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.
Theses from 2025
The Value of Holidays in World War I America, Laura Kathleen Neis
Theses from 2024
The Social Contract: Duty and Discrimination in Public Service, Brian Corteville
A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks, Grayson R. Jones
‘Samoye Vazhnoye’: Behind the Scenes of Russian Cinema, 1908–1924, Katerina Ludwig
U.S Presidents in Africa After the Cold War: In Search of a Reason, Socrates Mbamalu
Aid or Abuse? A Review of U.S. Police Assistance Programs in Latin America During the Early Cold War, Brianna McNally
Lessons Not Learned, Kyle Missbach
Theses from 2023
The Fight for Equality: African American Seabees During World War II, Victoria Castillo
Disaffection and Othering: Beyond Our Coordinates, Christen Kadkhodai
Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles, Megan Lee
The Gray Area: Sexuality and Gender in Wartime Reevaluated, Natalie Pendergraft
Theses from 2022
Memorial Craze: How War Memorials have been Changed by War, Jillian Bass
Crossing the 'Color Bar': African American Soldiers in Britain and Australia During the Second World War, Joseph A. Dickinson
International Connection, Domestic Radicalization: The Connection Between East Asia and Black Radicals, Randy O. Felder
“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity, Erika Gibson
Modern American Propaganda: An Institutional History, Douglas Morrow
“An Exercise in International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” and Nixon’s 1969 War on Drugs, Justin M. Reid
Theses from 2021
The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War, Winston Andrus
Fighting Tigers with a Stick: An Evaluation of U.S. Army Recruitment, Training, and Their Combat Outcomes in the Korean War, Jonathan Banks
Below-deck: The Specialist Sailor in World War II, Gregory Falcon
(Re)Presenting Eichmann: One Man, Many Murders, Nina Handjeva-Weller
“Otherwise, it’s War”: US-Taiwan Defense Ties and the Opening of the People’s Republic of China (1969-1974), Robert 'Bo' Kent
“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical, Leana Sottile
Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Popular Culture in America, Ubaldo Zermeno
Theses from 2020
Requisitioned: American War Art of the Second World War, Spenser Carroll-Johnson
Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: The Korean American War for Independence (1910-1945), Andrew Chae
So Others May Live: The Price of Healthcare in Combat, Robert Del Toro
Inkatha, Propaganda, and Violence in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1980s and 90s, Michael MacInnes
“An Entirely New and Utterly Horrifying Reality”: Jews’ Perceptions of and Reactions to the Kovno Pogroms, June 22–July 6, 1941, Sarah Markowitz
The Myth of the Green Berets: How One Group of Soldiers Helped Sell a Nation on the Virtue of War, Rebekah Moore
No More Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: The Nixon Doctrine, South Korea, and the Vietnam War, Vanessa Zenji
Theses from 2019
In the Shadow of Shuri Castle: The Battle of Okinawa in Memory, Blake Altenberg
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
Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946, Cameron Carlomagno
Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising, Sasha Conaway
Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society, Jesse A. Faugstad
Diversity and Democracy at War: Analyzing Race and Ethnicity in Squad Films from 1940-1960, Lara K. Jacobson
The Ladle and the Knife: Power Projection and Force Deployment under Reagan, Mathew Kawecki
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Immigration Policy: How 9/11 Transformed the Debate Over Illegal Immigration, Robert Nelsen
Stop Talking about Sorrow: Nixon’s Communications Strategy after Lam Son 719, Dominic K. So
Theses from 2016
A One Percent Chance: Jabotinsky, Bernadotte, and the Iron Wall Doctrine, Andrew Harman