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Original Intent; Original Dissent , Joan Astridl Lasswell Albrecht

A Spectral Return: Non-Metaphorical Ghosts, Monsters, And Hauntology , Kit Bauserman

The Cost Of Curls: Discrimination, Social Stigma, And Identity Oppression Of Black Women Through Their Hair , Sydney Baylor

Empire Of Fashion: Luxury, Commerce, And Identity In The Viceroyalty Of New Granada , Laura Beltrán-Rubio

Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’s Room To The Indian Boarding School , Angie Jocelin Leiva

Mapping The Contemporary American Public Sphere With Habermas, Deleuze, And Soderbergh , Hunter Main

The American Anthropocene: Spectral Literary Ecologies In Post-1945 Narratives , Zarah Quinn

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Refraction: The Prism Of Cultural Identity And How It Is Impacted By Grief And Storytelling , S. Aanjali Allegakoen

“So Pious An Institution”: Religion, Slavery, Education, and the Williamsburg Bray School , Nicole Catherine Nioma Brown

Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity In U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980 , Leah Kuragano

Famine, Trial, War: The Daily Worker during the Great Depression , Henry Hemple Prown

God's Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media And Mourning In American Evangelicalism , Colleen Kirkland Rodgers

When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration Of Black Girls’ Multimedia Fantasy Narratives As Sites Of Legacy, Lineage And Creative Freedom , Ravynn KaMia Stringfield

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Have Your Cake: Constructing A Confectionery Vernacular In The Great Depression , Sarah Elisabeth Adams

Two Sides Of The Same Token: An Examination Of Segregation, Memory, And White Supremacy In Contemporary Church Schools , Vania B. Blaiklock

Scheherazade At Ground Zero: Muslim Women’s Agency, Identity, And Space In Euro-America From The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition To The Islamic State , Alexandra M. Brandon

From Ship To Sarcophagus: The USS Arizona As A Navy War Memorial And Active Burial Ground / “A Date Which Will Live In Infamy”: Community Engagement At Pearl Harbor National Memorial And Museum , Shannon L. Bremer

“I Fixed Up The Trees To Give Them Some New Life:” Queer Desire, Affect, And Ecology In The Work Of Two Lgbtq+ Appalachian Artists/The Wildcrafting Our Queerness Project/The Queer Appalachia Preservation Project , Maxwell Mason Cloe

Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender , Hyunyoung Moon

Women In The Wilderness: An Exploration Of How Women Interacted, Adapted, And Thrived In The American Environment , Elizabeth Rall

(Dis)Embodied Professionalisms: Doctors & Scientists In U.s. Literature, 1895-1935 , Shaun F. Richards

“All The Work, Without The Workers”: Robotic Labor In The American Imaginary , Khanh Van Ngoc Vo

Are You Black First Or Deaf First: Binary Thinking, Boundary-Policing, And Discursive Racism Within The American Deaf Community , Micayla Ann Whitmer

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

"Surgical And Rigorous (Yet Always Fun)": Science, Sport, And Community In American Birding, 1950-1980 , Matthew Hayden Anthony

Fabric Makes The Woman: Rural Women And The Politics Of Textile Knowledge , Alison Rose Bazylinski

For Children Of The Sun Who Deserved Better When Pickaninnies Were Not Enough: The Celebration Of Childhood Within The Brownies' Book , Felicia Bowins

The Association For The Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities And The Weaponization Of Nostalgia In The Service Of White Identity , Sachi Carlson

Settler States Of Ability: Assimilation, Incarceration, And Native Women's Crip Interventions , Jessica Cowing

Ghosts In The Museum: The Haunting Of Virginia’s Public History , Mariaelena DiBenigno

Pest-Humanism: Race, Nation, And Sexuality In The Non/Human Imaginary , Lindsay Dealy Garcia

The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics In Virginia, 1619-1800 , Cathleene Betz Hellier

Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, And Musical Invention , Brian Edward Jones

Mother Of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism In HBO's Game Of Thrones , Abigail Kahler

Beyond The Podium: A Critical Analysis Of Three Online Learning Tools , Julia Kott

Insurgents On The Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, And Literary Dissent On America’s Gulf Coast , Jennifer Nicole Ross

"I Feel Your Pain": Service-Learning Programs And The Liberal Narrative Of Empathy , Molly Shilo

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality , Jan Huebenthal

Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism , Tyler Norris Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia , Janine Yorimoto Boldt

Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel , Frank Anthony Fucile

“Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference”: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann’s Southern Landscapes , Laura Keller

“When I Put on My Firespitter Mask”: Jayne Cortez’s (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations , Renee Michelle Kingan

Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity , Joseph Frank Lawless

Performative Circulations of St. Martín De Porres in the African Diaspora , James Patrick Padilioni, Jr.

Producing The Latina Disney Princess , Ashley Sarah Richardson

Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere , Nabeel Siddiqui

The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought , Taylor S. Stephens

Taking it to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.c. Punk , Ashleigh Mae Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Folk into Art: John Fahey, Modernism and the American Folk Revival , Lisa Carpenter

Material Literacy: Alphabets, Bodies, and Consumer Culture , Wendy Korwin-Pawlowski

Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Colonial Hawaii , Leah Kuragano

"I Figured You Were Probably Watching Us": Ex Machina and the Performativity of Lateral Surveillance , Kayla Danielle Meyers

The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled Detective in American Culture , David Camak Pratt

Escaping through the Past, Haunted by the Future: Confronting America through Child of God and the Underground Railroad , Zarah Victoria Quinn

Refining the Desert: The Politics of Wealth, Industrialization, and Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry , Sarah Stanford-McIntyre

Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Black Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'passing' in Marvel's Black Panther Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel, Incogengro , Ravynn K. Stringfield

Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889 , Amanda Stuckey

Songsters and Film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory , Ari Marie Weinberg

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Selling Race in America: Ideologies of Labor, Color, and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Advertising Imagery , Meghan Bryant

Oh Shenandoah! The Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work during Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870 , Donna Camille Dodenhoff

District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington , Seth Feman

Morbid Love: American Decadence in the 1890s , Nicolette Gable

Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World , Lindsay Garcia

"What Would Jesus Do?": Modern Revival in the Marketplace, 1896-2000s. , Jennifer L. Hancock

Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis , Travis Terrell Harris

The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century , Edward P. Hunt

Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750-1860 , Lindsay Mitchell Keiter

New South(Ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South , John Barrington Matthews

Cameras at Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1970 , William Brian Piper

Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas , Apostolos Rofaelas

Affective Economies of Activism: Reimagining Anti-Lgbtq Hate Crime , Helis Sikk

Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem , Jenna Simpson

Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Visual Culture , Lita Tirak

Uncanny Objects: The Art of Moving and Looking Human , Khanh Van Ngoc Vo

Between Third Reich and American Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939 , Christian Wilbers

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the "New York Ledger", and Sentimental Capitalism. , Kathryn Conner Bennett

The Corporate Person: How U.S Courts Transformed a Legal Phantom into a Powerful Citizen , Zachariah J. DeMeola

African American Civil Rights Museums: A Study of the R.R Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia , Christina S. Draper

The Black Gothic Imagination: Horror, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship from the Civil Rights Era to the New Millennium. , Mikal J. Gaines

Performing Jane: a cultural history of Jane Austen's fans in America , Sarah G. Glosson

"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", and the Sound of Resistance , Brian Edward Jones

Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America , Julia Kaziewicz

Making the Bronx Move: Hip-Hop Culture and History from the Bronx River Houses to the Parisian Suburbs, 1951-1984. , Kevin Waide Kosanovich

Staging the Asian American in Hong Kong: Examining Transcultural Performances of Asian American Identity in Hong Kong English Language Amateur Theatre Productions of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Yellow Face" , Iris Eu Loa Mein

Understanding "Roadkill" through an Animal Method , Linda Angela Monahan

The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans. , Elizabeth Clark Neidenbach

Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia. , Jackson Norman Sasser

Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939. , Kevin C. Valliant

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance , Benjamin Park anderson

"Strength for the Journey": Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors , Judith Anne Bledsoe Bailey

Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment: A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center , Jordan Margaret-May Ecker

Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906 , Zachary Michael Hilpert

Thoroughly Modern: African American Women's Dress and the Culture of Consumption in Cleveland, Ohio 1890-1940 , Deanda Marie Johnson

'I Get a Kick Out of You': Cinematic Revisions of the History of the African American Cowboy in the American West , Stephanie Anne Maguire

"Genuine made-in-Americans" : living machines and the technological body in the postwar science fiction imaginary, 1944-1968 , Kimberly Lynn Mann

Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute , Tyler Norris

"For How Could We Do without Sugar and Rum?": The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics , James Patrick Padilioni

Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right , Anna Catharine Rosenkranz

'The Scar Must Remain': Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series , Anna Murell Thompson

The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring , Shuting Zeng

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The Child Nutrition Cost of Weather Shocks in Nigeria , Danielle M. Abaya

Fourthspace: The Role of Active Social Inclusion in the Workforce Entry of Syrian Refugees in Scandinavia , Anisa Abeytia

Silent Weapon: A documentary on ending police corruption in Nigeria with a Nonviolent Social Movement , Damilola Adesanya

The Labor and Educational Effects of DACA: Evidence from California , Oscar A. Alonso Guerra

Effects of posttranslational modifications on metal ion binding to the antimicrobial peptide PG-KI , Tiffany Alvarez

Interest Convergence and Neoliberalism: Effects on Entry-Level Staff of Color Who Perform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education , Jesse N. Avila

The Armed Forces of Ukraine: From the Collapse of the Soviet Union to the Russian Invasion , Gunnar Bash

Covalent Inhibition of Enzyme Sortase A as a New Pathway Against Bacterial Resistance of Staphylococcus Aureus , Umyeena Bashir

Leave the Sea , Clare Bayard

How a Study Abroad Program Supports Its Students of Color: A Case Study , Hannah E. L. Bloom

Preparing to Engage Migrant-Origin Students through Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Handbook for Teachers , Grayson E. Briggs

Between Life and Death: Reimagining Black Reproductive Healthcare , Briana Britton

BRAIDING HEARTS/CORAZONES: THE HEALING OF INTERGENERATIONAL STORIES , Nicole A. Buchanan and Glendy V. Alvarez

The Impact of High Temperatures on Child Anthropometric Outcomes Worldwide , Natalia A. Cancino Garcia

Climate & Conflict: View into a Warming World , Faelynn Carroll

Restorative Justice: How Adult Practitioners Navigate Contested Learning Environments , Andrés Castañeda

Positive out of the Negative: Tracking Renewable Energy Projects in Central America , Jordan Ethan Castillo (Miner)

Tempers Rising: The Effect of Heat on Spite , Jake C. Cosgrove

Heat & Social Cooperation: The Effects of Thermal Stress on Altruism , Alexander J. Courtman

The United States and Spain Border Externalization Practices: A Comparison of their Functioning and Impact on Migrants' Rights , Jesús M. de la Torre Cañadilla

War and Genocide in Darfur and its Impact on Darfur society , Hamid Elshareif

Cost-a-lot of Evictions and Displacement: MEDA's Role in Community Organizing and the Impacts of the Costa-Hawkins and Ellis Acts , Henna Gandhi

Jakarta's Kampungs: An Analysis and Evaluation of Their Role in the City and Their Relationship with Urban Policy, Global Capital, and the Discourse of Development , Alberto Gardner López

Development and Economic Complexity of Mexican municipalities: based on their energy access and gross production. , Angelica Gloria Velasco

Post-Pandemic Digital Experiences & Attitudes Among Adult Immigrant ESOL Learners , Lacey D. Goodloe

INVISIBILITY: Bringing Statelessness to the Forefront of U.S. Political Advocacy , Claire G. Green

Ties that Bind: Allomaternal Care and Cooperation among Matrilocal and Patrilocal Northeast Indian Tribes , Shreeja Guha

Impacts of Rising Temperatures on Human Behavior with a Focus on Gender Differences , Stephanie Marie Emilia J. Hermoso

FOOD & CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RECIPES FOR UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY AMONG EMPRENDEDORAS INMIGRANTES IN THE BAY AREA , Mariel Hernandez

Heating Systems and Households’ Expenditure , Svitlana Holyk

"Filipino Enough": Racism and Filipino American Student Leadership , Janrey Millare Javier

Political Economy of General Normative Force in the Paris Agreement , Jonah B. Jellesed

The Relationship Between Economic Complexity and Income Inequality: A study on the United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas , Brooke Johnson

How Violence Shaped the Next Generation: Intergenerational Impacts of Abduction in Northern Uganda , Mansi Kalra

Impact of Long-Term Trauma Exposure on Competitiveness and Generosity , Anchal Khandelwal

Feeling the Heat: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Heat on Human Cooperation , Scott K. Klaus

From Instability to Civil Liberties: Nonviolent Resistance in Afghanistan , RACHEL L. KNOWLES

Liberté, Égalité, Identité: Media and the Construction of French National Identity , Hannah D. Lahey

Refugee Resettlement: Assessing the Quality of Reception in the Southeast U.S. , Adrian Laudani

GDPR, Privacy and Europe's Power Gambit , Daniel Maneloveg

The Invisible Brats: Bringing Attention to the Unique Experiences of Coast Guard-Connected Youth , Cameron A. Marshall

The Grid that Binds: The Renewable Energy Transition in Germany, France, and Italy , Katherine A. Mason

From Margins to Museums: Tracing the Evolution of Representation for Contemporary African Artists in the United States , Victoria Mouraux Durand-Ruel

Giving Birth To A Stateless Citizen: Gendered Citizenship Laws in International Human Rights. , Serena Nader

Parental Incarceration and Camp Hope: Does a Long-term Intervention Lead to Better Outcomes? , Alexa M. Nava

Agricultural Shocks on household stability: A Case study of Tanzania Maize Farmers , Zimmi Ndlovu

