Humanities and Social Sciences Theses
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
From the Battlefield to the Asylum: The Social Construction of Disability in Italy, 1900 - 1950, Brandie Crisp Robb
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Syncretistic Religiosity in the Mausoleums of Bangladesh: Exploring the Possibility of a Blended Religious Identity, Sadia Afrin
A Kansas City Founder "Proud of His Position:" Race, Exploitation, and the Rise of William Gilliss, Diane M. Euston
“Laugh, When I Gives You a Joke”: The Forms and Functions of Humor in the Great War, Samuel Sakoulas Griffin
Jewish Revenge in Postwar Vienna, Anna Celina Guenter
Between Choice and Compulsion: An Examination and Critique of the Evolution of 'Original Sin', Matthew James Wynn
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Nation of Priests: Authority, Expertise, and the Religious Nones, Riley CT Brown
Missouri Soybean Exports and the Democratizing Market Force, David D. Hammons
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
(Australian): Challenges of the Australian Flying Corps During World War I, Patrick Joseph Blizzard
Examining Health Inequity in Ancient Egypt, Samantha Rose Gonzalez
Pentecostalism: A Comparative Study of African and African American Churches in Springfield, Emmanuel Kumah
Luke and Legacy: Bruce Lincoln and the Construction of Jesus's Prophet-like Authority in the Gospel of Luke, Kendall Joseph Mayo
Artist and Patron Relationships: Social Power Dynamics in Renaissance Italy, Katherine E. Siegler
We May Undertake to Run the Churches: The Stanton-Ames Order and Union Military-Supported Church Confiscation During the American Civil War, Todd Ernest Sisson
Making their Voices Heard- the Nahua Fight to Secure Agency 1575-1820, Micaela Wiehe
Through the Wilderness: Andrew Jackson's Military Road and the Settlement of the Southern Frontier, Dustin Mitchell Wren
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Unlimited Absorbs the Limits: Analyzing the Religious and Mystical Aspects of Virginia Woolf's Work Through the Lens of William James, Zachary J. Beck
Without Personhood: The Missing Point of Slaves in Missouri's Emancipation-by-Residency Freedom Suit Jurisprudence, 1824-1837, Jacob Alfred Brandler
Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines: Dispersion, Cooperation, and Desperation, Alexander William Decker
The 1918 Anti-British Revolt in Najaf: Local Primary Sources vs National and Religious Narratives, Mohammed Harba
Battlefield of Bandages: A Case Study on Sanitation Policy, Medical Reform, and Disease Prevention During the War of Rebellion, Ashley L. Simpson
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Supernatural Pilgrims: A Journey to a New Apostolic Reformation Congregation in the Ozarks, Samuel Wayne Gingerich
Chang (Beer): A Social Marker, Ritual Tool, and Multivalent Symbol in Tibetan Buddhism, Kayla J. Jenkins
Fear and Trepidation: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Maritime Piracy and Illicit Smuggling in San Francisco De Campeche 1630 - 1705, Victor Alfonso Medina Lugo
The Politics of Federal Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Six West Virginia Counties, Hannah O'Keefe
The Batavia Massacre: The Tragic End to a Century of Cooperation, Kimberly Wilhelmina Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Kingdom of Priests and Gods: Angelic and Participatory Deification in John's Apocalypse, David A. Armstrong
The Lingering Menace, Logan M. Burke
How God Writes History: A Gramscian Analysis of Religion and Nature in the Writings, Life, and Legacy of John Muir, Daniel R. Jones
“O Stop and Tell Me, Red Man”: Indian Removal and the Lamanite Mission of 1830-31, Kaleb C. Miner
Vocabulary Depth and Language Use of Heritage Learners, Elsy B. Shuford
Variations in Black Media Coverage of the East St. Louis Race Riot, Angela Rene Womack
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Who Are the Apistoi? Symbolic Boundaries and Anthropological Language in 2 Cor 6:14-7:1, Nii Addo Kobina Abrahams
Entangled Trade: Peaceful Spanish-Osage Relations in the Missouri River Valley, 1763-1780, Maryellen Ruth Harman
Household Chipped Stone Technology at South Cape (23CG8): A Mississippian Hinterland Site in Southeast Missouri, Deseray L. Helton
The Trials of Louis Benecke, David Alan Whitby
Charting Constellations of Power: Texas Public Education Policy, Hollie Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Problem Of Authority In Conservative Evangelical Christianity: A Critique Of American And South Korean Expressions, Harold Arthur Brower IV
The Selfish Law: A Memetic Study Of The Transition From Generational Morality To Individual Morality In Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18, And Jeremiah 31:27-30, Jonathan Michael Gracza
Setting The Table In 19Th Century St. Louis: The Utility Of Glass Tableware Analysis In The Archaeology Of Domesticity And Consumerism, Grace Lynn Gronniger
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
This Is Our Land: Osage Territoriality and Borderland Violence, 1763-1803, Stephen Edouard Barnett
Archaeological and Historical Research to Establish the Jasper County, Missouri Civil War Museum and Park, Christopher Dennis Dukes
Gaming and Aggressive Tendencies: The Effects of Conflict Simulations on Behavior and Political Decision-Making, James Gilmore
Archaeological and Historical Investigations of the Robert Newsom Farmstead (23CY497), Callaway County, Missouri, James Adam Halpern
The Effect of Student Characteristics on Leading Indicators of Academic Success, Monica Marie Horton
The Elite of the Elites: the U.S. Marine Raider Battalions, 1942-1944: A Case Study in Elite Military Organizations, Stephen Mark Houseknecht
Of Dogs and Disciples: Gentiles and the Discourse of Identity in the Gospel of Matthew, Angela D. Ingram
