Thesis: “Representations of Guaraní Sexuality and Contestations over the Old Way of Being”
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Chris Brown
Thesis: “This is a Man’s World: The Lived Gendered Experiences of Blues People”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Rebekah Griggs
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Ryan Leggitt
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Emily Medrano
Thesis: “The Politicization of Familial Bonds: Catherine de Medici and Her Children"
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Regan Vann
Thesis: “The Role of Dynastic Marriage in the Reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I of England”
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Elisha Wiafe
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Zach Wilmouth
Thesis: “The Effects of Service on Black South African Soldiers, 1939-1950"
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Earth Anderson
Thesis: “Lilac Divinity: the Socio-Religious Transformations of the Capetian Monarchy"
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Jackson Andress
By Examination
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Ava Baghestani
By Examination
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Chris Brown
Thesis: “This is a Man's World: The Lived Gendered Experiences of Blues People"
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Allie Morris
Thesis: “The Silence in America's Classrooms: The Portrayal of Women and Gender in United
States High School History Textbooks"
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Taylor Cash
Thesis: “From Jerome to Dermott: Comparing the Treatment and Experiences of Japanese Americans
and German Prisoners of War in Arkansas during World War II"
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Stephen Franklin
Thesis: “The Marianna Boycott: Healthcare, Political Organization, and Federal Intervention
in the Arkansas Delta"
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Caleb Herring
Thesis: “Counterinsurgency: An American Journey"
Advisor: Steven Rosales
Maeghan O'Conner
Thesis: “'Monstrous Regiment of Women': Catholic Women's Reactions to Reform in Sixteenth
Century Scotland"
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Valerie Salis
Thesis: “Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American
Sailors, 1810-1859"
Advisor: James Gigantino
Emilee Dale
Thesis: “The Preacher and Missionary War: The Political Role of Race and Christianity in
the 1831 Baptist War"
Advisor: Caree Banton
Jessica Mitchell
Thesis: “Community and Idolatry: San Francisco Cajonos, Yalalag, and Betaza through the Criminal
Court of Villa Alta, 1700-1703"
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Nathan Harkey
Thesis: “The Defense of Principates: The English Appropriation of Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor
Pacis"
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Samuel Ownbey
Thesis: “'The Once Peaceful Little Town': Edmondson, Arkansas, and the Decline of the African American Landownership"
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Kyra Schmidt
Thesis: “Hello Girls on Strike: Telephone Operators, the Fort Smith General Strike, and the
Struggle for Democracy in Great War Arkansas”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Robyn Spears
Thesis: “Arkansas Aprons: Food, Power, and Women in Arkansas, 1857-1891”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Elizabeth Withey
Thesis: “'Some Kind of Socialist'”: Lee Hays, the Social Gospel, and the Path to the Cultural
Front"
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Glenda Dannenfelser
Thesis: “Kabbala, Christians, and Jews: An Examination of the Rise and Fall of Peculiar Relationships
that Developed Between Christian Elites and Jewish Scholars in Renaissance Italy”
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Amber Lenser
Thesis: “The South African Women's Movement: The Roles of Feminism and Multiracial Cooperation
in the Struggle for Women's Rights”
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Danael Suttle
Thesis: “Horse Racing During the Civil War: The Perseverance of the Sport During a Time of
National Crisis”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Rachel Widmer
Thesis: “Curing Consumption: Blood Drinkers of the Nineteenth Century”
Advisor: Freddy Dominguez
Michael Anthony
Thesis:“The Sleeping Giant: The Effects of Housing Titan II Missiles in Arkansas and Kansas
from 1962 to 1987”
Advisor:Jeannie Whayne
James Brown
Thesis:“The Cold War in the Eastern Mediterranean: An Interpretive Global History”
Advisor:Alessandro Brogi
Camille Goldmon
Thesis:“Refusing to be Dispossessed: African American Land Retention in the US South from
Reconstruction to World War II”
Advisor:Jeannie Whayne
Amanda McGee
Thesis:“Products of Circumstance: Eighteenth-Century Runaway INdentured Servant Advertisements
in a Changing Atlantic World”
Advisor:Freddy Dominguez
Misty Landers
Thesis:“Just Discrimination: Arkansas Parochial Schools and the Defense of Segregtion”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Jesse Sims
Thesis:“Beyond Coattails: Explaining John Paul Hammerschmidt's Victory in 1966”
Advisor:Patrick Williams
Mary Katherine Tipton
Thesis:“Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne's Aachen”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
William Chase Whittington
Thesis:“The Bracero Program in the Arkanss Delta: The Power Held by Planter Elite”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Max Brinson
Thesis: “A Watchman on the Walls: Ezekiel and Reaction to Invasion in Anglo-Saxon England”
Advisor: Joshua Smith
Lonnie Strange
Thesis: “The Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi County, Arkansas: The Story of Sans
Souci Plantation”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Xun Yang
Thesis: “The Principle of Dong Zhongshu's Omen Discourse and Wang Chong's Criticism of Heave's
Reprimand in the Chapter 'Qian Gao'”
Advisor: Liang Cai
Stuart Bailey
Thesis: “Volkswagen and Volkswagen: The Concept, the Car, and the Company in Four Germanies
and the United States”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Anna Crayton
Thesis: “John Paul Hammerschmidt and the Early Struggle for the Construction of Interstate
44”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Airic Hughes
Thesis: “A Light in Darkness, Oscar Micheaux: Entrepreneur, Intellectual, Agitator”
Advisor: Calvin White
Karl Krotke
Thesis: “The Growth of the Russian Orthodox Church in America: Influences during the Tenure
of Bishop Tikhon”
Advisor: Tricia Starks
Chadwick Totty
Thesis: “The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan”
Advisor: Elizabeth Markham
Manuel Salvador Rivera Espinoza
Thesis: “The Sacrality of the Mountain: An Exploration on the Understanding of the Mountain
as a 'Sacred Space' in Early China”
Advisor: Rembrandt Wolpert
Bethany Henry
Thesis: “Cherokee Freedmen: The Struggle for Citizenship”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Chelsea Hodge
Thesis: “A Song Workers Everywhere Sing’: Zilphia Horton and the Creation of Labor’s Musical
Canon”
Advisor: Beth Schweiger
Alexander Marino
Thesis: “America's War in Angola, 1961-1976”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Rebekah McMillan
Thesis: “Perceptions of Poverty: The Evolution of German Attitudes towards Social Welfare,
1848-1914”
Advisor: J. Laurence Hare
Benjamin Jared Pack
Thesis: “Integrated Relationships: The Impact of European Integration on the Special Relationship,
1969-1978”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Emily Bullington
Thesis: “New Mexico Tourism: Conflict and Cooperation in the Land of Enchantment”
Advisor: Elliott West
Ali Capar
Thesis: "The Nusayris in Ottoman Syria, 1831-1876"
Advisor: Nikolay Antov
Adam Carson
Thesis: “Feet in the South, Eyes to the West: Fort Smith Enters the Sunbelt”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Manuel Salvador Rivera Espinoza
Thesis: "The Sacrality of the Mountain"
Advisor: Rembrandt Wolpert
Mitchell Smith
Thesis: "Woes of the Arkansas Internationalist: Fulbright, the Middle East, and the Death
of American Liberalism"
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Souleyman Saleh Souleyman
Thesis: "Cold War Battleground in Africa: American Foreign Policy and the Congo Crisis, January
1959-January 1961"
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Nathaniel Clark
Thesis: “Philosophical Influences in the Art of War Found in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms”
Advisor: Liang Cai
Alexandria Gough
Thesis: "A Way Out: The History of the Outing Program from the Haskell Institute to the
Phoenix Indian School"
Advisor: Elliott West
Krista Jones
Thesis: “'It was awful, but it was politics': Crittenden County and the Demise of African
American Political Participation”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Brad Moore
Thesis: "English King and German Commoner: An Exploration of Sixteenth Century Clothing and
Identity"
Advisor: Rembrandt Wolpert
Joshua Morgan
By Examination
Edward Andrus
Thesis: “The Pine, the Bluff, and the River: An Environmental History of Jefferson County,
Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Thomas A. Boucher
Thesis: “The Truman Administration and Iran, 1945-1953”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Chris Branam
Thesis: “The Africans Have Taken Arkansas: Political Activities of African American Members
of the Arkansas Legislature, 1868-1873”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Andrew Curtis
Thesis: “America's Hesitant Ascendancy and Britain's Reluctant Fall: The Transition of Power
in the Post-War Middle East”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzibbon
Andrea Franklin
Thesis: “Daughters of the Revolution: Black Feminism and the Birth of the Third Wave”
Advisor: Calvin White, Jr.
