2017
KayCee Babb
Girls Just Wanna Be President: How the History of Female Presidential Candidates Affects Political Ambition and Engagement
Advisor: Jill Gill
Chelsee Kay Boehm
Community as a Constant: On Oral History Project Exploring the Recent History of the Boise Police Department
Advisor: Todd Shallat
Victor D. Higgins
Unpolished Emeralds in the Gem State: Hard-Rock Mining, Labor Unions, and Irish Nationalism in the Mountain West and Idaho, 1850-1900
Advisor: John Bieter
Marsha Hunter
José Villanueva de Amezketa: Southern Idaho’s Immigrant Outlier
Advisor: John Bieter
Yancy D. Mailes
The Other Side of the Atomic Air Force: Artifacts of the Air Force’s People Programs
Advisor: David Walker
2016
Adam Behrman
Selling Narratives of a Mexico in Crisis: Environmental Reporting in Excélsior and Uno Más Uno, 1983-84
Advisor: Emily Wakild
Elizabeth R. Drennon
De Consecrationibus: Abbot Suger’s Consecrations of the Abbey Church of St. Denis
Advisor: Lisa McClain
Raymond Richard Hill
The Lex Sempronia Agraria: A Soldier’s Stipendum
Advisor: Katherine V. Huntley
James Willis
The Elberfeld System: Poor Relief and the Fluidity of German Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany
Advisor: Joanne Klein
2015
Meggan Laxalt Mackey
Lekuak: The Basque Places of Boise, Idaho
Advisor: John Bieter
Molly Lorraine May
“Right From Hades”: Water and Politics in Boise, Idaho
Advisor: Lisa Brady
David Mock
The Realities of Foreign Humanitarianism and the U.S. Military: Nineteenth Century Roots
Advisor: David Walker
Phillip Tadeusz Turner
The Evolution of Prometheanism: Józef Piłsudski’s Strategy and Its Impact on Twenty-first Century World Affairs
Advisor: Nick Miller
2014
Michael S. Beaudoin
Lawyers and Sawyers: Venetian Forest Law and the Conquest of Terraferma (1350-1476)
Advisor: Lisa Brady
Zachary M. Brown
A Project to Develop a Documented Appraisal Section within the Collection Development Policy of the City of Boise Department of Arts and History
Advisor: Leslie Madsen-Brooks
Roy J. Ellsworth
Israel, Iran, and the United States: A Precarious Alliance
Advisor: Michael Zirinsky
Timothy A. Guill
A Leatherneck in Congress: Melvin Maas’s Fight for a Modern Marine Corps Reserve
Advisor: David Walker
Mark William Iverson
Mass Rape in Foča: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia vs. Dragoljub Kunarac
Advisor: Nick Miller
Ryan Andrew Schaff
Joan of Arc and the Franco-Burgundian Reconciliation
Advisor: David Walker
Carolina Valderrama-Echavarria
Fragmented Ties: Colombian Immigrant Experiences
Advisor: John Bieter
Michal Rebecca Yadlin
Radical Politics of Rich People: British Upper Class Support of Interwar Communism and Fascism
Advisor: Joanne Klein
2013
LauriAnn Vaterlaus Deaver
Dam Mormons: Responding to the 1976 Teton Dam Disaster in the “Lord’s Way”
Advisor: Lisa Brady
James David Duran
Building the Modern World: Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company
Advisor: Lisa Brady
Mark T. Haggard
Punishing Our Own Rascals: Great Britain, the United States, and the Right to Search During the Era of Slave Trade Suppression
Advisor: David Walker
Samuel Jordan Kelley
J. Gresham Machen and the End of the Presbyterian Controversy
Advisor: Jill Gill
2012
Angela Ruth Bolen
Christina of Markyate, Manly Woman of God: Mysticism, Monasticism, and Masculinity in Twelfth-Century England
Advisor: Lisa McClain
Benjamin David Brandon
