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Title: The Few, the Proud: Gender and the Marine Corps Body.
Creator: Patterson, Sarah Elizabeth, Sinke, Suzanne M., Moore, Dennis, Piehler, G. Kurt, Upchurch, Charles, Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show morePatterson, Sarah Elizabeth, Sinke, Suzanne M., Moore, Dennis, Piehler, G. Kurt, Upchurch, Charles, Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This project examines the changing shape of femininity and masculinity for Marines from World War I to the Korean War, focusing on the ways that the body serves as a canvas for demonstrating the negotiation of gender roles and the Marine Corps image. Gender has been a constant issue for the military. However, few historical studies consider the ways that the Marine Corps’ status as a particularly elite, masculine institution impacted the desired image of femininity for its female recruits and...
Show moreThis project examines the changing shape of femininity and masculinity for Marines from World War I to the Korean War, focusing on the ways that the body serves as a canvas for demonstrating the negotiation of gender roles and the Marine Corps image. Gender has been a constant issue for the military. However, few historical studies consider the ways that the Marine Corps’ status as a particularly elite, masculine institution impacted the desired image of femininity for its female recruits and how this image changed over time. The hyper-masculine nature of the military influenced the relationship between masculinity and femininity for both servicemen and women. My project looks at these changes in masculinity and femininity by placing gender identity within the context of the hyper-masculine military environment. R.W. Connell’s Masculinities, Anthony Rotundo’s American Manhood, and Aaron Belkin’s Bring Me Men assist in putting gender identity in the military into a more complex and nuanced context, especially focusing on masculinity’s centrality to the American military institution. Belkin, in particular, argues that military masculinity has never been entirely devoid of feminine elements. Aspects of femininity have long been a part of military life, from domestic responsibilities often associated with women to close same sex companionship between soldiers. While generally considered less masculine when taken as separate behaviors, they did not seem problematic in a military context. This leads to the conclusion that the incorporation of women into the military was not a radical introduction of femininity into a solely masculine environment, but rather a more complicated shift in the relationship between gender and occupation. This project’s conclusions support this kind of closer relationship between masculinity and femininity in the military context. Francine D’Amico and Laurie Weinstein’s Gender Camouflage, Melissa Ming Foynes, Jillian C. Shipherd, and Ellen F. Harrington’s “Race and Gender Discrimination in the Marines,” Melissa S. Herbert’s Camouflage Isn’t Only for Combat, Heather J. Höpfl’s “Becoming a (Virile) Member: Women and the Military Body,” Leisa D. Meyer’s Creating GI Jane, and Sara L. Zeigler and Gregory G. Gunderson’s Moving Beyond GI Jane address this shift in gender relations and the resulting tension between military men and women throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries I investigate changes in military gender identity by looking at legislation and regulations controlling gender and sexuality in the military, media depictions of Marines, and the ways that gendered military identity plays out on the body, especially through physical fitness, uniforms, and bodily maintenance. The Marine Corps documented their ideas of normative masculine and feminine Marine bodies through pictures, propaganda, and newsletters. Examination of these different characteristics of the ideal body allow for comparison through time of the ways that Marines presented themselves to society, as well as the methods the Corps utilized to encourage images advantageous to its purposes. Such comparisons show changes in the perception of gender identity through time, as well as new norms of appearance and behavior that developed. This evidence illustrates the complicated and often contradictory relationship between masculinity and femininity that all Marines, male and female, negotiate. This project illustrates the significance of these frequently gendered representations of Marine bodies through time. They show the negotiation of gender within the Corps and how assumptions of gender roles shifted from one war to the next. Understanding these changes helps explain the tensions and conflicts which developed between male and female Marines during different periods, as well as creating a framework for investigating these tensions into the contemporary era. The primary sources used for this project focus on the appearance of Marines, male and female, and include national legislation related to Marines and military regulations enforcing conformity in dress and appearance. Memoirs of Marines, publications intended for Marine readers, as well as publications depicting Marines aid in gaining a better idea of the function of gender for Marines, especially in relation to their interactions between male and female Marines. These documents show the changes occurring in expectations about femininity and masculinity in the Marine Corps over time. Public publications, such as general interest magazines, women’s magazines, and newspapers, showed public ideas of Marines’ gender and their relationship to civilian American gender ideals. This project explores the changing shape of normative Marine Corps bodies and the impact of ideas of masculinity and femininity in their deployment as methods of supporting the services’ goals.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Patterson_fsu_0071E_14978
Format: Thesis

Title: Empire of Direct Mail: Media, Fundraising, and Conservative Political Consultants.
Creator: Moriyama, Takahito, Piehler, G. Kurt, Gomez, Brad T., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Sinke, Suzanne M., Creswell, Michael, McVicar, Michael J., Florida State University, College of Arts...
Show moreMoriyama, Takahito, Piehler, G. Kurt, Gomez, Brad T., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Sinke, Suzanne M., Creswell, Michael, McVicar, Michael J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This study examines the rise of modern American conservatism by analyzing the role of computerized direct mail in the conservative movement from the 1950s to the 1980s. In the post-World War II years, the advertising industry on Madison Avenue developed direct marketing to reach out to prospective customers. As political consultants in New York City introduced the new advertising strategy into politics during the 1950s, direct mail became an important medium especially for conservatives when...
Show moreThis study examines the rise of modern American conservatism by analyzing the role of computerized direct mail in the conservative movement from the 1950s to the 1980s. In the post-World War II years, the advertising industry on Madison Avenue developed direct marketing to reach out to prospective customers. As political consultants in New York City introduced the new advertising strategy into politics during the 1950s, direct mail became an important medium especially for conservatives when the majority of mass media was liberal. Empire of Direct Mail focuses on conservative activists in New York and Washington, D.C., such as Marvin Liebman and Richard Viguerie, narrating how direct mail contributed to right-wing organizations and politicians. Constructing the computer database of personal information, direct mail operatives compiled mailing lists of supporters, which provided conservative candidates, including Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, and Ronald Reagan, with nationwide networks of voters and contributors. Right-wing messengers effectively employed direct mail by using emotion as a campaign strategy. They capitalized on rage and discontent in post-1960s America in order to court Southern Democrats, middle-class white suburbanites, and blue-collar workers. While liberal critics condemned conservatives for their emotionalism, liberals unintentionally promoted direct mail politics. The Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974 brought about the ascendancy of conservative direct mail as the liberal campaign finance reform prohibited big contribution. Direct mail had profound impacts not only on the conservative movement but also on American politics, creating a grassroots activism as the mass of small contribution rather than the accumulation of local engagement. Thus, this research demonstrates how direct mail played a role in transforming the contours of American politics and how it affected American political participation in the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Moriyama_fsu_0071E_15002
Format: Thesis

Title: The Pursuit of Equality the Continuation of Colonialism in Vietnam.
Creator: Boucher, Robert Arthur, Grant, Jonathan A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Özok-Gündoğan, Nilay, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Much of the scholarship on the colonial sphere remains focused on the ways that subalterns subverted colonial power and discourse, however little focus has centered on the way that colonized at times reified and perpetuated the ideas of the civilizing mission. In the case of Vietnam, over the course of approximately four decades Vietnamese intellectuals quickly swung from seeing the French as barbarians to a dynamic, modern power that should be learned from. In the process, modernization and...
Show moreMuch of the scholarship on the colonial sphere remains focused on the ways that subalterns subverted colonial power and discourse, however little focus has centered on the way that colonized at times reified and perpetuated the ideas of the civilizing mission. In the case of Vietnam, over the course of approximately four decades Vietnamese intellectuals quickly swung from seeing the French as barbarians to a dynamic, modern power that should be learned from. In the process, modernization and development came to be synonymous with everything from the West while tradition was invented as the old teachings. Importantly, while independence was achieved after much bloodshed and effort, the new Vietnamese state failed in reality to extricate itself from the grasp of European universalist ideas born out of the French Revolution. From efforts to open “New Learning” schools to demands of equality to French citizens and access to basic rights, the Vietnamese vision of a New Vietnam slowly became constrained to the path of the international community of nation-states. Ho Chi Minh would declare independence in the name of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness rather than the loss of the Mandate of Heaven. As such, this paper traces the variety of factors that influenced the manifold nature of colonialism and how rather than existing in a post-colonial world, the ideas of the mission civilisatrice have been continued by the powers which rebelled against it.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Boucher_fsu_0071N_15209
Format: Thesis

Title: The Star-Spangled Consciousness: Musical Theatre Anthems of Unity and the Performance of National Identity.
Creator: Gibbes, Allison B., Osborne, Elizabeth A., Rogers, Nancy, Dahl, Mary Karen, Thomas, Aaron C., Hecht, Stuart J. (Stuart Joel), Florida State University, College of Fine Arts,...
Show moreGibbes, Allison B., Osborne, Elizabeth A., Rogers, Nancy, Dahl, Mary Karen, Thomas, Aaron C., Hecht, Stuart J. (Stuart Joel), Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Theatre
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Abstract/Description: Musical theatre scholars agree that as popular culture, musical theatre has had a profound effect on the development of national identity in the United States. In particular, the genre reaches audiences both inside and outside the theatre through the dissemination of cast recordings, sheet music, and other media. In early incarnations of musical theatre such as the works of George Gershwin and George M. Cohan, musicals typically included overt nationalist anthems designed to inspire and unite...
Show moreMusical theatre scholars agree that as popular culture, musical theatre has had a profound effect on the development of national identity in the United States. In particular, the genre reaches audiences both inside and outside the theatre through the dissemination of cast recordings, sheet music, and other media. In early incarnations of musical theatre such as the works of George Gershwin and George M. Cohan, musicals typically included overt nationalist anthems designed to inspire and unite the audience in the name of America. With “Oklahoma,” the title song of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (1943), and the subsequent Golden Age of musical theatre, the convention of the anthem shifted to express nationalism through the lens of a community within the fictional world of the musical. These anthems serve as models for patriotic unity. In the decades following the Golden Age, some works of musical theatre challenged nationalism, and the anthems in these pieces reflect that sense of questioning. This project considers anthems of unity in musical theatre and the way they formulate identity through musical structures and conventions. I investigate four musical theatre anthems: “Oklahoma” from Oklahoma! (1943), “My Texas” from Giant (2012), “Southern Days” from The Scottsboro Boys (2010), and “Another National Anthem” from Assassins (1991). By analyzing the way that each anthem constructs group identity, I consider the way these constructions speak to national identity within both the musical and the historical context of the original production. Each anthem approaches national identity and nationalism in a different way by using and/or distorting musical conventions that hold cultural meaning in specific time periods. Additionally, I consider the way the anthem functions in conversation with the way the musical constructs history and popular memory, and how these formulations work together to create communities of insiders and outsiders through national identity and nationalism. I argue that each anthem operates dramaturgically, musically, and within a specific historical moment to address and reify or subvert constructions of mainstream national identity. This dissertation asks: what is the role of anthem-singing in US national identity? How does national identity create constructions of belonging and otherness? And how might we reconsider the way musical theatre as a genre is particularly effective site for conversations about the ramifications of othering.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Gibbes_fsu_0071E_15126
Format: Thesis

