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Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
June 18, 1908	William Pippy	Historical Conceptions of the Ego	MA
June 17, 1909	Myrtle Bemis	History of the Settlement of Swedes in North Dakota	MA
June 17, 1909	Charles DeNoyer	The History of Fort Totten	MA
June 14, 1911	Leif Aas	Lowell as an Exponent of New England Thought on the Annexation of Texas and the Mexican War, With an Historical Survey of the Early Anti-Slavery Struggle in the United States	MA
June 12, 1912	Hattie Listenfelt	The Hudson's Bay Company and the Red River Trade	MA
June 12, 1912	Ethel May	Location and Survey of the Northern International Boundary Line	MA
June 17, 1914	Jacob Hofto	A Comparative Study of the Constitutions of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming	MA
June 17, 1914	Evlyn Mudge	The Development of Western Protestant Churches	MA
June 16, 1915	William Whitford	The Establishment of Overland Connections Between the Region East of the Mississippi and REd River and the Territory Lying Westward to the Rocky Mountains	MA
June 18, 1917	Bertha Kuhn	The History of Traill County, North Dakota	MA
June 18, 1917	Axel Tollefson	History of the Norwegian Settlement in Grand Forks County	MA
June 20, 1919	Luella Hall	County Boundaries in North Dakota, 1849-1916	MA
June 15, 1920	Alexander Aas
June 15, 1920	Julia Rue
June 13, 1922	Mary Fowler
June 12, 1923	Anton Hillesland
August 2, 1923	Waldemar Lillo
July 30, 1925	Elmer Ellis
July 30, 1925	James Reinhardt
July 29, 1926	Myrtle Haugom
July 26, 1928	James McCrae
July 26, 1928	William Welsh
June 11, 1929	Ethyl Mautz
August 8, 1929	Lillian Payne
August 8, 1929	Andrease Ronhovde
June 10, 1930	Gertrurde Bonebreak
June 10, 1930	G. Ellsworth Henderson
June 10, 1930	Eva Syre

