Theses and Internships

Note: Copies of Southern Studies Master's student theses are available in the University of Mississippi Library.

HISTORY & CIVIL RIGHTS

  • Alexander, Dawn. "Corona College as an Example of Antebellum Southern Education" (1990)
  • Barger, Jim Jr. "Ophelia Go Home: The Life Story of Ophelia Killens" (1996)
  • Benton, Eunice. "Shelter Neck's Unitarian School" (1994)
  • Chartier, Courtney. "The Making of the Homoerotic Body: Southern Evangelicals and the Fight for Gay and Lesbian Rights" (2003)
  • Fullerton, Christopher. "Striking Out Jim Crow: The Birmingham Black Barons" (1994)
  • Gildea, Barry. "Estranged Fruit: Making and Unmaking in Mississippi's Jails" (1995)
  • Gould, Marty. "The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Cultural Politics of Journalistic Representation" (2002)
  • Hamlin, Tiffany. "Still Movin': The Life Journeys of Four Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" (2003)
  • Herring, Caroline. "The Mississippi Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching" (1998)
  • Hughes, Sean. "Honor, Commerce, Suffrage, and Civil Rights" (2005)
  • McGehee, Margaret. "Beneath the Sheets: An Intellectual History of the Women of the Ku Kux Klan, 1923-1931" (2000)
  • Medley, Kate. “Fear, Faith, and the Fatherland: The Complexities of Prejudice in the Civil Rights Movement” (2007)
  • Morris, Robin. "Memory and Manhood: The Citadel and the Civil War centennial, 1961" (2001)
  • Percy, Anne. "Rebel Land after James Meredith" (1994)
  • Thomas, William. "The Meredith Event at the University of Mississippi: The Creaking of Modern America under Postmodern Stress" (1998)
  • Voss, Mark. "Cataclysm and Memory: The Battle of Franklin" (1997)
  • Wood, Amy. "The Fiery Cross Carved upon the Breast: Sacred Violence and the Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1930" (1995)

 

