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2008
Alumni by Year
Kim Carlson
- Thesis: “Crisis in Van Buren: A Small Town's Reaction to Integration”
- Advisor: Michael Pierce
- Level: Summa cum laude
Jeff Grooms
- Thesis: “The Lance of St. George: Urbanization, Unification, and the Emergence of German Identity in Berlin, 1860-1875”
- Advisor: Richard Sonn
- Level: Summa cum laude
Cody Hackett
- Thesis: “Savlation in the Soil: Free Men, The Freedmen's Bureau, and the Southern Homestead Act in Arkansas”
- Advisor: Patrick Williams
- Level: Summa cum laude
Leon Kassab
- Thesis: “The Haymarket Affair and the Diversity of Anarchism in Nineteenth-Century America”
- Advisor: Michael Pierce
- Level: Cum laude
Matthew Lammers
- Thesis: “Translating Turmoil: American Accounts of the 1871 Paris Commune”
- Advisor: Richard Sonn
- Level: Magna cum laude
Joselin Niemyer
- Thesis: “Polio and Arkansas”
- Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
- Level: Cum laude
Caroline Peyton
- Thesis: “Opportunity Knocks: An Examination of the Knoxville Transient Bureau and Transient Population”
- Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
- Level: Cum laude
Charles Puddephat
- Thesis: “Dyess Colony: A Laboratory for Small Farming”
- Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
- Level: Magna cum laude
Lonnie Strange
- Thesis: “The Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi County, Arkansas: The Story of Sans Souci Plantation”
- Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
- Level: Magna cum laude
John Terry
- Thesis: “Give Me That Old Time Religion: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Rhetoric of Loss in the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People”
- Advisor: Lynda Coon
- Level: Summa cum laude
Jamie Claire Wilson
- Thesis: “Married to the Land: Women's Responses to the Post-2000 Land Grab in Zimbabwe”
- Advisor: Andrea Arrington
- Level: Cum laude