Graduates - 2000's
Ablard, Jonathan D.
Dissertation Title: "Madness in Buenos Aires: Psychiatry, Society, and the State in Modern Argentina"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Andres, Benny J.
Dissertation Title: "Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California: Nature, Agribusiness, Labor, and Race Relations, 1900-40"
Advisor: None given
Dissertation Completed: 2003
Barrera, B. James
Dissertation Title: "'We Want Better Education!' The Chicano Student Movement for Educational Reform in South Texas, 1968-72"
Advisor: Reyes, Barbara
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Current Career: Associate Professor, South Texas College
Bello, Robert
Dissertation Title: "Barcelona, 1936-45: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Historical Memory"
Advisor: Slaughter, Jane
Dissertation Completed: 2005
Current Career: Assistant Professor, Elmhurst College
Black, Chad
Dissertation Title: "Between Prescription and Practice: Governance, Legal Culture, and Gender in Quito, 1765-1830"
Advisor: Gauderman, Kimberly
Dissertation Completed: 2006
Current Career: Associate Professor, University of Tennessee
Bramwell, Lincoln L.
Dissertation Title: "Wilderburbs: Nature, Culture, and the Rise of Rural Development in the Rocky Mountain West, 1960-2000"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Current Career: Chief Historian, U.S. Forest Service
Cain, Ellen
Dissertation Title: "God Grace, and Government: Taylor and Mary Early in the American Southwest, 1874-1881"
Advisor: Slaughter, M. Jane
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Carnett, Daniel R.
Dissertation Title: "A History of Southern Baptists in New Mexico, 1938-1995"
Advisor: Szasz, Ferenc M.
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Carriedo, Robert
Dissertation Title: "The Man Who Tamed Mexico's Tiger: General Joaquin and the Professionalization of Mexico's Revolutionary Army"
Advisor: Hall, Linda
Dissertation Completed: 2005
Current Career: Officer USAF, United States Federal Government
Culhane, Jolane
Dissertation Title: "Carey McWilliams: An Intellectual Biography"
Advisor: Etulain, Richard W.
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Dorsey, Janine D.
Dissertation Title: "Episcopal Women Missionaries in Interior Alaska, 1894-1922"
Advisor: Szasz, Ferenc M.
Dissertation Completed: 2008
Erickson, Bruce A.
Dissertation Title: "Violence and Manhood: Military Culture on the Northern Frontier of Colonial New Spain"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Ericson, Brenda
Dissertation Title: "The Making of an Ally: Chiang Kai-shek and American Foreign Policy, 1936-41"
Advisor: Pugach, Noel
Dissertation Completed: 2004
Current Career: Teacher, Maggie L. Walker Governor's School
Featherston, Judy
Dissertation Title: "The Development of the Tile Industry in New Spain"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Gardner, Dudley
Dissertation Title: "Two Paths One Destiny: A Comparison of Chinese Households and Communities in Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, and Wyoming, 1848-1910"
Advisor: Etulain, Richard W.
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Gjeltema, Bruce
Dissertation Title: "Jacob Casimera Morgan and the Emerging Authentic Navajo Voice"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2005
Current Career: Associate Professor, University of New Mexico-Gallup
Herrera, Carlos
Dissertation Title: "The King's Governor: Juan Bautista de Anze and Bourbon New Mexico in the Era of Imperial Reform, 1778-1788"
Advisor: Truett, Samuel J.
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Herron, John
Dissertation Title: "The Reality of Living: Science, Gender and Nature in American Culture, 1865-1965"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Hinck, Laurie S.
Dissertation Title: "Jackson Hole, Wyoming"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2009
Current Career: Co-owner, Silvertip Mountain Center shop
Howard, Nancy Jill
Dissertation Title: "Native American Cultural Brokers"
Advisor: Connell Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Hughes, Scott
Dissertation Title: "The Unclosed Circle: Los Alamos and the Human and Environmental Legacy of the Atom, 1943-1963"
Advisor: Szasz, Ferenc M.
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Jager, Rebecca
Dissertation Title: "Negotiating Change on the Frontier: Indian Women Who Brokered the Collision of Cultures"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul A.
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Current Career: Assistant Professor, University of Idaho
James, Pamela
Dissertation Title: "Wartime on the Homefront: Women in New Mexico, 1939-1945"
Advisor: Szasz, Ferenc M.
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Karmen, Abbe
Dissertation Title: "U.S. Real Estate History"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Key, David
Dissertation Title: "Progressivism and Imperialism in the American Southwest, 1880-1912"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret and David Farber
Dissertation Completed: 2006
Current Career: Assistant Professor, Tusculum College
Kleiner, Catherine
Dissertation Title: "Doin' It for Themselves: Lesbian Land Communities in Oregon, 1970-95"
Advisor: None given
Dissertation Completed: 2003
Klimek, Kimberly
Dissertation Title: "Eve, Mary, and the Amazons: The Writings of Women within History and its Relation to the European Intellectual Culture, 950-1150"
Advisor: Steen, Charlie R.
Dissertation Completed: 2009
Current Career: Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Loomis, Erik S.
Dissertation Title: "Environment and Work in the Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry, 1800-1940"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2008
Current Career: Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
Loosbrock, Richard D.
