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Sarah Clere, English
Women are Workers Too: An Analysis of Three 1930s Strike Novels

Timothy Galow, English
Ambivalence and Ambiguity in North Carolina's Speaker Ban Law

William Gibbons, Music
The Musical Audubon: Ornithology in the Symphonies of Anthony Philip Heinrich

Brian Graves, Communication
The Life and Music of Top Notch the Villain (a.k.a. Jerome Williams)
Featuring the artist himself, Top Notch the Villain

Jessica Hardie, Sociology
High Hopes?: Community and Family in Shaping Educational Expectations in the Post-Deseg South

Carie Hersh, Anthropology
Transnational Parachurches and the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Virginia Beach, Virginia

John Hubbell, Folklore
Patch My Heart: Memphis' Soul Survives 1968

Lee Ann Jacobs, Biology
A study of mechanisms affecting biodiversity in southeastern temperate forests

Mary Alice Kirkpatrick, English
Roving Visionaries: Re-Imagining the Southern Landscape

Seth Kotch, History
From Progressivism to Barbarism: Capital Punishment in the Mind of the South

Kelly Morrow, History
Sex in the South: The Sexual Revolution at UNC, 1969-73

Ali Neff, Folklore
Let the World Listen Right: Function and Folklore in the Rural Roots of Southern Hip-Hop

Katie Otis, History
I'll Picket the Commission: Political Activism Among Florida Retirees, 1960-1980

Kelly Quinn, Epidemiology
Predictors of Change in the Black-White Health Gap in the U.S. South: 1960-2000

Chad Seales, Religious Studies
Patriotic Bodies: Sacrament and Sacrifice in Siler City Fourth of July Parades, 1901-1932

Cindy Spurlock, Communication
Sprawling Carolina

Matthew Thompson, Anthropology
Staging "the Drama": The Continuing Importance of Cultural Tourism in the Gaming Era

Participants 2002-2006

Anthropology

  • Edmond Boudreaux,Pottery and Foodways: Exploring Social Differences
  • Danny DeVries, Place and Crisis: Social Memory in Eastern North Carolina Flood Plains
  • Jon Marcoux, TVA Archaeological Research Project
    Mintcy Maxham, Native American Communities in the Twelfth Century

Art

  • Lindsey Twa, The Ambivalence of the Real: William Meade Prince's Illustrations for Roark Bradford's Dialect Stories

Communications

  • Rachel Hall, Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery

Ecology

  • Jessica Kaplan, Fire, Species Richness, and Presence of Wiregrass in Longleaf Pine
  • Kristin Taverna, Forests of Continuity of the North Carolina Piedmont

Economics

  • Timothy Diette
    Getways to Minority Education in North Carolina Public Schools
  • Serban Ranca
    Sources of Economic Growth in the Southeast

English

  • Andy Crank
    Let Us Now Praise Forgotten Men: James Agee's Radical-Racial South
  • David A. Davis
    Obey Thy Master: Religion and Slavery in W. W. Brown’s Clotel
  • Kimberly Gibbs
    The Discarded Novel: Examing the Role of Mandy Oxendine in the Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Andrew Leiter
    The Harlem Renaissance and the Shaping of William Faulkner's Joe Christmas
  • Elizabeth Armistead Lemon
    A Considerarion of Female Characters and the Space They Inhabit in the Ficton of Ernest Gaines
  • Burgin Mathews
    Talking Country: Oral Histories in Classic Country Music
  • Tara Powell
    Walker Percy's science of the Spirt: Reinventing Intellectual Life in Twentieth Century Southern Literature
  • Bryan Sinche
    Autobiographical Writing in Johnson’s Island Prison

Folklore

  • Michael Spinks, The Dispossessed of Onslow County

Geography

  • Jesse Cleary, Characterizing Southern Sprawl: Ecological Patch Dynamics and the Development History of Wake County, North Carolina
  • G. Rebecca Dobbs, The Indian Trading Path through the Piedmont: What route, what role?
  • Gerarddo Gurza-Lavalle, Prosalvery Ideology and poplar Political Culture in Antebellum South, 1830-1860
  • Jonathan Lepofsky, Place-Making in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Health

  • Chandra Ford, Neighborhood Factors,Percieved Racism and Human Immundeficiency Virus (HIV) Test Taking Among Blacks Attending A Public Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic
    Molly Loomis, Initiative

History

  • S. Willoughby Anderson, Against the Peace and Dignity of the State of Alabama: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Trail and the Remaking of Birrmingham
  • Amy Beth Crow, The Goldsboro Rifles’ Monument at Bentonville, 1894-1895
  • Amos Esty, Reinventing South Conservatism: The North Carolina Republican Party and the Ideology of the Reactionary Progress, 1963-1968
  • Barbara Hahn, The Social and Natural World of Bright Tobacco Culture
  • Paul Quigley, Disordered Nation: The Evolution of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1865
  • Nancy Schoonmaker, Remembering Antebellum Louisiana
  • Rose Stremlau, Cherokee Families in the Era of Allotment
  • Cypriane Williams, Mardi Gras Indians: Ideologies of Race, Class, and Resistance on the Periphery of New Orleans Carnival

Journalism

  • Christopher Sims, Recruit: Joining and Serving in Today’s Military

Political Science

  • Andrea McAtee, Republican and Democratic Party Oranizations in the South: Responses to ncreasing Competition
  • Gregory Pettis, The Voter, Voter Turnout and the Context of Local Racial Composition

Public Policy

  • Suho Bae, Sectoral and Regional Differences in Productivity Growth in Southern States

 

 

 

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