Student Honors Theses


  • Kenzie Burns, “Blood and Belonging: Remembering Massacres of the American West in the Twentieth Century, Mountain Meadows and Sand Creek”

  • Harry Robison, “From Living With the Land to Vacation Timeshares: The Impact of Outdoor Recreation on the United States’s Recognition of Havasupai, Shoshone, and Ute Ancestral Homelands”

  • Moya Stringer, “Mortal Rivers: A case study analysis of Indigenous water sovereignty within the Penobscot Nation and the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, 19th century to Present”

  • Jason Dunn, “Golden Mountains: Pike’s Peak, Western Capitalism, and the Making of the Colorado State 1858-1876”

  • Emilie Ginn, “Abraham Lincoln, the United States, and Mexico: The Implications of Memory in a Continental History”