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2024
On the Varieties of Religious Experience in Latter-Day Saint Temples, 1836–1940, Jared Gage Bennett
Siwa's Influence on Alexander the Great's Self-Presentation, Luke Boardman
Advertising the West: The History of La Fiesta de Los Vaqueros, Monique Davila
Westward Words: An Exploration of Western Beats and Their Legacy, Brenna Jones
Feathered Cocaine: The Misleading Collective Memory of Operation Falcon, Eric C. Montague
The Community Connections of St. John's Episcopal Church, Connor Murphy
God's Laborers: Missionary Work and Imperialism in the Congo From 1878-1908, Ana Peterson
Dionysus the Barbarian, Deven Salisbury
“Singular and Beautiful City”: Nineteenth Century English Travel Literature and Venice, John Sheehan
Objects of Remembering: Material Culture, Oral Histories, and Historic Sites in Utah's World War II Story, Sara Watkins
2023
By Other Means: The Political and Economic Motivations for the Formation of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 in the United Kingdom, David Cornell
“Whan the Turuf is Thy Tour”: Analyzing Gender Codes of Burial Monuments in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, Shelbie Durrant
It Happened Here: The Civil Rights Movement in Utah, Jace Jones
An Ideal Monarch: The Piety, Masculinity, and Kingship of King Louis IX of France, Tell Joyner
Central American Saints: The Formation and Preservation of Latter-Day Saint Community and Identity in El Salvador and Guatemala, 1960–1992, Hovan T. Lawton
Alexander Wright Mission Journal, 1839-1842. A Transcription With Annotations, Interpretive Introductions, and Reference Material, Diane Livingston
Subduing the Wolf: Utah Pioneer Identity and the War on Wolves Between 1852 and 2020., Mason Lytle
Ars, Virtus, Impetus: Gladiatorial Training and Roman Legionaries, Daniel Porter
An Exhibition of Women's United States Air Force Uniforms, Michelle Robinson
From the Pen of the Secretary: Latter-Day Saint Women and Relief Society Minute Books, 1868–1889, McKall Erin Ruell
Tacitus, Barditus, and Odin's Eleventh Spell, Marie Skinner
Graduate Classes to High School Classrooms: A Collection of Lesson Plans Aimed at Teaching History Graduate Content to High Schoolers, Christopher Taylor
Decolonizing Memory: Erasure and Resurgence of Indigenous History in the Intermountain West, Chase Wilson
2022
The Bray Schools and Black Education in the Early American Republic, Mitchell Allen Fellows
Treason Town: Cities as Traitors During the U.S.-Mexican War, Kelsey Foster
The Life of Socrates: Plato, Xenophon, and the Untapped Potential of the Socratic Problem, Abigail R. Fritz
History Strikes Back! The Portrayal of Greek and Roman History in Hollywood Films and How it Furthers the Discussion of History, Ethan P. Frost
The Latter-Day Saint Home as a Site of Religious Transition, 1890–1930, Cathy Gilmore
The Rio Virgin: A Turbulent River, Mormon Pioneers, and the Creation of a Landscape 1854-1921, Spencer Wayne McConkie
The Working Man's Rendezvous, Tameron Gentry Raines Williams
2021
Cultural Memory and Media: Spanish Republicans and the Spanish Civil War, Stuart Cameron
The Challenge of Hybridity: Mormonism in Mauritius, 1980-2020, Marie Vinnarasi Chintaram
Blessed Are the Poor (in Spirit): Wealth and Poverty in the Writings of the Greek Christian Fathers of the Second Century, Jacob D. Hayden
"He Beheld the Prince of Darkness": Joseph Smith and Diabolism in Early Mormonism 1815-1831, Steven R. Hepworth
Elizabeth Pickett Tolman: One Woman's Experience with Polygamy and Infertility, Brooke R. LeFevre
Telling Her People's Story: Mae Timbimboo Parry, Matriarch of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, 1919-2007, Dean McGuire
Don't Get Me Started About the Water: Foodways and Power in Juvenal's Satire V, Alex Reese
Herennius Philo and the Dilemma of Lexicography, Alec Smitten
2020
Rome, Robes, and Rivers: Land, Water, and Power in the Aniene Valley, Jonah R. Bibo
Youth in World War II, Alyson Griggs
Every Step a Novel: Historical Circumstances and Somali American Identity, Haden Griggs
Aspects of the Becker Brewing and Malting Company of Ogden, Utah: A Study of Labor, Prohibition, and Finance, Jason Neil
Orson Pratt and the Expansion of the Doctrine and Covenants, Brian C. Passantino
Modern Yoga in America, Emily Parkinson Perry
Try the Wine: Food as an Expression of Cultural Identity in Roman Britain, Molly Reininger
2019
Heirs of the Body and Heirs of the Mind: Greek Education and Religious Agency in the English Reformation, Elisabeth Joan Cropper
Racial Conflict in Early Utah: Mormon, Native American and Federal Relations, Raelyn M. Embleton
"Comme Je Trouve:" The Butlers, Earls of Ormond, and Political Power in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1392-1452, Senia S. Foster
More Than Hatchetmen: Chinese Exclusion and Tong Wars in Portland, Oregon, Brenda M. Horrocks
