Drew University Library : University Archives : Theses and Dissertations
 The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies : Doctor of Philosophy
    

2026

Alexandra Jordan Thelin Blackowski
Dressing Alice: Cultural Identity through Fashion in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Jhestarri DePasquale
Reimagining History: Hollywood, Revisionism, and the Vietnam War

Daniel A. Michalak
The Assassination of William Goebel, Political Violence, and Death and Dying in Fin de Siècle America

2025

Hamza Radid
Architects of Their Own Destiny: Print Media, the Construction of Belonging, and the Moroccan Immigrant Identity in France, 1970-1985

2024

Mary Cannaday
Almack's: Membership, Gender, and Societal Power in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Sarah Marie Churchill
Slums in the Sky: How Photography Killed the Desire for Mid-Century, Mass Social Housing in Britain

Mary McConnell DiBrigida
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, American Sociability, and the Power of History

Anne Garner
"I Got Mine" : Black Vernacular Music and Intoxication at the American Medicine Show

David Sockol
A Unity of Opposites: The Ironic Emergence of an Activist Aesthetic from the "Vulgar" Marxism of Georgi Plekhanov

2023

Kasaun E. Henry
The Nigrescence of Barack Obama's Intellectual History: From Multicultural Dreams to Black Intellectual Thought, 1961–2008

Joshua Ryan Roeder
Ink and Interaction: Analyzing the Audience History in the Printed Letters of 1980s Comics

2022

Nicole M. Rizzuto
Pulp and Circumstance: The Causes and Effects of Dead Lesbian Syndrome, 1895-1949

Angela M. West
The Keepers and Caretakers of Hate: American White Women in Organized Racist and Antisemitic Movements, 1930-2020

2021

Yvonne C Garrett
(Re)Constructing Identity: Structures of Female Empowerment in 1980s American Punk Subculture

Patrick J. Mahoney
The Fenian Empire: Irish Nationalism and American Expansion (1865–1871)

2020

Christopher M Broschart
Thus the Cry for Canada: How the Desire for Canada Shaped the Early American Empire, 1774-1815

2019

Heather L Bennett
Hashtag History: Historical Thinking & Social Media in an Undergraduate Classroom in Singapore

Jessica K. Brandt
Underground and Over the Air: Radio Liberty, Russian Dissidence, and the Cultivation of a Listening Public

Peter Henry Mabli
"I Choose to Sit at the Great National Table": American Cuisine and Identity in the Early Republic

Jordan M. Reed
Imagining The American Pageant: Thomas A. Bailey and the Creation of the Mid-Twentieth Century History Textbook

Brian Shetler
Presenting Chaucer to the Reader: Printing the Canterbury Tales in England, 1477-1830

Daphne Dyer Wolf
Two Windows: The Tenants of the De Freyne Rent Strike 1901-1903

2018

George Beck
Law Enforcement in Early-Twentieth-Century American Film: 1900 to 1952

Pehr Englén
The Network as Artwork: Asger Jorn and the Situationist International

Timothy G Esh
Mark Twain's Lover's Quarrel with God; or, Satirizing All God's Children: Mark Twain's Uses of Religious Satire

David Gregory Reagles
Letters to Malcolm: Textual Communities and Religious Culture, c. 1966-1982

Anne M. Ricculli
Reading Coral in the Age of Darwin

Andrew Tompkins
Chasing Vichy's Phantasmagoria: American Intelligence Investigations into the Synarchy Affair (1941-1946)

2017

Patricia Chappine
Continuity in New Jersey Women's Activism from Suffrage through World War II

Peter W. Lee
From Depression Kids to Cold Warriors: Constructing American Boyhood through Hollywood Films in the Postwar Years, 1946-1951

Hettie Vonciel Williams
The Garden of Opportunity: Black Women Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey, 1912-1949

2016

Paul Charbel
A Passage to Lebanon: The Encapsulation of Lebanese Cultural Identity in Utica, New York

Michael King
An Anticolonial Consciousness: Surrealism, Marxism, and Colonialism in Interwar France

Woo Min Lee
Language of Power in the Simile, "Like a Caged Bird": Critical Discourse Analysis of the Assyrian Royal Lion Hunt and Sennacherib's Military Campaign Against Hezekiah of Judah

Emily A. Marlowe
Natural and Technological Wonders: Embracing Modernity at Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Terra Trichelle Schwerin Rowe
Toward a 'Better Worldliness': Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition

2015

Niamh McFadden Hamill
She was a poetess: the world of Mary Ann Allingham 1820-1836

Roger H. Lieberman
The Evolution of Julian Huxley: The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and the Quest for Scientific Humanism

Frank Viola
The Neutron Bomb in America, 1975-1981

Nicole Anderson Yanoso
The Irish and the American Presidency: The Impact of Irish and Irish-American Issues on U.S. Presidential Politics

2014

Erin Colleen Callahan
I Am America Signing: Bob Dylan's Identity Unified through Linguistic Performance

Miriam Christine Benner Dixon
The Pain Economy: Mark Twain's Investment in Pain

Madera Marie Edwards
Somewhere in the Middle: Rebellion, Suburbia, and the Story of Plainfield, New Jersey

Marc Christian Evans
Hard-Boiled Irony: The Inversion of Medieval Romance in 20th Century American Detective Fiction

Sarah Elizabeth Dixon Minegar
Literary Utopias as Explorations in Human Ecology: Five Modern Works, 1880-2005

2013

Daniel Moran
"The Total Mosaic": The Reception and Reputation of Flannery O'Connor

2005

Christine H. Isham Walsh
Engaging Difference: Replacing the Search for Essentials in Feminist Theological Ethics with a Conversation on Difference

1985

Larry Edward Dixon
The Pneumatology of John Nelson Darby (1800-1882)

1955

Raymond A. Valenzuela
The Emerging Concern for Transcendent Values in Spanish American Philosophy: A study based upon an examination of the works of the leading philosophers of Mexico, Cuba, and Argentina, from colonial days to the present; with special reference to the contemporary philosophies of Antonio Caso, Jose Vasconcelos, Alejandro Korn and Francisco Romero.