Title: Managing Modernist Musicians: Quaker Stewardship in the Work of Blanche Wetherill Walton.
Creator: Eubanks, Emily Rebecca, Lumsden, Rachel, Seaton, Douglass, Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: Blanche Wetherill Walton played a significant role in the development of America’s modernist music culture throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Her legacy has largely been preserved through her roles as a patron and salonnière during this time, which included sending financial aid to composers, housing modernist musicians, hosting meetings of the New York Musicological Society, and hosting musicales in her home. However, Walton’s participation in modernist music extended far beyond traditional...
Show moreBlanche Wetherill Walton played a significant role in the development of America’s modernist music culture throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Her legacy has largely been preserved through her roles as a patron and salonnière during this time, which included sending financial aid to composers, housing modernist musicians, hosting meetings of the New York Musicological Society, and hosting musicales in her home. However, Walton’s participation in modernist music extended far beyond traditional patron or salonnière roles. In addition to offering financial gifts, Walton carried out tasks typical of a music agent. These activities included organizing auditions, sending and receiving programs and scores, disseminating writings, corresponding, booking dates, securing venues, coordinating networking opportunities, handling contracts, and arranging lessons on behalf of modernist musicians. The depth and breadth of Walton’s work sets her apart from other music patrons; she acted as a one-woman agent for a select, yet still large, group of modernists. Walton’s upbringing in a wealthy Philadelphia family ensured that she gained managerial skills necessary for overseeing and running a large household. As a young woman of the elite class Walton also learned social etiquette and benefitted from her family’s connections to influential individuals in American music culture. These experiences would prove to be invaluable to Walton’s work in assisting modernist musicians in the early twentieth century. Walton’s upbringing also featured strong ties to her family’s Quaker background. As direct descendants of the founder of the Free Quakers, the Wetherills would have been well versed in Quaker values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. These tenets influenced Walton’s work in modernist music culture as she generously offered her resources, skills, time, and energy to promote modernist musicians and their music. Despite her family’s wealth and a large settlement she received following the death of her husband in 1903, Walton experienced financial strains in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash. In addition to providing funds and housing to musicians whenever possible, Walton supplemented this support with managerial assistance. Thanks to her upbringing, Walton knew how to be involved in the day-to-day activities of music culture, understood the importance of working hard on behalf of others, and lived comfortably enough to devote her time and energy to this work. Her influence was far reaching and influenced the careers of many modernist musicians, including Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, Imre Weisshaus (Paul Arma), Aaron Copland, Joseph Szigeti, and Wesley Kuhnle. This project examines her work on behalf of these six composers, though many others also benefitted from her work and generosity. This group of musicians speaks to the diversity of Walton’s interests in modernist music, encompassing a wide range of modernist compositional approaches, individuals from a variety of backgrounds, both composers and performers, and both male and female modernists. Examining Walton’s managerial work not only illuminates the extent of her involvement in modernist music culture but also provides a better understanding of the structure and state of America’s modernist music culture in the 1920s and 1930s. By looking at the influence Quaker beliefs had on Walton’s work as a manager, this project also suggests that religious values may serve as a new framework through which we may better understand modernist music culture.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Eubanks_fsu_0071N_15204
Format: Thesis

Title: Zeitfreiwillige and Freikorpskämpfer Paramilitaries of Early Weimar Germany.
Creator: Ellis, David Sloan, Grant, Jonathan A., Williamson, George S., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: During the early years of the Weimar Republic paramilitary organizations were commonplace. With the dissolution of the Imperial Army after the German defeat in World War I, the new republican government needed a means to ensure its authority and fostered volunteer troops known as Freikorps. These units could be raised and led by any with both the financial and charismatic means to do so and held no uniform model or political motivation. They saw the most action during the German Revolution,...
Show moreDuring the early years of the Weimar Republic paramilitary organizations were commonplace. With the dissolution of the Imperial Army after the German defeat in World War I, the new republican government needed a means to ensure its authority and fostered volunteer troops known as Freikorps. These units could be raised and led by any with both the financial and charismatic means to do so and held no uniform model or political motivation. They saw the most action during the German Revolution, along the Eastern Border, and in the Ruhr. Their campaigns during the Revolution secured the position of the new administration but split the Labor Parties which prevented a majority government from forming for much of the 1920s. The string of short-lived cabinets prevented the stabilization of the Weimar Government, provided strong extra-constitutional powers to the President, and created the opportunity for previously fringe radical parties to become legitimate coalition members. After the acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles and the implementation of its restrictions, these units became highly disillusioned and hostile towards the Weimar Government and drifted towards the political Right. Led by nationalistic generals and political officials who wanted to reject the Treaty, the Freikorps units that emerged from the Revolution attempted several times to violently overthrow the government, but none would succeed. Their failures and the continued pressure of the Entente to disband all paramilitaries pushed the remaining Freikorps fighters into police units, the border guard, secret military reserves, and labor groups. They would reappear whenever Germany’s borders became threatened, but gradually lost support in the stability of the Golden Age of Weimar in the mid-1920s. Unwilling to accept the government and wholly disperse, Freikorps members moved into politics itself via war veteran organizations and the growing Right-wing parties. Having fought to support and later destroy the Weimar Government, they knew the only way to bring about the change they wanted to see would be to enter the system itself. Raised to provide authority to the Republic, the Freikorps greatly weakened the political Left, allowed the Right time to recuperate, bolstering their ranks in the 1930s.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Ellis_fsu_0071N_15191
Format: Thesis

Title: The Origin of Disfranchisement: County Level Resistance to African American Voting in Post-Emancipation Florida.
Creator: Long, Thomas W. (William), Frank, Andrew, Piehler, G. Kurt, Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines how divisions among Florida Democrats affected the suppression of African American political participation in Florida. In post-emancipation Florida, white politicians overcame these divisions to create a framework in which the state technically met federal mandates established by the Fourteenth Amendment while also ensuring that de facto disfranchisement occurred statewide, a constitutional façade. In addition, it explores how this conversation marginalized the concerns...
Show moreThis thesis examines how divisions among Florida Democrats affected the suppression of African American political participation in Florida. In post-emancipation Florida, white politicians overcame these divisions to create a framework in which the state technically met federal mandates established by the Fourteenth Amendment while also ensuring that de facto disfranchisement occurred statewide, a constitutional façade. In addition, it explores how this conversation marginalized the concerns of the state’s African American community. Four individuals epitomized the distinctive approaches to the post-Reconstruction political order. Governor David S. Walker represents Florida’s Reconstruction Era lawmakers who met in Tallahassee in 1866. Governor Walker assured legislators that Florida could return to the Union without having ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, but he later told legislators that African American suffrage was “fixed.” Unreconstructed rebels such as A.K. Allison urged violence to stop African American political participation during Reconstruction. Governor William D. Bloxham personifies Democrat officeholders who promised to suppress vigilante violence but appealed for electoral support at a Klan rally. Senator Wilkinson Call embodies the racist populism that condemned railroads and African American “lust.” Each of them contributed to Florida’s constitutional façade. Florida’s 1865 constitution denied African American suffrage. Florida’s lawmakers could not conceive of it. Governor Walker assured them it would not occur, but he accepted the reality that Congress had imposed. Allison represents a “boisterous” element of displaced aspiring white elites who violently repressed African American suffrage. Governor Bloxham represents the Democrat establishment that condemned vigilante violence as it relied on the Ku Klux Klan to maintain white electoral solidarity. Patronage and paternalism illuminate the tension that existed between the establishment embodied by Governor Bloxham, and the “boisterous” element who aspired to the establishment or sought to reclaim their position in it. Those who had the power to dispense could afford paternalism, whereas those who aspired to that power saw African American political participation as a threat to their ability to distribute patronage. Senator Call’s Confederate background, descent from Governor Richard Keith Call, and anti-railroad populism embodies Democrat divisions between the Democrat establishment conservatives who favored railroads and anti-railroad populists who complained over their land policies, charges, and damage to livestock. Shifting political coalitions of white anti-railroad populists and conservative railroad aligned Democrats defined the political as the social to exclude African Americans. His congressional tirade against African American “lust” illuminates the abiding fear that moved Florida to deny African Americans social citizenship to deny a political citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Florida’s constitutional façade held: The state had not denied African American suffrage; the Democrat Party, the only relevant political organization, simply chose not to let them participate in primary elections. Senator Call’s tirade over African American “lust” moved disfranchisement’s spirit through the door that joined the political to the social. It completed Florida’s constitutional façade that denied African Americans’ citizenship. Beginning with the constitutional convention that drafted Florida’s 1868 constitution, Democrats used gubernatorial appointments and apportionment to dilute African American political strength. During Reconstruction, a “boisterous” element, such as Allison violently suppressed African American political participation. While Governor Bloxham vowed to suppress vigilante violence, he joined Democrats in courting Klan support to turn back an electoral challenge from disaffected Democrats in Florida’s 1884 gubernatorial election. After Florida’s 1885 constitutional convention and anti-railroad legislature had marginalized African American political activity, the push to deny African American political citizenship intensified. County Democrat organizations denied African Americans the right to participate in the only relevant political organization, and the Democratic Party combined their white only rule with a populist anti-business platform. The dominance of the Democratic Party had blurred the social and the political. The exclusion of African Americans from the social organization, the Democratic Party, excluded them from the political. Their political exclusion further separated African Americans from white society. Florida had completed its constitutional façade: African Americans retained the right to vote, but their exclusion from political decision-making made that right meaningless.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Long_fsu_0071N_15025
Format: Thesis

Title: Before, during, and Beyond: Historical Time and the German Revolutions of 1848 and 1849.
Creator: Thomas, Trevor, Williamson, George S., Gellately, Robert, Herrera, Robinson A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This study explores the ways by which notions of historical time informed those involved in the German revolutions of 1848 and 1849. Building on the theories of historical time offered by the German historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck, this study argues that those opposing and supporting the revolutions operated within a temporal schema that was ideologically constructed. The ubiquitous presence of the French Revolution in German revolutionary and counterrevolutionary discourse, the...
Show moreThis study explores the ways by which notions of historical time informed those involved in the German revolutions of 1848 and 1849. Building on the theories of historical time offered by the German historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck, this study argues that those opposing and supporting the revolutions operated within a temporal schema that was ideologically constructed. The ubiquitous presence of the French Revolution in German revolutionary and counterrevolutionary discourse, the deliberate creation of an ideologically-charged “revolutionary moment,” and the multi-layered perceptions of time common to those involved in Germany’s failed constitutional project all demonstrate the malleable nature of the past, present, and future. The study employs the stenographic reports of the German National Assembly, pamphlets, petitions, memoirs, diaries, political tracts, and cultural productions to back these claims.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Thomas_fsu_0071N_15224
Format: Thesis

Title: Robert Douglas: American Missionary in the Cold War Middle East.
Creator: Parker, William R. (William Riley), Hanley, Will, McClive, Catherine Elisabeth, Özok-Gündoğan, Nilay, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Robert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as foreigners and missionaries in these countries, interacting with the American oil industry in Libya, Egyptian and Arab nationalism, and the impact of the Cold War on the Arab World. Although Douglas did not notice the Cold War around him, it impacted his time there in...
Show moreRobert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as foreigners and missionaries in these countries, interacting with the American oil industry in Libya, Egyptian and Arab nationalism, and the impact of the Cold War on the Arab World. Although Douglas did not notice the Cold War around him, it impacted his time there in important ways. In all his travels, the United States and the Soviet Union struggled to gain influence over the young countries in which he resided. His religiosity encouraged him to travel to these countries under false pretenses. In Libya he could come in as a preacher to the American and British oil workers in Benghazi, but desired to be a missionary, while in Egypt he and his family came in as tourists and had to renew these visas but created a steady congregation of converts through missionary efforts. Both actions were illegal, due to laws in Libya and Egypt, and these laws led to the retraction of he and his family’s visas. He made his way to Lebanon where he constructed a missions’ school for recent converts. The Six Days’ War led to his leaving Lebanon and returning to the United States. Upon his return, he attended Fuller Seminary and the University of Southern California and became regarded as an expert in Muslim-aimed evangelism among Protestant evangelicals. His career challenges standard missionary narratives through his independent missionary activities, highlights American understandings and misconceptions of Islam, and the reality of the Cold War in the Middle East. All of this makes his journey into a historical narrative to challenge and address the larger macrohistories for American Christian missionaries abroad.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Parker_fsu_0071N_15196
Format: Thesis

Title: When 'They' Are Listening: Sociolinguistic Variation in John F. Kennedy's Cold War Speeches during 1961.
Creator: Pope, Steven John, Houck, Davis W., Raney, Arthur A., Sunderman, Gretchen L., Florida State University, College of Communication and Information, School of Communication
Abstract/Description: When John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, the United States entered a new era of Cold War diplomacy. During the era ridden with propaganda and imminent nuclear apocalypse, the presidential address served as a powerful tool to promote international peace while simultaneously threatening the opposition. Rather than fixate on President Kennedy’s rhetorical initiatives as they appear in transcriptions, the following identifies President Kennedy’s sociophonetic initiatives through...
Show moreWhen John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, the United States entered a new era of Cold War diplomacy. During the era ridden with propaganda and imminent nuclear apocalypse, the presidential address served as a powerful tool to promote international peace while simultaneously threatening the opposition. Rather than fixate on President Kennedy’s rhetorical initiatives as they appear in transcriptions, the following identifies President Kennedy’s sociophonetic initiatives through linguistic methodology. By utilizing the phonetic software tool, Praat, the succeeding analysis produces a speaking profile for three of Kennedy’s 1961 speeches. With consistent content and context across each speech, President Kennedy’s ability to adapt his speaking style - dependent on the present audience - is distinguished. Considering Kennedy’s speeches were often influenced by speech writers, the President’s orality and sociophonetic variation provides evidence to his individual attempts to appeal to specific audiences. To further critique Kennedy’s use of language when appealing to his constituents, specific “signals” directed to the opposition are additionally analyzed. Beneficial to historians, rhetoricians, and linguists this work returns to a basis in orality in an effort to promote linguistic methodologies in the rhetorical domain.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Pope_fsu_0071N_15205
Format: Thesis