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
June 18, 1908	William Pippy	Historical Conceptions of the Ego	MA
June 17, 1909	Myrtle Bemis	History of the Settlement of Swedes in North Dakota	MA
June 17, 1909	Charles DeNoyer	The History of Fort Totten	MA
June 14, 1911	Leif Aas	Lowell as an Exponent of New England Thought on the Annexation of Texas and the Mexican War, With an Historical Survey of the Early Anti-Slavery Struggle in the United States	MA
June 12, 1912	Hattie Listenfelt	The Hudson's Bay Company and the Red River Trade	MA
June 12, 1912	Ethel May	Location and Survey of the Northern International Boundary Line	MA
June 17, 1914	Jacob Hofto	A Comparative Study of the Constitutions of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming	MA
June 17, 1914	Evlyn Mudge	The Development of Western Protestant Churches	MA
June 16, 1915	William Whitford	The Establishment of Overland Connections Between the Region East of the Mississippi and REd River and the Territory Lying Westward to the Rocky Mountains	MA
June 18, 1917	Bertha Kuhn	The History of Traill County, North Dakota	MA
June 18, 1917	Axel Tollefson	History of the Norwegian Settlement in Grand Forks County	MA
June 20, 1919	Luella Hall	County Boundaries in North Dakota, 1849-1916	MA
June 15, 1920	Alexander Aas	The History of the City of Grand Forks to 1889	MA
June 15, 1920	Julia Rue	The Economic Geography of Lignite of North Dakota	MA
June 13, 1922	Mary Fowler	American and Canadian Diplomacy, 1815-1860	MA
June 12, 1923	Anton Hillesland	The Norwegian Lutheran Church in the Red River Valley	MA
August 2, 1923	Waldemar Lillo	History of the Whig Party to 1940	MA
July 30, 1925	Elmer Ellis	Minor Parties From the Civil War to 1900	MA
July 30, 1925	James Reinhardt	The Movements of Wages and Prices in the United States Since 1825 and the Relative Effects of These Changes During the Lst Thirty Years Upon the Wage Earning Classes	MA
July 29, 1926	Myrtle Haugom	Social Reform in England 1900-1914	MA
July 26, 1928	James McCrae	Theodore Roosevelt's Relation to Conservation	MA
July 26, 1928	William Welsh	The Work and Influence of John Howard on Prison Reform in England Between 1773-1823	MA
June 11, 1929	Ethyl Mautz	The Factory Reform Act of 1833 in England: A Survey of Events Immediately Preceding and Accompanying Its Passage	MA
August 8, 1929	Lillian Payne	Public Health Agitation and Legislation, 1848-1853	MA
August 8, 1929	Andrease Ronhovde	The Repeal of the India Trade Monopoly of the British East India Company	MA
June 10, 1930	Gertrurde Bonebreak	The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies	MA
June 10, 1930	G. Ellsworth Henderson	The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and Its Administration to 1850	MA
June 10, 1930	Eva Syre	The London Housing Problem, 1840-1875	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
June 9, 1931	Ethel Collins	Pullman Car Strike, 1894	MA
June 9, 1931	Ear Hayter	Liquor Reform and Legislation in Great Britain, 1900-1908	MA
June 9, 1931	Awolt Stoll	English Trade Union Legislation Since 1900	MA
August 6, 1931	Herbert Larseen	The Pan American Union	MA
June 7, 1932	Irene Koll	The Government of India Act of 1919	MA
June 7, 1932	Eugenia Lovchik	British Trade Legislation, 1867-1876	MA
June 7, 1932	Frank Moffitt	The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868	MA
August 4, 1932	Harold Anderson	British Tariff Policy from 1921 to 1929	MA
August 4, 1932	Lillian Bangs	The Effect of Parliamentary Legislation Upon the Development of Railroads in England From 1825-1850	MA
August 4, 1932	Arve Dahlen	The Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832	MA
August 4, 1932	Leal Edmunds	Congressional Reconstruction and the Radical Program	MA
August 4, 1932	Roscoe Lokken	Mr. Lloyd George and the German Reparations	MA
June 13, 1933	Thamar Dufwa	Lincoln and Secession, 1958-1861	MA
June 13, 1933	Clarence Duncan	Is India Ready for Dominion Status in the British Commonwealth of Nations	MA
June 13, 1933	Ernest Keith	Congressional Investigation of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi	MA
June 13, 1933	Guy Livingston	The First Years of the War Tariff 1961 to 1870	MA
June 13, 1933	Agnes Morkrid	American Diplomacy in Nicaragua	MA
June 13, 1933	Randle Richmond	Cleveland's Pension Reforms	MA
June 13, 1933	Anna Swenson	Cleveland and the Hawaiian Question 1893	MA
June 13, 1933	Harvey Walch	Elementary Educational Reform in England 1900-1923	MA
August 10, 1933	James Quigg	Trade Union Legislation of the Conservative Party in Great Britain From 1920 to 1929	MA
August 10, 1933	John Sekula	Cleveland and the Gold Reserve	MA
August 10, 1933	Clarence Shively	History of the Policy of the United States Toward Arbitration From 1789 to 1933	MA
June 12, 1934	Margaret Costello	The Irish Acts of 1870, 1881, and 1885	MA
June 12, 1934	Clara Kjos	The Origin of the Irish Free State	MA
June 11, 1935	John McKinnon	The Star Route Frauds	MA
August 8, 1935	Albert Arnason	The Foreign Policy of Sir Edward Grey During the Moroccan Crises, 1906-1911	MA
August 8, 1935	Arbert Goplen	Congressional Opposition to Lincoln in the Early Years of the Civil War	MA
August 8, 1935	Mildred Swenson	A Survey of Old Age Pensions, Their Origin, Growth and Present Status	MA
August 8, 1935	Logan Trent	The Credit Mobilier	MA
August 6, 1936	James Bullard	Great Britain and the Netrality of Norway, Sweden and Denmark from 1905-1914	MA
August 6, 1936	Raymond Gewerth	Some Political and Diplomatic Aspects of the Treaty of Washington	MA
August 6, 1936	Gordon McConnell	Teaching Cooperation	MS
August 6, 1936	Ella Quam	A History of Homestead Legislation	MA
August 6, 1936	P. Olaf Sigerseth	Pure Food Legislation of 1906	MA
August 5, 1937	Robert Moffitt	The Political Record of H. Stephens from 1843 to the Civil War	MA
August 4, 1938	Clayton Baskin	Political and Constitutional Development in India Since 1920	MA
August 4, 1938	John Benson	The Foreign Policy of J. Ramsay MacDonald	MA
August 4, 1938	Gertrude Evarts	President Roosevelt and the Panama Canal to 1914	MA
August 4, 1938	Sister M.L. Galvin	The Irish Home Rule Bill of 1886	MA
August 4, 1938	A. Elson Joachim	The Growing Opposition to the Reconstruction Policies During Grant's Administration From 1869-1877 as Reflected in Congress	MA
June 7, 1939	Albert Daeley	British Policy Toward Egypt, 1918-1923	MA
June 7, 1939	Clarence Larson	The Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Anglican Church in Wales	MA
August 3, 1939	Ingeborg Fjalestad	Constitution and Political Problems of the Irish Free State Until 1932	MA
August 3, 1939	Herman Jacobson	The British Housing Problem, 1919-1938	MA
August 3, 1939	Walter Knutson	The British-American North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Dispute 1783-1912	MA
August 3, 1939	James Schroeder	A History of Organized Labor in Fargo, North Dakota	MA
August 3, 1939	Henry Symons	Bismarck's Relations with England, 1870-1878	MA
June 11, 1940	Arnold Eid	Financial Survey of Marshall County, Minnesota, With Special Reference to Inequalities in Opportunity, Ability and Effort	MA
June 11, 1940	Dorothy Reeves	The Reform Act of 1884	MA
June 11, 1940	Albert Selke	A History of the Initiative in North Dakota	MA
June 11, 1940	Frank Rathman	The Nazi Persecution of the Jew in Germany	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
August 7, 1941	William Cochrane	Evolution of the Irish Republican Army	MA
August 7, 1941	Bertel Johnson	The Ethiopian Crisis of 1935-36 and Its European Repercussions	MA
May 18, 1942	Olaf Brandt	The Role of Winston Churchill in the First World War	MA
May 18, 1942	Louis Brown	The Parliament of 1911	MA
May 18, 1942	David Gulbrandson	The Munitions Industry	MA
August 2, 1945	Theo Vavrina	Labour Disputes in the British Coal Mining Industry 1919-1926	MA
