Ph.D. Students
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.
Paige Figanbaum
Field of Study: North American West
Research Interest: Focusing on Nevada History and its relationship with popular media.
Christina M. Lamoureux
Field of Study: 19th 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.
Mary Ludwig
Field of Study: North American West/Public History
Advisor: Dr. William Bauer
Working Dissertation Title: Japanese-American Internment on Native Lands
Research Interest: At the point, I’m exploring this as a possible topic of study. I enjoy researching social and cultural relationships. I am open to ideas.
Kristen Phipps
Field of Study: American West
Research interest: Slavery in the American West and how it was spread through the military.
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
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 Delgado
Field of Study: North American West
Research Interest: I am interested in researching the links between Native and Latinx communities in Southern California.
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.
Masters Students
Matthew Conner
Advisor: Dr. E. Whitney
Field of Study: European and Public History
Research interest: Medieval European Culture and the Crusade Impulse
Evan Reynolds
Advisor: Dr. M. Casas
Field of Study: Major: U.S History, Minor: European History
Research interest: The Development Culture and Race in the United States and Modern Britain.
Angel Wakaiihuri
Advisor: Dr. A. B. Wilkinson
Field of Study: Cultural and Intellectual American History with a minor in World History
Research interest: Around the Global Spread of White Supremacy, Depictions of Black People in Media. Specifically anime and manga and global perceptions of black people.