Nicole Rae Batten

Neil Dodge

Field of Study: North American West - Indigenous People
Advisor: Dr. William Bauer
Dissertation Title: We are the Children of Changing Woman: From Kinship to Membership in the Navajo Nation 1846-1954.
Research interest: I am interested in the ways in which Indigenous people articulate their origins. Also, how they undergo their own process of reimagination into modern times.

Joshua Coleman

Field of Study: Major – American West, Minor – Public History
Advisor: Dr. William Bauer
Dissertation Title: Jicarilla Apache Project Gasbuggy and The Early Years of Tracking in Indian Country.
Research interest: Indigenous History, 20th Century West, Cold War and Nuclear Colonialism.

Christina M. Lamoureux

Field of Study: 19^th and 20th Century Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Nelson
Research Interest: I examine the relationship between prostitution and print culture in 19th and early 20th century American. Primarily I am concerned with understanding the role of media in representation of prostitutes and how that shapes their public identity.

Kristen Phipps

Debbie Rayner

Field of Study: 19th Century America
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Nelson
Dissertation Title: For the Love of Church and Country: Charles Hodge and the Dilemma of Slavery
Research Interest: I examine the role of the Presbyterian Church and Princeton Seminary in relation to the definition of biblical slavery. The rhetoric surrounding slavery is more complex than a northern or southern disagreement.

Fabian Rebolledo

Andrew Rogers

Field of Study: Major – American West, Minor – Public History
Research interest: Rural History, Columbian Plateau, Indigenous History and Agriculture.

Douglas Smith

Field of Study: North American Culture and Society
Research interest: Disability history and legal history

James Steele

Field of Study: American Popular Culture of the 20th Century
Advisor: Dr. Michael Green
Dissertation Title: “The Fire Over There”
Research Interest: The media frenzy surrounding the King beating and the subsequent civil unrest did not tell the whole story. This work explores the shortcomings of media coverage and the ways these events were described to the American people and the world.

Analiesa "Annie" Delgado

Field of Study: Major - American West (Indigenous), Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. William Bauer
Dissertation Title: Fortifying Kinship: Northern Paiute Children's Kinship and Community Building in Boarding Schools, 1884-1928.
Research Interest: How Indigenous children maintained community in boarding schools.

Dakota Ciolkosz

Field of Study: European Culture and Society/Environmental History
Advisor: Dr. Gregory Brown
Research Interest: French eighteenth and nineteenth-century specifically the French Revolution, First French Empire, The Bourbon Restoration, as well as natural resource management in a historical context.

Marlisha "Katie" Cordell

Field of Study: Major - European History, Minor - U.S. History
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Tusan
Research Interest: International Relations and Diplomatic History.

Christopher Robbins

Field of Study: Major - European History, Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Tusan
Research Interest: Victorian & Edwardian Spiritualism and Spiritualism in the U.S. Role of Women as Mediums.