June 9, 1946	Obert Berke	Russian Migration to the United States	MA
June 11, 1948	Thamar Dufwa	Transcontinental Railroad Legislation 1835-1862	PhD
August 12, 1948	Sister Charlotte LeClair	Catholicism Comes to Grand Forks	MA
June 10, 1949	Kenneth Carey	Alexander McKenzie, boss of North Dakota 1883-1906	MA
May 31, 1950	Robert Horgan	Foreign Relations Between the United States and Korea 1940-1949	MA
May 31, 1950	Richard Norman	The Election of 1912 and the Progressive Party in North Dakota	MA
May 31, 1950	Robert Rowland	The Rio de Janeiro Treaty of 1947; Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance	MA
August 3, 1950	Lester Sutton	The Historical Development of the Lac Court Oreille Reservation	MA
June 5, 1951	Robert Anderson	A Social History of Grand Forks, North Dakota	MA
August 9, 1951	Adrian Dunn	A History of Old Fort Berthold	MA
August 9, 1951	Julia Mattson	A Survey of Indian Pottery, Arts, Crafts and Symbolism West of the Mississippi River	MA
June 10, 1952	Charles Glaab	John Burke and the North Dakota Progressive Movement	MA
June 10, 1952	James Johnson	A History of the Midland Continental Railroad, 1906-1950	MA
August 14, 1952	Lenora Johnson	The History of Ada, Minnesota, 1876-1952	MA
August 14, 1952	William Phillips	The Growth of a Progressive: Asle J. Gronna	MA
August 13, 1953	Gerald Caskey	A History of Northern Montana College to 1951	MA
August 13, 1953	Lambert Mehl	Missouri Grows to Maturity in North Dakota: A Regional Study of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod	MA
August 13, 1953	Russell Nelson	The Early Life and Congressional Career of Elihu B. Washburne	PhD
August 7, 1954	Embert Hendrickson	The City Where the Two Rivers Meet: The Background and Early History of Thief River Falls, Minnesota	MA
August 7, 1954	Adam Schweitzer	John Moses and the New Deal in North Dakota	MA
June 4, 1955	Marian McKenchnie	Spiritual Pioneering, a History of the Synod of North Dakota, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. 1885-1954	MA
June 4, 1955	Sinclair Snow	American Reaction to the Mexican Church-State Conflict of 1926-29	MA
January 28, 1956	Jackson Putman	The Socialist Party of North Dakota, 1902-1918	MA
June 3, 1956	Alice Johnson	The Public Career of J.F.T. O'Connor	MA
August 4, 1956	Glenn Brudvig	The Farmers' Alliance and Populist Movement in North Dakota (1884-1896)	MA
August 4, 1956	Darrell DeLong	A History of Fort Yates	MA
August 4, 1956	Richard Jobes	Saint Peter, Minnesota: The History of a Frontier Community: 1851-1905	MA
June 9, 1957	Donald Tweton	The Election of 1900 in North Dakota	MA
August 10, 1957	Joseph Milinovich	The History of "Old North" Hibbing	MA
August 10, 1957	Milton Reitan	North Dakota Editors and the Cuban Crisis, 1895-1898	MA
February 1, 1958	Edward Blackorby	Prairie Rebel: The Public Career of William Lemke	PhD
August 8, 1959	Erling Erickson	Parliamentary Debates on Reform of the English Penal Code, 1808-1838	MA
August 8, 1959	Eugene Holen	The Election of 1928 in North Dakota	MA
August 8, 1959	Richard Lunde	the History of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in the Dakotas	MA
January 31, 1960	Robert St. Clair	Progressivism in North Dakota, 1924	MA
June 5, 1960	James Bishop	British Influence on the Tito-Mihailovic Dispute	MA
August 6, 1960	Ralph Kane	Edwin Fremont Ladd, North Dakota's Pure Food Crusader	MA
August 6, 1960	Robert Kjelstrup	History of the Minot Park System	MA
August 6, 1960	Richard Mays	History of North Dakota Highway Legislation, 1909-1941	MA
August 6, 1960	Alice Putman	The History of Towner County, North Dakota, to 1910	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
August 5, 1961	Bruce Larson	Northern Minnesota and the World War, 1914-1917	MA
June 3, 1962	Viola-Marie Maurer	A Survey of Trieste: 1915 to the Present	MA
August 4, 1962	Dominic Schaff	The History of the North Dakota Oil Industry	MA
August 4, 1962	Dale Strand	The History of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park	MS
January 26, 1963	Hiram Drache	The Day of the Bonanza: A History of Bonanza Farming in the Red River Valley of the North	PhD
January 26, 1963	Paul Larson	A History of Farm Mortgage Indebtedness and Direct Farm Mortgage Relief in North Dakota From 1920 to 1950	MA
May 31, 1964	Shirley Kulevsky	The Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939, A Case Study of North Dakota Isolation	MA
August 8, 1964	Earl Brekke	Usher L. Burdick and Mid-West Isolationism, a Study in Foreign Policy	MA
August 8, 1964	Robert Horne	The Controversy Over the Seating of William Langer: 1940-1942	MA
August 8, 1964	Win Mott	The Influence of the Church of Sweden on Rural Swedish Community Life During the Major Emigration Period (1850-1900)	MA
August 8, 1964	Mariellen Neudeck	Morality Legislation in Early North Dakota	MA
August 8, 1964	William Schwab	Immigration Liberalization: A Result of World War II	MA
August 8, 1964	Milton Sherburne	Opposition Aroused by Britain's National Insurance Bill of 1911	MA
August 8, 1964	Iver Torgerson	Reactions of the American Roman Catholic Press to Anticlericalism in France, 1894-1906	MA
August 8, 1964	William Williams	The Saga of North Dakota High School Football	MS
June 6, 1965	Daisy Martens	The Kirchentag: The Answer to Germany's Religious Problems after World War II	MA
June 6, 1965	Ronald Michael	Fur Trade of the Red River Valley of the North: 1763-1812	MA
August 14, 1965	Virginia Rue	The Stahlhelm and the Weimar Republic	MA
August 14, 1965	Gary Swanson	The Development of the Folk High School Movement in Denmark and Its Influence on Danish Society	MEd
January 30, 1966	Orville Stenerson	A History of Dunn County	MA
August 13, 1966	John Fuller	Trial by Controversy: The Evolution of American Air Power, From Birth To North Dakota	MA
August 13, 1966	Gary Hjalmervik	William Langer's First Administration, 1932-34	MA
August 13, 1966	Daniel Rylance	The 1944 Senatorial Election: The Defeat of Senator Gerald P. Nye	MA
August 13, 1966	Scott Shambaugh	The American Federation of Labor Versus Socialism	MA
January 29, 1967	Martin Vitums	The Origin of the Republic of Latvia	MA
June 4, 1967	Ronald Klein	North Dakota Views the Brannan Plan.	MS
June 4, 1967	Ronald Olson	William Langer's Rise to Political Prominence in North Dakota	MA
June 4, 1967	Jerome Petry	Morality Legislation in North Dakota 1920-1954	MA
August 12, 1967	Peter Kramer	William Langer's Victory in the 1940 Senatorial Election.	MS
August 12, 1967	Alfred Melby	A Chemist in the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925.	MA
August 12, 1967	Elaine Weber	William Langer: The Progressive Attorney General (1917-1920).	MA
June 2, 1968	Nicholas Hudyma	The Origins of the Little Entente	MA
June 2, 1968	Arthur Lee	A History of Bemidji State College: 1913-1937	PhD
August 10, 1968	William Thomson	"History of Fort Pembina, 1870-1895."	MA
August 10, 1968	Margaret Walker	The History of Secondary-Level Teacher Preparation in North Dakota, 1883-1921	MA
August 10, 1968	Leonard Wentz	The Non-Partisan League: A Quest of Community.	MA
February 2, 1969	Grant Anderson	The Panama Canal Tolls Question in the Upper-Midwestern Press	MA
February 2, 1969	Odd Lovoll	History of Norwegian-Language Publications in North Dakota	MA
February 2, 1969	Gerald Newborg	The Know-Nothing Party: A Problem in American Historiography	MA
February 2, 1969	Larry Remele	The Public Reaction to the North Dakota Farmers' Holiday Association	MA
June 8, 1969	Arnold Larson	The Bay of Pigs	MA
August 9, 1969	Irene Krahmer	The Southern New England Press and the Election of 1800 - A Study of Sophistry	MA
August 9, 1969	Joyce McWilliams	Historians and the Election of 1864 - A Study of Myth Preservation	MA
August 9, 1969	Michael Sponberg	North Dakota and the Korean War, 1950-1951: A Study in Public Opinion	MA
