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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Original Intent; Original Dissent, Joan Astridl Lasswell Albrecht

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A Spectral Return: Non-Metaphorical Ghosts, Monsters, And Hauntology, Kit Bauserman

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The Cost Of Curls: Discrimination, Social Stigma, And Identity Oppression Of Black Women Through Their Hair, Sydney Baylor

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Empire Of Fashion: Luxury, Commerce, And Identity In The Viceroyalty Of New Granada, Laura Beltrán-Rubio

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Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’s Room To The Indian Boarding School, Angie Jocelin Leiva

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Mapping The Contemporary American Public Sphere With Habermas, Deleuze, And Soderbergh, Hunter Main

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The American Anthropocene: Spectral Literary Ecologies In Post-1945 Narratives, Zarah Quinn

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Refraction: The Prism Of Cultural Identity And How It Is Impacted By Grief And Storytelling, S. Aanjali Allegakoen

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“So Pious An Institution”: Religion, Slavery, Education, and the Williamsburg Bray School, Nicole Catherine Nioma Brown

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Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity In U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980, Leah Kuragano

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Famine, Trial, War: The Daily Worker during the Great Depression, Henry Hemple Prown

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God's Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media And Mourning In American Evangelicalism, Colleen Kirkland Rodgers

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When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration Of Black Girls’ Multimedia Fantasy Narratives As Sites Of Legacy, Lineage And Creative Freedom, Ravynn KaMia Stringfield

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Have Your Cake: Constructing A Confectionery Vernacular In The Great Depression, Sarah Elisabeth Adams

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Two Sides Of The Same Token: An Examination Of Segregation, Memory, And White Supremacy In Contemporary Church Schools, Vania B. Blaiklock

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Scheherazade At Ground Zero: Muslim Women’s Agency, Identity, And Space In Euro-America From The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition To The Islamic State, Alexandra M. Brandon

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From Ship To Sarcophagus: The USS Arizona As A Navy War Memorial And Active Burial Ground / “A Date Which Will Live In Infamy”: Community Engagement At Pearl Harbor National Memorial And Museum, Shannon L. Bremer

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“I Fixed Up The Trees To Give Them Some New Life:” Queer Desire, Affect, And Ecology In The Work Of Two Lgbtq+ Appalachian Artists/The Wildcrafting Our Queerness Project/The Queer Appalachia Preservation Project, Maxwell Mason Cloe

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Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon

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Women In The Wilderness: An Exploration Of How Women Interacted, Adapted, And Thrived In The American Environment, Elizabeth Rall

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(Dis)Embodied Professionalisms: Doctors & Scientists In U.s. Literature, 1895-1935, Shaun F. Richards

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“All The Work, Without The Workers”: Robotic Labor In The American Imaginary, Khanh Van Ngoc Vo

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Are You Black First Or Deaf First: Binary Thinking, Boundary-Policing, And Discursive Racism Within The American Deaf Community, Micayla Ann Whitmer

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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"Surgical And Rigorous (Yet Always Fun)": Science, Sport, And Community In American Birding, 1950-1980, Matthew Hayden Anthony

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Fabric Makes The Woman: Rural Women And The Politics Of Textile Knowledge, Alison Rose Bazylinski

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For Children Of The Sun Who Deserved Better When Pickaninnies Were Not Enough: The Celebration Of Childhood Within The Brownies' Book, Felicia Bowins

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The Association For The Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities And The Weaponization Of Nostalgia In The Service Of White Identity, Sachi Carlson

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Settler States Of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, And Native Women's Crip Interventions, Jessica Cowing

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Ghosts In The Museum: The Haunting Of Virginia’s Public History, Mariaelena DiBenigno

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Pest-Humanism: Race, Nation, And Sexuality In The Non/Human Imaginary, Lindsay Dealy Garcia

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The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics In Virginia, 1619-1800, Cathleene Betz Hellier

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Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, And Musical Invention, Brian Edward Jones

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Mother Of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism In HBO's Game Of Thrones, Abigail Kahler

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Beyond The Podium: A Critical Analysis Of Three Online Learning Tools, Julia Kott

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Insurgents On The Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, And Literary Dissent On America’s Gulf Coast, Jennifer Nicole Ross

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"I Feel Your Pain": Service-Learning Programs And The Liberal Narrative Of Empathy, Molly Shilo

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality, Jan Huebenthal

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Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Norris Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia, Janine Yorimoto Boldt

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Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel, Frank Anthony Fucile

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“Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference”: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann’s Southern Landscapes, Laura Keller

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“When I Put on My Firespitter Mask”: Jayne Cortez’s (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations, Renee Michelle Kingan

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Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity, Joseph Frank Lawless

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Performative Circulations of St. Martín De Porres in the African Diaspora, James Patrick Padilioni, Jr.