Agricultural Shocks on household stability: A Case study of Tanzania Maize Farmers , Zimmi Silonda Ndlovu

Empirical Evidence for the Emergence of Global General Normative Force in the Paris Agreement , Michael J. Nordquist

Abolition Ecologies and the Making of Freedom as a Place in Bayview-Hunters Point , Spencer Daniel O'Hara

CALLADITAS NO NOS VEMOS MÁS BONITAS: TESTIMONIOS OF MEXICAN MIGRANT CATHOLIC MOTHERS’ RESISTANCE TO MARIANISMO , Jessica Guadalupe Ornelas

No one to save, and everything to learn: Decolonial possibilities for global NGOs facilitating education in emergencies , Megan N. Patterson

Charcoal, Droughts, and Deforestation: Evidence from Mozambique , Kaitlin N. Paull

'Formation in Distinctive Dimensions of Our Way of Proceeding': Preparation of Lay Directors of Works in Jesuit Schools , Perry T. Petrich SJ

Campfire Connections to Ignite Change for Children with an Incarcerated Parent , Laura A. Pettinger and Alexa Nava

Mapping Effectiveness: Farm Mechanization Initiatives by Lumbini Province of Nepal (Fiscal Year 2018/19) , Ananda Phuyal

Three Presidencies: Presidential Influence, Internal Displacement, and Violence Trends in Colombia , Yvette A. Ramirez

Synchrotron Photoionization Study of Two Reactions, Alpha Angelica Lactone and Propargyl Alcohol Oxidation Initiated by O(3P) Atoms , Golbon Rezaei

Our Bodies are Our Stories: How Educators Impact the Educational Experiences of Fat Queer Students of Color , Elissa A. Rodriguez

“An Untold Story”: Voices of QTBIPOC Individuals Who Have Been Canceled Through Public Call Outs , Glorivette Rodriguez

Disruption of play behavior influences development of caution in juvenile ground squirrels , William Ryan

Forgotten Voices: United Nations, Human Rights, and Central America's Refugee Crisis , Vanessa A. Sanchez

The Association between High Medical Costs & Migration in the United States , Zuriel Sanders

Charity Begins at Home: Investigating How Culture Shapes In-Group Bias in Altruistic Behavior , Angira Shukla

Early life exposure to ENSO and adult human capital , Ashley J. Stewart

Sweet and Timely Insurance: The Role of Honey in Reducing Coffee Producer Food Insecurity Exposure in Mexico , Grant Xavier Storer

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adolescents’ Rights in Colombia: Between Invisibility and Incapacity , Linda María Urueña Mariño

The Central American Minors Program: Advocating for Private Sponsorship , Magaly Velasco-Escobar

Undocumented Latinos in California: The safety under AB 60 and vulnerability under Real ID , Ricardo Velazquez

The Right People in the Wrong System: Examining the Tension Between Nonprofit Individuals and Organizational Structure , Erin Vong

Understanding the Drivers of Meat Consumption in Norway: An Exploration of Environmental and Sociocultural Factors , Paul Wilhite

Feeling Status: What Emotion Reveals About Immigrant Relationships With The United States , Faith Johanna Williams

Nanodiscs: A novel approach to the study of the Methionine ABC Transporter System , Michael T. Winslow

Lemons and Other Grand Delusions , Jake A. Yarnold

Dialogues Between First-Generation Mexican American Female Students in Higher Education and their Parents , Rosa Elena Zavala Morales

Theses from 2022 2022

Are school districts supporting Queer high school students? A document analysis of Sacramento school district handbooks and websites , Jisel Suguey Aguirre Noriega

BETWEEN THE SKY AND EARTH , Swetha Amit

Degrowth and Catholic social thought: rethinking socio-economics for a planet in crisis , Chad G. Baron

Heterogeneous Effects in Matching Grants , Kaustri Bhattacharyya

Inaccessible Interpolated Imagery: How coffee farmers in the state of Chiapas might access political economic opportunity through representation , Paolo Fiann Bicchieri

Evolving Deforestation Narratives in Practice: A study of the UN-REDD+ Readiness Programme in Nigeria , Stuart Clive Blackwell

Women's Rights as Human Rights: A Spotlight on Women's Reproductive Rights and Structural Violence in Nigeria , Dominique C. Blakely

Violencia en Tránsito: Exploring the multiplicities of violence that shape Central American migrant women's experiences through Mexico and the role of Albergue Abba , Esmeralda Cardona

Mechanisms of Substrate Selectivity and Transport by Escherichia coli ATP- binding cassette (ABC) transporter MetNI , Yuchun Chen

Thermodynamic and Structural Quantification of Metal Ions Binding to the Antimicrobial Peptide Calcitermin , Sohee Choi

Examining Revolution through Breakfast Politics , Zachary Axel Clausen

The Role of African Non-National Storytelling in Challenging Xenophobic Discourses in Post-apartheid South Africa , Kelly Allyn Cruchett

Mining and Displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) , BUULO EMMANUEL

Does My Skin Tone Really Matter? A Socioeconomic Analysis in Nigeria. , Mutiu O. Fakorede

Can Social Support Ameliorate Burnout? , Timothy Finney

Acetylacetone Oxidation at Room Temperature: A Multiplexed Photoionization Mass Spectrometric Investigation, Study of the Russell Intermediates in Gas Phase Reactions, and the Investigation of Oxidation Reaction Products of Ethanol at Room Temperature , Sara Gallarati

IMPACT OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON CHILD NUTRITION IN ETHIOPIA , Juan S. Gomez

Borders, Bodies and Abuse: Exposing the Collusion of Australia and the United States in Transnational Refugee Deterrence , Kaytlin Hancock

THE EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM LATIN AMERICA IN THEIR TRANSITION OF GRADUATING AND FINDING A JOB IN THE UNITED STATES , Natalia Hernandez and Natalia Hernandez

It could be “Win-Win”: the US-China bilateral relationship , XIAYING HUANG

The modern-day effect of HOLC redlining on neighborhood development , Liubov Ivashov

Formal and Informal Styles of Clothing in the Assessment of Female Political Candidates , Erma Kurtovic

Using Machine Learning to Analyze Children’s Drawings as Indicators of Mental Well-Being , Nicholas R. Lawrie

Motives for (In)effective Giving: Comparing Rural and Urban Groups in South Africa. , Luvuyo Bulelani Magwaza

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Ellen Louis : “The Psychic Landscape of Slavery: Modern Consciousness and Damning Attachments”  Advisor: Tavia Nyong’o Committee Members: Erica Edwards, Saidiya Hartman (Columbia), Neferti Tadiar ( Barnard)     

Aanchal Saraf : “Atomic Afterlives, Pacific Archives: Unsettling the Geographies and Science of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands and Hawaiʻi” Advisor: Lisa Lowe; Committee Members: Mary Lui, Sunny Xiang, Maile Arvin (Utah)

Jacinda Tran : “ Search and Destroy: Southeast Asia/ns Through the Lens of U.S. Visual Warfare” Advisor: Mary Lui; Committee Members: Laura Barraclough, Lisa Lowe, Ana Ramos-Zayas

Caroyln Jacobs :  “Sanitizing Cinema: Public Health and the Regulation of American Motion Pictures, 1896-1920”  Advisors:  Francesco Casetti,  Charles Musser;  Committee Members:  Matthew Frye Jacobson, John Harley Warner

Maile Speakman : ”Tropical Connectivity: Race, Affect, and U.S. Digital Capital in Contemporary Havana”  Adivosr: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; Committee Members: Kathryn Dudley, Albert Laguna, Lisa Messeri

December 2022

Yuhe Faye Wang : “Bureaucratic Violence: Chinese Civil Rights, Racial Capitalism, and the Rise of Corporations” Advisors: Greta LaFleur, Mary Lui; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Inderpal Grewal

Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn : “Veins of Repression: US and Israeli Counterinsurgency in the Americas” Advisor: Matthew Jacobson; Committee Member: Roderick Ferguson, Gary Okihiro

Kristin Hankins : “Littered Landscapes: Trash, Visual Culture, and the Rise of Punitive Environmentalism in Philadelphia” Advisors: Laura Barraclough, Laura Wexler; Committee Members: Kathryn Dudley, Mary Lui

Clara Wilson Hawken : “Am I That Easy to Forget?: The Sounds and Forms of Black Women’s Labor in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Music Industry” Advisor: Daphne Brooks; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Mary Lui

Jub Sankofa : “All Kinds of Money”: Black Women on the Move and the Policing of Urban Alley Workers, 1900-1935” Advisor: Crystal Feimster; Committee Members: Caleb Smith, Laura Wexler

December 2021

Aleshia Barajas : “Lines and Spirals: Everyday Crossings at the US-Mexico Border” Advisors: Kathryn Dudley, Albert Laguna; Committee Members: Ana Ramos-Zayas, Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Sasha Sabherwa l: “Circuits of Faith: Transnational Religion, Caste, and Gender in the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora of the Pacific Northwest” Advisors:  Inderpal Grewal, Mary Lui; Committee Members: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Zareena Grewal

Mary Reynolds: “ Red Lives: Grassroots Radicalism and Visionary Organizing in the American Century” Advisor: Michael Denning; Committee Members: Beverly Gage, Matthew Jacobson, Priscilla  Murolo (Sara Lawence College)

December 2020

Najwa Mayer: “Making Muslim Americana: Formations and Contestations in Popular Culture” Advisors: Inderpal Grewal, Zareena Grewal; Committee Members: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Matthew Jacobson

Andrew Dowe : “Cruising Homophobias: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Triangulations of Empire” Advisors: Hazel Carby, Roderick Ferguson; Committee Members: Inderpal Grewal, Jafari Allen

Fadila Habchi : “Urban Imaginaries: The City and the Postcolonial Literary Imagination” Advisors: Hazel Carby, Christopher Miller; Committee Member: Inderpal Grewal

Ittai Orr : ”American Intelligences: Varieties of Mind Before IQ” Advisor: Michael Warner; Committee Members: Altschuler, Sari (Northeastern University),  Greta LaFleur, Caleb Smith

Camille Owens : “Blackness and the Human Child: Race, Prodigy, and the Logic of American Childhood” Advisor: Jacqueline Goldsby; Committee Members: Daphne Brooks, Crystal Feimster

Iliana Yami Rodriguez : ”Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016” Advisors: Stephen Pitti, Alicia Schmidt Camacho; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Albert Laguna

Randa Tawil : ”Routes of Race: Migrations between Greater Syria, Mandate Lebanon, and the United States 1881-1945” Advisors: Inderpal Grewal, Matthew Jacobson; Committee Members: Rosie Bsheer (Harvard), Sarah Gualtieri (USC University), Inderpal Grewal

Van Truong : ”The Utopics of Migrant Melancholia: Cultures and Practices of Memory in Contemporary Migrant Life” Advisor: Hazel Carby; Committee Members: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Michael Denning

Damian Vergara Bracamontes : ”The Administration of Illegality and Mexican Migrant Life” Advisor: Alicia Schmidt Camacho; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Albert Laguna, Stephen Pitti

Alexia Williams : ”Black Revolutionary Saints: Roman Catholicism & The U.S. Racial Imagination” Advisor: Daphne Brooks; Committee Members: Kathryn Lofton, Sally Promey

December 2019

Lucy Caplan : “The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Opera and African American Culture 1873-1932” Advisor: Daphne Brooks; Committee Members: Jonathan Holloway, Carol Oja (Harvard)

Lee (Lili) Johnson : “Family Production: Technologies of Asian American Family Formation” Advisor: Mary Lui; Committee Members: Vanessa Agard-Jones, Kathryn Dudley, Laura Wexler

Sebastián Pérez : “Beyond Borinquen: The Afterlives of Puerto Rican Nationalism in Diaspora, 1980 to the Present” Advisor: Alicia Schmidt Camacho; Committee Members: Albert Laguna, Stephen Pitti  

Courtney Sato : “Crossroads of the Pacific: Entanglements of Pan-Asianism, Anticonialism,and Internationalism, 1918-1939” Advisor: Mary Lui; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Wai Chee Dimock, Inderpal Grewal

Aaron Sweeney : “Blacks in the Citadel: Black Writers and Poets in Mainstream Publishing, 1945-1981” Advisor: Elizabeth Alexander; Committee Members: Anthony Foy (Swarthmore College), Jacqueline Goldsby, Amy Hungerford  

Jorge Cuellar :  ” Neoliberal Soils: Land, Society, and Everyday Life in Postwar El Salvador”  Advisor: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Michael Denning; Committee Members: Stephen Pitti

Molly Greene : “Deluge: On the Female Animal” Advisor: Sally Promey; Committee Members: Kathryn Lofton, Joanna Radin

Lauren Meyer : “Defending Black Womanhood: African American Women Lawyers and the Emergence of a Black Feminist Jurisprudence” Advisors: Crystal Feimster, Glenda Gilmore; Committee Members: Jonathan Holloway, Joanne Meyerowitz

Danya Pilgrim : “Gastronomic Alchemy: How Black Philadelphia Caterers Transformed Taste into Capital, 1790 to 1925” Advisors: Glenda Gilmore, Ed Rugemer; Committee Members: Daphne Brooks, Crystal Feimster

Pedro Regalado : “Reimagining Metropolis: Latina/os and the Making of New York” Advisors: Joanne Meyerowitz, Stephen Pitti; Committee Members: Laura Barraclough, Nathan Connolly (John Hopkins University)

Claire Schwartz : “A Sidelong Glance: Art, Archives, and Visions of Blackness in the Postmodern City”  Advisors: Kobena Mercer; Committee Member: Anthony Reed, Elizabeth Alexander

