Selected Bibliography of
Completed Theses and Dissertations
Related to North Carolina Subjects

Compiled by Donna E. Kelly

This compilation continues the "Selected Bibliography of Completed Theses and Dissertations Related to North Carolina Subjects, 1974-1978" published in the January 1979 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review and supplements published annually in January since 1979. Titles included in this bibliography were derived from perusal of Dissertations Abstracts International: The Humanities and Social Sciences and Masters Abstracts: The Humanities and Social Sciences,¹ as well as from communication with graduate offices, history departments, and libraries at North Carolina’s universities.

Entries are listed alphabetically by author under the field in which the degree was awarded or in a closely allied field, followed by the title of the thesis or dissertation, the type of degree, the name of the university granting the degree, and the year in which the degree was awarded. Total pages (i.e., leaves) have been included when available.

In order to conserve space, the full titles of many universities have been shortened and the names of North Carolina’s universities have been abbreviated:

ASU             Appalachian State University, Boone

Duke             Duke University, Durham

ECU             East Carolina University, Greenville

NCA&T       North Carolina Agricultural and Technical
                     State University, Greensboro

NCCU          North Carolina Central University, Durham

NCSU          North Carolina State University, Raleigh

UNC-A        University of North Carolina at Asheville

UNC-C        University of North Carolina at Charlotte

UNC-CH     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UNC-G        University of North Carolina at Greensboro

UNC-W       University of North Carolina at Wilmington

WCU           Western Carolina University, Cullowhee

WFU            Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem

1. Dissertations Abstracts International and Masters Abstracts are published monthly and quarterly respectively by Bell & Howell Information and Learning, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346. In addition, this data is available on their web site and on CD-ROM. Microfilm or xerographic copies of many of the dissertations included in this bibliography can be purchased from Bell & Howell; however, only a few of the master’s theses can be so purchased. Manuscript or microfilm copies of theses and dissertations usually may be read in the libraries of universities granting the degrees, and copies of some of the titles may be available through interlibrary loan.

African American Studies
American Studies
Anthropology
Appalachian Studies
Biography
Economics
Education
Geography
History and Political Science
Journalism and Literature
Music
Native American Studies
Religion
Sociology
Women's Studies

Andrews, Brenda Fogg. Phonological Process Skills among African American Preschool Speakers. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 53 pp.

Blackwell-Johnson, Joyce. No Peace without Freedom, No Freedom without Peace: African American Women Activists in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1970. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 265 pp.

Glave, Dianne D. Fields and Gardens: An Environmental History of African American Farmers in the Progressive South. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Stony Brook, 1998. 146 pp.

Liberti, Rita Marie. “We Were Ladies, We Just Played Basketball Like Boys”: A Study of Women’s Basketball at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in North Carolina, 1925-1945. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 1998. 205 pp.

Hines, Maude. Making Americans: National Fairy Tales and Fantasies of Transformation, 1865-1900. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 251 pp.

Mallios, Seth William. In the Hands of “Indian Givers”: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1998. 409 pp.

Monk, Charlene Faye. Passion Plays in the United States: The Contemporary Outdoor Tradition. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1998. 246 pp.

Anthropology

Buck, Sabrina C. Reinterpreting Hope: An Archaeological Perspective on the Spatial Layout of an Eastern North Carolina Plantation. M.A., ECU, 1999. 102 pp.

Joyce, Amy C. An Archaeological Research Design for Early Nineteenth-Century Slave Life at Hope Plantation. M.A., ECU, 1998. 136 pp.

Magoon, Dane T. The Ceramics of Craftsman Robert Hay and Family: An Analysis of Middle Class Consumer-Choice in Antebellum New Bern, North Carolina. M.A., ECU, 1998. 139 pp.

Cozzo, David N. Herb Gatherers and Root Diggers of Northwestern North Carolina. M.A., ASU, 1999. 174 pp.

Rice, Leslie D. A Comparative Study of Appalachian English: Personal Narratives in Madison County. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 70 pp.

Staley, Kathryn Lynn. Between Two Worlds: African Americans in Antebellum Wilkes County. M.A., ASU, 1999. 174 pp.

