A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Exploring a Three-Dimensional Narrative Medium: The Theme Park as "De Sprookjessprokkelaar," The Gatherer and Teller of Stories, Carissa Baker
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
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
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
Jindo, Iljeen Jo
The Resonance and Residue of the First African American Newspaper: How Freedom's Journal Created Space in the Early 19th Century, Valerie Kasper
What Remains, Michael Leavitt
When Coquis Sing: Introducing Young Audiences to Death and Bereavement Through An Original Play, Michelle LoRicco
E.A.I. Anxiety: Technopanic and Post-Human Potential, Zachary Mandell
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
Emergent Narrative: Stories of Play, Playing with Stories, Eric Murnane
Differing Perspectives: Positive Accounts of the Down to the Countryside Movement, Michael Nettina
Life, Death, and Awakening: As Seen in Reflections of Nature, Diane Parks
Neither Teacher nor Scholar: Identity and Agency in a Graduate Teacher's Life, Caitlin Pierson
Nothing Buried Stays Buried, Stephanie Porven
Exploration of Teaching EL Students Using the Arts with the Focus on Theatre Arts, Carinita Quintero
Constituting Rhetorical Agency in a Feminist Discursive Space, Ella Raynor
The American Black Body: Materials,Symbols, and Representations from a Perceived African American, Christopher Santos
Touching the Unreal: The Definition, Narrative Strategies, and Aesthetics of 3D Cartoon Narratives., Nathan Snow
Whatever Happened to Blackwater RD.?: A Visual Documentary Concerning Achievement in the Face of Failure, Michael Stephenson
Structural Inclusion Tools for Theatre Teaching Artists, Leah Thomas
Sanford, DeBary Hall and the New South Movement in Central Florida, Sarah Thorncroft
Red Tide and Other Stories, Heather Vazquez
Small Nothings, Leah Washburn
Audience Engagement in Theatre for Young Audiences: Teaching Artistry to Cultivate Tomorrow's Theatre-Goers, Julie Woods-Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dialectics of Microbudget Cinema, Milos Ajdinovic
When Our Cities Hollowed, Hana Al-Harastani
Because You Are Beautiful and Dead, Yvonne Amey
Agents of Change: Producing the Palpable from the Intangible through the Human Experience, Chealsea Anagnoson
Ok, Ladies, Now Let's Get Information: Recognizing Moments of Rhetorical Identification in Beyonce's Digital Activism, Garrett Arban
Moving Water, Alexandra Arend
Los Heroes y Minerva en la Narracion del Libro de Caballerias Cristalian de Espana de Beatriz Bernal, Lorena Ascencio
Heavy Hit Me, Shauna Basques
The Sleepless Ouroboros, Grant Bohl
The Communicative Value of EMR Education: Medical Students' Perceptions of Introductions to EMRs, Justiss Burry
Design and Production of an Episodic Online Animation: Cairns of Apeiron, Andrew Cadieux
Playing with Usability: Why Technical Communicators Should Examine Mobile Games, Alexandra Cata
Natural Disasters, Rebecca Cobb
Rhetoric of Imagery: Gendering and Consumption Throughout Interwar American Advertisment, Natalie Delgado
Creating a Digital Exhibit on the Colonial Fur Trade in Florida: A Public History / Digital History Project, Benjamin DiBiase
Images of Nostalgia: An Exploration of the Creation of Recollection Through Visual Media, Allyson Dickerson
Pioneer of Self: An Intimate Retrospective, Juliet Diienno
Everyday Monsters: Stories, Brian Druckenmiller
Rebirth of the Renaissance Man: Creating Actor Agency through Ensemble Theatre, Kody Grassett
83 Orange Peels, Klara Hammoud
Living with Marie: Dramatherapy in the Creation of Performable Theatre, Madelyn James
Analysis of Dialog Surrounding Animal Testing in Vaccine Research, Natalie Johnson
Indivim-kara: An Exploration of Ego and the Archetypes in Art, Jared Justice
Modern Arcana, Kaitlin Kolhoff
Understanding the Dynamics of Peer Review and Its Impact on Revision, Julie Kopp
Nam June Paik and Avant-Garde as Pedagogy: Promoting Student Engagement and Interdisciplinary Thinking in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom, Marci Mazzarotto
Planting Seeds: Life Stories of Awakening Self-Awareness, Aixa Mendez
Hippieland: Bohemian Space and Countercultural Place in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood, Kevin Mercer
Grace Hopper and the Marvelous Machine: Lessons for Modern Technical Communicators from the Mark I ASCC Manual, Jessica Meyr
A Place in the Sunshine State : Community, Preservation, and the Parliament House, Erin Montgomery
Some Girls, Sabrina Napolitano
Tracing Literacy Practices of Multilingual Writing Tutors, Somaily Nieves
From Dude to Dad: A Study on Prenatal Fatherhood and its Representation in Theatre, Michael Nilsson
The Modern Church Communicates: Rhetoric and Hypertext in Church Website Design, Edward Palmer
Medieval Ingenuity in Fourteenth Century English Milling in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Northumberland Counties, Brett Pelham
Digital Dissonance: Horror Cultures in the Age of Convergent Technologies, Daniel Powell
Meeting Student, Instructor, and Institutional Expectations in Online Writing Courses, Emily Proulx
School Has a Bad Storyline: Gamification in Educational Environments, Irene L. Pynn
The Frequency of the Twelve Verb Tenses in History Papers Written by University Native Writers, Bushra Qahtani
(In)Tangible Things, Ryan Skaryd
Only the End: A Collection of Connected Short Stories, Lucy Sneeringer
Blood Moon, Brendan Stephens
Communism's Futures: Intelligentsia Imaginations in the Writings of the Strugatsky Brothers, Elizabeth Tammaro
Women in White: my journey into color, Madison Tarbox
Synaesthetics, Samantha Turner
On Digital Doctrine: The Mediatization of Religious Culture, Celina Yebba
Noise Thinks the Anthropocene: An Experiment in Noise Poetics, Aaron Zwintscher
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Frequency of The Twelve Verb Tenses in Academic Papers Written by Native Speakers, Uthman Alzuhairy
Hunting Down Pigs, Anna-Lisa Astudillo
Identifying the Most Common Errors in Saudi University Students' Writing: Does the Prompt Matter?, Amal Barzanji
The Mothers: An Exploration of Memory and Secondary Knowledge, Taylor Battle
Don't Let the World Rot: Anarchism, Hardcore Music, and Counterculture, Pearson Bolt
Comrades In Arms?: Russian & Muslim Soldiers In The Red Army During World War II, Daniel Bradfield
By Book and School: The Politics of Educational Reform in France and Algeria during the Early Third Republic, Michael Brooks
The Actor Process: Playing Multiple Characters, Danielle Brown
Marriage and Other Trouble, Benjamin Buckingham
Though I Know the River is Dry, Victoria Campbell
Can Best Practices in Writing Instruction and Standardized Testing Coexist?, Karen Cannavino
From Ashes To Ashé: Memorializing Traumatic Events Through Participatory Digital Archives, Patricia Carlton
Mutable Means: An Exploration of Communication and Identity Through Visual and Verbal Deconstruction, Reina Castellanos