Mary Margaret Hui
Thesis: “To Walk Forth as Men and Women: The Grassroots of the NAACP's Dyer Bill Campaign”
Advisor: Calvin White
Sidhartha Samanta
Thesis: “The Final Transfer of Power in India, 1947-1967”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
Saxton Wyeth
Thesis: “With Our Backs to the Wall: Entente Grand Strategy in 1918”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
Ashley Nicole Allbritton
Thesis: “The Women in Japanese Internment with Special Emphasis on Rohwer and Jerome”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Ian Baldwin
Thesis: “Psycho in America: Gender Politics, Movie Culture, and the Horror Film in Cold War America”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Jerry Wayne Looney
Thesis: “A Stronghold of Southern Legal Puritanism: The Arkansas Supreme Court and the Development
of Criminal Law and Procedure in Arkansas, 1836-1874”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Caleb Mccallum
Thesis: “Soft power in a hard country: American cultural diplomacy in Iran, 1950-1955”
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Anna Pfeifler
Thesis: “River of Conflict: The White River During the Civil War”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Ryan M. Poe
Thesis: “Working Families and the Reconstruction of Hempstead County, Arkansas”
Advisor: Patrick G. Williams
Kassondra Lea Wilson (hutchings)
Thesis: “Moratorium on Morality: Rationing and the Black Market in Great Britain During and
After World War II”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
Jenny Hughes
Thesis: “The Development And Decline of a Slave System Washington County, Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Tony Red
Thesis: “Illinois-California Express: A Case Study of the Regulations and Deregulation of
the LTL Trucking Industry ”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
Mark Schwartz
Thesis: “Northwest Arkansas And World War I”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Virginia Lynn Vego
Thesis: “The Restoration Movement in Arkansas, 1832-1860”
Advisor: Beth Schweiger
David Blaine Walker
Thesis: “Cochranes in Context: A Case Study of Scotland and The British Empire”
Thesis: “Settler Life in Arkansas in the Late Nineteenth Century Seen Through the WPA Early
Settler Interviews”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Jennifer Koenig
Thesis: “No Maam, No Negroes, Here At All: African Americans in Johnson County, Arkansas,
1865-1920”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Michael Mccoy
Thesis: “By exam”
Case Miner
Thesis: “Strategy and Tactics of Civil War Rams on the Mississippi River”
Advisor: Dan Sutherland
David Parrish
Thesis: “For King and Colony: Jacobitism and the Atlantic World”
Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
James A. Pierce
Thesis: “From McMath to Rockefeller: Arkansas Governors and Illegal Gambling in Postwar Hot
Springs, 1945-1970”
Advisor: Michael Pierce
James Powers
Thesis: “Fiction, Facts, and Faith: What The Da Vinci Code Reveals About the History of Religion
in the United States”
Advisor: Don Engels
Sarah Simers
Thesis: “Fred K. Darragh, Jr: A Liberal For All Seasons”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Brian Eaton
Thesis: “Apostle to the Uncircumcised: A Critical Study of Paul’s Epistolary Audience”
Advisor: Don Engels
Kimberly D. Harper
Thesis: “White Man’s Heaven: The Expulsion of Blacks in Southwest Missouri, 1894-1906”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Jonathan Jones
Thesis: “Principles and Men: Rhetoric, Participation, and Democratization in the New York
State Constitutional Convention of 1821”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Valor Picket
Thesis: “Grace on the Nile: The American Presbyterian Mission in Egypt”
Advisor: William Tucker
Bianca J. Rowlett
Thesis: “Jeane Kirkpatrick, the Reagan Administration and Neoconservative Foreign Policy
in El Salvador”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Ahmet Akturk
Thesis: “Kemalism, Turkish historiography of the 1930s, and the depiction of Arabs”
Advisor: Joel Gordon
Jon D. Blevins
Thesis: “The United States Coastal Survey During the Civil War”
Advisor: David Sloan for Daniel Sutherland (on leave)
Emily Boggan
Thesis: “The Death of Remembrance in Mount Holly Cemetery”
Advisor: David Chappell
Ross Brown
Thesis: “The Dixie Mission Goes To Yenan: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Towards the Chinese
Communist Party During The Second World War ”
Advisor: Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
Scott Cashion
Thesis: “Actions Speak Louder than Words...Sometimes: Reactions to the Wartime Evacuation
and Internment of Japanese-Americans at Rohwer and Jerome”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Justin Gage
Thesis: “Cumberland Presbyterianism in Northwest Arkansas, 1827-1865”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Stephanie Danielle Hansen
Thesis: “The emperor’s new clothes: sericulture, silk trade, and sartorial exchange along
the Silk road prior to the First Crusade”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
S. Brandon Marshall
Thesis: “The Heroics of Defeat in the Memoirs of Jean-Fran?ois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de
Retz”
Advisor: Robert Finlay
Stephanie Haught Wade
Thesis: “The Umm Al-Kitab: A Study In syncretism”
Advisor: William Tucker
Kimberly Bess
Thesis: “The Central High Crisis and its Aftermath: How Little Rock Public Schools Have Dealt
with Integration in the Past Half Century”
Advisor: David Chappell
Kristina Farabough
Thesis: “World’s Apart: New Zealanders on the Western Front, 1916-1918”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Sarah Brooke Malloy
Thesis: “The Health of Our Family: The Correspondence of Amanda Beardsley Trulock, 1837-1868”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
George David Schieffler
Thesis: “Too Little, Too Late to Save Vicksburg: The Battle of Helena, Arkansas, July 4,
1863”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
David Boozer
Thesis: “To The Jew First and Also to the Greek:The Relationship Between the Synagogue and
the House Church in Rome at the Time of Paul’s Letter”
Advisor: Don Engels
Sammie Neal Gibson
Thesis: “Arkansas Put to The Test: Political And Educational Failures of Public School Testing
in Arkansas”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Larry Layne Horton
Thesis: “A Beard Signifies Lice, Not Brains: The History of the Elkhorn Barber Shop, Bentonville,
Arkansas, 1888-1976”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
E. Mitchell Singleton
Thesis: “The Plague of Justinian: A Medical Appraisal”
Advisor: Don Engels
Geoffrey Stark
Thesis: “Roman Publicans and the Roman Republic”
Advisor: Don Engels
Yulia F. Uryadova
Thesis: “Muhammad Musa b. Khoja Isa-i Dahbidi : a post Sirhindi Dahbidi shaykh of the Naqshbandiyya
order”
Advisor: Vincent Cornell
Michael Cypher
Thesis: “U.S. Diplomats and the Chinese Boycott of 1905”
Advisor: Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
Michael Lindsey
Thesis: “The Creation of the Arkansas State Police”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Nawaf A. Madkhli
Thesis: “Nasser’s Vietnam: An Analysis of the Egyptian Intervention in Yemen, 1962-1967”
Advisor: Joel Gordon
William Jordan Patty
Thesis: “From Private to Public: A Study of the Little Rock Transit System, 1950-1972”
Advisor: Patrick Williams
Patricia Stone
Thesis: “The Abandonment of Happy Hollow: An African-American Enclave in Cane Hill, Arkansas
1850-1950”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Kristen L. Thompson
Thesis: “From the Parlour to the Polls: The Women=s Suffrage Movement in Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Martha M. Brewer
Thesis: “The Presbyterians of Fayetteville, Arkansas: A Unique Blend”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Michael D. Johnson
Thesis: “Christ without mercy: the Novatianist heresy in the eastern Roman Empire”
Advisor: Don Engels
Robert H. Moore
Thesis: “Al-Attas and the Islamization of Knowledge: The Formation of a Muslim Worldview
and Educational System”
Advisor: Vincent Cornell
Mari Serebrov
Thesis: “Reconstructing the Southern Ideal: (the Arnolds of Arkansas)”
Advisor: Nudie Williams
William Brock Thompson
Thesis: “A Crime Unfit to be Named: Arkansas and Sodomy”
Advisor: Charles Robinson
Christopher J. Wright
Thesis: “Abu al-Khattab, the Khattabiyya, and the Kufan Ghulat”
Advisor: William Tucker
Robert G. Childers
Thesis: “The Secession Crisis and Civil War in Arkansas Through the Eyes of Judge David Walker,
Conditional Southern Unionist from Fayetteville”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Brent Riffel
Thesis: “Conceptual Continuity: The Art and Architecture of Berthold Lubetkin”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Gilbert P. Verser, Iii
Thesis: “The Late Bronze Age and the Ascendency of Central Mediterranean Peoples”
Advisor: Don Engels
Charrisse Coates
Thesis: “Death of a Legend: The Gem Theater from Inception to Death”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Michael Wade Derden
Thesis: “The Effects of Southern Masculinity on Male Church Participation in the Postbellum
South, 1865-1900”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Scott R. Lloyd
Thesis: “Milites Christi: Monastic Themes in the Founding Documents of the Spanish Military
Orders of Calatrava and Santiago”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Richard Erin Mckelvey
Thesis: “Romance to Revolution: Russian Emigres and English Socialists, 1852-1907”
Advisor: David Edwards
Derrick Duane Mckisick
Thesis: “A State of perfect freedom: defining black civil rights in Reconstruction Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Brian Miller
Thesis: “By exam”
Annette K. Morrow
Thesis: “Perpetua’s Passion: an examination of gender and transformation in early Christian
discourse”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
J. Scott Parker
Thesis: “A Deeper History: The Oil Boom of the 1920s in Union County, Arkansas”
Advisor: Elliott West
1999
Howard R. Brandes
Thesis: “The Arkansas State Guard and the Spanish-American War”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Waymon Ray Carol, Jr.