Title: A Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Nineteenth Century Occupations at the San Luis De Talimali Mission Site (8LE4), Leon County, Florida.
Creator: Walker, Charles C. (Charles Cameron), Marrinan, Rochelle A., Peres, Tanya M., Joos, Vincent Nicolas, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of...
Show moreWalker, Charles C. (Charles Cameron), Marrinan, Rochelle A., Peres, Tanya M., Joos, Vincent Nicolas, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
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Abstract/Description: The goal for this thesis is to present a historical, and archaeological assessment of the nineteenth century occupations at the Mission San Luis de Talimali (8Le04) site. San Luis is a multicomponent site that has seen Native American, Spanish, and nineteenth and twentieth century occupations. While there has been a limited amount of research on the nineteenth century at San Luis, I looked to synthesis past research and present my own contributions toward understanding this period of time at...
Show moreThe goal for this thesis is to present a historical, and archaeological assessment of the nineteenth century occupations at the Mission San Luis de Talimali (8Le04) site. San Luis is a multicomponent site that has seen Native American, Spanish, and nineteenth and twentieth century occupations. While there has been a limited amount of research on the nineteenth century at San Luis, I looked to synthesis past research and present my own contributions toward understanding this period of time at San Luis. Historic research on this topic was previously undertaken by Elizabeth Monroe (1984), which was heavily consulted and cited as I pursued my own historic research. Before addressing what the archaeological record can demonstrate, I presented all the known information of the nineteenth century at San Luis from the documentary record. Attention was also placed on the information acquired through the 1936 WPA interview of Louis Napoleon, who was enslaved on San Luis prior to emancipation. This historic research was pursued to assist in the interpretation of the subsurface surveys undertaken at San Luis. The nineteenth century material culture from two subsurface surveys were analyzed, and presented as distribution maps to understand the artifact-patterning representative of this period in San Luis' history. Dr. Gary Shapiro's 1984 auger survey, and his subsequent report 1987 report, was presented along with the posthole survey undertaken in 2018 by Dr. Tanya Peres. I look to present data that helps clarify some of the uncertainties surrounding the nineteenth century at San Luis. This thesis was undertaken to understand the potential location of the San Luis plantation main house, the presence of nineteenth century road on San Luis' landscape, the location of nineteenth century structures, and if there can be any determination of areas where there was slave activity. What is known from the documentary record, and the interview of Napoleon, was used alongside the distribution of nineteenth century material culture from the subsurface testing at San Luis to answer these questions. However, this thesis was also conducted to highlight the need to consider all components of an archaeological site, and to give voice to those whose history was not recorded in the documentary record,
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Walker_fsu_0071N_15339
Format: Thesis

Title: Making a Way out of No Way: Black Progress & the AME Church in Early County, Georgia to 1918.
Creator: Harris, Kyle Quinton, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Piehler, G. Kurt, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreHarris, Kyle Quinton, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Piehler, G. Kurt, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: Utilizing the historical and cultural frameworks of Stephen Hahn and bell hooks and their scholarly predecessors and contemporaries, this study focuses on the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Early County, Georgia, as a counter-hegemonic rural space for refuge, resistance, ingenuity and community-building, paying close attention to the activities at county seat, Blakely, which rippled through Early County. Chapter 1 of this study will examine the historical presence and...
Show moreUtilizing the historical and cultural frameworks of Stephen Hahn and bell hooks and their scholarly predecessors and contemporaries, this study focuses on the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Early County, Georgia, as a counter-hegemonic rural space for refuge, resistance, ingenuity and community-building, paying close attention to the activities at county seat, Blakely, which rippled through Early County. Chapter 1 of this study will examine the historical presence and significance of Blacks in Early County and their encounters with Methodism. The writer builds the argument that Africans in Early County always exercised varying degrees of ingenuity and autonomy, even under the yoke of slavery. As a consequence of the 13th and 14th Amendments, Blacks in the county were legally placed in a new space wherein they could make permanent inroads and influence AND develop this society. Utilizing the official media organ of the AME Church, The Christian Recorder and correspondence from AME Bishops, Elders, and laity, the writer shows how the national thrust of the AME church influenced the work of freedom and progress at the local level, evidenced through the accomplishments and collaborative efforts of AMEs and community leaders in Early County. In order for freedom and democracy to expand and be firmly rooted in a community, education must be at its core. Chapter 2 examines the AME Church's role in the field of education in Georgia, paying particular attention to African Methodist educational work in Early County and its influences across the state. Using the framework of Hooks, the establishment of the AME Church --- its educational and political arm created new "worlds" for Blacks in Early County. Moreover, it provided a "safe space" for the building of community. Chapter 3 will examine the political role of the AME Church in Early County, Georgia, highlighting how the firmly-bound ties of the connectional AME church, worked to undermine White Supremacy in Blakely, focusing on the leaders of this political movement and their religious background and influence. Efforts at Black progress, freedom and autonomy in Early County were not met with open arms from the county's White citizens, at times it was met with violent retaliatory measures. Chapter 4 will examine violence in the county, analyzing two instances of overt race violence, where AME Churches and congregants, among others, were targeted. It will also examine the AME Church's national stance on race violence, highlighting the viewpoint of leaders at the national and local levels and how they mitigated polarized race relations at the county seat. Overall, this study seeks to add to the historical scholarship of the AME Church's role in Black progress in America. In hooks' "Choosing the Margin As A Space of Radical Openness" she emphasizes a significant line from the South African Freedom Charter which states, "Our struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting" in her discussion on radical politics in the perceived Black peripheral space. It is hoped that this work will highlight the efforts of the AME church and Black people in Early County who embraced a radical and transformative movement of forward progress, outside of the scope of White Supremacy. In addition to this study creating an accurate historical record for the halls of academia, this work also encourages readers to remember, identify, examine, enhance and reimage the historical tenets of Black political progress and implement them to galvanize civic participation, societal justice and inclusive education in the rural South.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Harris_fsu_0071E_15373
Format: Thesis

Title: Preserving Regional Identity in an Urbanizing Landscape: A Neighborhood Smart Growth Plan.
Creator: L'Heureux, Gabriel Gerard, Ransdell, Marlo E., McLane, Yelena, Webber, Steven B., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture and Design
Abstract/Description: A true understanding of urbanism means acknowledging the paradoxical relationship that exists between established community and constant development. Originally, an approach to balancing the growing congestion of overpopulated suburbs, urbanization in many regional towns has become more of a trend than a means of necessity. Effects such as gentrification are changing the social make-up of communities and re-shaping regional design aesthetics. The new aesthetics seen in redeveloped communities...
Show moreA true understanding of urbanism means acknowledging the paradoxical relationship that exists between established community and constant development. Originally, an approach to balancing the growing congestion of overpopulated suburbs, urbanization in many regional towns has become more of a trend than a means of necessity. Effects such as gentrification are changing the social make-up of communities and re-shaping regional design aesthetics. The new aesthetics seen in redeveloped communities are rooted in International and Postmodern design styles that are a stark contrast to the existing regional vernacular, creating a sense of territorial aesthetic autonomy. Preserving the past can only be accomplished through striving to counter the lack of place and identity of International and Postmodern styles, with an emphasis on modern tradition that is tied to the cultural and geographical context of a region (Framton, 2007). This ideology seeks to prevent a nationalist view of architectural style while attempting to mediate between the local and global languages of design. The focus of this research explores performative approaches to architectural regionalism in Tallahassee FL, and the extirpative effects that these practices have on the town's regional identity as it pertains to aesthetic. This study chose Levy Park in Tallahassee due to the visible effects of gentrification that are currently ongoing in the area. Levy Park is a neighborhood located in mid-town comprised of pre and post WWII houses that have a deep intrinsic connection to Florida's history. Characteristics such as urban amenities, artistic individuality, and charming vernacular style make this area highly desired, but major changes in development practices have occurred in the past ten years which threaten the neighborhoods authenticity. The data collection methods for this research will include a layered approach consisting of two phases. Phase one consists of a collection of demographic statistics and phase two includes a detailed cataloging of recent infill projects, historical and archival data of demolished and renovated structures, and local/ municipal city codes and policies that have affected the area. The research findings will identify the effects that performative practices in design have on determining and maintaining a regional identity in Tallahassee, FL. It will also look at the efficacy of current design trends pertaining to urban infill in the neighborhood of Levy Park. Further, it will provide smart growth solutions that promote a critical understanding of regionalism and celebrate the historic architectural styles that aid in maintaining a strong regional identity.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_LHeureux_fsu_0071N_15437
Format: Thesis

Title: Bickering Brass: Interservice Rivalry, Defense Unification, and the Pacific War.
Creator: Gates, Allyson, Piehler, G. Kurt, Souva, Mark A., Culver, Annika A., Creswell, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Interservice rivalry between the United States' military services during the Second World War often proved problematic. Although the Americans and their allies emerged victorious from the conflict, they did so in part due to the even worse rivalries between the military services of the German and Japanese armies. These problems that came to a head during the war had a lasting effect on the military structure that continues to be felt to this day. The present structure of the American military...
Show moreInterservice rivalry between the United States' military services during the Second World War often proved problematic. Although the Americans and their allies emerged victorious from the conflict, they did so in part due to the even worse rivalries between the military services of the German and Japanese armies. These problems that came to a head during the war had a lasting effect on the military structure that continues to be felt to this day. The present structure of the American military is the result of decades of efforts to unify the services, which culminated with the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act. However, whereas most studies of the subject place the Cold War as the central, defining factor of the unification of the defense structure, my work argues that it was not tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union that created the foundations of the semi-joint American national security state, but instead the lessons of the Second World War. The conflicts between the Army and the Navy in the Pacific Theater provided the impetus for efforts to unify the services. Those same conflicts also led to a much less unified result than had originally been hoped for by the proponents of unification, which is, in part, the reason the unification process lasted so long after the passage of the National Security Act.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Gates_fsu_0071E_15169
Format: Thesis

Title: The Milner Legacy: The Empire and Appeasement Shaped Interwar Anglo-German Relations.
Creator: Valladares, David M. (David Miguel), Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Grant, Jonathan A., Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreValladares, David M. (David Miguel), Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Grant, Jonathan A., Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The "Cliveden Set" was a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats such as Nancy Astor, Geoffrey Dawson, Philip Kerr, Edward Wood, and Robert Brand. The term "Cliveden Set," meant as a pejorative term, was coined by journalist Claud Cockburn who wrote for the newspaper The Week. Cockburn linked Geoffrey Dawson and The Times to a network...
Show moreThe "Cliveden Set" was a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats such as Nancy Astor, Geoffrey Dawson, Philip Kerr, Edward Wood, and Robert Brand. The term "Cliveden Set," meant as a pejorative term, was coined by journalist Claud Cockburn who wrote for the newspaper The Week. Cockburn linked Geoffrey Dawson and The Times to a network led by the Astors who had an "extraordinary position of concentrated political power" and had become "one of the most important supports of German influence." Considered to be a scapegoat for Britain's Appeasement Policy by many historians, the Cliveden Set utilized their influence to encourage a British foreign policy that supported Hitler's rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Their goal was to preserve British Imperial rule and promote the unification of the British dominions. Philip Kerr, Geoffrey Dawson, Robert Brand and Lionel Curtis had all been members of Milner's Kindergarten in South Africa. Waldorf and Nancy Astor, who owned The Times and the Cliveden Estate, and others, sought to supplement formula for imperial unification that was demonstrated by Alfred Milner during South African reconstruction. By adopting this template of imperial preservation which was exercised by Milner's Kindergarten, the Cliveden Set's role in the developments that led to World War II became substantial..
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Valladares_fsu_0071E_15174
Format: Thesis

