A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Making Our Voices Heard: Power and Citizenship in Central Florida's Black Communities, Gramond McPherson
The Heralds of the Dawn: A History of the Motion Picture Industry in the State of Florida, 1908-2019, David Morton
The OSI and the Nazis: America's Struggle to Expel Nazi War Criminals and Their Allies Decades After the Second World War, Evan S. Murray
CME Church in the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Brandon Nightingale
Obi Nwakanma United States, 2016, Obi Nwakanma and Kathleen Hohenleitner
Borrowing Time: The Classical Tradition in the Poetic Thoeries of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Nicholas Odom
Hearing the Voices of the Deserters: Activist Critical Making in Electronic Literature, Laura Okkema
'A Room of Their Own': Heritage Tourism and the Challenging of Heteropatriarchal Masculinity in Scottish National Narratives, Carys O'Neill
Black Feminist Articulations of Race & Gender Within the Horror Film Genre, Katherine M. Ortiz
The Natural Exile: A Study Of Twenty-First Century Cuban-American Narratives Focusing On The Elderly's Plight, Jasmine Parson
LATCHKEY: A Memoir in Essays, Nicole C. Pendleton
Explaining the 1096 Massacres in the Context of the First Crusade, Sam Pynes
The Poems You Don't Own, Emma Reinhardt
Formacion de la Conciencia Identitaria Cubana Como via a la Independencia del Colonialismo Espanol en el Epistolario de Felix Varela Morales (1823-1850), Fidel Rodriguez
El Silencio Literario Como Artificio Narrativo en Pedro Paramo de Juan Rulfo, Florilde Rodriguez
Concerning the Perceptive Gaze: The Impact of Vision Theories on Late Nineteenth-Century Victorian Literature, Lindsay Rushworth
Identity and Second Language Acquisition: Adult Puerto Rican Migrants Living in the United States, Marcio Rubens Soares Gomes
The Suburban Nightmare: A Study of Atmosphere, Mood and Emotion, Ericka Sobrack
Trauma, Thomas Sokolowski
'Let Me Lock It Up': A Rhetorical Exploration of Identity and an Emergent Counterpublic Within the YouTube Beauty Community, Rachel Street
Open World Translation: Localizing Japanese Video Games for a Globalizing World, Emily Suvannasankha
Assisted Living: Stories, Donovan Swift
The Migration of Indians to Eastern Africa: A Case Study of the Ismaili Community, 1866-1966, Azizeddin Tejpar
Civil War Memory and the Preservation of the Olustee Battlefield, Steven Trelstad
Legends of the Fabricated Wild: An Experimental Representation of Natural Landscapes through the Utilization of Analog Film Techniques, Nicholas Twardus
Collective Nobility: Spinoza and the Politics of Emotion, Ethan K. Uhlig
Designosaurs: Technological Evolution and De-Extinction Through an Advancing Medium, Sean Vanzyl
Fanfiction Reviews and Academic Literacy: Potential Impacts and Implications, Regina Weiler
The Ideal King: Brian Boru and the Medieval European Concept of Kingship, Kody Whittington
Exploration of Life and Decay in Technological Civilization, Mauro Wieser
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Exploring a Three-Dimensional Narrative Medium: The Theme Park as "De Sprookjessprokkelaar," The Gatherer and Teller of Stories, Carissa Baker
Episode 10: Lift Every Voice and Sing: An African Diasporan Interpretation, Holly Baker
Episode 11: Reconsidering the Reconstruction Era, Holly Baker
Episode 12: Regional, National, and Global Perspectives on the Reconstruction Era, Holly Baker
Episode 13: A Jewish Response to Jesus: Engaging the Gospels, Holly Baker
Episode 7: Tuskegee Archives and Digitization, Holly Baker
Episode 8: A Tribute to Dr. Simon Barton, Holly Baker
Episode 9: Modern Distortions of the Medieval Crusades, Holly Baker
301 - Dr. Julian Chambliss, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
302 - Dr. Grant Cornwell, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
303 - Dr. Scot French and Gramond McPherson, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
304 - Dr. Walter Greason, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
