Theses and Dissertations

Anderson, Mark A. "The Hutterite Brethren in South Dakota : a Study in Contrast." Master's thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1996. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F660.H97 A53 1996a.]
Arends, Shirley Fischer. "The Dakota Germans : Their History, Traditions, and Customs." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 1966. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 A7 1984.]
Audenhove, Klaas van. "De Duitse Minderheid in de Sovjetunie Onder Stalin : Gekneld Tussen Volk en Staat : Licentiaatsverhandeling Aangeboden tot het Verkrijgen van de Graad van Licentiaat in de Oosteuropese Talen en Culturen." Master's thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1995. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 A92 1995.]
Barnett, Michael Cole. "The Bruderhof (Society of Brothers) and the Hutterites in Historical Context." Doctoral thesis, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1995. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8129.B63 B37 1995a.]
Baum, Ruth E. (Ruth Elizabeth). "The Ethnohistory of law : the Hutterite Case." Doctoral thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 1977. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8129.H8 B37 1977a.]
Benz, Steven F. "Soviet Nationalities Policies and the Soviet Germans." Master's thesis, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1984. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 B49 1984a.]
Berke, Obert. "Russian Migration to the United States." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota, 1946. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: JV6854 .B47 1946.]
Berti, Peter Robert. "The Contribution of Maternal age, Birth Order, and Birth Iinterval to Variation in the Prevalence of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia." Master's thesis, University of Guelph, 1992. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: RK340 .B47 1992a.]
Braaten, Ann Wiley. "German from Russia Immigrants' Shawls Brought to the U.S.A. : A Material Culture Study." Doctoral thesis, University of Minnesota, 2005. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: TT825 .B72 2005.]
Buchsweiler, Meir. "Volksdeutsche in der Ukraine am Vorabend und Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs, ein Fall Doppelter Loyalität?" Doctoral thesis, University of Tel-Aviv. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 B8315 1984.]
Chapman, Nicola H. "Genome Descent in Isolated Populations." Doctoral thesis, University of Washington, 2001. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: QH447 .C53 2001a.]
Chudaska, Andrea. "Peter Riedemann : Konfessionsbildendes Täufertum im 16. Jahrhundert." Doctoral thesis, Universität, Heidelberg, 2001. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX4946.R54 C49 2003.]
Clark, Jessica. "Germans from Russia on the Northern Plains : an oral history project." Doctoral thesis, North Dakota State University, 2010 . [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: E184.R85 C53 2010]
Dederichs, Teresa. "Weltansicht" : ein Semantisch-Konnotativer Vergleich Zwischen Westdeutschen und Russlanddeutschen Jugendlichen." Doctoral thesis, Georgetown University, 1996. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF3074 .D43 1996a.]
Dobson, Kathleen. "Learning From Each Other : the English Teacher on a Hutterite Colony." Master's thesis, University of Alberta, 1992. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: LA418.A4 D63 1992a.]
Dockter, Shona Ann. "Women's Power : a Cross-Generational Exploration of one German-Russian Farm Family." Master's thesis, North Dakota State University, 1992. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 D6 1992.]
Duke, Steven Taylor. "Educating non-Russians in Late Imperial Russia : an Historical Study of Educational Development in a Multiethnic Setting, 1885-1914." Doctoral thesis, Indiana University, 1999. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: LA832.7 .D84 1999a.]
Effern, Veronika. "Die Sprachliche Integration der russlanddeutschen Aussiedler Unter Berucksichtigung Ihrer Sprach- und Bildungssituation in der SU/GUS." Master's thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen, 1993. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DD78.R85 E37 1993.]
Eisenach, George J. (George John). "Pietism and the Russian Germans in the United States." Doctoral thesis, University of Chicago, 1945. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX4982.U55 E4 2002.]
Frank, Helene. "Zur Sprachlichen Entwicklung der Deutschen Minderheit in Russland und in der Sowjetunion." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Paderborn, 1991. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5876 .F7 1992.]
Froehlich, Joseph. "Eine Vorläufige Untersuchung der Segmentären Phoneme der Slope Mundart." Master's thesis, University of Iowa. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5938.5.N9 F76 1974.]
