This collection includes 12138 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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Chignik Summer, Peter Gurche
An Examination of Missoula Citizens' Perceptions of Local Law Enforcement, Leila M. Haack
Fire Finder: Life as a Lookout in the Northern Rockies, Austin Gregory Hagwood
Journey north| Hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, Adrienne Hall
Historical archaeology and the Garnet Mining Camp| 1865--1912, Daniel S. Hall
Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture, Jennifer Hamilton
Erosion, Lauren Kearns Hamlin
Making of foreign correspondents in Asia: Who they are and where they are going, Timothy Lee Hanson
Complete guide to women's strength training, Joe Harlan
Impacts of Industrial Development Upon Indigenous Farming and Grazing Traditions in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, James Robert Harper
Ragged Coast: Stories from the Easternmost Edge, Siobhan Justine Harrity
Soil Properties and Plant Community Productivity Mediate the Population Level Consequences of Rodent Seed Predation, Ryan James Hegstad
Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh, Matthew Henry
AND THE MACHINE CONTINUES WITHOUT PAUSE, Mark Hernberg
An Experiential Perspective on the Buddhist Not-Self: Implications for Western Psychology, Christian Herwitz
The Theme of rest in the works of Saint Augustine, Thomas J. Hesse
Beyond the Prow, Michael Hicks
In Situ Measurements and Modeling Used to Constrain Heat Transfer in the Western Greenland Ice Sheet, Benjamin H. Hills
Like Skipping Stones, Stacia Lynn Hill
Under the Orchard - Novel Excerpt, Madison Rose Hinrichs
On the day you were born: Family legacies created by tradition, Diane Marie Holden
Most hours| [Poems], Anne Holub
Issues in information technology, Bill Hook
At home and in transit, Lizabeth Houchin
DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE ACADEMIC AND EMPLOYMENT EXPECTATIONS OF GRADUATE ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINERS, Christine D. Howard
Food for Thought on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation: The Political Ecology Behind Food Security, Penny D. Hudson
"We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable": Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893, Dylan Fredric Huisken
Mein, Diane R. Hunt
Giving the Ghost, William Hutchinson
Sugarsnap, Liana J. Imam
Eagle Creek Site (24PA301)| A prehistoric archaeological site near Gardiner, Montana, Janet A. Jackman
WHILE GLACIERS SLEPT, JERILYNN EMILY JACKSON
The Light Outside: Stories and a Novella, Roland Jackson
A Feasibility study for a credit analysis consulting business for small independently owned banks, Kenneth L. Jansa
The Loss of Play in Organized Youth Sports, Audrey Lea Jensen
Controls on the Spatial-temporal distribution of soil moisture under snow dominated conditions in a naturally vegetated, sub-alpine mountain catchment, Adam Collier Johnson
Habitat influences on avian diversity and reproductive success in western aspen forests, Amy B. Johnson
Rattling the chain, Ann LaRee Johnson
Yugoslavia| An unstable federation, Kendal D. Johnson
In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kira Stacey Jones
A Comparison of Lexical Inferencing Skills in Third-, Fourth-, and Fifth-Grade Students, Noelle Angeline Jones
Modeling the potential impacts of climate change on streamflow variability in the North Fork of Elk Creek Experimental Watershed, West-Central, Montana, Katie Marie Jorgensen
Rules for Talking, Joanna Lee Keilp
Quiet People, Abigail Hope Keller
An Environmental history of the Rocky Mountain Front, David W. Keller M.D.
