Theses/Dissertations from 2024
The Women of the Oregon State Insane Asylum: 1900-1910, Rebekah Catherine Averette
Stricken by the Worst Type of Sickness: The Communal Reaction and Response to Impaired Individuals in the Middle Ages, Alice Holland
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Establishment and Shaping of the Education System and National Identity in Manchukuo, Tianyang Lei
The Contested Exempla of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Victoria Theresa White
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Patricia Carpio Whiting: Women, Environmentalism, and the Oregon Legislature in the 1970s, Kim L. Andrews
Curating Conflict: The Material Record of the Philippine-American War at the Oregon Historical Society, Silvie M. Andrews
The Iroquois Indians in Ohio, 1600–1763, Woody Crow
The Daughters of the Fronde: French Aristocratic Women and the Subversion of Bourbon Absolutist Culture, 1661-1727, Jordan David Hallmark
Eating Real Mexican: Identity, Authenticity, Americanization, Health, and Food Culture in the United States After 1900, Alexandra H. Ibarra
Interwar Weimar Film and Masculinity: Challenging the Presumed Crisis of Interwar German Gender Discourse from Selected Films from 1925-1931, Brandon Metcalf
"I Just Had to Do Most Everything": Gender, Settlement and American Empire in the Far West, Hannah Alexandra Reynolds
Wealth and Peace: The History and Political Economy of Montesquieu's Doux Commerce, Adam W. Saltzman
Words Matter: A Linguistic Analysis of Cluniac Views on the Use and Abuse of Violent Force, Amanda K. Swinford
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Serfs, Excluded or Governed by The State? Serfdom in Russia, an Historiographical Analysis, Jason Ferguson
Battle Rock: Anatomy of a Massacre, Adam R. Fitzhugh
Judicial Review as an Instrument of Natural Rights Theory: An Intellectual History, James M. Masnov
Finding a Community Niche: Rethinking Historic House Museums in Oregon, Liza Julene Schade
Regionalist Romance: "America Eats" and the Culinary Myth-Making of the Federal Writers' Project, Icarus J. Smith
Letitia Carson in Court: African American Women, Property, and Wages in the Pacific Northwest, Stephanie Marie Vallance
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Land of Poets and Warriors: the Connection Between Warrior Culture and Bardic Culture in Medieval Wales c. 1066-1283, Sarah Lynn Alderson
New Perspectives on Johannes de Muris and his Notitia artis musicae, Jeffrey Allan Arnsdorf
Rebranding Empire: Consumers, Commodities, and the Empire Marketing Board, 1926-1933, Ashley Kristen Bower
Crania Japonica: Ethnographic Portraiture, Scientific Discourse, and the Fashioning of Ainu/Japanese Colonial Identities, Jeffrey Braytenbah
Social Saints in the City: Race, Space, and Religion in Chicago Women's Settlement Work, 1890-1935, Johanna Katherine Murphy
The Almohad: the Rise and Fall of the Strangers, David Michael Olsen
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Many Wives of General August V. Kautz: Colonization in the Pacific Northwest, 1853-1895, Nicole Ann Kindle
The Cosmological Empire of Pliny the Elder: an Examination of Political Themes in the Second Book of the Historia Naturalis, Kevin Alan McCormick
"All Things to All Men": the Life and Work of Monsignor Thomas J. Tobin, Priest of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, Samuel Richard Mertz
"The Most Difficult Vote": Post-Roe Abortion Politics in Oregon, 1973-2001, Tanya Trangia Monthey
RevolutionärInnen am Fließband: a Comparative Gendered Analysis of the 1973 Pierburg and Ford Migrant Labor Strikes, Jordan Faith Norquist
"An Idolatry of Sound" : Nature, the Natural, and the Castrato's Body in the Eighteenth Century, Caitlin Elizabeth Pala
"Beneath this Sod": Intersections of Colonialism, Urbanization, and Memory in the Cemeteries of Salem and Portland, Oregon, Kirsten Makenna Straus
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Delphinids on Display: the Capture, Care, and Exhibition of Cetaceans at Marineland of the Pacific, 1954-1967, Taylor Michael Bailey