PEOPLE & PLACES

  • Alford, Sarah. "Now We Work as One: The Story of the Delta Cooperative Farm" (2003)
  • Anotubby, Joe. "Seeking the Indian Legcay in the American Southeast: North Mississippi" (1997)
  • Boyd, Elizabeth. "Beauty and the Belle: Pageantry, Sectional Jealousy, and the Southern Ideal of Beauty" (1989)
  • Brothers, Matthew. "Fraternity Myth-Making in the Twentieth Century: Three Studies in Folk History" (1998)
  • Brown, Patrick. "Stewart, Mississippi, and Old Choctaw County: Continuity with the Past" (1990)
  • Cauthen, Sudye. "A Study of One Southern Place: Alachua, Florida" (1993)
  • Domm, Rebecca. Going to the Market: A Study of Segregationist Academies (2008)
  • Dye, Edward. "Uppermost in Their Minds: Tenant Farming and Field Trial Traditions on Grand Junction, Tennessee's Ames Plantation" (1996)
  • Fisher, Jane Harrison C. "Staying Afloat in a Global World: Reflections on Life as a Mill Worker at Inman Mills, Inman, South Carolina" (2008)
  • Griffin, Angela. "Models of Motherwit, Spirituality, and Experience: Granny Midwives as Ministers to Women and Guards of Tradition." (1998)
  • Harris, Harry. "Education in Context: A Social Capital Approach to Improving Student Achievement in Tunica County Public Schools" (2001)
  • Haynes, Joshua. "Identity Construction and the Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama" (2001)
  • King, Tamara. "Citizen Activism: Impact on Surface Mining Law Enforcement" (1994)
  • Langdale, John III. "Southerners Against Themselves: Modernism, Postmoderism, and the Search for Southern Identity" (1996)
  • Matthews, Kenith. "Race Relations in a Mississippi Delta Town: Indianola, Mississippi" (1997)
  • McDaniel, Darren. "On the Edge of Academia: A Study of the University of Mississippi's Physical Plant and the Working-class Men of the South" (1994)
  • McKnight, Laura. "Lessons in Freedom: Race Education, and Progress in a Mississippi Delta Community since 1965" (1996)
  • Meacham, Ellen. "Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections of Southern Culture in South Carolina's Domestic Violence Policy" (2003)
  • Miller, Mary Margaret. “From King Cotton to Custom Kitchens: Revitalization in Downtown Greenwood, Mississippi” (2007)
  • Monroe, Sally. "Interweaving Image and Voice: Creating a Story of a Family" (2002)
  • Moore, Elizabeth. "It's Not Even Past: An Oral History of Black and White Women on Equen Plantation" (1992)
  • Parker, Teresa. "City on a Hill : John McCrady's Oxford, Mississippi" (2005)
  • Robbins, Lori. "A Lyin' to Them Tourists: Tourism in Branson, Missouri" (1999)
  • Rosen, Joel. "Toward Mound Bayou: An Analysis of the Ideology of Robert Owen and Its Legacy at Davis Bend, Mississippi" (1993)
  • Schmidt, Aimee. "Down around Biloxi: Culture and Identity in the Biloxi Seafood Industry" (1994)
  • Stamps, Amanda. "Within the Gate: Environment Keepers in the South" (1995)
  • Taylor, Kieran. "I Done Made My Mind Up: The Legacy of the Providence Cooperative Farm" (1998)
  • Walton, Becca. "Imagining the Unimaginable: Witnessing Trauma in the Post-Segregation South (2008)
  • Way, Albert. "Converting Nature: People, Environment, and Production in the Antebellum Mississippi Delta" (1999)
  • Weatherford, David. "Route of the Aristocrats: The Regional Identity of Southern Airways, Inc." (1993)
  • Weaver, Michelle. "Echoes of Indigeneous Southern Culture: The Oral and Material Culture of the Mississippi Band of Chocktaw Indians in East Centeral Mississippi" (1993)
  • Wilkins, Lynn. "Fannye Mae's Salon: The Old-Time Beauty Shop and a Community of Women in Jackson, Mississippi" (1996)
  • Wogan, Hicks. "Having Made Cents of Sense of Place: Literature, Tourism, and the Commodified Myth of New Orleans (2008)

LITERATURE

  • Abbott, Franky. "Part of My Internal Landscape: Religious Ideology as a Construction of Place in Randall Kenan's 'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead' and Crystal Wilkinson's 'Water Street'" (2006)
  • Bortolami, Maria. "Issues of Race in Carson McCullers's The March, Hush Little Baby, and The Man Upstairs" (1990)
  • Bryan, Eugenia. "Tennessee Williams: The Search for God and Absolution" (1994)
  • Caldwell, Richard. "Willie Morris: Toward a Literary Biography" (2005)
  • Coker, Cristen. "The Funeral Ritual and the Grotesque in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter" (1996)
  • Evans, Anne. "Sacred Rupture: Bataillean Concepts in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor" (2000)
  • Gortemiller, Maury Michael. "The Allure of Nature: The Poetry of James Applewhite" (1999)
  • Hagood, Elizabeth. "The Doom Outside the Door: Faulkner's Rosa Coldfield and Quentin Compson" (1995)
  • Hairston, Joe. "Jack Burden's Children: Out of History into History" (1995)
  • Li, Haipeng. "Another Version of Pastoral: Zora Neale Hurston's Short Stories" (1990)
  • Lindsey, Odie. “Industrial War, Unattainable Manhood, and the Homosocial Dynamic in Works by William Faulkner, James Dickey, and Larry Brown” (2007)
  • Mueller, Anne. "Looking Inside: Autobiographical Reflections of Five Mississippians" (2003)
  • Muller-Hartmann, Andreas. "Race in Southern Literature during the 1920s" (1989)
  • Romines, Emily. “Soulless Bodies and Bodiless Souls in Escapade, Beloved, and Light in August” (2007)
  • Schmidt, Amy. “‘a little hat dyed precisely to match’: Identity, Performance, and Parody in Frances Newman’s The Hard-Boiled Virgin and Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers” (2007)
  • Torian, Sarah. "Writing One's Self in Black and White: Racial Identity Construction in the Autobiographies of James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Mary Church Terrell, and Walter White" (1997)
  • Wang, Guilan. "Tradition or History: A Comparison between George Washington Cable and Thomas Nelson Page" (1988)
  • Ysaguirre, Angel. "Movement toward Community: The Bobdy's Ordeal in the Novels of Harry Crews" (1996)