Title: DDH: A Historical Life.
Creator: DeFeudis, Michael R., Blaufarb, Rafe, Souva, Mark A., Grant, Jonathan A., Creswell, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This work is focused on the impact and influence of Dr. Donald D. Horward on studies of the French Revolution and First Empire from 1960-present. It can be used as a lens to understand the development, expansion, and contraction of research, publications, graduate student production, academic dialogue, and outside private interest in the two fields. The study marks the importance of Dr. Horward’s influence on international cooperation and dialogue within the field of Napoleonic studies. It...
Show moreThis work is focused on the impact and influence of Dr. Donald D. Horward on studies of the French Revolution and First Empire from 1960-present. It can be used as a lens to understand the development, expansion, and contraction of research, publications, graduate student production, academic dialogue, and outside private interest in the two fields. The study marks the importance of Dr. Horward’s influence on international cooperation and dialogue within the field of Napoleonic studies. It highlights how that influence led to the involvement of national governments in projects dedicated to their history, particularly in France, England, Spain, and Portugal. Horward was the primary engine behind combined academic efforts to expand the reach of military history within studies of Napoleonic Europe. Horward’s expertise, particularly in the Peninsular War, eventually caught the eye of the U.S. military and established a unique link between academia and various service branch schools, not the least of which was West Point, for a quarter century thereafter. This relationship strengthened and burgeoned into a dynamic sector within the broader field of Napoleonic studies, as these soldier-scholars not only taught future army officers, but developed into academics in their own right. Finally, Dr. Horward was a major catalyst driving the private funding pumped into the field in the last two decades of the 20th century, just as the fields reached their high tide in production and interest.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Fall_DeFeudis_fsu_0071E_15570
Format: Thesis

Title: Unwilling Tools of Empire: Pan American Airways, Brazil and the Quest for Air Hegemony, 1929-1945.
Creator: Clemans, Paul, Piehler, G. Kurt, Driscoll, Amanda M., Grant, Jonathan A., Creswell, Michael, Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Johnson, M. Houston, Florida State University, College...
Show moreClemans, Paul, Piehler, G. Kurt, Driscoll, Amanda M., Grant, Jonathan A., Creswell, Michael, Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Johnson, M. Houston, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The American imperial aspirations to dominate international aviation struggled to overcome domestic and international opposition. United States presidents from the late 1920s and early 1930s adopted a strategy of providing Pan American Airways with preferential treatment in order to establish that airline as their chosen instrument in the international aviation market. They believed a singular airline company would concentrate the business of American international travelers in one entity,...
Show moreThe American imperial aspirations to dominate international aviation struggled to overcome domestic and international opposition. United States presidents from the late 1920s and early 1930s adopted a strategy of providing Pan American Airways with preferential treatment in order to establish that airline as their chosen instrument in the international aviation market. They believed a singular airline company would concentrate the business of American international travelers in one entity, and thus create the strongest possible entry into the market. The U.S. government helped Pan American merge with, buy out, or drive out competing American airlines from this market. However, the strategy contradicted American values of free enterprise, and open and fair competition for the U.S. government’s business. The resulting reconciliation with the American public and the U.S. Congress led to extended legislative negotiations and the creation of the Civil Aeronautic Authority and the Civil Aeronautics Board to regulate the industry. The Executive Branch wanted, and needed, a strong commercial presence in the international aviation arena both to compete with foreign airlines and to meet potential national defense demands. During the 1930s, the Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt affirmed Pan American Airways as the U.S. monopoly for international air services. When the Axis Powers rose and popular American isolationism persisted in 1940, the Roosevelt Administration possessed a capable instrument to employ in making preparations for the coming conflict. The U.S. turned to Pan American to build military-ready air bases in Latin America under the guise of commercial airports expansion. Pan American initially refused the request on the basis that an American company operating in foreign countries would face severe recriminations for secretly serving as an instrument of the U.S. national defense. Still, the administration prevailed upon Pan American to undertake the airport construction and granted the company significant concessions for the service under a contract titled the Airport Development Program. The Brazilian government, especially the country’s armed forces, presented the most tenacious opposition to the projection of American power through their country. The first American defense plans called for the construction of new airports in Brazil to help defend the Western Hemisphere from a feared invasion by Nazi Germany. However, the Brazilians had developed strong ties with Germany that went so far as to include the purchase of modern military equipment from this country’s defense industry. In addition, many Brazilians perceived the Americans as just another imperial power that sought to dominate the country, like the Portuguese or British before them. Pan American negotiated with the Brazilian government for permission to build the airports in the early months of the Airport Development Program, but lost most of its expected benefits in the process. At the same time, the U.S. government negotiated directly with the Brazilian government for broad support of America’s war preparation agenda. The two negotiations occurred independently, but the Brazilians certainly associated the Airport Development Program, the Congressional Lend-Lease programs, and associated economic development packages as U.S. initiatives. The U.S. military appeared to have carte blanche to conduct air operations while the Second World War lasted. However, the Brazilian cooperation and American benefits ceased with the conclusion of the war. Far from wielding omnipotent, dictatorial power, the U.S. government negotiated the ability to project military power through each of its relationships. It negotiated with Pan American, the American public, and the U.S. Congress to establish an American monopoly in the international aviation market. The U.S. administration further negotiated with Pan American to assist in the national defense and airport construction. Lastly, the administration negotiated with the Brazilians to construct airports there and conduct U.S. air operations in Brazil. For these reasons, the American empire may more aptly be characterized as a fractured distribution of powers than a cohesive imperial power seeking to enforce its singular international will.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Fall_Clemans_fsu_0071E_15587
Format: Thesis

Title: Siegfried Kracauer and the Photographic Image of the Angestellten: Constructions of the Salaried Class in the Weimar Republic.
Creator: Bender, Stephanie, Jolles, Adam, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Jones, Lynn, Weingarden, Lauren S., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines Weimar-era constructions of the salaried worker, or die Angestellten, as expressed in German photography and its dissemination in mass media through the theoretical lens of Siegfried Kracauer, who lived and worked as a cultural critic and journalist during this period in Germany. The Angestellten were the fastest-growing demographic within Germany during the 1920s, their numbers booming following the end of the First World War, before which they were but a fraction...
Show moreThis dissertation examines Weimar-era constructions of the salaried worker, or die Angestellten, as expressed in German photography and its dissemination in mass media through the theoretical lens of Siegfried Kracauer, who lived and worked as a cultural critic and journalist during this period in Germany. The Angestellten were the fastest-growing demographic within Germany during the 1920s, their numbers booming following the end of the First World War, before which they were but a fraction of the population. Their situation was closely tied to that of the turbulent economy, and as such they generally endured low incomes and redundancy within the salaried work place. Nevertheless, the salaried classes maintained a superficial connection to upper classes whose dignified appearances were imitated with ready-made clothing bought at department stores. Thus the Angestellten were economic equals to the proletariat, but ideologically maintained themselves as superior to blue-collar workers. The growing number of female white-collared workers, often regarded as synonymous with the New Woman, made up over one-third of the salariat population after the war. These working women particularly aided the surge of the salariat and subsequently such jobs at typists and secretaries became gendered as feminine, further exasperating unemployment numbers among male salariats. Despite the instability of employment and low incomes, the salaried type became a ubiquitous presence in Weimar media. Kracauer points out that this salaried type was one identified visually, and this image of the Angestellten was promulgated by the new media of photography. Kracauer’s analysis of the Angestellten suggests the salariat as “spiritually homeless” figures formed from commercial goods and fantasy aspirations influenced by film and media. Their identity is a façade obscuring nothing, and they remain blind to the severity of their circumstance because of the urban distractions that pull continuously at their attention. In this way, the salariat aligns with and is subject to Kracauer’s concept of the mass ornament, the “inconspicuous surface-level expressions” that, if concentrated upon and analyzed, may reveal the circumstances of reality beneath the “surface glamour.” It is in this overlapping of Angestellten and mass ornament that this dissertation pivots, manifest in the Weimar-era photographs of salaried workers, their environments, and the commercial goods that help to define their mass-produced identities. I have chosen photographs from various contexts, including the street photography of Lyonel Feininger and Friedrich Seidenstücker, the typological portraits of August Sander, the photo essays of Sasha Stone, and the advertisements of Ellen Auerbach and Grete Stern of studio ringl + pit. I argue that these photographs contain rhetorical potential as mass ornaments that, when analyzed through Kracauer’s theoretical approach, offer insights to the role of photography in salaried class construction of the Weimar Republic.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Fall_Bender_fsu_0071E_15557
Format: Thesis

Title: Contributions of Student Affairs Professional Organizations to Collegiate Student Leadership Programs in the Late Twentieth Century.
Creator: Watkins, Sally R., Schwartz, Robert A., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Guthrie, Kathy L., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy...
Show moreWatkins, Sally R., Schwartz, Robert A., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Guthrie, Kathy L., Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
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Abstract/Description: Some 300 years after the founding of the first American institution of higher education, developing students into future leaders remains a central objective of contemporary colleges and universities (Astin, 1993; Johnson, 2000; Komives, Lucas, & McMahon, 2007). In the modern university setting, a significant amount of leadership training and development is accomplished outside the classroom in the co-curricular arena; much of this work is now in the province of student affairs professionals...
Show moreSome 300 years after the founding of the first American institution of higher education, developing students into future leaders remains a central objective of contemporary colleges and universities (Astin, 1993; Johnson, 2000; Komives, Lucas, & McMahon, 2007). In the modern university setting, a significant amount of leadership training and development is accomplished outside the classroom in the co-curricular arena; much of this work is now in the province of student affairs professionals who teach leadership training and development. Many of these professionals prepared for this aspect of their roles while on the job via campus-based professional education and development and at conferences hosted by professional organizations. Historically, these professional associations have played a key role in establishing leadership education as a priority in student affairs, informing professionals' knowledge and understanding of leadership concepts and theories, and advancing the emerging profession of leadership education. The purpose of this study is to document the role student affairs professional organizations played in the latter half of the 20th century to advance collegiate student leadership education programs. The historical narrative relies on sources from the National Student Affairs Archives located in Bowling Green, Ohio and interviews with key individuals active during the timeframe investigated. Understanding the formalization of student affairs practitioner as leadership educators offers the opportunity to recognize individuals and organizations significant in the process, to identify gaps in the scholarship, inform academic preparation programs, shape the efforts of professional organizations, and mold the programmatic efforts facilitated daily on college campuses. This historical investigation attempts to demonstrate how student affairs professional organizations and key individuals across the profession shaped student leadership training, education, and development in higher education in the late twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Watkins_fsu_0071E_14360
Format: Thesis

Title: A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context.
Creator: Lollar, Jacob A. (Jacob Aaron), Kelley, Nicole, Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla, Levenson, David B, Goff, Matthew J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department...
Show moreLollar, Jacob A. (Jacob Aaron), Kelley, Nicole, Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla, Levenson, David B, Goff, Matthew J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
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Abstract/Description: This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part is a compiled Syriac text and English translation of a fourth-century document from Edessa known as the History of John, which appears in the appendix of this project. This original Syriac narrative traces the acts of the apostle John the son of Zebedee in the city of Ephesus. I have combined all extant Syriac witnesses and have updated the old English translation from the nineteenth century. The second part—which is the main body of...
Show moreThis dissertation consists of two parts. The first part is a compiled Syriac text and English translation of a fourth-century document from Edessa known as the History of John, which appears in the appendix of this project. This original Syriac narrative traces the acts of the apostle John the son of Zebedee in the city of Ephesus. I have combined all extant Syriac witnesses and have updated the old English translation from the nineteenth century. The second part—which is the main body of this project—consists of the first detailed analysis of the text since its publication in 1871. I argue that the narrative originated in fourth-century Edessa and is a product of a Nicene Christian community in a struggle with other religious traditions in the city. Using Bruce Lincoln’s theories of myth, I argue that the History of John should be understood as an ideological narrative that attempted to establish the primacy and authority of Nicene Christianity as the only true religion at Edessa. In particular, the narrative targets groups like Manichaeans and the cult of Atargatis in establishing the dominance of Nicene Christianity over these groups and their traditions. The authors of the History of John sanctified early traditions about the apostle and invented a new history for Edessa, situating themselves and the Nicene community at the center.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Lollar_fsu_0071E_14668
Format: Thesis

Title: Doing a Real Job: The Evolution in Women's Roles in British Society through the Lens of Female Spies, 1914-1945.
Creator: Wirsansky, Danielle, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Upchurch, Charles, Roberts, Diane, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, making it a more accepted practice; the government recruited and drafted women not just for work but for active service. Looking at these changes, the shifts in women’s roles in British society can be reflected by the more extreme cases of this shift, focusing on...
Show moreThe first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, making it a more accepted practice; the government recruited and drafted women not just for work but for active service. Looking at these changes, the shifts in women’s roles in British society can be reflected by the more extreme cases of this shift, focusing on the experiences of female spies. This paper serves to demonstrate that the involvement of female spies in WWI and WWII is a useful indicator in the shift of women’s role in British society during this span of time. Alongside the goals of the government, this paper aims to analyze the broader shift in gender roles. Focusing in on the micro-history of spies, this study explores the evolution of the experience of female spies from WWI to WWII, reflecting the same kinds of changes taking place in the experience of the everyday British woman. Then, by focusing in on the struggle for agency that British female spies faced in the second world war, the study directly relates their attempts with those of the everyday British woman. War did not simply generate a change, a quick and sudden reversal of gender roles. Instead, the war afforded women opportunities to prove themselves and make strides towards being the kind of woman they wanted to be.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Wirsansky_fsu_0071N_14327
Format: Thesis