Giving the Noose the Slip: an Analysis of Female Murderers in Oregon, 1854-1950, Jenna Leigh Barganski
Anarchism on the Willamette: the Firebrand Newspaper and the Origins of a Culturally American Anarchist Movement, 1895-1898, Alecia Jay Giombolini
Christians and Jerusalem in the Fourth Century CE: a Study of Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, and the Bordeaux Pilgrim, Stephen David Green
Making Room for Roses: the 1911 Relocation of the Multnomah County Poor Farm, Kira Helene Lesley
The Mind of a Medieval Inquisitor: an Analysis of the 1273 Compilatio de Novu Spiritu of Albertus Magnus, Emily McKinstry
"On the Murder of Rickey Johnson": the Portland Police Bureau, Deadly Force, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1940 - 1975, Katherine EIleen Nelson
A Mutual Charge: the Shared Mission of Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman to Alleviate Global Hunger in a Postwar World, Brian Douglas Reese
"The Battling Ground": Memory, Violence, and Resistance in Greenwood, North Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1907-1980, Greta Katherine Smith
A Temperate and Wholesome Beverage: the Defense of the American Beer Industry, 1880-1920, Lyndsay Danielle Smith
"Agglutinating" a Family: Friedrich Max Müller and the Development of the Turanian Language Family Theory in Nineteenth-Century European Linguistics and Other Human Sciences, Preetham Sridharan
Little Russia: Patterns in Migration, Settlement, and the Articulation of Ethnic Identity Among Portland's Volga Germans, Heather Ann Viets
Thietmar of Merseburg's Views on Clerical Warfare, Benjamin Joseph Wand
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
"As Long as the Mighty Columbia River Flows": the Leadership and Legacy of Wilson Charley, a Yakama Indian Fisherman, David-Paul Brewster Hedberg
Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief, Douglas Jon Kenck-Crispin
A Conservationist Takes Flight: the Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911, Carey Elizabeth Myles
Music and Race in the American West, William Steven Schneider
Settler Visions of Health: Health Care Provision in the Central African Federation, 1953-1963, Catherine Janet Valentine
Workers of the Word Unite!: The Powell's Books Union Organizing Campaign, 1998-2001, Ryan Thomas Wisnor
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Making of Modern Egypt: the Egyptian Ulama as Custodians of Change and Guardians of Muslim Culture, Marai Boauod
A Bridge Across the Pacific: A Study of the Shifting Relationship Between Portland and the Far East, Michael Todd Gagle
Seeing the Forest for the Roads: Auto-Tourism and Wilderness Preservation in Mount Hood National Forest, 1913-64, Taylor Elliott Rose
"On This, We Shall Build": the Struggle for Civil Rights in Portland, Oregon 1945-1953, Justin LeGrand Vipperman
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Floating Men: Portland and the Hobo Menace, 1890-1915, Marin Elizabeth Aurand
Catholic Action in Twentieth-Century Oregon: The Divergent Political and Social Philosophies of Hall S. Lusk and Francis J. Murnane, Ian Alan Berge
Post-Revolutionary Mexican Education in Durango and Jalisco: Regional Differences, Cultures of Violence, Teaching, and Folk Catholicism, Lindsey Ellison Collins
Centralia, Collective Memory, and the Tragedy of 1919, Shawn T. Daley
Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952, Alison Leigh Jessie
"Children Need Protection Not Perversion": The Rise of the New Right and the Politicization of Morality in Sex Education in Great Britain, 1968-1989, Miriam Corinne Morehart
The Forgotten Front: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Camas, Washington, and the Northwest Paper Industry, 1913-1918, Bradley Dale Richardson
A Town on Fire: The Copperfield Affair of 1914, Daniel Joseph Shepard
Jews, Sports, Gender, and the Rose City : An Analysis of Jewish Involvement with Athletics in Portland, Oregon, 1900-1940, Kelli Ann Tusow
