The Graduate School recognized the outstanding dissertation and William Preston Master’s Thesis award winners. Paige Whitlock, Education Leadership, was recognized with the Social Sciences, Business, Education, and Humanities Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Principal Leadership in Building a Culture of Disciplinary Literacy.” 

John Legg, History, received the William Preston Society Outstanding Thesis Award for Social Sciences, Business, Education, and Humanities for “Unforgetting the Dakota 38: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Resurgence, and the Competing Narratives of the U.S.–Dakota War, 1862–2012.”