Graduates 2010's
Austin, Shawn
Dissertation Title: "Beyond the Missions: Ethnogenisis in Colonial Paraguay, 1556-1700"
Advisor: Gauderman, Kimberly
Dissertation Completed: 2014
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Baca, Jacobo D.
Dissertation Title: "Somos Indigena Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965"
Advisor: Ball, L. Durwood
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Assistant Director- Chautauqua Program Coordinator and State Coordinator for National History Day, New Mexico Humanities Council
Big Man Jr., Alden
Dissertation Title: "Crow History 1700-1950: A Political and Social Battle to Retain Their Culture"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Biro Walters, Jordan
Dissertation Title: "Uncommon Knowledge: Lesbian & Gay New Mexico, 1920s-1980s"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster
Blahut, Adam
Dissertation Title: "Raising the Bar: Consumption, Gender, and the Birth of a New Public Drinking Culture"
Advisor: Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Current Career: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico at Gallup
Blansett, Kent
Dissertation Title: "A Journey to Freedom: The Life of Ranolies-Richard Oakes, 1942-72"
Advisor: Connell Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha and 2013-2014 Visiting Fellow at the School for Research
Brown, Lisa
Dissertation Title: "Comparative Colonialism-the Highland Clearances and the Trail of Tears"
Advisor: Margaret Connell-Szasz
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Yes Prep, Houston, TX
Carleton, William
Dissertation Title: "Fruit, Fiber, and Fire: A Cultural History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Cole, B. Erin
Dissertation Title: "R-0: Zoning, Race, Sexuality and Neighborhoods in Denver, 1956-1989"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2014
Convery, William
Dissertation Title: "Reconstructing Colorado: Race, Gender, Nation, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction-Era West"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2012
Current Career: State Historian, Director of Exhibits and Interpretation, Colorado State Government
Corcoran, David A.
Dissertation Title: "Transnational Lessons: U.S. Foreign Policy and Colombian Classrooms"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Historical Consultant, Corcoran Historical Consulting
Cozart, Daniel
Dissertation Title: "Afro-Peruvian Creoles: A Social and Political History of Afro-descended Peruvians in an Era of Nationalism and Scientific Racism"
Advisor: Judy Bieber
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Crago, Scott
Dissertation Title: "Constructing Rural Citizens: Ethnicity, Decentralization and Mapuche Cultural Revival under the Pinochet Dictatorship, 1976-1988"
Advisor: Hutchison, Elizabeth
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Archivist, State Archives of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Crandall, Maurice
Dissertation Title: "Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598-1912"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
DePond, Margaret
Dissertation Title: ""Beach Bodies: Gender and the Beach in American Culture, 1880-1940""
Advisor: Virginia Scharff
Dissertation Completed: 2019
Dickey, Sonia
Dissertation Title: "Sacrilege in Dinetah: Native Encounters with Glen Canyon Dam"
Advisor: Connell Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Editorial Coordinator, University of New Mexico Press
Dodson, Julian
Dissertation Title: "'Fanaticos', Counterrevolutionary Exiles and the Mexico-US Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929"
Advisor: Hall, Linda
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Instructor, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Roots of Contemporary Issues (RCI) program, Washington State University
Dory-Garduno, James
Dissertation Title: "The Forging of Castilian Law: Land Disputes before the Royal Audiencia"
Advisor: Graham, Timothy
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Current Career: Lawyer, The Barnett Law Firm
Ellis, Rebecca
Dissertation Title: "'Basically Intelligent:' The Blind, Intelligence, and Gender in Argentina, 1880-1939"
Advisor: Hutchison, Elizabeth
Dissertation Completed: 2016
Current Career: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History at Washington State University
Frisbee, Meg
Dissertation Title: "The Fight of the Century: The Regulation and Reform of Prizefighting in Progressive Era America"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul
Dissertation Completed: 2010
Current Career: Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Griego-Schmitt, Breanna
Dissertation Title: "'We Subdued the Body But Not the Courage': Popular Literature, Sovereign Authority, and Ceremonial Rites of Power During the Dutch Revolt, 1550-1598"
Advisor: Steen, Charlie
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: UNM Core Writing Instructor and Director of Program Development at Dimensions School of Dance and Music
Grinnell, Lucinda
Dissertation Title: "Lesbians Presente: Lesbian Activism, Transnational Alliances, and the State in Mexico City, 1968-1991"
Advisor: Elizabeth Hutchison
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Grossman, Sarah
Dissertation Title: "Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers in the Southwest and Mexico, 1850-1920"
Advisor: Truett, Samuel J.