Funk, Merle J. F. "The Failure of Boosterism : Conscience, Coercion, and the Reluctant Compliance of the German-Russian Communities in Hutchinson County, South Dakota, 1910-1920." Doctoral thesis, University of Colorado, 1994. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F657.H85 F86 1994a.]
Gold, Sarah M. "German-Russians in North Dakota : Their History and Politics." Thesis. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 G65.]
Grams, Grant. "German Emigration to Canada and the Support of its Deutschtum During the Weimar Republic : the Role of the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland and German-Canadian Organisations." Doctoral thesis, Philipps-Universität, Marburg. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F1035.G3 G73 2001.]
Gross, Fred William. "Type and Nature of German Publications in North Dakota." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota, 1934. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PN4885.G3 G76 1984.]
Gross, Leonard. "The Golden Years of the Hutterites : the Witness and Thought of the Communal Moravian Anabaptists During the Walpot era, 1565-1578." Doctoral thesis, University of Basel, 1968. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX4933.C94 G76 1975a.]
Gruber, Leo. "Morphologische Aspekte der Jugendsprache Deutscher aus Russland in Bayreuth." Doctoral thesis, University of Nebraska, 2001. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF3171 .G78 2001a.]
Gushuliak, E. T. (Elizabeth Theresa). "Value Orientations of Hutterian Women in Canada." [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: HQ1164 .G87 1990a.]
Handy-Marchello, Barbara. "Extension Work Among Black Sea Germans in Logan, McIntosh and Emmons Counties, 1933-1940." Master's thesis, North Dakota State University, 1988. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 H36 1988.]
Hartse, Caroline Marie. "On the Colony : Social and Religious Change Among Contemporary Hutterites." Doctoral thesis, University of New Mexico, 1993. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8129.H8 H37 1993a.]
Hausmann, Guido. "Universität und Städtische Gesellschaft in Odessa, 1865-1917 : Soziale und Nationale Selbstorganisation an der Peripherie des Zarenreiches." Thesis. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: LC191.8.U372 O345 1998.]
Haynes, Emma S. "German-Russians on the Volga and in the United States." Thesis. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 H39 1996.]
Heiken, Diane Ellen Bray. "The Hutterites, a Comparative Analysis of Viability." Doctoral thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F1035.H88 H45 1978a.]
Hilkes, Peter. "The Situation of Aussiedler Youths from the Former Republics of the Soviet Union in the Federal Republic of Germany." Master's thesis, Ukrainian Free University, 1996.
Holtzman, Jerome J. "An Inquiry Into the Hutterian German Dialect." Master's thesis, University of South Dakota, 1960. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5359.H87 H64.]
Janssen, Susanne. "Die Deutsche Minderheit in Russland bzw. in der Sowjetunion, 1914-1945 : Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des Magistergrades der Philosophischen Fakultat der Westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat zu Munster (Westf.)." Master's thesis, Westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat, 1990. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 J36 1990.]
Janssen, Susanne. "From the Russian Empire to the American West : Germans in Russia and Russian-Germans in the US, 1871-1928." Master's thesis, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2002. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: E184.R85 J3613 2002.]
Jewsbury, George F. "Russian Administrative Policies Toward Bessarabia, 1806-1828." Doctoral thesis, University of Washington, 1970. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK509.69.R8 J49 1970a.]
Johnson, D. Chris. "The Volga German Dialect of Schoenchen, Kansas." Doctoral thesis, University of Kansas, 1994. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5938.5.K3 J64 1994a.]
Keller, Andreas. "Die Handwerker in St. Petersburg : von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges 1914." Doctoral thesis, Universitat, Freiburg (Breisgau), 2000. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: HD2346.R82 S355 2002.]
Kleinschmidt, Johannes. "Do not Fraternize : die Schwierigen Anfänge Deutsch-Amerikanischer Freundschaft, 1944-1949." Doctoral thesis, Universität Tübingen, 1995. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: E183.8.G3 K5 1997.]
Kloberdanz, Timothy J. "Cross-Makers, German-Russian Folk Specialists of the Great Plains." Doctoral thesis, Indiana University, 1986. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: GR880 .K57 1986.]
Larson, Eric. "The Secular Music of the Ethnic Germans from Russia in Mercer County, North Dakota." Honors thesis, University of Minnesota. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: ML3560.R85 L37 1999.]
