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2017
The Same Ten People (STPs) of Rockville: Volunteerism, Preservation, and Sense of Community in Small-Town Southern Utah, Tori Edwards
The Magic of the Magic Kingdom: Folklore and Fan Culture in Disneyland, David Giles
Allowing the Untellable to Visit: Investigating Digital Folklore, PTSD and Stigma, Geneva Harline
It's Good Business: Regulation Models in the 1911 Closure of Butte Montanas Red Light District, Anne Marie Johnson
Frame by Frame: Flash Nonfiction in the Comic Form, Shay C. Larsen
Aftermath of An Almost: Exploring the Dialectics of Voice, McKenzie Livingston
Hanging From the Poplar Tree: Kanye West and Racism in Internet Folklore, Magen Olsen
From Eden to Dystopia: An Ecocritical Examination of Emergent Mythologies in Early Los Angeles Literary Texts, Jaquelin Pelzer
Mormons and YouTube, Ryan Reeder
2016
Assimilationist Language in Cherokee Women's Petitions: A Political Call to Reclaim Traditional Cherokee Culture, Jillian Moore Bennion
Scholarship On Robert Burton's The Anatomy Of Melancholy, Matthew Bishop
Masculinities and Christian Metal: A Critical Analysis of August Burns Red Lyrics, Brian W. Bowler
Sufficient for Herself: Women & Silence in Wilkie Collins's Novels, Shannon Branfield
West Point of the West: A History of the Department of Military Science at Utah State University, Camon Davison
The Art of Subjectivity: Understanding Unreliable Narration in Fiction, Terysa Dyer
Quilting in Children's Literature: an Analysis of Stereotypes, Megan Egbert
Fathers and Sons, Garrett Faylor
The Slash Between, Tori Winslow Fica
Considering the Crossroads of Distance Education: The Experiences of Instructors as They Transitioned to Online or Blended Courses, David D. Hoffman
Rhetoric in mormon Female Healing Rituals during the Nineteenth Century, Carrie Ann King Johnson
"Reasonably Bright Girls": Theorizing Women's Agency in Technological Systems of Power, Emily January Petersen
What in a Good Cause Men May Both Dare and Venture, Karen Schwarze
The Bat and the Spider: A Folkloristic Analysis of Comic Book Narratives, Wesley Colin Van de Water
2015
Understanding Myth and Myth as Understanding: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mytho-Logic Narration, Sandra Bartlett Atwood
Killer Fandoms Crime-Tripping & Identity in the True Crime Community, Naomie Barnes
Hanging by the Fingers, Jesse Kay Betts
Unfolding the Hidden Nuances of Agency, Tradition, and Power: A Case Study of Domestic Work, Jillian Bleazard
The Underground Gang: Cyclist Group Identity as Expressed Through Folk Art, Folk Events, Narratives, and Community Spaces, Anna P. Christiansen
Reimagining the Rhetorical Canons for Professional Communication Pedagogy, Jocelin A. Gibson
Propaganda Powers Social Reform: The Visual Rhetoric of Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, and Norman Rockwell, Shelly Stock Halling
Understanding Second-Person Point of View in Fiction, Anastasia L. Hawke
A Painted Void, Kevin Larsen
Those Who See: Emily Dickinsons and May Swensons Poetic Language of Spiritual and Scientific Possibility, Samantha Latham
Dreams End: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy with Critical Introduction, Elizabeth Leavitt
Navigating the Outdoor Recreation Folk Group: A Functional Analysis of the Personal Narrative, Lori Lee
"We Want to Get Down to the Nitty-Gritty": The Modern Hardboiled Detective in the Novella Form, Kendall G. Pack
Through Word of Mouth Alone, Aiya Sakr
Lady Macbeth and Early Modern Dreaming, Michela Schulthies
A Place for the Personal: Autobiographical Literary Criticism Through the Lens of Transformative Learning, Jennifer Scucchi
An Analysis of Hegemony in LDS Discourse on Motherhood, Erin Sorensen
Pairing Poetry with Nonfiction to Teach the Civil Rights Movement: A Unit Plan for High School English Teachers, Andrea Spencer
I No Longer Hear the Wind, Robert Tyson Steele
Flocking to the Fold: Pope Francis De/ReTerritorialization of Catholicism, Eric Stephens
Youll find out here pretty soon I have PTSD Examining how a Vietnam Veteran Copes With Trauma, Matthew L. Stockett
The Legend, The Madman, and the Prophet a Memoir about Fathers and Sons, Erik K. Thalman
2014
Madwoman in the Living Room, Amber Christine Bowden Whitlock
Oral Communication in Genre Theory and Software Development Workplaces, Jason L. Cootey
Tilt, Caitlin Erickson
Urban Pioneers: A Journey Through the Blurred Lines of Authenticity Within Utah's Folk Music Revival, Jennifer J. Haertel
Blackface Shakespeare: Racial and Gender Anxiety on the American Stage, Kristen Hutchings
The Forgotten Fruitway: Folk Perspectives on Fruit Farming on the Providence Bench, 1940-1980, Amy C. Maxwell
