| Student | Year | Thesis Title |
| Remi Berg | 2024 | Transatlantic Memory and Identity: The Legacy of Colonel Heg and the 15th Wisconsin in Norway and Norwegian America |
| Robert Anderson | 2024 | Community, Race, and National Socialism: The Evolution of the Ideology of Volksgemeinschaft, 1807-1945 |
| Braden Lay | 2024 | “They Can’t Just Stamp Out This Faith:” Cold War Anti-Communism and International Evangelism at the Appalachian Preaching Mission |
| Taryn Shelnutt-Beam | 2024 | The Women's Renaissance: An Analysis of Gender Expectations and Experiences in Early Modern Europe |
| Julia Underkoffler | 2024 | From Silence to Interpretation: West Lawn Cemetery in Johnson City, Tennessee and the Case for Cemeteries as Public History Sites |
| Slade Nakoff | 2024 | From Tidewater to Tennessee: The Structuring Influences of Virginia Schemata in the Settlement of East Tennessee |
| Lawson Hammock | 2023 | Analyses of Cultural Clash in Los Angeles Punk Rock Communities, 1976-1981 |
| Olusegun Olatunji | 2023 | Powerful and Powerless: Reconfiguring the Agency and Supremacy of Women in Selected Festivals in the Yoruba Town of Isaga Orile, 1900-1958 |
| Richard Lloyd | 2023 | Foundation of Empire in the Tudor Era: Further Explorations of the Northeast and Northwest Passages |
| Clayton Huff | 2023 | History's Forgotten People: The Troubling Internment Historiography that Overlooks Japanese Canadians During World War II |
| Kaleb Q. Wentz | 2022 | Power in Portrayal: An Exploration of the Evolving Cold War Relationship Between Germany and America through Film |
| Zachary Miller | 2022 | False Idol: The Memory of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction in Greeneville, Tennessee 1869-2022 |
| Shawn Cecconi | 2022 | The Hope for Peace & the Case for War in the Postwar Soviet Union |
| Philip DeVries | 2022 | "We Do Not Know Which Path to Take”: Music, Theater, and Salafist Nationalism in Interwar Algeria (1919 – 1939) |
| Bianka Adamatti | 2021 |
The Tangled Roots of the Holocaust: An Analysis of the Evolution of Colonial Discourse
through the Prohibition of Sexual Relations and Marriages between Races Winner - 2021-2022 Outstanding Thesis in Arts and Humanities Award |
| Thomas Briggs Evans |
2021 |
Blitzkrieg: The Evolution of Modern Warfare and the Wehrmact's Impact on American Military Doctrine During the Cold War |
| Joshua B. Groomes | 2021 | The Impact of the United States Army Nurses Corps on the United States Army Fatality Rate in the Mediterranean and European Theater of Operations During World War II |
| Margaret Hayden | 2021 | The Medici Example: How Power Creates Art and Art Creates Power |
| Jordan Hunter Kern | 2021 | The Mouse Sees No Color: An Examination of the Disney Corporation's Recent Depictions of Race in American History |
| Brittany P. Bales | 2020 | Viewing History Through a Lens: The Influence of Film on Historical Consciousness |
| Keri Alexis Blair | 2020 | Ritualistic Equestrianism: Status, Identity, and Symbolism in Tudor Coronation Ceremonies |
| Matthew Frye | 2020 | Influential Factors on Historic Interpretation: A Case Study of Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site |
| Sherry Kaye | 2020 | Pentecostal Women and Religious Reformation in the Progressive Era: The Political Novelty of Women’s Religious and Organizational Leadership |
| Emily Q. Lu | 2020 | Hangul Nationalism: Missionary and Other outside Influences in Nineteenth-Century Korean Writing Reform |
| Ashlie Richard | 2020 | A Case Study of Civil War Environmental and Medical History Through the Disease Seasoning of the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in East Tennessee |
| Joshua Swanson | 2020 | Talk This Way: A Look at the Historical Conversation between Hip-Hop and Christianity |
| Seth Walker | 2020 | The Last Crusade: British Crusading Rhetoric During the Great War |
| Cameron Williams | 2020 | A Study of the United States' Influence on German Eugenics |
| Cavender S. Sutton | 2019 | "We Germans Fear God, and Nothing Else in the World!": Military Policy in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 |
| Michael D. Lawson | 2019 | Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of Medieval Scandinavia |
| Casey L. Price | 2019 |
Resistance to Statism in Frontier Era Upper East Tennessee, 1760-1820 |
| Ryan Barker | 2019 | For National Philosophy and Empire: Banks, Cook, And the Construction of Science and
Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century Winner - 2019-2020 Outstanding Thesis in Arts and Humanities Award |
| Olugbenga Samson Ojewale | 2018 | America's Inconsistent Foreign Policy to Africa: A Case Study of Apartheid South Africa |
| Frederic Poag | 2018 | The Open Door, Dollar Diplomacy, and the Self-Strengthening Movement: The Birth of American Idealist Imperialism in China, 1890 - 1912 |
