Topics of Past MA Theses
2000’s Graduate Theses
Emily Fritchman
“Finding Common Purpose: A History of Community Organizing in Boise, Idaho”
May 2020
Marnie Nichole
“The Art of Healing: Mary Gove Nichols’s Crusade for Women’s Wellness”
May 2019
Sherry Lynn Mason
“Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine: Political Motherhood in the Middle Ages”
May 2019
Julie Ann Vance
“Pioneers at the Edge of Their Universe: Japanese Railroad Workers in Idaho and the Intermountain West”
August 2019
Joseph M. Green
“Vauban in the Wilderness: The Military Revolution and the Seven Years War in North America”
December 2019
Jared Dane Johns
“Becoming a Knight: The Social Transformation of Common Mounted Soldiers into Noble Warriors”
May 2018
Michelle Gizinski Earwicker
“Seventeenth-Century Basque Witchtrials: The Interaction of Socio-Religious Norms within the Contact Zone of the Accused and the Inquisitor”
May 2018
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”
August 2017
Elizabeth R. Drennon
“De Consecrationibus: Abbot Suger’s Consecrations of the Abbey Church of St. Denis”
August 2016
James Willis
“The Elberfeld System: Poor relief and the Fluidity of German Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany”
August 2016
David Mock
“The Realities of Foreign Humanitarianism and the US Military: Nineteenth Century Roots”
May 2015
Philip Tadeusz Turner
“The Evolution of Prometheanism: Jozef Pilsudski’s Strategy and Its Impact on the Twentieth-First Century World Affairs”
May 2015
Molly Lorraine May
“‘Right From Hades’: Water and Politics in Boise, Idaho”
December 2015
Carolina Valderrama-Echavarria
“Fragmented Tills: Colombian Immigrant Experiences”
May 2014
Michael Rebecca Yadlin
“Radical Politics of Rich People: British Upper Class Support of Interwar Communism and Facism”
May 2014
Roy J. Ellsworth
“Israel, Iran, and the United States: A Precarious Alliance”
May 2014
Timothy A. Guill
“A Leatherneck in Congress: Melvin Maas’s Fight for a Modern Marine Corps Reserve”
May 2014
Ryan Andrew Schaff
“Joan of Arc and the Franco — Burgundian Reconciliation”
May 2014
Mark William Iverson
“Mass Rape in Foca: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia vs. Dragoljub Kunarac”
December 2014
Michael S. Beaudoin
“Lawyers and Sawyers: Venetian Forest Law and the Conquest of Terraferma (1350-1476)”
December 2014
James David Duran
“Building the Modern World: Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company”
December 2013
LauriAnn Vaterlaus Deaver
“Dam Mormons: responding to the 1976 Teton Dam Disaster in the ‘Lord’s Way’”
December 2013
Mark T. Haggard
“Punishing Our Own Rascals: Great Britain, the United States, and the Right to Search During the Era of Slave Trade Suppression”
December 2013
Samuel Jordan Kelly
“J. Gresham Machen and the End of the Presbyterian Controversy”
December 2013
Luke Clay Schleif
“Missions, Republicanism, and Anti-Catholicism: The Ideological Origins of the Methodist Church’s Support for the Mexican-American War”
May 2012
Martha Wharry Turner
“Hiding. Hunting, and Habitat: An Environmental Re-Analysis of the Slave Narratives”
May 2012
Anna B Holdorf
“Galvanized by the Gospel: Nineteenth-Century Baptist Missions and the Anti-Mission Response”
August 2012
Cletus R Edmunson
“A History of Warren, Idaho: Mining, Race, & Environment”
August 2012
Keegan J. Cothern
“Training for Empire and Modernity: Japan’s Development of Hokkaido from the 1870s-90s”
August 2012
Angela Ruth Bolen
“Christina of Markyate, Manly Woman of God: Mysticism, Monasticism, and Masculinity in Twelfth-Century England”
December 2012
Benjamin David Brandon
“Eusebius of Caesarea’s Oration in Praise of Constantine as the Political Philosophy of the Christian Empire”
December 2012
Christopher Lee Browne
“Flavius Iulius Crispus: The Tragic Prince”
May 2011
Kipley S. Fife
“The Fourth-Century Rediscovery of Christian Jerusalem”
May 2010
Rebecca Hawks
“‘Sore Vexation,’ The Utah Saints and the Gentle War: The Development of the LDS Church During the Civil War”
May 2010
Stacy Jo Nation-Knapper
