Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Southern Orientation: Reimagining Asian American Identity and Place in the Global South, Frank Sung Cha
Imagining Saigon: American Interpretations of Saigon in the Twentieth Century, Evan Cordulack
"Every American Should Stand Here Once": Jamestown's 400th Anniversary Commemoration and the Creation of an American Origin Narrative, Elizabeth Howard
"Quick! Do Something Manly!": The Super Bowl as an American Spectacle of Hegemonic Masculinity, Violence, and Nationalism, Jan Huebenthal
"History Written with Lightning": Religion, White Supremacy, and the Rise and Fall of Thomas Dixon, Jr, David Michael Kidd
"You Are Not the Father!": Family, Blood, Race and Maury in America, Robyn Elizabeth Markarian
No Longer Lost at Sea: Black Community Building in the Virginia Tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 Era, Hollis E. Pruitt
The Not-So-Public History of Colonial Williamsburg's Port Resident-Ferrykeepers: Interpreting the Moody Family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781, Angela Maria Scott
"You Can't Say 'No' to a Soldier": Sexual Violence in the United States during World War II, Michaele Katherine Smith
From the Unpolished to the Refined: The Evolution of the Furniture Trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s., Vanessa Darlene Thaxton-Ward
Outlaw Reproduction: Childbearing and the Making of Colonial Virginia, 1634-1785, andrea Kathleen Westcot
"To Draw Pleasure and Instruction": Robert Gilmor, Jr and Collecting the Early Republic, Janine M. Yorimoto
Fixing What Has Been Broken: The United States' Actions in the Aftermath of the Looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 Invasion, Jonathan David Yost
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"A Dollar Book for a Dime!": The Vernacular of Cheapness and the Beadle Dime Handbooks, Sarah Elisabeth Adams
"A Dress of the Right Length to Die In": Mortuary and Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers of the Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle
Gone to the Dogs: Inter-Species Bonds and the Building of Bio-Cultural Capital in America, 1835--Present, Merit Elfi Anglin
Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style and Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson, LaShonda Katrice Barnett
"A Certain Kinship": The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932, Sarah Noble Chasse
The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1842--1932, Wendy Gonaver
Real Talk: Blackness and Whiteness in the Works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder, Jeffreen M. Hayes
The Rise and Fall of the WB: "Dawson's Creek", Intertextuality, and Legitimation, Ambert R. J. P. Hodge
Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930, Meghan Brooke Holder
Reengineering Global Higher Education: American Polytechnics, Transnationalization, and Cultural Configuration., Ryan James McDonald
"What is the Best and Most Typical": Nostalgia, Transgression, and Capitalism at the Virginia State Fair, 1946-1976, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Black Masculinities as Marronage: Claude McKay's Representation of Black Male Subjectivities in Metropolitan Spaces, Jarrett Hugh Brown
"Justice is a Perpetual Struggle": The Public Memory of the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis., Erin Krutko Devlin
To Seek The Good, the True, and Beautiful: White, Greek-Letter Sororities in the U.S. South and the Shaping of American 'Ladyhood,' 1915--1975, Margaret Lynn Freeman
An Interpretive Plan for the Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum, Callie Pettit Hawkins
Shahrazad in the White City: Muslim Women's Agency through Performance at the Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome
Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Race and the Tomboy Narrative in American Literature, Kristen Beth Proehl
A New England State of Mind: Identity and Commodification in "Yankee" Magazine, 1935-1942, andrew Robert Sargent
"What's a Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing about Vampires?": Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Karen Elizabeth Smyth
Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians' Autobiographies, Matthew Daniel Sutton
Strategic Victimization: News Photographs, the Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the Revisualization of America, Margaret Keeton Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Alan Lomax Photographs and the Music of Williamsburg (1959-1960), Peggy Finley Aarlien
The Immigrant, the Native Son, and the Ambassador: The Transnational Travels of "Godzilla", "Speed Racer", and "Akira", Amber Shandling Cohen
Flying under the radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force: The ongoing politics of space and ethnic identity, Ella Maria Diaz
The Search for a New England Character: Change, the Town, and the Wilderness in Timothy Dwight's "Travels in New England and New York", Nicolette Gable
Class Act: Negotiating Art and Market in the Career of Isadora Duncan, Anne Meredith Gittinger
The spectacle of citizenship: Halftones, print media, and constructing Americanness, 1880--1940, Sarah Lucinda Grunder
Between fact and fiction: Writing by American women in a transnational context, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
Buck-horned snakes and possum women: Non-white folkore, antebellum *Southern literature, and interracial cultural exchange, John Douglas Miller
"You have No Boss Here to Work For": Women and Labor in Chesapeake Bay Fishing Communities, Elizabeth Marie O'Grady
Anime in America, Disney in Japan: The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's "Stitch", Nicolette Lucinda Pisha
The American Grotesque: Free-Thought Idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's "Science in Story", Lita M. Tirak
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Fifty gentlemen total strangers: A portrait of the First Continental Congress, Karen Northrop Barzilay
"The Brownies' Book": An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood, Regina Ann Clark
