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

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

Brown, Leslie. Common Spaces, Separate Lives: Gender and Racial Conflict in the "Capital of the Black Middle Class." Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 520 pp.

Brown, Tracey M. Person and Place: African Americans and Shotgun Houses in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. M.S., UNC-G, 1997. 187 pp.

Canipe, Jeremy T. Black Wilmington: Free African Americans on the Lower Cape Fear, 1760-1860. M.A., WFU, 1997. 175 pp.

Crook, James A. METHOD: Maintaining the Identity and Integrity of an African American Community in Raleigh, North Carolina. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 97 pp.

Spedding, William Joseph. A Climate of Violence: The Rise and Demise of Lynching in North Carolina, 1882-1935. M.A., WFU, 1997. 134 pp.

Webb, Ann Margaret. Incorporating African Americans into the Public Identity of the South via Museum Exhibits. M.A., UNC-W, 1997. 167 pp.

Zogry, Kenneth Joel. Slavery between Town and Country: African American Life on a Piedmont North Carolina Plantation, 1785-1840. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 56 pp.

Aziabu, Yao E. Black Activism and American Foreign Policy: From South Africa to Haiti. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 547 pp.

Chaffee, Rebecca Thomas. The American People and Minority Malaise: Are the Media Responsible? M.A., ASU, 1998. 84 pp.

Hawley, Hugh F. American Intelligence: Product, Process, and Organization. M.A., ASU, 1997. 56 pp.

Hazen, Kirk Allen. Past and Present Be in Southern Ethnolinguistic Boundaries. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1997. 251 pp.

Layton, Michael Dennis. The Origin of American Political Parties in the States, 1776 to 1788. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 240 pp.

Lewis, Meredith Ann. Watergate and American Foreign Policy: A Case Study of U.S.-British Relations. M.S., NCSU, 1998. 86 pp.

McDonald, Robert M. S. Jefferson and America: Episodes in Image Formation. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1997. 368 pp.

Anthropology

Heath, Charles L., Jr. A Cultural History of River Herring and Shad Fisheries in Eastern North Carolina: The Prehistoric Period through the Twentieth Century. M.S., ECU, 1997. 252 pp.

Idol, Bruce S. The Upper Yadkin River Valley, North Carolina: AD 1450-1600. M.A., WFU, 1997. 341 pp.

Neely, Deneen A. A Dental Analysis of Two Sites in the North Carolina Piedmont that Lie along the Yadkin River. M.A., WFU, 1997. 376 pp.

Economics

Ahn, Soeun. Economic Analysis of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Trout Fishing in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Ph.D., NCSU, 1997. 137 pp.

Lewis, Douglas R. Help for Downtowns: The Effectiveness of Urban Design Assistance Teams in Three Eastern North Carolina Communities. M.A., WFU, 1997. 120 pp.

McNeel, Matthew J. The Changing Economies of Winston-Salem: A New Outlook toward the Future and for Small Business Growth. M.A., WFU, 1997. 45 pp.

Pitts, Marilyn Melinda. Is There Such a Thing as Women’s Work?: A 1980s Perspective. Ph.D., NCSU, 1997. 210 pp.

Savard, Marielle. Impacts of Trade, Environmental, and Agricultural Policies in the North American Hog/Pork Industry on Water Quality, Trade Patterns, and Welfare. Ph.D., The U. of British Columbia, 1997. 170 pp.

Viola, Deborah. Wage Determination and the Relationship between Wages, Nonwage Compensation, and Firm and Worker Characteristics in Child Day Care Centers. Ph.D., City U. of New York, 1998. 130 pp.

Warner, Mildred Elaine. Labor Market Structure, Local Government Investment, and County Well Being: United States Mid-Atlantic and East North Central States, 1970-1990. Ph.D., Cornell U., 1997. 300 pp.

Education

Bundy, Rosemary Gray. Identity Development and Student Involvement of African American Undergraduate Students at Historically White Colleges and Universities in Southern Appalachia. Ed.D., East Tennessee State U., 1997. 208 pp.

