2023 Amanda Yen
“So, Where Are You Really From?:
Late Generation Asian Americans and Roots Reimagined in 20th Century Santa Clara Valley”
2022 Grace Elicker
“for Dignity and Pride, We Need 1199 On Our Side”: The Rise of Civil Rights Unionism at Georgetown University, 1970-1975″
2021 Gabriela Gura
“Ripped-Off Rhythm n’ Borrowed Blues: Legislating Black Creative Legacy via the White Mirror Cover Song, 1950-1957”
Advised by Dr Ben Harbert
2020 Omoyele Okunola
“Codifying Servitude: Unsound Slaves and Efforts to Maintain U.S. Slavery, 1830-1860”
Advised by Dr Adam Rothman
2019 Jonathan Gibson
“What Does Remembrance Look Like? Memorializing the 1910 Slocum Massacre Amidst Uncertainty”
Advised by Dr Marcia Chatelain
2018 Aidan Kenney
“STeel Beams, myths, and memes: How Late Millennials Reframe 9/11 Online”
Advised by Dr Ellen Gorman
2017 Emily Troisi
“Remaking Rape-Revenge: Navigating Wartime Moral Anxieties through the The Last House on The Left (1972/2009) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978/2010)”
Advised by Dr Caetlin Benson-Allott
2016 Anna Frenzilli
“The Memorial That Dies: Understanding the Memorial Tree’s Conventional Failures and Public Popularity in 1918 and Today”
Advised by Dr Lisa Strong
2015 Mary Zost
“Phanton of the Operator: Negotiating Female Gender Identity in Telephonic Technology from Operator to Apple iOS”
Advised by Dr Brian Hochman
2014 Timothy DeVita
“Fighting a Plague: Doctors’ Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City”
Advised by Shiva Subbaraman
2013 Grace Wallack
“Eat Dirt: Understanding the Local Food Movement through the stories of Philosopher Farmers”
Advised by Dr Timothy Beach
2012 Caroline Klibanoff
“News Literacy, Informed Citizens and Consumer-Driven Media: The Future Landscape of American Journalism”
Advised by Dr Kim Meltzer
2012 Laura Kelly
[Under construction]
2011 Mary Jane Reen
“Objective Subjectivity: Thomas Kuhn and Vermont Eugenics”
Advised by Dr Catherine Benton-Cohen
2010 Kathleen Berggren
“On Earth as It Is in Heaven”
Advised by Dr Hugh Cloke
2010 Katherine Jones
“My Beef with Beef: Environmental and Sustainability Problems of the Modern American Beef Industry and What We Can Do About Them”
2009 Katherine Thompson
“The Batteries of the Literary Republic: Literature, Politics and the Southern Periodical Press, 1834-1864”
2008 Matthew Appenfeller
“Recreated Civita: The Birth and Transformation of an Italian-American Transnational Neighborhood”
Advised by Dr Sharon Leon
2008 Catherine Kaplun
“Exhibiting Controversy: The West as America and the Cultural Responsibility of the Smithsonian Institution”
Advised by Dr Harriet McNamee
2007 Noreen Malone
“Hippogriff, Dodo, or Reality?: Changing Perceptions of the Great American Novel”
Advised by Dr Lucy Maddox
2007 Sarah Walk
“O Come Angel Band: The Purpose of Worship Music in Appalachian Holiness-Pentecostal and Baptist Churches”
Advised by Dr Lauve Steenhuisen and Dr Patricia E. O’Connor
2006 Meghan O’Neil
“To Teach or Not to Teach: Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the Freedom of American Education”
Advised by Dr Diana Owen
2005 Christina Weyl
“The Professionalization of an American Woman Printmaker: The Early Career of Grace Albee, 1915-1933”
2004 Philippa Koch
“Family History: A Genealogical Account of American Origins”
2003 Mark Smith
“White Supremacy and the Lost Cause: Faithful Slave Narratives in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America”
Advised Dr Hugh Cloke
2002 Sarah Chieffo
“Glorifying the Nymphet: Censorship, Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita”
Advised by Dr Bernie Cook
2001 Aaron Hiatt
“Success Beyond the Ark: A Study of Post-Colony Life amount South Dakota Hutterite Colony Defectors”
Advised by Dr Ed Ingebretsen
2000 Bonnie Schreiber
“Hate Speech: Censor or Censure – Marching Nazis, Cyber Hate, and the Future of the First Amendment”
Advised by Dr James Lengle
2000 Jennifer Seidenberg
“Playing Indian: The Rise of Cultural Appropriation and Ethnic Consumerism in the United States”
Advised by Dr Diana Owen
1999 Margaret Gramins
“Morons, Imbeciles, and Idiots: Virginia’s Eugenicists”
Advised by Dr Elizabeth McKeown
1998 Anthony O’Brien
“Mourning, Celebration. and Pilgrimage: How Irish-Americans Perceive and Perform the Northern Ireland Troubles”
1997 Sharon Leon
“Coloring Inside the Lines: Early Twentieth Century Objections to Racial Mixing”
Advised by Dr Elizabeth McKeown
1997 Erin Royston
“The Politics of Cultural Intervention: The National Endowment for the Arts and Public Sector Folklore”
Advised by Dr Hugh Cloke
1996 Kimberly Hamlin
“Artists, Critics, and the I.W.W.: America’s Flirtation with Radical Causes, 1912-1917”
Advised by Dr Alison Hilton
1995 Andrew Perry
“Boys in the Woods: The Boy Scout Handbook and the Adventure of Adolescence, Masculinity, and America, 1910-1995”
1994 Hannah McCann
“In the American West: Artist, Audience, Subject”
1994 Mary Strunk
“Dumb and Not Beautiful’: Malleable Myths Surrounding Women Gangsters of the 1930s and Their Translation into Films”
Advised by Dr Dorothy Brown
1993 Matthew Uelmen
“Cannibal Culture, Technology, and American Music”
Advised by Dr Ron Johnson and Dr John Hirsh
1992 Jason Gould
“Power Play: The Story of Television and The Civil Rights Movement”
Advised by Dr Dorothy Brown and Dr Ron Johnson
1992 Joshua Nickerson
“Fitting In: Chinese, Filipino, and Korean Immigrants in American Life, 1965-1975”
Advised by Dr Emmett Curren
1991 Gregory Milano
“In the Name of God and the Law: American Sanctuary for Central American Refugees”
Advised by Dr Charles Keely and Dr John Hirsh
1991 Katherine Tomsho
“The Debate About Family Life Education in Prince William County: “Shirtsleeves Democracy”
1990 Amelia (Amy) J. Uelmen
“Seeing the USA: The Landscapes of Walt Disney”
Advised by Dr Elizabeth McKeown
1988 Julie Magid (Manning)