Domestic Music Making in Late Eighteenth-Century Elite Chesapeake Society: The "Elegant Selections" of Shirley Plantation, Sarah Gentry Glosson
Voters in a Foreign Land: Alien Suffrage and Citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926, Alan Kennedy-Shaffer
"Taking it Out!": Jayne Cortez's Collaborations with the Firespitters, Renee Michelle Kingan
Utopian spaces: Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo, Illinois, Sarah Jaggi Lee
The First Thing Out the Window: Race, Radical Feminism, and Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time", Kimberly Lynn Mann
Walk to Freedom: How a Violent Response to the Civil Rights Protest at Alabama's Pettus Bridge Unwillingly Created the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Brian Clement Rainville
Recipe for citizenship: Professionalization and power in World War I dietetics, Kathleen Marie Scott
"Let All Things Be Done Decently and in Order": Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches, Caroline Everard Athey Warner
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Performances of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine, Tova Joanna Johnson
Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware and the Deregulation of Consumer Credit, Carolee Anne Klimchock
Re-Taking it to the Streets: Investigating Hip-Hop's Emergence in the Spaces of Late Capitalism, Kevin Waide Kosanovich
"Goods -- Agreeable to the Association": The Scottish Merchant Trade and Early Tea Boycotts in Virginia, Angelika Ruth Kuettner
You(S) on the Tube: Deconstructing (American) (Cyber) Selves Inscribed in the Diary Blog and Diary Vlog, Ryan James McDonald
Celebrity and the national body: Encounters with the exotic in late nineteenth-century America, Caroline Carpenter Nichols
Blurring Boundaries: The Rorschach Idea in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture, James Edward Rainey
Interpreting "Green" Design in Old Buildings, James Erik Rosenthal
Escaping into the Prison Civil War Round Table, Jackson Norman Sasser
The Friendship Fest: Perfecting Friendship through Transnational Musical Performance, Nancy LeAnne Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The art of the public grovel: Sexual scandal and the rise of public confession, Susan Wise Bauer
More or less than kind: Brothers and sisters in nineteenth-century American literature, Jennifer P. Blanchard
"Indispensably necessary": Cultural brokers on the Georgia frontier, 1733--1765, Lisa Laurel Crutchfield
Harem Fantasies and Music Videos: Contemporary Orientalist Representation, Maya Ayana Johnson
Reevaluating the Carnegie Survey: New Uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive, Sarah Eugenie Reeder
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Breaking with tradition: Slave literacy in early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly
Birthing Washington: Objects, memory, and the creation of a national monument, Seth C. Bruggeman
Pleasure and Peril: Shaping Children's Reading in the Early Twentieth Century, Wendy Korwin
Society of souls: Spirit, friendship, and the antebellum reform imagination, Robert Kent Nelson
You Just Had that Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, and the Lynching of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper
Screening the Revolution: "Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot" as Historic Artifact, History Film, and Hegemonic Struggle, Jenna Anne Simpson
'Like the spider from the rose': Colonial knowledge competition and the origins of non-elite education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s--1820s., James O'Neil Spady
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Blue Notes and Brown Skin: Five African-American Jazzmen and the Music They Produced in Regard to the American Civil Rights Movement, Benjamin Park anderson
"Far out past": Hemingway, manhood, and modernism, Timothy L. Barnard
Against Bullshit: Christopher Hitchens and the Public Intellectual, M. J. Bumb
Science and imagination in Anglo-American children's books, 1760--1855, Sandra Burr
Nathaniel Jocelyn: in the service of art and abolition, Toby Maria Chieffo-Reidway
Consumer Under Fire: The Military Consumer and the Vietnam War, Evan Cordulack
Envisioning Black Childhood: Black Nationalism, Community, and Identity Construction in Black Arts Movement Children's Literature, Meredith Meagan Crawford
Medicating slavery: Motherhood, health care, and cultural practices in the African diaspora, Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Paint by Nation: Thomas Kinkade and the Conversion of American Culture, Seth Alexander Feman
Beating Songs: Blues, Violence, and the Male Body in the Films of Spike Lee., Mikal J. Gaines
English Mineral Exploration in the New World, Lisa L. Heuvel
"More than shelter": Community, identity, and spatial politics in San Francisco public housing, 1938--2000, Amy L. Howard
The United States Army Chaplain as Prophet in the Twenty-First Century: "Is There a Soul of Goodness in Things Evil?", Donald W. Kammer
Judas exposed: Labor spies in the United States, Jennifer D. Luff
The Woman, the Legend, the Power: Fictional Representations of Marie Laveau in Twentieth-Century Literature, Elizabeth Clark Neidenbach
Facing independence: American Revolutionary portraits within the context of British identity, Susan Jensen Rawles
Integrating the Personal and the Political: The Body Politics in "Daughter of Earth", Han Shen
Absconded: Fugitive slaves in the "Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844", Leni Ashmore Sorensen
(Un)conventional coupling: Interracial sex and intimacy in contemporary neo-slave narratives, Colleen Doyle Worrell
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Domestic Brick Architecture in Williamsburg: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston, andrew Craig Barry
Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century, Laura Pass Barry
New Deal Housing on the Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism at Swantown and Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll
