A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
From the Temple to the Synagogue: Exploring Changes in Judaism After the Fall of the Second Temple, Adam Cohen
How Change Started to Come: Examining Rhythm and Blues and Southern Identity, Jennifer Davis
Performing Feminism: Boy Gets Girl During the #MeToo Movement, Amanda Dayton
The Storm, Kara Delemeester
The Knitting Witch, Katherine Ervin
Local Community Influences on Interpretation at Historical Sites and Museums, Jason FitzGerald
Waking Up White: The Search For Black Happiness, Jason Gregory
Central Florida School Districts' Responses to Hispanic Growth, 1980-2010, Kendra Hazen
Power to the People: Responsible Facilitation in Co-Creative Story-Making, Amanda Hill
Changing the Channel: A Study of Agenda, Immersion and Social Commentary in Art, Nicholas Kalemba
Measuring Player Perceptions of Freedom and Control in Modded and Unmodded Versions of Bethesda's Skyrim: A Qualitative Play Study, Mark Kretzschmar
The Rhetoric of Camp: Adam Lambert's Identification and Division Strategies in His American Idol Performances, Isabelle Lanthier
Gender Performance in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Amanda Lee
Mindful Acting, Terence Lee
Expanding and Shedding the Self: Processing Selfdom Through Painting, Theresa Lucey
Performing Bernarda: Activating Power and Identity, Ana Martinez Medina
Moving Towards a Dialogic Pedagogy: Using Video Feedback as a Teaching Tool to Respond to Writing across Disciplines, Paul Martin
I Have Questions, Lorena Matejowsky
The Long and Short of It, Ciera McElroy
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
Hearing the Voices of the Deserters: Activist Critical Making in Electronic Literature, Laura Okkema
The Natural Exile: A Study Of Twenty-First Century Cuban-American Narratives Focusing On The Elderly's Plight, Jasmine Parson
The Poems You Don't Own, Emma Reinhardt
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
Assisted Living: Stories, Donovan Swift
The Migration of Indians to Eastern Africa: A Case Study of the Ismaili Community, 1866-1966, Azizeddin Tejpar
Legends of the Fabricated Wild: An Experimental Representation of Natural Landscapes through the Utilization of Analog Film Techniques, Nicholas Twardus
Designosaurs: Technological Evolution and De-Extinction Through an Advancing Medium, Sean Vanzyl
Fanfiction Reviews and Academic Literacy: Potential Impacts and Implications, Regina Weiler
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
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
Boitawl: Soil, Lost and Left, Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
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
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
The Power of Play: Creating A Theatre for the Very Young Experience, Maria Katsadouros
What Remains, Michael Leavitt
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
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
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
Revisiting Roadside Attractions: A "Deep Dive" into Florida's Weeki Wachee Springs, Rebecca Schwandt
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
Violence, Religion and Politics: The Late Republic and Augustan Age, Matthew Tuggle
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