Title: The Disembodied Theatre of Edward Gorey.
Creator: Gunn, Anthony, Osborne, Elizabeth A., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Dahl, Mary Karen, Al-Saber, Samer, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre
Abstract/Description: Edward Gorey (1925–2000) is primarily known as an enigmatic artist, author, and personality. All told, Gorey wrote and illustrated over one hundred books during his lifetime and designed book covers for countless others. He has an enormous cult following of fans that buy up his numerous books and prints and make pilgrimages to his old home, now a museum, to learn and lurk where he lived and worked in the later stages of his life. What is mostly unknown—both to Gorey aficionados and scholars...
Show moreEdward Gorey (1925–2000) is primarily known as an enigmatic artist, author, and personality. All told, Gorey wrote and illustrated over one hundred books during his lifetime and designed book covers for countless others. He has an enormous cult following of fans that buy up his numerous books and prints and make pilgrimages to his old home, now a museum, to learn and lurk where he lived and worked in the later stages of his life. What is mostly unknown—both to Gorey aficionados and scholars—is that Gorey wrote, directed, designed, and acted in a wide variety of plays and theatricals throughout his life. Despite Gorey’s reputation as artist and author, his sizable work in the theatre, and his notable fan base, there is virtually nothing written about his theatre work from a scholarly perspective. Gorey produced “more than a dozen full-length plays and ‘entertainments’ for Cape Cod theatres, plus half a dozen shorter pieces” —almost all original works—in Cape Cod between 1987 and 1999. He played an active role in these productions, writing, directing and designing many, and even creating an original and unique puppet troupe—La Théâtricule Stoïque—that became a signature aspect of this work. What were these plays and entertainments like? Did they share characteristics with his books? How would knowing more about these performances change the conversation about Gorey’s work? I also began to question how these performances might exist beyond the confines of any given production—if there was some way that one could experience them outside of the original performances. While these questions initially centered on Gorey, how might they also extend to other performances? Can performances stretch beyond the boundaries of a given space and time in a way that pushes past the experience of the text or extant ephemera? And, in line with the dark and somewhat mysterious nature of Gorey’s art, what theatre might still be present after human actors have finished? Can there be disembodied theatre? Do performances continue after they end? My dissertation will delve into the theatrical and literary art of Edward Gorey, bringing Gorey into theatre history as a popular and well-known artist, even if he is largely unknown to scholarship to date. Just as importantly, Gorey will also serve as a case study for an exploration of the ontological nature of performance, especially as performance merges with public history. Gorey is an ideal case study for this exploration because Gorey’s work in the theatre can still be accessed through various public history sites, and I will consider the different ways that the items and sites preserve and showcase these performances. With this work I hope to bring attention to a tremendous artistic talent, as well as contribute to the way we conceive of the potential of performance to endure beyond the liveness of the theatrical encounter. With this investigation I am testing to see if the spectral meanings of a performance can be transmitted through disembodied means such as archival materials and things on display. I imagine disembodied theatre takes place away from the theatre, in spaces of public history such as a library, archive, or museum space. This is a crucial question in this investigation and one that I will suggest an answer to in the following chapters. I suggest that disembodied performance can exist, but these traces of performance must be available to view and interested spectators must be willing to use their imagination to fill in the gaps left by such materials. This dissertation seeks to both closely analyze Gorey’s theatre work in order to make his plays more well-known, and to test the limits and possibilities of disembodied theatre.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Gunn_fsu_0071E_14497
Format: Thesis

Title: Alexander Pushkin and Gannibal: A Self Reclamation.
Creator: Pryor, Caroline M., Wakamiya, Lisa Ryoko, Romanchuk, Robert, Efimov, Nina A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Abstract/Description: Alexander Pushkin, the father of Modern Russian literature, has influenced every great contemporary Russian writer. His timeless poetry and insightful prose solidify him as a leading voice in Russian culture. During his lifetime, Pushkin dealt with racism and discrimination because his African great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal. In combating negative framing of his identity and his ancestry, Pushkin reveals a defense and reclamation of self seldom seen in contemporaries of his day. In...
Show moreAlexander Pushkin, the father of Modern Russian literature, has influenced every great contemporary Russian writer. His timeless poetry and insightful prose solidify him as a leading voice in Russian culture. During his lifetime, Pushkin dealt with racism and discrimination because his African great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal. In combating negative framing of his identity and his ancestry, Pushkin reveals a defense and reclamation of self seldom seen in contemporaries of his day. In asserting ownership over his ancestry, he takes back his narrative and dignity. Through his literary works, Pushkin shows how he navigated his blackness in a world that sought to undermine it.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Pryor_fsu_0071N_14550
Format: Thesis

Title: The Controversy Surrounding Slave Insanity: The Diagnosis, Treatment and Lived Experience of Mentally Ill Slaves in the Antebellum South.
Creator: Simon, Kristi M. (Kristi Marie), Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Gabriel, Joseph, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Focusing on the period from approximately 1800-1865, this thesis uses a historical conceptualist perspective to examine how psychiatric history intersects with the lived experience of slaves in the antebellum south. Unlike previous works that tell the history of psychiatry through the history of the asylum movement, this study seeks to emphasize how everyday Americans, from white physicians to slaves, conceptualized, discussed, diagnosed, and treated black insanity. In the process, this study...
Show moreFocusing on the period from approximately 1800-1865, this thesis uses a historical conceptualist perspective to examine how psychiatric history intersects with the lived experience of slaves in the antebellum south. Unlike previous works that tell the history of psychiatry through the history of the asylum movement, this study seeks to emphasize how everyday Americans, from white physicians to slaves, conceptualized, discussed, diagnosed, and treated black insanity. In the process, this study illuminates the way the politics, beliefs, and culture of nineteenth-century society impacted the way Americans viewed black insanity. Moreover, the findings presented in this thesis attest to the pivotal role race, gender, and class played in both the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in the antebellum south. Hence, paying careful attention to the politics of the time, this study focuses on the highly contested and flexible process that was conceptualizing, diagnosing, quantifying, and treating black insanity in the antebellum south, and encourages readers to consider how the label “insane” impacted the life of an afflicted slave and their community.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Simon_fsu_0071N_14534
Format: Thesis

Title: The Closeted Autobiographer: Feminism, Religion, and Queerness in the Unstaged Closet Dramas of Djuna Barnes.
Creator: Andrews, Marisa M. (Marisa Martha), Osborne, Elizabeth A., Dahl, Mary Karen, McKelvey, Patrick T., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre
Abstract/Description: Throughout her time as a member of the famed Provincetown Players, for which she penned three successful plays, playwright Djuna Barnes simultaneously wrote twelve short closet dramas, none of which saw the light of the stage. Despite the fact that they were officially republished in the 1995 anthology At the Roots of The Stars: The Short Plays, edited by Douglass Messerli, scholarly criticism on these fascinatingly weird plays is all but non-existent. With this gap in mind, in this thesis I...
Show moreThroughout her time as a member of the famed Provincetown Players, for which she penned three successful plays, playwright Djuna Barnes simultaneously wrote twelve short closet dramas, none of which saw the light of the stage. Despite the fact that they were officially republished in the 1995 anthology At the Roots of The Stars: The Short Plays, edited by Douglass Messerli, scholarly criticism on these fascinatingly weird plays is all but non-existent. With this gap in mind, in this thesis I analyze two of these short closet dramas: A Passion Play (1918), published in Others magazine, and Madame Collects Herself (1918), published in Parisienne. These two plays, read in conversation with the rest of Barnes’s work throughout the 1910s, crystalize the intersecting issues of gender, sexuality, and religion, which also have significant connections to the rest of Barnes’s canon. In this thesis, I address the following questions: How do these plays fit into the Barnes canon? What might their texts reveal as standalone works of closet drama? What might they reveal about the work and lives of women playwrights in the United States in the early 20th century? While there are many ways in which to approach these texts, I have specifically chosen the dual methodologies of Jill Dolan and Nick Salvato. Utilizing Jill Dolan’s latest book Wendy Wasserstein, a critical biography of the highly acclaimed second-wave feminist playwright, and Nick Salvato’s Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance, I will combine two seemingly disparate methodological processes to form an analysis of these plays for the first time. Following the introductory chapter, chapter two will explore A Passion Play, a short drama that looks into the final night of sexual encounters between two prostitutes and the other two men hung on crosses alongside Jesus Christ during the Passion. In this chapter, I explore Barnes’s personal articulation of the binary (or lack thereof) of good and evil. Chapter three explores Madame Collects Herself, a gruesome, five-page comedy that takes place in a hair salon. I argue that Madame Collects Herself builds on the religious, sexual, and feminist themes found in A Passion Play, suggesting that Barnes’s closet dramas both serve as early examples of Barnes’s creative work and operate as intriguing examples of her interest in de-marginalizing those who were often seen as other.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Andrews_fsu_0071N_14738
Format: Thesis

Title: Museums in the Construction of National Identity in Twentieth Century Mexico and Turkey.
Creator: Batuhan, Tuğba, Carrasco, Michael, Villeneuve, Pat, Niell, Paul B., Killian, Kyle L., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: In this dissertation I investigate The National Museum of Anthropology (NMA) in Mexico, and the Museum of Painting and Sculpture (MPS) in Turkey to examine the important role they played in the construction and projection of a national identity that at once looked to past traditions while at the same time engaging with and aspiring to the internationalism of modernity in the mid-twentieth century. In the twentieth century, these nations shared some common features in that they were...
Show moreIn this dissertation I investigate The National Museum of Anthropology (NMA) in Mexico, and the Museum of Painting and Sculpture (MPS) in Turkey to examine the important role they played in the construction and projection of a national identity that at once looked to past traditions while at the same time engaging with and aspiring to the internationalism of modernity in the mid-twentieth century. In the twentieth century, these nations shared some common features in that they were reevaluating their histories to address significant political and social changes such as the 1910 Mexican Revolution and the 1923 establishment of the Turkish Republic. These political and social transformations had an effect on the arts and arts institutions and leadership in each country made use of the arts to advance their political agenda of crafting a coherent nation that attempted to fuse competing social factions and achieving international status often times through modernization policies that were on many occasions synonymous with westernization, especially in Turkey. Despite these similarities each country faced specific, historically contingent issues and thus arrived some different responses to similar historical and political circumstances. In this dissertation I address these responses through two case studies focused a study of two major museums in each country the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico, and the Museum of Painting and Sculpture in Turkey. First, I present the historical backgrounds of each of these museums before their establishment. Second, I examine how each deployed marked national historical tradition to craft narratives of national identity at critical moments in each of country’s engagement with modernity. Finally, while these countries read their histories in their own ways, this study creates a connection between the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico, and the Museum of Painting and Sculpture in Turkey, to attempt to identify broader patterns of how the arts and arts institutions were used in “developing” nations during the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Batuhan_fsu_0071E_14347
Format: Thesis

Title: Europa and the Bull: Gendering Europe and the Process of European Integration, 1919-1939.
Creator: Shriver, Rebecca Rae, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Souva, Mark A., Sinke, Suzanne M., Hanley, Will, Upchurch, Charles, Kurlander, Eric, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreShriver, Rebecca Rae, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Souva, Mark A., Sinke, Suzanne M., Hanley, Will, Upchurch, Charles, Kurlander, Eric, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This study examines the role of women and gender in German and British sections of three antiwar organizations that advocated for a European polity during the 1920s and 1930s: the Pan-European Union (PEU), the New Europe Group (NEG), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). This project relies on extensive archival research using collections located throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, some of which were only very recently cataloged. My findings...
Show moreThis study examines the role of women and gender in German and British sections of three antiwar organizations that advocated for a European polity during the 1920s and 1930s: the Pan-European Union (PEU), the New Europe Group (NEG), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). This project relies on extensive archival research using collections located throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, some of which were only very recently cataloged. My findings fundamentally change our understanding of interwar integration advocates, who historians previously characterized as a small group of intellectual men. An analysis of the PEU and NEG reveals that women were a significant proportion of their members and leaders. Further complicating the traditional narrative that these were “male” driven groups, this study finds they stressed the “feminine” qualities their proposed system of governance required. Integration advocates blamed the perception of crisis between the wars on the belief that the political system was man-made. Many of these individuals believed women offered new ideas and an alternative source of leadership; thus, the role of women in developing a European polity was a popular topic among important segments of unification advocates. This argument resonated with many members and national sections of WILPF, which led them to collaborate with both the NEG and PEU. Although well known for its feminist pacifist activism, Europa and the Bull is the first study to examine the ways in which WILPF contributed to movements aimed at creating a European polity. By addressing all three of these organizations, this study challenges our understanding of the interwar movement for a federal European government, as well as the social and cultural forces that motivated them.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Shriver_fsu_0071E_14311
Format: Thesis