| Adam M. Spivey | 2017 | Friend or Foe? Martial Race Ideology and the Experience of Highland Scottish and Irish Regiments in Mid-Victorian Conflicts, 1853-1870 |
| Aiko Nils Bresinsky | 2017 | Baltic German Exodus, 1939-1945: Settlement Adaption and Disappearance |
| Hannah Diaz | 2017 | Reformation London and the Adaptation of Observed Piety |
| Ashley M. Barnett | 2016 | Prudery and Perversion: Domination of the Sexual Body in Middle-Class Men, Women, and Disenfranchised Bodies in Victorian England |
| Colin S. Campbell | 2016 | Dead Center: Polarization and the Democratic Party, 1932-2000 |
| Steffan James Geiter | 2016 |
The Church, State, and Literature of Carolingian France |
| Heather Geiter | 2016 | Imagery and Objectification: A Study of Early Modern Queenship |
| Gable Hackett | 2016 | That 80s Show! - The Politics, Film, and Television of the Reagan Years |
| Steven K. Knapp | 2016 | Women in the 1929 Textile Strikes in Elizabethton, Tennessee and Gastonia, North Carolina |
| Sarah Caitlin Kerley | 2015 | If I had a Hammer: American Folk Music and the Radical Left |
| David Dubois | 2014 | Admiral Thomas C. Hart and the Demise of the Asiatic Fleet 1941-1942 |
| Emeel S. Lamey | 2014 | The Idea of "Holy Islamic Empire" as a catalyst to Muslims' Response to the Second Crusade |
| Cortney D. Nelson |
2014 | "Our Weapon is the Wooden Spoon: "Motherhood, Racism, and War: The Diverse roles of Women in Nazi Germany |
| Christina Elizabeth Baxter | 2014 | The Wolf Attacks: A History of the Russo-Chechen Conflict |
| Patrick Cash | 2014 | The Deliberate Speed of the Tar Heel State: North Carolina's Efforts to Resist School Desegregation, 1954-1966 |
| Maegan K. Harrell | 2014 | Parallel Identities: Southern Appalachia and the Southern Concepts of Gender During the American Civil War |
| Andrew L. Jones | 2014 | Debating Cannae: Delbruk, Schlieffen, and the Great War |
| Derrick Angermeier | 2013 | A Problem of Perception: An Analysis of the Formation, Reception, and Implementation of National Socialist Ideology in Germany, 1919 to 1939 |
| John Wyatt Greenlee | 2013 | "Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain |
| Zachary Lize | 2013 | Pietro Bembo's Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars |
| Ronald J. McCall | 2013 | Never Quite Settled: Southern Plain Folk on the Move |
| Aaron Owens | 2013 | "The Price of a Woolworth's Burger": The Importance of the Nashville Sit-ins and the Overshadowing of the Events with the Protests in Wichita and Greensboro |
| Jason Phillips | 2013 | The Forgotten Footnote of the Second World War: An Examination of the Historiography of Scandinavia during World War II |
| Jaqueline Shelton | 2013 | Evil Becomes Her: Prostitution's Transition from Necessary to Social Evil in 19th Century America |
| Patrick Teye | 2013 | Barbary Pirates: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton, and the Evolution of U.S. Diplomacy in the Mediterranean |
| Niklas Trzaskowski | 2013 | From the Committee of 100 to the Committee to Re-elect the President: The Political Campaigns of Richard M. Nixon |
| Kimberly Woodring | 2013 | Religion and Burial: Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding |
| Maurice Adkins | 2012 | "Decades of Progress": The Relevance of the State Supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| Jacob Owen Bryant | 2012 | The Invisible Enemy: The Effects of Polio on the American War Effort during World
War II, 1941-1945 Winner - 2012-2013 Outstanding Thesis in Arts and Humanities Award |
| Whitney Cate | 2012 | Forgotten Heroes: Lessons from School Integration in a Small Southern Community |
| Julia Dittrich | 2012 | "We Have to Record the Downfall of Tyranny": The London Times Perspective on Napoleon Bonaparte's Invasion of Russia |
| Anna Wills Dowell | 2012 | "Tell Them I Don't Smoke Cigars": The Making of Bonnie Parker |
| Steven Efremov | 2012 | The Role of Inflation in Soviet History: Prices, Living Standards, and Political Change |
| Jama McMurtrey Grove | 2012 | Uneasy Waters: The Night Riders at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, 1908 |
| Brandi McCloud | 2012 | Solidarity Forever: The Story of the Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Communist Party from the Perspective of the Rank and File Autoworkers |
| John Milstead | 2012 | Party of the Century: Juarez, Diaz, and the End of the "Unifying Liberal Myth" in 1906 Oaxaca |
| Casey Nash | 2012 | The Olympic Glory of Jesse Owens: A Contribution to Civil Rights and Society |
| Nancy Perkins | 2012 | The Book of Enoch and Second Temple Judaism |
| Eliza Love Shelton | 2012 | The Edenton Tea Party. 25 October 1774: A Patriotic Female Community in Revolutionary North Carolina |