Graduate Theses: 1991-Present:

2007-2008

2006-2007
Jason Farr, “An Errand Into the Backcountry: The Denominational Diplomacy of William Tennent and Oliver Hart's Mission to the South Carolina Backcountry, 1775."

Kana Kobayashi, "The Role of Literature as a Mediator of War Memory: The Case of Atomic Bombs in World War II through John Hersey's Hiroshima."

Charles G. Bell “To Go and Settle the Gospel There: The Reformed Tradition in the Colonial Lowcountry."

Mark T. Rainsford, "Cardwell's Enemies: Class Consciousness and the Abolition of Purchas in hte British Army, 1871."

Lisa A. Dawkins, "Race Relations and Foreign Policy: Kennedy's 1963 Speech ."

2005-2006
Christopher Shepard, “Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice!”: Barry Goldwater and the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Master’s Thesis (George Hopkins)

Courtney T. McIndoe, “Mary and the Queen.” Master’s Thesis (Amy McCandless)

Jonathan C. King, “A Projection of Justice: The Mexican Rural Police Force, The Texas Rangers, The North-West Mounted Police, and The Supremacy of Image, 1875-1920.” Master’s Thesis (Jeffrey Pilcher)

2004-2005
Monica Biddix: Lowcountry Buckras: The Exceptional Class of Overseers in South Carolina and Georgia, 1800-1870. Date of Graduation: May 2005.

Holly A. Presnell: It is Better to Die Like Warriors: The History and Impact of the Chickamauga Cherokees. Date of Graduation: May 2005.

James R. Silvers: These Stones Cry Out: Gravestones and Death in Charleston, 1700-1830. Date of Graduation: May 2005.

Gary B. Hutcheson: A Church Divided: An Examination of the Schism That Occurred Within Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833. Date of Graduation: May 2005.

2003-2004
Donald Boehm: Understanding the Modern Primitive: Jazz in Paris and Berlin During the 1920s. Date of Graduation: December 2003.

Jason Thomas Chasteen: Function of Control: The Agricultural Society of South Carolina in Charleston and the Lowcountry, 1800-1860. Date of Graduation: December 2003.

Kristen Halvorson: Transitions in the Theban Necropolis of Ancient Egypt: A Study of the Placement of Non-Royal Tombs in Western Thebes, Dynasties XI-XX (ca 2134-1070). Date of Graduation: December 2003.

Angel Johnson: From Reluctance to Acceptance: Why Chinese Attitudes Toward Western Medicine and British Regulations changed after World War I. Date of Graduation: May 2004. Date of Graduation: May 2004.

Margaret K. Rice: A Married Lady’s Physician: Madame Restell and Abortion in Nineteenth Century America. Date of Graduation: December 2003.

2002-2003
Lisa Dimitriadis: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in South Carolina. Date of Graduation: May 2003.

Haydon Ros Smith: An Environmental History of South Carolina Rice Plantations. Date of Graduation: December 2002.

2001-2002
Susan Welsch: Religion, Slavery and Sectionalism as Shown in Southern Methodist Publications, 1844-1860. Date of Graduation: May 2002.

2000-2001
Christopher J. Baranoski: The 1949-50 Clifton, SC Textile Workers Strike. Date of Graduation: May 2001.

Rebecca L. Barbour: Confederate Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals. Date of Graduation: December 2000.

Kellie K. Bradshaw: The Monastic Reform Movement. Date of Graduation: May 2001.

Robert A. Cobb: A Study of Place in Colonial South Carolina: Kiawah Island, SC. Date of Graduation: May 2001.

Damon L. Fordham: The Historiography of African American Short Fiction, 1900-1930. Date of Graduation: December 2000.

Shelene C. Solomon: A Great Man Gone’: Mill Village Paternalism and the Case of Henry Pickney Hammett. Date of Graduation: May 2001.

1999-2000
Renee LaHue Marshall: Patriarch among the Merchants: James Adger of Charleston, 1777-1858. Date of Graduation: August 1999.

John White: “Straddling the Fence:” South Carolina Congressman L. Mendel Rivers in the Second Reconstruction, 1941-1971. Date of Graduation: December 1999.

1998-1999
Michael Matthew Dempsey: Chinese Reactions in Hong Kong to the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1931-1945. Date of Graduation: December 1998.

Clara Wyatt Reekie: “ Center and Circumference of Their World:” The Home of The Carolina Rice Planter, 1790-1830. Date of Graduation: December 1998.

1997-1998
Cindy R. Blackburn: The View of Marriage and Virginity from the Perspective of Medieval Women. Date of Graduation: December 1997.

Cherisse R. Jones: “Loyal Women of Palmetto”: Black Women’s Clubs in Charleston, South Carolina: 1916-1965. Date of Graduation: August 1997.

Donna Ann Tipton: The Grove Park Inn and Its Guests. Date of Graduation: August 1997.

1996-1997
Steven Thomas Gyorffy: Thomas Richard Waring Jr: Southern Spokesman For Massive Resistance, 1954-1963. Date of Graduation: December 1996.

Michael Williams Kell: Francis Marion National Forest: A Forest History. Date of Graduation: May 1997.

Peter A. Rerig: Politics, Propaganda, and the Pulpit: South Carolina’s Religious Response to Secession. Date of Graduation: December 1996.

1995-1996
James Vance Miles: Casualties of War: A Study of Union and Confederate Prisoners in Charleston, South Carolina During the American Civil War. Date of Graduation: May 1996.

Elizabeth C. Rogers: Go Down Moses : James Island African Americans, 1830-1876. Date of Graduation: December 1995.

1994-1995
Judith Lee Hunt: The Circle Large and Small: Kinship, Slavery, and the Middleton Plantocracy, A Lowcountry Example. Date of Graduation: May 1995.

John Christopher Marlow: The Significance of Vermilion In The Indian Trade of South Carolina During the 17th and 18th Centuries. Date of Graduation: December 1994.

Robert D. Mellard: Christopher Columbus Bowen: A Scalawag Discovers Opportunity in the New World of Reconstruction Politics. Date of Graduation: December 1994.

Debra L. Rhoad: “One Look Means A Lot:” The Development of Charleston’s Early Twentieth-Century Suburbs, 1915-1935. Date of Graduation: May 1995.

Roberta D. Whisman: Not Golden For All: A Study of Women in Colonial Virginia and South Carolina with Special Focus on Williamsburg and Charleston. Date of Graduation: May 1995.

1993-1994
Kevin Dewayne Wolfe: “The Accidental Presidents” A Case Study of Eight Men. Date of Graduation: August 1993.

1992-1993
William Welsh Manning: "The Silent victory": The Black Community and New Deal Work Relief in Charleston, South Carolina. Date of Graduation: May 1993.

1991-1992
Paul Bailey Mason: Without Shame and Remorse; The Pathological Desire for Power and Control As Incentive for Membership in the Ku Klux Klan. Date of Graduation: May 1992.