Year | Student | Department | Dissertation or Thesis Topic | Advisor(s) |
2023 | Rosalind Kichler, Ph.D. | Sociology | Old, Gray, and Gay: Lesbian Aging and Identity | Professor Emily Kazyak |
| Kayla Schmitz, M.A. | Communication Studies | "Don't Put Restrictions on Us": The Dangers of Conservative and Populist Appeals for Abortion Access in Post-Roe America | Professor Kristen Hoerl |
2022 | Isaac Essex, M.A. | English | "Dear Boy" | Professor Stacey Waite |
| Ashley Garcia, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | (Re)Scripting the Black-Activist-Athlete: Remembering the Racialized Politics of Sport in the NFL's Protests During the National Anthem | Professors Ronald Lee and Casey Ryan Kelly |
| Celie J. Knudsen, M.A. | English | Writing Fat: Rejecting the Logics of Anti-Fatness in the Teaching of Writing | Professor Shari Stenberg |
2021 | Trevor M. Haltom, Ph.D. | Sociology | Cover Guys: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Representations of Men's Bodies in Popular Magazines for Men | Professors Kelsy Burke and Kristen Olson |
| Montserrat Fuente‑Camacho, Ph.D. | Modern Languages and Literatures | Repensado la discapacidad en España y Latinoamérica: La producción cultural hispánica de autores/as con diversidad funcional en los siglos XX y XXI | Professor Iker González-Allende |
| Mallory L. Marsh, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | The Feminine Face of Racialized Violence: White Womanhood, White Women, and the Ku Klux Klan | Professor Casey Ryan Kelly |
| Cadyn Alexander, M.A. | Sociology | Twitch.tv and its LGBTQIA+ Tag: A Digital Ethnography Investigating How LGBTQIA+-affirming Video Game Streamers and Viewers Interact and Build LGBTQIA+ Spaces Online | Professor Kelsy Burke |
2020 | Bethany Kraft, M.A. | Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design | | |
| Chelsea Richardson, Ph.D. | Philosophy | Upon the Body: Examining the Relationship Between Race and Ancestry | Professors Jennifer McKitrick and Harry Ide |
| Jennifer Rome, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Exploring Constructions of “Good” Motherhood on Social Media: Navigating Neoliberal Mommy Rhetorics and the Negative Affective Entanglements of Women's Discourses on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram | Professor Casey Ryan Kelly |
| Darcy Wente-Hahn, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Communication Privacy Management in Mixed Orientation Marriages | Professor Dawn O. Braithwaite |
2019 | Katherine Henson, Ph.D. | English | “so long a thrall” | Professor Kwame Dawes |
| Regan Levitte, M.A. | English | "Thanks to 'X' for Beta-ing!”: Fan Fiction Beta Readers in the Writing Center | Professor Debbie Minter |
| Gina Keplinger, M.A. | English, Composition and Rhetoric | Cells: On Teaching the Body (Behind Bars) | Professor Shari Stenberg |
| Keshia McClantoc, M.A. | English | Becoming a Fan: Reinventing, Repurposing, and Resisting First-Year Composition | Professor Stacey Waite |
| Nicole Rudolph, M.A. | Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design | | Professor Claire Nichols |
| Olatz Sanchez-Txabarri, M.A. | Modern Languages and Literature-Spanish | | Professor Iker Gonzalez-Allende |
| Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais, Ph.D. | English, Literary and Cultural Studies | American Writers of Popular Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Class, 1945 to Present | Professor Amelia Montes |
2018 | Aimee Allard, Ph.D. | English | Fashioning Madness: Clothing in American Women's Asylum Narratives, 1925-1965 | Professor Guy Reynolds |
| Erin Bertram, Ph.D. | English (Emphasis on Creative Writing) | It’s Not a Lonely World (a hybrid text memoir) | Professor Stacey Waite |
| Miriam Navas Hernandez, M.A. | Modern Languages and Literatures | | Professor Iker González-Allende |
| Maria Nazos, Ph.D. | English (Emphasis on Creative Writing) | A two-part thesis – “Pulse” and “The Slow Horizon That Breathes” | Professor Grace Bauer |
| Sarah A. Taylor, Ph.D. | Child, Youth & Family Studies | Exploring Adolescent Dating Violence in Rural Communities: A Mixed Methods Study | Professor Yan Ruth Xia |
| Brandi Woodell, Ph.D. | Sociology | Health in Rural Communities: Variation in Resource Utilization by Sexual Orientation and Gender | Professor Emily Kazyak |
2017 | Amber Hadenfeldt, M.A. | English | | Professor Maureen Honey |
