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
Anthropology and Archaeology
Appalachian Studies
Archives and Libraries
Biography
Economics
Education
Folklore
Geography, Travel,and Tourism
History and Political Science
Literature
Mass Media and Communications
Music
Native American Studies
Religion
Sociology
Women's Studies

Aucoin, Brent Jude. “A Rift in the Clouds”: Southern Federal Judges and African American Civil Rights, 1885-1915. Ph.D., U. of Arkansas, 1999. 213 pp.

Coleman, Angela Dinkins. Multidimensional Racial Identity and Self-Esteem of African American College Students. Ph.D., Florida State U., 1999. 102 pp.

Cozart, Sheryl Conrad. My Soul Looks Back and Wonders: Traditions among African American Women Teachers in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 140 pp.

Dawson, Kevin. The Confederate Slave: A Forgotten Southern Asset. M.A., California State U., Fullerton, 1999. 357 pp.

Dillard, Philip D. Independence or Slavery: The Confederate Debate over Arming the Slaves. Ph.D., Rice U., 1999. 320 pp.

Greenlee, Cynthia Renee. The Geographies of Home: African Immigrants in North Carolina. M.A., UNC-CH, 2000. 65 pp.

Gudmestad, Robert Harold. A Troublesome Commerce: The Interstate Slave Trade, 1808-1840. Ph.D., Louisiana State U. and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1999. 410 pp.

Myers, Chris. White Freedom Schools: Eastern North Carolina and the Rise of Segregation Academies in the South, 1954-1974. M.A., UNC-CH, 2000. 48 pp.

Shotwell, Rodney Howard. Leadership Theory and Context: Black and White Principals during Desegregation. Ed.D., UNC-G, 1999. 197 pp.

Wright, Dianne Swann. A Way Out of No Way: Learning the Ways of Freedom in the New South, 1865-1930. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 2000. 252 pp.

Enright, Jeffrey M. An Archaeological and Historical Survey of a Jeffersonian Gunboat. M.A., ECU, 1999. 195 pp.

Kramer, Alicia D. Conflict and Intracultural Variation among Commercial Fishermen, Recreational Fishermen, and Marine Management. M.A., ECU, 1999. 93 pp.

Marshall, Adam. Interior Decoration as an Indicator of Typological Relationships among Late Woodland Algonkian Pottery of North Carolina. M.A., ECU, 1999. 30 pp.

Marshall, Timothy P. “The Most Impudent Procedure in the History of Blockade Running”: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Canadian Steamship Arabian. M.A., ECU, 1999. 123 pp.

Moore, David Gilbert. Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Period Aboriginal Settlement in the Catawba Valley, North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 470 pp.

Russell, Aaron Elliot. Consumption and Cultural Capital in Surry County, North Carolina, 1771-1789. M.A., WFU, 1999. 300 pp.

Turner, C. Alexander, III. An Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Scuppernong: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century North Carolina-Built Centerboard Schooner. M.A., ECU, 1999. 157 pp.

McVoy, Sarah Lyn. Deconstructing the Stereotype of Rural Appalachian Religion through the Examination of Four Modern Appalachian Novels. M.L.A., UNC-A, 2000. 54 pp.

Schumann, William. Between Class and Subjectivity: A Case Study of Grassroots Resistance in Rural Southern Appalachia. M.A., ASU, 1999.

Thurman, Sharon Wimpey. “A Rolling Town”: The Long School Bus Ride in a Rural Southern Appalachian County. Ed.D., WCU, 2000. 248 pp.

Waddell, Kenneth Gary. “I’m Not Like Them!”: Voices of At-Risk Students in a Southern Appalachian, Urban Middle School. Ed.D., WCU, 2000. 469 pp.

Craig, Calvin. An Examination of Collectors of Local History Materials in Four North Carolina Public Libraries. M.S.L.S., UNC-CH, 1999. 64 pp.

Fulton, Peter Mark. “No Biography or History Had a Word to Say about It”: A Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Newly Discovered. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 408 pp.

Kahn, Russell L. The Effect of Technological Innovation on Organizational Structure: A Multiple Case Study of the Effects of the Use of Electronic Records on Organizational Hierarchies in Records Management and Archives Administration. Ph.D., State U. of New York at Albany, 1999. 196 pp.

