Recipient, Thesis or Dissertation Title.

 

May 2007

Bickers, Robert Guy – M.A. – “Mission: Implausible Surprise and Success in the Hawaiian Mission, 1819-1825”

McLeod, Justin Scott – M.A. – “Price of Escape: Drugs, Vietnam and the American Soldier”

Rzeppa, Joseph Jude – M.A. – “Thomas Francis Meagher and John Mitchel:  Two Irishmen, Two Irish-Americans, One American”

Yeargan, Heather Leigh– M.A. – “Edward Everett and the Oregon Question:  A Study in Personal Diplomacy”

December 2006

Cooper, Dana Calise – Ph.D. – “Informal Ambassadors: American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1945”

Franklin, John K. – Ph.D. – “The Hollow Pact: Pacific Security and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization”

Lawrence, Jordan Taylor – M.A.. – “Fin-de-siecle Intellectuals and the Origins of Fascist Ideology”

Parker, Leah – M.A. –  “Confederates From The Bluegrass State: Why Kentuckians Fought For The Confederacy”

May 2006

Arguedas, Aaron – Ph.D. – “The Kingdom of Guatemala : Under the Military Reform 1755-1808”

Arnold, Watson Caufield – Ph.D. – “A Blacklands Moriality Play: Central Texas Farmers During the Agricultural Revolution, 1880-1930”

Bunker, Steven Blair – Ph.D. – “Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911”

Rich, Harold Wayne – Ph.D. – “Fort Worth 1880-1918”

De La Puente, Jose Carlos – M.A. – “What's in a Name? An Indian Trickster Travels the Spanish Colonial World”

Southard, John David – M.A. – “Working Toward Cohesion: United States Marine Corps and the Aid Support in the Korean War 1950”

Tippett, Robin Christine – M.A. – “The Economic Activities of Women in McLennan County , Texas .”

Walker, Thomas E. – M.A. – “The Origins of the Mississippi Marine Brigade: The First Use of Brown Water Navy by the United States ”

December 2006

Lawrence , Jordan Taylor – M.A.. – “Fin-de-siecle Intellectuals and the Origins of Fascist Ideology”

Summer 2005

Ely, Glen Sample – M.A. – “Riding the Western Frontier: Antebellum Encounters Aboard the Butterfield Overland Mail”

Laumen, Lauren Ashley – M.A. – “Womanly Women”: The Texas Antisuffrage Movement, 1915-1920”

May 2005

Abdelnur, Heather Judge – Ph.D. – “A History of Highland Guatemalan Textiles: Lost Opportunities and Colonial Legacies, 1760-1820”

Grear, Charles David – Ph.D. – “Texans To The Front: Why Texans Fought in the Civil War”

Johnson, David Conrad – Ph.D. – “Confronting a Catch-22: The Guatemalan Coffee Economy During the Era of the International Coffee Agreement, 1962-1989”

Crowley , Sara Beth – M.A. – “ "Some Were Civil, Some Were Common: Women and Community Property in Antebellum Louisiana ."

Fehler, Mary L. – M.A. – “Injury and Insult: Impressment's Impact on an Emerging National Identity”

Lundberg, John R. – M.A. – “Struggle for the Gate City : Grandbury's Texas Brigade in the Atlantic Campaign”

Watkins, Halen – M.A. – “Batsmen, Bettors, and Boxers: Sports and Leisure as Agents of Cultural Defense and Assimilaion, A Case Study of Panama During the 1920's”

December 2004

Ohls, Gary J. – M.A. – “Changing Modes of Warfare: Amphibious Doctrine and the Interwar Years”

May 2004

Kirkland , Melanie Anne – M.A. – “Heroines, Handmaids and Harlots: America 's Response to the WAC”

December 2003

Melton, Brian Christopher – Ph.D. – Stay and Fight It Out: Henry W. Slocum and America 's Civil War”

May 2003

Kelly, William Charles – M. A. – “To Be or Not to Be: Populism in Mexico During the Cardenas Presidency, 1934-1940”

Northrup, Cynthia Clark – Ph.D. – “George Bannerman Dealey: A Study in Persuasion, Perseverance, and Progressivism”

Pointer, Bart C. – Ph.D. – “Community-building Through Philanthropy: Case Studies in Fort Worth , Texas ”

Shilcutt, Tracy McGlothlin – Ph.D. – “First Link in the Life Chain: Infantry Combat Medics in Europe , 1944-1945”

December 2002

Richardson, Anne Elizabeth – M.A. – “To Rise Like the Phoenix : The Cherokee Nation Battles for Sovereignty”

Romero, Sharon Kate – M. A. – “A Window of Opportunity: Peggy Watts Gayoso and the Experience of Anglo Women in Late Spanish Louisiana ”