Title: The Little Island Will Not Be a Trifling Jewel: Great Britain and Malta: 1798-1824.
Creator: Zwilling, Andrew, Gray, Edward G., Porterfield, Amanda, Blaufarb, Rafe, Jones, James Pickett, Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreZwilling, Andrew, Gray, Edward G., Porterfield, Amanda, Blaufarb, Rafe, Jones, James Pickett, Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This project examines the creation and early administration of Malta as a British colony, between the years 1798 and 1824. For centuries, Britain’s imperial ambitions and Malta’s role in the Mediterranean operated on largely parallel courses, very rarely intersecting. This changed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. British acquisition and development of Malta occurred during these conflicts, with all the inherent chaos and uncertainty that war creates. The Maltese people...
Show moreThis project examines the creation and early administration of Malta as a British colony, between the years 1798 and 1824. For centuries, Britain’s imperial ambitions and Malta’s role in the Mediterranean operated on largely parallel courses, very rarely intersecting. This changed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. British acquisition and development of Malta occurred during these conflicts, with all the inherent chaos and uncertainty that war creates. The Maltese people endured a two-year- long siege against the French in Valletta, and saw the islands’ previous rulers, the Knights of St. John, deposed. Prior to that, Malta suffered a decade of fiscal ruin brought on by the French Revolution. The Maltese needed permanence and recovery, a difficult task for the British in a wartime climate. However, within the instability of war there was also opportunity. Malta’s relationships with other nations’ markets opened for expansion, especially given the island chain’s central location and longstanding reputation as a safe port of call. At the core of this narrative are the British officials tasked with administering Malta, especially the civil commissioners (later governors), whose decisions were crucial in shaping Malta’s growth under British rule. British Malta faced many challenges, including food shortages, international uncertainly, internal intrigue and plague. It was under the early administrators that British Malta saw some success, but mostly failure.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Zwilling_fsu_0071E_14389
Format: Thesis

Title: Health Politics in Cold War America, 1953 -1988.
Creator: Whitehurst, John Robert, Doel, Ronald Edmund, Mesev, Victor, Frank, Andrew, Blaufarb, Rafe, Gabriel, Joseph, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department...
Show moreWhitehurst, John Robert, Doel, Ronald Edmund, Mesev, Victor, Frank, Andrew, Blaufarb, Rafe, Gabriel, Joseph, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: Throughout American history, physicians and their close professional associates, including pharmacists, have been asked to participate in both public health and national security efforts. While these efforts are not inherently contradictory, some physicians within the medical community began to perceive them as such, especially following World War II. These physicians gave birth to an anti-nuclear “physicians’ movement” that challenged the notions of national security and used public health...
Show moreThroughout American history, physicians and their close professional associates, including pharmacists, have been asked to participate in both public health and national security efforts. While these efforts are not inherently contradictory, some physicians within the medical community began to perceive them as such, especially following World War II. These physicians gave birth to an anti-nuclear “physicians’ movement” that challenged the notions of national security and used public health as a basis for doing so. They did this alongside two very important allies: natural scientists and concerned citizens, particularly middle-class women. This dissertation focuses on the two ways in which activist physicians were most directly tied to national security: as purveyors of information on the health effects of radiation (especially that resulting from nuclear testing) on people and the environment, and as participants in civil defense programs and exercises. Cold War physicians and pharmacists were expected to be the arbiters of information concerning the physical impacts of nuclear testing on Americans. Indeed, civil defense programs often described them as the “liaison” between the science community and the general public. Consequently, those within the “physicians’ movement” used their positions to challenge nuclear testing through medical activism. The Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), alongside various other anti-nuclear groups like the Women Strike for Peace (WSP) and Committee for Nuclear Information (CNI), presented information which contested the narratives of federal and state agencies, which often claimed that radioactive levels resulting from nuclear testing remained and would continue to remain safe for Americans. This challenge was largely manifest through the national conversation on the consequences of radioisotopes on public health, in particular Strontium 90 and Iodine 131. These radioisotopes fell from the skies in the form of fallout and worked their way back up food chains and into the American diet. This was especially disconcerting to young mothers, as infants and small children were particularly susceptible to these toxins. The “physicians’ movement” mobilized these radioisotopes and challenged civil defense throughout the early Cold War. Its leaders largely did so in the name of public health and were even credited by Kennedy’s science advisor, Jerome Wiesner, for their influence in garnishing American support for the passing of a Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) in 1963. The LTBT was a monumental achievement of the anti-nuclear movement, as it eliminated atmospheric (above ground or aquatic) nuclear testing in both the United States and the Soviet Union. While underground nuclear testing continued, and other nations soon entered the nuclear club, this legislation greatly limited the two largest nuclear powers from further contaminating the global atmosphere to the degree that they had in the early Cold War. During the early Cold war, physicians and pharmacists were also expected to continue the tradition of supporting and preparing for war on the home front via civil defense exercises and practices. With civil defense administrators shifting their focus from conventional toward nuclear arsenals following World War II, they also began to predict the disproportionate destruction of physicians in post-war scenarios. Pharmacists and others within the medical community were being trained to take the place of these theoretically deceased physicians in preparation for a post-attack environment. The idea that pharmacists could replace physicians in a post-nuclear environment, as proposed by civil defense planners, alerted some physicians that something must be done. In response, the PSR participated in several congressional hearings, influenced the narratives of other anti-nuclear groups, funded anti-nuclear media, and fostered citizen-science projects in order to challenge notions of civil defense and nuclear testing in the name of public health. Medical activism, however, did not end with the signing of the LTBT. The PSR, in particular, only grew stronger as the Reagan Revolution and heightened Cold War tensions rose in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The PSR mutated from a local and national organization into an international participant in the Freeze movement and the anti-nuclear resurgence of the early 1980s. Medical activists again used many of the same methods they had relied on during the early Cold War period to challenge militarism such as professional journals, newspaper editorials, and popular media. They also began to use newer forms of media. In particular, the PSR funded the airing of several well-known and influential anti-nuclear films, like Day After and Threads, which challenged the foundations of civil defense throughout the 1980s. The story of Cold War medical activism illuminates the various tensions which have existed, and continue to exist, which are fundamental to balancing the necessities of national security with those of public health.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Whitehurst_fsu_0071E_14837
Format: Thesis

Title: Collegiate Symbols and Mascots of the American Landscape: Identity, Iconography, and Marketing.
Creator: DeSantis, Gary Gennar, Frank, Andrew, Crew, Robert E., Grant, Jonathan A., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Gray, Edward G., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreDeSantis, Gary Gennar, Frank, Andrew, Crew, Robert E., Grant, Jonathan A., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Gray, Edward G., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The rise of college symbols and mascots related to the American landscape directly correlates with the rapid changes stemming from industrialization and urbanization occurring in American culture between the late-nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century. The loss of national identity attributed to the closing of the western frontier had a devastating effect on young white males in particular. The ensuing cultural crisis brought about by the wanton extirpation of wildlife...
Show moreThe rise of college symbols and mascots related to the American landscape directly correlates with the rapid changes stemming from industrialization and urbanization occurring in American culture between the late-nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century. The loss of national identity attributed to the closing of the western frontier had a devastating effect on young white males in particular. The ensuing cultural crisis brought about by the wanton extirpation of wildlife and destruction of the natural environment led directly to the preservationist movement of the turn-of-the century. In the face of unparalleled immigration, fitness and the back-to-nature movement were believed to be instrumental in helping white American men avoid committing "race suicide." Nurtured by the teachings and philosophies of conservationists and preservationists, young white college men formed the first football teams and adopted symbols of the American landscape as a means of team identity. Because iconography makes for a powerful tool of identity and solidarity, students and college officials were likewise intrigued. Eager to quell unruly student behavior, college administrators—who had a more than contentious relationship with the student body throughout the late-nineteenth century—gladly assented. The profits soon realized from college sports and the pageantry surrounding it proved irresistible to colleges across the land. Consequently, by the early decades of the late-nineteenth century, numerous American college athletic teams began using mascots related to the American landscape and school colors to foment group solidarity.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_DeSantis_fsu_0071E_14289
Format: Thesis

Title: Melodramatic Melanin: A Critical Analysis of the Mammy, Mulatta, and Mistress in Black Female Representation on Stage and Film.
Creator: Jeffries, Devair O., Osborne, Elizabeth A., Jones, Tamara Bertrand, McGregory, Jerrilyn, Salata, Kris, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre
Abstract/Description: Black feminist scholars such as Lisa Anderson describe the most common stereotypes as that of the mammy, the mulatta, and the mistress. My research analyzes how each of these negative stereotypes are articulated or challenged in contemporary plays and films by bringing together scholarship that critiques dramatic representation, mass media that disseminates those representations, and social media that reveals popular perceptions of race. I utilize Black feminism to critique the stereotypical...
Show moreBlack feminist scholars such as Lisa Anderson describe the most common stereotypes as that of the mammy, the mulatta, and the mistress. My research analyzes how each of these negative stereotypes are articulated or challenged in contemporary plays and films by bringing together scholarship that critiques dramatic representation, mass media that disseminates those representations, and social media that reveals popular perceptions of race. I utilize Black feminism to critique the stereotypical representation of Black women in dramatic works, and critical race theory to consider the social and political environment that allows these representations to proliferate. After setting up the historical context of stereotypes from the slavery era to the present day in chapter two, each of the following chapters explore one specific stereotype, beginning with the mammy in chapter three, moving to the mulatta in chapter four, and ending with the mistress in chapter five. Each of these chapters focuses on two case studies include one successful play and one film with a nation-wide release that features Black female characters and plays on mainstream networks. With theatrical case studies ranging from Lydia Diamond's Voyeurs de Venus (2006) to Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2013), films from The Help (2011) to Dear White People (2014), my work questions how these stereotypes persist and create meaning in popular culture. The work addresses the following questions: How have the mammy, mulatto, and mistress stereotypes functioned and persisted in dramatic works and popular culture in the contemporary era? How do contemporary works adapt, challenge, reinterpret, and reimagine these stereotypes? What does this suggest about shifts in representations of Black women in the contemporary United States?
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_Jeffries_fsu_0071E_14836
Format: Thesis

Title: Materia Medica: Anatomical Illustrations in Early Modern Spain.
Creator: Alarcon, Carolina, Leitch, Stephanie, Herrera, Robinson A., Freiberg, Jack, Niell, Paul B., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines anatomical images in Early Modern Spain and their corresponding texts as critical material agents in the reorganization of the human body in print. My research shows that Spanish artists and anatomists under investigation in this study reflect the dynastic and scientific ambitions of the Spanish Empire where observation and practical experience were valued over theory and inflated Latin erudition. Galvanized by this unwritten mandate, Spanish anatomists embarked on...
Show moreThis dissertation examines anatomical images in Early Modern Spain and their corresponding texts as critical material agents in the reorganization of the human body in print. My research shows that Spanish artists and anatomists under investigation in this study reflect the dynastic and scientific ambitions of the Spanish Empire where observation and practical experience were valued over theory and inflated Latin erudition. Galvanized by this unwritten mandate, Spanish anatomists embarked on projects that many historians have classified as plagiarisms. These images have suffered neglect in discourses that often privileged originality, aesthetics or anatomical accuracy; however, I argue that these considerations limit our understanding of proto-scientific text production in the early modern period when issues of authorship were porous. These images engaged and contributed to contemporary intellectual processes, rather than just acting as passive copied illustrations. My project considers these images as vital points of epistemic convergence: images that illustrated theories, attempted to replace them, and induced anxiety over their reliability. Most of the images included in this study are from medical publications, like Valverde’s Historia de la Composicion Humana, but others were included in artist’s manuals, like Arfe’s De Varia Comensuracion, and yet others were included in broadsheets and popular publications.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Alarcon_fsu_0071E_14296
Format: Thesis

