This collection includes 12288 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 - Campus Access Only
An Exploration of Hope in the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury, Tory Ann Kimpton
In Crumbling Water, Winthrop Emmett Knowlton
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
BORN HERE ALL MY LIFE: A NOVEL, Amelia Morand
Reclamation, Miranda Ruby Morgan
WRITING IN DEVISED THEATRE: PRACTICAL APPROACHES WITH COMPARISONS TO INDIVIDUAL PLAYWRITING PROCESSES, Kate Rebecca Morris
Getting Personal: Collected Essays, Anna Rebecca Mueller
Between the Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert and Louise Line, Heather Ashely Mulliner
Subjective Well-Being and Relative Income in Timor-Leste, Dmitri MurfinSimmons
The Effect of Clinician-Related Variables on Decision-Making in Dysphagia Practice, Melissa Colleen Murphy
VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY, Nicholas Myers
Bassalia, Laurel Nakanishi
Effect of post-exercise environmental temperature on glycogen resynthesis, Michael E. Naperalsky
Suspension of Belief, Yaro Shon Cora Neils
Walking the spiritual path: Its relationship to health and disease and neurofeedback and biofeedback, Jan B. Newman
Mean and Volatility Spillovers in Emission Allowance and Fuel Returns, Patrick Nicholson
Wind energy development in Montana: Beginning a transformation of rural Montana, Yoshiaki Nohara
Fiction Selection, James William Nokes
Pretty pink, baby blue, Paul J. Northway
Socio-Ecological Factors that Impact Sustainable Management of the lake Bosomtwe Basin in Ghana, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Montana’s HIV Prevention Groups for Men Who Have Sex With Men, Patricia Anne O'Brien
James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991, Milena Oganesyan
Growing season, Penny Orwick
Greenland Subglacial Hydrology Model, Meghan K. Oswalt
Testing of a Portuguese Method for Estimating Skeletal Age at Death in Adults Using the Acetabulum on an American Sample, Brian Paul Ouellette
Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World, Dustin Pace
The study of the Private: Eudora Welty's Short Stories and Photography, Mary Elizabeth Painter
In the Light Beyond Dreaming, Robin Sisson Patten
A Restless Imminent Dread, Elizabeth M. Pellegrino
Factors influencing the distribution of late-seral woody species along the upper Missouri River in central Montana, Kali Grace Pennick
An Assessment of Livelihood Security in International Community-based Wildlife Conservation Projects, Monica Antonia Perez-Watkins
Eltopia, Brian Pillion
Watercolor painting and exhibition, Fontella Carleen Popham
Introduction to Web programming with SAS AppDev Studio TM, Frederick E. Pratter
Study of the influence of an internal linguistic model and rote imitation on performance on the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory, Jutta W. Prem
Negative Proof, Kathryn Margherita Puerini
BIOISOSTERES OF AMPA: CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP, TRIDEEP RAJALE
Rescuing the tree-sitter| An environmental novel for young adults, Brianna Carolie Randall
Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks, Cassidy J. Randall
A spatiotemporal analysis of Army base distributions in the contiguous United States from 1800 to 1900, Ben Ravitz
A WORKING RELATIONSHIP: AN ACCOUNT CONCERNING WENDELL BERRY'S CONVERSATIONAL APPROACH TO FARMING, Nicholas Brian Redig
An assessment of factors influencing territory size and the use of hunter surveys for monitoring wolves in Montana, Lindsey Noel Rich
Community, Family and Peer Influences on Alcohol, Marijuana, and Illicit Drug Use of Native American Youth: An Analysis of Protective Factors, Aislinn R. Rioux
Journey of personal transformation| Poetry and prose and reflections and assessment of the project, Ruby Rochetto
PLACE-BASED EDUCATION, FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF WATER SYSTEMS, Meghan Rorick
Lost innocence in the poetry of Garci¸a Lorca, William G. Rose
CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA, Cynthia K Coe Ross
You Thrive Now and Other Stories, Jordan Rossen
Adeno-Associated Mediated Transduction of Sensory Epithelia Within the Guinea Pig Cochlea, Cherokee Rose Lee Rova
"WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING OURSELVES:" CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, SOUTHWEST DENVER AND THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM, 1964-1994, Elizabeth Mary Ryan
Freedom, fear, and the American periphery| The Chippewa and Cree in Montana, 1885-1923, Luke C. Ryan
Flying lessons, Lynn Sainsbury