Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Convincing The Lady / The Charms Of Our Sex, Taylor Marie Garrison
"Glory To The English And Protestant Name": Protestant Hegemony In Seventeenth And Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island, Mark Mulligan
Material Bodies: Race, Gender, And Women In The Early American South, Morgan McCullough
Printing The Pacific: How American Writers Set The Terms For Pacific-American Relations In The Nineteenth Century, Travis Hiram Lee
Racing For Rights And Peace / Defeating Massive Resistance And The Color Of Memory, Rebekah Lyndsey Toussaint
The Divine Act Of Creation: Gravier’s Dictionary (1640-1710) And Women’s Embroidery In The Early Republic (1800-1870), Kathryn Michelle Looff
The Spyglass And The Mirror: The Intelligence State In Conflict And Crisis During The War Of The Spanish Succession, Brandon Wayne Dylan Munda
Travelogues And Oral Traditions / Sailors, Servants, And Slaves, Dylan Holzer
Unwoven Empire: A Not-So-Natural History Of Environmental Racism And The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Sidney Rose McCall
When The Declaration Of Independence Was News, Emily Jane Sneff
Women In The Records Of The Virginia Company Of London, Martha Louise Reiner
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Cherokee Sword And Shield / Crying For Blood, Emily Dixon Magness
Anticipation And Invention: Ideology And Intellectual History From London To Vienna, 1700-1900, Yasmeen Iman Raffee
Arctic Assimilation: Settler Colonialism And Racialization In The Canadian Arctic And Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Samantha Kramer
Clear-Cut Blues: Violence, Culture, And Labor In The Jim Crow Piney Woods, 1870-1925, David Marquis
Constitutionality, Compassion, And Convenience / The Consolidation Of Liberty, Evan Riley Stewart
Franklin, Nature, And Authority / Domesticating Pirates, Sydney Sweat-Montoya
'Great Weights Hang By Small Wires': Households And The Making Of The British Empire, C.1650-1713, Phillip Louis Emanuel
Inside And Out / Dawnland Power, Aidan Kolenik
Macao, Manila, And The Spanish Empire / Litigious Women Religious, Ashley Marie Smouse
Machines On The Farm: Capitalism And Technology In Midwestern Agriculture, 1845-1900, James Jonathan Rick
Seen And Unseen Friends: Becoming Global Citizens In The U.S. Empire, 1914-1941, Katherine Cartwright
Settlement And Sediment / Segregation And Solidarity, Maxxe R. Albert-Deitch
Spirits Of Settler Colonialism / The Luck Of Jesse Fish, Jenna Lee Hardin
The Age Of Eugenics: Exploring Intersections Of Race, Disability, And Eugenics In United States Culture, 1850-1950, Jessica Brabble
The British Invasions Of Rio De La Plata. An Atlantic History. 1806-7, Micaela Miralles Bianconi
The Maritime Frontier: Fear And Forts In Early Modern Anglo-American Seaport Towns, Samuel Aldred Slattery
The Tides Of Time: Temporality And Science In The British Atlantic, Andrew Abrams
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
19Th Century Womanhood In The News: Civil War Women Soldiers And The Early Republic Advice Column “The Ladies’ Friend”, Thalia Maria Chrysathis
A Meaningful Subjection: Kingly Government, Coercive Inequality, And Diplomacy In The North American Eastern Woodlands, 1000-1625 A.D., Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich
Credit Is Due: African Americans As Borrowers And Lenders In Antebellum Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
“Fighting Without Firing”/ “My Fellow Slaves”, Kevin Michael Fowler
From Cause To Curiosity: The Underground Railroad And Abolitionism In American Memory, 1865-1945, Mark Thomas Guerci
Landscapes Of Freedom: Restoring The History Of Emancipation & Black Citizenship In Yorktown, Virginia, 1861-1940, Rebecca Capobianco Toy
Marketing Agencies For Science: Nonprofits, Public Science Education, And Capitalism In Modern America, Kasey Marie Sease
The Intersection Of Activism And Black Memory: Space, Memory, And Resistance In John Mitchell, Jr.’s Woodland Cemetery And Remembering Emancipation In Hampton Roads, 1917-1963, Timothy Allen Case
The People Of The Bay: Native Society And Alliance In The Green Bay Region, 1650–1750, Ian Edward Tonat
To Surrender Their Aspirations And Hopes / Animals Gone Astray, Kai R. Werner
Ulysses S. Grant In Popular Memory / Jewish Quotas At Elite Universities, Shea Simmons
Virginia Society's Response/ Fancy Fantasy, Peighton Lynsey Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Blanket Of Smoke Over Urban America/Caddies On Early American Golf Courses, Kathleen Loretta Boyce
Across The Atlantic To Jamaica: Enslavement And Cultural Transformations Of The Gold Coast Diaspora During The 18th Century, Phillip Bancroft Nicholas
“An Uncharted Narrative”/“Every Scotchman, Tory, And Jacobite”, Rebecca Albers
Continuities In Native New England: Knowledge In And Of The Atlantic World, 1634-1675, Yusuf Mansoor
Fraught Labor, Fragile Authority: Households In Motion In Early New England, Caylin Carbonell
Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: French Colonization Among The Illinois, Michaela Y. Kleber