February 1, 1970	Gordon Johnson	William Langer's Resurgence to Political Power in 1932	MA
February 1, 1970	Brian Weed	Populist Thought in North and South Dakota, 1890-1900	MA
June 6, 1970	Ronan Hope	A Ferro-Vitreous Society: The Great Exhibition of 1851 as a Manifestation of Mid-Victorianism	MA
August 8, 1970	Duane Anderson	Sir George H. Seymour and the Diplomatic Preliminaries to the Crimean War: A Reflection of Mid-Victorian Complacency	MA
August 8, 1970	Edward English	The Syrian Massacres and the Cretan Rebellion: Mid-Victorian Humanitarianism and Britain's Eastern Policy	MA
August 8, 1970	Terrance Gallagher	The Election of 1892 in North Dakota	MA
August 8, 1970	Richard Ottenbriet	The Search Motif in Frederick Philip Grove's A Search for America	MA
August 8, 1970	Raymond Thout	Provencher: Pioneer Bishop	MA
December 20, 1970	Sister Mary Nester	The Peace Movement, the Ford Peace Ship, and the Northern Minnesota Press	MA
December 20, 1970	Steven Savold	British Prestige and the Chinese Barbarians Mid-Victorian Relations with China 1853-1864	MA
December 20, 1970	John Steidl	Cotton Famine Relief Legislation: A Study In Mid-Victorian Attitudes	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
May 14, 1971	Irvin Weeks	Usher L. Burdick in Congress, 1934-1944: A Liberal on Domestic	MA
August 7, 1971	Curtis Eriksmoen	The Career of Major James McLaughlin Before His Prominent Years: The Period Prior to His Appointment to the Standing Rock Reservation	MA
August 7, 1971	Charlene Heinecke	A Tradition Maintained: Mid-Victorian Women as Seen Through the Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister Act and the Married Women's Property Act of 1870	MA
August 7, 1971	Daniel Hennessey	History of the Valley City State College 1890-1970	MA
August 7, 1971	Roger Klimpel	Analysis of the Election of 1896 in North Dakota	MA
August 7, 1971	Cathryne Lalim	The Response of the Red River Valley Norwegian-American Newspapers to Populism in the 1890's	MA
May 14, 1972	Paul Felter	The Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: A Land Use Study to 1971	MA
August 12, 1972	Edmund Brackett	Anti-Conservatism in North Dakota from 1920-1932	MA
August 12, 1972	Thomas Cummings	An Examination of the Lubell Thesis: A Statistical and Historical Study of McIntosh County, North Dakota, 1936-1940	MA
August 12, 1972	Linda Price	The Influence of the Horse in the Upper Midwest Between 1800 and 1970	MA
December 17, 1972	John McCormack	The History of Fort Totten, 1867-1890	MA
May 13, 1973	Dana Miller	The Vermilion Lake Gold Rush of 1865-1866: A Speculative Failure.	MA
August 11, 1973	J.W. Bird	North Dakota Republicans and the "Revolt" of the Farmers, 1889.	MA
August 11, 1973	David Vigeland	The Temperance Crusade in American Fiction, 1830-1860.	MA
December 21, 1973	William Adams	The Rifle Volunteers 1859-1861: Mid-Victorian Xenophobia Manifested.	MA
December 21, 1973	George Tupa	The Lloyd George-Haig Controversy of World War I: A Study of Military and Political Control in War.	MA
May 12, 1974	Robert Carlson	The Secret Ballot Movement in Britain: Political Morality and Reform 1832-1872	MA
August 10, 1974	Augustine Gleason	The Tenth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota (1907): Stalwart-Insurgent Confrontation in an Agrarian State	MA
December 20, 1974	Richard Heinert	The North Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners, 1889-1916	MA
December 20, 1974	Guy King	The Philosophy of the History of Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce	MA
December 19, 1975	David Miller	Charles Alexander Eastman-One Man's Journey in Two Worlds.	MA
December 19, 1975	Paul Nelson	A History of the North Dakota State School of Science, 1946-1975.	MA
May 9, 1976	Walter Anhalt	North Dakota and the Presidential Election of 1964.	MA
May 9, 1976	Bernard Hyatt	The Frontier Judicial System of Dakota Territory, 1861-1873.	MA
December 17, 1976	John Olsgaard	States' Rights and Dualism: An Administrative Study of Andrew Jackson's Indian Policy.	MA
December 17, 1976	Stephen Schilling	Frontier in Transition: A Demographic HIstory of Benton County, Minnesota, 1850-1879.	MA
May 15, 1977	Michael martin	Vice and Violence in Ward County, North Dakota: 1905-1920	MA
August 6, 1977	Stephen Sylvester	Milton R. Young: Dirt Farmer to United States Senator 1932-1945	MA
December 20, 1977	Donald Lilleboe	Steam Navigation on the Red River of the North 1859-1881	MA
December 20, 1977	Mark Peine	The Buell Military Commission: A Microcosm of the Union Command Problem	MA
December 20, 1977	Clyde Root	"The Black Regiment" "New England Clerics and Revolutionary Idology"	MA
May 14, 1978	Charles Haga	Strangers in the Gallery: Parliament, Privilege, and the Press in 1875	MA
August 12, 1978	Colleen Oihus	A History of Coal Development in North Dakota	MA
December 20, 1978	William Jahraus	The Relationship Between Ethnic Traditions and Officeholding of the Early German-Russians of McIntosh County, North Dakota, 1889-1915	MA
December 20, 1978	Susan Spence	Motivations for British Diplomatic Support of the Restoration in France 1805-1815	MA
May 13, 1979	Jon Holter	North Dakota Press Reaction to Selected Provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933-1936	MA
August 11, 1979	Mia Ingstad	An Analysis of the Influences and the Events Which Led to the Recognition of Israel in 1948 by the United States	MA
August 2, 1980	Kathleen Moum	Top Hat and Sickle: The British Upper-Class Romance with Communism During the 1930's as Seen Through the Writings of John Strachey.	MA
August 2, 1980	Scott Neevel	Ranching in Western North Dakota, 1887-1920.	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
August 1, 1981	Kurt Schweigert	Initial Settlement Patterns in the Vicinity of Devils Lake, North Dakota.	MA
December 19, 1981	Brian Nichelson	Unity Lost: An Examination of the Foundations of the Duality of Modern Thought.	MA
May 16, 1982	Albert Burnham	Bombs to Blockades: The Panay Affair and the Forming of the Anglo-American Alliance Before World War II.	MA
August 7, 1982	Gretchen Beito	The Constituency of Coya Knutson, 1954	MA
August 7, 1982	James Sampson	Mesopotamian Man: His World.	MA
December 22, 1983	Richard Loftus	A History of Luthern Campus Ministry at the University of North Dakota Since 1942	MA
May 13, 1984	Nels Erickson	Nothing in Mitigation: Natural Law and the Nuremberg Trials	MA
August 3, 1984	Michael Stermock	The Later Career of Tom Watson, 1906-1922: A Study in the Dilemmas of a Democratic Society	MA
December 20, 1984	Lyndon Johnson	The Farmers' Holiday Association in Southwestern Minnesota, 1932-33	MA
December 20, 1984	Julie Koch	The Omnibus Bill of 1889: Statehood for Dakota Territory	MA
December 20, 1984	Michael Terry	Ormsby Macknight Mitchel and the Railroads: A Study of the Significance of Lines of Communications in the Civil War, 1861-1862	MA
May 12, 1985	Eleanor Merrow	Serving God and Government: The Grey Nuns on Devil's Lake Reservation, 1874-1901	MA
December 20, 1985	Nels Erickson	"Lynn Frazier of North Dakota"	DA
May 11, 1986	Paul A Temanson	A Historical Study of Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in North Dakota	MA
August 1, 1986	Ronald P. Warner	Fort Buford: Sentinel on the Northern Plains, 1866-1895	MA
May 10, 1987	Eric Furuseth	The Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917-1918: A North Dakota Analysis	MA
May 10, 1987	Richard Whaley	Stephen Joseph Doyle and Wartime Democracy in North Dakota During the 1918 Gubernatorial Election	MA
May 10, 1987	Erik Williamson	Norwegian-American Lutheran Churchwomen in North Dakota: The Ladies Aid Societies	MA
December 19, 1987	Douglas L. Ramsey	A History of the Northern Dakota Railway Company	MA
