Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history of radio station KNTU.

Undergraduate thesis exploring modern American racism as the result of the nation's legacy of theological white supremacy and its deep-rooted racial issues that remain unresolved because of the theo-mythologies embedded at the core of the nation's foundational fabric that have been and continue to be largely unaccounted for in corrective racial discourse through a case study of Denton, Texas. By employing localized interdisciplinary methodological approaches aimed at unveiling the theo-myth which underscores the modern American racial ontology, this study examines how theological white supremacy was homogenized into popular culture in Denton County Texas following the Civil War via neo-Confederate Ku Klux Klan movement, which the author calls Ku Klux Konfederatism, that continues its influence today through localized theo-political institutions, sociocultural systems and cultural 'norms.'

Paper discusses the history of KNTU as a radio station as well as the key events, people, and unique qualities as a radio station.

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history and nature of media coverage, including Operation Desert Storm and the Civil Rights Movement. Special attention is paid to the role of television in journalism.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community at the University of North Texas (UNT).

Paper describes how gossypium hopi cotton production has benefited through using culture and history to connect with customers in branding.

Paper explores the imagery and text coded with implications of the United States’ social dominance over Mexico in Hubert Howe Bancroft XVI's accounts of Texas history.

This paper examines research on the significance of clothing, specifically, the "men's suit," in select examples of contemporary American performance art. Drawing on sociology and art history, it considers the suit as a form of communication, and it suggests that performance artists Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, and Vanessa Beecroft have used the "men's suit" to explore and communicate something about masculinity as a socially and culturally constructed hegemony.

Paper is an in-depth analysis of a leather "Shoe Reliquary" embossed with images of women, made in the late medieval period.

This paper discusses research on the absence of Mary Magdalene in the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere, Rome. The author's research examines the social context throughout Rome during the medieval era, the status of prostitution, spatial analysis of Trastevere, and the inevitable entrance of promiscuity through the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere.

Paper analyzes the ivory artwork Descent from the Cross, carved in the thirteenth century and held today at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France.

In this paper, the author gives an analysis of Francisco de Goya, arguing that the painter uses mirrors to symbolize harmonization of subject with its true self throughout his work.

This paper discusses research on the performance art of Alexander Brener.

Paper explores the biombo as an exemplary model of hybridity that consolidated European, Asian, and Latin American histories using a late 18th century example found in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Paper presents an in-depth analysis of the ivory panel "Hunting Scenes", a narrative 5 x 12 x 3 panel housed in the Metropolitan Museum Cloister Collection.

Paper explores the origins of the Winged Stags Tapestry, hypothesizing that it was created as a form of French propaganda after the Hundred Years' war.

Paper examines how and why the United States had difficulty accomplishing diplomatic goals under the Articles of Confederation.

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's painting, Allegory of Industry, 1797-1802.

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's series Los Caprichos. A semiotic analysis of Francisco de Goya's prints 'Todos Caeran' and 'Devota Profesion' examines how Goya modifies the medieval iconography of the siren, the owl, and the ass to embody immoral aspects of contemporary Spanish society.

This paper discusses Francisco de Goya. Employing Foucault's discourse to specific works reveals Goya's ability to represent visually the fundamental tension between Romantic and Classical ideas, especially the ambiguous line between reason and madness.

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the absence of Mary Magdalene in the Santa Maria Basilica in Trastevere, Rome.

This paper presents research on Francisco de Goya. This research proves that the painting of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) from 1800 ('The Cannibals), and his paintings from 1820-1823 (The Black Paintings, 'Judith,' and 'Saturn,' and Miniature, 'Judith') represent changing ideas on decapitation of a monarch.

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.

Undergraduate thesis investigating the rate of vertical transmission that takes place in wild Culex quinquefasciatus populations by testing samples of emergent Culex quinquefasciatus adults to see what number of mosquitos test positive for West Nile Virus (WNv) throughout the summer and fall, and thus estimate the rate of vertical transmission of the virus in wild mosquitos.