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TitleCatholics incorporated
AuthorMcGrath, Patrick T.
Date Created2017
Degree Date2017-10
DescriptionThis project takes as its subject the integration of Catholicism into nineteenth-century American society, politics, and culture. Adopting a cross-regional approach, the dissertation argues that by...
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TitleControlling rape
AuthorWiesner, Caitlin
Date Created2021
Degree Date2021-05
DescriptionThis dissertation examines African American women’s anti-rape activism and advocacy from 1974 to 1994, as the feminist movement against sexual violence grew increasingly intertwined with the U.S....
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Title"Everyone must think we really need freedom"
AuthorWalker, Pamela
Date Created2021
Degree Date2021-05
DescriptionThis dissertation illuminates the participation of ordinary Black and white women in the Civil Rights Movement by examining an antipoverty program called The Mississippi Box Project. Founded in 1962...
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TitleFrom Reconstruction to the new Black politician: Barack Obama and a legacy of public representation
AuthorGlassco, Debra Elizabeth
Date Created2025
Degree Date2025-05
DescriptionThis dissertation examines shifts in the public meaning of the Black American politician, from the very first men who ventured into their roles as “colored men of distinction” to the time of...
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TitlePaternalism and resistance: the impact of global intervention on teacher training in Liberia
AuthorSmith, Daniel Henry
Date Created2024
Degree Date2024-05
DescriptionEducational development in Liberia has been reliant on the funding and technical support of international organizations. Liberia, like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, suffers the consequences of...
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TitleTo count and be counted: quantification in the age of American slavery
AuthorWierda, Meagan
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...
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TitleThe rebellious aesthetic after Jane Eyre
AuthorMuckle, Lacey Nicole
Date Created2026
Degree Date2026-05
DescriptionThis project focuses on how the ideological and stylistic strategies that Frederick Douglass used in his first autobiography influenced Charlotte Brontë’s immensely popular novel Jane Eyre (1847)....
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TitleAdversaire, adversaires: mise en scène du diable et diabolisation dans les tragédies protestantes du XVIe siècle (1550-1572)
AuthorN'zué-Agbadou, Séraphine A.
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionSixteenth-century French religious theater inherited the character of the devil from the Middle Ages; more specifically, from “Medieval” mystery plays whose popularity was still strong, if...
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TitleEmergency poetics: postwar American poetry and the shape of public crisis
AuthorParrish, Melissa Nohelani
Date Created2020
Degree Date2020-10
DescriptionFrom the formalization of Cold War civil defense to the rise of homeland security, emergency management in the United States has always been structured by power and privilege. “Emergency Poetics and...
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TitleReading regions
AuthorLeslie, Alex
Date Created2021
Degree Date2021-05
DescriptionReading Regions combines literary, historical, and computational analysis to argue that the emergence of a nationally-incorporated cultural field after the Civil War galvanized regional differences...