Dennard, Rwanda E. Differences among African American and Caucasian Middle School Students on Factors Related to Academic Motivation and Achievement. M.A., WCU, 1997. 49 pp.

Harris, Carl Edward. Teacher Turnover: Factors Related to Attrition and Retention of North Carolina Teaching Fellows. Ed.D., NCSU, 1998. 177 pp.

Johnson, Sallie Daniel. "American Voices": A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching United States History and American Literature in a North Carolina High School. M.A., WFU, 1997. 63 pp.

Lightfoot, Alexandra Fay. "With Full Regard for Race": Portrait of an Educational Process. Ed.D., Harvard U., 1998. 212 pp.

Lindsey, John L. A Case Study of a Bible College in North Carolina: Issues Pertaining to the Continuance of Small Higher Education Institutions. Ed.D., UNC-G, 1997. 181 pp.

Lynip, Keith F. "Not the Old Research Degree": A History of Graduate Education at Appalachian State Teachers College, 1942-1967. M.A., ASU, 1998. 170 pp.

McAllister, Rena S. A Descriptive Study of Career Choices Made by North Carolina Central University Counseling Graduates. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 39 pp.

McGurk, Lisa Alanna. Transition and Inequality: Female Students at Appalachian State University, 1939-1989. M.A., ASU, 1998. 126 pp.

Ogg, Anne Brooke. Crossing the Curriculum: Service Learning and Community Service in Humanities 414. M.L.A., UNC-A, 1997. 75 pp.

Petit, Jodi Breckenridge. A Community that Cared: The Study of an All-Black School: E. E. Smith High, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1955-1969. Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 1997. 331 pp.

Pugh, Beverly Sheets. Teacher Development: A Study of Selected North Carolina Teacher Academy Trainers. Ed.D., UNC-G, 1997. 307 pp.

Rickwalt, Tina A. Contributing Factors to Teacher Retention in ICF/MR Residential Facilities in North Carolina. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 53 pp.

Toney, Audrey A. The Role of the Principal as Viewed by North Carolina State Legislators. Ed.D., UNC-G, 1997. 190 pp.

Vandett, W. J. Ric. Developing an Indicator System for Elementary Schools: A Case Study [North Carolina]. Ed.D., Columbia U. Teachers College, 1998. 229 pp.

Warren, Whitney Marie. Student Perceptions of School Environment: A Study of Three Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Public Schools. M.A., WFU, 1997. 69 pp.

White, Robert Allwyn. I Can’t Hear You, Give Me More: The Development of an Introductory Course in Directing [Brevard College]. Ph.D., The Union Institute, 1998. 209 pp.

Wright, Roger Dale. A Study of Selected Variables Related to the Outcomes of School Bond Referenda in North Carolina. Ed.D., ASU, 1997. 304 pp.

Geography

Dellinger, Philip Taylor. The Driving Forces behind Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northwestern North Carolina between 1970 and 1990. M.A., ASU, 1997. 114 pp.

Hughes, David G. Spatial Aspects of Climate and Natural Fire Occurrence Relationships in the National Forests of North Carolina, 1974-1994. M.A., ASU, 1997. 134 pp.

McFarland, Robert Ernest, Jr. Of Time and the River: Economy, People, and Environment in the Tennessee Valley, 1500-1990. Ph.D., The U. of Alabama, 1997. 404 pp.

Moser, Susanne C. Mapping the Territory of Uncertainty and Ignorance: Broadening Current Assessment and Policy Approaches to Sea-Level Rise. Ph.D., Clark U., 1997. 476 pp.

Nunnery, Kevin. An Assessment of Highway Impacts on Ecological Function in Palustrine Forested Wetlands in the Upper Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 130 pp.

Oswald, Edward G. Cooper River Rice Fields: Landowner Attitudes and Perceptions toward Change. M.S., Duke, 1997. 25 pp.

Vanderbeck, Robert M. Perspectives on Place among Inner City Young People in the U.S. South. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 66 pp.

History and Political Science

Arnold, Andrew B. Defining Business Unionism for Themselves: Local Institutions and the United Mine Workers of America, 1890-1900. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 53 pp.

