Theses and Dissertations
Theses & Projects
2025
- Preserving Cultural Heritage in Urban Development:
Strategies for Balancing Architectural Integrity and Urban Growth in Ukrainian Villages, Bucha, Kyiv Region Streategic Preservation Plan (Oleksii Babynets) - Traditional dance and other intangible cultural heritage practices of cocoa farming in Trinidad and Tobago: Preserving and adapting cultural heritage and landscapes of production to boost the tourism industry. (Anthea Grant)
2024
- Legacies of Luxury: How Florida’s Gilded Age Resorts Found Economic Viability in the Midst of Hardship and Societal Change (Caleb Arsenault)
- Reclaiming Hallowed Ground: The Rehabilitation and Revival of Old Groveland Cemetery in Groveland, Florida (Nigel Rudolph)
2023
- Lincolnville, Florida : A Model for Community Resilience (Drew Johnson)
- Chert Architecture in Gainesville, Florida (Rae Shropshire)
- Research Project: Peck High School: A Rosenwald School Adaptive Use Case Study and National Register of Historic Places Nomination (Salvatore Cumella)
2022
- Research Project: Preservation of Negative Heritage Sites and Their Interpretation Through Architectural Addition (Shristi Tamrakar)
- A Neighborhood in Crisis: The Institutional Failures and the Perpetual Fight to Preserve Black History (Tyler Smith)
2021
- Mapping Florida’s Civil Rights Sites : A Phase I Survey of Florida Civil Rights Heritage Sites (Alayna Jackson)
- Mission 66 Visitors Centers : Considerations for Rehabilitation and Adaptation in the 21st Century (Harshitha Beere)
2020
- Virtual Reality A Versatile Tool for Historic Preservation (Yen Terefe)
- The Impacts of Engagement Approaches & Tools Raising Public Awareness in Cedar Key, Florida (Ina Sthapit)
- Physical Condition Assessment Using Historic Building Information Modeling and Deviation Analysis Method A Case Study of Historic Mount Carmel Baptist Church (Kabir Rabbi)
- Origins and Development of Shell-Based Construction in St. Augustine (Trey Asner)
- Elevating History: Adapting Historic Communities to Sea Level Rise (Kimberly Rose)
2019
- 3D Laser Scanning: Understanding the Impacts and Implications on Historic Preservation Architectural Practice (Mayrelis Perez Hernandez)
- Sustainable Architecture: South Floridian Architect Robert E. McDonald’s Work at Mid-Twentieth Century (Kathleen McDonald)
- The Screen Block and the Mid-Century Built Environment of Florida (Kristine Ziedina)
2018
- Preservin’ Blackness, Assessing the Values and Perceptions of Historic Districts in Neighborhoods of Color (Taurean Merriweather)
- The application of historic building information modeling in historic house museums in the United States (Marla Holden)
- What Is Ocala Block? (Maanvi Chawla)
- On Values and Narrative : A Case Study of Gainesville Modern (Jaycob Kitain)
- Efficacy of Florida’s 11 to save for Preservation of Heritage Sites Providing References for Other Endangered Heritage List (Rongchanghao Zeng)
2017
- ‘Apt to adapt’: a study on relocation of historic structures threatened by sea-level rise (Anulekha Chakraborty)
- Historic Preservation as a tool for Boutique Destination Development : A case study of Walter Beinecke Jr. on Nantucket (Lauren Seaman)
- Evaluating the Nomination Process of World Heritage Historic Districts of Caribbean Countries (Rosaura Ramos)
- Exploring the Origins of Today’s Historic St. Augustine : Post-War Reconstructions (Kaitlin Dorn)
- Thanaheritage: An Analytical Merger Between Historic Preservation and Thanatourism (Kyra Lucas)
2016
- Proposing the Concept of Shared Space as a Preservation Technique : the Dilemma of St. George Street and Cathedral Place (Alyssa Costas)
2015
- Enter World Heritage : A Look at the Development of Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia (Katherine Jacob)
- Modern and Millennials : Engaging the Next Generation with the Preservation of Modern Heritage (Cayley Champeau)
