A collection of Arts & Humanities Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses from 2019
Music and the Presidency: How Campaign Songs Sold the Image of Presidential Candidates, Gary M. Bogers
The Redeemed, the Condemned, and the Forgotten: Narratives of Dissenting Aristocratic Identity in Medieval Bavaria, Luke Bohmer
Group Therapy for Adventure Boys: An Assembly of Stories, Justin Brozanski
Acoustic Ecology and Sound Mapping the University of Central Florida Main Campus, Robert Clarke
Displays of Medici Wealth and Authority: The Acts of the Apostles and Valois Fêtes Tapestry Cycles, Madison L. Clyburn
From the Temple to the Synagogue: Exploring Changes in Judaism After the Fall of the Second Temple, Adam Cohen
The Study of Free Will in the East and the West, Nicholas J. Colecio
Of Martyrs and Minstrels, Trevon J. Coleman
Building Unity Through State Narratives: The Evolving British Media Discourse During World War II, 1939-1941, Colin Cook
The Living Hashtag Play: A Modernized Living Newspaper with Theatre of the Oppressed Approaches to Play Development, Elizabeth Corsi
Baseball Hall of Fame Vote, Richard C. Crepeau
Jay-Z, Roger, and Kaepernick, Richard C. Crepeau
Madness on a Major Scale, Richard C. Crepeau
Odds and Odds, Richard C. Crepeau
Sex Identity and the IAAF, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Bowl LIII, Richard C. Crepeau
Tiger Woods at the Masters, Richard C. Crepeau
Direct Discourse and Female Archetypes in Chrétien de Troyes's Romances, Raquelle A. Crotty
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 Exploration of a Nonbinary Gender Identity in the Visual Work of Claude Cahun, Miranda DeBrine
The Storm, Kara Delemeester
Spiteful Houses, Sweet Homes: Analyzing Denver's Traumatic Space in Beloved, Tyler Dick
The Knitting Witch, Katherine Ervin
An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Ready-made Garment Industry in Bangladesh, Yasmin Fakhoury
A Deconstruction of Puritan Ideology Through the Works of John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, Rocco S. Fazzalari
Women's Work: Materializing Feminist Thought in Lucy Lippard's c.7,500 Exhibition, Francesca Felicella
Local Community Influences on Interpretation at Historical Sites and Museums, Jason FitzGerald
Latinx Student Success in Higher Education: Genres, Racialization, and Generic-Racial Interactions., Delia Garcia
La Sufrida: An Analysis of the Social and Literary Archetype, Meleena Gil
Standing Up Comedy: Analyzing Rhetorical Approaches to Identity in Stand-up Comedy, Christopher Grabert
The Americanization of the Holocaust: Reconsidered Through Judaic Studies, Brie Green-Rebackoff
Waking Up White: The Search For Black Happiness, Jason Gregory
Fayeza Hasanat "When Our Fathers Die" United States, 2018, Fayeza Hasanat and Kathleen Hohenleitner
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
The Metaphysics of the Collective Unconscious, Oscar B. Jablon
Changing the Channel: A Study of Agenda, Immersion and Social Commentary in Art, Nicholas Kalemba
Farm Women as Producers & Consumers in the 20th Century U.S. South, Joseph J. Kaminski
A Critical Race Analysis of Transition Level Writing Curriculum to Support the Racially Diverse Two-Year College, Jamila M. Kareem
Artful Bionics: Pushing the Limits of Visual Expression in Prosthetic Design, Anna Kester
"Worse Than Guards:" Ordinary Criminals and Political Prisoners in the GULAG (1918-1950), Elizabeth T. Klements
Measuring Player Perceptions of Freedom and Control in Modded and Unmodded Versions of Bethesda's Skyrim: A Qualitative Play Study, Mark Kretzschmar
If The Shoe Fits: Cinderella and Women's Voice, Farrah V. Kurronen
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
The WOW Factor: Lesbian Representation and Impact in Late-20th Century Theatre, Brenna L. Maginness
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
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