Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Enslaved Women: Reproductive Choices and Medicine, Adedoyin Adekunle
The Northern View of the Southern Shore: Experience, Reconciliation, and Commemoration in Postbellum Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Edward Scott Emett
Institute of Enslavement: Enslaved Lives at South Carolina College, Jill Found
From North to South: North Carolina's Black Union Veterans in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Elizabeth L. Laney
“That Desolate Section of Dixiecrats and Hookworms”: The Rise and Fall of the Cio in Sumter, South Carolina, 1927-1950, Stephen Malenowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Cashing the Check of Democracy The American Revolution and Citizenship in the Black Freedom Struggle 1960-1970, Zachary Earle Clary
“All the Rights of Native Cherokees”: The Appearance of Black People in Cherokee Society, Ayanna Goines
“We Are Created Inferior to Men”: Leveraging Horsemanship to Reinforce Gender Expectations, 1830-1861, Gabrielle Marie McCoy
The Widened Hearthstone Urban Playgrounds as the Infrastructure of Public Mothering, 1900-1930, Alexandra Miller
Piratical Transportation: Highlighting Silences in Carolina’s Enslavement and Exportation of Native Americans, Jordan Stenger
Lunatics, Liberals and Bloodthirsty Haters: The South in the 1972 Presidential Election, Thomas Clayton Strebeck
In Her Possession and Keeping Revolutionary War Widows and the Politics of Family Archives, 1820–1850, Riley Kathryn Sutherland
Colored Lawyer, Topeka: The Legend and Legacy of Elisa Scott, Jeffery Scott Williams
Meditations On Modern America: The Ambiguous Worldview of Transcendental Meditation, 1967-1979, Grant William Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Presbyterian Exception? The Illegal Education of Enslaved Blacks by South Carolina Presbyterian Churches, 1834-1865, Margaret Bates
Roy Acuff, Democratic Candidate, Henry Luther Capps III
Before the Storm: Youth Hockey in North Carolina Ahead of the NHL’s Arrival, Sarai ShareI Dai
Flying Saucer of the Smokies: The Debate Over National Park Architecture and Wilderness Values in Clingmans Dome Observation Tower, Michelle Fieser
“I Like a Fight”: Margaret Sanger and the First Birth Control Clinic in the United States, Rebecca Linnea Hall
Who Has the Right to Reproduce? Forced Sterilization in South Carolina in the Early Twentieth Century, Kathryn Pownall
Sex (Work) And the City: Sex Work in Columbia, South Carolina, 1860-1880, Presley McKalyn Ramey
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Building a New (Deal) Identity The Evolution of Italian-American Political Culture and Ideology, 1910–1940, Ryan J. Antonucci
“It Seemed Like Reaching for the Moon:” Southside Virginia’s Civil Rights Struggle Against The Virginia Way, 1951-1964, Emily A. Martin Cochran
“We are Going to be Reckoned With”: The South Carolina UDC and the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum, 1986-2000, Caitlin Cutrona
Enslaved Rebellion and Abolitionist Imperialism in Britain’s Atlantic World, 1807-1884, Lewis Eliot
Religion, Senses, and Remembrance: Brooklyn’s Sumter Club in Postbellum Charleston, S.C., Michael Edward Scott Emett
Praying Soldiers: Experiencing Religion as a Revolutionary War Soldier Fighting for Independence, Roberto Oscar Flores de Apodaca
Engraved in Prejudice: How Currency Displayed the Mindset of the South, Holly Johnson Floyd
The Governor’s Guards: Militia, Politics, Social Networking, and Manhood in Columbia, South Carolina, 1843-1874, Justin Harwell
Patients’ Rights, Patients’ Politics: Jewish Activists of the U.S. Women’s Health Movement, 1969-1990, Jillian Michele Hinderliter
Joshua Gordon’s Witchcraft Book and The Transformation of the Upcountry of South Carolina, E. Zoie Horecny
“The Once and Future Audubon:” The History of the Audubon Ballroom and the Movement to Save It, William Maclane Hull