December 2018

Susie An : “Sovereign Beauty and Biopower in Post-Cold War South Korea, 1987-Present” Advisors: Mary Lui, Laura Wexler; Committee Member: Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Devin McGeehan Muchmore : “The Business of Sex: A Queer History of Pornography and Commercial Culture in 1970s America.” Advisors: Joanne Meyerowitz; Committee Members: Jean-Christophe Agnew, George Chauncey

Ila Tyagi : ”Extending the Eye: The American Oil Industry in Moving Images” Advisors: Charles Musser, Katie Trumpener; Committee Member: Paul Sabin

Bainbridge, Danielle:  “Refinements of Cruelty: Enslavement, Enfreakment, and the Performance Archive” Advisor: Joseph Roach; Committee Members: Daphne Brooks, Jafari Allen

Anya Montiel : “Intertwined Intermediaries: Fundamental Issues in Twentieth-Century Native American Art” Advisor: Ned Blackhawk; Committee Members: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Ned Cooke

Joseph Plaster : “Street Family: Queer Performativity in San Francisco’s Tenderloin ” Advisor: Kathryn Dudley; Committee Members: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Joseph Roach

Tina Post : “Deadpan Aesthetics in Black Expressive Culture” Advisor: Joseph Roach; Committee Members: Elizabeth Alexander, Daphne Brooks, Kathryn Lofton

December 2017

Melissa Castillo-Garsow: “A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture” Advisor: Alicia Schmidt Camacho; Committee Members: Albert Laguna, Stephen Pitti, Robert Stepto

Juliet Nebolon : “Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of Transpacific Empire” Advisor: Mary Lui ; Committee Members: Inderpal Grewal , Matthew Jacobson, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui    

Michael Amico : “The Union of the Two Henrys” Advisors: Laura Wexler, Alexander Nemerov; Committee Member: Edward Cooke

Jalylah Burrell : “Capacity for Laughter: Toward a Black Feminist Theory of Humor” Advisor: Daphne Brooks, Crystal Feimster; Committee Member: GerShun Avilez

Sigma Colon : “Watershed Colonialism and Popular Geographies of North American Rivers” Advisor: Michael Denning; Committee Members: Alicia Schmidt-Camacho, Katherine Morrissey

Rebecca Jacobs : “Manufacturing Green: The Reindustrialization of Brooklyn’s Waterfront” Advisor: Kathryn Dudley; Committee Members: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Dolores Hayden, Karen Hébert

Michelle Morgan : “Material Possessions: Race, Materiality, and the Limits of the Human in American Culture, 1820-1940” Advisor: Sally Promey; Committee Members: Matthew Jacobson, Kathryn Lofton

Kaneesha Parsard : “Improper Dwelling: Space, Sexuality, and Colonial Modernity in the British West Indies, 1838-1962” Advisor:  Inderpal   Grewal ; Committee Members: Hazel  Carby , Erica James

Andrew Seal : “The Common Man: An Intellectual History of the New Middle Class, 1880-1950 ” Advisor: Jean-Christophe Agnew; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Joanne Meyerwitz

Heather Vermeulen : “Archival Ecologies, Queer Kin-aesthetics: Thomas Thistlewood & the Plantation Grotesque” Advisors: Hazel Carby, Saidiya Hartman; Committee Member: Kobena Mercer

December 2016

Annie   Berke : “”You Just Type”: Women Television Writers in 1950s America” Advisors: Charles Musser, J.D. Connor; Committee Members: Ronald Gregg, Laura Wexler  

Melanie   Chambliss :”History in the Making: Black Archives and the Shaping of African American History” Advisor: Jonathan Holloway; Committee Members: Elizabeth Alexander, Jacqueline Goldsby

Khalil   Johnson : “The Education of Black and Indigenous People in the United States and Abroad, 1730-1980.” Advisor: Glenda Gilmore; Committee Members: Ned Blackhawk, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Lauren   Tilton :”In Local Hands: Participatory Media in the 1960s”  Advisor: Laura Wexler; Committee Members: Kathryn Dudley, Matthew Jacobson, Charlie Musser      

Quan Tran :”Anchoring Boat People’s History and Memory: Refugee Identity, Community and Cultural Formations in the Vietnamese Diaspora” Advisors: Mary Lui; Alicia Schmidt Camacho; Committee Members: Kathryn Dudley and Ben Kiernan     

Betsy Beasley : “ At Your Service: Houston and the Preservation of U.S. Global Power, 1945-2008 .” Advisor: Glenda Gilmore; Committee Members: Mary Lui, Jean-Christophe Agnew, and Jenifer Van Vleck

Andrew Hannon : “Acting Out: Performative Politics in the Age of the New Left and the Counterculture” Advisor: Michael Denning; Committee Members: Crystal Feimster, Matthew Jacobson     

December 2015

Talya Zemach-Bersin : “Imperial Pedagogies: Education for American Globalism, 1898-1950” Advisor:   Mathew Jacobson; Committee Members: Kathryn Dudley, Glenda Gilmore

Alison Kanosky : “Living Insecurity: Defense, Incarceration, and Community Destabilization” Advisor: Kathryn Dudley; Committee Members: Jean Christophe Agnew, Matthew Jacobson

Alice Moore : “When Can We Be American?: Texas Germans and the Identity Project” Advisor: Laura Wexler Committee Members: Mathew Jacobson, Alexander Nemerov

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Theses from 2024 2024.

Machine and Statistical Learning for Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility Systems , Atanas Apostolov, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2023 2023

The Current State of Practice of Building Information Modeling , Kevin P. Brooks, Civil Engineering

Loads Analysis of Fixed-Bottom and Floating Offshore Wind Structures , Michael G. Davis, Civil Engineering

Comparison Of Scaling Performance Between Sidewalks Placed Using Hot and Cold Weather Concreting Procedures , Likhitha Rudraraju, Civil Engineering

CORRELATION BETWEEN LABORATORY TESTING RESULTS AND IN-SITU SIDEWALK SCALING , Brian R. Shea, Civil Engineering

The Effects of Hurricane Wind Field Characteristics on Wind Blade Loads , Michael S. Tsai, Civil Engineering

Post-Fire Damage Inspection of Concrete Tunnel Structures , James Viglas, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2022 2022

Measuring Accessibility to Food Services to Improve Public Health , Efthymia Kostopoulou, Civil Engineering

Euplectella Aspergillum’s Natural Lattice Structure for Structural Design & Stability Landscape of Thin Cylindrical Shells with Dimple Imperfections , Zoe Y. Sloane, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2021 2021

Post-Fire Assessment of Concrete Tunnel Structures , Nicholas C. Menz, Civil Engineering

Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for the Estimation of Beam Corrosion of Steel Bridge Girders , Gabrielle Pryor, Civil Engineering

Parametric Study of Integral Abutment Bridge Using Finite Element Model , Asako Takeuchi, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2020 2020

School Bus Routing To Allow Later School Start Times , Rana Eslamifard, Civil Engineering

QUANTIFICATION OF THERMAL BRIDGING EFFECTS IN COLD-FORMED STEEL WALL ASSEMBLIES , Divyansh Kapoor, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2019 2019

Sustainable Travel Incentives Optimization in Multimodal Networks , Hossein Ghafourian, Civil Engineering

High Fidelity Modeling of Cold-Formed Steel Single Lap Shear Screw Fastened Connections , Rita Kalo, Civil Engineering

Modeling the Effect of New Commuter Bus Service on Demand and the Impact on GHG Emissions: Application to Greater Boston , Christopher Lyman, Civil Engineering

Performance of Concrete Tunnel Systems Subject to Fault Displacement , Michael Morano, Civil Engineering

Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Bridges with Closure Pour Connections and Diaphragms , Gercelino Ramos, Civil Engineering

Analysis of Adhesive Anchorage Systems Under Extreme In-Service Temperature Conditions , Rachel Wang, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2018 2018

Driver Understanding of the Flashing Yellow Arrow and Dynamic No Turn on Red Sign for Right Turn Applications , Elizabeth Casola, Civil Engineering

Evaluating the Impact of Double-Parked Freight Deliveries on Signalized Arterial Control Delay Using Analytical Models and Simulation , Aaron J. Keegan, Civil Engineering

Reward Allocation For Maximizing Energy Savings In A Transportation System , Adewale O. Oduwole, Civil Engineering

Impact of S-Curve on Speed in a Modern Roundabout , Akshaey Sabhanayagam, Civil Engineering

All-Red Clearance Intervals for Use in the Left-Turn Application of Flashing Yellow Arrows , Francis Tainter, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2017 2017

Evaluation of New England Bridges for Bat Roosting Including Methodology and Case Studies , Angela Berthaume, Civil Engineering

Evaluating Variances Between Departments of Transportation in New England to Create a Strategic Transportation Workforce , Chelsea Bouchard, Civil Engineering

Development of High Early-Strength Concrete for Accelerated Bridge Construction Closure Pour Connections , Stephanie Castine, Civil Engineering

I. THE HIGH STRAIN RATE RESPONSE OF HOLLOW SPHERE STEEL FOAM; II. THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF AN AMERICAN ELM TREE , Ignacio Cetrangolo, Civil Engineering

Performance of Adhesive and Cementitious Anchorage Systems , Mirna Mendoza, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2016 2016

Integrated Solar Technologies with Outdoor Pedestrian Bridge Superstructure Decking , Richard K. Racz, Civil Engineering

LIVE LOAD DISTRIBUTION FACTORS FOR HORIZONTALLY CURVED CONCRETE BOX GIRDER BRIDGES , Mohammed Zaki, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2015 2015

Bonded Anchors in Concrete Under Sustained Loading , Douglas Droesch, Civil Engineering

An Observational Evaluation of Safety Resulting from Driver Distraction , Christina M. Dube, Civil Engineering

Measuring the Resilience of Transportation Networks Subject to Seismic Risk , Mark N. Furtado, Civil Engineering

Nano-Scale Investigation of Mechanical Characteristics of Main Phases of Hydrated Cement Paste , Shahin Hajilar, Civil Engineering

Driver Behavior Evaluation of Variable Speed Limits and a Conceptual Framework for Optimal VSL Location Identification , Curt P. Harrington, Civil Engineering

A Real-time Signal Control System to Minimize Emissions at Isolated Intersections , Farnoush Khalighi, Civil Engineering

Structural Vulnerability Assessment of Bridge Piers in the Event of Barge Collision , David A. Ribbans, Civil Engineering

Towards Sustainable Roundabouts: An Evaluation of Driver Behavior, Emissions, and Safety , Derek Roach, Civil Engineering

Resilience of Transportation Infrastructure Systems to Climatic Extreme Events , Alexandra C. Testa, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2014 2014

Short and Long-term Performance of a Skewed Integral Abutment Prestressed Concrete Bridge , Rami Bahjat, Civil Engineering

Performance of Circular Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers Subjected to Vehicular Collisions , Nevin L. Gomez, Civil Engineering

Field and Analytical Studies of the First Folded Plate Girder Bridge , Man Hou Sit, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2013 2013

The Effect of Roadside Elements on Driver Behavior and Run-Off-the-Road Crash Severity , Cole D. Fitzpatrick, Civil Engineering

Evaluating At-Grade Rail Crossing Safety along the Knowledge Corridor in Massachusetts , Timothy P. Horan, Civil Engineering

An Evaluation of Alternative Technologies to Estimate Travel Time on Rural Interstates , Qiao Li, Civil Engineering

Operational and Safety-based Analyses of Varied Toll Lane Configurations , Ian A. Mckinnon, Civil Engineering

Preferred Sensor Selection for Damage Estimation in Civil Structures , Matthew Styckiewicz, Civil Engineering

An Evaluation of Drivers’ Cell Phone Use Prevalence and Safety Related Impacts , Keith E. Wenners, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2012 2012

Probabilistic Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbine Soil-Structure Interaction , Wystan Carswell, Civil Engineering

Vehicle Miles Traveled (vmt) Fee Financing Alternatives: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities , Ashley L. Costa, Civil Engineering

Evaluating and Modeling Traveler Response to Real-Time Information in the Pioneer Valley , Tyler De Ruiter, Civil Engineering

An Optimal Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Large-scale Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks , Jing Ding, Civil Engineering

A Quantitative Analysis of the Impacts from Selected Climate Variables Upon Traffic Safety in Massachusetts , Katrina M. Hecimovic, Civil Engineering

Automated Enforcement Using Dedicated Short Range Communication , Gilbert Kim, Civil Engineering

New Technologies in Short Span Bridges: A Study of Three Innovative Systems , Andrew Lahovich, Civil Engineering

Driver Dynamics and the Longitudinal Control Model , Gabriel G. Leiner, Civil Engineering

Interfacial Strength Between Prestressed Hollow Core Slabs and Cast-in-Place Concrete Toppings , Ryan M. Mones, Civil Engineering

User Equilibrium in a Disrupted Network with Real-Time Information and Heterogeneous Risk Attitude , Ryan J. Pothering, Civil Engineering

Spatial and Temporal Correlations of Freeway Link Speeds: An Empirical Study , Piotr J. Rachtan, Civil Engineering

Evaluation of Live-Load Distribution Factors (LLDFs) of Next Beam Bridges , Abhijeet Kumar Singh, Civil Engineering

Material Characterization and Computational Simulation of Steel Foam for Use in Structural Applications , Brooks H. Smith, Civil Engineering

Varied Applications of Work Zone Safety Analysis through the Investigation of Crash Data, Design, and Field Studies , Erica Swansen, Civil Engineering

Using Micro-Simulation Modeling to Evaluate Transit Signal Priority in Small-to-Medium Sized Urban Areas; Comparative Review of Vissim and S-Paramics Burlington, Vermont Case Study , Joseph C. Tyros, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2011 2011

Evaluating Alternative Toll-Based Financing Approaches: A Case Study of the Boston Metropolitan Area , Rosaria M. Berliner, Civil Engineering

Analysis of Measurement Errors Influence on the Quantitative and Qualitative Results of Car-Following Model Calibration , Mariya A. Maslova, Civil Engineering