May 15, 1988	Larry E. Skroch	A History of School Reorganization in Sargent County Since 1947	MA
May 15, 1988	Andrew G. Ziny	Aspects of the Jewish Experience in Northern Europe, 800 to 1096	MA
December 22, 1988	Arthur F. Hebbeler	Colonial America Freemasonry and Its Development to 1770	MA
December 22, 1988	Paul A. Hefti	Napolean and Russia and the Treaty of Tilsit: Its Implications for Europe	MA
December 22, 1988	Tracy A. Potter	Stirring the Hornets' Nest: The Health Initiative of 1978	MA
May 14, 1989	Allan C. Young	Race of the Century: Guy vs. Young 1974 North Dakota Senate Election	MA
December 21, 1989	Olga Colbert	Exiles From Spain's Civil War: Case Studies of Two Literary Figures	MA
May 13, 1990	Shawn Deaver	A Study of the North Dakota Legislature During World War II	MA
August 3, 1990	Rich Nolan III	The Air Force Comes to North Dakota: A Study in the Site Selection of Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases	MA
August 3, 1990	Donald Waterworth	The Roosevelt-Taft Schism and Conservative Resurgence: A Case Study of Six Minnesota Congressional Republicans	MA
December 21, 1990	Eric Bergeson	Wild Bill Goes To Washington: A Reassessment of the Senate Career of North Dakota's William Langer	MA
December 21, 1990	Ann Rathke	Lady , If You Go Into Politics: North Dakota's Women Legislators 1923-1989	MA
December 21, 1990	Randall Waters	William Howard Taft's Defense of Private Property in the Grand Trunk Arbitration, 1920-1921	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
May 12, 1991	Sandra Kirk-Rogers	Years of Struggle: The University of North Dakota	MA
May 12, 1991	Craig Olson	Spark Without Flame: The German Library of Information: A Nazi Propaganda Agency in the United States, 1936-1941	MA
May 12, 1991	Erik Williamson	The Norwegian Short-Term Parochial School (Religionsskole) in North Dakota Lutheran Congregations, 1880's-1930's	DA
August 2, 1991	Beverly Jensen	Red Cross Nursing in World War I: North Dakota Women's Response to the Call To Serve	MA
May 10, 1992	Douglas Harler	The Antiballistic Missile System: North Dakota's Safeguard	MA
May 10, 1992	Lori Lahlum	Training the Young Idea How to Shoot: Teaching in Barnes County, the First Thirty Years, 1879-1909	MA
May 10, 1992	Thomas McConn	Attacking the Flanks: The Union Cavalry's Pursuit of Lee, July 3-6, 1863	MA
May 10, 1992	Edward Woell	Baptizing Marxism? English-Language Catholic Press Reaction to the Worker-Priest Movement in France	MA
July 31, 1992	David Bath	The Captive Samurai: Japanese Prisoners Detained in the United States During World War II	MA
July 31, 1992	Steven Hoffbeck	Prairie Paupers: North Dakota Poor Farms, 1879-1973	DA
July 31, 1992	Allan Young	A Modern Isaiah: Henry A. Wallace and the 1948 Presidential Campaign	DA
December 18, 1992	Elbert Barker	Congress and Early Federalist Military Policy: An Examination of Defense Related Roll Calls in the Second United States Congress, 1792-1793.	MA
December 18, 1992	John Grenier	Sectionalism and the Representation Debate, 1787-1792	MA
December 18, 1992	Michael Melgaard	The New Politics of Fear: The 1977 Dade County Gay Rights Referendum and the Regeneration of the Radical Right, 1969-1980	MA
December 18, 1992	Thomas Mulhern	"Butchery and Plunder in God's Name": The Causes of Oliver Cromwell's 1649-1650 Irish Campaign.	MA
December 18, 1992	Philip O'Brien	Vietnam: The Question of an Alternative Revolution	MA
May 16, 1993	Douglas Holden	Floyd B. Olson: His Social Philosophy	MA
May 16, 1993	Stephanie Roper	African Americans in North Dakota 1800-1940	MA
May 16, 1993	William Young	The Wilhelmstrasse and the Nazi Conspiracy to Wage Wars of Aggression: An Investigation into the Continuity of German Foreign Office Influence on the Formulation of Foreign Policy, 1871-1945	MA
December 21, 1993	Daron Olson	Norwegians, Socialism and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, 1904-1920: How Red Was Their Protest?	MA
December 21, 1993	Amy Rieger	Porter James McCumber: Evolution of a Senator	MA
December 21, 1993	Joel Wright	American Magazine Reporting on the Swedish Welfare State: From the Depression through the Cold War	MA
May 15, 1994	Roger Hardaway	The African-American Frontier: Blacks in the Rocky Mountain West, 1535-1912: A Narrative Bibliography	DA
May 15, 1994	Todd Laughman	To Perfect the Peace Establishment: Congressional Attempts to Find the Proper Size for the Regular Army, 1821-1855.	MA
May 15, 1994	Kathryn Magnan	World War II and Brainerd, Minnesota	MA
May 15, 1994	John Pederson	Finland in the Anglo-American Press 1939-1955: A Special Case?	MA
May 15, 1994	Scott Zimmermann	The United States and Korea 1882-1950	DA
August 5, 1994	Mark Foster	IG Farben and the Road to Auschwitz: Failed Ethics in an Early High-Technology Enterprise	MA
August 5, 1994	Ronald Spreng	In the Footsteps of Gordon Kahl?	DA
August 5, 1994	Leif Urseth	A Vision from Locksley Hall: American Air Power from Kitty Hawk to Schweinfurt	MA
May 14, 1995	Robin Phillips	The Educational Systems of Sparta and Athens	MA
May 14, 1995	Heidi Stark	The Nikolai Spafarii Calamity: The Dismal Failure of Russia's First Ambassadorial Mission to China (1675)	MA
August 11, 1995	James Belpedio	Fact, Fiction, Film: Rex Beach and The Spoilers	DA
December 20, 1995	Chris Ingvalson	Matthew Lyon, The Sedition Act, and Freedom of Speech in Federalist America	MA
May 12, 1996	Frank Rzeczkowski	The Crow Response to the Bozeman Trail, 1866-68: A Failure of Neutrality	MA
December 20, 1996	Eric Schmaltz	Soviet-German "Rehabilitation" and the Ethnic German Nationalist Wiedergeburt in the USSR and CIS, 1987-1995.	MA
August 1, 1997	Thomas Shilts	Political Culture on the Northern Plains: North Dakota and the Nonpartisan Experience	MA
December 19, 1997	Lucinda Schumann	The Effects of Acculturation on the Cree and Ojibwa Indians as a Result of the Fur Trade, 1760-1820	MA
May 10, 1998	Kathleen R. Brokke	A Change of Perspective in the Farmer's Wife Journal From 1906-1930	MA
May 10, 1998	Kenneth L. Smith	American Educator: The Life of William Maxwell Blackburn	MA
May 10, 1998	Della M. Vanhuss	The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Pedagogical Study	DA
May 10, 1998	Grant T. Weller	Keep the Flyin' Eight Balls Rollin': Military Leadership in the 3360th Quartermaster Truck	MA
December 18, 1998	William C. Watrel	Internationalism and Nationalism in Bolshevism": An Internal Contradiction in Lenin's Revolutionary Strategy	MA
May 9, 1999	Darrin Boehm	"Billy Yank" on the Northern Plains: The Lives of Union Soldiers on the Minnesota-Dakota Frontier from the Great Sioux Uprising to 1866	MA
May 9, 1999	Joel D. Hembree	Transition of the English Military During the Tudor Dynasty	MA
May 9, 1999	Thomas Mulhern	Annotated Bibliography of the Reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts	DA
July 30, 1999	Marianna W. Byman	Nicolas Berdyaev: An Intellectual Journey	DA
July 30, 1999	Rodney J. Guttormson	"The Twelve-Penny Chronicle": The Origins of the Pequot War	MA
July 30, 1999	Steven R. Mallory	The Historical Influences and Legacy of the Alaskan Boundary Dispute	MA
December 17, 1999	Russell D. Lindvall	The North Dakota Grain Embargo of 1933; Agrarian Radicalism in the Middle West	MA
May 12, 2000	Richard Stenberg	A Real Republican: The Political Life of Governor George F. Shafer	MA
August 4, 2000	Brian Russell	Flooded Lifeways: A Study of the Garrison Dam and its Environmental Impact upon the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation	MA
August 4, 2000	Jeffrey Stotts	Ideas and Attitudes Concerning Social Order, Civility, and Education in Seventeenth-Century Virginia and Massachusetts	MA
December 22, 2000	William Young	War and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV: A Historical Study and Annotated Bibliography	DA

