Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Clockmaking Clerics and Ropemaking Lawyers: Mixing Occupational Roles in Early Modern Spain, Aaron Joshua Gregory
Down the Great Wagon Road: The Ironworking Pennybackers of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Sarah E. Thomas
Founding Fathers on Screen: The Changing Relationship between History and Film, Jennifer Lynn Garrott
Ironclad Revolution: The History, Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor, Anna Gibson Holloway
"I Will Commence with My News": Elite Youth Culture and Communities of Knowledge in Early Nineteenth Century Williamsburg, Holly Nicole Stevens
Race News: How Black Reporters and Readers Shaped the Fight for Racial Justice, 1877--1978, Frederick James Carroll
'Taken to Detroit': Shawnee Resistance and the Ohio Valley Captive Trade, 1750-1796, Anna Margaret Cloninger
The Changing Girl: Sex Education and Prescriptions of White Girlhood, Laura M. Ansley
The Death of John Pierce and the Political Culture of the Early Republic, Jennifer Leigh Petrafesa
The Ideal Marriage: Reactions to Marie Stopes' "Married Love", 1918-1935, Shannon E. Goings
The "Voice Of Virginia": WRVA and Conversations of a Modern South., Caroline C. Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell and the Politics of Display in the Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen
Authority and Consent: Politics, Power, and Plunder in Charleston, South Carolina, 1700-1745, Kristen Ann Woytonik
Bondage on the Border: Slaves and Slaveholders in Tazewell County, Virginia, Laura Lee Kerr
Building and Planting: The Material World, Memory, and the Making of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726, Catharine Christie Dann Roeber
"By Measures Taken of Men": Clothing the Classes in William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner
Comparing Terrors: State Terrorism in Revolutionary France and Russia, Anne Cabrié Forsythe
Determining Reliability in Indian Captivity Narratives, Heather Nicole DiAngelis
Eavesdropping on History: Olmstead v U.S and the Emergence of Privacy Jurisprudence during Prohibition, Anna Leslie Krouse
Ellen Churchill Semple and American geography in an era of imperialism., Ellen Elizabeth Adams
For their Maintenance and Education: An Analysis of Children Entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Gardy
From Astoria to Annexation: The Hawaiian Diaspora and the Struggle for Race and Nation in the American Empire, Amanda Lee Heikialoha Savage
Ghent Gayland: A Case Study of the Gay and Lesbian Community and Media of Norfolk, Virginia, Michael Anthony Lusby
Jealous neighbors: Rivalry and alliance among the native communities of Detroit, 1701--1766, andrew Keith Sturtevant
Liberty, Bondage, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law and Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1806--1864, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf
Mobutu and Nyerere, 1960-1979: Trajectories and Creativity in Re-Imagining the Nation, Jonathan Edwards Shaw
National Remedies for National Evils: The Problem of Universal Reform and Race in the American Moral Reform Society, 1835-1841, Kristina Elizabeth Poznan
On the Backs of Horses: The Great Epizootic of 1872, Jeffrey Michael Flanagan
Particular and Purposeful Visions: How the Richmond School of Social Work Engaged the Nation and World from 1917 to 1939, Kelly Finefrock-Creed
Steadfast in their ways: New England colonists, Indian wars, and the persistence of culture, 1675-1715, David Michael Corlett
The "Extraordinary" Case of James Allen: A Study of Gender and Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Maria Dale Booth
The North American Peltry Exchange: A Comparative Look at the Fur Trade in Colonial Virginia and New Netherland, Laura Ann Norbut
The Political Imaginings of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts of the 1710 Slave Conspiracy in Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas
The Wondrous Chain of Providence: Thomas Prince, the Puritan Past, and New England's Future, 1660-1736, Thomas Joseph Gillan
Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem': Identity and Politics in Eighteenth-Century English and Colonial American Theatre, 1752-1776, Abigail Calvert Fine
Towns in Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, and Empire in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
Transpacific Internments: Constructing "Little America" and Dismantling "Little Tokyo", Jack Edward Cohen
Unsung Heroes: Lesbian Activists in the AIDS Epidemic in North Carolina and California, 1981-1989, Maggie Shackelford
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A Blueprint for the Colony: The Virginia Company Charters and the Role of Religion at Jamestown, Sarah Ellen McCartney
A Legacy of Inaction, Robert Gordon Menna
Art, Mystery, and Occupation: Building Culture in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia, Elizabeth Cook
Beyond the Text: Finding Anne Askew, Lindsay Watkins Zurawski
Beyond Words: Nonverbal Communication, Performance, and Acculturation in the Early French-Indian Atlantic (1500--1701), Celine Carayon
Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796, James Corbett David
"Hearty Damnations" and "Ordered Resistance": Protest, Profit, and Power in Colonial Charleston, 1769, Molly FitzGerald Perry
Heresy and Simony: John Wyclif and Jan Hus Compared, April Marie Brinker
Honor, Gender and the Law: Defense Strategies during the Spanish Inquisition, 1526-1532, Katy Iverson
Just Where Do You Think You're Going?: Maternalism and Social Work of the Travelers' Aid Society of Virginia, Kathryn Louise Hill
Keep on keeping on: The NAACP and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia, Brian James Daugherity