Development of Anchorage System for Frp Strengthening Applications Using Integrated Frp Composite Anchors , Geoffrey N. Mcguirk, Civil Engineering

An Application of Spatially Based Crash Analyses and Road Safety Investigations to Increase Older Driver Safety , Deanna A. Peabody, Civil Engineering

Safety and Operational Assessment of Gap Acceptance Through Large-Scale Field Evaluation , Steven Maxwell Tupper, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2010 2010

Historic Bridge Evaluation Using Finite Element Techniques , Helena M. Charron, Civil Engineering

A Quantitative Analysis of the Impacts from Selected Variables Upon Safety Belt Usage in Massachusetts , Samuel W. Gregorio, Civil Engineering

Analysis of Curved Integral Abutment Bridges , Emre Kalayci, Civil Engineering

Material Characterization and Structural Response of Historic Truss Bridges , Sean L. Kelton, Civil Engineering

Earthquake Engineering Simulation with Flexible Cladding System , Jun Jie Li, Civil Engineering

Route Choice Behavior in Risky Networks with Real-Time Information , Michael D. Razo, Civil Engineering

Route Choice Behavior in a Driving Simulator With Real-time Information , Hengliang Tian, Civil Engineering

Investigation of the Behavior of Open Cell Aluminum Foam , Patrick J. Veale, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2009 2009

Computer-Assisted Emergency Evacuation Planning Using TransCAD: Case Studies in Western Massachusetts , Steven P. Andrews, Civil Engineering

Value of Traveler Information for Adaptive Routing in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks , He Huang, Civil Engineering

Analytical Modeling of Tree Vibration Generated during Cutting Process , Payman Karvanirabori, Civil Engineering

Optimal Adaptive Departure Time Choices with Real-Time Traveler Information Considering Arrival Reliability , Xuan Lu, Civil Engineering

Seismic Energy Dissipation of Steel Buildings Using Engineered Cladding Systems , Quan Viet Nguyen, Civil Engineering

Developing an Evaluation Approach to Assess Large Scale Its Infrastructure Improvements: I-91 Project , Melissa Paciulli, Civil Engineering

Enhancing Concrete Barrier Reflectivity With A Focus On Recycled Glass Aggregate Replacement , Regina Shklyan, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2008 2008

Performance Evaluation Of Existing Steel And Concrete Girder Bridges Through Non-destructive Live-load Testing , Andrew E. Jeffrey, Civil Engineering

Evaluation of Traffic Simulation Models for Work Zones in the New England Area , Pothu Raju Khanta, Civil Engineering

The Application of Traffic Calming and Related Strategies in an Urban Environment , Stacy A. Metzger, Civil Engineering

Terrazzo Cracking: Causes and Remedies , Michael J. Mitchell III, Civil Engineering

Anchorage of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers to Reinforced Concrete in Shear Applications , Carl W. Niemitz, Civil Engineering

Measurement and Computational Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Parallel Strand Lumber , Russell S. Winans, Civil Engineering

An Evaluation of Simulation Models To Assess Travel Delay In Work Zones , Fan Wu, Civil Engineering

Theses from 2007 2007

An Analysis Of The Saftey Effects Of Crosswalks With In-pavement Warning Lights , George Gadiel, Civil Engineering

The Development of a Dynamic-Interactive-Vehicle Model for Modeling Traffic Beyond the Microscopic Level , Dwayne A. Henclewood, Civil Engineering

A Comparative Evaluation of Crash Data Quality Identification Methods , Arianna M. Mickee, Civil Engineering

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• Aarlien, Peggy F. "The Alan Lomax Photographs and the Music of Williamsburg." ( M 2010).
• Adams, Sarah E. "A dollar book for a dime!: The Vernacular of Cheapness and the Beadle Dime Handbooks."  ( M 2012).
• Adams, Sarah E.  " Have Your Cake: Constructing a Confectionery Vernacular in the Great Depression." ( P  2021).
• Adkins, Katrin L . "Performing Race: Instances of Color Representation in American Culture." ( M 2003).
• Anderson, Benjamin. "Blue Notes and Brown Skin: Five African-American Men and the Music they Created in Regards to the Civil Rights Movement." ( M  2005).
• -------- .  "Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance." ( P  2014).
• Anderson, Crystal Suzette.  "Far From 'Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Culture." ( P  2000).
• Anglin, Merit E. "Gone to the Dogs: Canine Capital and the Management of Biopolitical Fitness in American Literature and Culture, 1835-Present." ( P 2012).
• Anthony, Matthew. "Surgical and Rigorous (Yet Always Fun): Science, Sport, and Community in American Birding, 1950-1980." ( P 2020).
• Ashe, Bertram Duane. “From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction.” ( P 1998).
• Aube , Christine Lokotsch. “The Enduring Villain: Germans as Nazi Stereotypes in American Cinema.” ( M 1998).

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• Bailey, Judith Bledsoe. “ ‘Faithful Child of God': Nancy Towle, 1796-1876.” ( M 2000).
• --------.  "Strength for the Journey: Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors." ( P  2014).
• Baird, Bruce Chandler, Jr. “New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake , 1660- 1706.” ( M 1990).  
• Baker, Wendy Joyce. “A Sketch of Sufferings: Power and Patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia , 1750-1755.” ( M 1992).
• Barnard, Timothy Lawrence. “Putting Masculinity into Words: Hemingway's Critique and Manipulation of American Manhood.” ( M 1994).
• --------.  “Far Out past: Hemingway, Manhood, and Modernism.” ( P  2005).
• Barnett, LaShonda. "'Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style and Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, and Cassandra Wilson." ( P 2012).
• Barry, Andrew.  "Domestic Brick Architecture in Williamsburg: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Brick Homes in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston." ( M  2004).
• Barry, Laura Pass. “Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century.” ( M 2004).
• Bates, Christina Jean. “Prescription and Practice: A Comparison of Child-Care Manuals, Fashion Journals and Mail-Order Catalogues on the Subject of Children's Dress, 1875-1900.” ( M 1989).
• Battaile , Anne Bayne. “Mysterious Messages: Masonic Images in Baltimore Album Quilts.” ( M 2000).
• Bauer, Susan W. "The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal and the Rise of Public Confession." ( P 2007).
• Bazylinski, Alison. "Fabric Makes the Woman: Rural Women and the Politics of Textile Knowledge." ( P 2020).
• Bennet, Kathryn. "The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the New York Ledger, and Sentimental Capitalism." ( P 2015).
• Berg, Susan Stromei. “Agent of Change or Trusted Servant: The Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Press.” ( M 1993).
• Bickham , Angela A.  Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods: The many images of maroons throughout the American South. ( M 2004).
• Bigler , Philip. “John Leacock's ‘The Fall of British Tyranny' in the Whig Propaganda Offensive: The Personalization of Resolution.” ( M 1984).
• Bishop, Lisa Brenner. “A Social History of the Private Fence in Nineteenth- Century America.” ( M 2000).
• Blaiklock, Vania.  "Two Sides of the Same Token: An Examination of Segregation, Memory, and White Supremacy in Contemporary Church Schools." ( M 2022).
• Blanchard, Jennifer P. "More or Less Than Kind : Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." ( P 2007).
• Bly, Antonio T. “Intertextual [ sic ] Cadences, ‘When Wants and Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot': Excavating Phyllis Wheatley's Transcending Voice of Accent.” ( M 1999).
• --------. "Breaking with Tradition: Slave Literacy in Early Virginia, 1680-1780." ( P 2006).
• Boldt, Janine. "The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia." ( P 2018).
• Boulton, Alexander Ormond. “Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of an Age.” ( M 1993).
• Bowles, Juliette Harris. “Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol and Function of African- American Women's Self-Creation.” ( M 1990).
• Bradford, Robert Dale. “When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia.” ( M 1986).
• Bransford , Stephen Henry. “Unstable Compounds: Progressive and Regressive Impulses in Four Contemporary American Documentaries and the Prospect For Social Change.” ( M 1996).
• Broadwater, John David. “ Yorktown Shipwreck 44YO88: Stores and Cargo from A British Naval Supply Vessel from the American War for Independence.” ( M 1989).
• Brown, Bridget Mary. “Domestic Ideology and the Social Construction of Mammy.” ( M 1994).
• Brown, Darryl K.  "Racism and Race Relations in the University." ( M  1991).
• Brown, Jarrett Hugh. "Black Masculinities as Marronage: Claude McKay's Representations of Black Male Subjectivities in Metropolitan Spaces." ( P 2011).
• Bruggeman , Seth Charles. “The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse.” ( M 2000).
• --------.  “Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory and the Creation of a National Monument.” ( P 2006).
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• Ramsier , Allen Lewis. “Picturesque America : Packaging America for Popular Consumption.” ( M 1985).
• Rawles, Susan. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South.” ( P 2000).
• Reeder, Sarah E. "Reevaluating the Carnegie Survey : New Uses for Frances Benjamin Johnston's Pictorial Archive." ( M 2007).
• Reilley , Karen Merry. “Preserving Virginia 's Vision of the Past.” ( M 1998).
• Richardson, Ashley. "Producing the Latina Disney Princess." ( M 2018).
• Richardson, Kari S. “A World of Goods: The Printer's Economy in Eighteenth- Century Virginia .” ( M 2000).
• Richter, Caroline Julia. “The Prentis Family and their Library.” ( M 1985).
• Roberts, Luke Edward. “Colonial Virginia , National Identity, and Cold War Patriotism.” ( M 2004).
• Rodgers, Colleen.  “God’s Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media and Mourning in American Evangelicalism.” ( M  2022).
• Rofaelas, Apostolos. "Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literatures of the Americas." ( P 2017).
• Rose, Annjeanette C. “Remembering to Forget: Gone with the Wind , Roots , and Consumer History.” ( M 1993).
• Rose , Melinda Cameron Hapeman. “Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the Manufacturing of a New Social Reality in Richmond, Virginia .” ( M 2002).
• Rosenkranz, Anna C.  "Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of 'Truth' in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right." ( M  2014).
• Rosenthal, James E. "Interpreting Green Design in Old Buildings." ( M 2008).
• Ross, Jennifer. "Insurgents on the Bayou: Hurricane Katrina, Counterterrorism, and the Literary Dissent on America's Gulf Coast." ( P 2020).
• Rowe, Linda Hunter. “People the Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders in York County , Virginia , 1699-1780.” ( M 1989).
• Royse, Lisa Gail. “William M. McClaskey: A Tavern Keeper in His Community, 1834-1844.” ( M 1990).
• Sargent, Andrew. "A New England State of Mind: Identity and Commodification in Yankee Magazine, 1935-1942." ( M 2011).  
• Sasser, Jackson N. "Escaping into the Prison Civil War Round Table." ( M 2008).
• --------. "Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia." ( P  2015).
• Saunooke, Annette B. "Cherokee Royalties : The Impact of Indian Tourism on the Eastern Band Cherokee Identity." ( M 2004).
• Scaro , Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump. . . and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the AmericanSports Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” ( M 1993).
• Schoel , Gretchen Ferris. “In Pursuit of Possibility: Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution.” ( M 1992).
• --------. "America.jp : Identity, Nationalism, and Power on the Internet, 1969-2000." ( P 2004).
• Scott, Angela . “The Not-So-Public History of Colonial Williamsburg's Port Resident-Ferrykeepers: Interpreting the Moody Family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781.” ( M  2013).
• Scott, Kathleen. “An Officer and a Lady.” ( M 2001).
• --------. "Recipe for Citizenship: Professionalization and Power in WWI Dietics." ( P 2009).
• Sentilles , Renee M. “Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey.” ( P 1997).
• Shen, Han. “Integrating the Personal and Political: the Body Politics in Daughter of Earth.” ( M  2005).
• Shepard , Cindy R. “An Introduction to Artist A.B. Jackson and His Portrayal of the American Neighborhood.” ( M 1984).
• Shilo, Molly. "I Feel Your Pain: Service-Learning Programs and the Liberal Narrative of Empathy." ( M 2019).
• Shine, Matthew David. “Gotta Travel On: A View of the American Road from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975.” ( M 1992).
• Siddiqui, Nabeel. "Byting out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere." ( P 2018).
• Sikk, Helis. "Affective Economies of Activism: Reimagining Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime." ( P 2016).
• Simpson, Jenna A. "Screening the Revolution: Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot as Historic Artifact, History Film, and Hegemonic Struggle." ( M 2007).
• --------. "Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem." ( P 2016).
• Singleton, Elizabeth Marie. “Julia Gardiner Tyler: A President's Bride and Plantation Mistress in the Age of Domesticity.” ( M 1986).
• Smart, Ann Morgan. “The Urban/Rural Dichotomy of Status Consumption: Tidewater Virginia , 1815.” ( M 1986).
• Smith, Erica J. “Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission and Servanthood in Rhetoric of the Promise Keepers.” ( M 2002).
• Smith, Michaele . “You Can't Say 'No' To A Soldier: Sexual Violence in the United States during WWII.” ( P 2013).
• Smith, Sibley Judson, Jr. “Selling America in the Seventeenth Century: The Contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the Establishment of the English Colony in America .” ( M 1992).
• Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. "What's a Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing About Vampires?" Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." ( M 2011).
• Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. “ ‘So That I Get Her Again': African American Slave Women Runaways in Selected Richmond , Virginia , Newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond , Virginia , Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843.” ( M 1996).
• -------- .  “Absconded: Fugitive Slaves in the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834-1844,” ( P  2005).
• Spady , James O'Neil. “Friendly Meetings: The Art of Conquest and the Mythical Origins of Pennsylvania , ca. 1620-1771.” ( M 2001).
• --------.  “Like the Spider from the Rose:’ Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s-1820s.” ( P  2006).
• Spear, Laura Mame. “Censorship, Cyberspace, and Community Standards: American Responses to On-line Obscenity.” ( M 1996).
• Speckart, Amy. "A Colonial History of Wye Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power ( P 2011).
• Sprinkle, Mark Edgar E. “The Kids are (All) Right: Baby-boomers and the Rhetoric of Childhood in the Picture Books of Chris van Allsburg.” ( M 1993).
• --------. “Picturing Home: Domestic Painting and the Ideologies of Art.” ( P  2004).
• Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. "'What is Best and Most Typical': Nostalgia, Transgression, and Capitalism at the Virginia State Fair. ( M 2012).
• -------. "Refining the Desert: the Politics of Wealth, Industrialization, and Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry." ( P 2017).
• Stanton, Carol Ann McGowan. “Transitional Women in the Southern Works of Constance Fenimore Woolson.” ( M 1988).
• Stark, Susan Ann. “American Identity and the Wild West Show, 1880-1910.” ( M 2002).
• Stephens, Taylor. "The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought." ( M 2018).
• Stevens, Sarah. “Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead’s reconstruction of adolescence for the 1920s.” ( M  2005).
• Stewart, Brian. “The Squared Circle and that Household Box: The Relationship Between Wrestling, Television and American Culture.” ( M 2001).
• Stewart, Janet Elizabeth. “Friends Departed Live: A Study of the Relationship Between Schoolgirl Mourning Pictures, Female Education, and Cultural Attitudes Toward Death in Early Nineteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts .” ( M 1987).
• Straube , Beverly Bogley. “Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination of the Evidence.” ( M 1990).
• Stringfield, Ravynn. "Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'Passing' in Marvel's 'Black Panther' Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel 'Incognegro'" ( M 2018).
• --------. "When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration of Black Girls' Multimedia Fantasy Narratives as Sites of Legacy, Lineage and Creative Freedom." ( P  2022).
• Stuckey, Amanda. "Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889." ( P 2017).
• Suber , Lauren Jessica Brown. “Ritual, Roots, and Rectangles: Classical Tradition in Early American Portraiture.” ( M 1992).
• Subramanian , Alexandra Michos.  “Caroline Gordon's Christian Vision: A Conservative Empowerment.” ( M   1992).
• -------- .  “Katherine Anne Porter and Her Publishers.” (  P  2001).
• Sui, Wu. "Chinese Immigrants to America: Historical and Thematic Dimensions." ( M  1990). 
• Sutton, Matthew. "Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians' Autobiographies." ( P 2011).
• Swenson, Benjamin A. "Postbellum Education of African Americans : Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester." ( M 2004).
• Symons, Andrea L.D. “Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer from Toast to Gangsta Rap.” ( M 2003).
• Talbot, Melinda Grace. “Producing the Past: Museums, Reproductions, Consumers, and Authenticity.” ( M 1998).
• Taormina , Mary Frances. “A Social Historical Exploration of the Popularity of “The Rockford Files.” ( M 1989).
• Tharp, Brent Warren. “Preserving their Form and Features: The Role of Coffins in the American Understanding of Death.” ( P 1996).
• Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa.  "From the Unpublished to the Refined: The Evolution of the Furniture Trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s." ( P 2013).
• Thompson, Anna.  "The Scar Must Remain: Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series." ( M 2014).
• Thompson, Nancy L. "The Friendship Fest: Perfecting Friendship Through Transnational Musical Performance." ( M 2008).
• Tirak, Lita. "The American Grotesque: Liberal Idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's Science in Story." ( M 2010).
• --------. "Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Art visual Culture." ( P 2016).
• Tramposch , William Joseph. “The Seminar for Historical Administration: Companion to Change.” ( M 1984).
• Valliant, Kevin. "Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939."   ( P 2015). 
• Vaughn, Carol Van Dessel. “Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian: Myth and Disillusionment.” ( M 1984).
• Veder , Robin Maremant. “Dying Virgins and Mourning Mothers: A Study in American Mourning Iconography.” ( M 1995).
• --------. “How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture.” ( P 2000).
• Vera, Kristi Marie. “Athletic Women in Fiction and Fact: The Portrayal of Women Involved in Athletic Activity in Novels from 1890-1920.” ( M 1992).
• Verplanck , Anne Ayer. “Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter.” ( M 1990).
• --------. “Facing Philadelphia : The Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerrotypes, 1760-1860.” ( P 1996).
• Veselits , Karen Rose. “ ‘Prologue to a Life': Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years.” ( P 2001).
• Vo, Khanh. "Uncanny Objects: the Art of Moving and Looking Human." ( M 2016).
• Waite, Rebecca S.L. “Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality and Virginia Woolf: A Study in Feminism.” ( M 1998).
• Walker, Corey D.B. “ ‘The Freemasonry of the Race': The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia .” ( P 2001).
• Wang, Helen Ye-Hua. “ ‘Our Street-Strutting Language': Asian American Rappers in a Hip-Hop Nation.” ( M 2002).
• Warner, Caroline E. "'Let all things be done decently and in order' : Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches." ( M 2009).
• Watkins, Sarah Howard. “The Negro Building : African-American Representation at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.” ( M 1994).
• Weinberg, Ari. "Songsters and film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory." ( M 2017).
• Wesley, Deborah Rae. “An Isolating and Repressive Force: The Image of the Southern Lady in the Work of Lee Smith.” ( M 1990).
• Westcot, Andrea.  "Outlaw Reproduction: Childbearing and the Making of Colonial Virginia, 1634-1785." ( P  2014).
• White, William E. “Charlatans, Embezzlers, and Murderers: Revolution Comes to Virginia , 1765-1775.” ( P 1998).
• Wierich , Jochen. “The Domestication of History in American Art.” ( P 1998).
• Wilbers, Christian. "Between Third Reich and American Way - Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939." ( P 2017).
• Wilder, Eli T. “ ‘Traveling the White Man's Road': The Quest for Identity in Hampton 's Indian Newspaper, 1886-1907.” ( M 1998).
• Williams, Ashleigh. "Taking It to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.C. Punk." ( M 2019).
• Williams, Margaret Keeton. "Strategic Victimization: News Photographs, The Birmingham Children's Crusade, and the Revisualization of America." ( M 2011).
• Willis, Anne Romberg. “The Master's Merry: Slave Prosecutions and Punishments in York County , Virginia , 1700 to 1780.” ( M 1995).
• Wood, Meredith Abner. “Breaking the Formula: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction.” ( M 1990).
• Woodward, Henry Canning. “Rock ‘n' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones and Blues Music Through the Looking Glass of American Culture in the 1960s.” ( M 1992).
• Wright, Sarah Bird. “Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur.” ( P 1995).
• Yaguchi , Yujin. “Japanese Business in the United States : Unintentional Definition of the Other.” ( M 1991).
• --------. “The Ainu in U.S.-Japan Relations.” ( P 1999).
• Yamazato , Akiko. “Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California : Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans.” ( M 2003).
• Yorimoto, Janine. “To draw pleasure and instruction: Robert Gilmor, Jr. and Collecting the Early Republic." ( M 2013).
• Yost, Jonathan. “Fixing What Has Been Broken: The United States' Actions in the Aftermath of the Looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 Invasion.”( M  2013).
• Zeng, Shuting. "The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring." ( M 2014).
• Zheng, Juan. "African American cultural products and social uplift, the end of the 19th century - the early of the 20th century." ( M 2004)
• Zuber , Sharon Lynne. “Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema.” ( P 2004).