Burton , Helen Sophie – Ph. D. – “Family and Economy in Frontier Louisiana : Colonial Natchitoches , 1714-1803”

Nichols, Michael Ray – Ph.D. – “The Fortress and the Formidable Vessel: The Struggle for Dakar and the Richelieu in World War II”

May 2002

Caughfield, Adrienne Helene – Ph. D. – “Mothers of the West: Women in Texas and Their Roles in Manifest Destiny, 1820-1860”

December 2001

Garza, James Alex – Ph. D. – “Tales from the Mexican Underworld: Sex, Crime and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City , 1876-1911”

May 2001

Melton, Brian C. – M.A. – “Functional Opposition Between Independence and Interdependence: Terry Tempest Wills, the Double mark, and Environmental Activism”

Johnson, Robert Alan – Ph. D. – “A Uniquely Dangerous and Promising Time: America 's Protestant Establishment Confronts a New World, 1941-1950”

McCallum, Jack Edward – Ph. D. – “Les Sections Sanitaries: American Volunteers in the Great War”

December 2000

Harm, Rodney Harry – Ph. D. – “Expansion and Franchise Movement of Major League Teams in the Post World War II Era: 1945-1995”

Kelley, Mary L. – Ph. D. – “Private Wealth, Public Good: The Origins and Legacy of Foundation Philanthropy in Texas, 1920-1970”

May 2000

Pennington, Aaron Schuyler – M.A. - “Bombs Over Berlin : USAAF Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II”

Pointer, Bart Craig – M.A. – “For the Public Good: Philantropic Influence in Fort Worth , Texas ”

Halasz, Dorottya – Ph.D. – “The War Refugee Board and the Destruction of Hungarian Jewry”

Newcomer, Daniel – Ph. D – “ A City Dead from Progress: Forging the Official Story in 1940s Leon , Mexico ”

Osborne, Eric W – Ph. D. – “ Great Britain 's Economic Blockade of Germany in World War I, 1914-1919”

Varga, Zsolt J. – Ph. D. – “ Contemporary U.S. Press Coverage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution”

December 1999

Jurkat, Laurie Anne – M.A. – Vive la France !: Bastille Day in Mexico , 1880-1920”

Coffey, David Alan – Ph. D. – “The Soldier Princess: The Life and Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America , 1861-1867”

Macias-Gonzalez, Victor Manuel – Ph. D. – “ The Mexican Aristocracy and Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911”

Menzoff, Julius A. – Ph. D. – “On the Wings of Hermes: OSS and SOE Operations in Greece 1940-1945”

Smith, Thomas Hunter – Ph. D. – “A Monument to Lazarus: the Evolution of the Leprosy Hospital of Rio de Janeiro”

May 1999

Arnold, Watson Caufield, Jr. – M. A. – “Middle-Class Origins in Texas Agrarian Society: The Struggle of Scotch-Irish Immigrants on the Southern Frontier”

Mooring, Suzanna – M. A. – “Commerce and the Cross: The British East Indian Company and Roman Catholic Missionaries”

Rich, Harold Wayne – M. A. – “Twenty-five Years of Struggle and Progress: The Fort Worth Police Department 1873-1897”

Cothrum, Dallas Lee – Ph. D. - “Jo Shelby: Reluctant Guerrilla”

Dean, Camille K. – Ph. D. - “Evangelicals or Restorationists? The Careers of Robert and James Haldane in Cultural and Political Context”

Murphy, Justin D. – Ph. D. - “The Political Uses of History: Nineteenth-Century Monarchist and Republican Historians in France Interpret the Revolution”

Tuller, Shannon Baker – Ph. D. - “Santa Anna's Legacy: Caudillismo in Early Republican Mexico”

December 1998

Myers, James M. – Ph. D. - “The Bureau of Motion Pictures: Its Influence on Film Content During World War II and the Reasons for its Failure”

May 1998

Alexander, Elizabeth Urban - Ph. D. - “The Celebrated Case Of Myra Clark Gaines: A Narrative Of Marriage, Legitimacy, and Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century America ”

Bodiford, Carl –Ph. D. – “ The Process of Denominational Cohesion Within the Southern Baptist Convention, 1845-1927”

Cuellar, Carlos E. – Ph. D. - “Stories From The Barrios: A History of Mexican Fort Worth ”

Barringer, Mark - Ph. D. “ Public Lands , Private Empires: The Rise and Fall of the Yellowstone Park Company”

Beasley, Mark William – Ph. D - “Prelude to Leadership: Jim Wright, 1922-1963"

Watters, Charles Wesley – Ph. D. - “Black Armbands and Silent Protest: Tinker V. Des Moines and the Right of Symbolic Free Speech”

May 1997

Matt Esposito - Ph.D. - "Memorializing Modern Mexico: The State Funerals of the Porifirian Era, 1876-1911"