Blackwell, Shavonda Sherelle. The Life and Professional Career of Judge Pattie Sue Harrison. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 71 pp.

Hammond, Leah Beatrice. Building Bridges by Bridging Differences: The Career Life History of Winifred Wrisley. Ed.D., WCU, 2000. 245 pp.

Harrington, Sion Hilliard, III. Lafayette McLaws: Lee’s Neglected Warhorse. M.A., NCSU, 1999. 240 pp.

Manley, James Matthew. The Southern Baptist Mind in Transition: A Life of Basil Manly Jr., 1825-1892. Ph.D., U. of Florida, 1999. 321 pp.

Paddon, Eric John. Modern Mordecai: Billy Graham in the Political Arena, 1948-1980. Ph.D., Ohio U., 1999. 333 pp.

Thornton, Jan Wood. Eduard C. Lindeman and His Beliefs on Freedom: Historical and Contextual Influences. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1999. 228 pp.

Hammond, Christopher. Sustainable Development and the North Carolina Global TransPark. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 57 pp.

Megalos, Mark Arthur. North Carolina Landowner Responsiveness to Forestry Incentives. Ph.D., NCSU, 1999. 119 pp.

Messinger, Lorraine. History at the Table: Planning a Comprehensive Community Initiative in the Rural South. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 141 pp.

Ray, Mona. Effectiveness of Credit Pooling Techniques for Infrastructure Development in Rural Communities: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis. Ph.D., Clemson U., 1999. 173 pp.

Serrano, Marc Richard. Southern Exposure: Technology, Human Capital, and Economic Growth in the Southeast. Ph.D., Claremont Graduate U., 1999. 130 pp.

Ayers, David Franklin. Subordinate Conflict Communication Behaviors, Organizational Climate, and Related Variables at a North Carolina Community College. Ed.D., NCSU, 1999. 127 pp.

Boone, Beverly Kelly. The ABCs of School Reform: A Case Study of a North Carolina Top 25 Most Improved School. Ph.D., NCSU, 2000. 163 pp.

Davidson, Donica Nesbit. Perceptions and Knowledge of Special Education Law among Principal Fellows in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-C, 1999. 171 pp.

Ervin, Archie W. A Study of Why People Organize, Operate, and Support Charter Schools. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 127 pp.

Faris, Grace Edwards. Retrospective Analyses of State Assistance Teams Assigned to Designated Low-Performing Middle Schools in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-C, 1999. 146 pp.

Freeman, Eric. Purpose and Perspective in the Formation of Charter Schools. Ph.D., NCSU, 1999. 306 pp.

Held, Louis E. Home Schooling in Eastern North Carolina: A Study of Parental Motivations and Perceived Qualifications. Ed.D., ECU, 2000. 129 pp.

Henson, Ted Scott. Mentoring North Carolina Novice Teachers: A Program Evaluation. Ed.D., WCU, 2000. 157 pp.

Humphrey, John Hudson, Jr. Motivational Orientations of Students with Disabilities in Western North Carolina Community Colleges. Ed.D., East Tennessee State U., 1999. 88 pp.

Jenkins, Elaine Demars. A Comparative Study of Teaching Strategies Report by North Carolina High School Teachers in Block and Traditional Schedule Schools. Ph.D., UNC-C, 2000. 141 pp.

Lesko, Charles John, Jr. The Integration of Institutional and Technology Planning Efforts in the North Carolina Community College System: A Four-Stage Model Approach. Ph.D., Walden U., 1999. 157 pp.

Mason, Linda Tillery. The Effects of a Five-Day Job Shadowing Experience on Attitudes toward and Knowledge of Work-Based Learning by Educators in Warren County. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 111 pp.

Mosley, Ivan T., Sr. Computer Competencies Needed by Industrial Technology Graduates as Perceived by Universities and Companies in North Carolina. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 1999. 130 pp.

Myatt, Dorothy Woodard. Utilization of Digital Technology in Pre-Service Teacher Education in the Southeastern Region of the United States. Ed.D., U. of Memphis, 1999. 90 pp.

Nagy, Paul Davis. Comparing Two Models of Enrollment Forecasting for the North Carolina Community College System. Ph.D., NCSU, 1999. 95 pp.

