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An Unsettled History: Measuring Settlement Population And Sedentism In The Late Woodland Potomac River Valley, Matthew Anthony Borden
An Unsettled History: Measuring Settlement Population And Sedentism In The Late Woodland Potomac River Valley, Matthew Anthony Borden
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This thesis investigates what information accumulations research can provide on settlement population and sedentism in the Late Woodland Potomac River Valley. Accumulations research is a flexible method that mathematically models the relationships between past populations and the archaeological record they leave behind using the discard equation. This study reviews the available data for several different variables in accumulations research, including settlement population, use duration (occupation length) and residential stability (seasonality), and uses the discard equation to evaluate the data. My research focuses on five archaeological sites in the Potomac River Valley, which was home to several different cultural groups during …
Mapping The Contemporary American Public Sphere With Habermas, Deleuze, And Soderbergh, Hunter Main
Mapping The Contemporary American Public Sphere With Habermas, Deleuze, And Soderbergh, Hunter Main
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
However infirm “the public” may be as a political body in America today, its presence as idea in American life is still potent. This thesis seeks to take a first step in developing an idea of what a contemporary American public looks like and how it functions, using concepts developed by Jürgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, and Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. The Habermasian “public sphere” is a major reference point for popular thinking about the public, and The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is indeed an exemplary historical and critical account of the wide range of forces that cohered …
The Enduring Mystery At Town Creek: New Interpretations At A Rural North Carolina Museum, Elizabeth Henry
The Enduring Mystery At Town Creek: New Interpretations At A Rural North Carolina Museum, Elizabeth Henry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Town Creek Indian Mound is a rural museum and historic site located in Montgomery County, North Carolina. Archaeological excavations at Town Creek historic site have occurred in varying capacities for nearly ninety years. Since 1955, Town Creek’s museum has served to represent archaeological endeavors occurring at the historic site. Therefore Western-trained and white archaeologists have been the sole voices presented within the museum space. Town Creek’s current museum exhibits are stuck in a state of pastness, only representing a small portion of Native lifeways; namely discourse on ritual, ceremony, and death. Current exhibits and historical interpretations at Town Creek’s museum …
"Glory To The English And Protestant Name": Protestant Hegemony In Seventeenth And Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island, Mark Mulligan
"Glory To The English And Protestant Name": Protestant Hegemony In Seventeenth And Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island, Mark Mulligan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation argues that Protestant hegemony prevailed in colonial Rhode Island in the absence of an established church, which demonstrates that church establishment was not the primary fuel of Protestant hegemony in the early modern English Atlantic world. Analyzing a combination of well-known and lesser-known books, letters, diaries, newspapers, and laws, my findings indicate that Rhode Island championed a broad Protestant synthesis that transcended individual denominations. While historians have identified this Protestant synthesis in the era of the early republic in the United States, my research shows that these forces of synthesis and hegemony without establishment existed at least two …
An Examination Of High School Music Course Offerings In Virginia: A Mixed Methods Study, Natalia Goodloe
An Examination Of High School Music Course Offerings In Virginia: A Mixed Methods Study, Natalia Goodloe
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
High school music education is not mandated by the Standards of Quality, the Virginia state educational law, and courses offered on the high school level vary among Virginia school divisions. This explanatory mixed methods dissertation study provides an overview of history of development of high school music education in Virginia, reveals what high school music courses currently offered in Virginia school divisions (N = 131), and surveys approaches to development of programs of studies of a representative sample of Virginia school divisions (n = 14). The study generated three major findings. First, 29 various courses are offered among Virginia school …
A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Hbcus And Their Place In Science And Technology From 1979-80 As Told By Four National Newspapers, Asia Renée Randolph
A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Hbcus And Their Place In Science And Technology From 1979-80 As Told By Four National Newspapers, Asia Renée Randolph
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study was an investigation of how national newspapers contributed to the reproduction of racism as they reported on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the need for more Black Americans in STEM programs. The existence of racism in newspaper discourse reaffirms the long-standing perception that HBCUs, and the Black Americans they serve, do not deserve full educational participation in society. The lack of diversity in STEM fields represents a key area where a critical exploration of how HBCUs are described is needed. Specifically, four national newspapers, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, …
The Cost Of Curls: Discrimination, Social Stigma, And Identity Oppression Of Black Women Through Their Hair, Sydney Baylor
The Cost Of Curls: Discrimination, Social Stigma, And Identity Oppression Of Black Women Through Their Hair, Sydney Baylor
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This thesis analyzes the discriminatory practices facing Black women in a multitude of arenas and spaces as a result of their hairstyles and texture. A marker of, as well as a way to express, identity, Black women’s hair is more heavily policed than that of their White counterparts and manifests itself in the form of decreased job opportunities, public humiliation, and restricted stylistic choice. The highly visible nature of hair makes it a prime target for unfair targeting by authoritative bodies, working to further ‘other’ the Black female body along with skin-tone. Looking first at how Black women navigate the …
Mattanock Town Restoration Plan, Katlin Mccarter Grigsby
Mattanock Town Restoration Plan, Katlin Mccarter Grigsby
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Mattanock Town's Restoration Plan is a science-based restoration process that evaluates the site's history, the tribal history, and the most current research to maximize native habitats, enhance coastal resilience, and reconnect the Nansemond people to the local river. Restoration priorities include increasing native plant species, incorporating oyster habitat, and addressing erosion. This plan details how synthesizing existing and new physical, biological, and cultural information can help the Nansemond Indian Nation prioritize projects that benefit their community and the surrounding environment.