Arthur, Robert B. Out of the Shadows: The Women of Duke Come into Their Own. M.A., ECU, 1997. 133 pp.

Bagley, Arturo S. "Asserting Our Manhood along All Lines": Gender and Race in the North Carolina White Supremacy Campaign of 1898. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 87 pp.

Barnhill, John Ashley. The New Hanover County Court from 1776 to 1810. M.A., UNC-W, 1997. 80 pp.

Bingham, Emily S. Mordecai: Three Generations of a Southern Jewish Family, 1780-1865. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1997. 619 pp.

Blue, Victor E. Deliver Us from Pollution: The Warren County, NC, PCB Protests and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement, 1978-1991. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 71 pp.

Bollinger, Amy King. Jesse Helms Versus Harvey Gantt: The Race in Black and White. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 103 pp.

Cillessen, Bret J. Embracing the Bomb: Ethics, Morality, and Nuclear Weapons in the U.S. Air Force, 1945-1955. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 70 pp.

Coble, Wendy M. The S.S. Paraguay: The Historical Importance of an Early-Twentieth-Century Freighter. M.A., ECU, 1997. 96 pp.

Coleman, Erik Blaine. Reflection and Reform: Professionalism and Ethics in the U.S. Army Officer Corps, 1968-1975. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 60 pp.

Dew, Stephen Herman. The Queen City at War: Charlotte, North Carolina, during World War II, 1939-1945. Ph.D., U. of Arkansas, 1997. 409 pp.

Edmonds, Kelton R. A Powder Keg Waiting to Explode: An Examination of the 1969 Dudley/A & T Revolt. M.S., NCA&T, 1998. 66 pp.

Forret, Jeffrey Paul. ". . . Promises to Be Very Rich": The Development of the Gold Mining Industry in the Agrarian Society of Western North Carolina, 1825-1837. M.A., UNC-C, 1998. 141 pp.

Glusman, Melynn Elizabeth. Remembering Joan Little: The Rise and Fall of a Mythical Black Woman. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 42 pp.

Goodwin, Daniel Allen. Going Their Separate Ways: The United States Withdrawal from the Philippines and the End of Co-Dependency. M.A., ASU, 1998. 136 pp.

Green, Steven Keith. The Rhetoric and Reality of the "Christian Nation" Maxim in American Law, 1810-1920. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1997. 505 pp.

Grundy, Pamela. Learning to Win: Spirit, Education, and the Changing Texture of Community Life in Twentieth-Century North Carolina. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1997. 327 pp.

Hamner, Christopher H. Three Years More: The Veteran Volunteer Program and Union Army Combat Motivation, 1863-1865. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 37 pp.

Hoepfner, Kelly J. Petticoat Soldiers: How Popular Images of the Female Body Shaped the Creation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1942-1943. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 65 pp.

Hoffman, Lydia Charles. Minding and Marketing Manners in the Jim Crow South: Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 40 pp.

Holzman, Lynn M. An Historical Analysis of National Collegiate Athletic Association Freshman Eligibility. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 81 pp.

Hornsby, Wyatt Cunningham. Abraham Lincoln, Congress, the Confiscation of Property during the Civil War, and the Decision for Emancipation. M.S., NCSU, 1998. 177 pp.

Huelfer, Evan A. Bearing the Burden: How the "Casualty Issue" Shaped American Military Preparation for World War II. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 88 pp.

Kapeluck, Branwell DuBose Ravenel. Divided Government and Legislative Productivity in North Carolina. M.A., NCSU, 1997. 139 pp.

Kroupa, Daniel Richard. Slave Revolts and North Carolina Quaker Migration. M.A., Michigan State U., 1997. 96 pp.

Long, Creston S. The North Carolina Regulators: Representation and Interpretation in Colonial, Scottish, and English Newspapers. M.A., WFU, 1997. 134 pp.

Lopez, Edward J. The Political Economy of Congressional Term Limits. Ph.D., George Mason U., 1997. 196 pp.

MacDonald, James M. A Tale of Two Soldiers: John Eager Howard, Samuel Smith, and the New American Nation. M.A., ASU, 1997. 107 pp.

