee

Autumn A Lass | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Far From Being Propaganda: The Office of Public Affairs, Truth-Telling, and Domestic Propaganda during the Truman Administration"
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

James A Sandy | PhD

• Dissertation title: "A War All Our Own: The Ranger and the Emergence of the American Martial Culture"
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Regina Burch | MA

• Thesis title: "The Pleasurable Culture: Sex, Media, and Enlightment 1715-1789"
  • Advisor: Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey

Steven D. Camron | MA

• Thesis title: "BBC as New British Empire: Soft Power to Cultural Imperialism and their Role in International Relations"
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

J C. Cummings | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Jacob Baum

Aren Dobbs | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Omero Lara | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Ryan McDonald | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Alan Barenberg

Emalee Nelson | MA

• Thesis title: "Cubans in Baseball: The Game-Changing Ties Between Color, Gender, and Acceptance in the United States"
  • Advisor: Dr. Jorge Iber

Michael Rangel | MA

• Thesis title: "Queer Valley: Stories of Culture and Resistance Along the Lower Rio Grande Valley"
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Sylvia Wright | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Karlos Hill

Jacynda Ammons | PhD

• Dissertation title: "When the People Start to Move, I Guarantee It Will Be International: African American Influence on Aboriginal Australian Activism from Jack Johnson to the Black Panther Party"
  • Advisor: Dr. Karlos Hill

Son Mai | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Cong Dong: A History of Vietnamese Fishing Communities Along the Texas Gulf Coast"
  • Advisor: Dr. Randy McBee

Jenny Paxton | PhD

• Dissertation title: "The Specialty of Specialties: Children's Medicine and the Development of Medical Authority in America, 1790-1890"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Gretchen Adams

Alfonso Aceves | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

William Allen | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Cari Babitzke | MA

• Thesis title: "Guns, Politics, and Fear: The National Rifle Association and the Battle to Keep and Bear Arms in Texas"
  • Advisor: Dr. Sean Cunningham

Carson Benn | MA

• Thesis title: "Rose Vines and Rotting Ghettos: Gangsta Rap, Appalachian Folk Songs, and the Place of Bad Music in American Popular Culture"
  • Advisor: Dr. Karlos Hill

Tyler Bouza | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Courtney Hubbart | MA

• Thesis title: "Ties That Bind: Chivalric Loyalty in the Late Twelfth Century according to Major Angevin Chroniclers"
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Samantha Lack | MA

• Thesis title: "Amusing Instruction: Constructing the Modern Child in England during the Long Eighteenth Century"
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Amanda Lancaster | MA

• Thesis title: "Alcoholics, Lesbians, and Radicals: Depicting Deviancy in Fin-de-Siecle France and the creation of a Deviant Feminity"
  • Advisor: Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey

Samantha Lippard | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Alan Barenberg

Dolores Luna | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Frances Martin | MA

• Thesis title: "Freed Vietnamese have her to thank:" Khuc Minh Tho, the FVPPA, and the use of grassroots diplomacy in the release, immigration, and resettlement of Vietnamese re-education camp prisoners, 1977-2011"
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Noel Murphy | MA

• Thesis title: "Countering Aridity: Attempts to Ensure the Success of Agricultural Pursuits in West Texas"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Barbara Hahn

Alexander Raby | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Sean Cunningham

Abel Rios | MA

• Thesis title: "Entitled to Exemption: How the Vietnam War Defined Conscientious Objection in America"
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Julia Stephens | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Whitney Taylor | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Richard Driver | PhD

• Dissertation title: "Music Is Revolution, Music Is Work: Rock 'n' Roll, Popular Music, and Working in American Culture, 1930s-1970s"
  • Advisor: Dr. Randy McBee

Sarah Myers | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "A Weapon Waiting to be Used: The Women Air-force Service Pilots of World War II"
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Michael Rollin | PhD

• Dissertation title: "America's First Cold War: U.S.-U.K. Naval Relations and the Washington Treaty System, 1916-1936"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Christopher Arnold | MA

• Thesis title: "Westphalian Soldiers and the Myth of the War of Liberation - Evolving Notions of Identity, Francophobia, and Masculinity during the Napoleonic Era"
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Renee Celeste | MA student

• Thesis title: "Forty Lashes: The Comparison of Court Punishments in Early Modern England and Colonial Virginia"
  • Advisor: Dr. Emily Skidmore

Tiffany Gonzalez | MA

• Thesis title: "Chicana Politics: Maria Cardenas and La Raza Unida Party in Texas, 1935-1993"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Kristen Kimble | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

Helen Rose | MA

• Thesis title: "Rebellion, Spymasters, and Spies: The Rise of Intelligence Operations in England, 1569-1585"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Lorin Scott | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Abigail Swingen

Adam Smithwick | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Patrick Tobin | MA

• Thesis title: "Francisco Franco and the Construction of Modern Spanish Identity: Nationalism in Spain, 1945-1975"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Joshua Tracy | MA