Thesis: “The Bentham Paradox and the Crisis of Liberalism”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
John Kyle Day
Thesis: “The Defeat of Brooks Hays: The 1958 Election for the Fifth Congressional District
of Arkansas”
Advisor: James S. Chase
David H. Holt
Thesis: “Climatological and Paleoclimatological Support for the Behavioral Patterns of the
Peoples of Germania”
Advisor: Don Engels
1998
Robert M. Bracy
Thesis: “Growing Fruits and Grains Beyond the Land of Milk and Honey: Agricultural Development
of Jordan from the Establishment of the State of Israel to 1975”
Advisor: Linda S. Schilcher
Kevin Brock
Thesis: “The Sixteenth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A.: A History of an Upcountry Regiment,
1861-1863”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Ruston L. Cole
Thesis: “Is there a God is Israel: The Carrolton, Mississippi Massacre, March 1886”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Buck Foster
Thesis: “Farmers in the Depression: A Study of Jefferson and Washington County Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
William Gay
Thesis: “From Family Farm to Big Business: The Evolution of the Arkansas County Rice Industry,
1920-1994”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Matt R. Kerr
Thesis: “Prelude to Power: Hermann Goring in the Reichstage, 1928-1933”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Larisa Masri
Thesis: “Solar and Astral Worship in the Religion of the Eastern Roman Empire”
Advisor: Don Engels
Jay A. Prier
Thesis: “Under the Black Flag: The Real War in Washington County, 1861-1865”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Patsy Ramsey
Thesis: “A Place at the Table: War Hero Politics and the G.I. Revolt”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
1997
Philip Arnol
Thesis: “I Ain’t Gonna Follow no Mule’s Ass no More: Three American Social Outlaws, 1914-1924”
Advisor: Elliott West
Basri Basri
Thesis: “Taha Husayn and Islam: A Critique of Historical Interpretations of his life and
Writings Utilizing Five of his Books”
Advisor: Linda S. Schilcher
Bruce Breeding
Thesis: “By exam”
Brian Canard
Thesis: “Shifting Sands: American Relations with Taiwan and the Communist Superpowers, 1949-1950”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Chris Carlisle
Thesis: “Trojan Pride: A History of the Subiaco Academy Football Program, 1924-1992”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Teri Castelow
Thesis: “Manakin Towne Huguenots: French Threads in the Fabric of America”
Advisor: David Sloan
Stephen Chenault
Thesis: “Austrian Foundations: The Austrian Influences on German Architectural Expression
in the Weimar Republic”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Jared Dockery
Thesis: “General Eisenhower and Allied Air Power During World War II”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Teresa Farah
Thesis: “Water in Arab-Israeli Relations”
Advisor: William Tucker
Lahmuddin Lahmuddin
Thesis: “The Transmission of Knowledge in the Middle of Competition for Social Status Among
Cairene Elites in Medieval Egypt”
Advisor: William Tucker
Paul Leuschen
Thesis: “Fighting From Their Doorstep: The Thirty-Fourth Arkansas Infantry C.S.A.”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Jeffrey Littlejohn
Thesis: “James Kirke Paulding and the Dilemma of Repubican Nationalism”
Advisor: David Chappell
Timothy R. Poteete
Thesis: “Military Mules, 1785-1925”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Harley W. Williams
Thesis: “Doctor Thomas William Hardison: His Life and Times on Petit Jean Mountain”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
1996
Soundararaja N. Anasuya
Thesis: “Slavery in Washington County, Arkansas, 1828-1860”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Amanda Aucoin
Thesis: “From Persecution to Freedom and Back Again: The Baptists in Russia, Origins to World
War I”
Advisor: David Edwards
Christopher Lee Battle
Thesis: “Renaissance and Revolution: America and the Chinese Culture Wars, 1915-1960”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Bruce Breeding
Thesis: “By exam”
David W. Cholcher
Thesis: “Opera in the Oil Patch: A Comparative History of Opera and the Petroleum Industry
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Houston, Texas”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Jill Geer
Thesis: “Making Democracy Safe for the World: Walter Lippmann’s Political Reconstruction”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Bradley W. Kidder
Thesis: “Who Took the Trees? A Review of Timber Litigation in the Federal Court for the Western
District of Arkansas Under the Administration of Judge Isaac C. Parker, 1875-1896”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Matthew W. Kimmel
Thesis: “The Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek Lighthorse Police: Bridging Tribal and Anglo Laws”
Advisor: Elliott West
Balamurugan Krishnasamy
Thesis: “The Era of Changing Perceptions: United StatesCEast Asian Relations in the Nixon
Administration”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Jay A. Prier
Thesis: “Under the Black Flag: The Real War in Washington County, Arkansas 1861-1865”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Lynn Larimore Stanberry
Thesis: “The United States and the Origin of Seato”
Advisor: Elliott West
Travis Varin Tarchione
Thesis: “Protect the Innocent and Bring the Guilty to Justice: The Anti-Horse Thief Association
in Western Arkansas”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Richard Taylor
Thesis: “German Auxiliaries in the American Revolution: A Reevaluation of the Soldatenhandel
as it Transpired in the Markgraftum of Ansback-Bayreuth”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
1995
Christopher L. Battle
