Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Building Schools, Building Communities: Appalachian Women, Schoolhouse Activism, and the Politics of Reform, Allen Fletcher
PROTECTING ECOSYSTEM HOPE SPOTS: CASE STUDIES IN APPALACHIAN OLD-GROWTH FOREST DEFENSE, Emma Kiser
SHAPING A CITY: MUNICIPAL HOUSEKEEPING, CIVIC ACTIVISM, AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTALISM IN PROGRESSIVE ERA LOUISVILLE THROUGH THE WOMEN’S CITY CLUB, Amy J. Malventano
“A TRUE AND BROAD SYMPATHY:” THOMAS HUGHES, MEDIEVALISM, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Sarah E. Stapleton
Public Health and Racial Violence: Smallpox in Kentucky's Urban Black Communities, 1865-1918, Abigail Katharine Stephens
Refuge, Raids, and Confederates on Sleighs: How the Confederacy Exploited Canada and the International Border and Shaped the American Civil War, Cassandra Jane Werking
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Moonshine in the Mountains: A Social Analysis of Illicit Whiskey in Appalachia, 1865-1925, Arshiya Jeelani
“TAKEN AT THE FLOOD”: HAPPY CHANDLER, RACE, AND THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM, 1932–1968, Christa Kieffer
"Many Fabulous Stories and Idle Tales": The Intersection of Elizabethan Political Gambits and Indigenous Erasure in the Early American Republic, Daniel Ryan Lewis
Confronting Yanqui Racismo: The Cuban Revolution and the (R)evolutionary Radicalization of Amiri Baraka, Ariane Ribeiro Santana
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Enduring the Elements: Civil War Soldiers’ Struggles Against the Weather, Cameron Boutin
From Displaced to Displacers: Scottish Crofters, First Nation Peoples and Commons Enclosure from the 1700s to the 1800s, Anna Herrington
TAKEN: SLAVERY, FORCED MIGRATION, AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES, Christopher L. Leadingham
'Grave Fears of Collision' : James Beecher and the Administration of Freedmen's Bureau Policy in Reconstruction South Carolina, Cameron Sauers
Orphans, White Unity, and the Charleston Orphan House, 1860-1870, Ruth Poe White
THE KIDS WERE ALT-RIGHT: RADICAL RIGHT YOUTH ACTIVISM AND THE ORIGINS OF THE WHITE POWER MOVEMENT, 1960-1980, Austin Zinkle
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
COLONIAL CONTRACEPTION: AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATES AND THEIR WORK IN APPALACHIA, PUERTO RICO, AND INDIA; 1930-1970, Dana Johnson
What is the Sound of Holiness? The Regulation of Sound and Silence in Early Medieval Monastic Communities, 600-900, Melissa Kapitan
"Not Just Whites in Appalachia": The Black Appalachian Commission, Regional Black Power Politics, and the War on Poverty, 1965-1975, Jillean McCommons
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Appalachia on the Airwaves: A History of Public and Educational Television in the Southern Mountains, Carson Benn
A Holy Tug of War: US Christians Against the Contras (1970-1990), Mark Maxwell Brown
“ESCAPED FROM DIXIE:” CIVIL WAR REFUGEES AND THE CREATION OF A CONFEDERATE DIASPORA, Stefanie Greenhill