“Trading in Spirits: European Alcohol and the Indigenous Population of New France”
May 2010
Aage Bent Nielson
“Dovcaine Vivant: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of a Cylindrical Survivor”
August 2010
Alicia Deseriee Martin-Cowger
“A Great Appearance of Force: Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725”
August 2010
Joseph Kruth
“Seditio Saturnini: The Sedition of Saturninus”
August 2010
Max Aaron Delgado, III
“Jesus Urquides: Idaho’s Premier Muleteer”
August 2010
Rodger Lee Huckabee
“Camp Cookie: The First Army Post in Montana — Success and Failure in the Missouri”
August 2010
Samuel David Lenser
“Between the Great Idea and Kemalism: The YMCA at Izmit in the 1920s”
August 2010
Joshua Michael Bernard
“History and Beauty: The History of the Idaho State Parks”
March 2009
Karen I. Wadley
“The King and His Council”
March 2009
Alissa Peterson
“Traditions in Transition: Basques in America”
May 2009
Kelly M. Orgill
“Conservative Conservationists: Water Rights, Wilderness, and Idahoan Political Identity”
May 2009
Olivia Umphrey
“From Screen to Page: Japanese Films as a Historical Document, 1931-1959”
May 2009
Theodore Wilbur
“American Friends Service Committee Efforts to Aid Japanese American Citizens During World War II”
June 2009
Tamara C. Mackenthun
“Continuity in Iranian Leadership Legitimization: Farr-I Izadi, Shi’ism, and Vilayet-I Faqih”
August 2009
Joshua P. Haskett
“Hadrian’s Wall: Romanization on Rome’s Northern Frontier”
December 2009
Michael C. Moore
“‘A Bold, Hopeful, Tolerant, Progressive Way’ — Progressives in the Idaho Legislature, 1908-1915”
December 2009
Christopher S. Blanchard
“From Depression to War: The FSA Photographers and Idaho’s Landscape, 1936-1942”
April 2008
Jeanette M. Jackson
“Grave Matters: A History on Canyon Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, Idaho”
April 2007
Audra Hoyt
“History in the Trees: The Basque Arborglyphs of Idaho and ‘The Grove on Grove Street’”
May 2007
Catherine Fraser Allen
“Wide Open Spaces: Idaho Panoramic Photographs ca. 1900-1940”
April 2006
DiAnne Elizabeth Iverglynne
“The Photographic Crayon Portrait: Nineteenth Century Icon of Absent Family Members and Present-Day Relic of the Latter-Day Saint”
April 2006
Matthew Joseph Recla
“Tessarakonta: The Birth and Growth of a Martyrdom Cult”
April 2006
Edward Vanegas
“On the Brink of Place: The American Dream’s Attack on a Community and a Case Study of the Ustick Neighborhood in Boise, Idaho”
May 2006
Kelly A. Mitchell
“The Origins of the Finnish Landscape of Long Valley, Idaho” June 2006
Alina Lynn Pitman
“The Unwanted Desired: Boise’s Attempt to Contain Prostitution in the 1970’s”
October 2006
Carolyn Drake
“Birth Stories: Transforming Our Culture”
November 2006
Candace Kay Trautman
“Holistic Care of the Mentally Ill in Christian Healing Camps: Global Health Ministries’ Pharmacotherapy Project in Madagascar”
December 2006
Duke Staggs
“Killing the Soulless: Preconditions that led to the Rogue River War 1851-1856”
March 2005
Jared Eugene Kenning
“Dialectics of Belief: Collaboration, Disappointment and the Origins of Protestant Dissidence in the Czech Lands”
April 2005
Jeremy M. Maxand
“Proposition One: Prototype of a Web-Based History of Idaho’s 1993 Anti-Gay Rights Initiative”
April 2005
Jose Gustavo Cardenas
“Changing Visions: The Status of Sioux Women Prior to the Reservation Era”
April 2005
Neal Knight
“Cyprian’s — De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate — Introduction, Translation & Commentary”
April 2005
Mary Katherine Mills
“Sun Valley: Nature and Tourism in the 1950s”
April 2005
Saundra Gosnell Schmidt
“Gender Activism at Boise State University 1970-2000”
April 2005
Paula Jo Connelly
“‘A Natural Dairy Producing Country’: The Southwest Idaho Dairy Industry, 1860-1940”
July 2005
Jennifer A. McClelland
“Sino-Iranian Relations: Contributions of Iranian Women in Diplomacy (1949-1979)”
August 2005
Korri De Ann Hogan
“Learning About Successful Living from George Washington”
October 2005
Tamara Marie Sands
“Men as Allies: An Inclusive Vision for a Feminist Future”