Thesis: “Renaissance and Revolution: America and the Chinese Culture Wars”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Jerry Patrick Becker
Thesis: “The Effectiveness of British Air Power Doctrine in Africa, 1919-1939”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
April Laschaun Brown
Thesis: “Noah Fields Drake and China’s Modernization (1898-1911)”
Advisor: Henry Tsai
Johnny Lee Carper
Thesis: “Broadsword: A Case of Allied Frontage in France, 1944”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Thomas A. Chandler
Thesis: “The Other War: United States Efforts to Pacify South Vietnam During the Johnson
Administration”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Al-mutairi Rakan
Thesis: “Hizballah-The Party of God: Origin and Ideology”
Advisor: William Tucker
Kevin Nelson Shriner
Thesis: “African Americans in the Militias of Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas, 1639-1792”
Advisor: Nudie Williams
Bryan Keith Thomasson
Thesis: “We Have Drunk From the Same Canteen: Company H, Sixth Arkansas Regiment; The Camden
City Guards”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Jeffrey Randall Woods
Thesis: “Integration, Anti-Communism and Academic Freedom: Act 10 in Arkansas”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
1994
James B. Anderson
Thesis: “The Roman and Canon Law Influences on Henry de Bracton’s Concept of Property Law”
Advisor: Robert Finlay
April Brown
Thesis: “The United States Foreign Policy Toward Argentina, 1945-1952: The U.S. Perception
of Peronism”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Deloris Bruns
Thesis: “Florence Brown Cotnam”
Advisor: Elizabeth Payne
Michelle Davidson
Thesis: “Vivion Brewer and the 1957 Little Rock Crisis”
Advisor: Randall Woods
M. Ward Miller
Thesis: “The Wreck of the Steamship Central America”
Advisor: Elliott West
Clement Mulloy
Thesis: “The Huron Converts Reconsidered: A Study of Spiritual Nonconformists”
Advisor: David Sloan
David Riggs
Thesis: “By exam”
Susan Smith
Thesis: “The Popular Appeal and Political Usage of the Virgin of Guadalupe in New Spain 1531-1648”
Advisor: Robert Finlay
Ted Smith
Thesis: “By exam”
John Wampler
Thesis: “The United States and Third World Development in the Nixon-Kissinger Years”
Advisor: Randall Woods
1993
William Joseph Atto
Thesis: “A Fresh Look: Andrew Jackson and the American Indian”
Advisor: James S. Chase
Michael J. Beary
Thesis: “Birds of Passage: A History of the Separate Black Episcopal Church in Arkansas,
1902-39”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Robert Patrick Bender
Thesis: “Homefront Activities of Rock County, Wisconsin During the Civil War”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Eric Bolsterli
Thesis: “From Consensus to Dissent: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Eisenhower
Administration”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Stanley Vincent Bond
Thesis: “By exam”
Benjamin Boulden
Thesis: “So Long as Strangers are the Rulers: Gen. Frederick Steele and the Politics of Wartime
Reconstruction in Arkansas”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Terrence H. Buckalew
Thesis: “Blues Music in Arkansas”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
Rita S. Caver
Thesis: “H. Louis Freund: An Artist in Arkansas”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Patricia Ann Frank
Thesis: “Keep `em Squirming!’“ Alfred Edgar Smith, Cherokee Charley and Race Relations, 1933-1944”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Stanley Ray Hall
Thesis: “By exam”
Michael John Haridopolos
Thesis: “Learning Power Politics: John F. Kennedy and the 1956 Democratic National Convention”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Marianne Layne
Thesis: “By exam”
David L. Munz
Thesis: “Civil Rights and the Presidential Campaign of Barry Goldwater”
Advisor: James Chase
Thomas Pentecost
Thesis: “Hell Hath No Fury”
Advisor: Don Engels
Michael R. Strickland
Thesis: “Rum, Rebellion, Racketeers, and Rascals: Alexander Copeland Miller and the Fight
to Preserve Prohibition in Arkansas, 1927-1933”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Monica Renee Taylor
Thesis: “The Gush Emunim Settlers: Militant Zionism and the Creation of Jewish Settlements
on the West Bank”
Advisor: William Tucker
Mary F. Thurlkill
Thesis: “Blessed Virgin Mary: From Nurturing Mother to Queen of Heaven”
Advisor: Lynda Coon
Mary F. Twyford
Thesis: “Nisei in Arkansas: The Plight of Japanese American Youth in the Arkansas Internment
Camps of WWII”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
1992
Jeffrey J. Aulgur
Thesis: “Depression Era Minor League Baseball: The Arkansas State League, 1934-35”
Advisor: Nudie Williams
Nan Marie Lawler
Thesis: “The Ozark Trails Association”
Advisor: Elliott West
Thomas Bennett Petecost
Thesis: “By exam”
Rachel Skoney
Thesis: “Large Planters and Planter Persistence in Antebellum Arkansas, 1850-60”
Advisor: Jeannie Whayne
1991
April Louise Brown
Thesis: “Noah Fields Drake and China’s Modernization, 1898-1911”
Advisor: Henry Tsai
Gerald Wayne Dowdy
Thesis: “By exam”
Jay William Kutcha
Thesis: “The Arkansas Methodist and the Social Issues 1905-09”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Carol Jeanette Terry
Thesis: “By exam”
1990
Clara Evelyn Coppola
Thesis: “Italo Balbo: Italian Facist”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Elizabeth A. Justice
Thesis: “Female Criminals in Mid-Victorian England”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Larry Gene Philbeck
Thesis: “A Union Soldier in Arkansas, 1862-1866: Minos Miller of Iowa”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Charles Rector
Thesis: “The Arkansas Confederate Field Artillery During the American Civil War”
Advisor: Daniel Sutherland
Earl David Rowe
