Honors Theses from 2024
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
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
The Ballad of a Thin Man: The Birth of Rock Criticism Through Bob Dylan and the Press, Elizabeth Paras
“Resurrecting Petersburg, Virginia: Harnessing Black History, Community Heritage, and Cultural Tourism for the Renewal of an Overlooked City”, Caroline Schneider
Honors Theses from 2023
Searching for Satan in the Pre-War Devil Blues, Kyle Mahoney
Honors Theses from 2022
Revolutionizing Gender in One Minute or Less: Informally Theorizing Nonbinary Identity on TikTok, Miranda Huffer
The Bodies Politic: Sex, History, and the Promise of a Black Queer America, Jonathan Newby
Honors Theses from 2021
Honors Theses from 2020
Wildcrafting Our Queerness: LGBTQ+ Art, Archiving, and Activism in Contemporary Appalachia, Maxwell Cloe
Honors Theses from 2019
Urban Renewal in the Colonial Capital: Contextualizing the Williamsburg Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Zach Meredith
Honors Theses from 2017
Fandom, Racism, and the Myth of Diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ashley S. Richardson
Self-Made Freak: The Exceptionalism of General Tom Thumb, The Celebrity Body, and the American Dream, Megan Sonner
Honors Theses from 2016
"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
One Direction and the Marketing Machine, Megan Katherine Haney-Claus
Honors Theses from 2015
Counter to Intelligence: The Glamorization of Espionage in the International Spy Museum, Melanie R. Wiggins
Honors Theses from 2013
"Obscene Odes on the Windows of the Skull": Deconstructing the Memory of the Howl Trial of 1957, Kayla D. Meyers
"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
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
"And They Never Did Find Him": Dialogues of History, Geography, and Fear in Adolescent Legend-Tripping, Stephanie M. Monohan
"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
Dancing Through Trauma in Post 9/11 New York, Jacqueline Marie Stykes
Honors Theses from 2011
Trading Guns for Butter: Foreign Aid and Nuclear Proliferation, Sneha Raghavan
"To Travel and Write" A Literary Pilgrimage and a Collection of Short Stories, Peter Collins Thomas
Honors Theses from 2009
Mining the Movie Museum: The Mutoscope Collection at the National Museum of American History, Ryan Lintelman
Preserving, Displaying, and Insisting on the Dress: Icons, Female Agencies, Institutions, and the Twentieth Century First Lady, Rachel Morris
Honors Theses from 2003
The Albert Durant Collection: African American Life in the 1940s and 1950s in Williamsburg, Virginia, Daniel Frederick Hodapp
The Presentation of the History of Childhood in Living History Museums, Katherine Megan Johnson