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
"Dangerous Subjects": James D. Saules and the Enforcement of the Color Line in Oregon, Kenneth Robert Coleman
The Impact of the Tax Revolt and School Reform on Oregon Schools during the 1990s, Beth Cookler
Some Neglected Aspects of the Rococo: Berkeley, Vico, and Rococo Style, Bennett Gilbert
"Vitalité": Race Science and Jews in France 1850-1914, Kendra Beth Hendrickson
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Portland, Oregon's Long Hot Summers: Racial Unrest and Public Response, 1967-1969, Joshua Joe Bryan
Rural Revolution: Documenting the Lesbian Land Communities of Southern Oregon, Heather Jo Burmeister
Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon, Kat Cleland
No Place for Middlemen: Civic Culture, Downtown Environment, and the Carroll Public Market during the Modernization of Portland, Oregon, James Richard Louderman
Baldwin I of Jerusalem: Defender of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, John Francis Lowe
The Life and Thought of Mormon Apostle Parley Parker Pratt, Andrew James Morse
From Company Town to Company Town: Holden and Holden Village, Washington, 1937-1980 & Today, Mattias Olshausen
Self-Presentation and Identity in the Roman Empire, ca. 30 BCE to 225 CE, Rhiannon Ysabel-Marie Orizaga
Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves, Loucynda Elayne Sandeen
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"We Were Privileged in Oregon": Jessie Laird Brodie and Reproductive Politics, Locally and Transnationally, 1915-1975, Sadie Anne Adams
Voicing Oppositional Conformity: Sarah Winnemucca and the Politics of Rape, Colonialism, and "Citizenship": 1870-1890, Jennifer Bailey
Anna of Denmark: Expressions of Autonomy and Agency as a Royal Wife and Mother, Anastasia Christine Baker
Agency, Consolidation, and Consequence: Evaluating Social and Political Change in New Orleans, 1868-1900, Christopher Joseph Cook
Shaping the Future Past: Finding History, Creating Identity in the Kwan Hsu Papers, Lisa Chere' Donnelly
Reexamining the Global Cold War in South Africa: Port Usage, Space Tracking and Weapons Sales, Rebecca Nicole Eisenberg
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and the Commissioning of the History of William Marshal, Chloe Faith Massarello
Essex under Cromwell: Security and Local Governance in the Interregnum, James Robert McConnell
Portland's "Refugee from Occupied Hollywood": Andries Deinum, his Center for the Moving Image, and Film Education in the United States, Heather Oriana Petrocelli
Mining Culture in Roman Dacia: Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107-270 C.E., Heather Ann Pundt
Local Reception of Religious Change under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Evidence from Four Suffolk Parishes, William Keene Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Realization of the Cathlapotle Plankhouse: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Post-NAGPRA Era, Erica Lynn Boyne
"A College for Women, or Something Like It": Bedford College and the Women's Higher Education Movement, 1849-1900, Megan Katherine Brown
Chinese Merchants and Race Relations in Astoria, Oregon, 1882 - 1924, Aaron Daniel Coe
Emperors in America: Haile Selassie and Hirohito on Tour, Robert Alexander Findlay
"Art Feeling Grows" in Oregon : The Portland Art Association, 1892-1932, Patrick A. Forster
Erasing the Space Between Japanese and American: Progressivism, Nationalism, and Japanese American Resettlement in Portland, Oregon, 1945-1948, Robert Alan Hegwood
Aberdeen and the Reformation: Implementation and Interpretation of Reform, Catherine Elizabeth McMillan
"Each Generation of a Free Society": The Relationship between Montana's Constitutional Convention, Individual Rights Protections, and State Constitutionalism, Inga Katrin Nelson
Writing Her Way to Spiritual Perfection: The Diary of 1751 of Maria de Jesus Felipa, Stephanie Oliver
The Binfords and Mort Publishing Company and the Development of Regional Literature in Oregon, Jeremy Skinner