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Producing The Latina Disney Princess, Ashley Sarah Richardson

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Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere, Nabeel Siddiqui

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The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought, Taylor S. Stephens

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Taking it to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.c. Punk, Ashleigh Mae Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Folk into Art: John Fahey, Modernism and the American Folk Revival, Lisa Carpenter

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Material Literacy: Alphabets, Bodies, and Consumer Culture, Wendy Korwin-Pawlowski

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Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Colonial Hawaii, Leah Kuragano

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"I Figured You Were Probably Watching Us": Ex Machina and the Performativity of Lateral Surveillance, Kayla Danielle Meyers

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The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled Detective in American Culture, David Camak Pratt

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Escaping through the Past, Haunted by the Future: Confronting America through Child of God and the Underground Railroad, Zarah Victoria Quinn

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Refining the Desert: The Politics of Wealth, Industrialization, and Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre

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Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Black Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'passing' in Marvel's Black Panther Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel, Incogengro, Ravynn K. Stringfield

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Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889, Amanda Stuckey

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Songsters and Film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory, Ari Marie Weinberg

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Selling Race in America: Ideologies of Labor, Color, and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Advertising Imagery, Meghan Bryant

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Oh Shenandoah! The Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work during Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870, Donna Camille Dodenhoff

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District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington, Seth Feman

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Morbid Love: American Decadence in the 1890s, Nicolette Gable

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Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World, Lindsay Garcia

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"What Would Jesus Do?": Modern Revival in the Marketplace, 1896-2000s., Jennifer L. Hancock

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Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis, Travis Terrell Harris

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The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century, Edward P. Hunt

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Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750-1860, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter

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New South(Ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South, John Barrington Matthews

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Cameras at Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1970, William Brian Piper

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Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas, Apostolos Rofaelas

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Affective Economies of Activism: Reimagining Anti-Lgbtq Hate Crime, Helis Sikk

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Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem, Jenna Simpson

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Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Visual Culture, Lita Tirak

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Uncanny Objects: The Art of Moving and Looking Human, Khanh Van Ngoc Vo

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Between Third Reich and American Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939, Christian Wilbers

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the "New York Ledger", and Sentimental Capitalism., Kathryn Conner Bennett

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The Corporate Person: How U.S Courts Transformed a Legal Phantom into a Powerful Citizen, Zachariah J. DeMeola

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African American Civil Rights Museums: A Study of the R.R Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, Christina S. Draper

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The Black Gothic Imagination: Horror, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship from the Civil Rights Era to the New Millennium., Mikal J. Gaines

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Performing Jane: a cultural history of Jane Austen's fans in America, Sarah G. Glosson

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"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", and the Sound of Resistance, Brian Edward Jones

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Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America, Julia Kaziewicz

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Making the Bronx Move: Hip-Hop Culture and History from the Bronx River Houses to the Parisian Suburbs, 1951-1984., Kevin Waide Kosanovich

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Staging the Asian American in Hong Kong: Examining Transcultural Performances of Asian American Identity in Hong Kong English Language Amateur Theatre Productions of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Yellow Face", Iris Eu Loa Mein

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Understanding "Roadkill" through an Animal Method, Linda Angela Monahan

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The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans., Elizabeth Clark Neidenbach

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Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia., Jackson Norman Sasser

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Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939., Kevin C. Valliant

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance, Benjamin Park anderson

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"Strength for the Journey": Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors, Judith Anne Bledsoe Bailey

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Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment: A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center, Jordan Margaret-May Ecker

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Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906, Zachary Michael Hilpert

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Thoroughly Modern: African American Women's Dress and the Culture of Consumption in Cleveland, Ohio 1890-1940, Deanda Marie Johnson

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'I Get a Kick Out of You': Cinematic Revisions of the History of the African American Cowboy in the American West, Stephanie Anne Maguire

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"Genuine made-in-Americans" : living machines and the technological body in the postwar science fiction imaginary, 1944-1968, Kimberly Lynn Mann

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Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Tyler Norris

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"For How Could We Do without Sugar and Rum?": The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics, James Patrick Padilioni

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Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right, Anna Catharine Rosenkranz

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'The Scar Must Remain': Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series, Anna Murell Thompson

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The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring, Shuting Zeng