Graduate Digital Creative Projects
Advisor. JB Bilbrey, “The Obscene Moving Image: An Analysis of the Ohio Board of Film Censorship, 1913-1955.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, December 2019.
Advisor. Nathan Adams, “Sheridan at the Reins: Changing Perceptions of the Cavalry, Sheridan, and Native Americans during the Indian Wars, 1868-1877.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, July 2019.
Co-Advisor (with T. Wood). Rachel Foster, “Creating Nirvana: The Renaissance Gardens of Early Modern England.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, July 2019.
Jacob Klinger, “Ensuring Loyalty: Black Recruitment in Civil War Kentucky,” BSU, May 2019. Digital Component to M.A. thesis (N. Etcheson, Chair).
Co-Advisor (with T. Wood). Anna Kinnen, “A True Guide To Glory: Women, Social Order, and Gender Expectations in Seventeenth-Century English Funeral Sermons.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, May 2018.
Co-Advisor (with S. Stephan). Ashley Purvis, “Changing Places, Trading Faces: Charting the Change of Sarah Hicks Williams from Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, May 2018.
Co-Advisor (with F. Suppe). Hayden Shaw, “Following the Raven Banner.” 6-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, December 2017.
Advisor. Joseph Sweet, “First Punic War: A Geo-Spatial Examination.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, July 2017.
Co-Advisor (with T. Wood). Samantha Greulach, “‘Dozens of Whores, but Not One Single Wife’: Policing Gender in Seventeenth Century Broadside Ballads.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, May 2017.
Co-Advisor (with T. Wood). Lisa Hensell, “Holy Conjuring: Religion and the Creation of the American Witch, 1647-1706.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, July 2016.
Co-Advisor (with J. DeSilva). Emily Rapoza, “Florentine Widows and Property: A Spatial Analysis.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, May 2016.
Margaux Dever, “Interpreting Historic Districts: Using Digital Media Within a Comprehensive Model to Improve Public Appreciation and Support for Historic Districts,” BSU, May 2016. Digital Component to M.A. thesis (M. Heidemann, Chair).
Advisor. Sadie Ritchie, “Prisoners of Memory: Camp Morton, Indiana, 1862-1865.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, May 2015.
Advisor. Ryan Frick, “The Only Alternative, 1968-71: An Underground Newspaper and Its Community.” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, December 2014.
Nathan P. Wuertenberg, “Savage Brothers: US Indian Policies, Identity, and Memory in the American Revolution” BSU, May 2014. Digital Component to M.A. thesis (D. Ingram, Chair).
Advisor. Janna Soeder, “Indian Pictures: Film Portrayals of Native Americans in the Silent Era,” 3-credit CRPR 698: Creative Project, BSU, July 2013.
Undergraduate Digital Senior Research Projects
Advisor. Cassia Stults, “The Great Lakes Logging Industry, 1850-1910: A Story Map.” HIST 440: Senior Research Project, BSU, May 2019.
Advisor. Tony Richter, “Thousand Mile Walk by John Muir: Followings His 1867 Writings.” HIST 440: Senior Research Project, BSU, May 2017.
Advisor. Jessica Fearnow, “Three Shots Were Fired: The Kennedy Assassination within Indiana and the Relationship Between Media and Collective Memory.” HIST 440: Senior Research Project, BSU, May 2014.
Graduate Committees
Chair. Nathan Rivers, M.A. thesis, “Ecological Art: Counterculture Environmentalism in the Arts of the 1960s and 70s,” BSU, December 2019.
Reader. Jacob Klinger, M.A. thesis, “Ensuring Loyalty: Black Recruitment in Civil War Kentucky,” (N. Etcheson, Chair), BSU, May 2019. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Richard Bowman, M.A. thesis, “Striking Balance and Compromise: The Politics of Wilderness Preservation in Alaska,” (A. Alves, Chair), BSU, July 2016.