Scott, Karatha S. An Analysis of Home Schooling Practices in Forsyth County, North Carolina. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 78 pp.

Springfield-Scott, Mable. Faculty Job Satisfaction in a University Work Environment. M.S., NCA&T, 1999. 84 pp.

Wark, Alan. A Program Evaluation: Implementing Technology in North Carolina Public Schools. Ed.D., ASU, 1999.

Whitley, Shirley Morgan. Attitudes and Perceptions of Johnston County Kindergarten Teachers toward Transition of Head Start Children to Kindergarten. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 75 pp.

Yarbrough, Tracie Lynn. Teacher Perceptions of the North Carolina ABC Program and the Relationship to Classroom Practice. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 262 pp.

Kalow, Nancy. I’m a Full Believer in My Dreams: Vision Narratives of African American Primitive Baptist Women. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 78 pp.

Sloop, Tracie Elaine. I’m Just Telling You What They Told Me: Conversion Narratives of North Carolina’s Mormon Pioneers. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 93 pp.

Harrod, Jonathon C. Disturbance History and Ecological Change in a Southern Appalachian Landscape: Western Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1936-1996. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 171 pp.

Hays, Amy Shue. Analysis of Visitor Profile and Marketing Strategies of the Pinehurst Area, North Carolina, by Gender. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 184 pp.

Mankoff, Christopher A. Stakeholder Values in the Development of the Roanoke River Project. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 104 pp.

Sullivan, Jason Lee. The Evolution of Urban Realms in the Southeastern United States: A Case Study of the Hanes Mall Boulevard Area of Winston-Salem, NC, 1964-1999. M.A., UNC-G, 1999. 92 pp.

Amstutz, David Lee. Southern Response to the “Slave-Stealers” and Extradition Controversies. Ph.D., Oklahoma State U., 1999. 307 pp.

Anderson, Ryan K. “Rallying Around the White Banner of Victory”: Progressive Baseball in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1897-1917. M.A., UNC-W, 2000. 139 pp.

Battista, James S. Coleman. Institutional Choice in State Legislatures. Ph.D., Duke, 2000. 189 pp.

Batten, Burton Kyle. “To Hold the Rudder True”: The Judicial Career of Henry Groves Connor, 1885-1924. M.A., WFU, 1999. 124 pp.

Beeby, James Matthew. Revolt of the Tar Heelers: A Socio-Political History of the North Carolina Populist Party, 1892-1901. Ph.D., Bowling Green State U., 1999. 593 pp.

Bell, Stephen Willard. Enigmatic Anger: Populism, Status Anxiety, and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898. M.A., UNC-C, 1999. 96 pp.

Berger, Mark. The Role of Political Parties in Senatorial Elections and Governance. Ph.D., Duke, 1999.

Blair, William Danford. “One Good Port”: The Union Navy and Beaufort Harbor, N.C., 1862-1865. M.A., ECU, 1999. 155 pp.

Briggs, Mark D. A Tale of Two Pioneers: The Integration of College Athletics in the South during the 1960s in the Age of the Civil Rights Movement. M.A., UNC-CH, 2000. 180 pp.

Buchanan, Scott Eugene. Perspectives on the Racial Threat Hypothesis: Testing a Theory of Southern Politics. Ph.D., U. of Oklahoma, 1999. 300 pp.

Campbell, Jacqueline. “Terrible Has Been the Storm”: Sherman, the South, and the Cultural Politics of Invasion. Ph.D., Duke, 2000.

Carnes, Victor M. Antifederalism Lives: The Jay Treaty, the Republican Party, and North Carolina. M.A., UNC-CH, 2000. 53 pp.

Chamberlain, Charles Devere, III. Manpower, Region, and Race: Mobilizing Southern Workers for World War Two, 1939-1948. Ph.D., Tulane U., 1999. 333 pp.

Clark, Kathleen Ann. History is No Fossil Remains: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Memory in the American South, 1863-1913. Ph.D., Yale U., 1999. 301 pp.

Cody, Sue Ann. After the Storm: Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Its Consequences for African Americans, 1898-1905. M.A., UNC-W, 2000. 168 pp.

Ferguson, India L. Cherokee Women and Cultural Persistence in the Removal Era. M.A., UNC-W, 2000. 66 pp.

