• RAPE CULTURE: POWER, PROFIT, PUNISHMENT 

  Gaskin, Leigh (2019)

  This dissertation project aims to shift ideas about rape and sexual assault from an individualized, narrative account of the issue to map out the methods and purpose of rape culture in America. The result of this project ...

• The Work of Being Normal for Women in the 21st Century 

  Soriano, Lucia (2019)

  In my dissertation, I introduce a theoretical concept called, “the work of being normal,” which is a form of unpaid labor that is done primarily done by women, and operates in the guise of benefitting women and making them ...

• THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE WASTELAND: THE POST-APOCALYPTIC GENRE AND THE WESTERN IN CINEMA 

  Ratto, Casey McDermid (2019)

  This dissertation examines the relationship between the Western and post-apocalyptic genre in cinema. Specifically, how the post-apocalyptic genre translates and adapts key tenets of the Western to create a genre that is ...

• Of Voices, Visions, and Agents: Cultural Hegemony and the Spectacle of U.S. Empire in Contemporary Hollywood Film 

  Krebs, Nicholas Daniel (2019)

  Discussing the cultural systems and their commodities that circulate, shape, and maintain U.S. empire, this project focuses on contemporary Hollywood films from 1977 to the present, and reveals the stories, lessons, and ...

• The American Frontier and the Scottish Fur Trade in the Pacific Northwest 

  Webber, Alys Rachel (2019)

  The French and Indian War opened up the fur trade for Scots. They developed their own “model” of country marriage that evolved into a horizontal “clan” system stretching across the continent. Scots “married-in” to Native ...

• Vesterheim in Red, White and Blue: The Hyphenated Norwegian-American and Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest, 1890 - 1950 

  Grav, Hans-Petter (2018)

  Norwegian-American migrants to the Pacific Northwest built a cohesive ethnic community there from the 1890s that persisted through World War II. They were drawn to the Pacific Northwest by its geographic resemblance to ...

• Streaming Empathy: Media Marathoning & the Cisgender Gaze 

  Lester Breikss, Selena K. (2018)

  Cisgender viewers’ understanding of transgender identities and empathy toward issues faced by gender diverse communities is inextricably bound with changing technologies and new patterns of consumption. Streaming services, ...

• BUILDING A SMOKING SOCIETY: CULTURE AND ECOLOGY OF THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY IN NORTH CHINA, 1902-1937 

  Song, Sikang (2017)

  In 1902, the British-American Tobacco Company (BAT), an American multinational corporation, began its business expansion in China by mass marketing machine-rolled cigarettes to Chinese consumers, thereby systematically ...

• Solitary Sparrows: Widowhood and the Catholic Community in Post-Reformation England, 1580-1630 

  Binczewski, Jennifer (2017)

  This dissertation examines the gendered nature of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Catholic community through widows’ attempts to preserve Catholicism. Catholics in post-Reformation England faced new challenges ...

• Why Should We Have to Buy Our Own Things Back? The Struggle over the Spalding-Allen Collection 

  Bond, Trevor James (2017)

  In 1836, Henry Spalding and his wife Eliza joined Marcus and Narcissa Whitman on a mission to bring Christianity to the Indians of the Oregon Country. In 1846, Spalding acquired Nez Perce clothing, artifacts, and horse ...

• Onward Christian Administrators 

  Schlect, Christopher (2015)

  American Protestants adopted organizational efficiency as a spiritual virtue in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Driven by a devotional impulse to manage and systematize the practice of their faith, they ...

• Curse of the Forbidden Fruit: Southern Opposition During the Mexican War Era, 1835-1850 

  Bell, Brett Richard (2015)

  This study examines southern opposition to the Mexican War. The story of such opposition is essential to a complete understanding of the Mexican War and the growing sectional conflict in the late antebellum period. It ...

• Specters of Empire: Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937 

  Link, Mandy R. (2015)

  The following analysis argues that from 1914 to 1937 the experiences of Irish soldiers in the First World War was not a significant part of the post-independence narratives that Sinn Feiners attempted to establish. This ...

• Outlaw States: The United States, Nicaragua, and the Cold War Roots of the War on Terror 

  Travis, Philip (2014)

  In the 1980s, a terrorism crisis transformed U.S. foreign policy. The Reagan administration altered the old model of Cold War containment and constructed a new offensive policy to combat state sponsored terrorism. While ...

• CITY OF THE RIVER: THE HAI RIVER AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TIANJIN, 1897-1948 

  Wang, Ai (2014)

  This dissertation explores the modern transformation of the Hai River by the Haiho Conservancy Commission from 1897 when the Commission emerged to 1948 when the Commission became loosely controlled by the Guomindang. ...

• FASHIONING GERMAN FASCISM 

  Homberger, Torsten (2014)

  Hitler used the storm troopers (Sturmabteilungen; SA), the paramilitary arm of the Nazi party, to come to power in Germany. The SA gave fascist myths concrete and physical forms, and in doing so, suggested a strong alternative ...

• Wildly Contentious: The Battle for North Central Idaho's Roads, Rivers, and Wilderness 

  Erdey, Tabitha Ellen (2013)

  During the twentieth century, the rivers and mountains of North Central Idaho opened to resource extraction, outdoor recreation, and economic development. Government agencies charged with carrying out federal natural ...

• CULTURE, COLD WAR, CONSERVATISM, AND THE END OF THE ATOMIC AGE: RICHLAND, WASHINGTON, 1943-1989 

  Powell, Lee Ann (2013)

  This study explores the atomic identity and nuclear politics of Richlanders and Tri-Citians through an analysis of the collision points between local atomic culture, federal nuclear policy, and the antinuclear environmental ...

• THE JOINT AMERICAN MILITARY MISSION TO AID TURKEY: IMPLEMENTING THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND TRANSFORMING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, 1947-1954 

  Munson IV, Howard Adelbert (2012)

  This dissertation examines the early history (1947-1954) of the Joint American Military Mission to Aid Turkey (JAMMAT) and its role in shaping U.S.-Turkish relations and as a window into the developing Cold War policies ...

• "In ye Service of the Lord": Boston's Churches, Public Discourse, and the American Revolution 

  Moerschel, Lesley Ann (2012)

  This study examines the importance of Boston's churches in shaping public discourse during the revolutionary era. By drawing upon church records, sermons, and the writings of ministers, church members, and other individuals, ...

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