Graduate Students

Recent Online Master's of Arts Theses in History and Area Studies

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Alvarez, Araceli The Media as an Image Maker/Breaker: The Case of Tina Modotti and Its Literary Representation History/AS 2000
Alvarez, Leticia  The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism History/AS 2001
Atkins, Jack Lawrence It Is Useless to Conceal the Truth Any Longer: Desertion of Virginia Soldiers From the Confederate Army  History 2007
Barden, Abbey R. Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's "Une Aventure Parisienne" and "Le Signe" History 2006
Bibby, Emily Katherine Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900 History 2009
Blackmon, Janiece L I Am Because We Are: Africana Womanism as a Vehicle of Empowerment and Influence History 2008
Boggs, Jeremy We the "White" People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902 History 2003
Bond, Jared Jefferson Competing Visions of America: The Fourth of July During the Civil War History 2007
Brennan, Matthew Philip The Civil War Diet History 2005
Bright, Eric W. "Nothing to Fear from the Influence of Foreigners:" The Patriotism of Richmond's German-Americans during the Civil War  History 1999
Coffman, Amy Virginia "To the Memory of Sweet Infants": Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia. History 2009
Cook, Emily Katherine Colonizing the Mind: The Library as a Site for Colonial American Identity Formation History 2009
Crawford, Aaron S. The Resurrection of Andrew Johnson: His Return to Tennessee Politics History 2002
Curtis, Christopher M. "Can These Be The Sons of Their Fathers" The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-1832 History 1997
Dandridge, Eliza Bourque Producing Popularity: The Success in France of the Comics Series "Astérix le Gaulois"   2008
Donaldson, Sharon Olivia Models and Their Artists: The Dichotomous Representation of Women in The Unknown Masterpiece, Manette Salomon and The Masterpiece History 2000
Dotson, Paul Randolph Sisson's Kingdom: Loyalty Divisions in Floyd County, Virginia, 1861-1865  History 1997
Evangelisti, Charles William To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada History 2009
Finck, James Wilford Honor and Duty to God and State: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention History 2002
Fonseca, Alberto Against The World, Against Life: The Use and Abuse of the Autobiographical Genre in the Works of Fernando Vallejo  History 2004
Fox, Jr., Carlton Trent The U.S.Army School of the Americas and U.S. National Interests in the 20th Century  History 2001
Gagnon, Heather Elizabeth Scandalous Beginnings: Witch Trials to Witch City History 1997
Gibson, Abraham Hill Confronting the Tree of Life: Three Court Cases in Modern American History History 2008
Grady, Timothy Paul On the Path to Slavery: Indentured Servitude in Barbados and Virginia during the Seventeenth Century  History 2000
Green, Henry Burke The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics History 2006
Greenwood, Anne Leslie For Country and For Home: Elite Richmond Women and Changing Southern Womanhood during the First World War  History 2008
Hebert, Keith Scott A Case Study in Nineteenth Century Medicine: Robert Ellett's Medical Practice, 1850-1904 History 2001
Hephner, Richard H. "Where Youth and Laughter Go": Trench Warfare from Petersburg to the Western Front History 1997
Krogh, Matthew Ostergaard The Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Civil War History 2006
Le Corre-Cochran, Victoria Ann Taking Control, Women of Lorient, France Direct Their Lives Despite The German Occupation (June 1940-May 1945) History 2002
Lee, Hyun Wu Living With the Redcoats: Anglo-American Response to the Quartering Acts, 1756-1776 History 2008
Lopez, Abel R "We have everything and we have nothing": Empleados and Middle-Class Identities in Bogota, Colombia: 1930-1955. History/AS 2001
Lovasz, Michelle Anne French Caribbean Women and the Problem of Empowerment: A look at "Moi, Tituba sorcière...Noire de Salem" and "Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle History/AS 2002
Magoia, Rosana Cecilia Imagined Contested Spaces: The Imaging of the Patagonian Region (1840-1881) History 2006
Martin, Ana Maria "Águila o sol" de Sabina Berman: una visión postmoderna de la historia de Mexico History/AS 2000
McCall, R. David "Every Thing in its Place" Gender and Space on America's Railroads, 1830-1899  History 1999
McCloud, Jennifer Sink Face Paint & Feathers: Ethnic Identity as Symbolic Resource in the Indigenous Movement of Ecuador History 2005
Mitchell, Sarah  Bodies of Knowledge: The Influence of Slaves on the Antebellum Medical Community History 1997
Murray, Robert Paul Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861 History 2008
Neely, Caroline Elizabeth "Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community History 2000
Newman, Lindsey M. Under an Ill Tongue: Witchcraft and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia History 2009
Nichols, James Andrew The Turning of a City's Soul: Norfolk's Public School Integration Crisis, 1954 - 1959 History 2003
Noble, Evan S. Marshall Plan Films and Americanization History 2006
Noyalas, Jonathan Alex "My will is absolute law" General Robert H. Milroy and Winchester, Virginia History 2003
Paxton, James W. B.  Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences History 1997
Peatman, Jared Elliott Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963 History 2006
Perez-Lagunes, Rosario  The Myth of La Malinche: From the Chronicles to Modern Mexican Theater History/AS 2001
Pierro, Joseph Everything in My Power: Harry S. Truman and the Fight Against Racial Discrimination History 2004
Razzino, Marianne Pauline Environmetal Education in Mexico: A Conetent Analysis of Primary School Textbooks History/AS 2003
Roberts, Kevin  African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms among Slaves in Virginia, 1740-1870  History 1999
Sebrell, Thomas E. A Regimental History of the 5th Michigan Infantry Regiment From Its Formation Through the Seven Days Campaign History 2004
Settle, Lori Louise From Bible to Babel Fish: The Evolution of Translation and Translation Theory History 2004
Shelton, Regan Virginia "The Case of Mary Phagan,'A Story About the Story of a Murder': Constructing a Crime"  History 1999
Stallard, Wendy Annette The Highland Charge and the Jacobite Rebellions  History 1999
Taylor, Sarah Elizabeth Remembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs History 2002
Teagle, Robert James Land, Labor, and Reform: Hill Carter, Slavery, and Agricultural Improvement at Shirley Plantation, 1816-1866 History 1998
Updike, Ryan William The Very Devil Was In the Elements: The American Civil War, Natural Awareness, and the Beginnings of the Forest Conservation Movement History 2009
Uribe Leon, Marcela La Vida en el Norte [Life in the North], Three Mexican Women in the Roanoke Valley  History 2005
Walters, Samuel P. Legal Associations: Modern United States Indian Policies and their Seventeenth-Century Antecedents History 2006
Williams, Leslie Ogg Access and inclusion: women students at VPI, 1914-1964 History 2006
Woodard, Robert Seth The Appalachian Power Company Along the New River: The Defeat of the Blue Ridge Project in Historical Perspective  History 2006
Wright, Robert Brian The Idealistic Realist: Mary McLeod Bethune, The National Council of Negro Women and the National Youth Administration  History 1999

 

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