Recent Alumni

 

  • Name
    Degree Year
    Thesis Title
    Committee

  • Malika David

    2024

    Senegambia and The American South: Where Identity Belongs

    Rudy Aguilar

    Cherif Diop

  • Serena Smith

    2024

    Back to Black: Analyzing the Presence of White Control Over Black Representations in Media and the Responses of Black Creators

    Kate Schaab

  • Kaelyn Ireland

    2024

    Reproductive (In)justice in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction: A Critical White Feminist Analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–) and Future Home of the Living God (2017)

    Kate Schaab

    Lauren Thompson

    Rudy Aguilar

  • Isaiah Roger

    2024

    Shut Up and Dribble: The Political Contradictions of Black Masculinity in Sports

    Rudy Aguilar

    Catherine Lewis

  • Lauryn Jennings

    2024

    See Me Show Me: Black Women's Representation in Television Sitcoms

    Lauren Thompson

    Larrie Dudenhoffer

  • Daisha Huiel

    2023

    Motherland Drip: Examining Performativity in Southern Black Motherhood

    Griselda Thomas

    Seneca Vaught 

  • Breighlynn Polk

    2023

    The Second Side: A Historic Retelling of African American Life in Iberia Parish, Louisiana

    Rebecca Hill

    Luciane Rocha

  • Rasheed Hall

    2023

    Rhythm as Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Using Rhythms as a Critical Pedagogy to Fight Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes in the Classroom

    Seneca Vaught

    Luciane Rocha

  •  Kara Ireland

    2022

    The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration

    Griselda Thomas

    Ashley Shelden

    Pete Rorabaugh 

  • Rhonda L. Baldonado

    2022

    THE FOUNDATION AND CENTER OF AMERICAN STUDIES; AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES - A SYLLABUS

    Stacy Keltner

    Miriam Brown Spiers

  • Austin Wilson
    2021
    IRRADIATED PLAYGROUND: THE GEORGIA NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT LABORATORY AND THE LEGACY OF THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR PROJECT

    Robbie Lieberman

    Rebecca HillTom Okie

  • Andrea Putala
    2021
    Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices Through Chicana Intervention in Children's Literature

    Stacy Keltner

    Rodolpho Aguilar

    Sanjuana Rodriguez

  • Jessica Mcdaniel
    2021
    The Stories We Tell: Gender-Based Variances in Recovery Narratives

    Stacy Keltner

    Nirmal Trivedi

  • Felicia Glover
    2021
    ENDLESS SCROLLING: TECHNOLOGY, (DIS)CONNECTION, AND PLACE IN TIMES OF COVID-19

    Stacy Keltner

    Nirmal Trivedi

  • Claudia Lynn Zibanejadrad 
    2020
    Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States. 

    Jennifer Dickey

    Tom Okie

    Catherine Lewis 

  • Jacqueline Winters-Allen 
    2020
    Jewish Identity on American Television and Viewer Attitudes in an Era of Rising Anti-Semitism

    Rebecca Hill

    Catherine Lewis

  • Dudgrick Bevins
    2020
    Tense Familiarity: Psycho and the Origins, Effects, and Pedagogy of the Trans-Coded Monster

    Stacy Keltner

    David A. King

  • Olivia Hopkins
    2019
    In the Queue for 'Cue: Consumption, Production, Power, and the Future of North Carolina Barbecue

    Rebecca Hill

    Tom Okie

  • Jessica Duvall
    2019
    Exploring Politics and Pedagogy of Safe Spaces in Higher Education

    Ugena Whitlock

    Cameron Greensmith

  • Jessica Fisher
    2019
    Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century

    Stacy Keltner

    Debarati Sen

    Amy Donahue

  • Jean Potter
    2019
    Protest Music of the 1960s-1970s in Latin America and the United States: Exploring Transcultural Connections

    Rudy Aguilar

    Robbie Lieberman

  • Johnny Ivansthenko
    2019
    The Jeremiads: A Screenplay

    David King

    Gabrielle Fulton

  • Elizabeth Hensley
    2018
    The Pride of America: Cruise Ship Hospitality in Transnational Perspective

    Stacy Keltner

    Charles Parrot

  • Gayle Anderson 
    2018
    "Life is Very Hard Here": A Comparative Analysis of Central American Migrants in El Norte & Enrique's Journey

    Rodolpho Aguilar

    Ernesto Silva

  • Mark Green
    2018
    Stumbler: A Screenplay

    Robbie Lieberman

    David King

    Bill Rice

  • Ben Rogers
    2018
    Memory & Media

    Larrie Duedenhoeffer

    Sergio Figueiredo

  • Nicole Askew
    2018
    Culturally Relevant Pedagogy & Approaches to Curriculum