Thesis: “The Federal Writer’s Project in Arkansas: 1935-42”
Advisor: Elliott West
1989
Wendell P. Beall
Thesis: “Wildwood Skirmishes: The First Federal Arkansas Cavalry”
Advisor: Jack Hudson
Sidney Carrell Hill
Thesis: “The Southern Frontier Family, 1740-1840”
Advisor: Elliott West
Todd Everett Lewis
Thesis: “Ben Bogard and the Crusade Against Evolution, Rum and Romanism in Arkansas, 1926-1928”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Jeffrey Ronald Root
Thesis: “By exam”
Charles Shiflett
Thesis: “The Guerre de Course and the Imperial German Navy: Contemporary Maritime Strategy
and the Raiding Cruise of S.M.S. Emden in 1914”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
Roger Daniel Shultz
Thesis: “By exam”
Lisa Jane Tyree
Thesis: “The Conservative Mind of the South: Richard M. Weaver”
Advisor: Michael O’Brien
Steven M. Wohlford
Thesis: “Parallels Among the Four Jewish Revolts, 166B.C.-A.D. 135”
Advisor: Don Engels
1988
Stephen L. Paul
Thesis: “Sparsa Coegi: Thomas Cooper’s Frugal Republicanism”
Advisor: Michael O’Brien
1987
Russell E. Bearden
Thesis: “The Interment of Japanses Americans in Arkansas, 1942-1945”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Calvin Clay Kinzer
Thesis: “By exam”
David M. Moyers
Thesis: “By exam”
Kim Allen Scott
Thesis: “Window on the Frontier: The Early Newspapers of Washington County, Arkansas, 1840-1862”
Advisor: Elliott West
Kathy Anne Singleton
Thesis: “A Survey of the Historiography of the Korean Era”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Thomas M. Stearns
Thesis: “By exam”
Debra Jo Stockton
Thesis: “The Religion of Science: The Eugenics Movement in Great Britain, 1869-1840”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
1986
Russell E. Bearden
Thesis: “The Interment of Japanses Americans in Arkansas, 1942-1945”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Calvin Clay Kinzer
Thesis: “By exam”
David M. Moyers
Thesis: “By exam”
Kim Allen Scott
Thesis: “Window on the Frontier: The Early Newspapers of Washington County, Arkansas, 1840-1862”
Advisor: Elliott West
Kathy Anne Singleton
Thesis: “A Survey of the Historiography of the Korean Era”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Thomas M. Stearns
Thesis: “By exam”
Debra Jo Stockton
Thesis: “The Religion of Science: The Eugenics Movement in Great Britain, 1869-1840”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
1985
James R. Moulton
Thesis: “By exam”
Marvin F. Russell
Thesis: “By exam”
1984
J. D. Cash
Thesis: “Chicago `68: Yippie and the Daley Machine”
Advisor: Nudie Williams
Larry Thomas Jones
Thesis: “Opposition to the Vietnam War in American Magazines”
Advisor: Timothy Donovan
1983
Michael Edward Arrington
Thesis: “By exam”
Doug Coleman
Thesis: “Progressivism’s Influence on the Currency and Reorganization Loans of 1910-1913”
Advisor: Randall Woods
Harry G. Heiss
Thesis: “The Public Career of David Walker: The Antebellum Years”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Richard Todd Hetherington
Thesis: “By exam”
Frances Howell Rudko
Thesis: “Truman’s Supreme Court Appointments: Judicial Activism and Judicial Restraint”
Advisor: James S. Chase
Susan Hamner Ruple
Thesis: “The Life and Times of Chester Ashley of Arkansas, 1791-1848”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Lynn Jones Stewart
Thesis: “The Diplomatic Career of Christopher Mont, 1533-1572”
Advisor: Anne Vizzier
Sam Wyatt
Thesis: “By exam”
1982
Michele Roussel Wasson
Thesis: “Gem of the Ozarks: A History of Mountain Home College, 1890-1934”
Advisor: Timothy Donovan
1981
Stanley D. Bright
Thesis: “Andrew Bonar Law and the Irish Question, 1911-1914”
Advisor: Thomas Kennedy
David A. Foy
Thesis: “By exam”
Phillip W. Russell
Thesis: “Fort Smith City Government in the Progressive Era”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Katherine V. Seckinger
Thesis: “Northern Pacific: a Colonizing Agent of the Northwest, 1870-90”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Katharine Villard
Thesis: “By exam”
1980
William F. Dederich
Thesis: “Menachem Begin and the Irgun: The Commander and the Comand”
Advisor: William Tucker
Jill Hatley-scott
Thesis: “Impact of English Invasion on Oreland: The Effect of Henry II and John”
Advisor: Anne Vizzier
Sebia Ann Hawkins
Thesis: “The Federal Writer’s Project-1939”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
G. Gregory Kiser
Thesis: “Socialist Party in Arkansas, 1900-1912”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Leon C. Miller
Thesis: “Blue Laws in Arkansas in the 1920’s”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Faye Wellborn Robbins
Thesis: “By exam”
Pamela Webb
Thesis: “Depression America: Reconciliation with the National Past”
Advisor: Timothy Donovan
1979
Shannon Craig
Thesis: “Arkansas and Foreign Immiigration: 1885-1917”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Shannon K. Craig
Thesis: “Arkansas and Foreign Immigration: 1885-1917”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Marilou Marlar
Thesis: “By exam”
1978
William H. Burnside
Thesis: “By exam”
Don Walker Love
Thesis: “By exam”
Bobby L. Lovett
Thesis: “By exam”
Edrene S. Montgomery
Thesis: “Truth in Advertising During the Progressive Era”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Claude Victor Nicholson
Thesis: “By exam”
Brynda Joyce Pappas
Thesis: “By exam”
Bobby L. Roberts
Thesis: “By exam”
Robert Scott
Thesis: “William F. McCombs and Democratic Politics, 1912-17”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Charles C. Smith
Thesis: “By exam”
Wendy Taylor
Thesis: “Charles J. Finger: The Long Preparation: 1867-1920”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Jerry Vervack
Thesis: “Joe T. Robinson: His Public Career”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Maurice Clive Webb, Jr.
Thesis: “By exam”
Marcus Woodward
Thesis: “Edsel Ford: Poet Immortal”
Advisor: W. David Baird
1977
A. A. Al-ghamedi
Thesis: “The Quarmatians of Iraq and Arabia: A Reexamination”
Advisor: William Tucker
Fred Allen Berry
Thesis: “Effect of the Industrial Revolution on American Diet During the 19th Century”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Karen Bode Curths
Thesis: “Cherokee Land Allotment Policy”
Advisor: W. David Baird
David Alden Foy
Thesis: “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany”
Advisor: Evan Bukey
Joey Mccarty
Thesis: “Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Donald Ray Montgomery
Thesis: “Howard Kester, Southern Reformer”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Martha Williamson Rimmer
Thesis: “Charles E. Taylor and his Administration, 1911-19”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Albert J. Schneider
Thesis: “By exam”
Thomas W. Williams
Thesis: “The Black Press and the United States Foreign Policy”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
1976
William Justiss
Thesis: “Fort Arbuckle, Outpose in Indian Territory, 1850-70”
Advisor: David Baird
1975
Robert D. Besom
Thesis: “By exam”
Allen L. Cole
Thesis: “By exam”
Samuel A. Covington
Thesis: “By exam”
Tom W. Dillard
Thesis: “The Black Noses of the West: A Biography of Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, 1823-1915”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Charles S. Gunter
Thesis: “By exam”
Wade Hall, Jr.
Thesis: “By exam”
Janie Johnson
Thesis: “By exam”
Mark H. Lamberth
Thesis: “By exam”
James E. Page
Thesis: “By exam”
Marvin F. Russell
Thesis: “By exam”
Betty M. Sneed
Thesis: “Hattie Wyatt Caraway”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
John L. Stuart
Thesis: “By exam”
Bobby J. Watson
Thesis: “By exam”
1974
Veda Boyd
Thesis: “The Effect of Major Civil War Battles on Confederate Diplomacy with England”
Advisor: James J. Hudson
William H. Fisher
Thesis: “By exam”
Tom Forgey
Thesis: “By exam”
Veda Jones
Thesis: “By exam”
John Allison Simpson
Thesis: “A Vindication of the Lost Cause The Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1893-1913”
Advisor: Timothy Donovan
Samuel A. Sizer
Thesis: “A Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections in the University of Arkansas Library”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Dianna Susan Kirk Thayer
Thesis: “By exam”
1973
Marie Beacon
Thesis: “Kansas as the Promised Land, the View of the Black Press, 1890-1900”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Randy Henningsen
Thesis: “Upland Farmers and the Agrarian Protes6t: NW Arkansas and the Brothers of Freedom”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Kathryn Nickles
Thesis: “Exam”
Rosalee Massey Sanderson
Thesis: “Mary Church Terrell: A Black Woman’s Crusade for Justice”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Judith Anne Sealander
Thesis: “Draft Evasion in the South During the First World War”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Thesis: “The Image of the Negro During WWII as Revealed in the White Popular Press”
Advisor: Timothy Donovan
1972
Robert D. Besom
Thesis: “By exam”
Arthur E. Mcenany
Thesis: “For God’s Sake Do Something: Federal Efforts to Suppress Commercialized Vice During
the Progressive Era, 1900-1917”
Advisor: Willard Gatewood
Bobby Leon Roberts
Thesis: “Thomas C. Hindman”
Advisor: James J. Hudson
Allan H. Shub
Thesis: “Exam”
1971
Michael Edward Arrinton
Thesis: “By exam”
Ethel Jones Austin
Thesis: “By exam”
William D. Butler
Thesis: “By exam”
Glenda J. Cooper
Thesis: “By exam”
Samuel A. Covington
Thesis: “By exam”
David E. Finch
Thesis: “By exam”
Phyllis S. Hunter
Thesis: “By exam”
Dallas D. Miles
Thesis: “By exam”
Henry J. Sangren
Thesis: “By exam”
Tommie Jones Undernehr
Thesis: “By exam”
1970
Michael Edward Arrinton
Thesis: “By exam”
Ethel Jones Austin
Thesis: “By exam”
William D. Butler
Thesis: “By exam”
Glenda J. Cooper
Thesis: “By exam”
Samuel A. Covington
Thesis: “By exam”
David E. Finch
Thesis: “By exam”
Phyllis S. Hunter
Thesis: “By exam”
Dallas D. Miles
Thesis: “By exam”
Henry J. Sangren
Thesis: “By exam”
Tommie Jones Undernehr
Thesis: “By exam”
1969
Charlene Akers
Thesis: “By exam”
Thomas L. Bryan
Thesis: “By exam”
Diana Jane Cate
Thesis: “By exam”
Carolyn J. Chalmers
Thesis: “By exam”
Bobby L. Lovett
Thesis: “By exam”
Richard L. Means
Thesis: “By exam”
John Howard Morris
Thesis: “American Diplomatic Interests in Guatamala, 1869-92”
Advisor: Paige Mulhollan
John Gerald Mula
Thesis: “The Public Career of William Ring Sebastian”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Michael J. Norton
Thesis: “By exam”
Gerald Ponder
Thesis: “By exam”
Clifton J. Taylor, Jr.