Lorenson, Mary Ruth Harris. "Thrown-out" Navel : a Volga German Folk Belief With Implications for Health Care." Master's thesis, University of Northern Colorado, 1986. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: GR489 .L67 1986a.]
Lorenz-Andreasch, Helga. "Mir Sein ja Kolla Teitschverderber" : die Sprache der Schmiedeleut-Hutterer in Manitoba/Kanada." Thesis. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5939 .L67 2004.]
MacGregor, Nora. "The Multigraded Hutterite Classroom." Master's thesis, University of Alberta, 1991. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: LA418.A4 M23 1991a.]
Mann, George Adolf. "Functional Autonomy Among English School Teachers in the Hutterite Colonies of Southern Alberta : a Study of Social Control." Doctoral thesis, University of Colorado, 1974.[Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: LA418.A4 M36 1974a.]
Martens, Helen. "Hutterite Songs, the Origins and Aural Transmission of Their Melodies From the Sixteenth Century." Doctoral thesis, Columbia University, 1968. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: M2131.H87 M37 1968a.]
Mathieu, Barbara Altman. "The Door as Cultural Symbol : a Contrast of Hutterian Community and Middle-Class Society." Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: NA3010 .M38 1987a.]
Melland, John F. (John Francis). "Changes in Hutterite House Types : the Material Expression of the Contradiction Between "Being-on-the-Colony" and "Being-in-the-World." Doctoral thesis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1985. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: NA8208 .M45 1985a.]
Miller, Cynthia Dawn. "A Homeland Once Removed : a Comparison of the Attitudes of Three German-Russian Newspapers in the Midwest With the Bismark Tribune During Times of Crisis Involving Europe and the United States, 1917-1941." Master's thesis, Iowa State University, 1999. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PN4885.G3 M55 1999.]
Morgan, Sheila. "Grainview : a Novel About a Teacher's Eexperience on a Hutterite Colony." Master's thesis, University of Lethbridge, 1997. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PR9199.3.M6433 G73 2002.]
Necker-Eberhardt, Elvire. "The Bessarabian German Dialect in Medicine Hat, Alberta." Doctoral thesis, University of Alberta, 1973. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5939 .E32 1973.]
Neutatz, Dietmar. "Die "Deutsche Frage" im Schwarzmeergebiet und in Wolhynien : Politik, Wirtschaft, Mentalitaten und Alltag im Spannungsfeld von Nationalismus und Modernisierung (1856-1914)." Doctoral thesis, Paris-Lodron-Universitat Salzburg, 1990. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK508.425.G47 N48 1993.]
Obeng-Quaidoo, Isaac. "Hutterite Land Expansion and the Canadian Press." Doctoral thesis, University of Minnesota, 1977. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F1035.H88 O24 1977a.]
O'Brien, Elizabeth. "Population Structure and Genetic Variability Among 44 Hutterite Colonies." Doctoral thesis, Northwestern University, 1986. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: E184.H97 .O27 1986a.]
Olsen, Carolyn Lee. "The Demography of new Colony Formation in a Human Isolate : Analysis and History." Doctoral thesis, University of Michigan, 1976. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8129.H8 O47 1976a.]
Peters, Victor. "Die Hutterischen Brüder, 1528-1992 : die Geschichtliche und Soziale Entwicklung Einer Erfolgreichen Gütergemeinschaft." Doctoral thesis, Universität Göttingen, 1959. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8129.H8 P47 1992.]
Phillips, Donna L. "Ecological Approach in Health Promotion With a Distinct Cultural Group, the Dariusleut Hutterites." Master's thesis, University of Calgary, 1992. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: RA427.8 .P45 1992a.]
Pohl, Jonathan Otto. "Comparative Responses in Exile : the Russian-Germans, Crimean Tatars, and Meskhetian Turks." Master's thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), 2002. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34 P64 2002.]
Riley, Marvin P. "Farmers' Attitudes Toward the Hutterite Brethren: a Study in Intergroup Relations." Doctoral thesis, University of Missouri, 1968. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: HM1106 .R55 1968a.]
Risse, Stephanie. "Die Auswärtige Kulturpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Blick auf die Russlanddeutschen." Master's thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 1993. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DD260.5 .R57 1993.]