    Nichole Guillory

    Griselda Thomas

  • Kristen Walker
    2017
    Revoluntionary Everyday

    Robbie Lieberman 

    Karen Robinson

    Rebecca Hill

  • Camille Kleidysz
     2017
    Secrets of Morgan Hill

    Griselda Thomas

    Thomas A. Scott

  • Meya Hemphill
    2017
    Watching Race: A Look into Black Femininity and Masculinity/Trauma & Gender in Luke Cage and Empire

    Griselda Thomas

    Nichole Guillory

  • Stefano Milkidis
    2017
    Re-Queering Space & Time: An Inquiry into Manhattan's Lost & Waterfront

    Rebecca Hill 

    Ariel Eisenberg

  • Alexandra Vuich
    2017
    Between the Rural and Suburban: The Social, Political, & Economic Dynamics of Policing Forsyth County, Georgia

    Rebecca Hill

    Matthew L. Mitchelson

  • Anna Tussey
    2017
    "We Ran a Different Schoool Within a School": Educator Perceptions of Guatemala-Maya Students in a North Georgia Public School System

    Rebecca HillAmanda

    RocheyAlan LeBaron

  • Stephanie Hogue
    2017
    Pink is the New Bull: The Feminization of Pit Bulls in Visual and Literary Discourses as a Rescue Tactic

    Griselda Thomas

    Laura Beth Daws

  • Christi Williams
    2017
    American Horror Story: The Dark Side of the American Dream

    Robbie Lieberman

    Larrie Duedenhoeffer

  • Tanya Brinkley
    2017
    Practicing Equality: A Gender and Women's Studies Course for Social Workers: A Curriculum Development Capstone Project

     Ariel Eisenberg

    Stacy Keltner

    Ugena Whitlock

  • Lissa Small
    2017
    "What is My Environment, I will Change": Exploring the Possibilities of Trans-Feminism Through KSU Middle Eastern and North African Students

    Stacy Keltner

    Dan Paracka

  • Kristy Ventre
    2017
    Jeep Nation: Wilderness Ideology & the American Icon

    Albert Way

    Larrie Duedenhoeffer

  • Naznin Sultana
    2016
    Unmasked Gospels: Islam, Islamophobia, & Ideologies of Bangladeshi Muslims in Atlanta

    Rebecca Hill

    Debarati Sen

    Ken Williamson

  • Vanessa Schill
    2016
    The Importance of Teaching Media Literacy: A Cultural Approach to Navigating Media Landscapes

    Rebecca Hill

    Erin Ryan

  • Aajay Murphy
    2016
    Tracing Coffee, Culture, and Coloniality Between a Core (U.S.) and a Periphery (El Salvador) Through the Lens of Third-Wave Ideations

    Jesse Benjamin

    Ernesto Silva

  • Heather Harris
    2016
     Video Documentary on Van Dwellers

    Sergio Figueiredo

    Linda Niemann

  • Paola Garcia
    2016
    Decolonial Interstice in Carnaval Montevideanos: Murga as Hegemonic Dissent at the Tablado de Berrio

    Debarati Sen

    LeeAnn Lands

  • Walt Tillman
     2016
    Time and Nationhood: The United States and Indigenous Nations

    Kathryn Walkiewicz

    Heather Pincock

  • Gabriel Greaves
    2016
    Hidden Black and Brown Bridges: The Mutual Influences of Dr. Martin Luther King and Hispanic Theologian Dr. Justo González

    Seneca Vaught

    Jaime Ortiz

  • Robert Hadaway
    2015
    Dramaturgy: Kurt Weil's Street Scene and the Immigrant Experience

    Ugena Whitlock

    Jenn Soleo-Shanks

  • Ashley McFarland
    2015
    Cooking and Eating the Other: Contemporary Representations of Domestic Workers in Popular Media

    Stacy Keltner

    Griselda Thomas

  • Nilufer Gokmen
    2015
    A Journey of Tears: What They Don't Tell You About America: A Memoir

    Rebecca Hill

    Linda Niemann

  • Emmie Trull
    2015
    There is No 'I' in Team: A Look at Gender Equality in Collegiate Athletic Attendance

    Robbie Lieberman

    R. Keith Tudor

  • Daniel Blaine McCarty
    2015
    The Legends of Big Foot: Or How I Regained My Manhood