Dissertation Completed: 2012
Current Career: Managing Editor, SEAP Publications, Cornell University
Kemp, John
Dissertation Title: "Bayard Taylor and German Speaking Central Europe: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter"
Advisor: Melissa Bokovoy
Dissertation Completed: 2014
King, Brian
Dissertation Title: "Mystics, Radicals, Sinners and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and The American West"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Current Career: Instructor, Dine College at Shiprock
Lara, Sandra
Dissertation Title: "'Crimes Against the Order of the Family, Public Morality, and Decency': Sexual Violence & Jurisprudencein Coahuila, Mexico, 1871-1931"
Advisor: Gauderman, Kimberly
Dissertation Completed: 2016
Latteri, Natalie
Dissertation Title: "Liaisons of an Unfaithful Woman: Whoredom, Teshuvah, and Apocalyptic Subtexts in the Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson"
Advisor: Ryan, Mike
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Lenti, Joseph
Dissertation Title: "Collaboration and Conflict: Organized Labor, Business, and the State in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico"
Advisor: Hall, Linda
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Assistant Professor, Eastern Washington University
Lucero, Brian Luna
Dissertation Title: "Invention and Contention: Identity, Place, and Memory of the Spanish Past in the American Southwest, 1848-1940"
Advisor: Truett, Sam
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Current Career: Digital Repository Coordinator, Columbia University Libraries and Information Services
Marshall, Jairo
Dissertation Title: ""Little Farm Hands: Rural Child Labor, Family, and Memory in the Southwest 1890-1940""
Advisor: Barbara Reyes
Dissertation Completed: 2019
Current Career: UNM Graduate Resource Center, Student Success Supervisor
Martinez, Nydia
Dissertation Title: "Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s"
Advisor: Hall, Linda
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History and Chicano Education, Eastern Washington University
McGehee, Ellen D.
Dissertation Title: "Commemorating Controversy: Place-Making at the Birthplace of the Bomb"
Advisor: Smith, Jason
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Archaeologist and Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
McIntyre, Kathleen M.
Dissertation Title: "Contested Spaces: Protestantism in the Mixteca Region of Oaxaca, 1935-95"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2012
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, Social Sciences Department, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
McPherson, Jennifer
Dissertation Title: "Not Your Mother's PTA: Women's Political Activism in Twentieth-Century America"
Advisor: Cahill, Cathleen
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Current Career: Assistant Director of Residential Life at Purdue University
Mikhailova, Yulia
Dissertation Title: "Power and Property Relations in Rus and Latin Europe: A Comparative Analysis"
Advisor: Graham, Tim
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Current Career: Adjunct Assistant Professor, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Morgan, Brandon
Dissertation Title: "Columbus, New Mexico, and Palomas, Chihuahua: Transnational Landscapes of Violence, 1888-1930"
Advisor: Hall, Linda B.
Dissertation Completed: 2013
Current Career: Associate Dean for History, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Native American Studies, and Communication at Central New Mexico Community College
Morris, Carson
Dissertation Title: "Everything is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile"
Advisor: Hutchison
Dissertation Completed: 2016
Current Career: World History Faculty, Albuquerque Academy
Nelson, Elaine M.
Dissertation Title: "Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills: Race, Place, and National Identity in America's Land of Promise"
Advisor: Connell Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Newhall, Mary Anne
Dissertation Title: "Like a Moth to the Flame: Modernity and Mary Wigman 1886-1973"
Advisor: Slaughter, Jane
Dissertation Completed: 2010
Current Career: Associate Dean College of Fine Arts, Associate Professor of Dance History and Criticism, Contemporary Dance, University of New Mexico
Ochoa, Margarita R.