| Sarah Walcott, M.A. | Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design | Domestic Interiors: Hand Needlework and the Cult of True Womanhood in 19th Century American Quilts | Professor Michael James |
| Arden Hill, Ph.D. | Creative Writing | Bloodwater Parish | Professor Grace Bauer |
| Kathleen Lacey, Ph.D. | English | Making Black Girlhood Visible in Late Twentieth-Century African American Women's Prose | Professor Maureen Honey |
2016 | Katherine Hunt, Ph.D. | Political Science | Competing for Attention: A Comparative Study of Social Movements and News Media in Abortion Debate | Professor Ari Kohen |
| Catherine Medici-Thiemann, Ph.D. | History | She Governs the Queen: Jane Dudley, Mary Dudley Sidney, and Katherine Dudley Hastings' Political Actions, Agency, and Networks in Tudor England | Professor Carole Levin |
| Julia Moore, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | From Childless by Choice to Mother: Performative and Subversive Negotiations of Race in Relational Communication about (Never) Having Children | Professor Dawn O. Braithwaite |
| Jessica Rivera-Mueller, Ph.D. | English | Cultivating a Learning Stance toward Writing Teacher Inquiry | Professor Shari Stenberg |
| Rachel Schmitz, Ph.D. | Sociology | On the Street and On Campus: A Comparison of Life Course Trajectories among Homeless and College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Young Adults | Professor Kimberly Tyler |
2015 | Jacqueline H. Harris, Ph.D. | English | The Buried Life of the Facts of Life: Female Physical Development in Nineteenth-Century British Coming-of-Age Literature | Professor Laura White |
| Mitchell Hobza, M.A. | English | “I am not your justification for existence”: Mourning, Fascism, Feminism and the Amputation of Mothers and Daughters in Atwood, Ziervogel, and Ozick | Professor Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes |
| Mevi Hova, Ph.D. | English | Redefining the Black Diaspora: Migration, Identity, and Gender Narratives in West African Diasporic Women’s Fiction | Professors Kwakiutl Dreher and Kwame Dawes |
2014 | Lesley Bartlett, Ph.D. | English | Pedagogy in Action: Teaching and Writing as Rhetorical Performance | Professor Shari Stenberg |
| Jaclyn Cruikshank Vogt, Ph.D. | English | Women Who Kill: Late Twentieth-Century American Women Writers Rewriting Mythologies of Violence | Professor Maureen Honey |
| Kris Gandara, Ph.D. | English | If I Were He: Tracing a Female Butch Lineage in American Literature | Professor Amelia Montes |
| Heather Jerónimo, Ph.D. | Modern Languages and Literatures, Spanish | Forming Fam(other)hood: Queer Parenthood in 20th and 21st-Century Spanish Narrative and Film | Professor Iker González-Allende |
| Sarah Jones, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Networking Local-Global Advocacy: A Rhetorical Historiography of the International Women’s Tribune Centre (1972-1986) | Professor Damien Pfister |
| Marianne Kunkel, Ph.D. | English | All the Girls Shout Please | Professor Kwame Dawes |
| Ashley Lawson, Ph.D. | English | The Self-Representing Muse: Autobiographical Productions of Women in Artistic Partnerships | Professor Maureen Honey |
| Allysha Martin, Ph.D. | Modern Languages and Literatures, Spanish | Consuming Women: Cultural Subversion through Consumption in Late Twentieth-Century Women Writers’ Narratives in Latin America | Professor José Eduardo González |
2013 | Jill Allen, Ph.D. | Psychology | The Drive to be Sexy: Belonging Motivation and Optimal Distinctiveness in Women’s Self-Sexualization | Professor Sarah J. Gervais |
| Melissa Beran-Samuelson, Ph.D. | Political Science | In Pursuit of Sustainable Good: Microfinance in India | Professor Patrice McMahon |
| Krista Ferguson, Ph.D. | English | Spilling My Heart Out for You | Professor Jonis Agee |
| Neelee Glasco, M.A. | English | | |
| Brandon Locke, M.A. | History | The Military-Masculinity Complex: Hegemonic Masculinity and the United States Armed Forces, 1940-1963 | Professor Patrick Jones |
| Rachel Schmitz, M.A. | Sociology | Tentative Transitions and Gendered Pathways: Exploring the Revolving Door of Young Adult Homelessness | Professor Kimberly A. Tyler |
| Garbiñe Vidal Torreira, Ph.D. | Modern Languages, Spanish | La Mujer Frente al Espejo: La Representacion de la Edad de la Mujer en Cuentos de Escritoras Españolas del Siglo XXI | Professor Iker González-Allende |