Brazy, Martha Jane. An American Planter: Slavery, Entrepreneurship, and Identity in the Life of Stephen Duncan, 1787-1867. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 554 pp.

Hall, Randal Lee. William Louis Poteat, “A Thinker in the South”: Religion, Reform, and Education in the Progressive-Era South. Ph.D., Rice U., 1998. 470 pp.

Lentz, Ralph Eugene, II. Portrait of a Pictureman: The Life, Times, and Photographs of W. R. Trivett. M.A., ASU, 1998. 226 pp.

Economics

Algeo, Catherine Marie. Tobacco Farming in the Age of the Surgeon General’s Warning: The Cultural Ecology and Structuration of Burley Tobacco Production in Madison County, North Carolina. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1998. 233 pp.

Barbeau, Elizabeth M. Displaced Tobacco Workers, Public Health, and Tobacco Policy: Moving beyond Jobs versus Health. D.S.C., U. of Lowell, 1998. 260 pp.

Buchholz, David E. Competition and Corporate Incentives: Dilemmas in Economic Development. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 632 pp.

Bunda, Elizabeth Anne. Environmental Marketing and Organizational Practices of Textile Manufacturers. M.S., UNC-G, 1998. 101 pp.

Burkey, Mark Lamont. Three Essays on the Economics of Location. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 129 pp.

Carne, Steven Arthur. When to Comply?: Economic Sanctions, Regime Type, and Domestic Costs of Compliance. A.M., Duke, 1999. 132 pp.

Dugan, Wesley Creighton. Impact Elimination of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Program. M.S., NCSU, 1998. 83 pp.

Duppstadt, Andrew Earl. Maximizing the Advantages and Minimizing the Disadvantages: The Committee of 100 and Its Role in the Economic Development of Wilmington and the Immediate Vicinity. M.A., UNC-W, 1999. 153 pp.

Gilchrist, David R. An Analysis of Economic Determinants and the Related Effects on the Price Elasticity of Enrollment Demand in Four-Year Public Institutions of Higher Education in North Carolina. Ph.D., U. of Oklahoma, 1998. 162 pp.

Morris, James Theodore. Conservation Decisions of Agricultural Producers in Eastern North Carolina. Ph.D., NCSU, 1998. 76 pp.

Schaberg, Rex Henry. Integrating Economic Trade-Offs with Ecological Possibilities: Citizen Preferences for Ecological Goods and Services from Two Southeastern National Forests. Ph.D., NCSU, 1998. 264 pp.

Education

Aycock, Barry Leon. Perceptions of North Carolina School Superintendents’ Decision-Making Processes. Ed.D., UNC-C, 1999. 117 pp.

Bendel, Robert J. An Evaluation of the Guidance Program at Laurel Mill Elementary School in Franklin County. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 58 pp.

Burch, Brad E. The Academic, Psychosocial, and Value Characteristics of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Teaching Fellows. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1998. 125 pp.

Burton, Ramona L. School District Mergers and Desegregation in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 153 pp.

Congleton, Jerry Verdell. A Case Study of the Implementation of Systemic Reform and Change in the Weldon City Schools District. Ed.D., ECU, 1998. 139 pp.

Fagert, Melanie R. Special Populations Coordination: Exploring the Roles and Duties of Vocational Special Needs Educators in North Carolina. Ph.D., NCSU, 1999. 233 pp.

Fross Pothering, Sharon L. The Decision-Making Processes of Higher Education Undergraduate Academic Program Development in a Public Liberal Arts Institution (UNC-A). Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 1998. 191 pp.

Game, Ramona Griffin. Corrections Education: Developing an Educational Program for North Carolina’s First Medium Security Private Prison. Ed.D., U. of Sarasota, 1998. 200 pp.

Gazabat, Kim E. Operational Definitions of Standards for Principal Evaluation in North Carolina. M.S.A., UNC-W, 1999. 84 pp.

Gerstl-Pepin, Cynthia Ina-Marie. Cultivating Democratic Educational Reform: A Critical Examination of the A+ Schools Program. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 227 pp.

Godwin, George Christopher. A Comparative Case Study of Eleven Good Rural Teachers: Community and Generativity. Ph.D., NCSU, 1998. 285 pp.