Thesis: “By exam”
Philip Wilkerson
Thesis: “By exam”
1968
Rosemary Millwee Brewer
Thesis: “By exam”
Leonard E. Eulitt
Thesis: “By exam”
Everett Merls Hawks
Thesis: “By exam”
James R. Hillis
Thesis: “By exam”
Barbara Jean Love
Thesis: “By exam”
Jim L. Mayes
Thesis: “By exam”
Hohn N. Poe
Thesis: “By exam”
Reuben R. Thomas
Thesis: “By exam”
1967
Lila Beth Burke
Thesis: “By exam”
John William Graves
Thesis: “The Arkansas Negro and Segregation, 1890-1903”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Melinda Hennessey
Thesis: “By exam”
Melinda Meek
Thesis: “The Life of Archibald Yell”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Melba J. Joslin Pearson
Thesis: “By exam”
Vivian R. Schurfranz
Thesis: “By exam”
Sara S. Sharp
Thesis: “By exam”
Robert H. Skelton
Thesis: “By exam”
Ellis B. Walton
Thesis: “By exam”
James W. Willis
Thesis: “By exam”
Tommy R. Young, Ii
Thesis: “By exam”
1966
John W. Barham
Thesis: “By exam”
Harold G. Coogan
Thesis: “By exam”
Waman D. Curtsinger
Thesis: “By exam”
Mchael R. Deaderick
Thesis: “By exam”
Tom Forgey
Thesis: “By exam”
Mary Julia Means Head
Thesis: “By exam”
Marsha Oday Hudlow
Thesis: “By exam”
Lois L. Morris
Thesis: “By exam”
Thomas B. Pryor
Thesis: “Trade Union and the Law in Nineteenth Century England”
Advisor: Gordon McNeil
Charlotte Ann Rike
Thesis: “By exam”
Leo Thomas Sweeney
Thesis: “The Anti-Evolution Movement in Arkansas”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Jesse Taylor, Jr.
Thesis: “By exam”
John R. Wilkinson
Thesis: “By exam”
Gregory L. Williams
Thesis: “By exam”
John T. Zeller
Thesis: “By exam”
1965
Michael E. Gray
Thesis: “By exam”
Robert H. Hall
Thesis: “By exam”
John L. Shelby
Thesis: “By exam”
Truman H. Smith
Thesis: “By exam”
Roger H. Sublett
Thesis: “By exam”
Tommy R. Thompson
Thesis: “Evolution of the Chief Magistracy of the Untied States, 1776-89”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
Brenda Ball Tirrell
Thesis: “By exam”
1964
William O. Brazil
Thesis: “By exam”
John Gwinner Carver
Thesis: “By exam”
Leo. E. Huff
Thesis: “Confederate Arkansas”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Kay Smith Patton
Thesis: “By exam”
Lynn C. Petross
Thesis: “By exam”
George W. Ray
Thesis: “By exam”
Carl Ray Redden
Thesis: “By exam”
Ellen C. Shipley
Thesis: “By exam”
Judith E. Trammel
Thesis: “By exam”
John Alfred Treon Treon
Thesis: “The Building of the Arkansas State Capitol, 1899-1915”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Maurice Clive Webb
Thesis: “By exam”
1963
Larry Durwood Ball
Thesis: “A Historical Analysis of Ellsworth Huntinton’s Theory of Birth and Eminence”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
William H. Cobb
Thesis: “By exam”
Guy P. Griggs, Jr.
Thesis: “Environment as a Factor in the Great Revival of 1797-1805 in Frontier Tennessee
and Kentucky”
Kay Pillow Mauldin
Thesis: “By exam”
Thesis: “Studies in the Historiography of Two Phases of the English Break with Rome”
Frances Mitchell Ross
Thesis: “By exam”
1962
Madelyn Pickens Ashman
Thesis: “By exam”
Donald N. Dekker
Thesis: “The Influence of the Scots on the First Ten Years of the Reign of King George the
Third”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
Paige E. Mulhollan
Thesis: “The Public Career of James H. Berry”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Jack E. Porter
Thesis: “Sir Thomas Dale and the Virginia Colony”
Advisor: C. P. Westermeier
1961
James K. Barnes
Thesis: “Charles James Fox’s Interpretation of the French Revolution”
Advisor: Gordon McNeil
Robert M. Bivens
Thesis: “The Origin and Purpose of the Haldane Mission to Germany in 1912”
Advisor: Gordon McNeil
James Harris Fain
Thesis: “Political Disfranchisement of the Negro in Arkansas”
Advisor: Walter Brown
Everett Lee Long
Thesis: “A Historical Analysis of the Senate of the Seventh Congress”
Advisor: C. P. Westermeier
John F. Lussky
Thesis: “The Impact of the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 upon Great Britain”
Advisor: James J. Hudson
E. Elizabeth Becker Walt
Thesis: “By exam”
1960
Elizabeth Boyd
Thesis: “By exam”
Jack L. Burke
Thesis: “By exam”
James F. Duecker
Thesis: “By exam”
John Allen Johnson
Thesis: “A Study of the Relations between Marcus Antonius and Marcus Tullius Cicero”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
Kermit L. Keim
Thesis: “By exam”
Billy D. Lawrence
Thesis: “By exam”
James Dennis Williams
Thesis: “The Early Chroniclers Views of the North American Seaboard Indians”
Advisor: C. P. Westermeier
1959
James S. Bray
Thesis: “By exam”
Tom Mac Oliver
Thesis: “The Historical Reputation of Geroge Armstrong Custer”
Advisor: Clifford Westermeier
Johnnie Hixson Price
Thesis: “By exam”
1958
Leon Jermoe Apt
Thesis: “The Parliamentary Debate on Censorship of the Press in France, 1814-40”
Advisor: Gordon McNeil
Neal Terry Bullock
Thesis: “The Confederate Services of General Ben McCullcok”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
1957
Leon Jermoe Apt
Thesis: “The Parliamentary Debate on Censorship of the Press in France, 1814-40”
Advisor: Gordon McNeil
Neal Terry Bullock
Thesis: “The Confederate Services of General Ben McCullcok”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
1956
John G. Hall
Thesis: “By exam”
Jim Moore, Iii
Thesis: “By exam”
Walter B. Nimocks
Thesis: “Forces Which Brought Britain into Alliance with Japan”
Advisor: Amos Simpson
James A. Rollins
Thesis: “By exam”
Dollye Smith Shoemaker
Thesis: “By exam”
Russell Loren Smith
Thesis: “By exam”
1955
Norman E. Huenefeld
Thesis: “By exam”
William J. Miles
Thesis: “By exam”
Waddy William Moore, Iii