Dissertation Title: "Gender, Power, and Authority in Indigenous Mexico City, 1692-1829"
Advisor: Gauderman, Kimberly
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Pafford, David
Dissertation Title: "Kit Carson's Adobe Walls Campaign of 1864"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Payne, Sarah
Dissertation Title: "Cleaning Up After Sex: An Environmental History of Contraceptives in the United States"
Advisor: Scharff, Virginia
Dissertation Completed: 2010
Current Career: Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Pearson, Jeffrey V.
Dissertation Title: "Phillip St. George Cooke: On the Vanguard of Western Expansion with the US Army, 1827-48"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas Tech University
Raspa, Darren
Dissertation Title: "Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policeways, Community Control, and Power in San Francisco and its Hinterlands,1846-1915"
Advisor: Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Current Career: Chief Historian of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base
Ray, Donna
Dissertation Title: "'There is a Threeness about You': Trinitarian Images of God and Self among Medieval Women Visionaries"
Advisor: Graham, Timothy
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies and History, University of New Mexico
Schank-Peterson, Donna
Dissertation Title: "Conflict, Tension, Strength: The History of St. Paul's Mission, St. Labre Indian School, and St. Stephen's Indian School, 1884-Present"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Reviews Editor, American Historical Review, Indiana University
Shumaker, Thomas
Dissertation Title: "Refuge, Resistance, and Rebellion: Humanism and the Middle Way in the French Wars of Religion"
Advisor: Steen, Charlie
Dissertation Completed: 2017
Current Career: Grants Administrator, The Office of the State Historian, Santa Fe, NM
Snider, Colin M.
Dissertation Title: "Complicated Campuses: Universities, Middle-Class Identity, and State-Society Relations in Brazil, 1956-90"
Advisor: Bieber, Judy
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Tyler
Steinke, Chris
Dissertation Title: "The 'Free Road': Indigenous Mobility, Power, and Rights of Passage in the Missouri River Corridor"
Advisor: Truett, Sam
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Strykowski, Jason
Dissertation Title: "Impossible Heights: From Mining to Sport in the Mountain West, 1849 to 1936"
Advisor: Hutton, Paul
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Sweeney, Lean
Dissertation Title: ""Stateless Space, Nationless Citizens: Tools of State-Making on the Mexico-Guatemala Borderlands""
Advisor: Judy Bieber
Dissertation Completed: 2019
Taylor, Sue E.
Dissertation Title: "Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854"
Advisor: Bieber, Judy
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Instructor, Central New Mexico Community College
Tippeconnic, Eric
Dissertation Title: "God Dogs and Education: Comanche Traditional Cultural Innovation and Three Generations of Tippeconnic Men"
Advisor: Connell-Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2016
Current Career: Lecturer, California State University, Fullerton; Professional artist
Turo, Bryan
Dissertation Title: "An Empire of Dust: Thomas Benton Catron and the Age of Capital in the Hispano Borderlands, 1868-1921"
Advisor: Truett, Samuel J.
Dissertation Completed: 2015
Current Career: Sr. Operations Manager, NextWave Safety Solutions; Adjunct Professor of History, Concordia College
Veeder, William
Dissertation Title: "El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion"
Advisor: Hall, Linda
Dissertation Completed: 2015
White, John
Dissertation Title: "Itaipu: Gender, Community, and Work in the Alto Parana Borderlands, Brazil and Paraguay, 1954-1989"
Advisor: Hutchison, Elizabeth
Dissertation Completed: 2010
Wiemann, Shawn
Dissertation Title: "Lasting Marks: The Legacy of Robin Cassacinamon and the Survival of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation"
Advisor: Connell Szasz, Margaret
Dissertation Completed: 2011
Current Career: Associate Professor of History, Onondaga Community College
Winchester, Ian
Dissertation Title: "Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity During the Franco Regime in Spain (1939-1975)"
Advisor: Sanabria, Enrique
Dissertation Completed: 2016
Woodard, Blair
Dissertation Title: "Intimate Enemies: Visual Culture and U.S.- Cuban Relations, 1945-2000"
Advisor: Truett, Samuel J.
Dissertation Completed: 2010
Current Career: Assistant Professor of History, University of Portland