African American

• Anderson, Crystal Suzette. “Far From Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Fiction.” ( P 2000).
• Barnett, LaShonda K. "'Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style & Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone & Cassandra Wilson." ( P 2012).
• Bickham , Angela A.  Father wasn't de onlies' one hidin' in de woods: the many images of maroons throughout the American South. ( M 2004).
• Brown, Bridget Mary. “Domestic Ideology and the Social Construction of the Mammy.” ( M 1994).
• Clark, Regina A. "The Brownies' Book : An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood. ( M 2009). 
• Devlin, Erin Krutko. "Justice is a Perpetual Struggle: Public Memory and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis." ( P 2011).
• Edmonds , Kristin Margaret. “Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.” ( M 1996).
• Edward-Ingram, Ywone.  “Medicating Slavery: African-American Motherhood, Health Care, and Cultural Practices in the African Diaspora.” ( P  2005).
• Gaines, Mikal . "The Black Gothic Imaginary: Horror, Spectatorship, and Black Subjectivity in American Cinema from 1960 to the New Millennium." ( P 2015).
• Harris, Travis. "Lost Tribe of Magruder: The Untold Story of the Navy's Dispossession of a Black Community." ( P 2019).
• Hellier , Cathleene Betz.  "The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics in Virginia, 1619-1800." ( P 2020).
• Johnson, Deanda Marie. "Seeking the Living Among the Dead: African American Burial Practices in Surry County,Virginia." ( M 2004).
• Johnson, Tova J . "Performance of Black Female Sexuality in a Hip Hop Magazine." ( M 2008).
• Kosanovich, Kevin. "Building A Bronx Movement:  A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." ( P 2015).
• Lankford, Kimberly Elaine.  “Frederick Douglass's Intended Audiences for his Antebellum Autobiographies.” ( M 1991).
• Maguire, Stephanie.  "I Get a Kick Out of You: Cinematic Revisions of the History of African Americans in the American West." ( M  2014).
• Neidenbach, Elizabeth. "The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community." ( P 2015).
• Padilioni, James.   "For How Could We Do Without Sugar and Rum? The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics." ( M  2014).
• Peake, Laura Ann . “The Manassas School for Colored Youth, 1894-1916.” ( M 1995).
• Pickens, Roxanne Victoria . “Notions of Refinement and Displays of Dignity in African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935.” ( M 2000).
• -------- .  "Dark Play: Ethnicity and Festivity in Jazz Age Literature and Popular Culture." ( P  2014).
• Piper, William B. "'You just had that gut feeling' : Film, Memory, and the Lynching of James Byrd, Jr." ( M 2006).
• Plater, Michael Andre . “R.C. Scott: A History of African-American Entrepreneurship in Richmond , 1890-1940.” ( M 1993).
• Pruitt, Hollis.  “No Longer Lost at Sea: Black Community Building In the Virginia Tidewater, 1865 to the post-1954 Era.” ( P  2013).
• Scaro, Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump…and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the American Sports Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” ( M 1993).
• Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. “ ‘So that I Get Her Again': African American Slave Women Runaways in Selected Richmond , Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, and the Richmond , Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843.” ( M 1996).
• Stringfield, Ravynn. "When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration of Black Girls' Multimedia Fantasy Narratives as Sites of Legacy, Lineage and Creative Freedom." ( P  2022).
• Swenson, Benjamin A . "Postbellum Education of African Americans : Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester." ( M 2004).
• Symons, Andrea L.D. “Unrapping the Gangsta: The Changing Role of the Performer From Toast to Gangsta Rap.” ( M 2003).

African Diaspora

• Padilioni, James. "Iconographic and Performative Ciculations of St. Martin de Porres in the African Diaspora." ( P 2018).

American Literature

• Anderson, Crystal Suzette. “Far From ‘Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Fiction.” ( P 2000).
• --------.  “Far out past: Hemingway, Manhood, and Modernism.” ( P  2005).
• Bly, Antonio T. “Intertextual [sic] Cadences, ‘When Wants and Woes Might Be Our Righteous Lot': Excavating Phyllis Wheatley's Transcending Voice of Accent.” ( M  1999).
• Bradford, Robert Dale. “When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia.” (M 1986).
• Burr, Sandra . “Science and the Imagination in Anglo-American Children’s Literature, 1760-1855.” ( P  2005).
• Chaltain, Samuel Spelman. “ ‘The Poet, the Poem, and the People': Etheridge Knight's American Counterpoetics.” ( M 1999).
• DeBrava, Valerie. “Authorship and Individualism in American Literature.” ( P 2000).
• Edmonds, Kristin Margaret. “Mouth with Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, and Authorship in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.” ( M 1996).
• Felker, Christopher D.  "Sailing the Zig-Zag Course of a Hundred Tacks: R.W. Emerson's 'Each and All." ( M  1988).
• Galante, Vera do Val. “Conspicuous Presence: Tom Wolfe's One Man Show.” ( M 1992).
• Ghaemmaghami, Amy Carol. “Milk Enough for All: The African-American Woman's Quest for Identity and Authority in Toni Morrison's Beloved .” ( M 1990).
• Keller, Laura. "Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann's Sothern Landscapes." ( M 2018).
• Kidd, David.  “History Written With Lightning”: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Rise and Fall of Thomas Dixon, Jr.” ( P   2013).
• Kingan, Renee. "When I Put on My Firespitter Mask: Jayne Cortez's (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations." ( P 2018).
• Lankford, Kimberly Elaine. “Frederick Douglass's Intended Audiences for his Antebellum Autobiographies.” ( M 1992).
• Luff, Jennifer D . “A Parlor in the Penitentiary: Prisons and Reading in Victorian America.” ( M 1996).
• Mann, Kimberly L. "The First Thing Out The Window : Race, Radical Feminism, and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time." ( M 2009).
• Miller, John D . "Buck-Horned Snakes and Possum Women: Non-White Folklore, Antebellum Southern Literature and Interracial Cultural Exchange." ( P 2010).
• Neel, Hildy Michelle.  “Out of Left Field: William Saroyan's Thirties Fiction as a Reflection of the Great Depression.” ( M   1992).
• Neidenbach, Elizabeth.  "The Woman, the Legend, the Power: Fictional Representations of Marie Laveau in Twentieth Century Literature." ( M  2005).
• O'Dell, Margaret Darlene. “Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.” ( P 1997).
• Rofaelas, Apostolos. "Creolized Histories: Hybrid Literature of the Americas." ( P 2017).
• Shen, Han.  “Integrating the Personal and Political: the Body Politics in Daughter of Earth.” ( M  2005).
• Subramanian, Alexandra Michos . “Katherine Anne Porter and Her Publishers.” ( P  2001).
• Valliant, Kevin. "Fears in Concrete Forms: Modernity and Horror in the United States; 1880-1939."   ( P 2015).
• Vaugh , Carol Van Dessel. “Mark Twain, Richard Irving Dodge, and the Indian: Myth and Disillusionment.” ( M 1984).
• Vera, Kristi Marie. “Athletic Women in Fiction and Fact: The Portrayal of Women Involved in Athletic Activity in Novels from 1890-1920s.” ( M 1992).
• Veselits , Karen Rose. “ ‘Prologue to a Life': Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years. 1926-1934.” ( M 2001).
• Waite, Rebecca S.L. “Katherine Anne Porter's Old Mortality and Virginia Woolf: A Study in Feminism.” ( M 1999).