Harvey, Paul – Ph. D. – “The Farming Crisis in Texas, 1965-96”

McGowen, Stanley S. – Ph. D. – “Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War”

Tudor, William G. – Ph. D. – “Flight of Eagles: The Mexican Expeditionary Air Force Escudadron 201 in World War II”

December 1996

Mays, Thomas D – Ph. D. – “Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War”

Tuller, Roger H. – Ph. D. – “Let No Guilty Man Escape: A Judicial Biography of Isaac C. Parker”

Wood, Laura Matysek – Ph.D. – “ Hitler in print: A View by British and American Scholars”

May 1996

Coffey, David Alan – M. A. – “John Bell Hood and the Campaign for Atlanta ”

December 1995

Alexander, Elizabeth Urban – M.A. – “Who Pays for the Schools? San Antonio I.S. D. v. Rodriguez and the Equal Protection Clause”

Kinard, Jeff Sowers – M.A. – “The Battle of the Crater”

Macina, Mark Andrew – M.A. – The United States versus Great Britain and Germany : American Diplomatic Correspondence and Efforts to Remain Neutral, 1914-1915”

Smith, Thomas Hunter III – M.A. – “The Cross, the Caduceus, and the Colony: a Brief History of Leprosy in Brazil ”

Talley, Holly Dorinda – M.A. – “ America 's Peasants: Southern Sharecropping and Tenant Farming, 1918-1941”

Zucconi, Thomas Alan – M. A. – “Rebels at War: A Study in the Failure of Confederate Command: The Relationship of Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard”

Hernandez, Jorge A. – Ph.D. – “Social Change in Mexico 's Northwest and the Rise of Pedro Rojas, 1820-1860”

Landers, Sharon S. – Ph.D. – “An Exploration of the Theory and Practice of Slavery in 17 th Century Brazil in the Writings of Padre Antonio Vieira”

Newsom, James Lynn – Ph.D. – “Intrepid Gray Warriors: The 7 th Texas Infantry, 1861-65”

May 1995

Baker, Shannon L. – M.A. – “Ann Chase: Spy and Spectator”

Barringer, Mark Daniel – M.A. – “Irreconcilable Interests: Public Opinion and National Park Service Policy”

Bragg, Meredith Lynn – M. A. – “Holding Back the Storm: Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne's Little Division at Missionary Ridge and Ringgold Gap”

Menzoff, Julius A. – M.A. – “Thor's Hammer, the Evolution of Field Artillery in the Civil War”

December 1994

Cothrum, Dallas L. – M.A. – “Joseph Orville Shelby: Vanquished Cavalier”

Gabbert, Lisa Y. – M.A. – “The Texas Prison System and Ruiz v.Estelle”

Waters, Wendy C. – M.A. – “Roads, the Carnivalesque, and the Mexican Revolution: Transforming Modernity in Tepoztlan, 1928-1943”

Taylor, Brenda Jeanette- Ph.D. – “The Farm Security Administration: Meeting Rural Needs in the South, 1933-1946”

Winders, Richard Bruce – Ph.D. – “Mr. Polks Army: Politics, Patronage, and the American Military in the Mexican War”

May 1994

Greer, David Alan – M.A. – “A Republican in Gran Colombia : The Diplomatic Mission of William Henry Harrison”

Schultz, Marvin Edward – Ph.D. – “For the Better Administration of Justice: The Legal Culture of Texas , 1820-1836”

December 1993

McCallum, Jack E. – M.A. – “The Lion in the Sand – England, Egypt, and the Parameters of Imperialism”

Tuller, Roger H. – M.A. – “The Hanging Judge and the Indians: Isaac C. Parker and U.S. Indian Policy, 1871-1896”

Bane, Steven Kirk – Ph.D. - “A Group of Foreign Liars: Republican Propagandists and the Campaign Against the Federalists, 1789-1801”

Cashion, Robert Tyrus – Ph.D. “ Texas at the Doors to the Southern Plains, 1848-1886”

Matthews, John Frances – Ph.D. – “Little Favors from My Government: United States Consuls in Mexico , 1821-1865”

McIntosh, Kenneth Waldo – Ph.D. – “Chitto Harjo, the Crazy Snakes and the Birth of Indian Political Activism in the Twentieth Century”

Pilcher, Jeffrey Michael – Ph.D. – “Vivan Tamales! The Creation of a Mexican National Cuisine”

Weller, Cecil Edward – Ph.D. - “Always a Loyal Democrat – The Life of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson”

Williamson, Rana K. – Ph.D. – “The Heat from the Forge: Aspects of the Seven-Year Drought of the 1950's in Texas ”

May 1993

Wadley, Patricia Louise – Ph. D. – “Even One is Too Many: An Examination of the Soviet Refusal to Repatriate Liberated American Prisoners of War”