A Spectral Return: Non-Metaphorical Ghosts, Monsters, And Hauntology, Kit Bauserman
A Spectral Return: Non-Metaphorical Ghosts, Monsters, And Hauntology, Kit Bauserman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Uses of hauntology within academic scholarship are peculiarly metaphorical and British. This project aims to combat the overabundance of such readings to create more breadth in academic discourse on the spectral. This project does not seek to replace metaphorical or British renderings of hauntology, but to exist alongside it as overreliance on a particular formulation creates detrimental limits and barriers to scholastic innovation. The first essay examines the ghosts of Theodore “Wes” Wesley and Samuel Isaac Bailey within Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery (2018-2023) and The Sheridan Tapes (2020-present). Examining these category-defying ghosts which exhibit mass, warmth, and breath through …
Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’S Room To The Indian Boarding School, Angie Jocelin Leiva
Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’S Room To The Indian Boarding School, Angie Jocelin Leiva
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This master’s thesis portfolio is analyzing the music of contemporary hip-hop artists and the autobiographical work of 20th-century Indigenous writer and political activist Zitkala-Ša. A close reading methodology is used to analyze all the writing included in this body of work. The purpose is to examine the importance of community building within Black and Indigenous communities in the wake of political and social injustice. This portfolio uses the theoretical work of Audrey Lorde, Sianne Nagi, and Robert Warrior to provide support for the central thesis. All the subjects in this portfolio are writing from a first-person point of view and …
"I Wish I Was In Dixie / Away, Away": American Emigration, Cultural Negotiations, And The Confederados / "Play Free Bird!": Southern Anthems As "New Dixies" And The Perpetuation Of The Lost Cause, Shannon Baker
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
“I Wish I Was in Dixie / Away, Away”: American Emigration, Cultural Negotiations, and the ConfederadosThis paper focuses on the Confederados, Southern white Americans who emigrated to new countries, primarily to Brazil. This paper analyzes the reasons for this mass organized outmigration, with attention paid to both push and pull factors for the migrants. This paper also looks at the Civil War memorial activities perpetuated by the Confederados and their descendants, examining the negotiations between Southern U.S. and Brazilian culture. In addition, this paper argues that Confederado studies can be strengthened by further research from the framework of the United …
Landscapes Of Silence At The First Baptist Church, Victoria R. Gum
Landscapes Of Silence At The First Baptist Church, Victoria R. Gum
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg is often presented as a “town which time passed by” (Yetter 1988:30). This narrative implies that the museum landscape reflects the actual past and that restoration efforts simply returned the town to the way it used to be. However, the Restoration was accomplished according to specific ideological goals. Colonial Williamsburg was created as a shrine to traditionalist, conservative values (Greenspan 2002; Handler & Gable 1997; Lindgren 1989; Lindgren 1993) which are intrinsically linked to the global structure of systemic White supremacy. These values were enacted during the Restoration, as Black residents of the future …
A Black Mount Vernon: Exploring Enslaved Homespace And Family At Mount Vernon Plantation, Heather L. Little
A Black Mount Vernon: Exploring Enslaved Homespace And Family At Mount Vernon Plantation, Heather L. Little
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This thesis utilizes a theoretical approach that draws on Whitney Battle-Baptiste's (2011) homespace framework combined with network theory and cultural geography to explore the enslaved community's domestic lives and social structures at Mount Vernon Plantation in the late 18th century. I argue that using homespace and network theory in conjunction with one another allows for a more complex and nuanced exploration of enslaved communities at a household level. Three datasets have been utilized that embody both quantitative and qualitative data. The first is archaeological data from the Mount Vernon excavations, obtained from the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS). …
Women In The Records Of The Virginia Company Of London, Martha Louise Reiner
Women In The Records Of The Virginia Company Of London, Martha Louise Reiner
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
My thesis presents women from the Records of the Virginia Company of London, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906, Library of Congress online. During the 1619-1624 years of the records’ Court Book, Lady Lawarr, widow of Virginia’s first governor named by the Company, was important in distributing Virginia Company shares. Lady Lawarr worked, usually with an agent, to transfer shares from Lawarr’s estate to diverse people. Women had surprising agency in dealing with the Company, but there were some limits. There were delays in implementing grants for compensations. Some women worked with agents to get property owed to them. Petitions filed …