Gantt, Jonathan W. The Relevance of the Declaration of Independence to Colonial North Carolina. M.A., UNC-W, 1999. 140 pp.

Gentry, Jonathan Daniel. The Education of Junius Irving Scales, 1939-1962: An Analysis of Scales’s Ordeal as Representation and Manifestation of McCarthyism. M.A., ECU, 2000. 152 pp.

Gerleman, David James. Unchronicled Heroes: A Study of Union Cavalry Horses in the Eastern Theater: Care, Treatment, and Use, 1861-1865. Ph.D., Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale, 1999. 413 pp.

Hacker, James David. The Human Cost of War: White Population in the United States, 1850-1880. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1999. 259 pp.

Harrison, Stephen Kennedy. Jimmy Carter versus Congress: The Debate over Rhodesia and the Rise of Jesse Helms. M.A., NCSU, 1999. 98 pp.

Hobbs, Matthew Wallace. Complex Networks in Colonial Northeastern North Carolina. M.A., U. of Delaware (Winterthur Program), 1999. 112 pp.

Hogan, Wesley C.“Radical Manners”: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the New Left in the 1960s. Ph.D., Duke, 2000. 707 pp.

Hutchins, Shana Renee. Just Learning to Be Men: A History of the 35th United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866. M.A., NCSU, 1999. 116 pp.

Lassiter, Matthew David. The Rise of the Suburban South: The “Silent Majority” and the Politics of Education, 1945-1975. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1999. 747 pp.

Mattson, Gregory Louis. Pariah Diplomacy: The Slavery Issue in Confederate Foreign Relations. Ph.D., U. of Southern Mississippi, 1999. 451 pp.

Moore, Robert Lane. Jimmy Carter’s Vietnam Policy in 1977. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 104 pp.

Moore, Toby Harper. The Unmaking of a Cotton Mill World: Place, Politics, and the Dismantling of the South’s Mill Village System. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 1999. 267 pp.

Paul, Brad Alan. Rebels of the New South: The Socialist Party in Dixie, 1892-1920. Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts, 1999. 240 pp.

Pearson, Susan Jennifer. Making Babies Better: Motherhood and Medicalization in the Progressive Era. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 73 pp.

Pieper, James S. Democracy, Equality, and the Law: The Problem of Political Equality in American Law. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 270 pp.

Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn. Racial Etiquette and the Socialization of Children in the Jim Crow South. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 342 pp.

Roberts, Kathleen Blain. Past and Present in the Southern Partisan: History as Critique in Southern Conservatism, 1979-2000. M.A., UNC-CH, 2000. 64 pp.

Rohrer, Stephen Scott. Planting Pietism: Religion and Community in the Moravian Settlements of North Carolina, 1750-1830. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1999. 361 pp.

Rubin, Anne Sarah. Redefining the South: Confederates, Southerners, and Americans, 1863-1868. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, 1999. 481 pp.

Schutz, John Christopher. “Going to Hell to Get the Devil”: The “Charlotte Three” and the Decline of Grassroots Activism in 1970s Charlotte, North Carolina. Ph.D., U. of Georgia, 1999. 326 pp.

Smallwood, Stephanie Ellen. Salt-Water Slaves: African Enslavement, Forced Migration, and Settlement in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1700. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 371 pp.

Smith, Michael Thomas. Benjamin S. Hedrick and Dissent in Civil War Era North Carolina. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 150 pp.

Starnes, Richard Dale. Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. Ph.D., Auburn U., 1999. 286 pp.

Thomas, Karen Kruse. The Wound of My People: Segregation and the Modernization of Health Care in North Carolina, 1935-1975. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 271 pp.

Westmoreland, Charles Raymond, Jr. Strong Legs Running: The Integration of the North Carolina-South Carolina Shrine Bowl. M.A., UNC-C, 2000. 101 pp.

Whitfield, Christina Elizabeth. No Time to Play: Tobacco-Growing Families and the Great Depression. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1999. 253 pp.

Whitman-Grice, Lisa R. The Water and the Wood: The History of Onslow County, Creating a Local History Exhibition from Concept to Evaluation. M.A., UNC-W, 2000. 194 pp.