A Culture of Control: Progressive Era Eugenics in South Carolina as a Continuation of Created White Supremacy, Hannah Nicole Patton
Shaping a Queer South: The Evolution of Activism From 1960-2000, A. Kamau Pope
The Robber Barons of Show Business: Traveling Amusements And The Development of the American Entertainment Industry, 1870- 1920, Madeline Steiner
Charlotte's Glory Road: The History of NASCAR in the Queen City, Hannah Thompson
Foxy Ladies and Badass Super Agents: Legacies of 1970s Blaxploitation Spy and Detective Heroines, Carlie Nicole Todd
Media Combat: The Great War and the Transformation of American Culture, Andrew Steed Walgren
“Hungering and Thirsting” for Education: Education, Presbyterians, and African Americans in the South, 1880-1920, Rachel Marie Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Gendering Secession: Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859- 1861, Melissa DeVelvis
The Chasquis of Liberty: Revolutionary Messengers in the Bolivian Independence Era, 1808-1825, Caleb Garret Wittum
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Learning Church: Catechisms and Lay Participation in Early New England Congregationalism, Roberto O. Flores de Apodaca
Useful Beauty: Tiffany Favrile, Carnival Glass, and Consumerism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chelsea Grayburn
Restoring America: Historic Preservation and the New Deal, Stephanie E. Gray
For the Common Man: An Analysis of the United States Space and Rocket Center, Patrice R. Green
Made to Be Forgotten: The Chevalier DE Saint-Sauveur & the Franco-American Alliance, Katelynn Hatton
Leaders in the Making: Higher Education, Student Activism, and the Black Freedom Struggle in South Carolina, 1925-1975, Ramon M. Jackson
Exclusive Dining: Immigration and Restaurants in Chicago during the Era of Chinese Exclusion, 1893-1933, Samuel C. King
Complicating the Narrative: Using Jim's Story to Interpret Enslavement, Leasing, and Resistance at Duke Homestead, Jennifer Melton
“Unknown and Unlamented”: Loyalist Women in Nova Scotia from Exile to Repatriation, 1775-1800, G. Patrick O’Brien
Raising America Racist: How 1920’s Klanswomen Used Education to Implement Systemic Racism, Kathleen Borchard Schoen
Learning the Land: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Southern Borderlands, 1500-1850, William Cane West
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Beyond Preservation: Reconstructing Sites Of Slavery, Reconstruction, And Segregation, Charlotte Adams
Reading Material: Personal Libraries And The Cultivation Of Identity In Revolutionary South Carolina, Gabriella Angeloni
The Lost Ones: The Cold War State, Child Welfare Systems, And The Battles Over The Rosenberg Children, Megan Bennett
“Catering To The Local Trade”: Jewish-Owned Grocery Stores In Columbia, South Carolina, Olivia Brown
If This Be Sin: Gladys Bentley And The Performance Of Identity, Moira Mahoney Church
“I Hope They Fire Me:” Black Teachers In The Fight For Equal Education, 1910-1970, Candace Cunningham
Constructing Scientific Knowledge: The Understanding of the Slow Virus, 1898-1976, Burke Hood Dial
Ayatollahs And Embryos: Science, Politics, And Religion In Post-Revolutionary Iran, M Sadegh Foghani
Of Cannonades and Battle Cries: Aurality, The Battle of The Alamo, and Memory, Michelle E. Herbelin
Anti-Sabbatarianism in Antebellum America: The Christian Quarrel over the Sanctity of Sunday, Kathryn Kaslow
A Divisive Community: Race, Nation, And Loyalty In Santo Domingo, 1822 – 1844, Antony Wayne Keane-Dawes
“Remember Them Not for How They Died”: American Memory and the Challenger Accident, Elizabeth F. Koele
Garagecraft: Tinkering In The American Garage, Katherine Erica McFadden
Black Power And Neighborhood Organizing In Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Way Community Center, 1966-1971, Sarah Jayne Paulsen