Title: Those Female Furies: Jacobite Scotswomen, Song, and Wartime Experience.
Creator: Bani, Rachel M. (Rachel Michele), Eyerly, Sarah, Brewer, Charles E., Seaton, Douglass, Florida State University, College of Music, College of Music
Abstract/Description: When Charles Edward Stuart landed on the shores of Scotland in 1745, he was greeted with ardent support from Jacobite men and women who supported the Stuart claim to the British throne. Women were particularly important supporters of Stuart. They provided money, hospitality, military support, and even acted as spies. While some women such as Jean Cameron and Anne Mackintosh actively mustered troops for the Stuart army, others such as Margaret Ogilvie and Margaret Murray accompanied their...
Show moreWhen Charles Edward Stuart landed on the shores of Scotland in 1745, he was greeted with ardent support from Jacobite men and women who supported the Stuart claim to the British throne. Women were particularly important supporters of Stuart. They provided money, hospitality, military support, and even acted as spies. While some women such as Jean Cameron and Anne Mackintosh actively mustered troops for the Stuart army, others such as Margaret Ogilvie and Margaret Murray accompanied their husbands during the entire military campaign. Despite Jacobite women’s high level of political and military involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, scholarly writings have largely overlooked their significant contributions to the Cause, and theirwartime narratives have been largely dismissed. This project seeks to rectify the gender imbalance inherent in the Jacobite historical narrative through a focus on one artistic medium: song. This thesis examines the roles that women played throughout the 1745 Rising by focusing on musical lyrics composed both by and about Jacobite women. The lyrics composed by Jacobite women prior to the Jacobite army’s final defeat at the Battle of Culloden are shown to take on a politically aggressive stance uncharacteristic of typical women’s compositions for the time. Those composed directly after the Jacobite defeat turn inward toward personal expressions of grief and more characteristically traditional lyric content. In the decades following the failed Rising, Jacobite women’s musical contributions took on increasing levels of romanticization. While gender conventions of the period kept Jacobite women from engaging in combat throughout the 1745 campaign, these women turned to song composition as a means of supporting the Jacobite Cause. The importance of women to the Jacobite Cause can also be tracked through the number of songs written about them by both Jacobite, and Hanoverian propagandists. The two caricatures of Jacobite women that are most recognizable today, Flora MacDonald and Jenny Cameron, were popularized over the course of the Jacobite Rising and directly after, both to mythologize, and defame the Jacobite campaign. For her role in helping Charles Edward Stuart escape Scotland after the end of the failed Rising, Flora MacDonald was mythologized by Jacobite supporters. Many Scottish songwriters used her name as a means of garnering sympathy, and her narrative voice as a means of expressing grief. Supporters of the Hanoverian government also turned to the use of female figures in political propaganda surrounding the Jacobite Risings. Hanoverian songwriters took to defaming Jacobite women through propagandistic lyric, and focused their attention on one character in particular: Jenny Cameron. The character of Jenny Cameron was loosely based on a Jacobite woman named Jean Cameron, who mustered approximately three-hundred men to fight for the Stuart Cause. Her political exploits acted as the catalyst for the creation of the transgressive character Jenny Cameron. The anti-Jacobite songs written about Jenny Cameron attack her sexuality and political agency, while drawing from a repertoire of written and artistically-rendered propaganda depicting her as “mannish” and militaristic. The existence of female-centric political propaganda during this time, especially that aimed against Jacobites, proves just how important women were to the Stuart Cause. Had women not been providing a substantial amount of aid the Jacobites, the Hanoverian government would have felt much less compelled to undermine them by debasing their characters and threatening their physical well-being. As the songs written by and about Jacobite women prove, Scotswomen were active in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 from its very beginnings until its military conclusion on Culloden Battlefield. The women discussed in this thesis were important political and military actors who used their positions of authority to provide support for Charles Edward Stuart over the course of his campaign. Most importantly to this thesis, I wish to tell the stories of Jacobite women whose voices have previously been silenced. It is my hope that this project leads to further study of Jacobite women by scholars of all disciplines, as well as to an increased public awareness of women’s historical contributions to wartime efforts. Within this project, Jacobite women assert themselves as military leaders, poignant propagandists, grieving widows, and compassionate protectors, ultimately defying essentialization. With song as a uniting factor, this thesis draws Scotswomen together and asserts the importance of their voices to the Jacobite narrative.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Bani_fsu_0071N_14502
Format: Thesis

Title: Book Illustration and Intersemiotic Translation in Early Modern England.
Creator: Clement, Taylor, Coldiron, A. E. B., Leitch, Stephanie, Taylor, Gary, Boehrer, Bruce Thomas, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Book Illustration and Intersemiotic Translation in Early Modern England establishes new terms for assessing the effects of woodcut image reproduction on literary meaning in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed books. Specifically, this project considers the recycling of illustrations in England and across continental Europe that afforded vernacular readers a transnational advantage of shared visual language. As early modern printers and illustrators traced, copied, and reprinted images,...
Show moreBook Illustration and Intersemiotic Translation in Early Modern England establishes new terms for assessing the effects of woodcut image reproduction on literary meaning in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed books. Specifically, this project considers the recycling of illustrations in England and across continental Europe that afforded vernacular readers a transnational advantage of shared visual language. As early modern printers and illustrators traced, copied, and reprinted images, translators shifted verbal signifiers for new audiences. Each chapter examines the ways in which illustration can inflect form and genre in emblem, lyric, and epic poetry, respectively. Drawing on critical methods of literary and translation studies, book history, and illustration, this project contributes to an interdisciplinary understanding of illustrated poetry and the ways in which the production of pictures significantly affects textual reception.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Clement_fsu_0071E_14342
Format: Thesis

Title: Contemporary Ambulatory Theatre and Audience Agency.
Creator: Bartley, Sean, Dahl, Mary Karen, Sack, Daniel Aaron, Laughlin, Karen L, Osborne, Elizabeth A., McKelvey, Patrick T., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, School of...
Show moreBartley, Sean, Dahl, Mary Karen, Sack, Daniel Aaron, Laughlin, Karen L, Osborne, Elizabeth A., McKelvey, Patrick T., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre
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Abstract/Description: Contemporary Ambulatory Theatre and Audience Agency explores recent productions that encourage individual audience members to move through large, public spaces in new ways, developing a sense of ambulatory agency as they explore their theatrical environments. It focuses on four objects of study: Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth wrapped in the aesthetic of Alfred Hitchcock films and staged for mask-wearing audiences inside three New York warehouse spaces; Blast...
Show moreContemporary Ambulatory Theatre and Audience Agency explores recent productions that encourage individual audience members to move through large, public spaces in new ways, developing a sense of ambulatory agency as they explore their theatrical environments. It focuses on four objects of study: Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth wrapped in the aesthetic of Alfred Hitchcock films and staged for mask-wearing audiences inside three New York warehouse spaces; Blast Theory’s A Machine To See With, which guides audiences through a neighborhood on a supposed bank heist using their mobile phones and has been restaged in nine different cities; Street Corner Society’s Subway Orpheus, a loose adaptation of Ovid’s mythic story in which audience members travel between stations on Boston’s MBTA system; and David Levine’s Private Moment, a series of eight scenes from films shot in Central Park performed by live actors on continuous loops in the exact locations where they were filmed. Contemporary Ambulatory Theatre and Audience Agency uses performance theory, the author’s own experiences of the works, and interviews and statements by practitioners and audience members to determine why artists and audiences are so attracted to new forms of ambulatory agency and how these pieces and others produce them. It argues that, recently, performances like Private Moment have inverted prior understandings of audience agency, treating the individual audience member as the protagonist of their own theatrical event and utilizing performers and other inhabitants of public space to help them exercise this newfound agency.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Bartley_fsu_0071E_14460
Format: Thesis

Title: Saccharine Terrorism: Norman Vincent Peale, Guideposts, and the Politics of Positive Thinking.
Creator: Burnside, Timothy, Porterfield, Amanda, McVicar, Michael J., Corrigan, John, Drake, Jamil William, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: This project elucidates how gendered notions of prosperity and labor within postwar Christianity provided highly saleable and successful modes, models, and technologies of self-production aimed at creating fiscal and emotional success within a late capitalist context. Looking primarily at Norman Vincent Peale’s Guideposts organization and print culture exposes a deeply pessimistic strain within contemporary positivism and prosperity Christianity centered on the inevitability of suffering,...
Show moreThis project elucidates how gendered notions of prosperity and labor within postwar Christianity provided highly saleable and successful modes, models, and technologies of self-production aimed at creating fiscal and emotional success within a late capitalist context. Looking primarily at Norman Vincent Peale’s Guideposts organization and print culture exposes a deeply pessimistic strain within contemporary positivism and prosperity Christianity centered on the inevitability of suffering, hardship, and labor. Locating success or failure within individual bodies rather than systemic structures fortified a godly ordained religious taxonomy that mapped onto America’s class taxonomy. Guideposts’ winding history and shifting demographics, from a failed muscular Christianity project aimed at building Cold Warriors ironically turned into successful sentimental women’s magazine written by and for suburban women, allows for nuanced looks at the gendered aspects of white prosperity Christianity. While many have critiqued such forms of Christianity as a saccharine turning away from the world’s evils, this thesis argues that Peale and Guideposts taught individuals to stare directly into the terrors of life, cultivate suffering, and emerge from strife as victors purged by fire. Through a unique soldering of conservative politics and liberal religious imagery, Cold War Christianity helped followers produce a certain mode of living — namely a white, heteronormative family structure — uniquely capable of acquiring desired wealth and emotional wellness. That is, what scholars have called privilege, prosperity Christians called blessings from God. This thesis aims to show the material realities that Guideposts produced, helping readers feel genuinely happy and successful, as well as the material structures of postwar business culture and gendered suburban contexts that allowed Guideposts to thrive. Reframing Peale’s therapeutic print culture in such contexts helps illuminate how positive thinking repositioned the material inequalities of upper- and middle-class white privilege as a religious system.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Burnside_fsu_0071N_14564
Format: Thesis

Title: Establishing Disestablishment: Federal Support for Religion in the Early Republic.
Creator: Roeber, Daniel, Porterfield, Amanda, Gray, Edward G., Corrigan, John, McVicar, Michael J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: This project considers the relationship between religion and politics in the early republic period of the United States. The goal of this project is to uncover the ways the inchoate federal government provided support for religion in an era when disestablishment is the law of the land. Using the lens provides a new and distinct way to understand how the federal government interpreted and applied the concept of disestablishment as seen in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. I argue...
Show moreThis project considers the relationship between religion and politics in the early republic period of the United States. The goal of this project is to uncover the ways the inchoate federal government provided support for religion in an era when disestablishment is the law of the land. Using the lens provides a new and distinct way to understand how the federal government interpreted and applied the concept of disestablishment as seen in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. I argue that the federal government, while never formally endorsing a particular denomination, recognized and supported an underlying common Protestant ethos centered around biblicism to both develop and disrupt aspects of religious freedom in the early republic. Such a balancing act was necessitated by competing religious denominations in different states; ideals of both Protestant dissent and enlightenment rationality; and the fragile nature of federal governance in the early republic that sought out security in the absence of previous colonial ideals. Because of all of this, cooperation between church and state was steady and active. But the nature of that cooperation, expressed in the disestablishment language of the First Amendment, reflected a new reality distinct from European Christendom. The subjects of this project illustrate the diverse ways religion was supported by the government and show how the new reality of disestablishment was worked out in the developing federal bureaucracy. They include the postal service, which allowed for the dissemination of religious information through the mail at favorable rates; religious services held in the governmental buildings, especially the U.S. Capitol building; chaplaincy programs, both within Congress and the military; and federal policy regarding Native Americans, which included providing support for Christian missionaries in their goal of evangelization.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Roeber_fsu_0071E_14438
Format: Thesis