Machines On The Farm: Capitalism And Technology In Midwestern Agriculture, 1845-1900, James Jonathan Rick
Machines On The Farm: Capitalism And Technology In Midwestern Agriculture, 1845-1900, James Jonathan Rick
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Farming people in the Midwestern United States and in Ontario began using new machines throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. These included machines related to the production of grain crops—including threshers, reapers, and drills—as well as machines related to the production of the farm household— such as sewing and washing machines. In their use, maintenance, and alteration of machines within the natural and social contexts of their farms, rural people produced new technological systems of industrial agriculture. They also struggled with machine manufacturers and their agents for control of those systems—both as individuals and through farmer’s organizations. This …
God's Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media And Mourning In American Evangelicalism, Colleen Kirkland Rodgers
God's Not Dead, But Billy Graham Is: Media And Mourning In American Evangelicalism, Colleen Kirkland Rodgers
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This thesis traces the impact and legacy of American preacher Billy Graham through an analysis of his media in the 1950’s and 60’s and the mourning that followed his death in 2018. Considered one of the most important figures in Evangelicalism, Graham’s life and death are crucial to understanding the inner workings and motivations of evangelism in the U.S. during the post-war period and through the 21st century. Graham’s position as a preacher of world renown began after a series of successful “crusades,” large revivals held under tents or in arenas, in Los Angeles in 1949. Following his rise to …
Refraction: The Prism Of Cultural Identity And How It Is Impacted By Grief And Storytelling, S. Aanjali Allegakoen
Refraction: The Prism Of Cultural Identity And How It Is Impacted By Grief And Storytelling, S. Aanjali Allegakoen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
These two essays explore the ways in which cultural identities are impacted by external forces within an environment, specifically grief and storytelling. In the first essay, the cultural identity of American Muslims is examined through the lens of the post-9/11 protests against the Córdoba House Muslim Community Center in New York City. The “grief-wrath” that was utilized against the Muslim Community by Islamophobic protesters is then explored in other instances within the United States, relating to the identity formation and expression that can happen in ways that refute discrimination and oppression. The second essay details the ways storytelling can express …
Arctic Assimilation: Settler Colonialism And Racialization In The Canadian Arctic And Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Samantha Kramer
Arctic Assimilation: Settler Colonialism And Racialization In The Canadian Arctic And Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Samantha Kramer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Isolate and Assimilate: Settler Colonialism in the Canadian ArcticPrevious generations of Canadian historians have focused on welfare when examining the twenty-first century colonization of the territory of Nunavut. Patrick Wolfe’s theory of settler colonialism, on the other hand, presents a form of colonialism that allows for examination through a more cultural-centric lens, while still recognizing the exploitation of economics for purposes of assimilation. Using government reports, Truth and Reconciliation Committee findings, and first-hand accounts from local Inuit, this paper takes Wolfe’s theory and analyzes how his idea of “logics of elimination” were exemplified in the Canadian government’s actions after the …
Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity In U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980, Leah Kuragano
Colonial Apprehension: Hawaiian Indigeneity In U.S. American Popular Culture, 1945-1980, Leah Kuragano
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary historical study of American settler-colonial state formation that focuses on the contentious political relationship between the U.S. and Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) after World War II. The central objects of study are three Hawaiʻi-inspired American popular-cultural formations — surfing, tiki culture, and police procedural television — that have very rarely been examined through the analytic lens of indigeneity. In three case studies, I demonstrate how popular-cultural production and consumption has mediated historically specific modes of colonial apprehension. This dissertation develops a methodological approach that merges archival research of undigitized source material with textual and cultural …