History Thesis & Dissertation from 2001 to 2010

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
May 13, 2001	Tanis K. Lovercheck-Saunders	Our Duty, Our Rights, Our America: Women in American Nativism 1830-1930	DA
August 3, 2001	Roland Marmon	A Reservation is no Refuge: A Story of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, 1800-1900	MA
August 3, 2001	Kenneth Smith	"Education in the Large:" The Life and Thought of Dean Joseph Kennedy of The University of North Dakota, 1858-1937.	DA
December 21, 2001	Anthony Dutton	"Nazi Ostpolitik: A Study of Occupational Policies in the Soviet Union, 1941-1944".	MA
May 11, 2002	Nikki Berg	A Plantation Mistress of the Old South: The Life of Ann Barnes Archer of Mississippi.	MA
May 11, 2002	Sandra Irmen	The Question of Indochinese Independence in World War II Allied Diplomacy.	MA
May 11, 2002	Carolyn Van Mackelberg	Crossing the Gender Barrier - A History of Male Nurses in Manitoba 1970-1980.	MA
August 2, 2002	Eric Rogness	Ambitious Beginnings: The Early Life and Political Career of William Langer.	MA
December 20, 2002	Eric Fox	The Passing Man: Francis Parkman and Change in Nineteenth Century America.	MA
December 20, 2002	Todd Pelfrey	Surviving the "Cultural Genocide" of the "Peace Policy" in Northeastern Dakota Territory.	MA
May 17, 2003	Brad Tennant	'Excluding Indians Not Taxed': An Examination of the Phrase's Impact on the Legal Status of American Indian Individuals.	MA
August 8, 2003	Vikki Dennis	The New Deal in Walsh County, North Dakota.	MA
August 6, 2004	Peter Bohlman	A Comparative Study of Ruling Queens During the Age of Absolutism.	MA
August 6, 2004	Anastasia Bowe	Ojibway Women In Transition: The Influence of the Church on the Traditional Roles of Ojibway Women and its Effects on Ojibway Society.	MA
August 6, 2004	Helen Johnson	Fluctuations in Federal Indian Policy in the Early 19th Century Using the Cherokee Nation as a Case Study.	MA
December 17, 2004	Eric Towne	Claiming the Frontier: A Study of Northeastern New York, 1749 to 1777.	MA
December 17, 2004	Jennie Weber	Prince Vladimir and Russia's Conversion to Christianity: Cultural and Economic Connections Between Kiev and Constantinople.	MA
December 17, 2004	Linxiang Zhu	Green Card, Blood Card, or June 4 card: The Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992	MA
May 14, 2005	Jeffrey Hart	Consistently Constitutional: An Examination of Colonial Constitutional Arguments from Colonization to Independence.	MA
December 16, 2005	Eu Kit Lim	Blessed Are the Poor: The German Peasants' War and the Sandinista Revolution in Comparison.	MA
December 16, 2005	Josiah Patrow	Shifts in the Structure of British Imperialism in the Mid to Late Victorian Period.	MA
May 13, 2006	Jay Durgin	The Decline of Provincial Culture in Dorset and Somerset Counties as Reflected in Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels.	MA
May 13, 2006	John Hendrickson	Herbert Hoover and the Conservative Response to the New Deal.	MA
May 13, 2006	Rebecca Leber-Gottberg	Problem-Based Learning: Methodology and Application in the History Survey Class.	DA
August 4, 2006	David Betz	Volunteerism to Professionalism: The Dakota and North Dakota National Guard, 1885-1916.	MA
December 15, 2006	Jessica Nelson	Enfants des Bonnets Rouges et Sainte-Anne: Abandonment in Eighteenth-Centry Dijon.	MA
December 15, 2006	Nelson Rosit	Greening American History: Incorporating an Environmental Perspective into U.S. Survey Courses.	DA
May 12, 2007	Aaron Barth	Spiritual Musings on the Northern Plains: Joseph Henry Taylor, Transmigration, and the Late Nineteenth-Century West.	MA
May 12, 2007	Loretta Wellentin	Women in the United States Military: Achieving a Permanent Place.	MA
August 3, 2007	Brandon Olson	Commemoration Practices of the Roman Soldier	MA
August 3, 2007	Todd Roman	Julius Caesar and the Rhine River: The Evolution of a Border During the Gallic Wars.	MA
May 10, 2008	Elisabeth Saunders	Pine Ridge Reservation's Early Economic Initiatives and Intercultural Relations.	MA
May 10, 2008	Robert Vandenberg	The Bin Laden Phenomenon.	MA
August 1, 2008	Daniel Sauerwein	Civil War Camps of Instruction in Illinois: Exploring the Transition from Civilian to Soldier.	MA
August 1, 2008	David Terry	Authority and Cultural Interaction on Frankish Cyprus, 1191-1374	MA
August 1, 2008	John Wickre	William H. Seward's American Exceptionalism in the Age of the 'Irrepressible Conflict'.	MA
May 16, 2009	Kevin Crawford	F.C. Baur and the Tubingen School: Turning Point in the Historiography of Acts of the Apostles.	MA
May 16, 2009	Anna Peterson	A Dash of Suffrage Spice: Rural and Urban Ethnicity Construction in the Transnational Women's Suffrage Movement.	MA
May 16, 2009	Tim Rodenberger	Promoting Diversity and Combating Narcotics: How DC and Marvel Comics Pioneered for Social Change in Comics and Popular Culture.	MA
August 7, 2009	Jennifer Heth	North Dakota's Monuments: What They Reveal of the State's People and Their Character.	MA
August 7, 2009	Matthew Work	Problems in Reading Ammianns Marcellinus.	MA
December 18, 2009	Robert Tiegs	The Influence of Dutch Water Management on the Revolt of the Netherlands:1568-1648	MA
May 15, 2010	Paul Ferderer	The Representation of Salvation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers	MA
May 15, 2010	Maurice Searcy	The Social Impact of the Civil War in the Western Theater Centering on Kentucky.	DA
August 6, 2010	Robert Caulkins	The Non Partisan League: Minnesota, North Dakota, Civil Liberties and the Struggle for Survival During World War One	MA
August 6, 2010	Sonya Hathaway	George Orwell's "Depression" Novels: Laying Bare the Emotional Cost of the Great Depression in Britain	MA
August 6, 2010	Justin Mayer	Historical Memory of Mount Rushmore	MA
December 17, 2010	Nigar Soubra	American Scheherazade: Strategic Orientalism and Hybridity in the Ottoman Tales of Demetra Vaka Brown.	MA
December 17, 2010	Jean Trenbeath	Nineteen Years in the Wilderness: A Study of Fur Trader Daniel Williams Harmon and His Responses to the Landscapes of the Western Canadian Interior.	MA