“Hold For Investigation”: Minnie Atkins And The Contestation Of Indigeneity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Kayla Marie Pittman
Memory As A Tool Of Resignification/"The Contested Nature Of Constructing National Identity", Tyler Jordan Goldberger
“Rather Than Be Suffered To Perish”/The Gendered Language Of Revolution, Elliot Warren
"The Role Of Knowledge In Commodification" / Reconceptualizing The Early Modern Dutch Atlantic, Jennifer Ashley Motter
Thomas Paine/“Base Poltroon And Cowardly Tale-Bearers”, Phillip Dudeck
“Those Claiming The Rights Of Freemen Are Themselves The Most Execrable Of Tyrants” / A Taste For Empire, Bennett Herson-Roeser
“Unoccupied And Of A Valuable Kind”/“Dry As The Blood Of Its Builders”, Justin Tyler Estreicher
Unsettling The Little House/Pellegrino Artusi, Italian Cookbooks, And (Northern) Nationalism, Brielle Virginia Popolla
Virginia House Painters 1750-1840/Shad, Herring, And Slavery In The Chesapeake Bay And Albemarle Sound, Jenna Hershberger
“Will-With-The-Wisp”/“May Possibly Pretend To Be A Free Woman”, Tamia Kyana Haygood
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A School for Leaders: Continental Army Officer Training and Civilian Leadership in the Trans-Appalachian West, David Lawrence Ward
Influencing Empire: Protest And Persuasion In The Stamp Act Period, Molly FitzGerald Perry
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
An Order to Society/A Place Where "You Can Live Freedom", James Franklin Lowe
Bound among Nations: Labor Coercion in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Schmitt
"By the Dear, Immortal Memory of Washington"/The Baptists, Culture, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Douglas Breton
Community and Culture: Material Life in Shenandoah County, Virginia, 1750-1850, Sarah E. Thomas
Constructing the Non-Western 'Other': Euro-American Interpretations of Race and Gender Among Colonial and Indigenous Subjects, Amy Marie Trostle
Corrupting the Mother Tongue/Broken Constitutions, Megan Whirley
Education Reform in the New American Republic/education and the Charity of Edward Hopkins, Christina L. Beck
Heathen Men and Publicans': Excommunicates, Church Discipline and the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience, 1730-1840, Samuel Spencer Wells
History of Prostitution/Vampires in the American Republic, Shannon Elizabeth Christensen
Literary Continuities/Imperative Education, Jane Snyder
Making a Home Out of No Home: ‘Colored’ Orphan Asylums in Virginia, 1867–1930, August Butler
Memories in Stone/Reconstructing the Street, Samuel C. Florer
"Miss Rebecca Story's Book" / "Marrying a Minnister", Anne Catherine Powell
Settler Colonialism in Russian America/Alaska and the Indian Reform Movement, Ian Lee Halter
Strategic Representations of Black Women in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Masculine British Print, Joan Elizabeth Jockel
The Family Politic: Free African American Gender and Belonging, 1793-1865, Elizabeth Joyce Wood
The Public Face(s) of Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire/"The Shop on the Corner of Wing's Lane", Alexandra Macdonald
These Graves and Ruinous Houses/So Pertinacious Has Been the Misery, Maddison Jane Rhoa
Watchful Waiting / Money Bags and Cannon Balls, William Sutherland
We Shall Remain: Indigenous Influence in Sixteenth-Century "La Florida" and the Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Arctic, Daniella F. Bassi
Who Have Always Been Secret Enemies/King of the Irish Traders, Ryan P. Langton
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A mass-produced yet "authentic" food : a transatlantic history of pasta, identity, and national values in Italy and the US, 1890 to 1974, Melissa Faith Gray
Blood Money: Sex, Family, and Finance in the Antebellum Slave Trade, Alexandra Jolyn Finley
Contesting Identity and Citizenship in National Parks, 1900-1935, Rebecca Capobianco
Crossroads of Empire: American Fenians Invade Canada, Skye Lynch
“Defenceless Wives” and “Female Furies” / Botany and the Early American Family, Holly Gruntner
Dolly Parton and Southern Womanhood / Race, Respectability, and Sexuality in the Mid-Century South, Madalyn Bell
Giles Corey as Man, Myth, and Memory / Identity, Family, and Tradition in the Lives of George Robert Twelves Hewes, Robert Twelves, and Boston’s Old South Church, Kaila Knight Schwartz
Masters of Light and Flight/ ”This Most Republican Amalgamation”, James Jonathan Rick
Migrant Nation-Builders: The Development of Austria-Hungary's National Projects in the United States, 1880S-1920S, Kristina Evans Poznan
Native Citizens and French Refugees: Exploring the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution, Frances Bell
Negotiating American Youth: Legal and Social Perceptions of Age in the Early Republic, Holly Nicole Stevens White
P.s. Don’T Tell My Mother: American Children Debate Race and Civil Rights, 1946-1991, Cara Anson Elliott
Reading the Gothic at Madame Rivardi's Seminary/Prodigal Sons and Virtuous Daughters, Emily Priscilla Wells
