Thesis: “Is Hindsight 20/20?: Reconsidering Popular Perceptions of Civil War Surgeons”
Advisor: Matthew Stanley
Level: Summa cum laude
Karlie Barnett
Thesis: “Women and Religion in the Mongol Empire”
Advisor: Kelly Anne Hammond
Level: Summa cum laude
Ava Buchanan
Thesis: “Amorous Poems and Passionate Letters: An Analysis of the Contributions of Two Female
Authors to the Literary Scene of 16th Century Italy”
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Level: Magna cum laude
Anna Rumpz
Thesis: “The Influence of Jesuit Linguistic Manipulation of Guarani Gender Norms in Colonial
Paraguay”
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Level: Summa cum laude
Mary Claire Durr
Thesis: “Womanless Weddings and Beauty-less Pageants: A History of Rural Drag in Arkansas”
Advisor: Ren Pepitone
Level: Summa cum laude
Alison Fong
Thesis: “Disruptions and Continuity in the Singaporean Chinese Community: Social Networks,
Collaborationist, and the Black Market under the British and Japanese Administrations,
1819-1960”
Advisor: Kelly Anne Hammond
Level: Magna cum laude
Michael Fuhrman
Thesis: “Building with Stories: Collecting Narratives and Understanding Cultural Realities
for Vietnamese Buddhist Populations in Fort Smith, Arkansas”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Summa cum laude
Avery Hasten
Thesis: “International Actors: Investigating Celebrities as Human Rights Actors”
Advisor: Jared Phillips
Level: Cum laude
Georgiana Powell
Thesis: “A Tale of Two Libraries: A History of the Public Library Systems of Atlanta, GA,
and Baltimore, MD, and How Libraries Across America Adapt to their Communities”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Emily Snyder
Thesis: “The Political Power of Museums: A Case Study on the Spanish Colonial Arts Society
and Museum”
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Level: Summa cum laude
Jack West
Thesis: “Plastic Makes Perfect: An Analysis of Plastic Surgery as a Rehabilitation in Early
to Late 20th Century Prison Populations”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level: Magna cum laude
Lauren Campbell
Thesis: “Instituto Indigenista Interamericano: Pioneering International Indigenous Rights
through Indigenismo and Pan-American Cooperation during the Early Cold War”
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Level: Summa cum laude
Melissa Corvera
Thesis: “The Racial Transformation of Exploitable Labor in the United States: The Bracero
Program's Contribution 1942-1964”
Advisor: Steven Rosales
Level: Magna cum laude
Jacob Huneycutt
Thesis: “An Awakening Against the Second Great Awakening: The 'Primitive Baptist' Protest
in Antebellum North Carolina”
Advisor: James Gigantino
Level: Summa cum laude
Jamie Kim
Thesis: “God and Guatemala's Covenant: Counterinsurgent Evangelical Christianity in Rios
Montt's Guatemala”
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Level: Summa cum laude
Nicholas Langham
Thesis: “Legal Status, Exploitation, and Racism: The Challenges Facing Southern Latina/o
Poultry Processing Workers in the United States”
Advisor: Steven Rosales
Level: Cum laude
Samuel Peterson
Thesis: “Interservice Rivalry: Examining the Relationships Between the Intelligence Organizations
of the Navy, the Army, and the OSS in China, 1939-1945”
Advisor: Kelly Hammond
Level: Magna cum laude
Rachel Hutchings
Thesis: “Frenchification on the Mississippi: A Comparison of Illinois and Natchez Reactions
to French Colonization, 1673-1729”
Advisor: Linda Jones
Level: Summa cum laude
Henry Schuelke
Thesis: “The Revolutionary Imperial Paradigm: The Life and Death of the Communist Party of
Germany, 1918-1956”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Cum laude
Allison Tucker
Thesis: “Who Died and Made You President?: John Tyler and Chester A. Arthur's Presidential
Legitimacy”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Madison Whipple
Thesis: “We, too, Have Deeds of Heroism to Tell our Children: The Role of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy in the Perpetuation of the Confederate Lost Cause in Fayetteville,
Arkansas”
Advisor: Louise Hancox
Level: Magna cum laude
Elizabeth Cooper
Thesis: “Religiously Promiscuous: Exploring the Interactions of Spiritualism, Gender, Race,