Greer, Linda Bartlett. Strategic Planning in Community and Technical Colleges: A Survey of Four Southern States. Ed.D., U. of Central Florida, 1999. 93 pp.

Haley, Richard Lee. Public School Funding in North Carolina: A Microanalysis of Equity, Adequacy, Educational Need, and Outcome. Ph.D., NCSU, 1998. 373 pp.

Harrison, Tawanda Hanson. Contributing Factors to Teacher Retention: A Comparison of General and Special Educators at George Watts Elementary School in Durham, and South Granville High School in Creedmoor, North Carolina. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 82 pp.

Johnson, James Gregory. The Impact of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Seminars on African American Teachers. Ed.D., NCSU, 1998. 103 pp.

King, Robert Jerome. A Survey of the Advantages and Disadvantages from the Perceptions of Students, Teachers, and Parents toward Block Scheduling at Fuquay-Varina High School in Wake County. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 56 pp.

McGee, Katie Moore. A Comparison of the Effects of Three Early Childhood Programs on Student Achievement in the North Carolina Nash-Rocky Mount School System. Ed.D., ECU, 1999. 88 pp.

Miller, Kimberly Marie. Investigating Induction Practices in North Carolina: Classroom Teachers’ Perceptions. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 169 pp.

Nelson, Vickie C. An Evaluation of Block Scheduling at a High School in Person County. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 31 pp.

Royal, Wendy Lenette. Teachers’ Perceptions of the North Carolina ABCs of Public Education. M.S.A., UNC-W, 1999. 41 pp.

Sanders-Light, Judith. An Assessment of Multicultural Practices in Head Start Classrooms in Nine Counties in North Carolina. M.S., NCCU, 1998. 81 pp.

Smith, Beverly Jean. Community Power Structures, School Board Types, and Superintendent Leadership Styles in North Carolina. Ed.D., NCSU, 1998. 181 pp.

Tanner, Juella M. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology in Creedmoor Elementary School. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 64 pp.

Vandevender, Nancy Manning. Middle School Students Using E-Mail: Cross-Cultural Encounters along the Information Superhighway. Ph.D., U. of New Mexico, 1998. 180 pp.

West, Geraldine Mainor. Effectiveness of Bibliographic Instruction on Students at North Carolina Central University. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 38 pp.

Geography

Alderman, Derek Hilton. Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: The Politics of (Re)Naming Streets after Martin Luther King Jr. Ph.D., U. of Georgia, 1998. 246 pp.

Duff, Meaghan N. Designing Carolina: The Construction of an Early American Social and Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719. Ph.D., College of William and Mary, 1998. 246 pp.

Galgano, Francis Anthony, Jr. Geomorphic Analysis of United States East Coast Shoreline Behavior and the Influence of Tidal Inlets on Coastal Configuration. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College Park, 1998. 484 pp.

Henderson, Bonnie Morris. Access to Child Care in North Carolina: The Interaction of Gender Relations, Class, and Government Policy across Places and Scales. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1998. 193 pp.

Heppen, John Joseph. The Rise of the Republican Party in the South: A Geographical Interpretation, 1948-1996. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1998. 349 pp.

Neel, Eric W. From These Hills: The Spatial Diffusion of Bluegrass Music Festivals, 1965-1995. M.A., ASU, 1999. 98 pp.

Rice, Tracy Monegan. Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mapping of the Mainland Shoreline of North Carolina. M.S., Duke, 1999. 145 pp.

Rothrock, Kent Ashley. An Analysis of Land Cover Change in Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1972-1990. M.A., ASU, 1998. 90 pp.

Selby, Emily F. Paradise is Relative: Implications of Labor Transition in the Crab Processing Industry of Eastern North Carolina. M.A., ECU, 1998. 117 pp.

Tu, Charles Chung-An. Valuing New Urbanism: An Empirical Examination of Traditional Neighborhood Developments. Ph.D., George Washington U., 1999. 201 pp.

Zhang, Keqi. Twentieth-Century Storm Activity and Sea level Rise along the United States Coast and Their Impact on Shoreline Position. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College Park, 1998. 266 pp.

