Ph.D. Students

Nicole Rae Batten

Nicole Batten
Field of Study: Major – American West, Minor – Public History
Advisor: Dr. Susan Johnson/ Dr. Andy Kirk
Working Dissertation Title: “Fallen Neon: Monuments and Memory”
Research Interest: I am interested in researching and studying the social and cultural history of the North American West at the intersection of environmental, labor, community/identity formation and public memory

Neil Dodge

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.

Joshua Coleman

Field of Study: Major – American West, Minor – Public History
Advisor: Dr. William Bauer
Dissertation Title: Jicarilla Apache Project Gasbuggy and The Early Years of Tracking in Indian Country.
Research interest: Indigenous History, 20th Century West, Cold War and Nuclear Colonialism.

Christina M. Lamoureux

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.

Kristen Phipps

Kristen Phipps
Field of Study: Major - American West, Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. Susan Lee Johnson
Dissertation Title: Desert Slavery: How The Old Spanish Trail sustained slavery and coerced labor in the North American West.
Research Interest: Slavery, Indigenous History and North American West.

Debbie Rayner

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

Nicole Batten
Research Interest: Fabian Rebolledo is a non-traditional, first-generation student who hails from Las Vegas, Nevada. He received his Bachelor in the Arts of History from Nevada State College and is pursuing a Ph.D. in History from the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ, in the post-baccalaureate program. His concentration lies in the North American West, focusing specifically on the southwest borderlands, Mexican equestrian culture, and Mexican and Mexican American Identity. His research interests are grounded in identifying and interpreting the cultural traditions rooted in vaquero culture both within Mexico and throughout the American West. He aims to showcase the adaptations and incorporations of charreria in popular American culture and explore how rodeos often ignore this culture in contemporary "American" rodeo events.

Andrew Rogers

Field of Study: Major – American West, Minor – Public History
Research interest: Rural History, Columbian Plateau, Indigenous History and Agriculture.

Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith

Field of Study: North American Culture and Society
Research interest: Disability history and legal history

James Steele

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 "Annie" Delgado

Field of Study: Major - American West (Indigenous), Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. William Bauer
Dissertation Title: Fortifying Kinship: Northern Paiute Children's Kinship and Community Building in Boarding Schools, 1884-1928.
Research Interest: How Indigenous children maintained community in boarding schools.

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.

Marlisha "Katie" Cordell

Field of Study: Major - European History, Minor - U.S. History
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Tusan
Research Interest: International Relations and Diplomatic History.

Christopher Robbins

Field of Study: Major - European History, Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Tusan
Research Interest: Victorian & Edwardian Spiritualism and Spiritualism in the U.S. Role of Women as Mediums.

Masters Students

Rich Gaspers

Field of Study: Major – European History, Minor – Public History
Research Interest: 19th Century European Empire and The Logistics of Empire.

Eric O'Bayley

Field of Study: Major – European History, Minor – Public History
Research Interest: Russian Emigres in Exile and Asians in professional wrestling

Soranat "Sam" Sampattavanija

Field of Study: Major - European History, Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Schauer
Research Interest: Social Construction of Classes within Monarquia Hispanica

Quinn Winner

Field of Study: Major - U.S. History, Minor - Public History
Research Interest: Social History, community bonds, identity in urban environments and labor history

Steven Butler

Steven Butler
Field of Study: Major - U.S. History, Minor - Public History
Advisor: Dr. Cian McMahon
Research Interest: American History, specifically environmental, including policy, activism, climate control and more

Nicole Honold

Field of Study: Major - European History, Minor - Public History
Research Interest: Early Modern English Women as household managers and leaders within the domestic private sphere

Beatriz Avila-Marquez

Beatriz Avila-Marquez

Field of Study: Major - U.S. History, Minor - Public History
Research Interest: Mexico in the late 19th to early 20th Century, Medical History, Foreign Relations between the U.S. and Latin America.