and Class in Lessie Stringfellow Read's Fayetteville"
Advisor: John Treat
Level: Summa cum laude
Jacobs Gilbert
Thesis: “The Cutting Room Floor: Forgotten Impressions of the New Hollywood and the Cinema
of the 1960s amd 1970s”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Carson Henderson
Thesis: “South Africa's Culture War: A Cultural Analysis of Film and Comic Book Propaganda
in the Waning Years of Apartheid"
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Level: Magna cum laude
Rachel Hutchings
Thesis: “Non-Muslim Integration Into the Early Islamic Caliphate Through the Use of Surrender
Agreements”
Advisor: Nikolay Antov
Level: Magna cum laude
Jonathan Hutter
Thesis: “South Carolina, Stono, Slavery, and the Law”
Advisor: James Gigantino
Level: Cum laude
William Klaviter
Thesis: “Rise of the Lederhosen: Creating Bavarian Identity in Bismarckian Germany”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Eamon Lauster
Thesis: “It Lacks Garlic: Nomads, Slave Soldiers, and State Building in the Great Seljuk
Empire (c. 1030-1162)”
Advisor: Nikolay Antov
Level: Magna cum laude
Sarah Lowe
Thesis: “Born Free?: An Examination of the Evolution of South African Women's Rights Since
Apartheid”
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Level: Cum laude
Kayla Maupin
Thesis: “The Phoenix Program: The Efficacy of Human Intelligence and Counterterror Operations
in the Vietnam War”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Level: Magna cum laude
Cayla McGrail
Thesis: “Female Futurity: Utopian Impulses and Feminist Alternatives”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Eric McLain
Thesis: “The Longhorn and the Llama: LBJ, Barrientos, and US-Bolivian Relations, 1964-1969”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Level: Summa cum laude
John Meckfessel
Thesis: “The Twin Relics: Southern Slavery and Mormon Polygamy”
Advisor: Sarah Rodriguez
Level: Magna cum laude
Dennis Mitchell
Thesis: “Occult Forces: Anti-masony and the Masonic Peril in France, 1934-1944 ”
Advisor: Richard Sonn
Level: Magna cum laude
Emily Rosenau
Thesis: “The Comfort Women: How Collaboration and Betrayal Led to Shame in 20th Century Asia”
Advisor: Kelly Anne Hammond
Level: Magna cum laude
Darci Walton
Thesis: “The Architecture of Power: The Spatial and Political Spheres of the Abbesses of
Santa Maria la Real de las Huelgas”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Michael Webster
Thesis: “'Fest': Exploring the Cultural Influence of German Celebrations in America”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Magna cum laude
Kaitlyn Akel
Thesis: “'A Splendid Delusion': Reassessing Vaccination in England, 1796-1853"
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Nicole Brooks
Thesis: “From Deliverance to Deviance: The Role of Media in Legitimizing Post-WWII American
Sectarian Religious Groups”
Advisor: Ren Pepitone
Level: Magna cum laude
Brock DeMark
Thesis: “Spatial Divides at the Victorian Seaside: Brighton, a Case Study, 1820-1860”
Advisor: Ren Pepitone
Level: Summa cum laude
John Paul Gairhan
Thesis: “Chinese Development Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1955-Present”
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Level: Cum laude
Rebecca Gilliland
Thesis: “Family Portraits: Familial Relationships and Gender Expectations in Photographs
of Interned Japanese-Americans at Rohwer and Jerome”
Advisor: Kelly Hammond
Level: Magna cum laude
Taylor McDougal
Thesis: “Bandrolling Brinkmanship: Superpower Defense Spending in the Cold War, 1945-1991”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Magna cum laude
Christa Murad
Thesis: “Insitutions and Ideals: Transnational Years of the Irish Education System from the
Gaelic Revival to the New Irish Free State”
Advisor: Ren Pepitone
Level: Cum laude
Hunter Phelps
Thesis: “American Cataline: Federalists and Aaron Burr During the Electoral Crisis of 1800-1801”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Philip Purifoy
Thesis: “At the Crossroads: An Examination of Nineteenth Century Circassian Religion”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level: Cum laude
Bishop Sites
Thesis: “Translating Hojoki, or is Translation Ever Complete?”
