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Students in the MA program at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ complete original research projects, often resulting in a thesis. Using primary sources from archives, records repositories, and digital databases that they locate, organize, and analyze to produce new findings in their field. Their investigations are supervised by Department faculty, and the final theses are available via the and/or С»ÆƬÊÓƵ's .

Some of the most recent examples of student research theses are listed below:

2022

• by Andrew William Hoffman

2020

• "," by Alexander Bright
• "," by Bradley Moore
• "," by James Wilkerson

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2019

• "," by Violet Galante
• "'," by Lela Dawn Gourley

2018

• "'," by Julie Sliva Davis

2017

• "," by Samantha Edmiston
• "," by Clara Amy Van Eck

2016

• "," by Bryan Patrick Bennett
• "," by Maggie Kontra Emmens
• "See and Hear James 'Catfish' Cole: Identity, Manhood, and the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, 1952-1967," by John School Hinton
• "," by Robert Nicholas Melatti
• "'," by Charles Ross Patterson II

2015

• "," by Kevin Lang Ringelstein
• "," by Robert Franklin Unger

2014

• "Set Adrift by the Confederacy: the Civil War Occupation of Virginia's Eastern Shore," by Paige Kelly Solomon
• "The Role of Agricultural and Land Policies in the Failure of the British Mandate for Palestine," by Beth Ann Lynx
• "Bracero Families: Mexican Women and Children in the United States, 1942-64," by Rachael F. Delacruz
• "The World of Goods in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia," Ronald C. Merritt

2013

• "Strike a Pose: Propaganda in Augustus' and Mussolini's Imperial Imagery," by Coleen Syler Parker
• "Ecclesiastical Homogeny and Splintering Spirituality: White Ecumenical Christianity and the Church in Norfolk, Virginia's Civil Rights Movement," by Joshua Wesley Wilson

2012

• "," by Lisa Kelly Pennington
• "The Forgotten Sixty-Ninth New York National Guard Artillery Regiment in the American Civil War," by Christopher M. Garcia

2011

• "," by Lisa Hilleary
• "The Death of Jefferson Davis," by Kasey J. Dell
• "The Bound 'Giddy Multitude': Runaway Indentured Servants, Convicts, and Slaves in Colonial Virginia," by Nicole K. Dressler