2024

Holthaus, Nicholas

Programming Despair: Post-9/11 American Television Show Mirroring a Too-Familiar Dark Reality - (Chair) Dan Flory

Schehl, Tim

Security-Sector Fusions and the Remaking of Political Life in the U.S. and Beyond - (Chair) Alex Harmon

Young, Micaela

The Return of Water: the Role of Micropolitics in Reclaiming Indigenous Space and Decolonizing the Blackfeet Nation - (Chair) Eric Austin and (Co-chair) Mark Fiege

2023

Greene, Deborah

Disrupting American Identity through the Lens of the Pacific: Essays from Hawaii on Belonging, Invading, and Surviving  - (Chair) Susan Kollin

Koh, Celia

Avatar: A Cultural and Ethical Journey Across Settler-Colonalism - MA thesis (Chair) Alex Harmon

Moore, Sabre

Rural Museums: Harnessing the Power of Place to Confront Silences and to Revitalize Communities - (Co-chairs) Robert Rydell and Alex Harmon

Munson, Jesine

Reimagining John Dewey for the 21st Century: The Art of Living - Praxis for Social Utility and Wellbeing - (Chair) Melissa Ragain

2022

Balius, Quincy

Monumental Memories: The Bear River Massacre, Gendered Settler-Colonial Violence, and Decolonization in Public History - MA thesis (Chair) Alex Harmon

Gaston, Marcy

How Do They Feel About Cooking: The Status of Cooking and Food Skills Among Young Adults - (Chair) J. Mitchell Vaterlaus

Ready, Tyler

Fear in the 21st Century: U.S. Cultural Anxiety and the Psychology of Stress  - (Chair) Robert Bennett

Sward, Sandra

Embedded in Stained Glass: America's Civil Religion - (Chair) Robert Rydell

Zignego,  Jordan

The Structure of Cultural Memory: The Photography of Tom Wright - (Chair) Dennis Aig

2021

Aspenson, Ceilon

Real Indians Making Real Art: How Indigenous Artists Struggle for Creative Sovereignty and Identity in the Contemporary Art World and Market - (Chair) Walter Fleming

Griffiths, William

Our Last Cast: The Future of Salmonid Angling in the American West - MA thesis (Chair) Mark Fiege and (Co-chair) Alex Harmon

Leary, Courtney

Documentary Photography, Climate Crisis, and Immigration: Migrant Mother as a Lens to Understand Contemporary Migrant Stories - MA thesis (Chair) Mary Murphy

Narotsky, Emma

Humans and Howls: Wolves and the Future of Animal Communication - MA thesis (Chair) Mark Fiege

Powers, Andrea

American Fantasies and Imagined Histories: Ethnic Play and Settler Colonialism in 20th Century Wyoming - (Chair) Susan Kollin

Sulam, Barry 

Saving Cultural Resources By Learning Places - (Chair) Eric Austin

2020

Biehl, Mary 

Mary Meigs Atwaer:  The Many Lives of an American New Woman - (Chair) Walter Fleming

Davenport, Hannah 

The Changing Face of Folkloric Transmission:  Bigfoot and the American Psyche - MA thesis (Chair) Robert Rydell

Hanson, Daniel 

Western American Spectral Studies:  Haunting in Film, Literature, and Landscape - (Chair) Susan Kollin

Keesee, Angela

Green Onions:  Kitchen Design and Foodways in Mid-Century Memphis - (Chair) Mary Murphy

Roberts, Brent 

“Steady Hammer:” Origins of American Counterterrorism in the Dime Novel World of William J. Flynn - (Chair) Robert Rydell

Robinson, Tonya 

Manifest Americans:  The Modern-Day Appropriation of the Agrarian Myth - (Chair) Susan Kollin

2019

Corriel, Michele

Montana Modernists - (Chair) Mary Murphy

Matzinger, Ryan

Predilection, Progress, and Prejudice:  Coon Songs and the Construction of Race in 19th Century American Culture - MA thesis (Co-chairs) Robert Rydell and Billy Smith

2018

Medicine Horse, Cassidy Anne 

Locating the Transgender Other: Alterity in 21st Century America - (Chair)Matthew Herman

Savoie, Gianna

Our Storied Sea:  Crafting a Collective Narrative of the Ocean Through Accompaniment - (Chair) Michael Reidy

Woodcock-Medicine Horse, Jennifer Neso eoo’e 

Green Museums Waking Up the World:  Indigenous and Mainstream Approaches to Exploring Sustainability - (Chair) Robert Rydell

2017

Baehr, Ninia 

Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Right to Decide: Reproductive Freedom, Self-Directed Dying, and Women's Autonomy - (Chair) Mary Murphy

Coletta, Sarah Louise 

No Little Plans: Making and Breaking the 1992 Chicago World's Fair - (Chair) Robert Rydell

2016

Bull Chief, Emerson Lee

Belief Ways of the Apsaalooke: Development of a Culture Through Time and Space - (Chair) Matthew Herman

Smith, Matt

Othering Montana's T-Rex and the Consequences of Mumpsimus - MA thesis (Chair) Robert Rydell

Van Slyke, Gerald

The Citizen Militias of the United States; Their Antecendents, Development, and Present Condition - (Chair) Billy Smith

Zeilinger, Lisa Ann 

An Aesthetic Framework for the Question of Indigenous Feminism, Autonomy and Leadership: Confronting a History of Colonial Male Dominance - (Chair) Kristin Ruppel

2015

Boyer, Pamela

We Have Met the Star Trek Aliens and They Are Us - MA thesis (Chair) Sara Waller

Hanson, Daniel

Haunting: From Postwesterns to Postmodern Historiographies - MA thesis (Chair) Susan Kollin

2014

Merriot, Ivy 

Exploratory Research of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel Acting as an Indigenous Place-Based Pedagogical Instrument for Learning Sky-Earth Relationships, Skywatching Fundamentals, and Celestial Mechanics - (Chair) Sara Mast 

2013

Hill, Jennifer

Midwives in Montana: Historically Informed Political Activism - (Chair) Mary Murphy