Graduation Date	Name	Title of Thesis or Dissertation	Degree
May 14, 2011	Dorothea Nelson	No Country for End Men: A Re-Evaluation of Small Ensemble Blackface Minstrelsy, 1843 to 1883.	MA
August 5, 2011	Thomas Backerud	Pagan Monotheism and Neoplatonism in Fourth-Century Rome.	MA
August 5, 2011	Dalton Little	R.G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History and Its Enduring Influence on Historians.	MA
August 5, 2011	Sara McIntee	Grand Forks County Historical Society: Forty Years.	MA
August 5, 2011	Peter Stordahl	Overcoming Isolationism: How Woodrow Wilson Won North Dakota in the Presidential Election of 1916.	MA
December 16, 2011	Thomas Harlow	Succor Versus Advancement: The YWCA, The National Federation, and the Role of the Club Movement in Women's Employment During the Great Depression.	MA
December 16, 2011	Matthew Helm	Freedom Through Colonization: An Examination of Maryland in Liberia and Black Emigration to Cape Palmas During the Antebellum Period.	MA
May 12, 2012	Michael Mishler	Later Nineteenth Century Marriage and Divorce Law: The Changing Historiography of the Law and British Women's History.	MA
May 12, 2012	Danielle Skjelver	"There I, Paul Dolnstein, saw action." The Sketchbook of a Warrior Artisan in the German Renaissance	MA
May 11, 2013	Christopher Price	The Utilization of Local History in Teaching American Religious History: A Gilded Age and Progressive Era North Dakota Case Study	DA
May 11, 2013	Daniel Ferris	The Collision of Romanticism and Modernism in Post-World War II American Cinema: A Theoretical Defense of Intellectual History in the Undergraduate Classroom	DA
May 17, 2014	Alyson Leas	Deflating Rural North Dakota: Mechanization, Industrialization, and Depopulation in the Small Community	MA
May 16, 2015	Aimee Duchsherer	A Picture Terrible in Its Significance: Jack Johnson, Interracial Relationships, and Methods of White Social Control in Early Twentieth-Century America	MA
December 2015	Andrew Larson		MA
December 2015	Deborah Lowder	Missionary Education and the Problem of Language: The International Missionary Council in Colonial Senegal, 1917-1935	MA
December 15, 2016	Elizabeth Mjelde	Britain's First War with Kandy: Landscape, Violence, and Conquest in Colonial Sri Lanka	PhD
December 15, 2016	Daniel Cooley		MA
December 15, 2016	Evan Halbach		MA
December 14, 2017	Jacob Bourboun		MA
May 12, 2018	Ryan Menath	Tactical Implementation of Strategic Guidance during the American Revolutionary War: Pedagogical Application for Classroom Use	DA

Graduate Program Degree Guidelines

Master's of Arts Degree - Thesis Guidelines

At its core, the Master's thesis is both an extended argument on a particular topic and an exercise in method. The finished product should demonstrate a sound grasp of the fundamental methods associated with historical research, represent a contribution to the field, and be of a quality suitable for submission to an academic publication which means that it must also be well written.

More specifically the Master's Thesis should demonstrate:

A mastery of basic research skills, either in regards to traditional archival work or engagement with other "primary sources".
An ability to construct an original argument from primary source documents.
An ability to understand and integrate the historiography of a period, a method, and a specific debate.
The ability to construct a sustained, long-form, argument.

The Master's thesis must include:

Formal and proper academic citation of primary and secondary sources both as footnotes and in a separate bibliography.
An introduction which is historiographical in nature and which clearly indicates: (a) the significance of the work; (b) the methodology to be employed; and (c) the original and substantially unique historical or historiographical argument that will be proven.
At least two more substantive chapters and a separate conclusion (the typical MA thesis will contain four or more chapters and range anywhere from 70 to 150 pages in length.)

Master of Arts Non-Thesis Project Guidelines

The M.A. Independent Research Project demonstrates the student's ability to investigate a topic and organize a scholarly report based upon that investigation. This project may take a variety of forms, but these must serve to demonstrate the student's mastery of principles, methods, and forms of scholarly historical research.

Specifically, the Master of Arts Non-Thesis Project will demonstrate:

A mastery of basic historical research skills appropriate to the sources used for the project.
An ability to construct a valid historical argument, and to organize the evidence drawn from research accordingly.
An understanding of the historical theory, method, and historiography relevant to the project, and the ability to integrate this understanding into the project itself.
Thorough competence in the skills of written communication, as well as any other communicative medium necessary to the project.