History and Political Science

Angevine, Robert G. The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Business in the United States to 1861. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 245 pp.

Atkinson, Terry Stafford. “We’re Not Just Whistling Dixie”: Policymakers’ Perspectives on State Education Reform. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1998. 148 pp.

Beckel, Deborah. Roots of Reform: The Origins of Populism and Progressivism as Manifest in Relationships among Reformers in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1850-1905. Ph.D., Emory U., 1998. 846 pp.

Brown, Tamara Jo. Clashing Cultures: A Comparison of the Massacre of Glencoe, 1692, and the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864. M.A., ASU, 1999. 143 pp.

Camp, Stephanie M. H. Viragos: Enslaved Women’s Everyday Politics in the Old South. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 1998. 344 pp.

Cannino, Vincent A. Celebrating the Fourth in Salem. M.A., UNC-G, 1998. 106 pp.

Culpepper, Linda Parramore. Blood, the Tie that Binds: The Role of Scottish Clans in North Carolina Loyalism during the Revolutionary Era. M.A., WCU, 1998. 112 pp.

Eller, Richard. The Northwestern North Carolina Furniture Industry: Origins, Proliferation, and Related Industries, 1885-1925. M.A., UNC-C, 1999. 113 pp.

Faulkner, Carol. The Hard Heart of the Nation: Gender, Race, and Dependency in the Freedmen’s Aid Movement. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Binghamton, 1998. 256 pp.

Hagedorn, Leah Elizabeth. Jews and the American South, 1858-1905. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999.

Hallmark, Terrell Lee. John Locke and the “Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina.” Ph.D., Claremont Graduate U., 1998. 180 pp.

Hatfield, April Lee. Reconceiving Virginia: Seventeenth-Century Intercolonial Interactions. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 1998. 406 pp.

Jenkins, JoAnn. Politics in North Carolina since 1980: Special Emphasis on the Jesse Helms and Harvey Gantt 1990 and 1996 Senate Campaigns. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 91 pp.

Jonas, Donald K. The Beliefs of State-Level Leaders: A Case Study of the North Carolina Information Highway and the Iowa Communications Network. Ph.D., U. of Kentucky, 1998. 186 pp.

Killough, John Clark. Plan A and Plan B: White Southern Thought about Slavery and Segregation, as Revealed in North Carolina Supreme Court Opinions. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 186 pp.

Kindsvatter, Peter Samuel. Doughboys, GIs, and Grunts: Fear, Resentment, and Enthusiasm in the Combat Zone. Ph.D., Temple U., 1998. 926 pp.

King, Deann Nichole. The Effects of the GI Bill at East Carolina Teachers College, 1946-1952. M.A., ECU, 1998. 125 pp.

Kromkowski, Charles Aloysius. The Bond of Union: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and a General Theory of American Political Development, 1700-1870. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1998. 668 pp.

Kytle, Ethan Jackson. Race, Politics, and Violence: The New Radical Abolitionism of Theodore Parker, John Rock, and Frederick Douglass in the 1850s. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 80 pp.

Lee, Wayne Emmett. Careful Riot, Virtuous War: The Legitimation of Public Violence in Eighteenth-Century North Carolina. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 471 pp.

Lewis, Necole. Mercy Hospital: Emergence of the First Black Hospital in Eastern North Carolina, 1912-1964. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 47 pp.

Lipinski, Daniel William. Shaping Public Perceptions of Congress through Franked Mass Mailings: An Examination of the Communication Strategies Used by Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 1990s. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 264 pp.

Lubert, Howard Leslie. The Creation of American Federalism, 1765-1787. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 380 pp.

McMillin, James A. The Final Victims: The Demography, Atlantic Origins, Merchants, and Nature of the Post-Revolutionary Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 554 pp.

Mallett, Mark Edmund. The Transformation of Ritual Performance Traditions in Early American Political Culture. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. 309 pp.

Metzloff, Paul W. A Window on Motivation in the War for American Independence: The Battle of Williamson’s Plantation, 12 July 1780. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 58 pp.

Mitchell, Richard Eugene. History of Atkins High School. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 72 pp.