• Non-Thesis
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

James Vice | MA

• Thesis title: " The Nuclear Weapons Complex: A History of Acquiring, Selling, Reclaiming, and Expanding for the Mission of Pantex"
  • Advisor: Dr. Mark Stoll

Corye Beene | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "Deep in the Sports of Texas: TA, AW, Title IX, and Women's Intercollegiate Athletics in the 1970s"
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Jim Cloninger | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "The Paperbag Army: The American Army in the Early Cold War and the Disastrous Beginning to the Korean War"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Juan Coronado | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "I'm Not Gonna Die In This Damn Place: Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War"
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

Krystal Humphreys | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "Youth Aflame: The Creation of a Christian Youth Culture and the Rise of the Christian Right, 1945-2000"
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Philip Pope | PhD student

• Dissertation title: "Missing Places: Small Town Decline in the Texas Panhandle Plains Since 1945"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Sean Cunningham

Jennifer Torres | PhD 

• Dissertation title:"T'was Here With Bloody Feet With Scarcely Food To Eat: The Memory of Valley Forge In American Culture 1778-1878"
  • Advisor: Dr. Gretchen Adams

Leah Blackwell | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Katelin Dixon | MA 

• Thesis title: "Perfecting Perfection: An Analysis of the Redefinition of Franciscan Identity and the Concept of Evangelical Perfection in the Mid-Thirteenth Century"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Sarah Dykowski | MA 

• Thesis title: "Sunset Magazine and Suburban Masculinity"
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Richard Evans | MA 

• Thesis title: "Becoming Occult: Alienation and Orthodoxy Formation in American Spiritualism"
  • Advisor: Dr. Mark Stoll

Caitlin Guard | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Alexandria Harwood | MA 

• Thesis title: "Identity on the Move: The Creation of a German National Identity through Nineteenth Century German Tourism to Japan"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Patricia Pelley

Rebekah James | MA

• Thesis title: "Economy, Society, and Religion in Modern Egypt"
  • Advisor: Dr. Saad Abi-Hamad

Justin Kirkland | MA

• Thesis title: "From Rite to Right: How Holy Days Became a Natural Right in Medieval England"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Stephen Patterson | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Thomas Reynolds | MA

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Mary Suhl | MA

• Thesis title: "Grassroots Intellectualism: International Youth Meeting Dachau as a Case Study for Holocaust Education and Awareness through Para-Educational Activities"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Lynne Fallwell

Scott Thompson | MA 

• Thesis title: "Their Homes were in the Enemy's Lines: Loyalty, Military Occupation, and Irregular Warfare in Northern Virginia Border County, 1861-1865"
  • Advisor: Dr. Barton Myers

Travis West | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Saad Abi-Hamad

Kenna Archer | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "Damming the River of the Arms of God: the People of the Brazos and their Unruly River"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Mark Stoll

Shadia Mahamoud | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "The Development of Museums in Egypt during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and the Effects of the Modernizing UNESCO Agenda"
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Curtis Peoples | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "Crossroads: Place, Style, and Process in West Texas Music to 1955 "
  
  • Advisor: Jorge Iber

Christopher Thrasher | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "A History of Fight Sports in America"
  • Advisor: Dr. Randy McBee

Emily Verfurth | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "Strikes, Spares, and Gutter Balls: The History of Women's Bowling in Twentieth Century America"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Halen Watkins | PhD 

• Dissertation title: "A Rough Pitch: An Exploration of Soccer and Society in Texas since the 1960s"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Randy McBee

Joseph Anselmi | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Gary Forsythe

Amber Batura | MA 

• Thesis title: "From the Bachelor Pad to the Jungle: Playboy Magazine, and Vietnam Soldiers"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Gari Davis | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Ryan Garner | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Jacob Lackner | MA 

• Thesis title: "Jews Through Christian Eyes: The Jewish Other in Thirteenth-Century Papal Documents, Artwork, and Sermons"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Wesley McCasland | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Annalysa Owen | MA 

• Thesis title: "Culture Vultures: Degenerates, Looters, and War Profiteers in the New York Times, 1933-1948"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Lynne Fallwell

Jaime Perez | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Colleen Sisneros | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Julie Willett

David DeVilla | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Allan Kuethe

Jessica Waldrop | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Karlos Hill

Corbin Williamson | MA 

• Thesis title: "Industrial Grade Generosity: British Warship Repair in the United States in 1941"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Mohamed El Moctar | PhD

• Dissertation title: "The Crusades' Impact on Sunni-Shia Relations"
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Brian Robertson | PhD 

• Thesis title: "From Forgotten Man to Elder Statesman: Richard Nixon and Masculine Ideologies in American Political Culture in the Cold War"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

John Southard | PhD 

• Thesis title: "The Marine Corps Way: Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Nicholas Arandia | MA 

• Dissertation title: "The Defense Department's Role in Covert Operations 1945-1975"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Tucker Barrows | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Mark Stoll

