Distinguished Thesis Awards
Recipients in the Humanities
2017-2018
Ashley Sarah Richardson, American Studies
"Producing the Latina Disney Princess"
2015-16
Lindsay Garcia, American Studies
“Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World”
2012-13
Kaylan M. Stevenson, History
“Her correspondence is dangerous: Women in the fashion trades negotiating the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the Chesapeake, 1766-75”
2011-12
Meghan Brooke Holder, American Studies
“Strange Fruit: Images of African Americans in Advertising Cards and Postcards, 1860-1930”
2010-11
Elizabeth Marie O’Grady, American Studies
“’You Have No Boss Here to Work for’: Women and Labor in Chesapeake Bay Fishing Communities”
2009-10
Elizabeth Cook, History
"Art, Mystery, and Occupation: Building Culture in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia”
2008-09
Amy Catherine Green, History
“’Dance, Dance Revolution’: The Function of Dance in American Politics, 1763-1800”
2008-09
Carolee Klimchock, American Studies
“Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware and the Deregulation of Consumer Credit”
2007-08
Jackson Norman Sasser, Jr., American Studies
“Escaping into the Prison Civil War Round Table”
2006-07
Jenna Anne Simpson, American Studies
“Screening the Revolution”
2005-06
Caroline Chandler Morris, History
“’Down Where the South Begins’: Virginia Radio and the Conversation of Nationhood”
2004-05
Benjamin Anderson, American Studies
“Blue Notes and Brown Skin: Five African-American Jazzmen and the Music They Produced in Regard to the American Civil Rights Movement”