Nabel, Patricia Bennett. Incumbency, Political Party, and Committee Assignments: An Analysis of PAC Contributions to North Carolina Congressional Candidates in the 1990 and 1992 Elections. M.A., UNC-G, 1998. 102 pp.

Neff, John Randall. Heroic Eminent Death: The Redefinition of American Nationality in the Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Soldier Dead. Ph.D., U. of California, Riverside, 1998. 403 pp.

Northington, Leonard M., III. “Death of the Machine”: Harry Flood Byrd Sr., and the Downfall of the Byrd Political Machine in Virginia. M.A., WCU, 1998. 88 pp.

Penny, Charles T. Irregular Warfare in Eastern North Carolina during the Civil War. M.A., ECU, 1999. 112 pp.

Phillips, Donyell L. Keepers of the Faith: African American Religious Experiences in Wachovia, 1822-1857. M.A., WFU, 1998. 115 pp.

Reavis, Scott Aaron. Wachovia during the Revolutionary Era: Societal Transformation and Cultural Assimilation. M.A., WCU, 1998. 95 pp.

Rivers, Patrick Lynn. Civilizing Tendencies: Miscegenation and Political Thought in North Carolina, 1889-1903. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 179 pp.

Sclar, Arieh. Silent Approval: The Charlotte Jewish Community’s Reaction to Court-Ordered Busing. M.A., UNC-C, 1999. 105 pp.

Stefanish, Mitchell John. Confederate Errors in the Gettysburg Campaign. M.A., California State U., Dominguez Hills, 1998. 64 pp.

Thurtell, Craig Martin. The Fusion Insurgency in North Carolina: Origins to Ascendancy, 1876-1896. Ph.D., Columbia U., 1998. 334 pp.

Tucker, Ronnie Bernard. Affirmative Action, the Supreme Court, and Political Power in the Old Confederacy: An Impact Assessment, 1964-1995. Ph.D., Mississippi State U., 1998. 389 pp.

Waddel, Richard Lee. Clash of Constituency and Party in the House Resources Committee: Local Interests Versus National Policy. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 226 pp.

Wells, Jonathan Daniel. The Origins of the Southern Middle Class: Literature, Politics, and Economy, 1820-1880. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1998. 413 pp.

Wesolick, Duane L. Old Hickory: The 30th Infantry Division in Normandy. M.A., WCU, 1998. 95 pp.

Wright, Charles Scott. Creating a New Deal: The Importance of Black Self-Help Organizations in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1930-1940. M.A., UNC-C, 1998. 102 pp.

Yarbrough, Philip L. Information Display and Visualization of Tactical Goals in a Military Domain. M.S., NCA&T, 1998. 67 pp.

Journalism and Literature

Bailey, Joseph Todd. “O Lost,” and the Lost Generation: Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Paris Ritz Bar to the End. M.L.A., UNC-A, 1998. 127 pp.

Bumstead, Alden Prescott. Place Matters: Place and Globalization in Recent United States Fiction. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 267 pp.

Clymer, Jeffory Alan. “Propaganda by the Deed”: Plotting Terrorism in American Literature and Culture, 1870-1920. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 345 pp.

Cooksey, Deborah Newton. A Woman’s Place: Home as Configuration of the Female Self in Selected Twentieth-Century Fiction by Black American Women Writers. Ph.D., Claremont Graduate U., 1998. 404 pp.

Croteau, Michele Ann. Coming to Self: Female Development in the Works of Jill McCorkle. M.A., ASU, 1998. 106 pp.

Engel, Sabine. Categories in Motion: Writing Race, Class, Gender, and Nation after Emancipation. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 289 pp.

Evans, Bradley Warren. The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature: A Genealogy of Cultures, 1865-1930. Ph.D., U. of Chicago, 1998. 251 pp.

Holliday, Shawn Patrick. “A Passionate and Obscure Hunger for Voyages”: Thomas Wolfe and the Milieu of American Travel Writing. Ph.D., Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, 1999. 256 pp.

Houston, Natalie Melissa. Capturing the Moment: A Cultural History of the Victorian Sonnet. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 241 pp.