In Defense of the Modern Company Town: Wyoming's Uranium Communities, Zachary R. Larsen
Crypto-Jewish Identity in the Inquisition of Mexico City, Suzanne E. Skinner
Rewriting Eden With the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America, Colby Townsend
Of One Divided Mind: Fundamental Causes of the Nineteenth-Century Brethren Schism, 1850-1880, Daniel S. Weller
History Takes Flight: Evaluating the Cache Valley: An Airminded Community Exhibition, Landon O. Wilkey
2018
Texas in the Southwestern Fur Trade, 1718-1840., J. Ryan Badger
American Proto-Zionism and the "Book of Lehi": Recontextualizing the Rise of Mormonism, Don Bradley
A Complicated Peace: Nationalism and Antisemitism in Interwar Poland, Joanna Dobrowolska
Measuring Rural Revolutionary Mobilization: The Militiamen, Soldiers, and Minutemen of Fauquier County, Virginia 1775 - 1782, Jason Fackrell
Mergers of the Utah Cooperative Association in Post-War Utah, 1940-1970, Emily Gurr Thompson
From Housewives to Protesters: The Story of Mormons for the Equal Rights Amendment, Kelli N. Morrill
Weaving a Religious Community: Monasticism, Authority, and Theology in Gujarat, 1830-1905, Kirtan Patel
Stories Behind the Berlin Wall: Lesson Modules, Nicholas Redmon
Dayananda Saraswati and the Colonial Machines: Vedic Reformation, European Science, and Modernity in Colonial India, David Tauber
Occasional Liturgy in the Henrician Reformation, Joshua C. Wiggins
Two Cases of Intellectual Continuity Between Mental Philosophy and Psychology: William James and Charles Grandison Finney, Zachary Zschaechner
2017
The Politics of Proselytizing: Europe After 1848 and the Development of Mormon Pre-Millennialism, Jacob G. Bury
Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect, Robert M. Call
Murder Becomes Her: Media Representations of Murderous Women in America from 1890-1920, Emily M. Crumpton
Dynamics of War: Culture, Society, Environment, and Pedagogy, Breanne Jacobsen
Nature & Nation: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, Valerie Jacobson
The Historical and Familial Context of Benjamin Franklin Riter, 1859-1925, Ian Keller
The “Mississippi of the West”: Religion, Conservatism, and Racial Politics in Utah, 1960–1978, Jessica Nelson
Innovation in Intelligence: An Analysis of U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Modernization during the Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934, Laurence M. Nelson III
Propagating Perfection: Eugenic Sterilization at the Utah State Training School, 1935 - 1974, Jennifer Rust
2016
The African American Community in Ogden, Utah: Teaching Local History Within a National Framework, Michelle Braeden
The Politics of Proselytizing: Europe after 1848 and the Development of Mormon Pre-Millenialism, Jacob G. Bury
The Art of Devotion: Style, Culture, and Practice in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir, Nina Cavazos
The Role of Man's Best Friend: Assessing the Cultural Liminality of the Canis Lupus Familiars and Its Influence on Human Societies, Julianne L. D'Amico
Cleaning Up Nasty Nac: Vice, Race, and Social Reform in Nacogdoches, Texas, 1870 to 1915, Kayla L. Fox
Europa's Bane Ethnic Conflict and Economics on the Czechoslovak Path From Nationalism to Communism, 1848-1948, Mathias Fuelling
Understanding the Mormon War of 1838, Tabitha Merkley
Continuing Conversations: The Image of Richard Nixon in Political Cartoons, Megan Sanderson
Geologists and the British Raj, 1870-1910, Aja B. Tolman
Away for the Homeland: Why Students Fought to Keep Intermountain Indian School Open, Carol Tonnies
2015
Claiming the Best of Both Worlds: Mixed Heritage Children of the Pacific Northwest Fur Trade and the Formation of Identity, Alanna Cameron Beason
"We Are Entitled To, and We Must Have, Medical Care": San Juan County's Farm Security Administration Medical Plan, 1938-1946, John Howard Brumbaough Jr.
Fascism and Culture in Sicily: The Centennial of Vincenzo Bellini's Death, Olga A. Casaretti
The Mystical Union of Infant Baptism: How Baptists Contributed to the Idea of Race by Their Rejection of Infant Baptism, Isaiah E. Jones
Religious Outsiders and the Catholic Critique of Protestantism in America, Bradley Kime
Hunting for a Witch to Burn: The University of Utah and James E. P. Toman, Joseph Lanning
Woman, Wife, Mother-Saint, Scholar, Patriot: LaVon W. Laursen Papers, A Case Study of Utah Women in Politics, Amber A. Laursen
Flipping the Latin Classroom, Alicia Leitch
To Belong as Citizens: Race and Marriage in Utah, 1880-1920, Scott D. Marianno
Gorongosa: A History of an African Landscape, 1921-2014, Domingos João Muala
Western Duck Sickness: Avian Botulism and Conservation in the Bear River Marsh, 1910-1933, Andrew J. Simek
2014
Restoring the Lost Fishery: An Environmental History of Northern Nevada's Pyramid Lake and Lower Truckee River Fishery, David Bolingbroke