Animal Studies

• Monahan, Linda . "Understanding 'Road Kill' through an Animal Method." ( M 2015).

Art History

• Chasse, Sarah . "A Certain Kinship: The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932." ( M 2011).
• Chieffo, Toby Maria . “Joshua Johnson: Filling the Lacunae.” ( M 1995).
• Cohen, Matthew . “Framing the Woman Artist: Gender and Art in Howells and Sargent.” ( M 1995).
• --------. "District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington." ( P 2017).
• Fuhrman, Anne Mary . “The Craft of Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century America.” ( M 1992).
• Matthews, "Barry" John. "New South(ern) Landscapes: Reenvisioning Tourism, Industry, and the Environment in the American South." ( M 2016).
• Shepard, Cindy R . “An Introduction to Artist A.B. Jackson and his Portrayal of the American Neighborhood.” ( M 1984).
• Sprinkle, Mark.  “Picturing Home: Domestic Painting and the Ideologies of Art.” ( P  2004).
• Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown . “Ritual, Roots, and Rectangles: The Classical Tradition in Early American Portraiture.” ( M 1992).
• Verplanck, Anne Ayer. “Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter.” ( M 1990).
• Wierich, Jochen . “The Domestication of History in American Art, 1848-1876.” ( P 1998).
• --------. "A Certain Kinship: The First Exhibitions of American Folk Art, New York, 1924-1932." ( M 2011).

Asian America

• Cohen, Amber S . "The Immigrant, the Native Son, and the Ambassador : The Transnational Travels of Godzilla, Speed Racer, and Akira." ( M 2010).
• Johnson, Maya A . "Harem Fantasies and Music Videos : Contemporary Orientalist Representation." ( M 2007).
• Li, Kai-yin Allison. “Lost Chances in Sino-American Relations: The Burden of Myth, Culture, and Ideology, 1949-1953.” ( M 1997).
• Pisha, Nicolette L . "Anime in America, Disney in Japan : The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's 'Stitch.'" ( M 2010).
• Wu, Sui. “Chinese Immigrants to America : Thematic Dimensions.” ( M 1990).

Childhood-Education

• Clark, Regina A. "The Brownies' Book: An Open Window to Early Twentieth-Century African American Childhood." ( M 2009).
• Crawford, Meredith . “Envisioning Black Childhood: Black Nationalism, Community, and Identity Construction in Black Arts Movement Children’s Literature.” ( M  2005).
• Cude, Michelle Dawn . “Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind the Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit of the Truth.” ( M 1997).
• Korwin-Pawlowski, Wendy J . "Pleasure and Peril : Shaping Children's Reading in the Early Twentieth Century." ( M 2006).
• Norris, Tyler A.  "Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal." ( M  2014).
• Peake, Laura Ann . “The Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, 1894- 1916.” ( M 1995).
• Sprinkle, Mark Edgar E. “The Kids Are (All) Right: Baby-boomers and the Rhetoric of Childhood in the Picture Books of Chris Van Allsburg.” ( M 1993).
• Stevens, Sarah.  “Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead’s reconstruction of adolescence for the 1920s.” ( M  2005).
• Swenson, Benjamin A. "Postbellum Education of African Americans : Race, Economy, Power, and the Pursuit of a System of Schooling in the Rural Virginia Counties of Surry and Gloucester." ( M 2004). 

Colonial History-Early America

• Baird, Bruce Chandler, Jr. “New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake , 1660- 1706.” ( M 1990).
• Baker, Wendy Joyce . “ ‘A Sketch of Sufferings': Power and Patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia 1750-1755.” ( M 1992).
• Berg, Susan Stromei. “Agent of Change or Trusted Servant: The Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Press.” ( M 1992).
• Bigler, Philip. “John Leacock's ‘The Fall of British Tyranny in the Whig Propaganda Offensive: The Personalization of the Resolution.” ( M 1984).
• Broadwater, John David. “ Yorktown Shipwreck 44YO88: Stores and Cargo from a British Naval Supply Vessel from the American War for Independence.” ( M 1989).
• Cobb, John Michael. “The Shaping of Kecoughtan, 1607-1624: ‘A Delicate and Necessary Seat for a City or Chief Fortification.” ( M 2002).
• Hellier, Cathleene Betz. “Private Land Development in Williamsburg , 1699-1748.” ( M 1989).
• --------.  "The Waiting Man: Enslaved Male Domestics in Virginia, 1619-1800." ( P 2020).
• Hildreth, Linda A. “The Fate of the Cabinetmaking Trade in Williamsburg , Virginia in the Post-Revolutionary Period.” ( M 1988).
• Hyland, Matthew Gantert. “ Montpelier : The History of a House, 1723-1998.” ( P 2004).
• Jones, Joseph Benjamin. “Anglo-Siouan Relations in Virginia 's Piedmont Frontier, 1607-1732.” ( M 1989).
• Kahler, Gerald Edward. “ Washington in Glory , America in Tears: The Nation Mourns the Death of George Washington, 1799-1800.” ( P 2003).
• Lewes, David W. “In Parisian Salons and Boston 's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson 's Notes on the State of Virginia.” ( M 2002).
• Ligon, Samantha M. “The Fashionable Set: The Feasibility of Social Tea Drinking in 1774.” ( M 1999).
• Luccketti, Nicholas Michael. “Archaeology at Bennett Farm: The Life Style of a Seventeenth-Century Middling Planter in York County, Virginia.” ( M 1990).
• Mulrooney, Margaret M. “ Hilton Village , Virginia : The Government's First Model Industrial Community.” ( M 1990).
• Newman, Megan Haley. “The Vermin-Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake.” ( P 2001).
• Norris, Tyler. "Italy's American West: Brava Gente , American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism." ( P 2019).
• Northrop-Barzilay, Karen E. "Fifty Gentlemen Total Strangers : A Portrait of the First Continental Congress." ( P  2009).
• Patrick, Steven Edward. “ ‘I Would Not Begrudge to Give a Few Pounds More': Elite Consumer Choices in the Chesapeake , 1730-1785: The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage.” ( M 1990).
• Rowe, Linda Hunter. “People the Power Structure: Urban Oriented Officeholders in York County, Virginia 1699-1780.” ( M 1989).
• Royse, Lisa Gail. “William M. McClaskey: A Tavern Keeper in His Community, 1834- 1844.” ( M 1990).
• Sasser, Jackson. "Poor and Dead and Much Involved: The Afterlife of Private Debt in Post-Revolutionary Virginia." ( P  2015).
• Schoel, Gretchen Ferris. “In Pursuit of Possibility: Elizabeth Ellet and the Women of the American Revolution.” ( M 1992).
• Scott, Angela. “The Not-So-Public History of Colonial Williamsburg's Port Resident-Ferrykeepers: Interpreting the Moody Family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781.” ( M  2013).
• Smart, Ann Morgan. “The Urban/Rural Dichotomy of Status Consumption: Tidewater Virginia, 1815.” ( M 1986).
• Smith, Sibley Judson, Jr. “Selling America in the Seventeenth Century: The Contribution of Ralph Hamor's True Discourse to the Establishment of the English Colony in America.” ( M 1992).
• Spady, James O'Neil. “Friendly Meetings: The Art of Conquest and the Mythical Origins of Pennsylvania , ca. 1620-1771.” ( M 2001).
• --------.  “Like the Spider from the Rose:’ Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s-1820s.” ( P  2006).
• Speckart, Amy. "A Colonial History of Wye Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power." ( P 2011).
• Straube, Beverly Ann. “Early English Firearms: A Re-examination of the Evidence.” ( M 1990).
• Suber, Lauren Jessica Brown. “Ritual, Roots, and Rectangles: The Classical Tradition in Early American Portraiture.” ( M 1992).
• Westcot, Andrea.  "Outlaw Reproduction: Childbearing and the Making of Colonial Virginia, 1634-1785." ( P  2014).
• White, William E. “Charlatans, Embezzlers, and Murderers: Revolution Comes to Virginia 1765-1775.” ( P 1998).
• Stringfield, Ravynn. "Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Black Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'Passing' in Marvel's 'Black Panther' Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel 'Incognegro.'" ( M 2018).

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Consumer Culture

• Adams, Sarah E. "A dollar book for a dime!: The Vernacular of Cheapness and the Beadle Dime Handbooks." ( M 2012).
• Cloeren, Nicole B. “ ‘C' is for Cookie, Culture, and Capitalism: The Muppet Phenomenon in the United States.” ( M 1999).
• Glosson, Sarah . "Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen’s Fans in America." ( P 2015).
• Hilpert, Zachary.  "Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906." ( P  2014).
• Korwin-Pawlowski, Wendy. "Material Literacy: Alphabets, Bodies, and Consumer Culture." ( P 2017).
• ------. "Building A Bronx Movement:  A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." ( P 2015).
• Patrick, Steven Edward. “ ‘I Would Not Begrudge to Give a Few Pounds More': Elite Consumer Choices in the Chesapeake, 1730-1785: The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage.” ( M 1990).
• Rainer, Joseph T. “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800-1860.” ( P 2000).
• Ramsier, Allen Lewis. “Picturesque America : Packaging America for Popular Consumption.” ( M 1985).
• Sargent, Andrew. "A New England State of Mind: Identity and Commodification in Yankee Magazine, 1935-1942." ( M 2011). 
• Veder, Robin Maremant. “How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture.” ( P 2000).

Decorative Arts-MaterialCulture

• Barry, Andrew.  "Domestic Brick Architecture in Williamsburg: A Comparative Study of Eighteenth-Century Brick Homes in Williamsburg, Annapolis, and Charleston." ( M  2004).
• Battaile, Anne Bayne. “Mysterious Messages: Masonic Images in Baltimore Album Quilts.” ( M 2000).
• Bishop, Lisa Brenner. “A Social History of the Private Fence in Nineteenth-Century America.” ( M 2000).
• Curran, Barbara Anne . “Tobacco and Cloth: A Century of Virginia Clothing Acquisition, 1607-1707.” ( M 1994).
• Davey, Frances Evelyn . “Wild, Wearable, and Seaworthy.” ( M 1996).
• Gaeta , Anne Elizabeth . “The Quaker Influence on Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study.” ( M 1990).
• Geraghty, Mary. “Domestic Management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and Her Slaves.” ( M 1993).
• Hyland, Matthew Gantert. “Montepelier: The History of a House, 1723-1998.” ( P 2004).
• Keenan, Stephanie Mary. “The Willoughby-Baylor House: Form and Symbol.” ( M 1990).
• Ligon, Samantha M. “The Fashionable Set: The Feasability of Social Tea Drinking in 1774.” ( M 1999).
• Northrop-Barzilay, Karen E. “ ‘To Go With an Ungloved Hand Was Impossible': A History of Gloves, Hands, Sex, Wealth, and Power.” ( M 1998).
• Padilioni, James.   "For How Could We Do Without Sugar and Rum? The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics." ( M  2014).
• Prown, Jonathan. “A Cultural Analysis of Furniture-Making in Petersburg , Virginia , 1760-1820.” ( M 1993).
• Richardson, Kari S. “A World of Goods: The Printer's Economy in Eighteenth- Century Virginia.” ( M 2000).
• Singleton, Elizabeth Marie. (M 1986).
• Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa.  "From the Unpublished to the Refined: The Evolution of the Furniture Trades at Hampton Institute, 1868-1960s." ( P  2013).
• Veder, Robin. “Dying Virgins and Mourning Mothers: A Study in American Mourning Iconography.” ( M 1995).

Disability Studies

• Lautenschlager, Julie Lynn. “Food Fight!: America 's Ideological Battle Over Lunch.” ( P 2003).

Gender Studies

• --------. “The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, and the Bachelor in Nineteenth-Century America .” ( P 2002).
• Glisson, Susan M. “ ‘Neither Bedecked nor Bebosomed': Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organizing in the Struggle for Freedom.” ( P 2000).
• Gonaver, Wendy. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." ( P 2012).
• Huebenthal, Jan. "Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality." ( P 2019).
• LeFave, Helen Grace. “A Place of Honor and Fruitfulness: World War One and the War Activities of Women from the Elite Women's Colleges.” ( M 1994).
• Pratt, David. "The Sacred Ginmill Closes: Heavy Drinking, White Masculinity and the Hard-Boiled." ( P 2017).
• Prown, Katherine Hemple. “Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship.” ( P 1993).
• Smith, Michaele. “You Can't Say 'No' To A Soldier: Sexual Violence in the United States during WWII.” ( P 2013).
• Warner, Caroline E. "'Let all things be done decently and in order': Gender Segregation in the Seating of Early American Churches." ( M 2009).

Geography (Natural Resources, Development)

• Baird, Bruce Chandler, Jr. “New Land Acquisition in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1660- 1706.” ( M 1990).
• Bruggeman, Seth Charles. “The Shenandoah River Gundalow and the Politics of Material Reuse.” ( M 2000).
• Heuvel, Lisa.  "English Mineral Exploration in the New World." ( M  2005).
• Hilpert, Zachary.  "Ruins Reframed: The Commodification of American Urban Disaster, 1861-1906." ( P  2014).
• Powers, Emma Lou. “Landlords, Tenants, and Rental Property in Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780.” ( M 1990).

