Recent Ph.D. Dissertation Titles

Below you will find a list of dissertations defended 2001-2009 which showcases the wide variety of work produced by graduate students in the department.

For Colony, Empire, and Self-Interest: Thomas Fitch and Connecticut Colonial Politics

Religious Space, Resistance, and the Formation of Memory in Early Modern England

"Into the Struggle: Confronting Apartheid in the United States and South Africa

'Jane the Quene': A New Consideration of Lady Jane Grey, England's Nine-Days Queen

'Meet Me at the Ballot Box': Women Voters, Women Workers, and Progressive Era Political Culture in Colorado, 1893-1920

Sacred Topography: Western Sermon Perceptions of Jerusalem, the Holy Sites, and Jews During the Crusades, 1095-1193

Avalanche Communities: Risk, Responsibility, and Knowledge Production in the Mountain West, 1859-1920

'Yo Soy Loco por esa Sierra': The History of Land Rights Activism in San Luis, Colorado, 1863-2002

The Philosophy of Reasoning: The Rastafari of Jamaica

American Sociology and the Construction of Gender, 1890-1920

Bohemian Los Angeles: Arroyo Secco, 1880-1920

An Undetermined Number of Thrushes: The Meaning and Value of Land in the Ecclesiastical Land Market of Genoa, 950-1400

Constructing Credit in Early Modern England: Debt, Insult, and Authority in the Market Towns of Middlewich and Devises, 1540-1610

The United Mine Workers of America Moves West: Race, Working Class Formation, and the Discourse on Cultural Diversity in the Union Pacific Coal Towns of Wyoming, 1885-1930

Within and Without: The Social and Medical Worlds of the Medieval Midwife, 1000-1500

I Belong In This World: Natives, Newcomers, and the Western IWW, 1905-1917

One Foot in Sea and One on Shore: The Religious Culture of English Sailors. 1550-1688

The Making of Italians: Race, Nation, and National Identity in Liberal Italy, 1681-1914

Social Interactions in Early Modern England: Cheshire and Essex, 1560-1640

Rabotnitsa: Constructing a Bolshevik Ideal Woman and the New Soviet State

Mencken’s Nietzche: An Examination of the Origins and Effects of the American Critic’s Interpretation of the German Philosopher’s Writings

Evolution for John Doe: Scientists, Pictures, and the Public in the Decade of the Scopes Trial

By Laws of Their Own Making: Political Culture and Everyday Politics of the Mountain West Working Class, 1870-1917

The Socio-Psychological Impact of the German Hyperinflation, 1922-1923

Religion and the Making of Place in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, 1300-1900

A Study of Wives of American Military Serving in Vietnam: 1961-1975; Gender and Politics in the 1960s

Windows on the Pacific World: The United State’s Encounter with the Pacific, 1815-1875

And I Can Live Without Going to Sea: Pacific Maritime Labor Identity, 1840-1890

Religious Space and the Construction of Identity in Early Modern England

Changes on the Home Place: Ranchers, Animals, and the Land in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem since 1900

Partisan and Nonpartisan Politics in the States During the 1920s

Selling America to the World: Big Business and the Eisenhower Administration in the International Arena, 1953-1961

Beyond the Contingent: Epistemological Authority, a Pascalian Revival, and the Religious Imagination in France, from Providentissimus (1893) to Pascendi (1907)

Living It Up in Aspen: Cold War America, Ski Town Culture, and the New Western Dream in Colorado, 1945-1990

Civil Society and Colonial Resistances: The British Empire Exhibition 1924-1925

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