All master’s theses completed through the Graduate College of Western Michigan University since 2012 have been entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors and may be only available from on-campus computers. Print copies from earlier years are available through interlibrary loan. We have a few digital copies of earlier years. If you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Bean Pie: Black Muslims and Identity in Early Twentieth Century Detroit, Alexandra Christine Bicknell
Taking Aim: The Evolution of Women in Competitive Shooting Sports in the 20th Century United States, Alena Rose-Marie Buczynski
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Gendered Language in The Catalogues of Saint Mary’s Academy, 1860-1871, Kylie Hamm
Lawful Violence: The Relationship between Marriage and Conflict in the Wars of the Roses, Hannah R. Keller
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Portrayal of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement in High School History Textbooks, Michelle A. DeVries
The Color Line in Communism: The East German Ministry of Culture’s Portrayal of Paul Robeson’s State Visit, Colin J. Rensch
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Aristocratic Women’s Kinship Ties in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Champagne, Sydne Reid Johnson
The Meaning of the Civil War in Northern Religious Periodicals, 1865-1877, Jeffrey Mark Charles Joslin
A Kingdom of Co-Inherence: Christian Theology and the Laws of King Magnus the Lawmender of Norway, 1261-1281, Dillon Richard Frank Knackstedt
Deep Imprints 20th-Century Media Stereotypes towards East Asian Immigrants and the Development of a Pan-Ethnic East-Asian-American Identity, Christopher Maiytt
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Punks in the Church: The Relationship Between the Punk Subculture and Church in East Germany, Ruth A. Aardsma Benton
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Life among Good Women: The Social and Religious Impact of the Cathar Perfectae in the Thirteenth-Century Lauragais, Derek Robert Benson
Triplex Enim Eleemosyna Est, Cordis, Oris, Et Operis: Pope Innocent III’s Spiritual and Rhetorical Approach to Almsgiving, Thomas J. Maurer
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Ransoming for the Faith: Medieval Perceptions of the Role of Mercedarians in Catalan Society, Spencer Thomas Hunt
Nightmare in the City of Dreams: Civic Consciousness and Industrialization in Imperial Vienna, 1848-1881, J. Alexander Killion
Agents of Justice: Female Plaintiffs in the King’s Court in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century England, J. Savannah Shipman
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Fighting for Inclusion: The Origin of Gay Liberation at the University of Michigan, Eric Denby
“What Country Music Needs Is a Good War”: Country Music, Memory, and Conservative Politics, Emilee G. Johnson
Ramon Llull’s Conversion Program in His Recovery of the Holy Land Treatises, Michael Sanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The British Women’s Land Army: Gender, Identity, and Landscapes, Hilary M.K. Anderson
The Monastery of Saint-Michel du Tréport and the Borderlands of Northeast Normandy, 1059-1270, Eric Callender
The Pagan Pudicitia of Early Christian Roman Women, Iris Rebecca Petty
The Social and Cultural Meanings of Names in Late Antique Italy, 313-604, Eric Ware
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Recovering the Saumurois: Lay Patronage to Saint-Florent of Saumur, ca. 950-1150, Adam C. Matthews
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Gender and the Boundaries of National Identity: U.S. Women as a Citizen Class in the Long 1960s, Sara Bijani
Rape and Sexual Coercion in the Penitentials: Evidence Before 1100, Rachel E. Friedensen
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A "Human" Diplomacy: The American Friends Service Committee in Israel, 1950-1961, Francis Bonenfant
Marriage and Marital Relations in the Episcopal Registers of Fourteenth-Century Barcelona, Lindsey Allison Cox
The Bracero Program's Impact on Cultural Exchange Between The United States and Mexico: An Analysis of Oral Histories, Siera Marie Hammond
"Videbantur Gens Effera": Defining and Perceiving Peoples in the Chronicles of Norman Italy, Jesse Hysell
Ties that Bind: Thomas Jefferson and the Utility of Education, Samantha M. Steele
Hospitaller Legal Disputes in Thirteenth-Century Valencia, Ryan Storr
A Position of Strength: Arms Dealing as Diplomacy under the Reagan Administration, William D. Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
A Study of The Greek Minority of Early Fourteenth Century Palermo, Jack Goodman
A Voyage East: The Liber Peregrinationis of Riccoldo da Montecroce, Rachel E. Graf
De Participatione Christianorum et Saracenorum: Ramon Llull as Disputant and Comparative Religionist, Ariana Philena Horn
An Intellectual and Theological History Of Jesuit Slaveholding, 1717-1838, Stacey Lorean Moore
A History of Puig de Santa Maria: A Mercedarian Monastery in Valencia, 1237-1322, David A. Shoup
The Cultural Context of Patronage During the First Contact Period of the Christian Conversion of Kent, Laura Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Impact of the European Economy on an Indigenous Productive Regime: Coca Production in the Yungas of La Paz, 1548-1570, Krista Anderson
The Women of the Pere de Folgueres Register: A Study of Women in Barcelona, 1338, Amy Hudson
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
In Relation: Marguerite De Provence and Her Many Roles, 1221-1295, Cristina Dawn Moody
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Black Power in Green and White: Integration and Black Protest in Michigan State University Football, 1947-1972, John Matthew Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The Understanding of Family in Medieval France: A Study of the Family of Count Fulk Réchin of Anjou, Sheila Clark
Defining Peaceful Picketing: The Michigan Supreme Court and the Labor Injunction, 1900-1940, Coreen Derifield
Aspects of Fatherhood in Thirteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Philip Grace
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Durand of Osca's Liber Antiheresis, John Thomas Scholl
Barcelona's Patronage of the Dominican Convent of Santa Catalina, 1219-1299, Antonio M. Zaldivar