The Popular Education Question in Antebellum South Carolina, 1800-1860, Brian A. Robinson
Perks Of Perkins: Understanding Where Magic And Religion Meet For An Early Modern English Theologian, Kyle Sanders
Black Men, Red Coats: The Carolina Corps, Race, and Society in the Revolutionary British Atlantic, Gary Sellick
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Skin Deep: African American Women and the Building of Beauty Culture in South Carolina, Catherine Davenport
Funding South Carolina’s Monuments: The Growth of the Corporate Person in Monument Financing, Justin Curry Davis
Sex and the State: Sexual Politics in South Carolina in the 1970s, Jennifer Holman Gunter
Within the House of Bondage: Constructing and Negotiating the Plantation Landscape in the British Atlantic World, 1670-1820, Erin M. Holmes
Odor and Power in the Americas: Olfactory Consciousness from Columbus to Emancipation, Andrew Kettler
From Rice Fields to Duck Marshes: Sport Hunters and Environmental Change on the South Carolina Coast, 1890–1950, Matthew Allen Lockhart
Potential Republicans: Reconstruction Printers of Columbia, South Carolina, John Lustrea
Lamps, Maps, Mud-Machines, and Signal Flags: Science, Technology, and Commerce in the Early United States, James Russell Risk
Rebirth of the House Museum: Commemorating Reconstruction at the Woodrow Wilson Family Home, Jennifer Whitmer Taylor
Buy for the Sake of your Baby: Guardian Consumerism in Twentieth Century America, Mark VanDriel
Environmental Negotiations Cherokee Power in the Arkansas Valley, 1812-1828, Cane West
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Call To Every Citizen: The South Carolina State Council Of Defense And World War I, Allison Baker
National Register Nomination for the Waikiki Village Motel, Jane W. Campbell
“Antagonistic Describes the Scene:” Local News Portrayals of the New Left and the Escalation of Protest at the University of South Carolina, 1970, Alyssa Jordan Constad
Ahead of Their Time: Black Teachers and Their Community in the Immediate Post- Brown Years, Candace Cunningham
Deserts Will Bloom: Atomic Agriculture And The Promise Of Radioactive Redemption, Chris Fite
Restoring the Dock Street Theatre: Cultural Production in New-Deal Era Charleston, South Carolina, Stephanie E. Gray
In Search Of Granby: A Colonial Village Of South Carolina, Kathryn F. Keenan
Preserving The Architectural Legacy Of Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle & Wolff, 1948-1976, Casey Lee
Looking for Remnants of Rice Cultivation at Manchester State Forest Through the Use of LIDAR, Sarah Anne Moore
Uncle Sam’s Jungle: Recreation, Imagination, And The Caribbean National Forest, Will Garrett Mundhenke
G.I. Joe v. Jim Crow: Legal Battles Over Off-Base School Segregation Of Military Children In The American South, 1962-1964, Randall George Owens
Radioactive Dixie: A History of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Waste in the American South, 1950-1990, Caroline Rose Peyton
A Culture Of Commodification: Hemispheric And Intercolonial Migrations In The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1660-1807, Neal D. Polhemus
Rediscovering Camden: The Preservation of a Revolutionary War Battlefield, Gary Sellick
The “Forgotten Man” of Washington: the Pershing Memorial and the Battle over Military Memorialization, Andrew S. Walgren
Proslavery Thinking In Antebellum South Carolina: Higher Education, Transatlantic Encounters, And The Life Of The Mind, Jamie Diane Wilson
Colonialism Unraveling: Race, Religion, And National Belonging In Santo Domingo During The Age Of Revolutions, Charlton W. Yingling
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"Very Many More Men than Women": A Study of the Social Implications of Diagnostics at the South Carolina State Hospital, Clara Elizabeth Bertagnolli