| Brioney Zlomke, M.A. | History | Death Became Them: The Defeminization of the American Death Culture, 1609-1899 | Professor Jeannette Jones |
2012 | Regina Flowers, M.A. | Art History | Material and Motion: Phenomenology and the Early Work of Carolee Schneemann, 1957-1973 | Professor Marissa Vigneault |
| Megan Gannon, Ph.D. | English | Cumberland | Professor Jonis Agee |
| Amber Harris Leichner, Ph.D. | English | “To Bend Without Breaking”: American Women's Authorship and the New Woman, 1900-1935 | Professor Maureen Honey |
| Sinduja Sathiyaseelan, M.A. | English | Not Quite Nirvana: A Work of Fiction | Professor Judith Slater |
| Steven Soebbing, Ph.D. | Music-Vocal Performance | The Portrayal of Male Homoeroticism in Selected Early Classical Operas | Professor William Shomos |
2011 | Kelly Tyrrell, M.A. | Political Science | | |
| Cynthia Williams, Ph.D. | Geography | Levels of Response in Experiential Conceptualizations of Neighborhood: The Potential for Multiple Versions of this Place Construct | Professor David J. Wishart |
2010 | Tamy Burnett, Ph.D. | English | “Just a Girl”: The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995-2007 | Professor Kwakiutl L. Dreher |
| Kittie Grace, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Contesting Sphere Boundaries Online: Private/Technical/Public Discourses in PCOS Discussion Groups | Professor Ronald Lee |
| Rachel Robinson-Keilig, Ph.D. | Educational Psychology | An Investigation of Interpersonal Disruptions and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Mental Health Therapists | Professor Michael Scheel |
2009 | Lyndie Christensen, M.A. | Sociology | Help-seeking Outcomes of Subfecund Women: Medical Solution and/or Spiritual Coping | |
| Jessykah Barron, M.S. | Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication | | |
| Morgan Beal, M.A. | Sociology | The Street Environment of Homeless Young Adults: Consequences for Physical and Sexual Victimization | |
| Shireen Ghorbani, M.A. | Communication Studies | | |
| Beth Ribarsky, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | “I Don’t Kiss on the First Date”: Symbolic Convergence Through Women’s Ritualistic Watching of Reality-Dating Television | Professors Dawn O. Braithwaite; Jody K. Kellas |
| Christine Rittenour, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Communication and Shared Family Identity in Mother-in-law/Daughter-in-law Relationships: Implications for Relational Outcomes and Future Family Functioning | Professor Jordan Soliz |
| Laura Roost, M.A. | Political Science | Women’s Rights v. Citizenship Rights: Do Women's Rights Act as Trumps? | |
2008 | Amanda Cue, M.A. | Family Science | | |
| Whitney Douglas, Ph.D. | English | Becoming Feminists: Emotional Literacy and the Shaping of Identity in Feminist Communities | Professor Amy Goodburn |
| Cassandra LeClair-Underberg, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Communicatively Coping with Miscarriage: The Impact of Emotional Support and Narrative Coherence on Women’s Individual and Relational Well-Being | Professor Jody Koenig Kellas |
| Annabel Tapia Marin, M.A. | Family Science | | |
2007 | HarmoniJoie Noel, M.A. | Sociology | A Mixed Methods Approach to Gendered Self-protective Perceptions and Behaviors | |
| Jessica Rivera, M.A. | English | In Conversation: A Study of Female English Majors Writing in Multiple Contexts | |
| Christine Stewart-Nuñez, Ph.D. | English | Syllables Rising | Professors Hilda Raz; Barbara DiBernard |
2006 | Karla Bergen, Ph.D. | Communication Studies | Women’s Narratives About Commuter Marriage: How Women in Commuter Marriages Account For and Communicatively Negotiate Identities with Members of their Social Networks | Professor Dawn O. Braithwaite |
| Rachel Brown, M.A. | Sociology | TAMPAX: The Fun Tampon | |
| Maureen Gallagher, M.A. | Modern Languages and Literature, German | Herrin im Hause: Gender and German Cookbooks, 1900-1945 | |
| Aaron Peeks, Ph.D. | Sociology | The Sexual Experiences of Heterosexual College Males: Examining Components of Sexual Aggression | Professors Helen Moore; Hugh Whitt |
2005 | Amber Harris Leichner, M.A. | English | | Professor Maureen Honey |
2003 | Rebecca Buller, Ph.D. | Historical and Cultural Geography | Intersections of place, time, and entertainment in rural Nebraska in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | Professor David J. Wishart |