Thesis: “The Northern Federalists in the Senate, 1797-1799”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
Carolyn B. Park
Thesis: “The American Business Man and the Cult of Success”
Advisor: William Doherty
1954
Raymond Bailey
Thesis: “By exam”
George Banther
Thesis: “By exam”
Corliss C. Curry
Thesis: “A History of the Timber Industry in Ashley, Drew and Bradley Counties”
Advisor: C. P. Westermeier
Richard B. Dixon
Thesis: “Press Opinion Toward the People’s Party in Arkansas, 1890-96”
Advisor: C. P. Westermeier
John C. Huenefeld
Thesis: “American Journalistic Reporting of the Fall of France, 1939-40”
Advisor: Boyd C. Shafer
1953
Louis O. Bluerock
Thesis: “By exam”
Mary Pearl Engels
Thesis: “By exam”
John W. Ramsey
Thesis: “By exam”
Robert F. Smith
Thesis: “By exam”
E. G. Swain
Thesis: “By exam”
1952
Mel H. Bolster
Thesis: “Crazy Smoke and the Smoked Meat Rebellion of 1909”
Advisor: Hal Bridges
John Lewis Ferguson
Thesis: “The First Congress”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser and Hal Bridges
Gerald H. Fisher
Thesis: “By exam”
Willard Allen Fletcher
Thesis: “Seeckt and the Reichswehr”
Advisor: Richard J. Hostetter
Dorothy Hutto
Thesis: “By exam”
Marlin Jackson Perryman
Thesis: “French Nationalism and Foreign Policy from September 20, 1792-January 31, 1793”
Advisor: Boyd C. Shafer
Cora F. Rowe
Thesis: “By exam”
Robert Freeman Smith
Thesis: “Confederate Attempts to Influence Public Opinion, 1861-65”
Advisor: Hal Bridges
1951
Basil Dmytyshyn
Thesis: “German Intervention in the Ukraine”
Advisor: Richard J. Hostetter
A. P. Mccombs
Thesis: “By exam”
Paul K. Roberts
Thesis: “By exam”
Amos Edwin Simpson
Thesis: “Hjalmar Schacht and the Third Reich”
Advisor: Richard J. Hostetter
Carl S. Whillock
Thesis: “By exam”
1950
Georgia Adams
Thesis: “By exam”
Jo Riedel Atkins
Thesis: “By exam”
Loren L. Butler
Thesis: “By exam”
Charles Ewing Gray
Thesis: “The Political Philosophy of Gouverneur Morris”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
Ruth T. Hardin
Thesis: “By exam”
Greer Lingle
Thesis: “By exam”
Joe P. Spaulding
Thesis: “By exam”
Milton C. Tucker
Thesis: “By exam”
James A. Wooten
Thesis: “By exam”
1949
Verna C. Dokey
Thesis: “By exam”
J. E. Griner
Thesis: “By exam”
John Wesley Grissom
Thesis: “English Public Opinion on the Advent of Hitler”
Advisor: Richard J. Hostetter
James Jackson Hudson
Thesis: “Hector St. John de Crevecoeur”
Advisor: Boyd C. Shafer
Edgar Kirk
Thesis: “By exam”
Lucille Harwood Mills
Thesis: “The Presidential Campaign of 1928 in Arkansas”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
George James Stevenson
Thesis: “The Political Career of Jeff Davis of Arkansas”
Advisor: Robert E. Reeser
John T. Willett
Thesis: “By exam”
1948
Damon Beach
Thesis: “By exam”
Vincent Beach
Thesis: “By exam”
Mamie White Duff
Thesis: “By exam”
Clark Elkins
Thesis: “By exam”
Aileen B. Nall
Thesis: “By exam”
Jack Benton Scroggs
Thesis: “Arkansas in the Secession Movement”
Advisor: Roman Zorn
John C. Stevens
Thesis: “By exam”
1947
Francile Battengurg Oakley
Thesis: “Arkansas’ Golden Army of `49”
Advisor: Roman Zorn
Mary Sue Partain
Thesis: “By exam”
1946
Orval Truman Driggs
Thesis: “The Issues of the Clayton Regime, 1868-71”
Advisor: Roman Zorn
Idele Garcia
Thesis: “By exam”
Gilbert R. Grant
Thesis: “By exam”
1945
William Orestus Penrose
Thesis: “Political Ideas in Arkansas, 1880-1907”
Advisor: Henry Alexander
1943
Thomas L. Lee
Thesis: “By exam”
Pauline Poynor
Thesis: “By exam”
1942
Havis L. Stewart
Thesis: “By exam”
1941
James C. Bell
Thesis: “By exam”
1940
Dorothea Sligh Lacy
Thesis: “By exam”
1939
George Huddleston Faust
Thesis: “The Social Philosophy of Justice Stone as Revealed in His Supreme Court Decisions”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1938
Effie Lee Terrell
Thesis: “By exam”
1937
Martha Virginia Shipman
Thesis: “The Mississippi River Commission”
1936
Clyde Winfrey Cathy
Thesis: “Slavery in Arkansas”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
Hiram Ulysses Ford
Thesis: “A History of the Arkansas Penitentiary to 1900”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
James Fred Patton
Thesis: “A History of Fort Smith, Arkansas”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1935
Rebecca George
Thesis: “Arkansas’ Delegation to Congress Previous to 1861”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1933
Mattie Brown
Thesis: “A History of River Transportation in Arkansas from 1819 to 1880”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
Sister Mary Mark Parsley
Thesis: “The Judicial Interpretation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1932
William Howard Cordell
Thesis: “Aspects of Our Policy in Haiti”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1931
William Marvin Hurley
Thesis: “Socializing Forces in the History of Polk County, Arkansas”
Advisor: Charles Fichtner
1930
J. R. Cobb
Thesis: “James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, His Pan-American Policy”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
Marjorie Jones Crosson
Thesis: “By exam”
Etta Reeves French
Thesis: “Stephen S. Harding: A Hoosier Abolitionist”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
Marjorie Carr Jones
Thesis: “The Abolition of Slavery From 1861-1865”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
Mary Elizabeth Thomas
Thesis: “The Development of the Power of Taxation in Arkansas”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1928
William Clarence Evans
Thesis: “The Public Debt of Arkansas, its History from 1836 to 1885”
Advisor: D. Y. Thomas
1926
Michael James Waldo
Thesis: “By exam”
1923
J. F. Ellis
Thesis: “The Influence of Slavery in Shaping the Constitution”