A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Pixelated Domes: Cinematic Code Changes through a Frank Lloyd Wright Lens, William Allen
Beautiful, Terrible Things, Nicole Balsamo
Ruinous Wings, Madison Brake
Rubicon: The Dialectic, Marcos Carrasco Yanez
Catherine the Great and Her Empire in British and American Newspapers, Arlen B. Cordero
Their Bodies Flamboyant: An Exploration of Self Through Figuration and Flower, Gabriel Cortese
The Actor and the Iceberg, Christopher Creane
Catching Up Part I, Richard C. Crepeau
Good News and Bad News, Richard C. Crepeau
Henry Aaron, Richard C. Crepeau
March Madness with a Twist, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Bowl LV, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Madness, Richard C. Crepeau
The Olympics - A Look Back Part One, Richard C. Crepeau
The Trans Issue, Richard C. Crepeau
Tommy LaSorda, Richard C. Crepeau
Liminality of Culture in Studio Art: A Biographical Investigation of a Second Generation Filipino American Experience, Danielle Culibao Powell
Systemic Inequalities for Afro-Brazilians, Teya De Oliveira
Moneyboys, Joshua Deshaies
Artistic Science: An Exploration of Dramaturgy through Inquiry-Based Learning for Youth Artists, Sam DiRosa
Immersion's Relationship to Enjoyment in Gaming, Ronald Ray Eddy
The Language of Personas: Poetic Masks in Confessional and Black Arts Poems, Grecia Espinoza
Sunseekers, Rebecca Fox
Combating Performance Anxiety: Reflections of A Personal Anti-anxiety Plan for Onstage and Filmed Media, Megan Friend
The Ogaden War: An Intersection of Local and Global Powers in the Horn of Africa, Luis Garcia
Paradigmatic Change and Its Effect on the Collection and Cataloging of LGBTQAI+ Literature in the Elementary School Library, Linda Garrison
The Ethos of Vaccine-Related Discussions in Online Public Spaces, Carolyn Glasshoff
An Anthropological Analysis of Ancient, Historic, and Modern Anatolian Cities, Genevieve S. Hall
The Technical World of Warcraft, Derek Hampton
Storm: An Exploration of Home Through Painterly Animation, Kirstin Hardin
Captivating Bubbles: Creating Lasting Children's Stories Using Animation, Rhythm and Life Experience, Ronald Hargrove
How Twitter Exposes Daily Whiteness Practices in Mexico and Argentina, Erika Maribel Heredia
Critical Modding: A Design Framework for Exploring Representation in Games, Kenton Howard
Braving the Discomfort: An Examination of Hate Speech and Racially-Motivated Violence Onstage, and How We Should Approach It, Sarah Hubert
An Actor Auditions, Jessica T. Johnson
Northerners' Perspectives on American Emancipation and the End of Russian Serfdom, Mariana S. Kellis
Bringing Instagram Posts into Being: A Study of FYC Students' Self-Sponsored Posting Practices and Transfer Opportunities, Jessica Kester
Canvas Course Design and the Effects on Faculty Workload and Stress During COVID-19, Christine Kugelmann
Sympathy for the Devil: A Compassionate Approach to Morally Reprehensible Characters in Drama, Amy Livingston
Resurrecting an American Archive: A Mid-20th-Century Case Study of Louise Amory (1892-1979), Barbara A. Marquis
Incongruous Surrealism within Narrative Animated Film, Daniel McCabe
The Spanish Inquisitorial Process in Latin America and Racial Profiling Today: A Comparative Legal Study, Samantha M. Miller
Emotional Availability: A Practice-as-Research Exploration on Acting in Film and Theatre, Janice Munk
The Hidden Secrets of Historical Artistry, Jennifer B. Musser
Inheritance, Kenneth Noguera
Rule-Following, Enculturation, and Normative Identity, Nicholas Odom
"Clothes Make Men": Clothing and the Embodiment of Gender in Virginia, 1750-1775, Rhiannon O'Neil
Hermeneutics of Hate: How Martin Luther's Rhetorical Manipulation of the Greek Bible Led to His Anti-Judaic Treatise On The Jews and Their Lies, Michael Parrish
The Intersection Between Multi-voiced Narratives and First-person Narratives of War Fiction: Epistemology and the Meaning of War, Prashant Patel
Memoria: Re(member)ing How to Heal, Vilma E. Portocarrero
Documenting the Undocumented: Understanding Identity and Displacement Through U.S. Latinx Experiences, Thelma B. Quintanilla
