A collection of History Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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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

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The Color of Disease: Race Science, Pandemic Influenza, and the Rise of Epidemiology in the Segregated South, Andrew Kishuni

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Prohibition in Sanford: Local Lives Questioning a National Narrative Presented Through Data, Discourse Analysis and Digital Mapping, Lindsey K. Yeazell

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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War on the Bay: Determining the Existence of Watershed Moments within the Shipyards in Tampa, Florida during World War II, Connor E. Farley

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Erasing the Past for Marketability: The Effects of Selling National Myth in Ybor City's Public Historical Narrative, Janine A. Galindo

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Las Madres Blancas: The Visual Representation and Cultural Production of the Mirabal Sisters, Luisa Garcia

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The Stench of Miasma and The Fragrance of Daffodils: Reconstructing Historical Scentscapes in Mesopotamia, Samantha N. Levy

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Inclusion and Interpretation: Examining Difficult History Topics at Eighteenth-Century Historic Sites in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Cassidy Michonski

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The Bishop and the Poet: Theodulf of Orléans and the Carolingian World, Cole Taylor

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Florida's Vanishing Heritage: Climate Risk and Adaptation at Florida Heritage Sites, Levi Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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White Rage, Black Agency: Violence and its Impact on Reconstruction Era Florida, Zachary Barnes

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The Concept of the Populus Romanus in the Late Republic and Augustan Period, Nicklaus Bobertz

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Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma from the First World War, 1914-1918, Kayla Campana

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The Loyalty of the Lords of Albret: An Investigation of the Gascon Rolls at the Outset of the Hundred Years War, Jason Delaney

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Odin, Lord of the Dead: Religious Legitimization for Social and Political Change in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Scandinavia, Ty Karnitz

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Workers, Mothers, and Françaises: The French Communist Party and Women in the Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Elizabeth Klements

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'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

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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

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The Ogaden War: An Intersection of Local and Global Powers in the Horn of Africa, Luis Garcia

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"Clothes Make Men": Clothing and the Embodiment of Gender in Virginia, 1750-1775, Rhiannon O'Neil

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Camp Lejeune Digital Community Archive Project: An Analysis of Digital Public History Efforts to Achieve Social Justice for the Camp Lejeune Drinking Water Contamination 1999-2017, Michael Partain

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Deportation, Genocide, and Memorial Politics: Remembrance and Memory in Postwar France, 1943-2015, Rachel Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Death in the Land of Flowers: Environment as Enemy in the Second Seminole War, Nicholas Brown

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Phantoms of Fantasy: Materiality, Enjoyment, and the Minstrel Legacy of Sentimentalism, Zafirios Daglaris

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The Uniqueness of a Kingdom: The Frontier Kingdom of Norman Sicily in Comparative Perspective, Onyx De La Osa

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Deeper Impressions of Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler: Analyzing the Role of Political Cartoons in the Development and Perceptions of Late Nineteenth Century Group Images, Timothy Dorsch

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Control, Consumption, and Connections: The Women of Eighteenth-Century Colchester, Virginia, and their Participation in the Atlantic World of Goods, 1760-1761, Bryce Forgue

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The Memory Remains: Why the Migration Period and the Fall of Rome Continue to be Mischaracterized as a Barbarian Invasion, Walter Napier

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The Troupes Coloniales: A Comparative Analysis of African American and French Colonial Soldiers in the First World War, Matthew Patsis

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Mau Mau Blasters: The Homemade Guns of the Mau Mau Uprising, James Stoddard

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A Legacy of Community and Mourning: AIDS & HIV in Central Florida, 1983-1993, Andrew Weeks

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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The Redeemed, the Condemned, and the Forgotten: Narratives of Dissenting Aristocratic Identity in Medieval Bavaria, Luke Bohmer

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From the Temple to the Synagogue: Exploring Changes in Judaism After the Fall of the Second Temple, Adam Cohen

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Building Unity Through State Narratives: The Evolving British Media Discourse During World War II, 1939-1941, Colin Cook

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How Change Started to Come: Examining Rhythm and Blues and Southern Identity, Jennifer Davis

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Local Community Influences on Interpretation at Historical Sites and Museums, Jason FitzGerald

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Central Florida School Districts' Responses to Hispanic Growth, 1980-2010, Kendra Hazen

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Making Our Voices Heard: Power and Citizenship in Central Florida's Black Communities, Gramond McPherson

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CME Church in the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Brandon Nightingale

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'A Room of Their Own': Heritage Tourism and the Challenging of Heteropatriarchal Masculinity in Scottish National Narratives, Carys O'Neill

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The Migration of Indians to Eastern Africa: A Case Study of the Ismaili Community, 1866-1966, Azizeddin Tejpar

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Civil War Memory and the Preservation of the Olustee Battlefield, Steven Trelstad

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The Ideal King: Brian Boru and the Medieval European Concept of Kingship, Kody Whittington

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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A Digital Media Exploration of the Federal Writers' Project's Folk Song Collecting Expeditions in Depression Era Florida, Holly Baker

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The First Florida Cavalry (US): Union Enlistment in the Civil War's Southern Periphery, Tyler Campbell

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The Tragic City: Black Rebellion and the Struggle for Freedom in Miami, 1945-1990, Porsha Dossie

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Differing Perspectives: Positive Accounts of the Down to the Countryside Movement, Michael Nettina

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Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939, James Padgett

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Searching for Home at Château de la Guette and Beyond: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Jewish German and Austrian Children's Journey to Flee Nazi Persecution via Children's Homes in France, Sarah Schneider