Moving Past: Making Space for Memory after the Boston Marathon Bombing, Austin Thomas Jacobs
A Study of Urban Development on Commercial Street, Springfield, Missouri, Christopher Thomas Kempke
Bodies Bending Boundaries: Religious, Spiritual, and Secular Identities of Modern Postural Yoga in the Ozarks, Kimberley J. Pingatore
A New Method of Ceramic Economic Indexing in Historical Archaeology with a Case Study from Springfield, Missouri, Jennifer Amanda Rideout
The Myth of a Secular Economy: Capitalism's Unarticulated Theology, Daniel F. Sebastian
Horse-Stealing and Man-Hanging: An Examination of Vigilantism in the Missouri Ozarks, Connie Sue Yen
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Mending Wall: Social Capital and Civic Engagement in the Ozarks Homeschooling Community, Michael William Bohlen
A Socio-Military History of the Fourth Missouri Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., William Laurence Bryan
Losing My Religion: Spiritual but Not Religious Metaphysicals, Spiritual Pluralists, and Free-Range Christians, Steven Wayne Fouse
Getting Out and Staying Out: A Study of Recidivism and Ex-Offender Employability in Springfield, Missouri, Edward Joseph Keohane
Religion and Anthropogenesis: Other Animal Presences in the Science-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Harrison Hall King
Made in America: the Effects of Political Advertising in Social Media on Attention and Participation, Aaron Michael Kruse
The Battle of Gettysburg and the Response of the Press, Matthew James Larson
An Ethnographic Study of Domestic Violence, Clarissa Marie Martin
Researching World War Ii Soldiers by Applying Ethnohistorical Methods, Daniel Ray McMurray
The Waldensians of Barry County: Finding Freedom in the Ozarks, Christopher W. Nash
Investigating Ozarks Marginality: A Study of Late Prehistoric Ceramics from the Northern Ozark Highland of Missouri, Sarah Rice O'Donnell
Manjako Literacy and Issues in Language of Instruction, Miles Avery Pearson
A More Dangerous Game?: Evaluating the Decision Making Process in Select Persian Gulf Monarchies and Assessing the Effect of the Arab Spring, Margaret Mae Kildegaard Petersen
Praying Through Windows and Peering Through Wood: Examining Vernacular Devotions in American Eastern Orthodoxy Through a Materialist Lens, Sarah Amy Riccardi
Competing Narratives: St. Louis Journalism During the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861, Phillip Jason Rice
Jacobites, Hivites, Spaces, and Places: Genesis 34 in Light of Spatial, Archaeological, and Anthropological Perspectives, Brock Addison Whisler
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42, Timothy B. Decker
The Pendulum Slowly Swings: The Unusual Journey of an Ozarks Pentecostal Congregation, Katherine Ashley Graul
Influence of Flake Morphology on Fluvial Transportation and Site Formation Interpretation, Elise Marlene Hargiss
Between Others, Between Ethics: Resisting Domination Through Postcolonialism, Environmentalism and Ecocriticism, Matthew Ronald Hartman
The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica, Nicholas Salvatore Scolaro
An Ethnographic Study of Human Trafficking in Springfield: a Real Or Perceived Problem?, Melissa Jo Sowers
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Ethics of Amos in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern Context, Mark D. Arnold
The Creation of the Ottoman Landscape in Southeastern Europe: Fourteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Matthew Elmo Bosch
Sticks With Stones: Controlled Experimentation in the Use of the Weighted Atlatl, David I. Cain
Sowing the Seeds of Change: An Ethnographic Study of the Religious Motivations of Producers and Consumers of Locally Produced Foods, Monica Leigh Peck Cottrell
A Generously Imagined World: the Reception of Tzedakah Texts in Diasporic Jewish Communities, Krista Nichole Dalton
Forensic Age Determination by Digital Radiographic Measurement of the Dental Pulp, Marlene Kay Feisthamel
Osage Glass Bead Use: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence of Change and Continuity Through the Early Postcontact Era, John Albert Fox
Ecclesiology After God: Materialism and Doubt in the Emerging Church Movement, Matthew James Gallion
“Be Not Conformed to This World": A History of Worldliness in the Assemblies of God, Micah L. Hildreth
Blood and Fire: The Inquisition of Mary Tudor, 1555-1558, David Allen Hill
Resistivity Survey to Identify Archaeological Features at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site, Abraham Ledezma Martinez
Tell Me The Old, Old Story: The Hymns and Testimonies of Ancient Israel and American Pentecostals, Meghan D. Musy
Heat Treatment of Ozark Cherts: An Archaeological Experiment in the Effects of Heat Treatment on Toolstone Flaking Properties, Craig Matthew Picka
The Cautionary Tale of Communist China: Missionaries and the Pentecostal Shift Towards Anti-Communism from 1914 Through 1951, Jason Marc Pudlo
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Historic Cemeteries at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site, Daniel M. Salas
Public Expression of Religion in the United States: Inside the Wall of Separation Between Church and State, Canaan Aaron Vermillion
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Jesus, the Slayer of Death: The Descensus Ad Inferos in the Demonstrations of Aphrahat, James Wesley Bennett
Ecstasy and the Kinesthetic Body: An Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Penecostal Worship, Travis Warren Cooper
Dine becoming Bahai: Through the Lens of Ancient Prophecies, Linda Sue Covey
France, Spain, and the Persecution of Protestant Heresy: A Study in Contrast, Gregory Everett French
Are the Old Ways New Again?: Local Farmers Practicing Civic Agriculture in Southwest Missouri, Lester Scott Lakey
(Re)Creating Paul: Toward a More Generous Historiography, Darryl James Schafer
