A collection of History Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
ASPIRA and the Young Lords: Examining Their Impact on Fostering a Puerto Rican Cultural Identity in New York City During the 1960s and 1970s, Asmara M. Cortes-Caba
The Color of Disease: Race Science, Pandemic Influenza, and the Rise of Epidemiology in the Segregated South, Andrew Kishuni
Prohibition in Sanford: Local Lives Questioning a National Narrative Presented Through Data, Discourse Analysis and Digital Mapping, Lindsey K. Yeazell
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
War on the Bay: Determining the Existence of Watershed Moments within the Shipyards in Tampa, Florida during World War II, Connor E. Farley
Erasing the Past for Marketability: The Effects of Selling National Myth in Ybor City's Public Historical Narrative, Janine A. Galindo
Las Madres Blancas: The Visual Representation and Cultural Production of the Mirabal Sisters, Luisa Garcia
The Stench of Miasma and The Fragrance of Daffodils: Reconstructing Historical Scentscapes in Mesopotamia, Samantha N. Levy
Inclusion and Interpretation: Examining Difficult History Topics at Eighteenth-Century Historic Sites in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Cassidy Michonski
The Bishop and the Poet: Theodulf of Orléans and the Carolingian World, Cole Taylor
Florida's Vanishing Heritage: Climate Risk and Adaptation at Florida Heritage Sites, Levi Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
White Rage, Black Agency: Violence and its Impact on Reconstruction Era Florida, Zachary Barnes
The Concept of the Populus Romanus in the Late Republic and Augustan Period, Nicklaus Bobertz
Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma from the First World War, 1914-1918, Kayla Campana
The Loyalty of the Lords of Albret: An Investigation of the Gascon Rolls at the Outset of the Hundred Years War, Jason Delaney
Workers, Mothers, and Françaises: The French Communist Party and Women in the Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Elizabeth Klements
'Read All About It': Journalism and War in Britain, France, and the United States during the Allied Invasion of France (June-August 1944), Jessica Oldham
To the Moon and Back: The Impact of Moon Rocks on the Historical Legacy of NASA's Apollo Program, Emily Strickland
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Ogaden War: An Intersection of Local and Global Powers in the Horn of Africa, Luis Garcia
"Clothes Make Men": Clothing and the Embodiment of Gender in Virginia, 1750-1775, Rhiannon O'Neil
Deportation, Genocide, and Memorial Politics: Remembrance and Memory in Postwar France, 1943-2015, Rachel Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Death in the Land of Flowers: Environment as Enemy in the Second Seminole War, Nicholas Brown
Phantoms of Fantasy: Materiality, Enjoyment, and the Minstrel Legacy of Sentimentalism, Zafirios Daglaris
The Uniqueness of a Kingdom: The Frontier Kingdom of Norman Sicily in Comparative Perspective, Onyx De La Osa
The Memory Remains: Why the Migration Period and the Fall of Rome Continue to be Mischaracterized as a Barbarian Invasion, Walter Napier
The Troupes Coloniales: A Comparative Analysis of African American and French Colonial Soldiers in the First World War, Matthew Patsis
Mau Mau Blasters: The Homemade Guns of the Mau Mau Uprising, James Stoddard
A Legacy of Community and Mourning: AIDS & HIV in Central Florida, 1983-1993, Andrew Weeks
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Redeemed, the Condemned, and the Forgotten: Narratives of Dissenting Aristocratic Identity in Medieval Bavaria, Luke Bohmer
From the Temple to the Synagogue: Exploring Changes in Judaism After the Fall of the Second Temple, Adam Cohen
Building Unity Through State Narratives: The Evolving British Media Discourse During World War II, 1939-1941, Colin Cook
How Change Started to Come: Examining Rhythm and Blues and Southern Identity, Jennifer Davis
Local Community Influences on Interpretation at Historical Sites and Museums, Jason FitzGerald
Central Florida School Districts' Responses to Hispanic Growth, 1980-2010, Kendra Hazen
Making Our Voices Heard: Power and Citizenship in Central Florida's Black Communities, Gramond McPherson
CME Church in the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Brandon Nightingale
'A Room of Their Own': Heritage Tourism and the Challenging of Heteropatriarchal Masculinity in Scottish National Narratives, Carys O'Neill
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
The Ideal King: Brian Boru and the Medieval European Concept of Kingship, Kody Whittington
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The First Florida Cavalry (US): Union Enlistment in the Civil War's Southern Periphery, Tyler Campbell
The Tragic City: Black Rebellion and the Struggle for Freedom in Miami, 1945-1990, Porsha Dossie
Differing Perspectives: Positive Accounts of the Down to the Countryside Movement, Michael Nettina
Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939, James Padgett
Revisiting Roadside Attractions: A "Deep Dive" into Florida's Weeki Wachee Springs, Rebecca Schwandt
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
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
Hippieland: Bohemian Space and Countercultural Place in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood, Kevin Mercer
A Place in the Sunshine State : Community, Preservation, and the Parliament House, Erin Montgomery
Medieval Ingenuity in Fourteenth Century English Milling in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Northumberland Counties, Brett Pelham
Communism's Futures: Intelligentsia Imaginations in the Writings of the Strugatsky Brothers, Elizabeth Tammaro
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
Joining the "Big Leagues": Politics, Race, and the Pursuit of NBA Franchises in Miami and Orlando, 1982-1987, Garrett Hillyer
The Rhetoric of Public Memory in Urban Park Revitalization in 20th Century Jacksonville, Florida, Mary Kelley
Conflict and Modernity in New South Florida's Phosphate Mines, Terrell Orr
The Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in American China Policy: 1950-1963, James Poppino
Elizabeth Tudor: Her Youth, Education, and the Development of the Legend of the Virgin Queen, Katrina Santi
Lives of Przemysl: War and the Population of a Fortress Town in Galicia, Austrian Poland, 1914 - 1923, Kevin Stapleton
"The Cause of Zion": Divisions Between Southern Baptists in Antebellum North Carolina, Kristian Steele
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Mass Media and the Evolution of the Environmental Movement: 1960-1979, Donald Anguish
The Class Appeal of Marcus Garvey's Propaganda and His Relationship with the Black American Left Through August 1920, Geoffrey Cravero
Le Temps des Copains: Youth and the Making of Modern France in the Era of Decolonization, 1958-1968, Drew Fedorka
The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I, Michael Gromoll
Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England, Alayne Lorden
Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931, Zachary Morgan
Sage Illusionists: A Historical Study Using Illusionists as a Reflection of Mass Entertainment, Popular Culture, anf Change During the Late Nineteenth Century, Clayton Phillips
Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War, John Settle
The Rwandan Genocide and Western Media: French, British, and American Press Coverage of the Genocide between April and July of 1994, Candice Tyrrell
'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955, Meghan Vance
Persons, Houses, and Material Possessions: Second Spanish Period St. Augustine Society, Daniel Velasquez
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Best and Worst of All That God and Man Can Do": Paternalistic Perceptions On the Intellectually Disabled at Florida's Sunland Institutions., Bethany Dickens
Invisible in Plain Sight: The Troubling Connections Between the National Hockey League and the Russian Mafia, Kayla Ennion
Fire in a Distant Heaven: The Boxer Uprising as a Domestic Crisis in the United States, Daniel Fandino
Minnie and Ivy: Minnie Moore-Willson, Ivy Stranahan, and Seminole Reform in Early Twentieth Century Florida, Sarika Joshi
Byzantine Foreign Policy During the Reign of Constans II, Joseph Morris
City of Superb Democracy: The Emergence of Brooklyn's Cultural Identity During Cinema's Silent Era, 1893-1928., David Morton
Reconciling Order and Progress: Auguste Comte, Gustave Le Bon, Emile Durkheim, and the Development of Positivism in France, 1820-1914, Khali Navarro
Revolutionary Manifestos and Fidel Castro's Road to Power, Luis Plazas
The American Way: The Influence of Race on the Treatment of Prisoners of War During World War Two, Adam Rock
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Bane Of Liberty: Opposition To Standing Armies As The Basis Of Antifederalist Thought, Charles Brand
The Afro-american Slave Music Project: Building A Case For Digital History, Laura Cepero
Captain John Smith And American Identity: Evolutions Of Constructed Narratives And Myths In The 20th And 21st Centuries, Joseph Corbett
Outside The Cage: The Political Campaign To Destroy Mixed Martial Arts, Andrew Doeg
The Politics Of The Righteous: A Religious And Political History Of Conservative Neo-evangelicals In Central Florida, Rustin Lloyd
I Play To Beat The Machine: Masculinity And The Video Game Industry In The United States, Anne McDivitt
Too Few Voices, Too Many Distractions, Too Little Concern, Too Little Understanding: The American Media During The Rwandan Genocide Of 1994, Skip-Thomas Parrish
Pompey's Organization Of The East, Joshua Robinson
Orisa Tradtion, Catholicism, And The Construction Of Black Identity In 19th Century Brazil And Cuba, Allison Sellers
The Red Scare And The Bi's Quest For Power: The Soviet Ark As Political Theater, Austin Smith