History of Science

Immigration.

• Wu, Sui. “Chinese Immigrants to America: Thematic Dimensions.” ( M 1990).
• Green, Charles.  "Passing into Print: Walt Whitman and his Publishers." ( P  2004).
• Howell, Mark Hunter. “A War of Words: Satire and Song in the Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes.” (M 1998).
• Zuber, Sharon Lynne. “Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema.” ( P 2004).

Labor History

• Linebaugh, Donald W. “ ‘The Road to Ruins and Restoration': Roland W. Robbins and the Professionalization of Historical Archaeology.” ( P 1996).
• Luff, Jennifer D. "Judas Exposed: Labor Spies in the United States." ( P 2005).
• Matthews, Amy Procter. “Organized Labor: The Past, Present, and Future of Nurse- Midwifery in America.” ( M 1990).
• Mulrooney, Margaret M. “Labor at Home: The Domestic World of Workers at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902.” ( P 1996).
• Plater, Michael Andre. “R.C. Scott: A History of African-American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940.” ( P 1993).
• Rawles, Susan.  “The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South.” ( P  2000).
• Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah. "Refining the Desert: Politics of Wealth, Indutrialization, and the Environmental Risk in the Twentieth-Century Texas Oil Industry." ( P 2017).
• Yaguchi, Yujin. “Japanese Business in the United States: Unintentional Definition of the Other.” ( M 1991).

Latin America

• --------. "Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force." ( P 2010).
• McKinney, Jane Dillon. “ Anguilla and the Art of Resistance.” ( P 2002).
• Yamazato, Akiko. “Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California : Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans.” ( M 2003).

Media (Film, Television, Cyberspace)

• Aube, Christine Lokotsch. “The Enduring Villain: Germans as Nazi Stereotypes in American Cinema.” ( M 1998).
• Bransford, Stephen Henry. “Unstable Compounds: Progressive and Repressive Impulses in Four Contemporary American Documentaries and the Prospect for Social Change.” ( M 1996).
• Gaines, Mikal.  "Beating Songs: Blues, Violence and the Male Body in the Films of Spike Lee." ( M  2005).
• Hodge, Amber. "The Rise and Fall of the WB: 'Dawson's Creek,' Intertextuality, and Legitimation." ( M 2012).
• Kahler, Abby. "Mother of Dragons: White Feminist Imperialism in HBO's Game of Thrones." ( M 2020).
• Mann, Kimberly.  "Genuine Made-in-Americans: Living Machines and the Technological Body in the Postwar Science Fiction Imaginary, 1944-1968." ( P  2014).
• Scaro, Robert Charles. “Why White Men Can't Jump. . .and Black Men Can't Think: An Analysis of the American Sports News Media's Coverage of Basketball and its Players from 1980 to the Present.” ( M 1993).
• Schoel, Gretchen Ferris.  "America.jp : Identity, Nationalism, and Power on the Internet, 1969-2000." ( P 2004).
• Sentilles, Renee M. "Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey." ( P 1997).
• Smith, Erica J. “Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission and Servanthood in the Rhetoric of the Promise Keepers.” ( M 2002).
• Stewart, Brian. “The Squared Circle and that Household Box: The Relationship Between Wrestling, Television, and American Culture.” ( M 2001).
• Taormina , Mary Frances. “A Social Historical Exploration of the Popularity of ‘The Rockford Files.'” ( M 1989).

Mental Health and Society

Military History

• Broadwater, John David. “Yorktown Shipwreck 44YO88: Stores and Cargo From a British Naval Supply Vessel From the American War for Independence.” ( M 1989).
• Diaz, Ella Maria. "Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force." ( P 2010).
• Neel, Hildy Michelle. “Let us Now Praise Service Men: A History of the American World War II Personal Narrative, 1942-1945.” ( P 1998).
• Pleasant, Joanna E. “Remembering American Wars in Three Controversial Displays: The Wall, the Enola Gay, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center.” ( M 2001).
• Straube, Beverly Ann. “Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination of the Evidence.” ( M 1990).

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Mortuary & Memorial Culture 

Museums-public history.

• Bruggeman, Seth. "Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory and the Creation of a National Movement." ( P  2006).
• Delvin, Erin Krutko. “Colonial Williamsburg 's Slave Auction Re-enactment: Controversy, African American History and Public Memory.” ( M  2004).
• Ecker, Jordan M.  “Entertaining Education or Purely Entertainment:  A Case Study of the Yorktown Victory Center .”  ( M  2014).
• Hawkins, Callie . "An Interpretive Plan for the Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum." ( M 2011).
• McNutt, Jill Angela. “The Other Faces of Mount Rushmore : Tourism, Advertising, and the Commodity of Experience.” ( M 1996).
• Mieras, Emily. “Oz in the Valley of Ashes : Visions of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964.” ( M 1993).
• Nichols, Caroline. “Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.” ( M  2001).
• Reilley, Karen Merry. “Preserving Virginia 's Vision of the Past.” ( M 1998).
• Roberts, Luke Edward. “Colonial Williamsburg , National Identity, and Cold War Patriotism.” ( M 2004).
• Rose, Melinda Cameron Hapeman. “Desegregating Monument Avenue : Arthur Ashe and the Manufacturing of a New Social Reality in Richmond, Virginia.” ( M 2002).
• Simpson, Jenna. "Living in the Past: Community and Change in Historical Commemorations at Plymouth, Williamsburg, and Salem." ( P 2016).
• Tramposch, William Joseph. “The Seminar for Historical Administration: Companion to Change.” ( M 1984).
• Yost, Jonathan. “Fixing What Has Been Broken:  The United States' Actions in the Aftermath of the Looting of the Iraq National Museum during the 2003 Invasion.” ( M  2013).
• Anderson, Benjamin.  "Blue Notes and Brown Skin: Five African-American Men and the Music they Created in Regards to the Civil Rights Movement." ( M  2005).
• --------.  "Seeing (for) Miles: Jazz, Race, and Objects of Performance." ( P  2014).
• Dacey, Katherine. “ ‘Gershwin Gone Native!': The Influence of Primitivism and Folk Music on Porgy and Bess.” ( M 2001).
• Dougan, John M. “The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, and the Prisonaires.” ( M 1997).
• Glosson, Sarah G. "Domestic Music Making in Late Eighteenth-Century Elite Chesapeake Society: The "Elegant Selections" of Shirley Plantation." ( M 2009).
• Gschwend, Katherine Hinchliffe. “John A. Lomax: Documenting the Myth of the American West.” ( M 1995).
• --------.  "Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, and Musical Invention." ( P 2020).
• --------. "When I Put on My Firespitter Mask: Jayne Cortez's (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations." ( P 2018).
• -------- . "Building A Bronx Movement:  A History of Hip-Hop Culture, 1951-1984." ( P 2015).
• Modeste, Jackie.  "Remembering the Briarpatch: Music and the Making of an American Literary Tradition—Albert Murray's Scooter Series.” ( P  2004).
• Sutton, Matthew. " Storyville: Discourses in Southern Musicians' Autobiographies." ( P 2011).
• Thompson, Nancy L. "The Friendship Fest : Perfecting Friendship Through Transnational Musical Performance." ( M 2008).
• Woodward, Henry Canning. “Rock 'n' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones and Blues Music Through the Looking Glass of American Culture in the 1960s.” ( M 1992).

Native America

• Gibson, Tracey Ann. “Civilizing the Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, and the Rhetoric of Removal.” ( M 1995).

Native America and Indigenous Studies

• Kuragano, Leah.  “Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity in U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980.” ( P  2022).

Politics-Nationhood

• Baker, Wendy Joyce. “ ‘A Sketch of Sufferings': Power and Patronage in Daniel Fisher's Virginia 1750-1755.” ( M 1992).
• Bigler, Philip. “John Leacock's ‘The Fall of British Tyranny' in the Whig Propaganda Offensive: The Personalization of the Resolution.” ( M 1984).
• Diaz, Ella Maria. "1500 by 1936 by 1998 -- These are the Measurements of Malinche's Body: An Analysis and Review of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Nationality." ( M 2002).
• Howard, Amanda L.  “More than Shelter: Community, Identity, and Spatial Politics in San Francisco.” ( P  2005)
• Kahler, Gerald Edward . “ Washington in Glory , America in Tears: The Nation Mourns the Death of George Washington, 1799-1800.” ( M 2003).
• Kennedy-Shaffer, Alan. "Voters in a Foreign Land: Alien Suffrage and Citizenship in the United States, 1704-1926." (M 2009).
• Lewes, David W. “In Parisian Salons and Boston 's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson 's Notes on the State of Virginia .” ( M 2002).
• McDonald, Ryan J.   "Reengineering Global Higher Education: American Polytechnics, Transnationalization, and Cultural Configuration." (P 2012).
• Nelson, Robert.  “Society of Souls: Spirit, Friendship, and the Antebellum Reform Imagination.” (P 2006).
• Nichols, Caroline C.  “Monument to Sentiment: The Discourse of Nation and Citizenship at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.” ( M  2001).
• Rosenkranz, Anna C.  "Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right." ( M  2014).
• Scott, Kathleen M.  "Recipe for Citizenship: Professionalization and Power in WWI Dietics." ( P 2009).
• Smith, Sibley Judson, Jr. “Selling America in the Seventeenth Century: The Contribution of Ralph Hamor's ‘True Discourse to the Establishment of the English Colony in America.'” ( M 1992).
• Wilbers, Christian. "Between Third Reich and American Way- Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939." ( P 2017).
• Zeng, Shuting.  "The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring." ( M  2014).

Popular Culture

• Bowles, Juliette Harris . “Natural Hair Styling: A Symbol and Function of African- American Women's Self-Creation.” ( M 1990).
• Cordulack, Evan. "Imagining Saigon: American Interpretatons of Saigon in the Twentieth Century." ( P 2013).
• Hodge, Amber. "The Rise and Fall of the WB: 'Dawson's Creek,' Intertextuality, and Legitimation." ( M 2012)
• Kuragano, Leah.  “Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity in U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980." ( P  2022)
• Markarian, Robyn. "You Are NOT the Father!: Family, Race and Maury in America." ( M 2013).
• Mieras, Emily. “Oz in the Valley of Ashes: Visions of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964.” ( M 1993).
• Nichols, Caroline C. "Celebrity and the National Body : Encounters with the Exotic in Late Nineteenth-Century America." ( P 2008).
• Pickens, Roxane Victoria.  "Dark Play: Ethnicity and Festivity in Jazz Age Literature and Popular Culture." ( P  2014).
• Shine, Matthew David. “Gotta Travel On: A View of the American Road from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.” ( M 1992).
• Stewart, Brian. “The Squared Circle and That Household Box: The Relationship Between Wrestling, Television and American Culture.” ( M 2001).
• Taormina, Mary Frances. “A Social Historical Exploration of the Popularity of ‘The Rockford Files.'” ( M 1989).
• Woodward, Henry Canning. “Rock ‘n' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones and Blues Music through the Looking Glass of American Culture in the 1960s.” ( M 1992).

Queer Studies

Race-Ethnicity

• Adkins, Katrin L. “Performing Race: Instances of Color Representation in American Culture.” ( M 2003).
• Aube, Christine Lokotsch. “The Enduring Villain: Germans as Stereotypes in American Cinema.” ( M 1998).
• Brown, Darryl Keith. “Racism and Race Relations in the University.” ( M 1991).
• Chieffo, Toby M. "Nathaniel Jocelyn : In the Service of Art and Abolition." ( P 2005).
• Gaines, Mikal. "The Black Gothic Imaginary: Horror, Spectatorship, and Black Subjectivity in American Cinema from 1960 to the New Millennium." ( P 2015).
• Gonaver, Wendy.  "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." ( P  2012).
• --------. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race, and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry." ( P 2012).
• Jones, Brian.  "Becoming Paul Motian: Identity, Labor, and Musical Invention." ( P 2020).
• Kuragano, Leah. "Race and Culture in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States and Colonial Hawai'i." ( M 2017).
• Norris, Tyler A.  "Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal." ( M  2014).
• Shilo, Molly. " I Feel Your Pain: Service-Learning Programs and the Liberal Narrative of Empathy ." ( M 2019).
• Sui, Wu.  “Chinese Immigrants to America : Thematic Dimensions.” ( M  1990).
• Walker, Corey D.B. “ ‘The Freemasonry of the Race': The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia.” ( P 2001).
• --------.  "Strength for the Journey: Feminist Theology and Baptist Women Pastors." ( P  2014).
• Chowning, Elizabeth Jane. “Harmony and Dissonance: Mennonite Visions of Community and Identity.” ( M 1993).
• Kobayashi, Fumie. “Christian Parenting: Baptists and the Birds and Bees.” ( M 2003).
• Lee, Sarah J. "Saints and Soldiers of Humanity: Mormons and Icarians in Nauvoo." (M 2004).
• Rosenkranz, Anna C.  "Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right." ( M  2014).
• Subramanian, Alexandra Michos.  “Caroline Gordon's Christian Vision: A Conservative Empowerment.” ( M  1992).

Social Service

• Mieras, Emily. “ ‘A More Perfect Sympathy': College Students and Social Service.” ( P 1998).

Southern Culture

• Cha, Frank.  “Southern Orientation: Navigating Asian Pacific American Identity and Place in Contemporary Southern Literature and Film.” ( P  2013).
• Howard, Elizabeth. “Every American Should Stand Here Once": Jamestown's 400th Anniversary Commemoration and the Creation of an American Origin Narrative.” ( M 2013).
• Manzo, Bettina.  “John Minson Galt II and the Print Culture at Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg Virginia, 1840-1860.” ( P  2004).
• Prown, Katherine Hemple. “Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture, and the Problem of Female Authorship.” ( P 1993).

