2012 Faith Colburn, Threshold: A Memoir (Outstanding Thesis in the UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities).
2012 Paul Skinner, Fighting for Their Place: Constructing Masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (Honorable Mention in the UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities
2011 Sandra Anthony, Young Adult novel Inshalla (Outstanding Thesis in the UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities).
2008
Anna Thompson, (Re)Reading Hardy,
(Outstanding Thesis at UNK, MAGS nominee2008
Judy Lorenzen, Let Autumn Come,
(Outstanding Thesis in the UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities)
2007
Jillian Tangeman, Borders
Advocating Agency: A Critical
Examination of Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass and
Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (Outstanding Thesis
at UNK, MAGS nominee)2007 Brittany Svoboda, Virginia Woolf:
Innovations in Biography (Honorable Mention in the UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities)
2006
Ndye Fatou Ba, Mariama Ba's So
Long a Letter: Language Blends and Socio-historical Criticism (Outstanding Thesis
at UNK, MAGS nominee)
2005
Kim Elliott, Readers in the
Fiction of Orhan Pamuk (Outstanding Thesis at UNK, MAGS nominee)
2005 Pam Vap, Nightwriting (Outstanding Thesis in UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities)
2004
Mary M. Dixon, The Way of the
Eucharist (Outstanding Thesis at UNK, MAGS nominee)2004
Wendy Korenek Flesner, The Short
Ball (Honorable Mention in the UNK College of Fine Arts and Humanities)