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Honors Theses from 2024

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Grace Under Pressure: An Aesthetic Study of Cool, Tight Space Vocal Choreography in Televised Motown and Popular R&B Performances from 1960 to 1971, Mary Beth Bauermann

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See Yourself and Do Something About It: The Impacts of Synanon’s Therapeutic Philosophy on Contemporary Practices in the Troubled-Teen Industry, John (Van) Monday

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The Ballad of a Thin Man: The Birth of Rock Criticism Through Bob Dylan and the Press, Elizabeth Paras

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“Resurrecting Petersburg, Virginia: Harnessing Black History, Community Heritage, and Cultural Tourism for the Renewal of an Overlooked City”, Caroline Schneider

Honors Theses from 2023

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Searching for Satan in the Pre-War Devil Blues, Kyle Mahoney

Honors Theses from 2022

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Revolutionizing Gender in One Minute or Less: Informally Theorizing Nonbinary Identity on TikTok, Miranda Huffer

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The Bodies Politic: Sex, History, and the Promise of a Black Queer America, Jonathan Newby

Honors Theses from 2021

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Liberals Under My Bed and other Fairy Tales: Conservative Religious and Political Propaganda in Evangelical Children’s Literature, Rachel Kidd

Honors Theses from 2020

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Wildcrafting Our Queerness: LGBTQ+ Art, Archiving, and Activism in Contemporary Appalachia, Maxwell Cloe

Honors Theses from 2019

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Urban Renewal in the Colonial Capital: Contextualizing the Williamsburg Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Zach Meredith

Honors Theses from 2017

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Fandom, Racism, and the Myth of Diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ashley S. Richardson

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Self-Made Freak: The Exceptionalism of General Tom Thumb, The Celebrity Body, and the American Dream, Megan Sonner

Honors Theses from 2016

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"Yeah, But You Rape Women": Hannibal Buress and the Comedy Community's Role in Shaping Public Opinion of the Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Allegations, Alexandra Granato

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One Direction and the Marketing Machine, Megan Katherine Haney-Claus

Honors Theses from 2015

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Counter to Intelligence: The Glamorization of Espionage in the International Spy Museum, Melanie R. Wiggins

Honors Theses from 2013

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"Obscene Odes on the Windows of the Skull": Deconstructing the Memory of the Howl Trial of 1957, Kayla D. Meyers

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"The Green Book": A Representation of the Black Middle Class and Its Resistance to Jim Crow through Entrepreneurship and Respectability, Meagen Kathleen Monahan

Honors Theses from 2012

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Communal Identity through Cultural Essentialism: The Evolution of the American Anime and Manga Fan Community and the Orientalism of its Conception of Japan, Charles Joseph MacRobie Fliss

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"And They Never Did Find Him": Dialogues of History, Geography, and Fear in Adolescent Legend-Tripping, Stephanie M. Monohan

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"Yeah, My Mom is Milk and My Dad is Granola:" The Depiction of Interracial Relationships and Racial Hybridity in U.S. Visual Culture, Andrew M. Ojeda

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Dancing Through Trauma in Post 9/11 New York, Jacqueline Marie Stykes

Honors Theses from 2011

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Trading Guns for Butter: Foreign Aid and Nuclear Proliferation, Sneha Raghavan

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"To Travel and Write" A Literary Pilgrimage and a Collection of Short Stories, Peter Collins Thomas

Honors Theses from 2009

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Mining the Movie Museum: The Mutoscope Collection at the National Museum of American History, Ryan Lintelman

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Preserving, Displaying, and Insisting on the Dress: Icons, Female Agencies, Institutions, and the Twentieth Century First Lady, Rachel Morris

Honors Theses from 2003

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The Albert Durant Collection: African American Life in the 1940s and 1950s in Williamsburg, Virginia, Daniel Frederick Hodapp

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The Presentation of the History of Childhood in Living History Museums, Katherine Megan Johnson