November 2005
Aaron J. Campbell
“Caracalla: The Making of a Tyrant”
April 2004
Jenel Carpenter Cope
“Congress, the FBI, and Aim: The April 1976 Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security Hearing to Investigate the American Indian Movement”
April 2004
Jerome D. Klena
“Accidental Exiles: Japanese Prisoners of War in World War II”
April 2004
Mary Kovel
“Speaking Through Ritual: Churching in Early Modern England”
July 2004
Darin W. Vrem
“A History of Idaho’s Dredge Mining Industry and the Dredge Mining Control Movement 1896-1970”
November 2004
Michael C. Hawkins
“A Turning Point: Filipino Nationalism Before and After the 1986 Edsa Revolution”
November 2004
Alicia Thomas
“To Riot or Not to Riot: Union Labor Strike in Wood River Valley, Idaho, 1880-1890”
November 2003
Janet A. French
“The Invisible Immigrants: A History of the South Asian Indians Community in Boise, Idaho”
April 2002
Suzanne Rosario
“Of Tragedy, Terror, and Transitions: Politico-Educational Agendas in Chile, 1964-2000”
April 2002
Sarah R. Mawhirter
“Reclaiming Whore: A Cultural History Located at the Intersection of Feminism and the Sex Industry”
July 2002
Marilyn R. Wylde
“Conversio (Conversion) versus Conversatio (Conversation) As Used in the Rule of St. Benedict”
October 2002
Richard Blaine Davies
“Historical Fiction: A Website Supporting Secondary US History Courses of Study — Idaho Department of Education”
November 2002
Stephen R. Olszewski
“Children in the United States History”
November 2002
Dylan J. McDonald
“The Moses Alexander Family: Including the Papers of the Office of the Governor (1915-1919), the Alexander family and M. Alexander, Inc. AR 20011 and MS 335”
December 2002
Susanna Forbes-Osgood
“A Means to an End: The Boise Basin Addition and Progressive Era Management of the Boise National Forest 1905-1934”
2001
Alexandre Ilungu Ibongya Muzaliwa
“African Refugees in the United States of America: A Case Study of the Intermountain and Northwestern Region”
February 2001
Kathryn Ann Baxter
“Places in Time: A Portfolio”
March 2001
Alice J. Gould
“‘Brought to You in Living Black and White’–Early Television Broadcasting in Boise, Idaho”
May 2001
Jon Hanian
“Bosnia to Boise and Back”
May 2001
Raymona K. Maddy
“The Vietnam and American War: A Multimedia History on CD Rom”
June 2001
Steven N. Henderson
“Historical Rationale for Zealous Nationalism and Political Extremism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”
July 2001
Christopher K. Crain
“Operation Paukenschlag: The Battle of the Atlantic Revisited”
March 2000
Shera G. Kindall
“A Guide to the Cecil D. Andrus Collection”
May 2000
Anthony Miranda
“The Boise High School Archive Project”
June 2000
Joise Jane Fretwell
“Schemes and Dreams in the New West: promoting Idaho’s Irrigated Landscape”
July 2000
Robert Barrett
“Revolutionary Diplomats: An Historical–Literacy and John and Abigail Adams 1785-1788”
November 2000
1900s Graduate Theses
Randall Eric Williamson
“Tertullian: Rites and Practices of the Early Church”
February 1999
Carole Ann Schroeder
“The San Francisco Board of Education 1906 Action Excluding the Japanese from the Public Schools”
April 1999
John Cook
“Dutch Influence on Balinese Hinduism as Reflected in Temple Sculpture”
April 1999
John Carl Martinez
“Bullock’s Hitler: A Study of Lord Alan Bullock’s Biographies on Hitler and the Historians Who Influenced Bullock”
April 1999
Troy Hamilton
“The Tree Trooper: The Problems that the Civilian Conservation Corps Encountered in Idaho”
July 1999
Rob Murdock
“Fort Lemhi: A Shoshone — Mormon Environmental Conflict”
August 1999
Aaron F. Christensen
“Sol Invictus: A Bridge from Paganism to Christianity”
April 1998
Heidi Miller
“The Women of east Germany as Victims of German Unification”
April 1998
Jason Gatliff
“The Role of Philosophy in the Apologetic Writings of Tertullian”
April 1998
Susan Pengilly Neitzel
“Unsettled Issues: Original Indian Title to the Boise and Bruneau Valleys, Southwestern Idaho”
April 1998
Anne Marie Martin
“Matilda, Countess of Tuscany: Champion and Devotee of the Papacy During the Investiture Controversy”