ART & ARCHITECTURE

  • Bryant, Jennifer. "Tula, Mississippi, and the Dogtrot House: A Study of a Community and Its Built Environment" (1995)
  • Davis, Megan. "William Turner: A Builder's Legacy in Lafayette County, Mississippi" (2001)
  • Gerlach, Cynthia. "Pentecostalism in Paint: The Life Story of Reverend Benjamin Franklin Perkins, 1904-1993" (1993)
  • McGuire, Melissa. "Jesus Says Buy More Folk Art: Evangelicalism and Economics in Contemporary Southern Self-Taught Art" (1999)
  • Miller, Joyce. "In the Handiwork of Their Craft Is Their Prayer: African-American Religious Folk Art in the 20th-Century South" (1992)
  • Moorehead, Martha. "Just What We Did: Conversations with the Quilting Ladies of Harmontown" (1990)
  • Morishita, Mayumi. "Florence Hedlestone Crane: A Mississippi Woman Painting in Korea" (2005)
  • Perry, Dannal. "Special Messages from God: The Life and Art of Joe Light" (1996)
  • Rees, John. "A Rib from Britain's Side: Material Culture, Class, and the High Architecture of the Colonial Virginia Tidewater" (1992)

MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT

  • Bennett, Kyle. "Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint: A Story to Be Told" (1996)
  • Bittler, David. "The Man and His Music: Sam Cooke's Public and Personal Immanence to the Black Community" (1994)
  • Boland, Mary. "The Man Sitting Down Is Playing a Mountain Dulcimer: The Changing Face of the Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer" (2002)
  • Campbell, Ellie. "'Daddy, Tell Me Another Story': The Drive-By Truckers, Southern History, and Popular Culture" (2006)
  • Cheseborough, Steve. "Mashing That Thing: Meaning and Eroticism in the Music of Bo Carter" (1999)
  • Cusack, Bernadette. "Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield" (1992)
  • Dye, Charlene. "What Comes Around, Goes Around: A Defense of African American Burlesque Performance from Minstrels to Jug Bands" (1998)
  • Frede, Ari. "The Delta Blues Education Program" (1996)
  • Gray, James. "The Yocona River Inn Bluegrass Community" (1998)
  • Hartlieb, Steffen. "Feeling the Pulse: A Portrait of Junior Kimbrough" (1996)
  • Hawkins, Robert. Fretting over Faith : Protestantism and the Southern Musician" (2005)
  • Kosub, Nathan. "1+1+1+1=5: San Antonio, the 1950s, and the Sir Douglas Quintet without Doug Sahm" (2005)
  • Lasseter, Mary Beth. "'That's Alright Mama, Any Way You Do': Elvis, Sexuality, and Changing Southern Womanhood" (2002)
  • Lauterbach, Preston. "Professionalizing the Blues: The Economic Thrust of an Indigenous Art Form in Mississippi, 1920-1945" (2003)
  • Mills, Frank. "The Room That Shook (Rattled and Rolled) the World: The Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee" (2000)
  • Nelson, David. "Trouble in Mind: Black and White Musical Exchange in the American South" (1990)
  • Phillips, Jimmy. "It's Dancing Naked in that High Hill Country Rain: Austin Music Culture in the 1970s" (1993)
  • Sanders, Sarah. "The Vaughn Movement: The Musical Transformation of the Southern Rural Landscape, 1912-1963" (1997)
  • Slade, Peter. "Singing a New Song: The Gospel Choir at the University of Mississippi, a Prophetic Paradigm of Integration" (1999)
  • Stevens, William. "Sincere Forms of Flattery: Patterns and Precedents in the Evolution and Early Export of American Popular Music" (2002)
  • Vinroot, Kathryn. "Pride and Prejudice: African Americans in Contemporary Country Music" (2003)
  • Walburn, Sally. "How Come Hee Haw? An Exploration into the Hows and Whys of Hee Haw's Success" (2002)
  • Watkins, Angela. "Sing Me Back Home: Picking Country Music and Memories in Hernando, Mississippi" (2005)

