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Dissertations in Progress

These are the dissertations currently in progress by students in History.

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Dissertations in Progress
  • Meredith Baker. Faith and Practice: Mother Ann in Shaker Theology and Community Life
  • Ken Baroff. Memphis and Shelby County Schools, post Brown
  • Carl E. Brown. “Improving the Way to Opportunity”: Internal Improvements in Arkansas, 1819-1860
  • Maurice Brown, Plantation Schools: A History of Rural Black One-Room Schools in the Mid-South and Mississippi Delta Reconstruction to 1968
  • James Conway. Moderated Militants in the Age of Black Power: The Memphis NAACP
  • Le’Trice Donaldson. “A Legacy All Their Own”: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship and Manhood, 1870-1920
  • Shawn Fisher. An Epitaph for Dixie: Southern Soldiers, Southern Manhood, and the Little Rock Central High Crisis
  • Dianna Fraley. Adolphine Fletcher Terry
  • Katherine J.E. Fox. Pidgin in the Classroom: Hawai’i’s English Standard School System, 1924-1960
  • Malcolm Frierson. Coming to the Stage: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the New Cultural Politics of African-American Comedy, 1961-75
  • Chrystal Goudsouzian. Becoming Isis: Myth, Medicine, Magic, and Reproduction in Ancient Egypt
  • Victoria Gray. Mission of a Meddler: Mary Church Terrell as a Prototype of Elite Black Female Leadership, 1890-1915
  • Sheena Harris. A Female Reformer in the Age of Booker T. Washington: The Life and Times of Margaret Murray Washington
  • Mark Janzen. The Iconography of Humiliation: The Depiction and Treatment of Foreign Captives in New Kingdom Egypt
  • Kevin L. Johnson. Transition and Legitimation in Egypt’s Late 19th and Early 20th Dynasties: A Study of the Reigns of Siptah, Tausret, and Sethnakht
  • Jared Krebsbach. Turmoil and Faith: A Study of Dynastic Transition and Its Influence on Religion in Late Period Egypt
  • Michael Lejman. Being Different: The Life and Work of Albert Memmi
  • Jack Lorenzini. 'Harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice': The Free Speech Movement and Its Impact in Memphis State University 1965-1966
  • Robert Masters. Ironmasters, Entrepreneurs, and Slaves: The Middle Tennessee Iron Industry, 1790s to 1860s
  • Ann Mulhearn. Southern Graces: Women, Faith, and the Quest for Social Justice, Memphis, Tennessee, 1950-1969
  • Kristin Nelson. Irish Women’s Activism: 1900 -1922
  • Richard Nollen. Heart’s Blood: The Career of Lemuel Whitley Diggs
  • Graham Perry. Deceptive Currents: An Examination of Trends in Black Resistance in Memphis, Tennessee, 1865-2000
  • Laura Perry. “Phoenix from the Ashes of the Old”: Social and Economic Change After the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
  • Amy Piccarreto. Supporting Jacobitism: The Intersecting Roles of Gender and Religion
  • Tammy Prater. “Smile and Wear Pearls”: The Panel of American Women — Advocates of Social Harmony, 1957-1991
  • Richard Saunders. Ordinary People: The Complexities of Tradition and Change in Tennessee's Fayette and Haywood Counties, 1958-1972
  • Darin Stephanov. Minorities, Majorities, and the Monarch: Nationalizing Effects of the Late Ottoman Royal Public Ceremonies, 1808-1908
  • Stephen Stine. The History of Women in Broadcasting in Memphis, Tennessee, 1922-79
  • Marilyn Taylor. Machine Gun Kelly: His Life and Impact on American Culture
  • Sr. Jean Marie Warner. The Political Thought of Nicole Oresme
  • Frank Williams. Bimetallic Monetary Policy and Railroad Overcapitalization: Causes of the Depression Years, 1893-1897
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