- Sacred Site Management Issues For Grassroots and Non-Professional Preservationists (Lauren Kates)
2014
- New Directions in House Museum Interpretation : Creating a Desired Visitor Experience at the de Mesa-Sanchez House (Amber Caton)
- Treatment of Modernist Urban Park Plazas: Considerations for Adaptation for Contemporary Use (Caeli Tolar)
2013
- Assessing Heritage Values for Adaptive Use Planning : a Framework for Preservationists (Kara Litvinas)
- Best Practices for Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning of Cultural Heritage (Brian Shea)
- Exploring a values-based approach to the management of heritage: Florida’s postwar springs attractions (Brittany Dexter)
- Exploring the hallmarks of a successful volunteer preservation organization : The Villagers, Incorporated (Kelly Perkins)
- Policies and Procedures for Converting Distressed Urban Buildings to Scattered Site Cooperative Housing Corporations : Case Studies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Louisiana (Jessop Warren)
2012
- A more inclusive approach to assessing cultural heritage values: the Government House, St. Augustine, Florida (Blair Mullins)
- Valuing historic cemeteries (Matthew Armstrong)
2011
- HyperJax: investigating the use of hypermedia as an interpretive tool for the preservation of Jacksonville, Florida’s silent film heritage (Matthew Mariner)
- The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site : a grounded theory case study (Rachel Thibeault)
- Toward a framework for preserving mid-century modern resources: an examination of public perceptions of the Sarasota School of Architecture (Nora Gallagher)
2010
- Historic preservation and the Sarasota School of Architecture : three case studies (Christopher Berger)
2009
- Interpreting Asian American immigration experiences : historic sites, museums, and the Internet (Tram Mai)
- El Tajin : preserving the legacy of a unique Pre-Columbian architecture in Mesoamerica (Ileana Olmos)
- The imagined frontier : the impact of visual media on the preservation of the American West (Joshua Bodenweiser)
- Finding Main Street : exploring the image, memory, and experience of a nostalgic landscape (Jeannette Ransom)
- Crises of authenticity in Saint Augustine’s early preservation history, 1840-1955 (Joseph Shaughnessy)
Dissertations
2023
- More than Meets the Eye : Layers of Significance in Architect Harry Cline Merritt, Jr.’s Residential Designs (Clarissa Carr)
2021
- Recreating the United States’ Oldest European Settlement : The Preservation of St. Augustine, Florida in the mid to Late Twentieth Century (1959-1984) (Nihal Elvanoglu)
- The Formation and Transformation of Roadside America : A Study of the Preservation of American Roadscapes (Kyra Lucas)
2020
- Cooperative Preservation Converting Multi-Site Historic Buildings into Cooperative Housing Corporations (Jessop Warren)
- Integration of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Close-Range Photogrammetry for Documenting Built Heritage (Lisha Chen)
2018
- Shifting the Paradigm of Heritage Conservation Practice through 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Sujin Kim)
2017
- The Phenomena of Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter : Creating an Architectural Sense of Place on Grand Canyon (Barbara Matusik)
2016
2015
- A Place to Live or a Destination to Travel? : The World Heritage Tourism Impact on Historic Landscapes Focusing on Hahoe Village, a Historic Village of Korea (Soon Ki Kim)
- Buffer Zones at World Heritage Sites (Charlotte Lake)
2013
- Effect, form, affect : an exploration of vernacular landscape form change using the context of a traditional fishing village (Larry Frey)
- Preserving the Legacy : The Hotel Ponce de Leon and Flagler College (Leslee Keys)
2011
- The urban mansion in nineteenth-century Paris: tradition, invention and spectacle (Linda Stevenson)
- A Jagged Path : Tourism, Planning, and Development in Mexican World Heritage Cities (Richard Shieldhouse)