Advisor: Elizabeth Markham
Level: Cum laude
Sarah Smith
Thesis: “The Election of 1928 and Beyond: Analyzing American Catholic Reactions to Anti-Catholicism
in the United States”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Summa cum laude
Spencer Soule
Thesis: “Remembering Hanna: Media Perceptions and Historical Analysis of Marcus Hanna in
the 1896 Presidential Election”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Cum laude
Raiyan Syed
Thesis: “The Humanitarian Front of the 1971 South Asia Crisis: How Humanitarian Aid Attempted
to Achieve Non-Humanitarian Goals”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Magna cum laude
Anne Crafton
Thesis: “Talking with Dragons: How Dragons Reveal the Hero's Heart”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Summa cum laude
Garrett King
Thesis: “Indirect Resistance: Benton, Arkansas, and Stalled Desegregation in Rural Areas”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Magna cum laude
Stephen Cook
Thesis: “Creating a Nation: James Madison and the Politics of the Constitutional Convention”
Advisor: James Gigantino
Level: Cum laude
Grace Miller
Thesis: “Set Up to Fail: The 'Little Rock Nine' and Desegregation and their Effects on the
Development of Modern Urban Education
Advisor: Kelly A. Hammond
Level: Cum laude
Greyson Teague
Thesis: “The Odd Man Out: Arthur W. Mitchell's Experiences in Congress 1935-1943”
Advisor: Patrick G. Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Ann Willett
Thesis: “A Study of Influence: Simone, '68 and the Liberation of the Second Sex”
Advisor: Richard Sonn
Level: Magna cum laude
Corbin Stinnett
Thesis: “Confronting the Crimson Killer: A Critical Examination of Pellagra Eradication in
Arkansas”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Cum laude
J. Grant Addison
Thesis: “A Machiavellian Christian?: Analyzing the Political Theology of The Prince”
Advisor: Freddy C. Dominguez
Level:
Michael Anthony
Thesis: “Pryor's Emphasis on Pests and His Apathy for the Rest: A Study of the Environmental
Policy of David M. Pryor While Senator of Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level:
Caitlin Beasley
Thesis: “The Medical Marketing of Eureka Springs”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level:
William Finkelstein
Thesis: “An Examination of Early Manufacturing Engineers in America”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level:
Tabitha Orr
Thesis: “Minton's War: Black Workers in Arkansas Defense Industries (1940-1946)”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Magna cum laude
Jordan Peden
Thesis: “Alexander Hamilton: Alien and Sedition Acts”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level:
Caroline Potts
Thesis: “Before October: The Origins of the Danish Rescue of the Jews”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level:
Margaret Watermann
Thesis: “Missouri V. Jenkins: The Exclusion of Suburban Districts from Kansas City's Desegregation Case”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Summa cum laude
Sean Bryant
Thesis: “WWI Arkansas Pilots: A Study of Arkansan Airmen in the First World War”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Kerry Cole
Thesis: “A Parade, Fleeting Interest Groups, Few Activists, and Social Media: The Recent
History of LGBT Conway, Arkansas”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Cum laude
Annie Everett
Thesis: “The Genesis of the Sonderweg”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Summa cum laude
Rachel Feurtado
Thesis: “Dhouda, Heloise, and Catherine: The Rhetoric of Female Inferiority in the Early,
High, and Late Middle Ages, c. 800-1500”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Cum laude
Amelia Freeman
Thesis: “Ideology of Crisis: Apocolyptic Rhetoric in Nazi Politics and War, 1925-1945”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Magna cum laude
Zoe Gastineau
Thesis: “How Women in Heian Japan Reflect and Alter Ancient China's Ideal Woman: The Warriors
of Virtue”
Advisor: Elizabeth Markham
Level: Cum laude
William Loder
Thesis: “National Spaces, German Opera, and the Altes Brugtheater: A Digital Humanities Project”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
London Lundstrum
Thesis: “Provencial Pestilence: Marseilles, Provence, and the Last Outbreak of Plague in Western
Europe”
Advisor: Richard Sonn
Level: Cum laude
Forrest Walker Roth
Thesis: “Creek Running Dry: Illicit Alcohol in Northwest Arkansas”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Cum laude
James Brown
Thesis: “Greece's Cutlural Cold War and the Challenge of Greater Europe, 1947”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level:
