Below is a selection of dissertations from the War, Diplomacy, and Society (formerly War and Society) program that have been included in Chapman University Digital Commons. Additional dissertations from years prior to 2019 are available through the Leatherby Libraries' print collection or in Proquest's Dissertations and Theses database.

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Theses from 2024

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The Social Contract: Duty and Discrimination in Public Service, Brian Corteville

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Lessons Not Learned, Kyle Missbach

Theses from 2023

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The Fight for Equality: African American Seabees During World War II, Victoria Castillo

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Disaffection and Othering: Beyond Our Coordinates, Christen Kadkhodai

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Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles, Megan Lee

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The Gray Area: Sexuality and Gender in Wartime Reevaluated, Natalie Pendergraft

Theses from 2022

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Memorial Craze: How War Memorials have been Changed by War, Jillian Bass

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Crossing the 'Color Bar': African American Soldiers in Britain and Australia During the Second World War, Joseph A. Dickinson

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International Connection, Domestic Radicalization: The Connection Between East Asia and Black Radicals, Randy O. Felder

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“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity, Erika Gibson

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Modern American Propaganda: An Institutional History, Douglas Morrow

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“An Exercise in International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” and Nixon’s 1969 War on Drugs, Justin M. Reid

Theses from 2021

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The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War, Winston Andrus

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Fighting Tigers with a Stick: An Evaluation of U.S. Army Recruitment, Training, and Their Combat Outcomes in the Korean War, Jonathan Banks

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Below-deck: The Specialist Sailor in World War II, Gregory Falcon

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"After all, who takes care of the Red Cross's morale?": The Experiences of American Red Cross Clubmobile Women during World War II, Paige Gulley

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(Re)Presenting Eichmann: One Man, Many Murders, Nina Handjeva-Weller

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“Otherwise, it’s War”: US-Taiwan Defense Ties and the Opening of the People’s Republic of China (1969-1974), Robert 'Bo' Kent

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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical, Leana Sottile

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Popular Culture in America, Ubaldo Zermeno

Theses from 2020

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Requisitioned: American War Art of the Second World War, Spenser Carroll-Johnson

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Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: The Korean American War for Independence (1910-1945), Andrew Chae

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So Others May Live: The Price of Healthcare in Combat, Robert Del Toro

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Inkatha, Propaganda, and Violence in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1980s and 90s, Michael MacInnes

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“An Entirely New and Utterly Horrifying Reality”: Jews’ Perceptions of and Reactions to the Kovno Pogroms, June 22–July 6, 1941, Sarah Markowitz

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The Myth of the Green Berets: How One Group of Soldiers Helped Sell a Nation on the Virtue of War, Rebekah Moore

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No More Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: The Nixon Doctrine, South Korea, and the Vietnam War, Vanessa Zenji

Theses from 2019

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In the Shadow of Shuri Castle: The Battle of Okinawa in Memory, Blake Altenberg

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Denied to Serve: Gay Men and Women in the American Military and National Security in World War II and the Early Cold War, Gianni Barbera

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Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946, Cameron Carlomagno

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Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising, Sasha Conaway

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Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society, Jesse A. Faugstad

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Diversity and Democracy at War: Analyzing Race and Ethnicity in Squad Films from 1940-1960, Lara K. Jacobson

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The Ladle and the Knife: Power Projection and Force Deployment under Reagan, Mathew Kawecki

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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Immigration Policy: How 9/11 Transformed the Debate Over Illegal Immigration, Robert Nelsen

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Stop Talking about Sorrow: Nixon’s Communications Strategy after Lam Son 719, Dominic K. So

Theses from 2016

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A One Percent Chance: Jabotinsky, Bernadotte, and the Iron Wall Doctrine, Andrew Harman