"Wires and Lights in a Box": Fahrenheit 451 as a Product of Postwar Anxiety about Television, Christine V. Shell
A Strange Kind of Dying, Christina M. Sitton
Listening to Silence: A Rhetorical Examination of Silence in the Tale Type The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers, Crystal Stephens
Midwife, Young Maiden, and Physician: Image and Authority in Karen Cushman's Female Healers, Angela C. Turnbow
Severed Hands as Symbols of Humanity in Legend and Popular Narratives, Scott White
This Grief I Cannot Hold, MaryAnn Widerburg
The One Man Crew: The Creating and Sustaining of a Master Folk Artist, Heidi Jean Williams
The Relevance of Culture in Politics: The Application of Cultural Studies Using the Strategic Culture Method, Elizabeth G. Wilson
2013
Dams, Roads, and Bridges: (Re)defining Work and Masculinity in American Indian Literature of the Great Plains, 1968-Present, Joshua Tyler Anderson
On Edifice, Joseph D. Bradbury
Transcending the Material Self: Reading Ghosts in Samuel Richardson's Novel Clarissa, Jeffrey G. Howard
Jack London: Landscape, Love, and Place, Kristin Yoshiko Ladd
Life Change Narratives: When The Road Diverges, Bernadene J. Ryan
Park Valley, Utah's Shivaree Tradition: A Rite of Social Acceptance, Rosa Lee Thornley
A Rhetorical Analysis of Strategic Communication in the Amalga Barrens Wetlands Controversy, Laura Vernon
"iDilemmas" and Humanities Education: Redefining Technology Literacy Pedagogy and Practice, Steven Richard Watts
2012
Curriculum Design for an Integrated Language Arts Class at the High School Level Utilizing a Multi-Genre American Studies Approach, Susan K. Biddulph
Magical Realism and the Space Between Spaces, Dallin J. Bundy
Saucers and the Sacred: The Folklore of UFO Narratives, Preston C. Copeland
The Door-to-Door Mormon Pest Control Salesman: A Novel, John Charles Gilmore
Dystopian Literature and the Novella Form as Illustrated Through Side Effects, an Original Novella, Bryan W. Johnson
“It’s Wraylynn – With A W”: Distinctive Mormon Naming Practices, Jennifer R. Mansfield
Developing Global Communication Skills for Technical Communicators in the 21st Century: Researching the Language of Collaboration and Cooperation in the Bologna Process, Diane L. Martinez
Finding the Soul in the Soil: How Welfare Farms of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Create Spiritual Communities, Matthew L. Maughan
Farmer, Miner, Ranger, Writer: Interpreting Class and Work in the Writing of Wendell Berry and Edward Abbey, Tyler Austin Nickl
Why and How to Increase the Amount of Writing in Utah's Schools, Sarah Orme
Prayer, Sacrifice, and Service: Themes in the Mormon Folk Narrative Tradition, Jake D. Vane
"To Taste Her Mystic Bread" or "The Mocking Echo of His Own": Uses of Nature in the Poems of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, Ian R. Weaver
2011
Press Start & Small Things, Brian Mark Brown
Understanding the National Science Foundation CAREER Award Proposal Genre: A Rhetorical, Ethnographic, and System Perspective, David M. Christensen
The Legend of the Almo Massacre: Ostensive Action and the Commodification of Folklore, Jonathan A. Floyd
“Speaking With” the Ravine: Representation and Memory in Five Cultural Productions of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, Karl Germeck
Going Solo with Roald Dahl: Life Rewritten Through Memory, Jeannine Huenemann
Mormon Mommy Blogs: “There’s Gotta Be Some Women Out There Who Feel the Same Way.”, Whitney L. King
Burmese Muslim Refugee Women: Stories of Civil War, Refugee Camps and New Americans, Karen Hunt Lambert
The Shape of Grief: A Generational Legacy of the Vietnam War, Benjamin A. Quick
There Is a Time, Kathryn M. Sirls
2010
The Rhetoric of Space in the Design of Academic Writing Locations, Amanda Nicold Metz Bemer
Hold, Hold, My Heart, Andrew Berthrong
Dancing with Heretics: Essays on Orthodoxy, Questioning and Faith, Darren M. Edwards
Ordinary Spirits in an Extraordinary Town: Finding Identity in Personal Images and Resurrected Memories in Lily Dale, New York, Mary Catherine Gaydos Gabriel
History Steps Off the Page: The Past in the Future, A Case Study of How the Mormon Battalion is Making History Interactive, Allyson Jones
Perilous Pilgrimage: A Lady’s Flight into the Rocky Mountain Wilderness, Jane Koerner
Re-imagining Transnational Identities in Norma Cantú's Canícula and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, Binod Paudyal
That Dame's Got Grit: Selling the Women's Land Army, Pamela Jo Pierce
Can the "Peasant" Speak? Forging Dialogues in a Nineteenth-Century Legend Collection, William Pooley
"To Drink from Places": Uncovering a Rich Way of Life Near the Grand Canyon's North Rim, Melinda Snow Rich