Thesis: “The Ozarker Lost Cause: Memory, Violence, and Antistatism in the Southwestern Ozarks”
Advisor: Matt Stanley
Hannah Drury
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Emily Hand
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Shaylee Luedders
Thesis: “Misusing Mariátegui: The Strategic Use of José Carlos Mariátegui by Peru’s Sendero Luminoso”
Advisor: Shawn Austin
Jacob O'Bannon
Thesis: “Hitler’s Foreign Legions: Non German Recruitment and Formations in the Waffen SS”
Advisor: Laurence Hare
Sophia Asante
Thesis: “Public Responses to Sanitation Interventions in Ghana from 1987 to Present Times”
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Nate Hubbard
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Alex McEachern
Thesis: “The Collapse of the Cotton States League: Segregation and the Final Three Years
of Minor League Baseball in South Arkansas"
Advisor: Mike Pierce
Connor McGowan
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Tommy Medford
Thesis: “A Pastoral River: Reimagining the Narrative of the Buffalo National River"
Advisor: Jared Phillips
Kenneth Tagoe
Thesis: “The Black Bombers of Ghana: Sport, Nation-Building and Pan-Africanism, 1958 to the
21st Century"
Advisor: Todd Cleveland
Allison Tucker
Thesis: “Across the pond and Veil: Spiritualists, Female Mediums, and Ghosts in the Nineteenth-Century
United States and Britain"
Advisor: Matt Stanley
Noah Roberts
Thesis: “Cultural Vibrations: Student Power, International Exchange, and Black America in
Mai 1968"
Advisor: Alessandro Brogi
Elliott Voekel
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Samuel Adegbenjo
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
Robert "Trey" Berry
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
Jake Stagner
By Examination
Advisor: N/A
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”