Visual Culture

• Tirak, Lita. "Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Art visual Culture." ( P 2016).

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Theses from 2023 2023

Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape , Gabriel Frost Johnson

Theses from 2021 2021

Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances , Jacquelyn K. Bertman

Theses from 2020 2020

Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development , Tina S. Randall

Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit , Deborah A. Smith

Theses from 2019 2019

Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency , Liz Ging

Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms , Katharine M. Ward

Theses from 2017 2017

Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce , Kristen E. Schlapp

Theses from 2016 2016

Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play , Kathleen R. McGovern

Theses from 2015 2015

Discourses and Capital in Court Trials: Representation of Witness Accounts and Identity , Misty Crooks

Theses from 2014 2014

What's in a Game? Identity Negotiations and Pedagogical Implications of Gameplay Discourse , Caleb Reed

Their Decision to Wear Al Hijab: The Stories of U.S. Northeastern Muslim Women , Hadeel Salman

Theses from 2012 2012

Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics , Marc E. Black

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Discover the leading times from the Boston Marathon 2024 on Monday, 15 April, a World Marathon Major.

Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma and Hellen Obiri of Kenya won the men’s and women’s Boston Marathon 2024 on Monday (15 April).

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Boston Marathon 2024: Women's results

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Boston Marathon 2024: Men's wheelchair results

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Why Is Biden Struggling? Because America Is Broken.

By Damon Linker

Mr. Linker, a former columnist at The Week, writes the newsletter Notes From the Middleground.

Seven months away from a rematch election pitting President Biden against former President Donald Trump, the incumbent is struggling. Mr. Biden suffers from persistently low approval ratings, he barely manages to tie Mr. Trump in national head-to-head polls and he lags behind the former president in most of the swing states where the election will be decided (despite some recent modestly encouraging movement in his direction).

The question is why.

When Mr. Biden’s defenders seek to answer the question, most of them tick off declining rates of inflation, historically low unemployment, strong economic growth, a list of legislative accomplishments and other evidence of a successful presidency. This suggests the problem is primarily a failure of communication — the thing flailing administrations always blame first, since it implies the path to improvement requires little more than doing a better job of “getting the message out” about how great the president is doing.

It’s usually wiser to listen to what voters are saying — beyond the obvious concerns about the president’s age.

Recently, Gallup released the latest edition of its longstanding survey measuring “satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S.” Three out of four Americans (75 percent) claimed to be dissatisfied. The long-term trend tells a clear story: From the mid-1990s to late 2004, the level of satisfaction bounced around between 39 percent and 71 percent. But in the aftermath of the George W. Bush administration’s failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and during a yearslong violent insurgency challenging American military occupation of the country, numbers began to slide. They would reach a low of 9 percent satisfaction in October 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

What followed was a very slow 12-year recovery of satisfaction across almost the entirety of the Obama and Trump administrations, with a post-2004 high of 45 percent reached in February 2020, on the eve of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. By January 2021, the level of satisfaction was back down to 11 percent, just two points off its historical low. Under Joe Biden, Americans briefly became somewhat more upbeat — but figures have sunk again from the mid-30s to the high teens and low 20s in recent months.

These findings mirror what other pollsters have found when they asked respondents about whether they think the country is on the right or wrong track, and about their trust in government and confidence in American institutions . The latter number has been slowly falling since the 1960s, but it, too, really began to collapse in 2004, eventually reaching the low 30s by 2007. In 2023, just 26 percent of Americans expressed confidence in our institutions.

In January 2021, Alana Newhouse published an essay in Tablet, “Everything Is Broken,” that gave voice to this incredibly widespread (but underreported) sentiment. Why did so many people in the United States believe that, as Ms. Newhouse put it in a follow-up essay , “whole parts of American society were breaking down before our eyes”?

The examples are almost too numerous to list: a disastrous war in Iraq; a ruinous financial crisis followed by a decade of anemic growth when most of the new wealth went to those who were already well off; a shambolic response to the deadliest pandemic in a century; a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan; rising prices and interest rates; skyrocketing levels of public and private debt; surging rates of homelessness and the spread of tent encampments in American cities; undocumented migrants streaming over the southern border; spiking rates of gun violence, mental illness, depression, addiction, suicide, chronic illness and obesity, coupled with a decline in life expectancy.

That’s an awful lot of failure over the past 20-odd years. Yet for the most part, the people who run our institutions have done very little to acknowledge or take responsibility for any of it, let alone undertake reforms that aim to fix what’s broken. That’s no doubt why angry anti-establishment populism has become so prominent in our politics over the past decade — with Mr. Trump, a political outsider, taking over the Republican Party in 2016 by running against the elites of both parties, and Senator Bernie Sanders giving the establishment favorite Hillary Clinton a run for her money that same year by taking on the banking and finance sectors of the economy, along with their Democratic and Republican enablers.

Mr. Biden has never been that kind of politician. Most of the time he speaks and acts as if he thinks American institutions are doing perfectly fine — at least so long as Mr. Trump doesn’t get his hands on them. Part of that is undoubtedly because Mr. Biden is an incumbent, and incumbents always find themselves having to defend what they’ve done in office, which isn’t compatible with acting like an insurgent going to war against the system.

Then there’s the fact that Mr. Biden has worked within our elected institutions since the Nixon administration, making him deeply invested in them (and implicated in their failures). Finally, as a Democrat who came of age during the heyday of mid-20th-century liberalism, Mr. Biden is wedded to the idea of using a functional, competent and capable federal government to improve people’s lives — whether or not more recent history validates that faith.

This places him badly out of step with the national mood, speaking a language very far removed from the talk of a broken country that suffuses Mr. Trump’s meandering and often unhinged remarks on the subject. The more earnest statements of the third-party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Cornel West and Jill Stein also speak to aspects of our brokenness, taking ample and often nostalgic note of what’s gone wrong and promising bold, if vague, action to begin an effort of repair.

That leaves Mr. Biden as the lone institutionalist defender of the status quo surrounded by a small army of brokenists looking for support from an electorate primed to respond to their more downcast message.

There may be limits to what Mr. Biden can do to respond. For one thing, his 81-year-old frailty can’t help appearing to mirror the fragile state of our public institutions. For another, in an era of political bad feeling, when presidential approval ratings sink quickly and never recover, incumbents from both parties may no longer enjoy the kind of advantage in seeking re-election that they once did, at least at the national level.

Still, there are things the Biden campaign could do to help the president better connect with voters.

First, he should stop being so upbeat — about the economy in particular — and making the election entirely about the singular awfulness of his opponent. While the latter sounds evasive, the former makes the president seem hopelessly out of touch and risks antagonizing people who aren’t in the mood for a chipper message.

Mr. Biden should instead try to meet Americans where they are. He should admit Washington has gotten a lot of things wrong over the past two decades and sound unhappy about and humbled by it. He could make the argument that all governments make mistakes because they are run by fallible human beings — but also point out that elected representatives in a democracy should be upfront about error and resolve to learn from mistakes so that they avoid them in the future. Just acknowledging how much in America is broken could generate a lot of good will from otherwise skeptical and dismissive voters.

Even better would be an effort to develop a reform agenda: Mr. Biden could declare it’s long past time for America to put its house in order, to begin cleaning up the messes of the past two decades, to face our problems and return to our own best national self. He might even think of adapting and repurposing for the center-left a few lines from Ronald Reagan’s first Inaugural Address : “It’s not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work — work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.”

In concrete terms, this means pledging to reform existing institutions and programs, not promising to build new ones on top of the ambitious legislation and substantial spending Congress passed during Mr. Biden’s first two years in office. It means, instead, a commitment to pause and begin assessing what government has been doing at all levels, under both Republican and Democratic leadership, over the past two decades.

It means, more specifically, a resolution to continue and expand existing reviews into what worked and what didn’t during the pandemic — in red states and blue states, in cities, suburbs and small towns — in order to prepare for a better response the next time we confront a public-health emergency. It means talking honestly about the surging and unsustainable national debt and what it will take to begin reining it in. It means trying to help government function better, including a concerted effort to increase state capacity , eliminate regulations that constrain the nation’s housing supply and build on the administration’s attempts at permitting reform to streamline or remove regulations that slow down and increase the cost of private as well as public development.

These projects will far outlast a second Biden term. But the president can promise to get them started, with the remaining work to be completed by presidents and generations to come.

Taking this approach may help to neutralize the populist advantages Mr. Trump enjoys (at least when he isn’t running as an incumbent). However much voters appreciate his denunciations of a corrupt and rigged system, as well as his management of the economy over the first three years of his presidency, they have no love for the G.O.P.’s obsession with pairing cuts to entitlement programs and upper-income tax rates with draconian restrictions on abortion — not to mention Mr. Trump’s focus on personal grievances and legal recklessness. That leaves plenty of room for Mr. Biden to make a case for himself as the guy who can enact the sweeping reforms American needs, and without all the unnecessary and dangerous drama a second Trump administration would surely bring.

Everything is broken — or so it feels to many of our fellow citizens. Denying this reality only empowers populist candidates whose message acquires its potency by pointing to an entrenched political establishment unwilling or unable to learn from (or even admit) its myriad mistakes. That shirking needs to stop. And it should do so with Joe Biden.

Damon Linker, who writes the newsletter “ Notes From the Middleground ,” is a senior lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center.

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• Overall remittances in Latin America have grown at a higher pace, 10% annually since 2014 compared to 4% globally.
• The United States – Mexico corridor is the single largest remittance pipeline in the world, with a 2023 volume of US$65 billion.
• 2023 should end up marking a turning point in which cash remittances are expected to reach their historical peak, declining in favor of digital options.

MIAMI – March 21, 2024 – Today, Mastercard released a whitepaper on the state of remittances, also known as cross-border payments, in Latin America. Remittances play a key role in strengthening financial inclusion in the region, boosting economies, and alleviating poverty –often serving as an essential source of income for people in low- and middle-income communities. According to the United Nations, 800 million people worldwide (or about one out 10) live in households that receive international remittances. In Latin America -- remittances have grown faster than those at the global level (10% annually since 2014 compared to 4% globally).

In 2022, formal remittance volume in Latin America reached US$146 billion, more than double the amount from a decade ago, and a 25x growth over the past 30 years. According to projections, 2024 will mark a shift toward greater speed, simplicity and security as digital remittances begin to outpace sending of physical cash across borders. After several years of accelerated digitalization, consumers in Latin America now have high mobile penetration, greater access to the internet, and fewer people that are unbanked and underbanked, sparking the growth of digital remittances in the region. In fact, as these trends continue to shape the digital agenda in Latin America, they are expected to generate an incremental US$20 billion in digital remittances by 2026.

In recent years, traditional providers have enabled digitalization and ushered in new players to the industry, including fintechs, digital wallets, blockchain companies, and other technology companies, responding to the trends seen in the Latin American remittances industry:

• In El Salvador, 2 out of every 10 families who receive remittances live in poverty.
• In Guatemala, at least 1 in 3 households count remittances as their main source of income.
• In Honduras, remittance recipients represent just about 50% of all households.
• In South America, inflation and political instability in the region are drivers of migration and remittances flows, which often utilize fintech and blockchain rails to avoid the problems that arise when using the traditional system.

Pain points to adoption

Despite the massive volume and positive impact of remittances, the industry still faces substantial challenges that limit full digitalization and adoption, including lack of transparency, trust and security in the system, poor digital user experiences, and slow transaction speeds. Additionally, dealing with regulation is perhaps one of the most acute issues, given the lack of legal, regulatory, and operational consistency across global jurisdictions.

A financial exclusion gap also still exists affecting underserved or unbanked communities. According to the Mastercard Borderless Payment 2023 global report, more than one-third of those surveyed said their families back home have limited options to access the money they send, and nearly one in four agree their family must travel a long way to access their funds.

This reveals financial and digital exclusion, as well as underdeveloped financial and digital infrastructure (e.g. lack of 4G coverage, low smartphone penetration, and absence of banks or remittance retail agents) present in the region.

Preparing for the future of remittances

To meet consumer demands and accomplish the necessary digital advancements to empower remittance adoption, companies and providers need to:  

• Adapt digital solutions to a cash environment. Remittances companies should enable receivers to use the money how they want—digitally or in cash.
• Provide transaction transparency and safety while also eliminating concerns. Companies should communicate pricing clearly before they execute a transaction, as well as indicate the expected timing for settlement.
• Build trust through regulatory compliance and digital innovation. Companies should enable faster customer onboarding and reduced processing time with digitalized KYC (know your customer) tools.
• Provide rewards to loyal customers and financial education. Providers should share educational information and offer post-transaction points, miles, discounts, gift cards, and/or other benefits.
• Provide everyday value and clear convenience over cash. Providers should emphasize the convenience of digital payments and demonstrate why digital remittances and cross-border services deliver more everyday value.

Mastercard’s technology and innovative solutions enable its customers to move money and data quickly and securely. Using Mastercard’s portfolio of international money transfer solutions,  Mastercard Move , participating financial institutions can offer their customers international payments to over 180 markets, including a global payout network of over 150 currencies that reaches 95% of the world's banked population. Mastercard Move reaches nearly 10 billion endpoints worldwide, including bank accounts, card, wallet, and cash payout locations. The portfolio combines the power of Mastercard’s existing and future money movement capabilities including Mastercard Send and Mastercard Cross-Border services.

The full Future of Remittances in Latin America is available for download  here .

Scope and methodology of the research

Mastercard partnered with PCMI, a payments industry market intelligence firm, to assess remittances in Latin America. The study markets include Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia compared against a broader global context. This research took place from October and December of 2023, which consisted of sourcing public data resources and conducting 10 in-depth interviews with six companies inclusive of banks, traditional and digital-only money transfer operators (MTOs), retailers, technology enablers, and Mastercard executives.

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