Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Original Intent; Original Dissent, Joan Astridl Lasswell Albrecht
The Cost Of Curls: Discrimination, Social Stigma, And Identity Oppression Of Black Women Through Their Hair, Sydney Baylor
Empire Of Fashion: Luxury, Commerce, And Identity In The Viceroyalty Of New Granada, Laura Beltrán-Rubio
Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’s Room To The Indian Boarding School, Angie Jocelin Leiva
The American Anthropocene: Spectral Literary Ecologies In Post-1945 Narratives, Zarah Quinn
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Refraction: The Prism Of Cultural Identity And How It Is Impacted By Grief And Storytelling, S. Aanjali Allegakoen
“So Pious An Institution”: Religion, Slavery, Education, and the Williamsburg Bray School, Nicole Catherine Nioma Brown
Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity In U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980, Leah Kuragano
Famine, Trial, War: The Daily Worker during the Great Depression, Henry Hemple Prown
God's Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media And Mourning In American Evangelicalism, Colleen Kirkland Rodgers
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
Have Your Cake: Constructing A Confectionery Vernacular In The Great Depression, Sarah Elisabeth Adams
Two Sides Of The Same Token: An Examination Of Segregation, Memory, And White Supremacy In Contemporary Church Schools, Vania B. Blaiklock
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
Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Women In The Wilderness: An Exploration Of How Women Interacted, Adapted, And Thrived In The American Environment, Elizabeth Rall
(Dis)Embodied Professionalisms: Doctors & Scientists In U.s. Literature, 1895-1935, Shaun F. Richards
“All The Work, Without The Workers”: Robotic Labor In The American Imaginary, Khanh Van Ngoc Vo
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
"Surgical And Rigorous (Yet Always Fun)": Science, Sport, And Community In American Birding, 1950-1980, Matthew Hayden Anthony
Fabric Makes The Woman: Rural Women And The Politics Of Textile Knowledge, Alison Rose Bazylinski
For Children Of The Sun Who Deserved Better When Pickaninnies Were Not Enough: The Celebration Of Childhood Within The Brownies' Book, Felicia Bowins
The Association For The Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities And The Weaponization Of Nostalgia In The Service Of White Identity, Sachi Carlson
Settler States Of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, And Native Women's Crip Interventions, Jessica Cowing
Ghosts In The Museum: The Haunting Of Virginia’s Public History, Mariaelena DiBenigno
Pest-Humanism: Race, Nation, And Sexuality In The Non/Human Imaginary, Lindsay Dealy Garcia
The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics In Virginia, 1619-1800, Cathleene Betz Hellier
Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, And Musical Invention, Brian Edward Jones
Mother Of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism In HBO's Game Of Thrones, Abigail Kahler
Beyond The Podium: A Critical Analysis Of Three Online Learning Tools, Julia Kott
Insurgents On The Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, And Literary Dissent On America’s Gulf Coast, Jennifer Nicole Ross
"I Feel Your Pain": Service-Learning Programs And The Liberal Narrative Of Empathy, Molly Shilo
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality, Jan Huebenthal
Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Norris Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia, Janine Yorimoto Boldt
Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel, Frank Anthony Fucile
“Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference”: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann’s Southern Landscapes, Laura Keller
“When I Put on My Firespitter Mask”: Jayne Cortez’s (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations, Renee Michelle Kingan
Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity, Joseph Frank Lawless
Performative Circulations of St. Martín De Porres in the African Diaspora, James Patrick Padilioni, Jr.
Producing The Latina Disney Princess, Ashley Sarah Richardson
Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere, Nabeel Siddiqui
The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought, Taylor S. Stephens
Taking it to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.c. Punk, Ashleigh Mae Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Folk into Art: John Fahey, Modernism and the American Folk Revival, Lisa Carpenter
Material Literacy: Alphabets, Bodies, and Consumer Culture, Wendy Korwin-Pawlowski
Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Colonial Hawaii, Leah Kuragano
"I Figured You Were Probably Watching Us": Ex Machina and the Performativity of Lateral Surveillance, Kayla Danielle Meyers
The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled Detective in American Culture, David Camak Pratt
Escaping through the Past, Haunted by the Future: Confronting America through Child of God and the Underground Railroad, Zarah Victoria Quinn
Refining the Desert: The Politics of Wealth, Industrialization, and Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
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
Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889, Amanda Stuckey
Songsters and Film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory, Ari Marie Weinberg
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Selling Race in America: Ideologies of Labor, Color, and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Advertising Imagery, Meghan Bryant
Oh Shenandoah! The Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work during Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870, Donna Camille Dodenhoff
District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington, Seth Feman
Morbid Love: American Decadence in the 1890s, Nicolette Gable
Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World, Lindsay Garcia
"What Would Jesus Do?": Modern Revival in the Marketplace, 1896-2000s., Jennifer L. Hancock
Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis, Travis Terrell Harris
The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century, Edward P. Hunt
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750-1860, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
New South(Ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South, John Barrington Matthews
Cameras at Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1970, William Brian Piper
Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas, Apostolos Rofaelas
Affective Economies of Activism: Reimagining Anti-Lgbtq Hate Crime, Helis Sikk
Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem, Jenna Simpson
Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Visual Culture, Lita Tirak
Uncanny Objects: The Art of Moving and Looking Human, Khanh Van Ngoc Vo
Between Third Reich and American Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939, Christian Wilbers
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the "New York Ledger", and Sentimental Capitalism., Kathryn Conner Bennett
The Corporate Person: How U.S Courts Transformed a Legal Phantom into a Powerful Citizen, Zachariah J. DeMeola
African American Civil Rights Museums: A Study of the R.R Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, Christina S. Draper
The Black Gothic Imagination: Horror, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship from the Civil Rights Era to the New Millennium., Mikal J. Gaines
Performing Jane: a cultural history of Jane Austen's fans in America, Sarah G. Glosson
"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", and the Sound of Resistance, Brian Edward Jones
Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America, Julia Kaziewicz
Making the Bronx Move: Hip-Hop Culture and History from the Bronx River Houses to the Parisian Suburbs, 1951-1984., Kevin Waide Kosanovich
Understanding "Roadkill" through an Animal Method, Linda Angela Monahan
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
Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia., Jackson Norman Sasser
Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939., Kevin C. Valliant
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance, Benjamin Park anderson
"Strength for the Journey": Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors, Judith Anne Bledsoe Bailey
Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment: A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center, Jordan Margaret-May Ecker
Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906, Zachary Michael Hilpert
Thoroughly Modern: African American Women's Dress and the Culture of Consumption in Cleveland, Ohio 1890-1940, Deanda Marie Johnson
'I Get a Kick Out of You': Cinematic Revisions of the History of the African American Cowboy in the American West, Stephanie Anne Maguire
"Genuine made-in-Americans" : living machines and the technological body in the postwar science fiction imaginary, 1944-1968, Kimberly Lynn Mann
Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Tyler Norris
"For How Could We Do without Sugar and Rum?": The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics, James Patrick Padilioni
Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right, Anna Catharine Rosenkranz
'The Scar Must Remain': Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series, Anna Murell Thompson
The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring, Shuting Zeng
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