Sean Bryant
Thesis: “The Taiping Rebellion: The Collapse of Qing Central Power”
Advisor: Liang Cai
Level:
Rachel Carpino
Thesis: “Elite Women's Athletics through a Cold War Lens”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level:
Mary Casteel
Thesis: “Reel Images of Postwar Life: Narrative Films in Germany and Italy”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level:
Penny Davis
Thesis: “Gifts from the Gods: Myths, Folktales, and Religious Relics in Modern Day Japan”
Advisor: Elizabeth Markham
Level:
Mark Dillard
Thesis: “Discovering Slavery: Exploring the Transition from Slavery to Servitude in 17th-century
British Barbados”
Advisor: Caree Banton
Level:
Nathan Miller
Thesis: “The U.S. and Franco's Spain during the Cold War”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level:
Rachael Reagan
Thesis: “Food for Fascists: Diet Regulations in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, 1930-1945”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level:
Joshua Windsor
Thesis: “The House of Lords and the Glorious Revolution”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level:
Haley Wallace
Thesis: “To Protect the Living: An Examination of How the Theories of Disease Affected the
Sanitation in Galveston, Texas after the 1900 Hurricane”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level:
Stuart Bailey
Thesis: “The Road to Fahrvergnügen: The Development of German Car Culture”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Stephen Bentel
Thesis: “Visiting the Past: How Empire is Remembered in London and Istanbul”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Kaylee Christie
Thesis: "A Collegiate Cold War Relationship: The Fulbright Exchange Between the U.S. and
West Germany"
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Cassie Dishman
Thesis: “Equality Before God: The Effect of the Great Awakening on Native American Christians”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Cum laude
Charles Kinley
Thesis: “The Friend of My Enemy: Unionists in Johnson County, 1862-1896”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level: Cum laude
Matthew Owens
Thesis: “Taming the Dead: Ghost Stories and Church Identity in the Tenth through Twelfth
Centuries”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Summa cum laude
Michael Wendel
Thesis: “The Sanitary Commission and the Civil War: Changing Medicine through the War”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Level: Magna cum laude
Thomas Witty
Thesis: “The Question of Pelayo and the Story of Asturias”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Cum laude
Brittany Box
Thesis: “Breaking Down the Hagiography of General Benjamin McCulloch During His Northwest
Arkansas Campaign”
Advisor: Bob McMath
Level: Cum laude
Kaleb Cox
Thesis: "A History of Violence: Thomas Hart Benton and the Impact of Dueling in the Politics
of the Old Southwest"
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Summa cum laude
Rush Curtner
Thesis: “Ancient China and Its Neighbors”
Advisor: Liang Cai
Level: Magna cum laude
Brittani Dockery
Thesis: “Finding a Place on a Crowded Bookshelf”
Advisor: Calvin White
Level: Cum laude
Shauna Gibbons
Thesis: “White Plague in the Black Population: Race and Contagious Disease in Jim Crow Arkansas”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level: Summa cum laude
Lindsay Newby (International Relations/History)
Thesis: “Representations of Argentine Identity: Tradition, Modernity, and Tourism”
Advisor: Kirstin Erickson
Level: Summa cum laude
Lindsey Smith
Thesis: “Poverty & Profit: The Cistercian Order and the Medieval Economy”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Cum laude
Lacey Carnahan
Thesis: “The Effect of the Lost Cause on Memory and Interpretation of the Siege of Vicksburg”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Level: Summa cum laude
Avalon Gurel
Thesis: “"Toy Soldiers and Textbooks: Militarism and Education in Wilhelmine Germany"”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Level: Cum laude
Ashley Kimberling
Thesis: “Breaking Ties: The Civil War in Howell and Oregon Counties”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level: Magna cum laude
Robert Rembert
Thesis: “Mission in Print: Publishing and the Promotion of 19th Century American Foreign
Missions”
Advisor: Beth Schweiger
Level: Summa cum laude
Brittany Rodgers
Thesis: “The African Immigrant Experience in Italy”
Advisor: Andrea Arrington
Wade Schilling
Thesis: “Minding McCarthy: British Intellectual Perspectives on McCarthyism and Post-War
America”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Magna cum laude
Elizabeth White
Thesis: “A Negative Peace: Arkansas School Desegregation and the Fort Smith Model”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Cum laude
Lauren Wilson
Thesis: “The Anglo-American Relationship: A Relationship of the People”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
Level: Magna cum laude
Alexandria Gough
Thesis: “Off the Reservation: The Haskell Institute’s Experiences with the Outing Program
”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Cum laude
Kaely Kantaris
Thesis: “The Rockstar Cause: How Music Is (or Isn’t) Saving Lives in Africa ”
Advisor: Andrea Arrington
Level: Magna cum laude
Erin Ridgway
Thesis: “The Dependency Theory and the Long-Term Economic Effects of French Imperialism in
Western Africa ”
Advisor: Andrea Arrington
Level: Magna cum laude
Noel Runyan
Thesis: “Irish Monastic Pilgrimage and Early Medieval Perceptions of Islam: Analyzing Adomnan’s
‘De Locis Sanctis’ ”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Andy Stroman
Thesis: “Neoconservative Liberal Interpretation: A Comparative View ”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Level: Cum laude
John Webb
Thesis: “Holy War: 1066 and Its Effect on Crusading Ideologies ”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Margaret Hui
Thesis: “August Wilson’s African American History: The Impact of Using Drama to Express Our
Past”
Advisor: Calvin White
Level: Cum laude
Bethany Larson
Thesis: “Be-Bop to Indie Rock: The Musical Influences on the Beat and Hipster Subcultures”
Advisor: Richard Sonn
Level: Cum laude
Sheldon Metz
Thesis: “Integrating Fort Smith Schools: A Study of Minimal Compliance”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Cum laude
John Pickhardt
Thesis: “We Don't Intend to Have a Story: Integration in the Dollarway School District of
Arkansas”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Level: Cum laude
Emily Rogers
Thesis: “Foreign Aid's History in Africa: Why New Programs Bring Hope to the HIV/AIDS Crisis”
Advisor: Andrea Arrington
Level: Cum laude
David Sawyer
Thesis: “The Effects of Private Military Companies on Modern Conflict”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
Level: Cum laude
Chris Wylie
Thesis: “Occupation, Integration, and Colonization: The Oslo Process and the Economics of
Peace”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
Level: Summa cum laude
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
Kathryn Allen
Thesis: “The Federal Response to the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 Compared to the Federal
Response to Hurricane Katrina of 2005”
Advisor: Bob McMath
Level: Magna cum laude
Laura Beall
Thesis: “Testimony of Conscience: An Examination of the Lives and Legacies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
and Franz Jagerstatter”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Level: Cum laude
Clark Donat
Thesis: “For Money or Ideology: Frank G. Tinker and Marion M. Noble in the Spanish Civil
War”
Advisor: Kathryn Sloan
Level: Magna clum laude
Brent Harbaugh
Thesis: “The Plan of St. Gall: Spolia-Museum of Carolingian Hegemony”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Jason Hartsfield
Thesis: “False and Treacherous: Democratic and Republican Accounts of the Arkansas Militia
Wars of 1868-1869”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Dave Prater
Thesis: “The Untasted Sweets of Liberty: Anti-slavery Thought in Revolutionary South Carolina”
Advisor: Beth Schweiger
Level: Cum laude
Zach Wagner
Thesis: “Unadulterated Native Americanism: Media Coverage of the Ghost Dance and Wounded
Knee Massacre”
Advisor: Eliott West
Level: Summa cum laude
Heather Whelan
Thesis: “The Legacies of Tlatelolco: The 1968 Student Massacre in Mexico City and Its Effects
on the Countercultural and Hippie Movement and Development of New Literary Genre”
Advisor: Kathryn Sloan
Level: Cum laude
Valerie Farris
Thesis: “After the Storm: Race Relations in Phillips County Arkansas after 1919”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level: Cum laude
Sophia Lafferty-hess
Thesis: “The Varying Ideologies of Controlling Births: Margaret Sanger, John D. Rockefeller
III, and Hugh Moore”
Advisor: David Chappell
Level: Magna cum laude
Adam Lentz
Thesis: “Contortions of Virtue: The Ideological Basis for John Hargrave's Formation of The
Kibbo Kift Kindred in Interwar Britain”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Level: Cum laude
Tristan Myers
Thesis: “American Governance of the Philippine Non-Christians, 1898-1917”
Advisor: Henry Tsai
Level: Cum laude
Jessica Rogers
Thesis: “Black Chiefs, White Collars, and Greyfriars: French Missionaries Among the Quapaw
at Arkansas Post, 1673-1763”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level: Magna cum laude
Sarah Rowley
Thesis: “Courtesy, Culture, Courage: Women'’s Literacy Clubs in Late 19th- and Early 20th
Century Arkansas”
Advisor: Charles Robinson
Level: Magna cum laude
Lindley Shedd
Thesis: “Effiegene Locke Wingo: Arkansas’ Second Congresswoman, 1930-1933”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Level: Magna cum laude
Jesse Adkins
Thesis: “The Paradox of the 'Milkdrinkers': Orthodoxy, Sectarianism, and Bolshevik Religious
Policy”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level: Magna cum laude
Lyndsey Duckworth
Thesis: “Failure of Command: Major General Earl Van Dorn and the Echoes of Pea Ridge”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Level: Cum laude
Aletha Edmondson
Thesis: “Holy Rebels: The Role of Religion During the Decline of Tsarist Russia”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level: Magna cum laude
Natalie Hall
Thesis: “Transforming Influences of History, Thought, and Faith: The Evolution of Topographical
and Sacred Space on Rome's Caelian Hill”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Wesley Hunt
Thesis: “The Mechanics of Integration: A Smooth Process in South Arkansas”
Advisor: Charles Robinson
Level: Summa cum laude
Erin Peretti
Thesis: “Boudica: Life and Legacy of the Warrior Queen”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Level: Summa cum laude
Amelia Burton
Thesis: “American Slavery and Russian Serfdom: A Comparative Study on Servitude Autonomy”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level: Magna cum laude
Jacob Lewis
Thesis: “Masculinites in Questions: Gender, Power, and Space in Late Antique Rome”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Cum laude
Matthew Lohse
Thesis: “Renegotiating the Trans-Atlantic Trade: Colonial American Efforts to Circumvent
the Economic Regulation in the First British Empire”
Advisor: David Sloan
Level: Summa cum laude
Jim Phillips
Thesis: “The Joining of Human and Animal: 18th Century French Pet Keeping and the Popular
Response”
Advisor: Richard Sonn
Level: Cum laude
David Terry
Thesis: “Giovanni Battista Montini and the Second World War”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Level: Summa cum laude
Felicia Thomas
Thesis: “Austria's White Rose? Student Resistance to National Socialism in the Barbaragemeinde”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Level: Summa cum laude
Thomas Witkowski
Thesis: “Facelss Battle: American Fighter Pilots in World War II”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Level: Cum laude
David Hughes
Thesis: “Esotericism Between Philosophy and Ideology: The Syncretic Doctrines of ‘Ali al-Shalmaghani
(d. 322 / 934)”
Advisor: William Tucker
Level: Magna cum laude
Laura Shaffer
Thesis: “‘On Earth As It is In Heaven’: Inscribing Divine Presence at the Sainte-Chapelle”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Summa cum laude
Andrew Wehrman
Thesis: “Orientalism, Native Americans, and the Death of Arthur St. Clair (1791)”
Advisor: David Sloan
Level: Magna cum laude
Kathleen Blankenship
Thesis: “Jasenovac: The Auschwithz of Croatia”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Level: Summa cum laude
Margaret Holmes
Thesis: “How I Love to Hear Them Call My Indian Red: The Invention and Evolution of Traditions
as Depicted by the Mardi Gras Indians”
Advisor: Charles Robinson
Level: Magna cum laude
Annamarie Slikker
Thesis: “An Investigation on Southland College: Looking at the Evolution in Post-Reconstruction
Education for African Americans”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Cum laude
Kathryn Thompson
Thesis: “The Economic Status of the Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Prior to the 1921
Race Riots”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Cum laude
Michael Wehrman
Thesis: “Miracles And Marvels And The Topografia Hibernica And Itenerarium Kambriae Of Geraold
Of Wales”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Cum laude
David Williams
Thesis: ““How’s the Cut of My Jib?” Spiritual Clothing in the Writings of Paul the Apostle”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Summa cum laude
Korienne Barnes
Thesis: “Arkansas Communities and Integration”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Level: Magna cum laude
Amanda Beam