Rules for Living and How I Began to Break Them: The Influence of Creative Practice and Cognitive Dissonance on Personal Growth, Timothy Reid
"There Was Also the Music": A Literary Analysis of Puerto Rican Identity in the Works of Sandra Maria Esteves and Judith Ortiz Cofer, Keyla A. Robles
La Desintegración Moral y la Protección Pasiva de los Patriarcas en Tiempo Muerto y El Tragaluz, Ibis Enid Rodriguez
The Fall of Sir Thomas Wolsey: The Contingent Circumstances and Events That Led to His Demise, Jeremy M. Rodriguez
Chrysalis, Marelize Roets
Perceived Impacts of Collaborative Technology on Grant Writing Teams: Collaboration, Productivity, and Quality of Writing, Joshua Roney
Water Damage, Rebecca Rowell
Authoring Health Literacy in the Everyday, Sarah Rumsey
Effectiveness of Digital Interactive Experiment in Learning Outcomes and Engagement, Matin Salemirad
Crime/Mystery: Reinventing Tropes, Gabrielle Santiago
Corrective Feedback in L2 Pronunciation: The Learner Lens, Elif Saribas
Vergissmeinnicht: An Inderdisciplinary Study of Holocaust Trauma Literature, Medical Experimentation Discourse, and Narratives of Denial, Tiffany Sidders
The Lived Experience of Chronic Pain: On the Contributions of Phenomenology in Understanding Chronic Pain Disorders, Riley C. Smith
The Death of Beowulf: Exploring the Conception, Process, and Lessons of an Original Solo Performance Based on a Classic, Jeffrey Sneed
The "Information Pandemic": Technical Communication and False Information on Social Media in the Age of COVID-19, Mia M. Stephens
Hemingway Drunk: A Study of Prohibition, Medico-Legal Rhetoric, and The Autonomy of Masculinity, Graham P. Studdard
Toward an Arabic Modernism: Politics, Poetics, and the Postcolonial, Alaa Taha
From Screen to Shining Screen: Representations of YouTube as a Democratic Platform for a Community of Authentic Creators, Emily Tarvin
Maritime Lacunae, Miriam S. Taveras
Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections of Disability, Gender, and Mental Health in Modernist Fiction, Sara Thames
For Consumption: Observations of Paint, Food, & Culture, Annette Tojar
Signals as Symbols: Applying Normalization of Deviance to Improve User-Centered Design, Amy Vanschaik
The Role of Placemaking in Universities and Their Surrounding Communities: A Literature Review, Natalie R. Verdiguel
I'll See You in the Morning: Stories, William Walker
Performing Belvile: Developing a Transformative Method, Brian Wiegand
A Third Culture Kid's Quest for Belonging: Ephemeral, Eternal, and the Space in Between, Simona Darshani Wiig
A Literary Analysis of Magic: A Dissection of Medieval Icelandic Literature, Jordan T. Williams
Deportation, Genocide, and Memorial Politics: Remembrance and Memory in Postwar France, 1943-2015, Rachel Williams
Political Fandom and Social Media: A Case Study of the Texas 2018 Senate Race, Rachel Winter
Combat Music, Usability, and Presence in Video Games, Jedidah Wong
Towards a Postdramatic Jazz Aesthetic: Per(form)ance and Its Discontents, Johann Robert Wood
The Sound of Identity: Audios and Hashtags as Nexuses of Practice on TikTok, Lindsey Wright
Analyzing the Self-reported Experiences of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Pre-service Teachers with Listening Comprehension Skills, Akira Yamamoto
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Who Am I, and Why Does it Matter? Reflections of Identity and the Need for Culturally Sustaining Theatre, Bianca Alamo
Just A Number: A Cabaret Exploring the Roles My Age Prevents Me From Playing, Monica Andrews
The Process of Composing FROM HERE: A Contemporary Musical, Jason Bailey
502 - Dr. Isiah Lavender on Afrofuturism and Science Fictional Blackness, Holly Baker
Episode 16: Overcoming Injustice: Why Women's Constitutional Citizenship Still Matters., Holly Baker
Episode 17: A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, Holly Baker
501- Dr. Julian Chambliss on Afrofuturism and the Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
503 - Dr. Kinitra Brooks on Afrofuturism and Recovering the Past, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss
504: Dr. Reynaldo Anderson on Afrofuturism and the Rise of the Black Speculative Tradition, Holly Baker and Julian Chambliss