    Rebecca Hill

    Larrie Duedenhoffer

  • Sean Watkins
     2015
    The Turning Point of Who Shall Be Master: Killer of Sheep: Naming, Gender, and the Gaze of the African American Women

    Robbie Lieberman

    David King

  • Christine DeBord
     2015
    "'Cause I'm Young & I'm Black & My Hat's Real Low": Race, Hip-Hop, & Transformations in the NBA During the Late 1990s & Early 2000s

    Robbie Lieberman

    Rebecca Hill

  • Nykia Hannah
    2015
    "I'm Rich Bitch": Black Class Performance & the New Nouveau Riche

    Rebecca Hill

    Griselda Thomas

  • Yen Rodriguez
    2015
    The Triple Double: Racially Ambiguous Afro-Latino Identities in America

    Jesse Benjamin

    Ernesto Silva

    Ken Maffitt

  • Nykkeshia Wilson
     2015
    The Marriage of Charles and Rose Ward Tutty: Racial Identity and Intermarriage in Turn of the Century America

    Randy Patton

    Rebecca Hill

  • Ann Burkly
    2014
    Nomination to the National Register of Historical Places: Warden's Residence, McNeil Island, Washington

    Catherine Lewis

    Jennifer Dickey

  • Amber Martinez
    2014
    Japanese American Internment: A Tragedy of War

    Catherine Lewis

    Jennifer Dickey

  • Shelley McGinnis
    2014
    "Haunted by the Spirits of Men in Blue and Grey": The "Ghosts of Marietta" Tour, Selective History, and the Construction of Local Identity

    Linda Niemann

    Linda Stewart

  • Crystal Money
    2014
    Nonprofit Organizations and the Ever-Changing Culture of the American Society: An Analysis of Values and Support

    Rebecca Hill

    Linda Johnston

  • Ilham Ramram
    2014
    Marginalizing Muslims as the Other: Dominant and Persistent Prejudicial Imagery, Discourse, and Policy of the United States

    Dan Paracka

    Anne Richards

    Maia Hallward

  • Joann Trodahl
    2014
    The Salzburger Story and Its Legacy in Rincon, Georgia

    Catherine Lewis

    Jennifer Dickey

  • Meghan Griffin
    2013
    Gay and Lesbian Comic Book Characters

    Julia Brock 

    Jennifer Dickey

  • Juan Carlos Trejo
    2013
    The Vietnam War and its Detrimental Effects on Chicanos

    Alan LeBaron

    Randall Patton

  • Mary Elizabeth Tyler Boucebci
    2013
    The Adventures of Aziz and Hyar: An Exploration of Gender Roles and Marriage in Muslim-American Reality TV

    David King

    Anne Richards

  • Emily Dolezal
    2012
    The Innocents Abroad?: Examining Reasoning Behind Conscious Cultural Transgressions Performed by Central Asian Peace Corps Volunteers

    Todd Harper

    Alan LeBaron

  • Judith Obiofuma
    2012
    Factors Influencing the Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation Rate of African American Males at Kennesaw State University

    Jennifer Wade-Berg

    Seneca Vaught

  • Michael Irving
    2012
    Place and the ESOL Student in the Middle School Environment

    LeeAnn Lands

    Linda Niemann

  • Annie Moye
    2012
    "Blue-Haired Ladies and Mumbling Rednecks": Preserving Pasaquan Through Community Engagement

    LeeAnn Lands

    Diana McClintock

  • Wende Ballew
    2011
    Religious Control Within Georgia's Women's Prisons and How It Influences Sexual Identities

    LeeAnn Lands

    Ugena Whitlock

    Rebecca Hill

  • Karen Burton
    2011
    Traumatic Family Narratives in a Cosmopolitan World: Identity in American Third Generation Holocaust Survivors

    Catherine Lewis

    Linda Johnston

  • Anna Golden
    2011
    Identity Theft: HOAs and the Cultivation of Exceptional Whiteness

    Rebecca Hill

    LeeAnn Lands

  • Emily Fox
    2011
    Preserving Roswell: The Voices of Historic Preservation in Roswell, Georgia

    Linda Stewart

    LeeAnn Lands

  • Mandy McGrew
    2011
    A Balanced Approach to Health: Understanding the Health Care Practicies of Guatemalan Maya in the United States

    Alan LeBaron

    Kenneth Maffitt

  • Kaci Schmitt
    2011
    Exploring Dress and Behavior of the Emo Subculture

    Rebecca Hill

    Ugena Whitlock

  • Kyra Whitton
    2010
    Women as Subject and Audience in World War II Venereal Disease Posters

    Elsa Nystrom

    Joe Thomas

 

 

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