Macao, Manila, And The Spanish Empire / Litigious Women Religious, Ashley Marie Smouse
Macao, Manila, And The Spanish Empire / Litigious Women Religious, Ashley Marie Smouse
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Macao, Manila, and the Spanish Empire Manila, the capital of the Spanish Philippines, had the potential to become a successful entrepot in Southeast Asia. However, despite facilitating the flow of Chinese silk into New Spain and delivering New World silver to Asian markets, Manila’s economy declined during the seventeenth century. This paper analyzes the role that illegal trade with Macao in Manila's economic stability. The methodology in the paper analyzes letters and petitions written by governors, attorneys, and noble Spanish men in Manila, who were concerned with the illicit trade practices between locals in Manila and Portuguese merchants from Macao. …
Intergroup Perceptions Of Discrimination, Neelamberi Klein
Intergroup Perceptions Of Discrimination, Neelamberi Klein
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Efforts to effectively combat discrimination require an understanding of how groups in power think about those experiencing prejudice and discrimination. To study how White individuals think about the discrimination faced by different racial groups (Non-Hispanic White, Black, Asian, Middle Eastern, Native and Indigenous, Latinx and Hispanic, and Mixed-Race men and women), 304 White participants completed an edited version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale and the Hypervigilance scale for each of these 14 groups to assess participants’ perceptions that these targets experience discrimination. Further, explicit attitudes towards each group were assessed with feelings thermometers. Results of our within subjects ANOVAs found …
Sustaining The Shell Middens: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Of Shell Midden Sites Within The Nansemond River Tributary, Mary Lawrence Young
Sustaining The Shell Middens: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Of Shell Midden Sites Within The Nansemond River Tributary, Mary Lawrence Young
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Throughout history, coastlines have commonly drawn human settlements. However, modern environmental processes (i.e., shoreline erosion, sea-level rise, land subsistence, inundation) threaten to destroy much of our remaining global coastal heritage. To prevent the further loss of archaeological contexts, this study seeks to develop a coastal vulnerability index through geospatial analysis to assess the vulnerability of 35 precontact shell midden sites along the Nansemond River in Suffolk, Virginia. The Nansemond middens offer a long-term history of how coastal inhabitants interacted with their surrounding landscape, with occupation of the area ranging from the Early Archaic period through Contact. This research considers various …
Seen And Unseen Friends: Becoming Global Citizens In The U.S. Empire, 1914-1941, Katherine Cartwright
Seen And Unseen Friends: Becoming Global Citizens In The U.S. Empire, 1914-1941, Katherine Cartwright
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
“Seen and Unseen Friends” studies citizenship education in the U.S. empire from 1914 to 1941. During this period, global citizenship became a defining feature of citizenship training in the U.S. and the country’s overseas colonies. Key to global citizenship training was a child-centered pedagogy called “learning-through-doing.” This pedagogy encouraged primary and secondary students to write, draw, build, and create to learn about the world. It also identified reading another student’s words or receiving a piece of artwork from them as the best means to foster affective ties across racial, national, and imperial boundaries. Pairing adult-produced sources like the papers of …
Settlement And Sediment / Segregation And Solidarity, Maxxe R. Albert-Deitch
Settlement And Sediment / Segregation And Solidarity, Maxxe R. Albert-Deitch
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Settlement and Sediment: Engaging Politicized Archaeology in the Israel/Palestine ConflictThis paper explores the ways in which cultural interest groups have used and manipulated folklore and archaeology to assert ownership over border-defining sites in modern-day Israel. The research draws on iterations of folklore over time, archaeological surveys, discrepancies between maps, and engages the work of other scholars whose work addresses the archaeological sites in question. This paper begins with the popular mythology behind the Masada fortress site, just south of the Judean desert, then builds the history of Masada’s archaeology into a larger conversation about the impact of Christian Zionist aims …
“I Fixed Up The Trees To Give Them Some New Life:” Queer Desire, Affect, And Ecology In The Work Of Two Lgbtq+ Appalachian Artists/The Wildcrafting Our Queerness Project/The Queer Appalachia Preservation Project, Maxwell Mason Cloe
