Heritage Studies is an interdisciplinary doctoral program preparing students for work within cultural heritage, historic preservation, cultural and heritage tourism, and related fields. Their mission is to produce heritage professionals with the knowledge and expertise needed to identify, assess, preserve, interpret, manage, and promote historic and cultural resources for non-specialist or "public" audiences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Habitually "Ant-Eyeing": The Life and Work of Billy Joe Tatum, Lauren Adams Willette
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Rehabilitation Of Urban Heritage to Revive Heritage Villages in Ad Dair Governorate in Jazan Province of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Dra'al-Khatm Heritage Village: Case Study), Meaeel Raee Alraithi
Steeped: The Expansion of Tea Culture from the Court of the Tang to Its Emergence in Pop Culture (600 To 1400 CE), Lisa Mae Floryshak
Postcolonial Theory and the Intersection of Ghanaian Cinema and Politics, Anwar Jamison
Rural Black Women’s Self-Help Activism in the Arkansas Delta, Local Heritage, and Global Resonance: Mrs. Gertha Bailey Trice and the Lee County Self-Help Project, Swity Sultana Monni
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium: Co-Memory and Intangible Cultural Heritage, Anita Ellyn Reddig
Writing Mississippi Delta Heritage: The Literary Creation of Place, Maureen T. Richmond
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Sweet And Sour: The Representations of Chinese Americans in American Popular Culture, 2010-2020, Yu Dong
The Story...Behind the Stories: KAIT/A-State News Film Collection-- Crowdsourcing Vernacular Metadata, Gary William Jones
The Heritagescape of the Egyptian Natural Lakes, Magdi Ahmed Ragheb Koutkat
Comparing And Contrasting the Construction of Identity by Residents of Dyess Colony and The Rohwer Resettlement Camp, Ismail Moufdi
Preserving A Catholic Community: The History of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Weiner, Arkansas, Mary Jean Sitzer
Sunset School of Preaching's Impact upon the History and Heritage of Churches of Christ in the United States, Kerry Wayne Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
“They Didn’t Burn Down Our Spirit”: Heritage Terrorism and The Resurgence of Black Church Burnings in The Age of Obama, Jajuan Shonel Johnson
Charlie May Simon: Uncovering The Lost Voice of An Arkansas Author, Aleshia Showen O'Neal
Cooperative Acceptance and Tabletop Representation: Gender and Sexuality in The Fantasy Tabletop Role-Playing Game Dungeons and Dragons, Renee Pinkston
Arkansas in the African American Imaginary: A Rhetoric of Place, Carmen Lanos Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Jesus, Popular Culture, and the Politics of the Margins: A Theomusicological Analysis of the Drive-By Truckers, Vinson Lee Edwards
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Memoirs of the West Memphis Three: History, Heritage, and Literature, Haley Wimpy Fitzgerald
Revelation of Obscurity in an Empire: Reinterpreting “Outsider Art” as a Preservation Tool in a Rural Alabama Cultural Heritage Site, Museum of Wonder, Bryan James Pierce
Fat Shaming the Delta: How Social Issues are Individualized via 'Delta Obesity Talk', Amy Ulmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Gender Dynamics in Sanctified Storefront Churches: A Study of the Roles and Challenges of Female Pastors in Mississippi County, Arkansas, Gloria Robinson Boyd
Late to the Party: How the Gubernatorial Campaign of 1990 Shaped Arkansas’s Belated Political Realignment, Revis Lay Edmonds
Heritage and Identity of Indigenous Peoples a Comparative Study of American Indians and Bedouins of Jordan, Louis Quinn Intres
Heritage Mine, Not Defined: The Politics of Culture in the Lakeport Plantation Historic Restoration Project, Aketa Shantel Perry-Guillory
Place, Memory, and the Civil War: Historic Memory and the Mechanisms of Interpretation at Civil War Sites in Arkansas, Walter Wright Porter
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
T Bone Burnett, The American South, and the Ethic of a Contemporary Cultural Renaissance, Heath J. Carpenter
The Reclamation of the Missouri Bootheel: The Formation of the Little River Drainage District, Jillian J. Hartley