Thesis: “The Succession Question: James VI and I and the Union of Crowns in 1603”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Level: Cum laude
William Frederick Dunham
Thesis: “The Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission”
Level: Cum laude
Charles Saunders
Thesis: “The Life and Times of Captain Terrence Kirby: A Closer Look at the Life of an American
Patriot”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Cum laude
Clarissa Smith
Thesis: “Citizen-Heroine: Qui Jin and the Female Heroic Model of China”
Advisor: Henry Tsai
Level: Magna cum laude
1999
Jay Carney
Thesis: “Betrayed in the Name of Peace? British Colonial Policy and the Native Question in
South America, 1902-1910”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Level: Summa cum laude
Blair Cockrum
Thesis: “Quatemala: A Divided Nation's Struggle for Peace”
Level: Cum laude
Joanna Jansen
Thesis: “Carnival Belongs to Us: The History of the Notting Hill Carnival”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Level: Summa cum laude
Cortney Rakestraw
Thesis: “The Historiography of the Vietnam War: A Twenty-Year Account of the Presidents and
Their Politics”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Level: Cum laude
John Spears
Thesis: “Anti-Americanism in Germany Since Unification”
Level: Cum laude
Suzanne Stillman
Thesis: “In the Womb of the Father: Images of Christ's Flesh in the Works of Origen and Tertullian”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Megan Tynan
Thesis: “Divine Transformation in Homeric Epic”
Advisor: Daniel Levine
Level: Cum laude
Dargan Ware
Thesis: “Selling Your Soul or Double-Crossing the Devil: Finland's 'Brothership-In-Arms'
With Nazi Germany”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Level: Magna cum laude
1998
John Beard
Thesis: “Ordering Chaos: Royalists Ballads in England, 1640-1660”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Level: Magna cum laude
Jennifer Longee
Thesis: “The Southeast Anatolia Development Project and Its Effects on International Usage
of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers”
Level: Magna cum laude
Sarah Monroe
Thesis: “The Quapaws' Relationship with the Arkansas Post”
Level: Cum laude
1997
Justin Eichmann
Thesis: “The Fall of France: An Abrogation of American Influence From the Evacuation to the
Capitulation”
Advisor: Richard Sonn
Level: Cum laude
Michael Johnson
Thesis: “The Sanctified Church: A Brief History of the Novatianists”
Advisor: Donald Engels
Level: Cum laude
Matt Malczycki
Thesis: “Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Al-Thaqif and the Struggle for Centralization”
Advisor: William Tucker
Level: Magna cum laude
Brian Schoen
Thesis: “The Ideology of Henry Laurens”
Advisor: David Sloan
Level: Summa cum laude
Tanya Szafranski
Thesis: “Bees, Honey, and Their Relation to the Topos of Divine Feeding in Ancient Literature”
Advisor: Daniel Levine
Level: Summa cum laude
1996
Jennifer Howard
Thesis: “Images Of A Saint: Hildegard Von Bingen & The Persona Of Twelfth Century Sanctity”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Level: Magna cum laude
Susan Huntsman
Thesis: “Race Relations in Phillips County, 1895-1920”
Advisor: Jeannie M. Whayne
Level: Summa cum laude
Patrick Mcalpine
Thesis: “Dissension Among the Criollos and Indios During the Hidalgo Revolt in Mexico”
Advisor: Elliott West
Level: Summa cum laude
Patrick Mccune
Thesis: “The Disciples of Christ and the Social Gospel at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Level: Cum laude
Kathy Ridenoure
Thesis: “Women in the SS: Three Case Studies”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Level: Cum laude
Christopher Webb
Thesis: “Men of Integrity, Craft Thieves: The Real Estate Bank of Arkansas”
Level: Summa cum laude
1995
Maren Claus
Thesis: “Minnie D. Craig: Gender and Politics in North Dakota”
Level: Summa cum laude
Carl Vogelpohl
Thesis: “Joseph T. Robinson in the 1928 Presidential Campaign”
Level: Magna cum laude
1994
Christopher Foley
Thesis: “Cutting Ties: Peter the Great's Intentions Concerning the Parish Clergy in His Spiritual
Regulation”
Advisor: David Edwards
Level: Summa cum laude
Brandt Rydell
Thesis: “The Dusky Demon: Profile of a Black Rodeo Cowboy”
Level: Magna cum laude
Elizabeth Salisbury
Thesis: “Isolationism in Arkansas Between World War I and World War II”
Level: Summa cum laude
1993
Shelley Ball
Thesis: “The Roles of White Southern Women During the Civil War”
Level: Cum laude
Katherine Lloyd
Thesis: “The Roles and Status of Women in Japanese Society”
Level: Cum laude
Mary Nies
Thesis: “A Comparative Study of Women in Slavery: Ancient Rome and the American South”