Roll, Heike. "Die Fremde Heimat : Interkulturelle Kommunikation Russlanddeutscher Aussiedler und Bundesdeutscher vor dem Hintergrund von Glauben und Religionsgemeinschaft." Master's thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen, 1994. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DD78.R85 R64 1994.]
Sallet, Richard. "Russian-German Settlements in the United States." Thesis. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5938.5.N9 F76 1974.]
Sawatzky, Roland Meyer. "The Control of Social Space in Mennonite Housebarns of Manitoba, 1874-1940." Doctoral thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2005. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: NA8230 .S28 2005.]
Scharf, Claus. "Katharina II. : Deutschland und die Deutschen." Doctoral thesis, Halle Universitat, 1993. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK67.5.G3 S35 1996.]
Scheuerman, Richard D. "The Pacific Northwest's Volga Germans : a Historical and Religious Narrative." Master's thesis, Pacific Lutheran University, 1978. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F855.2.R85 S32 1978a.]
Schlarb, Cornelia. "Tradition im Wandel : Die Evangelisch-Lutherischen Gemeinden in Bessarabien 1814-1940." Doctoral thesis, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, 2006. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8027.5.B47 S35 2007.]
Schmaltz, Eric J. "Reform, "Rebirth," and Regret : the Early Autonomy Movement of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1955-1989." Doctoral thesis, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2002. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 S3453 2002a.]
Schmaltz, Eric J. "Soviet-German "Rehabilitation" and the Ethnic German Nationalist Wiedergeburt in the USSR and CIS, 1987-1995." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota, 1996. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 S347 1993.]
Scholz, Harry G. "The German Colonists of Russia : the Repeal of Russia's law of the Colonists in 1871 and its Effects on the German Colonist Population." Master's thesis, Chapman College, 1969. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DK34.G3 S35 1984.]
Schrag, Martin H. "The European History (1525-1874) of the Swiss Mennonites from Volhynia." Master's thesis, Eastern Theological Seminary, 1956. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8119.E9 S37 1974.]
Serl, Vernon Claude. "Stability and Change in Hutterite Society." Doctoral thesis, University of Oregon, 1964. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8129.H8 S48 1964a.]
Sherman, William C. "Assimilation in a North Dakota German-Russian Community." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota, 1965. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 S54.]
Spiker, Allen L. "A Survey of English Loanword Usage in the Spoken German Language of German-Russians in North Dakota." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF3582.E5 S65.]
Steinhart, Eric Conrad. "Creating killers: The nazification of the Black sea Germans and the Holocaust in Southern Ukraine, 1941-1944." Doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina, 2010.
Stiles, Kathy. "The Experience of the Germans from Russia in Maintaining Their Ethnic Identity in America." Master's thesis, California State University, Bakersfield, 1998. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: E184.R85 S75 1998.]
Theis, Stefanie. "Religiosität von Russlanddeutschen." Doctoral thesis, Universität Marburg, 2003. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: DD78.R87 T54 2006.]
Thompson, William Paul. "Hutterite Community, Artefact ark : an Historical Study of the Architecture and Planning of a Communal Society." Doctoral thesis, Cornell University, Jan., 1977. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: NA8200 .T48 1977a v.1-2.]
Tinderholt, Linda J. "Persistence and the Ethnic Immigrant Community." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota, 1999. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 T56 1999.]
Tock, David. "German Immigration and Adaption to Latin America." Senior thesis, Liberty University, 1994.
Voeller, Joseph B. "The Origin of the German-Russian People and Their Role in North Dakota." Master's thesis, University of North Dakota, 1940. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F645.R85 V63 1984.]
Warkentin, John. "The Mennonite Settlements of Southern Manitoba." Doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, October 1960. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: F1065.M45 W37 2000.]
Willems, Joachim. "Lutheraner und Llutherische Gemeinden in Russland : Eine Empirische Studieüber Religion im Postsowjetischen Kontext." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Hamburg, 2003. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: BX8027 .W55 2005.]
Wipf, Joseph Arnold. "The Phonetics of the Hutterite Dialect." Master's thesis, University of Colorado, 1966. [Available at the GRHC, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota; call number: PF5359.H87 W56.]

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