RELIGION

  • Campbell, Audrey. "The Power of Pentecost Brings Peace to a Sanctified Church in the South" (1998)
  • Cully, Miranda. "Hooray for prohibition!": Evangelicals and the Southern Temperance Movement" (2008)
  • Darby, Kimberlyne. "Faith Will Lead Us Home: The History of Bethel AME Church and an Analysis of the Efforts for Empowerment by the AME Church" (1993)
  • Glisson, Susan. "Life in Scorn of the Consequences: Clarence Jordan and the Roots of Radicalism in the Southern Baptist Tradition" (1994)
  • Graham, Sally. "Right Now Lord!: Pastor Carolyn King and the Noah's Ark Holiness Church" (1993)
  • Loy, Travis. "The New Americans: Soviet Jews in Memphis" (1996)
  • Porter, Catherine. "L. C. Manning: Remembering the Night" (1998)
  • Schuy, Irmgard. "Phillip Georg Von Reck and the Salburger Protestants of Ebenezer in Georgia" (1993)
  • York, Joe. "1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4-Sale: Religion on the Southern Roadside" (2007)

SPORTS & RECREATION

  • Glynn, Karen. "Mule Racing in the Mississippi Delta, 1938-1950" (1995)
  • Hedglin, Christopher. "Common Ground: Looking at the Culture of Oxford High School Athletics" (2004)
  • McCool, Traye. "Community Baseball in North Mississippi" (1998)
  • Myers, Kendra. "DRIVE: A Season in the Life of a Sprint Car Racer or Confessions of a Dirty Girl" (2004)
  • Small, Christopher. "Beneath the Shadow: The Impact of the Confederate Flag on Football Recruiting at the University of Mississippi" (1999)
  • Yarborough, Charles. "A Way out of No Way: African American Culture and Empowerment at the Ichauway Baseball Diamond" (1995)

POLITICS

  • Russell, Andrew. "The Hobbesian Transformation of America as Seen through the Eyes of Three Southern Conservatives: John C. Calhoun, Robert L. Dabney, and Donald Davidson" (1997)
  • Whitley, William. "Shades of White: Party Politics in Mississippi, 1870-1896" (1996)
  • Zwiers, Maarten. “The Paradox of Power: James O. Eastland and the Democratic Party” (2007)

FOODWAYS

  • Butler, Brooke. "Greens: A Cultural Text of the South" (2004)
  • Chapman, Georgeanna Milam. "Craig Claiborne: A Southern-Made Man" (2008)
  • Edge, John T. "The Potlikker Papers: An Explication and Rumination on the Potlikker and Cornpone Debate of 1931 with Illustrative Asides" (2002)

INTERSHIPS

  • Biagoli, Joseph (2002)
  • Cannon, Julia (1999)
  • Coltrain, Mark (2007)
  • Cooley, Stacy (1998)
  • Dooley, Shawna (1999)
  • Finch, Allison (1998)
  • Hastings, Lakenji (2002)
  • Hatch, Evan (2002)
  • Huntoon, Katherine (2007)
  • Jarvis, Caston (2000)
  • McClamroch, Susan (2001)
  • McCraw, Scott (1996)
  • McIntyre, Patrick (1995)
  • Moloney, Michael (1999)
  • Moore, Priscilla (1997)
  • Nurnberg, Ron (1995)
  • Palmer, Mitchell (1999)
  • Petrides, Sarah (2001)
  • Renna Tuten (2006)
  • Wallance, Rana (2002)
  • Williams, James (1999)