THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF LISTS of dissertations begun in the July 1970 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly. The dissertations listed here were selected from Digital Dissertations, an on-line version of Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, MI); all of the following dissertations were completed in 2005. Sarah Fox and Adam Luke are editorial fellows at the Western Historical Quarterly and graduate students in history at Utah State University.
Agriculture, Ranching, and Rural Life
Berry, Michelle Kathleen, "Cow Talk: Ecology, Culture, and Power in the Intermountain West Range Cattle Industry, 1945–1965," University of Arizona, 2005. AAT 3190613.
Loosbrock, Richard D., "Living with the Octopus: Life, Work, and Community in a Western Railroad Town," University of New Mexico, 2005. AAT 3177095.
Stores, Chaun A., "African American Farmers Tilling for Congressional Attention: Exploring the Agenda Status of Agricultural Support Policy and the Hopeful Permeations of Civil Rights (1940–1998)," West Virginia University, 2005. AAT 3191253.
Strathman, Theodore Andrew, "'Dream of a Big City': Water Politics and San Diego County Growth, 1910–1947," University of California, San Diego, 2005. AAT 3169320.
Biography
Aley, Ginette M., "Westward Expansion, John Tipton, and the Emergence of the American Midwest, 1800–1839," Iowa State University, 2005. AAT 3172197.
Dewar, David Paton, "George Morgan's American Life, 1743–1810," University of Kansas, 2005. AAT 3185149.
Johnson, Tekla (Agbala) Ali, "An Intellectual and Political Biography of Nebraska State Senator Ernest Chambers: Activist, Statesman, and Humanist. Part I. 1937–1988," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005. AAT 3176787.
Mangun, Kimberley Ann, "Beatrice Morrow Cannady and 'The Advocate': Building and Defending Oregon's African American Community, 1912–1933," University of Oregon, 2005. AAT 3181108.
Parker, Cynthia Jean, "Architecture and Utopia: Cornelia Brierly and the Taliesin Fellowship," Northern Arizona University, 2005. AAT 3189067.
Rapp, Anne Barbara, "A Marginalized Voice for Racial Justice, Charlotta Bass and Oppositional Politics, 1914–1960," University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005. AAT 3174386.
Sutton, Matthew Avery, "Aimee Semple McPherson and the Remaking of American Faith, Politics, and Culture," University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005. AAT 3178751.
Business and Economics
Dukert, Joseph M., "Creation and Evolution of North America's Gas and Electricity Regime: A Dynamic Example of Interdependence," Johns Hopkins University, 2005. AAT 3155721.
Kurtz, Matthew Andrew, "Inscribing a Rural Economy in Alaska, 1938–1972," University of Kentucky, 2005. AAT 3162943.
Murphy, Kevin Michael, "Economics of Style: The Business Practices of American Artists and the Structure of the Market, 1850–1910," University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005. AAT 3190438.
Rustici, Thomas Carl, "The Economic Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 and the Beginning of the Great Depression," George Mason University, 2005. AAT 3164263.
Community and Urban
Agee, Christopher Lowen-Engel, "The Streets of San Francisco: Blacks, Beats, Homosexuals, and the San Francisco Police Department, 1950–1968," University of California, Berkeley, 2005. AAT 3190796.
Erickson, David James, "Community Capitalism: How Housing Advocates, the Private Business Sector, and Government Forged New Low-Income Housing Policy, 1964–1996," University of California, Berkeley, 2005. AAT 3187029.
Hitch, Neal Vernon, "Between City and Suburb: The Near Urban Neighborhood, Technology, and the Commodification of the American House, 1914–1934," Ohio State University, 2005. AAT 3192871.
Howard, Amy Lynne, "'More than Shelter': Community, Identity, and Spatial Politics in San Francisco Public Housing, 1938–2000," The College of William and Mary, 2005. AAT 3172892.
Environment
Booker, Matthew Morse, "Real Estate and Refuge: An Environmental History of San Francisco Bay's Tidal Wetlands, 1846–1972," Stanford University, 2005. AAT 3171753.
Corbin, Devin DeWayne, "The Work of Belonging: Agricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Restorationism in United States Environmental Literature," University of Minnesota, 2005. AAT 3167671.
Gruber, Laura Katherine, "Unstable Geographies: Context, Representation, and Ideology in American Western Writing, 1885–1927," Washington State University, 2005. AAT 3184142.
Kaye, Roger W., "The Campaign to Establish a Last Great Wilderness: The Arctic National Wildlife Range," University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005. AAT 3167010.
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