McKay, Joanne. To Begin the World Anew: Arthur Dobbs, Mid-Eighteenth-Century Colonial Speculator. M.A., WCU, 1998. 86 pp.

Martin, Christopher Brenden. Selling the Southern Highlands: Tourism and Community Development in the Mountain South. Ph.D., The U. of Tennessee, 1997. 290 pp.

Morgan, Chad. A Conditional Alliance: Race, Section, and the Rise and Decline of Working-Class Consciousness in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1858-1860. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 39 pp.

Morton, Patrick C. Arthur Dobbs and the Quest for Empire: 1729-1759. M.A., WFU, 1997. 99 pp.

Nelson, Cristina R. "She was Saint George and Ignorance the Dragon": The Struggles of a Young New South Teacher, 1894-1895. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 71 pp.

Pearson, Reggie L. "A Much Needed Hospital for Negroes": Creating African American Health Care Institutions between Reconstruction and the New Deal. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 110 pp.

Peck, W. Mark. An Analysis of the New Social Studies Movement on the National, State, and Local Levels. M.A., WFU, 1998. 101 pp.

Phillips, Jason K. Unity and Division: The People of Forsyth County, North Carolina, during the Civil War. M.A., WFU, 1998. 118 pp.

Poteat, John Franklin, II. The Consequences of Walking Forthrightly: A Case Study of Political Change in North Carolina, 1972-1996. M.S., NCSU, 1997. 90 pp.

Potter, Leah Yale. Carolina Freedom, Carolina Slavery: Antebellum Historians Portray the American Revolution in the Lowcountry. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 61 pp.

Prince, David Wayne. Explaining Changing Committee Structure in State Legislatures. M.A., ASU, 1997. 90 pp.

Ryan, Jeffrey T. On Land and Sea: The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War. Ph.D., Temple U., 1997. 231 pp.

Selna, Joan Karen. Cultural War: The Defeat of the Helms Amendment. M.A., San Jose State U., 1997. 102 pp.

Slavishak, Edward S. Shrines of Fashion: Display, Performance, and Social Hierarchy at Antebellum Southern Springs. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 54 pp.

Smallwood, Arwin Doremus. A History of Three Cultures: Indian Woods, North Carolina, 1585 to 1995. Ph.D., The Ohio State U., 1997. 562 pp.

Steinmetz, Melissa Anne. GIs, Fräuleins, and Madame Butterflies: Race, Gender, and National Identity during the American Occupations of Germany and Japan, 1945-1946. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 52 pp.

Taylor, James Carlisle. The 60th North Carolina Regiment: A Case Study of Enlistment and Desertion in Western North Carolina during the Civil War. M.A., WCU, 1998. 156 pp.

Thuesen, Sarah Caroline. Taking the Vows of White Liberalism: Guion and Guy Johnson and the Limits of Pluralism in the American South. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 65 pp.

Uesugi, Sayoko. "Jim Crow Must Go!": Women’s Activism, the Cold War, and the Making of the Progressive Party in North Carolina, 1945-1948. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 134 pp.

Umfleet, LeRae Sikes. Slavery in the Microcosm: Bertie County, North Carolina, 1790-1810. M.A., ECU, 1998. 131 pp.

Yuhl, Stephanie Eileen. High Culture in the Low Country: Arts, Identity, and Tourism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1920-1940. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 319 pp.

Journalism and Literature

Dalrymple, Mary S. Industry Unraveling: Textiles in North Carolina. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 75 pp.

De Santis, Christopher Charles. Reconstruction and the American Literary Imagination. Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 1997. 165 pp.

Finger, Susan Clare. Echoes of Wordsworth and Coleridge Resound in "The Accidental Tourist" [by Anne Tyler]. M.A., Florida Atlantic U., 1997. 67 pp.

Itzkovitz, Daniel. American Modernism, Race, and the Rhetoric of "Jewish Difference," 1880-1940. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 237 pp.

Karaganis, Joseph J. American Literary Nationalism and the Modernist Turn. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 350 pp.