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Revisiting Roadside Attractions: A "Deep Dive" into Florida's Weeki Wachee Springs, Rebecca Schwandt

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To The Memory Of Brave Men: The Imperial War Graves Commission And India's Missing Soldiers Of The First World War, Roger Sims

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Sanford, DeBary Hall and the New South Movement in Central Florida, Sarah Thorncroft

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Violence, Religion and Politics: The Late Republic and Augustan Age, Matthew Tuggle

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Rhetoric of Imagery: Gendering and Consumption Throughout Interwar American Advertisment, Natalie Delgado

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Creating a Digital Exhibit on the Colonial Fur Trade in Florida: A Public History / Digital History Project, Benjamin DiBiase

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For the Good That We Can Do: African Presses, Christian Rhetoric, and White Minority Rule in South Africa, 1899-1924, Ian Marsh

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Hippieland: Bohemian Space and Countercultural Place in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood, Kevin Mercer

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A Place in the Sunshine State : Community, Preservation, and the Parliament House, Erin Montgomery

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Medieval Ingenuity in Fourteenth Century English Milling in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Northumberland Counties, Brett Pelham

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Communism's Futures: Intelligentsia Imaginations in the Writings of the Strugatsky Brothers, Elizabeth Tammaro

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Comrades In Arms?: Russian & Muslim Soldiers In The Red Army During World War II, Daniel Bradfield

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By Book and School: The Politics of Educational Reform in France and Algeria during the Early Third Republic, Michael Brooks

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Joining the "Big Leagues": Politics, Race, and the Pursuit of NBA Franchises in Miami and Orlando, 1982-1987, Garrett Hillyer

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The Rhetoric of Public Memory in Urban Park Revitalization in 20th Century Jacksonville, Florida, Mary Kelley

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Conflict and Modernity in New South Florida's Phosphate Mines, Terrell Orr

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The Role of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in American China Policy: 1950-1963, James Poppino

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Elizabeth Tudor: Her Youth, Education, and the Development of the Legend of the Virgin Queen, Katrina Santi

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Lives of Przemysl: War and the Population of a Fortress Town in Galicia, Austrian Poland, 1914 - 1923, Kevin Stapleton

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"The Cause of Zion": Divisions Between Southern Baptists in Antebellum North Carolina, Kristian Steele

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Mass Media and the Evolution of the Environmental Movement: 1960-1979, Donald Anguish

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The Class Appeal of Marcus Garvey's Propaganda and His Relationship with the Black American Left Through August 1920, Geoffrey Cravero

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Le Temps des Copains: Youth and the Making of Modern France in the Era of Decolonization, 1958-1968, Drew Fedorka

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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I, Michael Gromoll

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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England, Alayne Lorden

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Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931, Zachary Morgan

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Sage Illusionists: A Historical Study Using Illusionists as a Reflection of Mass Entertainment, Popular Culture, anf Change During the Late Nineteenth Century, Clayton Phillips

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Chief Bowlegs and the Banana Garden: A Reassessment of the Beginning of the Third Seminole War, John Settle

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The Rwandan Genocide and Western Media: French, British, and American Press Coverage of the Genocide between April and July of 1994, Candice Tyrrell

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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955, Meghan Vance

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Persons, Houses, and Material Possessions: Second Spanish Period St. Augustine Society, Daniel Velasquez

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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The Spatial Relationship Between Labor, Cultural Migration, and the Development of Folk Music in the American South: A Digital Visualization Project, Robert Clarke

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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

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Invisible in Plain Sight: The Troubling Connections Between the National Hockey League and the Russian Mafia, Kayla Ennion

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Fire in a Distant Heaven: The Boxer Uprising as a Domestic Crisis in the United States, Daniel Fandino

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Minnie and Ivy: Minnie Moore-Willson, Ivy Stranahan, and Seminole Reform in Early Twentieth Century Florida, Sarika Joshi

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Byzantine Foreign Policy During the Reign of Constans II, Joseph Morris

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City of Superb Democracy: The Emergence of Brooklyn's Cultural Identity During Cinema's Silent Era, 1893-1928., David Morton

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Reconciling Order and Progress: Auguste Comte, Gustave Le Bon, Emile Durkheim, and the Development of Positivism in France, 1820-1914, Khali Navarro

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Revolutionary Manifestos and Fidel Castro's Road to Power, Luis Plazas

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The American Way: The Influence of Race on the Treatment of Prisoners of War During World War Two, Adam Rock

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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The Bane Of Liberty: Opposition To Standing Armies As The Basis Of Antifederalist Thought, Charles Brand

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The Afro-american Slave Music Project: Building A Case For Digital History, Laura Cepero

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Captain John Smith And American Identity: Evolutions Of Constructed Narratives And Myths In The 20th And 21st Centuries, Joseph Corbett

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Outside The Cage: The Political Campaign To Destroy Mixed Martial Arts, Andrew Doeg

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The Politics Of The Righteous: A Religious And Political History Of Conservative Neo-evangelicals In Central Florida, Rustin Lloyd

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I Play To Beat The Machine: Masculinity And The Video Game Industry In The United States, Anne McDivitt

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Too Few Voices, Too Many Distractions, Too Little Concern, Too Little Understanding: The American Media During The Rwandan Genocide Of 1994, Skip-Thomas Parrish

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Pompey's Organization Of The East, Joshua Robinson

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Orisa Tradtion, Catholicism, And The Construction Of Black Identity In 19th Century Brazil And Cuba, Allison Sellers

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The Red Scare And The Bi's Quest For Power: The Soviet Ark As Political Theater, Austin Smith