Neither United States Citizens Nor British Nationalists: A Postwar Loyalist Trade Diaspora, Justin Clement
The Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies: Albany County, New York:1778-1781, Jade Mara Leszkowicz
The Right of Petition: Cases of Indentured Servants and Society in Colonial Virginia, 1698-1746, Brandon Paul Righi
The Wayward Priest of Atondo: Violence, Vocation, and Religious Reform in a Navarrese Parish, Amanda Lynn Scott
"To Learn the Trade of a Potter": Apprenticeship, Emulation, and Deviance in the Wachovian Tradition, Jessica Lauren Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Agrarian Reform and the Slave System: A Case Study of James Galt's Point of Fork Plantation, 1835-1865, Stephen John Legawiec
Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other, John William McGlashan
"--All United Like Sisters--": Education, Friendship, and the Bonds of Womanhood at Litchfield Female Academy, 1782--1833, Amy E. Whelan
American languages: Indians, ethnology, and the empire for liberty, Sean Patrick Harvey
An Outsider's View: British Travel Writers and Representations of Slavery in South Africa and the West Indies: 1795-1838, Benjamin Joseph Hurwitz
Anthony Burns and the north-south dialogue on slavery, liberty, race, and the American Revolution, Gordon S. Barker
Blood from a Stone: Inuit Captives and English National Destiny, 1576-1580, Seth David Archer
"Dance, Dance Revolution": The Function of Dance in American Politics, 1763-1800, Amy Catherine Green
"For All Men Love to See the Country as Well as to Heare of It": Views of Unsettled Virginia, 1649-1676, Sarah Zella Bowden Page
From Torbay to Cambridge: William III, George Washington, and the use of Propaganda in Revolution, Michael Peter Charles Smith
Guarding the Other Frontier: The Virginia State Navy and its Men, 1775-1783, Margaret Elizabeth Owen
Next to the Man, and Not Forgotten: Gay McDougall and the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-1994, Myra Ann Houser
Patronage and Courtiership in Sixteenth-Century Spain: A Case Study of Fernando de Valdés, Inquisitor-General, Katie Melissa Ross
Sarah's Song: How Folk Music Shattered Slaveholding Ideology in Antebellum Alabama, Charles Allen Wallace
The Image of a Woman's Authority: Representations of Elizabeth I in Portrait and Film, Heather Armstrong McLees-Frazier
The Rise of Modern Richmond and the Fall of Electric Transit, Earl Ferdinand Glock
Toleration and Reform: Virginia's Anglican Clergy, 1770-1776, Stephen M. Volpe
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Accounting for Political Virtue: Consumer Choice and the Non-Consumption Movement in Revolutionary New York City, Melissa Faith Gray
A Second Eden: The Promotion and Perception of Virginia, 1584-1624, Jennifer Lynn Blahnik
A Stranger in the Land?: Reassessing the Political Writings of Gershom Bulkeley, Jeffrey W. Kuckuck
A World in Miniature: James Butcher and the Transformation of African American Politics & Society in Washington, D.C, 1900-1940, Maria Alexandria Kane
Conflict Amid Conversion: Mormon Proselytizing in Russian Finland, 1860-1914, Zachary R. Jones
Forgotten masters: Institutional slavery in Virginia, 1680--1860., Jennifer Bridges Oast
In the pale's shadow: Indians and British forts in eighteenth-century America, Daniel Patrick Ingram
Negotiating the Companionate Ideal: Religion, Emotion, and Power in the Courtships of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
Puzzles of the Past: The Life of Josiah Parker (1751-1810) and the Revolutionary Generation, William Mark Hains
Rise of the "Indian Doctors": Charity Shaw and the Marketing of Indian Medicine, Jason Peter Zieger
The CIA & the cult of secrecy, David Shamus McCarthy
The Drug Trade in Early North America, Laura Elizabeth Passic
The Farthest Post: Fort Astoria, the Fur Trade, and Fortune on the Final Frontier of the Pacific Northwest, Bronwyn M. Fletchall
The Militarization of Agriculture: Cold War, Foreign Aid, and the Expansion of the American Agricultural Welfare System Under President Eisenhower, Alan Herbert Matzner
The Religious Philosophy of Richard M Nixon, Robert Benjamin Abel
The Revolutionary Writings of Mary and Royall Tyler: Marital, Medical, and Political Discourse in an Early-Nineteenth-Century Family, Elizabeth Anne Bond
The shadow of the revolution: South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the evolution of modern American labor relations, John William Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Ambiguous alliances: Native American efforts to preserve independence in the Ohio Valley, 1768-1795, Sharon M. Sauder Muhlfeld
An overlooked dimension of the Korean War: The role of Christianity and American missionaries in the rise of Korean nationalism, anti -colonialism, and eventual civil war, 1884-1953, Kai Yin Allison Haga
"From eager lips came shrill hurrahs": Women, gender, and racial violence in South Carolina, 1865--1900, Kate Fraser Gillin
Indian Woman and Revolutionary Men: Representing the Body Politic in the Satirical Prints of the American Revolution, andrea Kathleen Westcot
"In praise of Bishop Valentine": The creation of modern Valentine's Day in antebellum America, Brian Keith Geiger
"Miraculously Saved": Richmond and the 1811 Theater Fire, Meredith Margaret Henne
Philip Fithian's Private Journals and Personal Journeys: Self-Improvement, Fidelity, and Rebellion, 1766-1776, Edward P. Pompeian
Roses in December: Black life in Hanover County, Virginia during the era of disfranchisement, Jody Lynn Allen
The Bucktrout Funeral Home, a Study of Professionalization and Community Service, Kelly Marie Brennan
The Impact of Paternalism on the Interactions of Women in the Plantation South, Jessica Lynn Walsh