Moore, Mark. The War over American Culture: Competing Moral Visions in American Religion, Culture, and Politics. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 129 pp.

Palcher, Jennifer Ann. Hollywood East: An Examination of the Film Industry in North Carolina. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 69 pp.

Payne, Elke Worley. In Search of the Female Voice: Religious Experience in the Fiction of Lee Smith. M.A., WCU, 1997. 74 pp.

Reagan, Stephanie. A Woman Waits [Irish immigrant poetry in the Appalachian region]. M.A., WCU, 1998. 75 pp.

Redmond, Lois Carol Wheatley. Women Writers of the Black Mountain College. M.A., ECU, 1998. 74 pp.

Richardson, Riche Deianne. Black Southern Displacements: On Regional Edge in African American Literature and Culture. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 224 pp.

Sell, Laura E. The Hazard of Intimacy or a Heaven of Bliss?: Eighteenth-Century North Carolinians on Love and Marriage. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 47 pp.

Silverstein, Lynn. Framing the Game: How Three Newspapers Covered the NCAA Basketball Tournaments, 1994-1996. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 100 pp.

Swann, Kristen Elizabeth Carrying History on Our Backs: The Form and Function of History in Three Novels by John Barth. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 45 pp.

Walker, Brandi Josanna. "A World in My Eye": Alice Walker’s Ecowomanist Vision of a Global Tribe. M.A., ASU, 1997. 85 pp.

Webb, Dorothy Ann. Particular Places: Local Color Writing in the United States, 1870-1910. Ph.D., The U. of Michigan, 1997. 264 pp.

Music

Brown, Amy Walker. It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song: The Southern Folklife Collection’s Manuscripts and Recordings of Women in Country Music. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 402 pp.

Davis, Amy Noel. When You Coming Back?: The Local Country-Music Opry Community. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 136 pp.

Ellerbe, Sonya T. The Decline of Lined Hymn Singing in Selected Churches of North and South Carolina. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 75 pp.

Fawcett-Yeske, Maxine Ann. The Fuging Tune in America, 1770-1820: An Analytical Study. Ph.D., U. of Colorado, 1997. 563 pp.

Lerner, Neil William. The Classical Documentary Score in American Films of Persuasion: Contexts and Case Studies, 1936-1945. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 304 pp.

Mallstrom, Diane Marie. Historic Sheet Music Preservation and Use: A Survey Study of Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music in Research and Music Libraries. M.L.S., Kent State U., 1997. 62 pp.

Powell, Rasby Marlene. Creating Community: An Ethnography of Old-Time Dance Groups. Ph.D., Florida State U., 1997. 309 pp.

Thompson, David Bruce. Piano Music in the South during the Civil War Period, 1855-1870. D.M.A., U. of South Carolina, 1997. 191 pp.

Wiggins, Ira T. An Assessment of the Status of Jazz Music Education in the Public High Schools of North Carolina: A Foundation for Curriculum Revision in Higher Education. Ph.D., UNC-G, 1997. 148 pp.

Native American Studies

Blue, Denise. The Lumbee: Legends, Lies, and Lives. M.A., WCU, 1998. 68 pp.

Conley, Manuel Arthur. Indians and Academia: How the Post-World War Two Revival of Interest in Native Americans Influenced the Teaching of Indian History in North Carolina Higher Education. D.A., Middle Tennessee State U., 1997. 241 pp.

Creech, Kevyn Moore. Native American Studies in the Southeast: North Carolina State University, A Case Study. M.S., NCSU, 1997. 88 pp.

Konkle, Maureen Ann. Writing the Indian Nation: United States Colonialism, Native Intellectuals, and the Struggle over Indian Identity. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 1997. 273 pp.

Scalone, Lorraine. The Peacekeepers: A Qualitative Study of an Intervention Program for [Cherokee Indian] Children Who are At-Risk for School Failure. M.A., WCU, 1997. 94 pp.

Religion

Bales, Susan Ridgely. The Sensual and the Local: An Ethnographic Study of Children’s Interpretations of First Holy Communion at Holy Cross Church in Durham, North Carolina. M.A., UNC-CH, 1998. 70 pp.