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The following essay and digital projects each engage both with a unique aspect of contemporary queer Appalachian art and culture as well as the ways in which oral history and digital humanities methodologies can be used to generate collaborative research possibilities. The first essay is an exploration of two LGBTQ+ Appalachian artists, Dustin Hall and Charles Williams, and the ways in which their work uses Donna Haraway’s “naturecultures” and Jose Muñoz’ understanding of queer futurity to rethink human relationships with non-human nature. The first digital project is an online exhibition of queer Appalachian artists and their work, bolstered by oral …
"These Their Women Bear After Them, With Corne, Acorns, Morters, And All Bag And Baggage They Use:" An Archaeological History Of Indigenous Households Along The Rappahannock River, Virginia, Josue Roberto Nieves
"These Their Women Bear After Them, With Corne, Acorns, Morters, And All Bag And Baggage They Use:" An Archaeological History Of Indigenous Households Along The Rappahannock River, Virginia, Josue Roberto Nieves
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation summarizes all research findings pertaining to 2017-2018 Archaeological Excavations at Camden Farm, Virginia. The goal of the project was to seek out a previously unexcavated Indigenous house site within the property’s “Post-Contact” (i.e.,1646 - ~1720 A.D.) Rappahannock Indian village in order to analyze structural morphology and the suite of artifact assemblages relating to domestic production, consumption, and exchange practices. Findings were compared to a previously excavated house site from the same village, in addition to similar domestic contexts dating between the “Late Woodland II” and “Contact” (A.D. 1200-1650) periods from the Virginia’s James River valley. The results of …
Women In The Wilderness: An Exploration Of How Women Interacted, Adapted, And Thrived In The American Environment, Elizabeth Rall
Women In The Wilderness: An Exploration Of How Women Interacted, Adapted, And Thrived In The American Environment, Elizabeth Rall
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Women of all backgrounds have contributed to the environmental history of the United States, but most of the environmental historical scholarship places such women alongside men and by doing so clouds their involvement as well as their achievements. This discussion introduces readers to pieces of environmental history that engage gender as a framework, while also acknowledging that there is not an individual women’s environmental experience by covering specific yet contrasting geographical spaces. The American West and the New York Adirondacks offer diverse perspectives and experiences of pioneering women who interacted with the environment, including Diné women, park rangers, Adirondack guides …
Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The concept of “warrior” has become a centerpiece of the twenty-first century US Army identity. The term “warrior” dominates the Army’s various initiatives and programs and is central to the service’s values and ideals. Since the Army deploys the term so liberally, the term has been used in seemingly contrasting ways: sometimes in strict relation to ground combat positions and other times in reference to soldiers in nontraditional domains like cyber- and drone-warfare. In a similar vein, the Army uses the term both as an honorific for exemplary soldiers and as a generic substitute for the term “soldier.” This dissertation …
Have Your Cake: Constructing A Confectionery Vernacular In The Great Depression, Sarah Elisabeth Adams
Have Your Cake: Constructing A Confectionery Vernacular In The Great Depression, Sarah Elisabeth Adams
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Sweets—cake, candy, cookies, ice cream, and any other sugary treat—are a favored component of the American diet. They are also a familiar motif in the American cultural landscape. From the Good Ship Lollipop to Candy Crush Saga, imagined and imagined confections suffuse media and amusements, where they serve as both site and subject for negotiating economic and social tensions in the collective imagination. The visual and material depiction of sweets in the cultural landscape composes what I call the “confectionery vernacular,” a hybrid graphic language that provides an interdisciplinary framework within which to consider the American experience. Whether illustrated, photographed, …
Properties Of Belonging: Landscapes Of Racialized Ownership In Post-Emancipation Barbados, Stephanie M. Bergman
Properties Of Belonging: Landscapes Of Racialized Ownership In Post-Emancipation Barbados, Stephanie M. Bergman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
My dissertation research at St. Nicholas Abbey sugar plantation places landscape at the forefront of analysis in order to tell a story of power and conflict over rights and claims to belonging in one of the most profitable British colonies during the era of emancipation. I spent years completing archaeological and ethnohistorical research at this popular national heritage site to learn how the transition from slavery to emancipation occurred on the ground, and to provide a comparative analysis of the tenantry system as it developed locally in the Caribbean region. I conceived the concept of a landscape of racialized ownership …