Storms Named After People, Sarah E. Ballard
The Neighborhood & Cat Eyes: Stories, Brad Barth
Learning Spaces are WAC: Investigating How Classroom Space Design Influences Student Disciplinary Identities, Landon Berry
The First Florida Cavalry (US): Union Enlistment in the Civil War's Southern Periphery, Tyler Campbell
'No Home Here': Female Space and the Modernist Aesthetic in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Julianna N. Cherinka
Boitawl: Soil, Lost and Left, Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Championship Weekend, Richard C. Crepeau
Donald Hall and Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau
Dysfunction at USA Gymnastics, Richard C. Crepeau
NFL Cheerleaders, Richard C. Crepeau
OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATING PART I, Richard C. Crepeau
The Constant Crisis, Richard C. Crepeau
The Dangerous Twitter-Verse, Richard C. Crepeau
The Nasser Case, Richard C. Crepeau
The National Champion, Richard C. Crepeau
The New Minnesota, Richard C. Crepeau
The NFL's New Rule, Richard C. Crepeau
The U.S. Open (Correction), Richard C. Crepeau
The Winter Olympics Approach, Richard C. Crepeau
The World Cup, Richard C. Crepeau
Tiger Woods, Richard C. Crepeau
Winter Olympics Part 2, Richard C. Crepeau
Winter Olympics Part 3, Richard C. Crepeau
Deconstruction of the Romantic Comedy in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Mary E. Crivelli
Using Hashtags to Disambiguate Aboutness in Social Media Discourse: A Case Study of #OrlandoStrong, Nicholas DeArmas
Seeing Living Things: Observations of Figures From the Outside In, Forrest Deblois
Celebrities, Fans, and Queering Gender Norms: A Critical Examination of Lady Gaga's, Nicki Minaj's, and Fans' Use of Instagram, Brandy Dieterle
The Tragic City: Black Rebellion and the Struggle for Freedom in Miami, 1945-1990, Porsha Dossie
Gee, Officer Krupke: An Actor's Casebook, Eric Eichenlaub
Broken Toys, Robin Eliot
Momentum, Moment, Epiphany: The Psychological Intersection of Motion Picture, the Still Frame, and Three-Dimensional Form, Mark Gerstein
House vs. Home: Defining Place Through Identity, Ryan Gleason
Esther Reed's Political Sentiments and Rhetoric During the Revolutionary War, Kennedy Harkins
Bursting the Filter Bubble: Information Literacy and Questions of Valuation, Navigation, and Control in a Digital Landscape, Komysha Hassan
The Prestigious and the Predatory: Helping Online Students Navigate Open Education Source in a World of "Fake News", Kathleen Hohenleitner PhD, James Campbell PhD, and John Raible MA
Jindo, Iljeen Jo
Transitioning Counter-Stories: Black Student Accounts of Transitioning to College-Level Writing, Jamila M. Kareem
The Resonance and Residue of the First African American Newspaper: How Freedom's Journal Created Space in the Early 19th Century, Valerie Kasper
The Power of Play: Creating A Theatre for the Very Young Experience, Maria Katsadouros
What Remains, Michael Leavitt
Leviathan: Ontogeny of Salvation, Faren L. LeJeune
When Coquis Sing: Introducing Young Audiences to Death and Bereavement Through An Original Play, Michelle LoRicco
Golden Years, Sienna Malik
E.A.I. Anxiety: Technopanic and Post-Human Potential, Zachary Mandell
Counter Clockwise Culture Shock, Matthew Mercer
Digital Citizenship Tools for Cause-Based Campaigns: A Broadened Spectrum of Social Media Engagement and Participation-Scale Methodology, Jennifer Miller
Rewriting Patriarchal Norms in Academia: Invitational Rhetoric in a Crowdsourced Survey, Rachel Molko
Unificación: The Things That Bind Us, Kaylani E. Muriel
Emergent Narrative: Stories of Play, Playing with Stories, Eric Murnane
Differing Perspectives: Positive Accounts of the Down to the Countryside Movement, Michael Nettina
Reimagining Composition One as a Course in Storytelling Across Disciplines Using New Media, Angel O'Keeffe
Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939, James Padgett
Life, Death, and Awakening: As Seen in Reflections of Nature, Diane Parks
Amidst a Bottled Word: Poetry & Prose, Carlos J. Peralta