Dissertation Title: "Living with the Octopus: Life, Work, and Community in a Western Railroad Town"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret and Elizabeth Jameson
Dissertation Completed: 2005
Current Career: Professor of History, Adams State University
Macmahon, Sandra
Dissertation Title: "Tuberculosis, the Navajos, and Western Healthcare Providers, 1920-60"
Advisor: None given
Dissertation Completed: 2003
Marioon, Javier
Dissertation Title: "Caciques y Caudillos: Indigenous Participation in the Andean Wars of Independence"
Advisor: Bieber, Judy
Dissertation Completed: 2004
Current Career: Department Chair, Associate Professor of History, Emmanuel College
Martin, James W.
Dissertation Title: "Cultures of Business, Work and Leisure in the United Fruit Company's Caribbean, 1880-1940"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2008
Current Career: Associate Professor, Montana State University
McDonald, Dedra S.
Dissertation Title: "Negotiated Conquests: Domestic Servants and Gender in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1598-1860"
Advisor: Jameson
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Morely Mattivi, Judith
Dissertation Title: "Making History: Historic Preservatic and the Creation of Western Civic Identity"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2002
Richards, Barbara
Dissertation Title: "Imagining the Political: El Taller De Grafica Popular in Mexico, 1934-49"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2002
Roche, Jeffrey
Dissertation Title: "Origins of the New Right: High Plains Political Culture"
Advisor: None given
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Ross, Lia
Dissertation Title: "Revisiting Decadence: Interpersonal Relationships in 15th-Century Historical Narrative of France, Burgundy, and England"
Advisor: Rubenstein, Jay
Dissertation Completed: 2004
Sanders, Jeffrey C.
Dissertation Title: "Inventing Ecotopia: Nature, Culture, and Urbanism in Postwar Seattle, 1955-85"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2005
Current Career: Associate Professor of History, Washington State University
Schlatter, Evelyn A.
Dissertation Title: "Aryan Cowboys, White Supremacists: Ideology and the Search for a New Frontier, 1960-1995"
Advisor: Jameson
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Scott, Amy L.
Dissertation Title: "The Republic of Boulder: Hippie Haven to Hipeoisie"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia and Farber, David
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Current Career: Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies Program, Bradley University
Shreve, Bradley
Dissertation Title: "Red Power Rising: The Origins of Pan-Indian Activism, 1944-69"
Advisor: Connell Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Current Career: Managing Editor, Tribal College Journal, American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Sippial, Tiffany
Dissertation Title: "Desiring Nation: Prostitution and the Struggle for a Cuban Identity, 1870-1920"
Advisor: Hutchison, Elizabeth Q.
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Current Career: Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, Auburn University
Solomon, Carlos
Dissertation Title: "California Son: The Life of Pio Pico"
Advisor: None given
Dissertation Completed: 2003
Sommer, Barbara A.
Dissertation Title: "Negotiated Settlements: Native Amazonians and Portuguese Policy in Para, Brazil, 1758-1798"
Advisor: Bieber, Judy
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Stamatov, Suzanne
Dissertation Title: "Family, Kin, and Community in Colonial New Mexico"
Advisor: Hall, Linda
Dissertation Completed: 2004
Sullivan, Michael A.
Dissertation Title: "Healing bodies and Saving the Race: Women, Public Health, Eugenics, and Sexuality, 1890-1950"
Advisor: Slaughter, M. Jane
Dissertation Completed: 2002
Thomas , Tiffany
Dissertation Title: "Desiring Nation: Prostitution, Modernity, and Citizenship in Cuba, 1840-1920"
Advisor: Hutchison, Elizabeth
Dissertation Completed: 2007
Van Valen, Gary
Dissertation Title: "The Ventriloquist Messiah and His Follower? Mojo Indian Responses to the Rubber Boom in Eastern Bolivia, 1860-1930"
Advisor: None given
Dissertation Completed: 2003
Watson, Carolyn E.
Dissertation Title: "Citizenship, Religion, and Revolution in Cuba"
Advisor: Hutchison, Elizabeth Q.
Dissertation Completed: 2009
Current Career: Interim Settlement Counselor, Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood and Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Independent Researcher; Freelance Translator
Wehrenpfennig, Joerg
Dissertation Title: "The Limits of Accommodation: How Khrushchev, Ulbrich, and the Western Allies Failed to Neutralize West Berlin, 1958-60"
Advisor: Pugach, Noel
Dissertation Completed: 2004
Weixelman, Joseph O.
Dissertation Title: "Hidden Heritage: Pueblo Indians, National Parks, and the Myth of the Vanishing Anasazi"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2004
Current Career: Associate Professor, Wayne State College
Will de Chaparro, Martina E.
Dissertation Title: "God Gives and God Takes Away: Death and Dying in Colonial New Mexico, 1760-1850"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2000
Williams, Robert
Dissertation Title: "'Saving Radieance': U.S.-Broadcast Reformers, ETV, and the Invention of National Public Television"
Advisor: Farber, David
Dissertation Completed: 2001
Ye, Lin
Dissertation Title: "In China's Shadow: United States Foreign Policy toward Hong Kong, 1945-1972"
Advisor: Pugach, Noel H.
Dissertation Completed: 2001