Bass, Tim. A Wicked Mix [Immanuel Baptist Church scandal]. M.F.A., UNC-W, 1998. 328 pp.

Bynum, William Burnett. Voluntarism in America: Race and the Role of Religion. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 221 pp.

Frye, Georgia C. Cooperative Ministry: The Church as Caregiver for Senior Citizens in the Carthage, North Carolina Area. D.Min., Drew U., 1997. 41 pp.

Ray, Marcy Lynne. Pruning the Family Tree: The Rhetoric of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Disney Boycott. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 143 pp.

Shin, Seulky. Race, Gender, and Religious Rhetoric in the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Quarterly Review. M.A., NCSU, 1997. 72 pp.

Specht, Neva Jean. Mixed Blessing: Trans-Appalachian Settlement and the Society of Friends, 1780-1813. Ph.D., U. of Delaware, 1997. 246 pp.

Wesley, T. J. Organizational Structural Change and the United Methodist Superintendency: Assessing the Holston Annual Conference’s Recent Attempt at Changing the Number and Boundaries of its Districts. M.S., Duke, 1998. 202 pp.

Sociology

Anderson, Cynthia Diane. The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village. Ph.D., NCSU, 1997. 240 pp.

Arah, John. Family Disorganization, Inequality, and Violent Crime among North Carolina Counties, 1990. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 35 pp.

Davis, Jeffrey Peterson. Race, Place, and Risk: Spatial Effects on Psychosocial Environments and Well-Being. Ph.D., NCSU, 1997. 168 pp.

Ellis, Melchior B. Work and Poverty in Rural North Carolina. M.A., NCA&T, 1997. 42 pp.

Glennie, Elizabeth Jane. Social Capital and Individual Resources: The Effects of the Transition to Adulthood on Sociopolitical Participation of Men and Women. Ph.D., Duke, 1997. 225 pp.

Hall, Paula Mason Quick. Race Representation and Equity in North Carolina Public Schools. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1998. 169 pp.

Hauser, Daniel Richard. The Historical Evolution of Football Equipment and Societal Influences Affecting Equipment Development from 1869 to 1950. M.A., ASU, 1997. 181 pp.

Styles, Gary. Education, Age, and Job Satisfaction among Military Personnel in a Southern City. M.A., NCCU, 1997. 36 pp.

Wu, Ke Bin. President Reagan’s New Federalism and Social Inequality: An Analysis of County Government Social Welfare Expenditures. Ph.D., The American U., 1997. 165 pp.

Women’s Studies

Giesberg, Judith Ann. "The Truest Patriots": The United States Sanitary Commission and Women’s Reform in Transition, 1861-1865. Ph.D., Boston College, 1997. 286 pp.

Gilbert, Jennifer L. Diversity, Difference, and Power: The National Organization for Women and the Politics of Identity, 1966-1976. Ph.D., Duke, 1998. 256 pp.

Jennings, Susan Lea. Honourable Women: The Varied Roles of Women within the Southern Baptist Convention. M.A., ASU, 1998. 153 pp.

Li, Li. Mission in Suzhou: Sophie Lanneau [N.C. Southern Baptist missionary] and Wei Ling Girl’s Academy, 1907-1950. Ph.D., UNC-CH, 1997. 263 pp.

Peters, Emma Gene. Southern Bells: Voices of Working Women. A Telling in Three Parts. Ph.D., The Union Institute [Cincinnati, Ohio], 1997. 114 pp.

Poteat, RaeLana Vee. "Both Plain and Ornamental": Professional Female Needleworkers in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century North Carolina and Virginia. M.A., WFU, 1997. 155 pp.

Smith, Cristina Marie. Barbecue, Sweet Tea, and Women’s Rights: An Exploration of Feminism in the South. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 84 pp.

Summers, Brenda Jane. Women and the Information Highway: Gender, Access, Power, and Knowledge. Ed.D., NCSU, 1997. 228 pp.

Waugh, Leslie K. North Carolina’s Modern Midwives. M.A., UNC-CH, 1997. 112 pp.