December 1992

Hernandez, Jorge A. – M.A. – “The Miller of Monclova : The Revolutionary Career of Pablo Conzalez, 1911-1914”

May 1992

LeBarge, Lawrence G. – M.A. – “Virgin or Vamp?: The Sexuality of Southern White Women in Film and History”

Frazier, Donald – Ph. D – “Blood and Treasure: Confederate Imperialists in the American Southwest”

Maberry, Robert T., Jr. – Ph.D. – “Texans in the Defense of the Confederate Northwest April 1861 – April 1862: A Social and Military History”

Pace, Robert E. – Ph.D. – “King Hog Dethroned: Agriculture in the Lower South, 1850-1880”

May 1991

Dees, Juliet Ada George – M.A. – “By the Brazos and the Trinity They Hung Up Their Harps: Two Jewish Immigrants in Texas ”

December 1990

Foxworth, Janet Kay – M.A. – “The struggle for control of the Osage Indians, 1865-1870”

Law, Ron C – Ph.D. - “Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Dallas , Texas ; His Life and Congressional Career, 1875-1937”

May 1990

Frazier, Donald Shaw – M.A. – “Sibley's Brigade and the Invasion of New Mexico: A Texan Adventure”

Odom, Clayton Forman – M.A. – “The Cats are King in Texas : A History of the Fort Worth Cats Baseball Club”

Robinson, Walter s., Jr. – Ph.D. – “ Colonel Francosis de LaRocque: A Study of his Croix de Few and Parti Social Francais”

Summer 1989

Murphy, Justin Duane – M.A., “Wheelock Mission , 1832-1961: Trials and Triumphs in the Christianization of the Choctaws”

Hardin, Stephen L. – Ph.D. – “Texian Iliad: A Narrative Military History of the Texas Revolution”

May 1989

McIntosh, Kenneth W. – M.A., “The Grass Still Grows: Origins of the Crazy Snake Faction”

Sewell, Carol Armstrong – M.A., “DeMorse and the Standard: A Frontier Editor and His Newspaper, 1842-1860”

Abbott, Devon Irene – Ph.D. – “History of the Cherokee Female Seminary 1951-1910”

Stowe, William McFerrin, Jr. – Ph.D. – “Willie Rainach and the Defense of Segregation in Louisiana , 1954-1959”

Summer 1988

Collins, Monty Dee – M.A. – “Diplomatic Relations with the Barbary Powers and the Development of Thomas Jefferson's Naval Policy”

Pasztor, Suzanne Beth – M.A. – “From Revolution to Revolution: the Liberal Tradition in Mexican Historiography”

Jones, Griffin G. – Ph. D. – “The Order of the Golden Fleece: Form, Function and Evolution, 1430-1555”

Spring 1988

Hacker, Peter R. - M.A. – “A History of the Citizen Band Potawatomis, 1861-1890”

Landers, Sharon – M. A. – “Antonio Vieria, S. J.: Seventeenth Century Diplomat, Economic Strategist, and Missionary”

Zodin, Susan Lynn – M. A. – “A Donation for Life: Carter Blood Center, 1959-1987”

Petty, Daniel Wade – Ph. D. – “Anabaptism and the Edwardian Reformation”

Summer 1987

Bloys, Deborah L – M.A. – “The Regulator – Moderator War of East Texas ”

Greenlee, Tracy L.Anders – M. A. – “The Texas Public Utility Commission: A Creation of the People's Will”

Kerrigan, William Thomas – M. A. – “The Trial of Gideon Henfield”

Maberry, Robert Truitt, Jr. – M.A. – “Celts and Cracker Rebels: The Gaelic Heritage of the Confederate Army of Tennessee ”

Peters, Bruce Malcolm – M.A. – “An Exercise in Persuasion: The Pentagon Civilians' Fight to Stop Escalation in Viet Nam”

Bailey, Georgianne – Ph. D. – “Between the Enemy and Texas : Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War”

Cannon, Weldon Green – Ph. D. – “ Bernard Moore Temple: Binding Texas With Steel Rails”

Spring 1987

Weller, Cecil Edward, Jr. – M. A. – “Push, Bully, and Cajole: A Selective Account of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson's Legislative Process”

Spring 1986

Abbott, Devon Irene – M.A. – “Cultivating the Rose Buds: The Administration of the Cherokee Female Seminary: 1846-1907”

Herring, Joseph Byrne – Ph. D. – “The Great Spirit Taught Us”: the Indians' Peaceful Struggle to Remain in Kansas ”

White, Christine Schultz – Ph. D. – “Opothleyahola, Factionalism, and Creek Politics”

May 1985

Fielder, Martha Anne – Ph. D. – “Iconographic Themes in Portraits of Henry VIII