Reader. Margaux Dever, M.A. thesis, “Interpreting Historic Districts: Using Digital Media Within a Comprehensive Model to Improve Public Appreciation and Support for Historic Districts,” Reader (M. Heidemann, Chair), BSU, May 2016. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Nathan P. Wuertenberg, M.A. thesis, “Savage Brothers: US Indian Policies, Identity, and Memory in the American Revolution” (D. Ingram, Chair), BSU, May 2014. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Brent M. Rogers, “Managing Popular Sovereignty: Federalism and Empire in Utah Territory, 1847-1862,” UNL, August 2013. Digital Component to Ph.D. thesis. [Winner of the 2014 Mormon History Association “Best Dissertation Award”]
Reader. Kaci Nash, “’On our way for the Sunny South, land of Chivalry’: Northern Imperial Attitudes in the Civil War South,” UNL, August 2012. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Trevor Magel, The Political Effect of the Ku Klux Klan in North Dakota,” UNL, December 2011. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Megan Huelman, “Fibers of Function: Women’s Clothing on the Trails West,” UNL, August 2011. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Brian Sarnacki, “A Small City’s Big Scandal: Municipal Corruption, Progressive Reform, and the Grand Rapids, Michigan Water Scandal, 1900-1906,” UNL, August 2011. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Michelle Tiedje, “The People’s Hour and Social Gospel: George Howard Gibson’s Search for an Organization of the Kingdom of God,” UNL, August 2010. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Jason Heppler, “Framing Red Power: The American Indian Movement, the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Politics of Media,” UNL, August 2009. Digital Component to M.A. thesis.
Reader. Tonia Compton, “Proper Women/Propertied Women: Federal Land Laws and Gender Order(s) in the Nineteenth-Century Imperial American West,” UNL, May 2009. Ph.D. thesis.
Reader. Ivan St. John, “The My Lai and My Khe Massacres: Distortion and Representation in American Memory,” UNL, May 2007. M.A. thesis.
Reader. Jason Denzin, “Writing the Nation: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano’s Romantic Vision and Porfirian Development,” UNL, December 2006. M.A. thesis.
Reader. Leslie Working, “Female Activism in Nebraska and the 1881-1882 Impartial Suffrage Amendment Campaign,” UNL, August 2006. M.A. thesis.
Reader. Valerie Daniels, “Selling the North American Indian: The Work of Edward Curtis,” UVa, June 2002. Digital M.A. thesis.
Graduate Directed Readings & Independent Studies
Readings in Military in the 19th-Century American West, BSU, spring 2019
Readings in Postwar American Environmentalism, BSU, summer 2018
Readings in Global Environmental History, BSU, spring 2017
Readings in Global Environmental History, BSU, fall 2016
Readings in Digital History, BSU, spring 2016
Readings in Native Americans and Silent Films, BSU, summer 2013
Readings in Native Americans and Photography, UNL, summer 2011
Readings in Public Memory and Commemoration, UNL, fall 2010
Readings in 19th-Century Mormon History, UNL, summer 2008
Readings in American West, UNL, fall 2007
Readings in Postwar Environmental History, UNL, spring 2006
Readings in Public Memory and Commemoration, UNL, fall 2005
Readings in 20th-Century American West, UNL, spring 2005
Readings in 20th-Century American Agriculture, UVa, spring 2004
Readings in GIS in History and Archaeology, UVa, spring 2004
Courses
Ball State University (2012-present)
HIST 202: American History, 1877 to the Present
HIST/NREM 204: American Environmental History
HIST 318/518: History of the American West
HIST 425/525: Topics in the History of the American West: The Mythic West
HIST 446/546: History in the Digital Age | Spring 2018 Syllabus (.pdf)
HIST 661: Seminar in Digital History | Spring 2019 Syllabus (.pdf)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2004-2012)
HIST 189H: Memory, Memorials and History
HIST 202: America after 1877
HIST 288: Intro to Historical Methods
HIST 346/894: North American Environmental History
HIST 352/852: American West Since 1900
HIST 354/854: The Era of F. D. Roosevelt
HIST 359/894: The Mythic West
HIST 397: History and Digital Media
HIST 470/870: Digital History
HIST 488: The Historian’s Craft
HIST 970: Digital History Seminar
University of Virginia (2001-04)
ANTH/HIUS 229: American Wests
HIUS 271: American Environmental History
HIUS 327: Twentieth-Century American West
HIUS 336: The Mythic West
MDST 354: Media and the Mythic West
MDST 382: History and Digital Media
Arizona State University (1998-2001)
HIS 104: U.S. History from 1865 (online)
HIS 300: American Environmental History
HIS 303: Early American Cultural History
HIS 304: Modern American Cultural History
HIS 358: Twentieth-Century American West