Lee, Taylor G. An Analysis of Disillusionment in a Confederate Foot Soldier’s Letters. M.A., ECU, 1998. 60 pp.

Leroy-Frazier, Jill Allison. Exploding the Southern Text: Reconsidering Southern Literature as a Critically-Constructed Genre. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1998. 252 pp.

Maiwald, Michael Heinrich. White-Collar Masculinity and Class Anxiety in the 1920s American Novel. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 263 pp.

Musgrave Murray, Seable Olivia W. Reynolds Price’s Good Medicine: Writing as Catharsis. M.A., ECU, 1999. 78 pp.

Palmer, Louis Hooker, III. Pathologized Subjects: Southern Gothic, White Trash, and the Discourse of “Race” in the 1930s. Ph.D., Syracuse U., 1998. 244 pp.

Parchesky, Jennifer Marie. Melodramas of Everyday Life: 1920s Popular Fictions and the Making of Middle America. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 382 pp.

Parrish, Susan Scott. Performances of Curiosity: British and British-American Natural Histories of the New World in the Colonial Period. Ph.D., Stanford U., 1998. 273 pp.

Phillips, Lily Wiatrowski. Patrolling the Borders: Citizenship, Nation, and Social Protest Literature in the 1950s United States. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 179 pp.

Selch, Andrea Helen. Engineering Democracy: Commercial Radio’s Use of Poetry, 1920-1946. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 384 pp.

Thomas, Kelly Lynn. Black Sheep: Representations of Poor Whites in American Literature and Culture. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1998. 195 pp.

Wieland, Lisa Ann Cade. Old Times Not Forgotten: Family and Storytelling in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature. Ph.D., Marquette U., 1998. 177 pp.

Yarbrough, Shelly L. Freeing the Self through Laughter and Parody: A Bakhtinian Approach to Clyde Edgerton’s Raney, Walking across Egypt, and Killer Diller. M.A., UNC-W, 1999. 49 pp.

Music

Brown, Matthew Z. Arranging Jazz: Jazz Criticism and American Culture in the 1920s. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 72 pp.

Campbell, Gavin J. Music and the Making of a Jim Crow Culture, 1900-1925. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999.

Forbes, Guy Wayne. The Repertoire Selection Practices of Public High School Choral Directors in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 1998. 191 pp.

Newsome, Thomas A. The “Free Jazz” Movement of the 1960s. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 59 pp.

Native American Studies

Duggan, Betty Jean. Being Cherokee in a White World: The Ethnic Persistence of a Post-Removal American Indian Enclave. Ph.D., U. of Tennessee, 1998. 376 pp.

Frank, Andrew Kevin. “A Peculiar Breed of Whites”: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Creek Confederacy. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 1998. 326 pp.

Gaul, Theresa Strouth. A Native Tradition: Relocating the Indian in American Literature, 1820-1840. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998. 183 pp.

Kelton, Paul Timothy. Not All Disappeared: Disease and Southeastern Indian Survival, 1500-1800. Ph.D., U. of Oklahoma, 1998. 398 pp.

McLachlan, Carrie Ann. Cherokee Cosmology. M.A., WCU, 1999. 186 pp.

Palmer, Ronald R. The Politics of Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Cherokee. Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 1998. 298 pp.

Sui, Lih-Jiuan Hsu. Mother and Family Values in the Schooling of Lumbee Indians in the Baytown Area. Ph.D., U. of Maryland College Park, 1998. 207 pp.

Van Zandt, Cynthia Jean. Negotiating Settlement: Colonialism, Cultural Exchange, and Conflict in Early Colonial Atlantic North America, 1750-1660. Ph.D., U. of Connecticut, 1998. 292 pp.

Zissu, Erik March. Blood Matters: The Five Civilized Tribes and the Search for Unity in the Early Twentieth Century. Ph.D., U. of Pittsburgh, 1998. 304 pp.

Religion

Bell, Barbara Jean. The Ethics of Reaching Consensus: A Procedure for Selecting a Southern Baptist Pastor. Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. 170 pp.

Bodiford, Carl Wayne. The Process of Denominational Cohesion within the Southern Baptist Convention, 1845-1927. Ph.D., Texas Christian U., 1998. 294 pp.

