This collection includes 12088 University of Montana graduate student theses, dissertations, and professional papers (ETDs) from 1899-present. Use the following links to search discipline-specific ETDs:
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Theses
Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family, Jasmine Rose Zink
Politics and institutionalized change: The failure of regional development planning in northeast Brazil 1961-1964, Daniel Gates Zirker
Effects of instructional set on free-speech samples, Elizabeth Maria Zischka
Site productivity and soil conditions on terraced ponderosa pine stands on the Bitterroot National Forest, Elena J. Zlatnik
Convergent and discriminant validity of the Experiential world inventory, Clarence Joseph Zohn
Touch memories in psychiatric and non-psychiatric populations, Andrea Zojourner
Using knowledge-based neural networks in the prediction of permeability, William K. Zollinger
John Marston and the decline of the Elizabethan tragedy, Frederic Homer Zook
Study of the Union and the Confederate reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation, Robert J. Zorick
Effects of selection harvest and prescribed burning on nitrogen availability in the mineral soil under ponderosa pine, Kris Zouhar
User's directory of outdoor recreational services for the disabled in the northern Rocky Mountain region, Mary Claire Zrinscak
Otis in the summer of love, Eric Zuckerman
No-Fault Insurance: The Answer to Rising Automobile Insurance Costs, Theodore Thomas Zuendt
Characters in the early novels of Mariano Azuela, Lucy Imogene Zuercher
Metropolitan park planning and county government, Edwin F. Zuern
Powder River country, Marianne Zugel
Eyewitness confidence and the impact of expert testimony by a psychologist versus an opposing psychologist, Jonette R. Zulauf
Cultural impact of NAFTA on Mexico, Maitane Zuloaga
A Comparative Analysis between Knowledge and Bear Safety Information Utilization by Day Hikers in Glacier National Park, Phillip Wayne Zumstein
Boundaries| The seventh wave| [Short stories], Ann McGill Zupan
Water Maps| [Poems], Janet Zupan
Attitudes of ninth grade male and female students who participated in the Montana Mathematics and Science Project, Barbara Zuuring
Psychological Safety at Amazon: A CCO Approach, Kathryn K. Zyskowski
Theses - Campus Access Only
Woman in Islam: A Stereotyped Westernized Imagee in Nawal Al Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero", Ahlam Attyya Abulaila
Biomass burning emissions on regional-global scales, Sheryl Kashi Akagi
UNSEALED: A Memoir, Alyssa Witbeck Alexander
There Will Be Waffles!, Christopher Joel Alexander
COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION, Jordan A. Allen
When the wind stops blowing, Sarah Dawn Alling
Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English, Mushtaq Al Rashidany
Badluck Way, Bryce Patrick Chartier Andrews
The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty, Andrea Lea Armstrong
And Other Bodiless Powers, Sarah B. Aronson
The Fourth Estate, Jason Bacaj
Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885-1915, Shawn Patrick Bailey
POCO A POCO, SE VA LEJOS: A COLLECTION OF NOVEL EXCERPTS AND SHORT STORIES, Catalina Mullan Baker
Unsettled: A Memoir, Elizabeth Anne Baker
In the wilderness| A memoir, Kim Barnes
Honor Killings Among Westward-Immigrating Muslim Communities - An Applied Anthropological Approach, Ariel Deborah Barrett
Three wonder stories, Dave Barrett
PETROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND AGE OF EXTENSION IN THE LOST TRAIL PASS DIKE SWARM, SOUTHWEST MONTANA, Whitney Gustin Bausch
Analysis of creative project| Closer to fine, a short story, Adele Myer Beauchene
Gelatwirl, Caren Beilin
American Taghairm, John Coleman Bennett
Essays About Leaving, Sometimes About Arriving, Christopher Benz
Mortality to Eternity: Queer Temporality in Three Twentieth-Century Novels, Cecile Ceuillette Berberat
Spatiotemporal Controls On Hydrologic Exchange Between Hillslopes, Valley Bottoms, And Streams From The Reach To The Watershed Scale, Anna Bergstrom