Two Required Components

1. The Core Project: The student will work closely with a primary faculty adviser to develop a project to meet the criteria outlined above. The form of this project can vary widely: Thus, students working within the public history stream, might prepare studies evaluating particular existing collections of a museum, a gallery, or an archive, and, using their expertise in the field, offer a reasoned critique of how these collections and their manner of display could be improved. Students might also use their project to produce finding aids for a substantial archival collection, to create catalogs for particular museum or art gallery displays, to produce photographic or other visual displays suitable for public viewing, to develop new digital and on-line collections - the examples and possibilities are almost endless.

2. Scholarly Essay: In addition, The Master of Arts Non-Thesis Project must include a complementary article length (25 page) scholarly discussion of the project with the following components:

An introduction, establishing the importance of the topic/project.
An analysis of the historiographical context of the topic/project.
A methodological statement.
A working hypothesis or central argument that the body of the paper will prove, using a combination of primary and secondary sources.
Properly formatted scholarly apparatus, including, at minimum, citations and bibliography, following a recognized and approved style (Chicago or Turabian unless otherwise specified).

M.A. Non-Thesis Comprehensive Examinations

The M.A. Non-Thesis Comprehensive Examinations demonstrate the candidate's thorough competencies in the historiography, theory, and core knowledge of history. Three examinations are required, two of which must be written. The examinations must respond to the student's Program of Study and research emphasis: one exam must cover the candidate's major field of historical research, while the other exams may cover subsidiary fields, areas of particular emphasis, or topics relevant to the student's research project.

Format and Timetable: The student may sit for exams only after having advanced to candidacy, and no earlier than the semester preceding the semester in which the student intends to graduate. Well before this time (3-6 months in advance) the student will meet with his or her examining/supervisory committee under the direction of the primary adviser to co-ordinate this process. Examinations in all fields will be based upon a list of readings mutually agreed upon by the supervising faculty members and the candidate. The student's primary adviser will coordinate this process, ensuring that reading lists are comparable.

The M.A. student's advisor will also superintend the actual examination process and ensure that questions are gathered from all field supervisors; the field supervisors will be responsible for setting the examination questions and grading the final product.

Administration: All examinations will typically be administered on campus. The required written exams shall constitute two discreet four-hour examinations, of two to three essay style questions. No external sources shall be used in the course of writing these examinations. The third examination may employ this form as well, but may also take an alternative form, such as an oral examination, an oral presentation, poster presentation, or "take home" essay at the discretion of the primary adviser and examining committee. All examinations shall be conducted over a two week period, with no more than two examinations required in any given week, and will be graded in a timely fashion by the supervising faculty.

In order to graduate the M.A. student will need to earn a grade of 3.5 (B+) or better on each examination. If a student fails to meet this standard they will be allowed to retake the failed examination(s) once within six months of the first attempt. Any subsequent failure will result in termination from the program.

Doctor of Arts Research Project Guidelines

The Doctor of Arts Independent Research Project demonstrates the student's mastery of historical theory, method, and practice through a sustained investigation of a problem of professional and/or scholarly importance. The project may take a variety of acceptable forms, but will always require significant historical research and demonstrable pedagogical goals or classroom applications. The finished D.A. project is expected to achieve a level of originality and scholarly attainment commensurate with published work of a similar kind.

In addition, the D.A. Project will demonstrate

A thorough mastery of the relevant historiographic context of the topic or project under investigation.
A thorough mastery of the principles and methods of historical research.
An advanced ability to integrate and organize historical evidence within a sophisticated analytical frame, usually taking the form of a sustained argument.
Thorough competence in the skills of written communication.
An advanced ability to integrate historical and/or historiographic research with pedagogical and/or educational goals.

The D.A. Project must include

An introduction in which the author clearly sets forth (a) the historiographic context and significance of the work; (b) the methodology or praxis to be employed; (c) the substantially original historical or historiographic outcome (argument or project goal) of the work; (d) the work's intended pedagogical or educational value.
A substantial narrative component and conclusion, usually taking the form of multiple chapters with an aggregate length of 100-200 pages.
A full and properly constructed and formatted scholarly apparatus, including, at minimum, both notes and bibliography.

Within these parameters, the History Department will accept a wide variety of potential projects, including research in the fields of public history or digital history, the evaluation and synthesis of historical knowledge for teaching goals, the application of new historical perspectives to education, and creative, comparative, collaborative, and/or transdisciplinary approaches to post-secondary history education.

D.A. Comprehensive Examinations

It is often said that no one will know as much about, or be as historiographically current in their three fields as when they sit these examinations. This may be hyperbole, but there is no question that the preparation involved in the taking of doctoral comprehensive examinations is one of the most important steps in the intellectual development of a scholar. It is seen as a daunting process and for good reason. Indeed, because the successful completion of these examinations is an absolute pre-condition for moving on to the final stages of the Doctor of Arts degree, this is a truly crucial juncture in the life of any doctoral student.

The purpose of DA Comprehensive exams is twofold. First, these exams will be used to ascertain that the candidate has a solid grasp of the core historiography within her or his four major fields. Second, and in keeping with the pedagogical focus of the degree, the exams will also be used to ascertain the candidate's ability to plan and design lower level college history classes. The comprehensive exams shall cover four fields, U.S. History to 1877, U.S. History since 1877, and two of the remaining three fields, Premodern European/Mediterranean History, Modern European History, and World History.

Format and Timetable

At the very outset of the process, typically six months to a year prior to the time when the student intends to sit her/his examinations, there shall be a meeting of the student's entire examining/supervisory committee, convened by the DA student's primary advisor, which will be used to co-ordinate the process. Because of the pedagogical element of the DA program it will be incumbent upon the committee to determine which field examinations shall contain which pedagogical/course design questions. Typically, each field will be supervised by a single faculty member who has worked with the student in the area. Examinations in all fields will be based upon a list of readings mutually agreed upon by the supervising faculty members and the candidate. The DA student's advisor will coordinate this process, ensuring that reading lists are comparable.
The DA student's advisor will also superintend the actual examination process, although the field supervisors will be responsible for setting the examination questions and grading the final product. The exams may be administered at any point after the candidate has completed 30 credit hours post MA, or 60 hours post BA.

Administration

All four field examinations will typically be administered on campus, and each shall constitute a discreet eight hour examination during the course of which candidates will be required to answer no fewer than two, and no more than three, essay-style questions. No external sources shall be used in the course of writing these examinations. The examinations shall be conducted over a two week period - typically two exams each week - and will be graded in a timely fashion by the faculty member supervising that particular field.

In order to progress to candidacy the DA student will need to earn a grade of 3.5 (B+) or better on each examination. If a student fails to meet this standard they will be allowed to retake the failed examination(s) once within six months of the first attempt. Any subsequent failure will result in termination from the program.

There is no oral examination component of these comprehensive examinations.

History Student Research

Past Theses and Dissertations

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