Beth Callaway | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

Chris Hickman | MA 

• Thesis title: "Electronic Gaming: Idealism and Empire in the Digital Age"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Travis Jaquess | MA 

• Thesis title: "Men and Melons are Hard to Know: The Self Identity of Benjamin Franklin and the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of His Atlantic Persona"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ethan Schmidt

Matt Kocsan | MA 

• Thesis title: "Eating Right: Food, Salvation and the Empire in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Melissa Lambert | MA 

• Dissertation title: "Corsets and Courtly Culture: Dress and Nobility in Eighteenth Century France"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Wesley Lummus | MA 

• Thesis title: "Turkey: Modernity and its Implications"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Matt McCurley | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Stefano D'Amico

Hai Nguyen | MA 

• Dissertation title: "The Postwar Vietnam: The South Vietnamese Under the Policy of Reeducation"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

James Sandy | MA

• Thesis title: "America's Rangers: The Story of America's First Warriors and their Journey from Tradition to Institution"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

David Scott | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Lynne Fallwell

Katie Snyder | MA 

• Thesis title: "A Play for Blood: Feminine Bodies in Rebellion in Seventeenth-Century Trans-Atlantic British America"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ethan Schmidt

Jonathan Strickland | MA 

• Thesis title: "Northern Exposures: Canada and the Culture on Display in the Imperial Exhibitions"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong

Robert Weaver | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ethan Schmidt

Michael Wolf | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Dino Bryant | PhD 

• Thesis title: "Antebellum Southern Political Agitation: An Assessment of David James McCord"
  
  • Advisor: Drs. Alwyn Barr and Paul Carlson

Judd Burton | PhD 

• Thesis title: "Religion, Society, and Sacred Space at Banias: A Religious History of Banias/Caesarea Philippi, 21 BC-AD 1635"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Valerie McKito | PhD

• Thesis title: "From Loyalists to Loyal Citizens: The DePeyster Family of New York"
  
  • Advisor: Drs. Gretchen Adams and Catherine Miller

Ingris Campos | MA

• Non-Thesis
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Mosher

Autumn Costa | MA 

• Thesis title: "Truman and Titoism:  U.S. Propaganda Efforts in Yugoslavia"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Jonathan Edgeller | MA 

• Thesis title: "Taking the Templar Habit:  Rule, Initiation Ritual, and the Accusations against the Order"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Jay Eggemeyer | MA 

• Non-Thesis
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ron Milam

Maggie Elmore | MA 

• Thesis title: "Segregating Sacred Space:  Mexican American Catholicism in Northwest Texas, 1906-1956"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Miguel Levario

James Green | MA 

• Thesis title: "The Philosophy and Theology of John Scottus Eriugena as a Reflection of and Influence on Late Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Society: Inherent Conjunctions and Disjunctions between Theory and Practice"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. John Howe

Miny-Syuan Jhong | MA 

• Thesis title: "An Example of "Benevolent Assimilation": The Impact of Government Support on the Pensionado Program during the U.S. Colonial Period"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Randy McBee

Cody Lass | MA 

• Thesis title: "Read All About It:  Nationalism During the American Revolution"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Ethan Schimdt

John Gaines | PhD 

• Thesis title: "Not An Evening with Venus: Prostitution During the American Civil War"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Alwyn Barr

Sandra Harvey | PhD 

• Thesis title: "Working for Change: Wage-Earning Women in Waco, Texas Defense Industries during World War II"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Julie Willett

Jennifer Hoover | PhD 

• Thesis title: "Surviving the Hard Times: The Story of Survival and Resistance of American Prisoners of War in Korea and Vietnam"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. James Reckner

Adolph Hawkins | PhD 

• Thesis title: "James Dunwoody Bullock: Confederate Agent Extraordinary"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Jim Reckner

Sarah Barwinkel | MA 

• Thesis title: "A Legacy in Lubbock: How Three New Deal Programs Left Their Mark on the South Plains"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Sean Cunningham

Blake Collier | MA 

• Thesis title: "For Thine is the Kingdom: British Missionaries in East Africa, 1870-1925"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Dolly Wilson

John Huntington | MA 

• Thesis title: "Sino-American Relations: Nuclear Weaponry, the Johnson Administration, and the Antiballistic Missile System in the 1960s"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Justin Hart

Valerie Martinez | MA 

• Thesis title: "The Bracero Program in West Texas, 1951-1964"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Jorge Iber

Jenny Paxton | MA

• Thesis title: "Silent Wings Over the South Plains"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Gretchen Adams

Bryan Treadway | MA 

• Thesis title: "DER SPIEGEL and West German Perceptions of East Germany in the Era of Détente and Ostpolitik, 1966-1974"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Lynne Fallwell

Austin Wheeler | MA 

• Thesis title: "Scandalous General James Wilkinson and his connection to the Spanish, Aaron Burr, and Daniel Clark"
  
  • Advisor: Dr. Aliza Wong