Wood, Bradford James. The Formation of a Region in Colonial North Carolina: The Lower Cape Fear, 1725-1775. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2000. 351 pp.

Armstrong, Sharon A. “I Am One of You Forever”: Fred Chappell as Story Teller. M.A., UNC-W, 2000. 43 pp.

Caicedo, Elton. Looking Back at America: A Literary Analysis of the Travel Journals of Isabella Bird and Janet Schaw. M.A., ASU, 1999. 75 pp.

Leiter, Andrew. Blood Which Was Good and Brave Once: Mencken, Cash, Faulkner, and Perspectives on Class in Southern History. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 43 pp.

Metzger, John William. Beyond the Big House: Plantation Social Structure and the “Bad Nigger” in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 61 pp.

Nicholls, Cullen Capehart. Seeing Incidents of the Oral in Harriet Jacobs’s Text. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 70 pp.

Powell, Tara Frances. Lessons Breathed: Quiet Anagogy in the Southern Wild of Doris Betts. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 47 pp.

Silverman, Gillian D. Public Sentiments: Fantasies of Community in Antebellum America. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 257 pp.

Weaver, Benjamin Carr. Subjects under Speculation: Literature, Identity, and the Market in the Antebellum U.S., 1780-1865. Ph.D., Duke, 2000. 364 pp.

Coopersmith, Andrew Seth. For God and Liberty: Propaganda and Ideology in Civil War America. Ph.D., Harvard U., 1999. 498 pp.

Garber, Paul Bartholomew. Carolina in Reel-Time: North Carolina through the Eyes of Independent Filmmakers. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 52 pp.

Gomez, Brad T. The Nerves of Congress: Information Flow in the Legislative Arena. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 132 pp.

Hanson, Christopher Thaxton. A War of Narratives: News Coverage of an Army Sexual Misconduct Case and the Image of Military Women in Post-Cold War America. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 251 pp.

Martin, Amy Suzanne. Madness and Accountability in Public Discourse: A Dramatistic Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Wendell Williamson and the Henderson Street Shootings. M.A., NCSU, 1999. 125 pp.

Piniak, Amy M. From Press Release to Newsprint: Framing and Agenda-Building in North Carolina’s 1998 U.S. Senate Race. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 81 pp.

Reed, Jonathan Elliot. The Media’s Impact on the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom Rides, and the Poor People’s Campaign. M.S., NCSU, 1999. 122 pp.

Atkinson, Gloria J. Acoustic Characteristics of African American Gospel Singers: A Cultural Perspective. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 64 pp.

Bridges, Debra Hinson. Carolina Hymn and Harmony (North Carolina). M.A., California State U., Dominguez Hills, 1999. 325 pp.

Heath, John. From Contest to Merger: The Development of the North Carolina Music Educators. M.S., ASU, 2000.

Katz, Mark. The Phonograph Effect: The Influence of Recording on Listener, Performer, Composer, 1900-1940. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 1999. 336 pp.

Lange, Jeffrey John. “Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly”: The Modernization of Country Music and the Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954. Ph.D., U. of Tennessee, 1999. 674 pp.

Allsbrook, Dana G. Idiomatic Structures in the Lumbee Dialect. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 58 pp.

Barksdale, Kevin T. The Cherokee’s Obedient Servant: The Missionary Life of Dr. Elizur Butler, 1821-1839. M.A., WCU, 1999. 158 pp.

Edwards, William W. Recovering the Place of the Tuscarora Indians: Examining Colonial Cartographies. M.A., ECU, 1999. 96 pp.

Nixon, Nicol Elizabeth Mae. Green Feet in Red Clay. M.A., WCU, 1999. 69 pp.

Phipps, Cindy. Bullying among Native American Elementary School Children: A Case Study of a Schoolwide Intervention. M.A., WCU, 2000. 107 pp.

Bratt, David Wallace. Southern Souls and State Schools: Religion and Public Higher Education in the Southeast, 1776-1900. Ph.D., Yale U., 1999. 286 pp.

Case, Jay Riley. Conversion, Civilization, and Cultures in the Evangelical Missionary Mind, 1814-1906. Ph.D., U. of Notre Dame, 1999. 359 pp.

Fields, Kisha. The Relationship between Religious Orientation and Volunteerism in the African American Church. M.A., ECU, 1999. 29 pp.