May 1998
Derek Richard Shipley
“The First Triumvirate of Rome and the Crisis of the Late Republic”
June 1998
Beverly A. Miller
“What’s a Nice Lady Like You Doing in a Place Like This? The Life and Times of Emma Angell Drake”
July 1998
Chelli Bradshaw
“From Promise to Performance: Healthcare, Tax-exempt Finance, and the History of the Idaho Health Facilities Authority”
August 1998
Thomas M. Ansbach
“In Their Own Words: An Oral History of Boise State University”
November 1998
Margaret Diane Sankey
“‘England’s Teeming Womb’: The Stuart and the Hanover Dynasties in the Pan-German Marriage System 1600-1860”
April 1997
Mary Carter-Hepworth
“Special Collection Manuscripts Pertaining to Boise State University A Guide”
September 1997
Robert P. Tilley
“The Nationalization of Private Electrical Companies in Mexico”
September 1997
Sue Harley
“Vietnam: A Short History for Teachers Middle School and Secondary”
November 1997
Jimmie I. Carlson
“Remaking Idaho’s Capitol City: A Case Study in Urban Renewal”
February 1996
John Cantrell
“The Controversial Closure of the Bunker Hill Company — Revisiting the Question of Culpability”
February 1996
Thomas Henry Talboy
“Pudicus Atque Lascivus: The Sensuality of the Emperor Hadrian as Represented in His Poetry”
April 1996
Rosemary L. Wimberly
“‘She Should Be Made An Example of…’: Gender, Politics, and Criminal Abortion in Idaho, 1864-1973”
May 1996
Diane Boleyn
“Origo Constantini Imperatoris: A Translation and Commentary”
July 1996
David H. Crain
“Loyalty Revealed, the Japanese American Community Before Pearl Harbor”
July 1996
Ila M. Greenfield
“The Progressive Party in the Idaho Election of 1942 with Special Emphasis on Canyon County”
July 1996
Teri A Deyoung
“The Changing Status of Chinese American Women in Portland, Oregon, 1900-1945”
July 1996
Suzanne Sermon
“‘Beyond Simple Domesticity’: Organizing Boise Women 1866-1920”
November 1996
Juan Wang
“Liang Shuming’s Rural Reconstruction Theory and Experiment”
July 1995
Patricia Fletcher
“‘The Basques’ A Curriculum Guide”
September 1995
Spike Robert Lewis Ericson
“The Southwest Idaho Intertribal Gatherings of the 1870’s and their Historical Context”
January 1994
Monte Joseph Muldoon
“The Halcyon Days of Intercollegiate Athletics at the College of Idaho”
March 1994
Jack Douglas Ferguson
“The Multiple Functions of Stained Glass in the Early and High Gothic Cathedrals and Churches of France (AD 1140-1270)”
April 1994
Deborah Jane Kennedy
“‘And I Thought When I Got a Job, I’d Get Away From a Darned Broom’ Recruiting and Maintaining the Female Work Force for Defense Industries During World War II”
August 1994
Jo Anne Russell
“A Necessary Evil: Prostitutes, Patriarchs & Profits in Boise City, 1863-1915”
August 1991
Carol Lynn MacGregor
“The Patrick Gass Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition”
July 1990
Rodney J. Valentine
“The Economics of Homesteading in the Boise River Valley, Idaho, 1869-78”
November 1990
Nicholas A Casner
“Leaded Waters: A History of Minning Pollution on the Coeur D’alene River in Idaho 1900-1950”
May 1989
Susan M. Stacy
“Economic Development and Federal Flood Control on the Boise River, 1943-1985”
May 1989
Gerard Papaux
“Gandhi’s Truth”
August 1989
Terry Cantrell
“Religion in Idaho History: A Unit in the Development of Research and Writing Skills”
October 1989
Robert W. Davis
“Using the Computer in Historical Research”
March 1985
Steve Tyree
“Our Heritage and the Law: The Interdisciplinary Infusion of Law-related Concepts into the United States History Curriculum”
June 1985
Ruth Vinz
“Unexplored Worlds: The Journey of a Thousand Miles, A Student Handbook for the Study of Eastern Civilizations”
October 1982
Laurence E. Bauwens
“The Creation of the Federal Reserve System”
April 1981
Sandra S. Savage
“Alaskan Aboriginal Art and Artisans, A Unit of Study”
April 1980
Elizabeth Bryant-Merrill
“Idaho Oral History Guide”
May 1979
Janet K. Adams
“Politics: Buttons, Banners, and Bumperstickers: A Course of Study on American Politics for Jr. High School Students”
May 1979