Does nest size constrain clutch size? A tropical-temperate test, Atilio Luis Biancucci
White Elegies, Daniel Ross Biegelson
Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Western Larch (Larix occidentalis) Forests of Western Montana, Sarah M. Bisbing
Black Hole, Alice Elizabeth Bolin
Surface Tension: Essays on an Evolving Faith, Sydney Jo Bollinger
Old and in the way| An evaluation of Alaska's dams and anadromous fish, Meagan Boltwood
The Golden Guipil: A story of the endangered Maya-Pokomchi and the golden-cheeked warbler in Guatemala, Douglas S. Booth
Connectivity and Spatial Organization of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Idaho, Nathan Jeffery Borg
Magnificent mistakes| A collection of stories, Eric Bosse
REFORESTATION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE REFORESTATION, Christopher Bryant Bradley
Searching for the Real McCoy, Carrie Adams Braman
Assessing the effects of field plot size and stand structure on forest inventory estimates derived from laser altimetry data, Jody Paul Bramel
Examination of the Sensitivity and Specificity of the MMPI-2 and PAI: An analog Study of Brain Injury and Test Effort, Cameron Craig Brewer
Instructions for a burial, Elizabeth Brinsfield
In the Family of Things: Stories About Simple Choices and Radical Change, Grace Charlotte Brogan
The Anatomy and Production of the Short Story, Evanthia Hill Bromiley
Some critical mass| [Short stories], Erin Stewart Brown
A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TRIBAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE PROGRAM IN MONTANA, Heather Allison Brown
Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use, Henry Erikson Bundy
A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists, Ashley Lynn Burch
Implications for Restoration: Effects of Riparian Vegetation and Shade on Temperature Gradients in Lower Gold Creek, Southwest Montana, Ashley Brandyn Burry-Trice
Plums at junction of two rivers| [poems], Heather M. Cahoon
Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy, Margaret Ashley Caldwell
Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues, Clair Owen Canfield
A User Study on 2D Wind Visualization Methods, Chen Cao
All Lit Things Predict Their Own Demise, Caylin Capra-Thomas
The Weight of it all: A Look At Variation of Organ Weights, Jenny E. Cavallari
Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung, Christine Bryanne Chandler
It Was Much More Pleasurable To Be A Cephalopod, Jordan N. Chesnut
Collective Privacy Boundary Turbulence and Facework Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of South Korea and the United States, Min Kyong Cho
Guest house and other stories, Clellan Coe
Six Stories, Tim Coffield
WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS, July Oskar Cole
Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares, Mackenzie Cole
Cultural overview of the archaeological investigations at Scott's Village, south-central Oregon, Kelly Pieper Collman
Montana surround| Essays on land, water, nature, and place, Phil Condon
CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”, Timothy James Cook
The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda, Jason Lee Cooper
Challenge of a new standard for the governmental reporting format, Jennifer J. Cote
Planning| To get through this mess, to make things better, Jerry Covault
Reflections on Water, Kimberly A. Covill
Capitol effect: An inside critique of print media coverage of the 2005 Montana Legislature, Sarah R. Craig
Foxgloves, Molly Gartland Curtis
INTERGENERATIONAL EARNINGS CORRELATIONS IN INDONESIA, Eric Dale
DYSPHAGIA TREATMENT PLANNING: ASSESSING CLINICIANS’ TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MODIFIED BARIUM SWALLOW STUDY REPORTS, Jennifer Dawn Danielson
Big house stories, Kristina Danilchik
RABBIT/RIDES: CONNECTING A CONTINENT BY BIKE, Douglas Augustus Davis
Looking more deeply into the Link between Art and Place within the Salish Tribal Culture of Northwest Montana, Nathan E. Davis
Grizzly West: The Story of the Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Michael Jacob Dax
Islanders, Alida M. dean