Holcomb, Carol Crawford. Mothering the South: The Influence of Gender and the Social Gospel on the Social Views of the Leadership of Woman’s Missionary Union, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention, 1888-1930. Ph.D., Baylor U., 1999. 272 pp.

Mason, Samuel Alison. A New Vision for St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church [Durham, N.C.]. D.Min., Drew U., 1999. 79 pp.

Moore, Samuel Howard, Jr. The WeKare Mentoring Project of the Saint Paul-Wesley Chapel Charge of the United Methodist Church at Reidsville, North Carolina. D.Min., Drew U., 1999. 156 pp.

Robins, Glenn M. Leonidas Polk and Episcopal Identity: An Evangelical Experiment in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. Ph.D., U. of Southern Mississippi, 1999. 308 pp.

Smith, Miranda K. Church Battles, Culture Wars: The Case of the Episcopal Church. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 51 pp.

Willis, Alan Scot. All According to God’s Plan: Racism and Southern Baptist Missions, 1945-1970. Ph.D., Syracuse U., 1999. 410 pp.

Wolsey, Dawn-Marie Deanne. Born Again Architecture (North Carolina). M.Arch., Daltech-Dalhousie U. (Canada), 1999. 37 pp.

Arthurs, Jeffrey Dean. Transforming Lives through the Development of a Homeless Shelter in Henderson, North Carolina. D.Min., Drew U., 1999. 160 pp.

Bryant, La Shonda Lyons. Demographic and Social Factors Associated with Low Income Households in North Carolina. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 45 pp.

Carpenter, Lindalyn Parkerson. The Determinants of Parenting in Low-Income African American Mothers. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1999. 110 pp.

Hall, Alice Henderson. An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Quality Enhancement Accreditation Initiative to Improve the Quality of School-Age Child Care in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1999. 149 pp.

McMillion, Sharon Stinson. Campus Environment Factors of Two Small, Rural Community Colleges and Their Influences on Persistence Behaviors of African American Students in the College Transfer Program. Ed.D., NCSU, 1999. 169 pp.

Morris, Lisa Ann. Exits, Employment, Earnings, and Recidivism among Welfare Recipients in North Carolina, 1995 to 1998. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 224 pp.

Murillo, Enrique G., Jr. Growing Pains: Cartographies of Change, Contestation, and Social Division. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1999. 552 pp.

Navaie Waliser, Maryam. An Evaluation of the Participants, Impacts, and Cost-Effectiveness of the North Carolina Baby Love Maternal Outreach Worker Program. Dr.PH., UNC-CH, 1999. 210 pp.

Braun, Amanda. Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Varsity Intercollegiate Basketball at Duke University. M.A., UNC-CH, 1999. 68 pp.

Camper, Starr Morrow. Preserving Old South Culture in the New South: White Women’s Groups in Rutherford, Cleveland, Gaston, and Mecklenburg Counties, North Carolina, 1900-1950. Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 1999. 254 pp.

Delegard, Kirsten Marie. Women Patriots: Female Activism and the Politics of American Anti-Radicalism, 1919-1935. Ph.D., Duke, 1999. 529 pp.

Dickens, Emily M. Questioning the Proclivity for Service: The Women’s Uplift Club of Sanford, N.C., 1945-1955. M.A., NCCU, 1999. 61 pp.

Guinn, Chandra Y. African American Women and the Challenges of Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Soft Skills Training Program. M.A., UNC-CH, 2000. 73 pp.

Hoover, Morris Samuel. An Examination of Gender Balance and Other Associated Characteristics in the Administrative Ranks of North Carolina Community Colleges. Ed.D., NCSU, 1999. 188 pp.

Morrison, Donna Cox. An Investigation of Leadership Practices Demonstrated by Two Women Principals Identified by Their Supervisors As Risk Takers in One North Carolina County. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1999. 223 pp.

Osborne, Kathy Jordan. A Qualitative Case Study of Female Superintendents in North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1999. 134 pp.

Smith, Janice Williamson. Life and Education inside a Cotton Mill Village for First-Generation Women High School Graduates in East Laurinburg, North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1999. 213 pp.

Ms. Kelly is the editor of The Papers of James Iredell Sr., 1784-1789, forthcoming in 2001.