Frank Bird Linderman Collection| A study in historic material culture, Billie G. Kelly
Revisiting the Ladle House Site: A Starch Granule Analysis of Ground Stone Artifacts from 5MT3873, Cortez, Colorado, Kathryn Marie Kemp
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Essays on Purpose and Perpetuity and to a Lesser Extent Gospel Music, Recycling, Bikes, Life, Death and Things Found in Alleys, Brian Lukas Kevin
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE OCTOBER 8, 2005 KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE: ASSESSING POST-SEISMIC LANDSLIDING PROCESSES BETWEEN 2005 AND 2010, Shah F. Khan
Blackfoot Ceremony Through the Power of Song, Kevin Dale Kicking Woman
Montana's environmental place-based writers, Annie Probst Kilgour
An Exploration of Hope in the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury, Tory Ann Kimpton
Examination and mapping of the Southern Nez Perce Trail in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Bitterroot National Forest, Idaho using the Global Positioning Satellite System, Michael Howard Koeppen
Falling in Yellowstone: Stories from the Summer Season, Lauren L. Koshere
Sag-backed barns, Carol Anne Kramer
Energy Facility Siting Legislation in the 1977 Montana House of Representatives, Gail Kuntz
Searching for a Place to Land, Carrie Ruth Laben
Wallace Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven": A Form of Farewell, Brenda Y. Lamb
Medicine| [short stories], Michael Lancaster
RIVER HOUSE, Sarahlee Lawrence
Fractals| [poems], Romy LeClaire
Sorting Yard, Lauren Diana Leslie
Pimping & sampling the biosphere| Stories from The Hodad papers, Ari D. LeVaux
Voices hinged| A triptych of reflections on farming and ranching in the Bitterroot, Kisha Lewellyn
MOVING TOWARD UNCERTAINTY: TRAUMA AND COMMEMORATION IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE AND COLUM MCCANN’S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, Meghan Patrice Lewis
An Assessment of Quality of Life among Hepatitis B Virus Carriers in China, Ruliang Liao
The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish, Bret Gene Linford
Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice, Faye Lingarajan
The Role of Personality in Predicting Problematic Substance Use Among Sexual Minorities, Nicholas Alexander Livingston
Occupational Therapists: A Study of Managing Multiple Identities, Katherine Elise Lloyd
RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135), Blair Elizabeth Logan
Cougar foraging ecology: new insights from intensive field monitoring and GPS collars, Blake Lowrey
Assessing the Feasibility of Mobile Mindfulness Application Use Among Active Duty Service Members and Veterans, Brandy Lumpkin
Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness, Merrilyne Lundahl
Forecasting the Transport and Fate of Pharmaceuticals in Coarse Grained Aquifers, Tabetha Nicole Lynch
IMPORTANCE OF SLOW EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN OFFSPRING AND ADULT IMMUNE FUNCTION, Ania Aleksandra Majewska
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act: The Role of the Quality of the Environment Language in Multiple Use, Ron W. Malecki
The Normal Girl, Kaylen Mallard
TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life, Genevieve Jessop Marsh
Citizen Participation in a Montana Land Use Debate: A Case Study of the Proposed Bitterroot Resort, Diane Lisa Matthews
Peace Jumpers, Mark Matthews
Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence, Rachel May
EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE, Katy Lynn McAlary
Big Horn Medicine Wheel| Source of power and conflict, Kelly P. McDonald
Every Clear Day So Far, Edward Mooney McFadden
Effects of Overstory Retention and Understory Vegetation on Small Tree Height Growth in the Inland Northwest, Ryan Partrick McHugh
Mystery mines| A history of mines and mining towns in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, Katherine Karole McKalip
Split Rock Sky, Jason McMackin
Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South, Catherine Meeks
Fertile Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith Practices as Care for the Earth, Peter William Metcalf
Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works, Kyndra Elizabeth Meusel
Black Leaves, Nathaniel Ian Miller
Directions To My Place, Nathaniel Ian Miller
History and Archaeology of the Rosebud Battlefield June 17, 1876, Thomas Andrew Milter
Stories on the Fox| Human improvements of nature on a Wisconsin River, Nicolaas J. Mink
Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana, Sarah Lynn Moesser
Close Correspondences, Near Transmissions, Catherine Venable Moore
Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations, Johnathan Randall Moore
Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia, Nancy Marie Moore
DO CASH TRANSFERS IMPACT MIGRATION? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PROCAMPO AND PROGRESA ON SHORT-TERM MIGRATION IN MEXICO, Rosemary Jan Moore