Eusebius of Caesarea’s Oration in Praise of Constantine as the Political Philosophy of the Christian Empire
Advisor: Katherine Huntley
Keegan J. Cothern
Training for Empire and Modernity: Japan’s Development of Hokkaido from the 1870s-90s
Advisor: Shelton Woods
Cletus R. Edmunson
A History of Warren, Idaho: Mining, Race, and Environment
Advisor: Todd Shallat
Patricia Fabbri Forbes
It Takes the Whole Village: Assisting Socially And Economically Marginalized Women in African Refugee Camps and Post-Displacement Venues
Advisor: Peter Buhler
Anna B. Holdorf
Galvanized by the Gospel: Nineteenth-Century Baptist Missions and the Anti-Mission Response
Advisor: Jill Gill
Elizabeth Strachan Miller
The Evolution of American Outdoor Education in the Twentieth Century
Advisor: Lisa Brady
Luke Clay Schleif
Missions, Republicanism, and Anti-Catholicism: the Ideological Origins of the Methodist Church’s Support for the Mexican-American War
Advisor: Jill Gill
Martha Wharry Turner
Hiding, Hunting, and Habitat: An Environmental Re-Analysis of the Slave Narratives
Advisor: Lisa Brady
2011
Christopher Lee Browne
Flavius Iulius Crispus: The Tragic Prince
Advisor: Charles Odahl
2010
Daniella Makram Morgos Abdelmasih
The Fourth-Century Rediscovery of Christian Jerusalem
Advisor: Charles Odahl
Carissa Mai Black
Conservation in Idaho Oral History Project: Oral Historiography, Process and Practice
Advisor: Lisa Brady
Max Aaron Delgado III
Jesús Urquides: Idaho’s Premier Muleteer
Advisor: Errol Jones
Rebecca Ann Hawks
“Sore Vexation,” The Utah Saints and the Gentile War: The Development of the LDS Church During the Civil War
Advisor: Jill Gill
Rodger Lee Huckabee
Camp Cooke: The First Army Post in Montana – Success and Failure on the Missouri
Advisor: Barton Barbour
Joseph Michael Kurth
Seditio Saturnini: The Sedition of Saturninus
Advisor: Charles Odahl
Samuel David Lenser
Between the Great Idea and Kemalism: The YMCA at İzmir in the 1920s
Advisor: Michael Zirinsky
Alicia Desiree Martin-Cowger
A Great Appearance of Force: Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725
Advisor: Jill Gill
Stacy Jo Nation-Knapper
Trading in Spirits: European Alcohol and the Indigenous Population of New France
Advisor: Barton Barbour
2009
William Anderson
Boeing’s Impact on Seattle
Advisor: Lisa Brady
Joshua Michael Bernard
History and Beauty: The Story of the Idaho State Parks
Advisor: Todd Shallat
Joshua P. Haskett
Hadrian’s Wall: Romanization on Rome’s Northern Frontier
Advisor: Joanne Klein
Tamara C. Mackenthun
Continuity in Iranian Leadership Legitimization: Farr-i Izadi, Shi’ism, and Vilayet-i Faqih
Advisor: Michael Zirinsky
Michael Carl Moore
A Bold, Hopeful, Tolerant, Progressive Way” – Progressives in the Idaho Legislature, 1908-1915
Advisor: Robert Simms
Kelly M. Orgill
Conservative Conservationists: Water Rights, Wilderness, and Idahoan Political Identity
Advisor: Lisa Brady
Alissa Peterson
Traditions in Transition: Basques in America
Advisor: Sandra Shackel
Olivia Umphrey
From Screen to Page: Japanese Film as a Historical Document, 1931-1959
Advisor: Shelton Woods
Karen I. Wadley
The King and His Council
Advisor: Charles Odahl
Theodore Wilbur
American Friends Service Committee Efforts to Aid Japanese American Citizens During World War II
Advisor: Shelton Woods
2008
Christopher S. Blanchard
From Depression to War: The FSA Photographers and Idaho’s Landscape, 1936‐1942
Advisor: Lisa Brady