Theses

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”
  • Advisor: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon

Jordan Wimpy

  • Thesis: “Turning Loose: 1970s Agricultural Policy”
  • Advisor: Patrick G. Williams

Michael S. Cockburn

  • Thesis: “By exam”
  • Advisor: Daniel Sutherland

John Gore

  • 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”