Cannon, Jerry Lytle. Church Growth through Afrocentric Preaching in the Presbyterian Church (C. N. Jenkins Memorial Presbyterian Church, Charlotte). D.Min., United Theological Seminary, 1998. 141 pp.

Denzler, Brenda. The Lure of the Edge: Science, Religion, and the Alien Abduction Movement. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 474 pp.

Dickens, William Earl, Jr. The Standardization of the Military Chaplaincy during the American Civil War. Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998. 215 pp.

Golden, Jacob Bowles, Jr. Church Story: Pastoral Empowerment and Community Formation (Harrisburg United Methodist Church). D.Min., United Theological Seminary, 1998. 210 pp.

Macaulay, John Allen. “Truth over Fanaticism”: The Independence of Southern Unitarianism, 1790-1860. Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 1998. 292 pp.

Millsaps, Ervin R. Making Effective Disciples from Parishioners Wounded from a Church Split in a Black Baptist Church. D.Min., United Theological Seminary, 1998. 142 pp.

Neff, Robert M. Spiritual Mapping of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary, 1998. 252 pp.

Odom, Claude M. An Investigation of the Perceived Needs of the Minority Elderly in Rural Gates County and How the Church Might Help Them Cope. Ed.D., NCSU, 1999.

Sociology

Conti, Barbara P. Surviving the Fall: Making Meaning of Involuntary Job Loss. Ph.D., Fielding Institute, 1998. 194 pp.

Crowther, Martha Regina. Compensatory Grandparenting: Raising Another Generation. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 172 pp.

Edwards, Wanda Rushing. Mediated Inequality: The Role of Governmental, Business, and Scientific Elites in Public Education. Ph.D., U. of Tennessee, 1998. 316 pp.

Flowers, Allegra Elaine. The Role of the Sex Ratio in Predicting Women’s Status among North Carolina Counties. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 25 pp.

Flynn, Diana K. A Survey of Rural Preretirement Needs of the Middle Age Population in Selected Counties of North Carolina. Ed.D., NCSU, 1998. 126 pp.

Hinnant, Thessalenuere. Predictors of Church Membership Rate among North Carolina Counties. M.A., NCCU, 1998. 30 pp.

Kraus, Rebecca Susan. Sport and the Community: The Case of Minor League Baseball, 1950s-1990s. Ph.D., Catholic U. of America, 1998. 168 pp.

Mistler, Linda Corinne. An Analysis of Employment and Subsequent Socioeconomic Impacts within American Banks Consequent to Small-Scale Mergers or Acquisitions. Ph.D., Walden U., 1998. 116 pp.

Otis, Katherine Ann. The Institutionalization of Twentieth-Century Elders: A History of Profit and Loss inside America’s Nursing Homes, 1935-1997. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 61 pp.

Reed, Kellie Brook. The Reliability and Validity of the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 237 pp.

St. George, Diane Marie Margaret. Environmental Justice and the Distribution of Manufacturing Facilities in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 154 pp.

Women’s Studies

Cutter, Barbara A. Devils in Disguise, Angels on the Battlefields: Piety and Fiendishness in American Womanhood, 1800-1865. Ph.D., Rutgers, State U. of New Jersey-New Brunswick, 1999. 340 pp.

Hawkins, Annette Davis. Career Paths of Women Administrators in the California and North Carolina Community College Systems. Ed.D., NCSU, 1999.

Lesslie, James W. A Study of the Status of Women Senior Administrators within the North Carolina Community College System. Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 1998. 150 pp.

Morgan, Francesca Constance. “Home and Country”: Women, Nation, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1890-1939. Ph.D., Columbia U., 1998. 585 pp.

Newfont, Kathryn. Women and the Civic Landscape: The High Point Garden Club, 1924-1946. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 48 pp.

Rymph, Catherine Elaine. Forward and Right: The Shaping of Republican Women’s Activism, 1920-1967. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 1998. 365 pp.

Snow, Stephanie A. Woman Rebel and Guardian of the Race: Margaret Sanger and the American Eugenics Movement in the Interwar Years. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 62 pp.