"Far, Fast, and Fashionable": American Women Swimmers and Their Swimwear in 1920s and 1930s Sport and Consumer Culture, Elizabeth A. Zanoni
A Preliminary Study of the Kaogong Ji (The Book of Artificers), Hanmo Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Hybrid or Counterpoise? A Study of Transitional Trebuchets, Michael J. Basista
Cultural Encounters: The Peruvian Artifacts Collected by Cristobal Vaca De Castro, Genoveva Garcia-Gallardo Carcedo
Tinners and the Stannaries: Law, Life, and Labor in Fourteenth-Century Cornwall, Michael Kurt Deen
White Rules, Black Stars: Race, Sport, Community, and the Emergence of Integrated Boys' High School Basketball in Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1945-1965, Christopher Michael Jannings
Castles in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia, 1257-1276, Marius Nielsen
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Steamboat Passenger Ferries in Nineteenth Century London: A Cultural Survey, Jennifer Wohlberg
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Sense of the Past in Saint Antoninus of Florence's Summa Historialis, Brian Nathaniel Becker
"A Conflict of Truth with Error": Southern Preachers, Their Worldview, and Sectional Tensions, 1830-1865, Timothy A. Ehrhardt
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Toward a Provident Working Class: French and English Social Reform Rhetoric, 1880-1914, James R. Gavan
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Role of Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 Visit to the US in the Development of Soviet-American Relations, Tatyana I. Puchkova
Christian Baptism in the Second Century AD, S. Mark Veldt
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
French Influences on the Historical and Nationalist Thought of Nicolae Balcescu: An Inquiry into the Structure of Romanian Nationalism, Ion Matei Costinescu
Painter and King: Gustav Klimt’s Work at Peles Castle, Lucica Curta
The Lost Treasure of Valencia: Fugitive Muslims from the Kingdom of Valencia 1290-1410, Michael A. Ryan
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Survival Strategies of Black Kalamazooans: Migration, Kinship Networks and Work in a Midwestern Village, 1860-1900, Carson Jeanne Leftwich
Women in The Fuero Real of Alfonso X El Sabio: Thirteenth-Century Law and Society, Michelle Martin de Figueroa
The Spirit of the Great Lakes Native Confederacy, 1805-1813, Timothy D. Willig
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Facets of Courage: Colonel Charles Victor Deland and The American Civil War, Anthony P. Glesner
Muslims and Jews in Thirteenth-Century Valencian Law, Scott M. Gyenes
"Permit Me Then Good Friends to Sing": Reflections, Reactions, and Manipulations in Civil War Songs, JoAnne Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Right of Privacy: Origin and Evolution of a Constitutional Right, Eugene W. Smith
Flexible Joints in the Cult of Saint Cuthbert, Byron Upchurch
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Moral Philosophy of the James Stephen Family: A Study in the History of Ideas, David Arie DeGroot
The Encirclement at Cherkassy-Korsun: An Assessment of the Winners and Losers, Joseph Kent Lutes
A Summary of the Contributions of Four Key African American Female Figures of the Civil Rights Movement, Michelle Margaret Viera
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: Historic Preservation in Victorian Great Britain, Andrea Elizabeth Harger
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
A Doctrine Revised: The Venezuelan Crisis of 1902 and the Roosevelt Corollary, George Arthur Boston
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Gay Masquerade: Male Homosexuals in American Cities, 1910 to 1940, Steven L. Lewis
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
When Gallantry was Commonplace: A History of the Michigan Eleventh Volunteer Infantry January 1863 to September 1864, Leland W. Thornton
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Third Century Urbanization in Northern Britain, Brent L. Coates
The Impeachment and Trial of Secretary of War William Worth Belknap, Duane Edward Holthof
Patent Medicine Town a Social History of Patent Medicines in Marshall, Michigan, Teresa Lou Trupiano
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
The Evangelical High Church: A Moderate Answer to the Oxford Movement, David Wayne Carmicheal
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
A History of Bronson Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1829 to 1940, Carol Knauss
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Early History and Influence of Harvard College’s Hollis Professorship of Divinity (the First Endowed Professorial Chair in America), Russell Vernon Kohr
A Methodology for Documenting the History of Michigan Houses Built between 1830 and 1930, Esther M. Walton
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
An Examination of Certain Factors which Contributed to the Separation of Central America From Spain: 1808-1821, John R. Permesang
The Influence of the Introduction of Heavy Ordnance on the Development of the English Navy in the Early Tudor Period, Kristin MacLeod Tomlin
Charles Langlade in the French and Indian War, Paul M. Trap
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Robert Alfonzo Taft: And the Quest for the Presidency, William Little Hafer
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Ecclesiastics of the Crown under King Edgar: A Prosopographical Study of Bishops and Abbots in Anglo-Saxon England, 959-975, Valerie Catherine Hauch
Regional Fiction as a Source of Michigan History: A Collection of Readings, Larry B. Massie
The Experience of God in the De Contemplando Deo of William of Saint Thierry, Patrick H. Ryan
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Silas Deane: Revolutionary or Profiteer?, Fred Gerard Flegal
The Second Part of the Tractatus De Materia Concilii Generalis of Pierre D'ailly, Patrick Lally
Morality Among Cathar Perfects and Believers in France and Italy, 1100-1300, James Edward Myers
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Bomber Menace, 1917-1933: The Evolution of the First Ultimate Weapon and the Inability to Cope with It, Ingo E. Banse
William Turner: Weltanschauung of an Elizabethan, Dennis J. Clarke