Title: Mainline Protestantism, Scholarship, and the Twentieth Century Church Library Movement in the United States.
Creator: Ross, Meredith, Porterfield, Amanda, Latham, Don, McVicar, Michael J., Corrigan, John, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: Through both persuasive and prescriptive texts from church library advocates and contemporaneous academic work from scholars of library and information studies, this dissertation examines the twentieth century mainline Protestant church library movement in the United States. Focus on this understudied movement, the dissertation argues, constitutes something of a “missing link” in the study of American religion and information in the twentieth century; study of the ideological underpinning and...
Show moreThrough both persuasive and prescriptive texts from church library advocates and contemporaneous academic work from scholars of library and information studies, this dissertation examines the twentieth century mainline Protestant church library movement in the United States. Focus on this understudied movement, the dissertation argues, constitutes something of a “missing link” in the study of American religion and information in the twentieth century; study of the ideological underpinning and policy best-practices point towards mainline Protestant understandings not only of information, and its uses and dangers, but of institutional authority in the twentieth century. Further, the dissertation argues that unpacking the working understandings of “religion” cultivated by twentieth century scholars of libraries and information can add to our historiographic understanding of how “religion” emerged as an object of study in the academy in the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Ross_fsu_0071E_14451
Format: Thesis

Title: The Materiality of Empire: Forts, Labor, and the Colonial State in the French Lesser Antilles, 1661-1776.
Creator: Gigi, Arad, Blaufarb, Rafe, Niell, Paul B., Gray, Edward G., McMahon, Darrin M., Williamson, George S., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of...
Show moreGigi, Arad, Blaufarb, Rafe, Niell, Paul B., Gray, Edward G., McMahon, Darrin M., Williamson, George S., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This research explores the history of France’s imperial military system in the Old Régime Lesser Antilles Caribbean. The construction and maintenance of colonial fortifications demanded enormous sums, complex logistics, massive mobilization of labor, and effective coordination between the state and the colonial elites. This research sheds new light on the emergence, function, and evolution of the modern French state, empire, and colonial societies, as well on labor in the Atlantic World. In...
Show moreThis research explores the history of France’s imperial military system in the Old Régime Lesser Antilles Caribbean. The construction and maintenance of colonial fortifications demanded enormous sums, complex logistics, massive mobilization of labor, and effective coordination between the state and the colonial elites. This research sheds new light on the emergence, function, and evolution of the modern French state, empire, and colonial societies, as well on labor in the Atlantic World. In the transition to the modern state, European sovereignty was increasingly associated with the state’s ability to define, utilize, control, and defend its territorial space. In this context, I argue, forts emerged as remarkably potent instruments that gave sovereignty a material form. I turn the Military Revolution thesis on its head: it was not the rise of bastion fortifications that propelled the emergence of the modern state, but rather the changing political culture in Europe that created the need for monarchs to build forts. This research explores the evolution of the French colonial state and links it to the evolving nature of Atlantic warfare. I argue that the Bourbon monarchy effectively transplanted its mechanisms of rule overseas. Whereas in Europe the Absolute monarchy governed through pre-existing noble networks, in the colonies it relied on creole socio-economic structures. I diverge from previous interpretations of the French empire that see creole-metropolitan relations as purely antagonistic and instead show that these were often symbiotic: the monarchy relied on the material and human support of its colonists to build forts and advance its geopolitical interests, while the colonists sought a growing state presence to protect them with its military and naval capabilities. Creole-metropolitan relations in the French Caribbean cannot be reduced to simplified dichotomies of creoles versus metropole that developed along a linear trajectory that led naturally to the Revolutionary break. Rather, the relationship between the state and the colonists fluctuated at time according to a variety of factors, such as warfare, economic conditions, climate, and creolization. Another major concern of this research is to illuminate the labor practices of the French colonial state. In conjunction with enslaved labor— which it usually requisitioned from the colonists through the under-studied system of the colonial corvée— the state regularly employed soldiers and indentured servants. Oftentimes, soldiers and slaves worked alongside one another performing the same arduous tasks. After the Seven Years’ War, the Bourbon monarchy revoked the corvée, partially in an attempt to rectify its relationship with the creoles, partially to streamline its labor administration. It then decided to ship battalions of soldiers to the colonies to work on the construction imperial infrastructure. My research emphasizes the role of the state in shaping the Atlantic labor structures. Building on a recent scholarly trend that seeks to embed Atlantic slavery within the social and economic contexts of the early-modern world, my study undermines traditional dichotomizations of free and unfree, white and black, and skilled and unskilled labor. Instead it highlights the malleability of these categories and the complexity of the colonial labor dynamics.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Gigi_fsu_0071E_14399
Format: Thesis

Title: David Cox (1783-1859) Reconsidered: Landscape, Theater, and the Book of Nature.
Creator: Fernandez, Segundo J., Neuman, Robert, Walker, Eric C., Freiberg, Jack, Jolles, Adam, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: Scholars have hailed David Cox (1783-1859) as one of the pillars of English landscape painting of the early nineteenth century, together with John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Working primarily in watercolor, Cox celebrated the English landscape in naturalistic pictures that exhibited both a reliance on and a radical departure from the earlier topographical tradition. This dissertation contextualizes and brings into sharper focus the means by which Cox’s naturalism was primarily achieved,...
Show moreScholars have hailed David Cox (1783-1859) as one of the pillars of English landscape painting of the early nineteenth century, together with John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Working primarily in watercolor, Cox celebrated the English landscape in naturalistic pictures that exhibited both a reliance on and a radical departure from the earlier topographical tradition. This dissertation contextualizes and brings into sharper focus the means by which Cox’s naturalism was primarily achieved, through a roughness of brushwork and a mastery of color. He perfected a style that was based on both the topographical and the picturesque traditions while going beyond their theoretical strictures to incorporate the effects of atmosphere, wind, and light. The resulting body of work privileges both an accurate depiction of actual places and of these transient “effects,” as Cox described them. This study argues that Cox’s naturalism was informed by two aspects of his life that have largely been overlooked in the literature: his experience as a theatrical scene painter and his deep and reverent religious faith. The dissertation engages in an analysis of historical, cultural, and biographical circumstances that explains how Cox negotiated a hybrid place between the theoretical debates over ideal landscape versus picturesque landscape painting. Drawing from primary sources, it posits Cox’s compositions as derivative of elements of both schools, refined by copying Old and Contemporary Masters, yet pursuing independent choices in depicting nature truthfully and without the manipulations of antecedent schools and models.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Fernandez_fsu_0071E_14504
Format: Thesis

Title: Gatherings of the West: The Ladies' Repository, the Private Sphere, and Visualizing the American West.
Creator: Iliff, Haley, Porterfield, Amanda, Corrigan, John, Drake, Jamil William, McVicar, Michael J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: This thesis analyzes the 35-year-run of the Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West, a monthly periodical distributed by the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1841-1876. This thesis will first look at the publication history of The Ladies' Repository to understand why this publication was financed by the church, what its readership looked like, and why it ceased publication in 1876 (or, rather, why the money ran out). Second, and the main thrust of my argument, is that this particular...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the 35-year-run of the Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West, a monthly periodical distributed by the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1841-1876. This thesis will first look at the publication history of The Ladies' Repository to understand why this publication was financed by the church, what its readership looked like, and why it ceased publication in 1876 (or, rather, why the money ran out). Second, and the main thrust of my argument, is that this particular magazine decentralized the idea that private and public spheres could not be transgressed unless some rhetorical trickery was afoot. For The Repository women's agency is not understood in the confines of the domestic sphere, but through articles about female missionaries the domestic sphere was always considered to be doing public good. I argue that the articles in The Repository oriented women to an idea of western expansion that called on them to missionize or support itinerant husbands in order to see America manifest from sea to shining sea. Finally, while many narratives of westward expansion in America characterize the frontier, or any land outside the geographical borders, as masculine, I argue that The Ladies' Repository gives scholars a sketch of a feminine, yet still uncharted West. To do this, I connect this westward expansion to Methodist understanding of nature, natural power, and God's providence. Through this, while men might have done the conquering of the West, women domesticated this unruly, and seemingly unbounded space.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Iliff_fsu_0071N_14579
Format: Thesis

Title: Defining Dramatic and Theatrical Interruptions Shakespeare, Jonson, Fletcher.
Creator: Wagoner, Michael Martin, Taylor, Gary, Salata, Kris, Gontarski, S. E., Bourus, Terri, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This study reconsiders power dynamics and authorial style through a study of the structure of interruptions. By considering this everyday occurrence as an aesthetic phenomenon, literary critics can more fully understand the relationships inherent in drama, itself a relational art form. This dissertation illuminates how the everyday becomes aesthetic and how the aesthetic helps us to comprehend the everyday. Interruptions are ubiquitous both in everyday life as well as within literature. While...
Show moreThis study reconsiders power dynamics and authorial style through a study of the structure of interruptions. By considering this everyday occurrence as an aesthetic phenomenon, literary critics can more fully understand the relationships inherent in drama, itself a relational art form. This dissertation illuminates how the everyday becomes aesthetic and how the aesthetic helps us to comprehend the everyday. Interruptions are ubiquitous both in everyday life as well as within literature. While sociologists and linguists have studied them in their quotidian occurrences, literary and performance scholars have almost completely ignored their aesthetic iterations. Some recent studies into this structure evaluate poetry and prose, but rarely consider drama, and even in the studies of prose and poetry, interruptions are deployed as a structure inherently understood. This dissertation offers a fuller consideration and evaluation by studying interruptions through their comprising elements and their distinctive types. This study examines early modern drama as an exemplary, influential moment of dramatic output, focusing on the works of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Fletcher. Through an informed neo-formalism, this dissertation reveals two significant aspects of interruptive structures. First, interruptions demonstrate dynamic power relationships not only among characters within a play, but also between an audience and a performer or a reader and a text. Second, interruption usages indicate aspects of authorial style, emphasizing a playwright’s use and control of a text and its implications/expectations. The chapters of the dissertation explore four types of internal interruptions, or those which an author writes into the text. Chapter Two examines dialogic microinterruptions, which are specific moments within dialogue where a conversant speaks out of turn. Through exemplary scenes within Volpone, The Tempest, and The Humorous Lieutenant, the chapter develops an understanding of both the shifting power relationships among the characters and how the playwrights approach those shifts in building character and community. Chapter Three examines another type of internal microinterruption, the self-interruption. By considering the methodology and rhetoric of stopping oneself on stage, the chapter reveals the emotional, manipulative, and comedic usages of the structure, while developing a reading of each author’s approach to interiority and character. The final two chapters focus on macrointerruptions, or those that disrupt larger governing structures within a text. Chapter Four explores dramaturgical macrointerruptions through audience expectations of structure. Through Jonson’s Grex in Every Man Out, Shakespeare’s surprise reveal of Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, and Fletcher’s exposition in The Chances, each playwright explores the possibilities of rupturing dramatic structures and the effects that such ruptures create for audiences. The final chapter examines interruption of theatrical conventions, specifically through the convention of male to female crossdressing. As this type of crossdressing was not as prevalent as female to male in the period, it presents an already interrupted convention, that the authors, in plays such as Epicene and The Loyal Subject, further complicate through the relationship between the convention and the expectation.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Wagoner_fsu_0071E_14385
Format: Thesis

Title: ¡Guerra Al Metate!: The Visuality of Foodways in Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920 1960).
Creator: Wolff, Lesley Anne, Carrasco, Michael, Herrera, Robinson A., Niell, Paul B., Bearor, Karen A., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: This dissertation considers foodways as a vital symbolic and material force in the arts of Mexico’s volatile postrevolutionary reconstruction (1920 – 1960). Although Mexican food history has stood at the forefront of a growing food studies movement, the field has been slow to appropriate image-based methodologies. Likewise, art history has been hesitant to embrace the historical performativity and materiality of foodways. This project thus seeks to fill a gap at the margins of food studies...
Show moreThis dissertation considers foodways as a vital symbolic and material force in the arts of Mexico’s volatile postrevolutionary reconstruction (1920 – 1960). Although Mexican food history has stood at the forefront of a growing food studies movement, the field has been slow to appropriate image-based methodologies. Likewise, art history has been hesitant to embrace the historical performativity and materiality of foodways. This project thus seeks to fill a gap at the margins of food studies and art history, particularly at the nexus of indigeneity and urbanization. The dissertation traces the shifting relationships between art and food during a period of rampant modernization, in which the rise of modern cookery through electrical appliances and industrial foodstuffs converged and clashed with the nation’s growing nostalgia for its pre-Columbian heritage. The book focuses on three case studies of artistic production and alimentary consumption—Tina Modotti and pulque, Carlos E. González and mole poblano, and Rufino Tamayo and watermelon—that highlight the various ways in which visual renderings of food were used to frame indigenous culture as both the foundation of and a threat to the modern state. Each case study engages the convergence of racial imaginaries, artistic production, and foodways to show how conflictive attitudes toward indigenous heritage and bodies were made manifest through images of food and foodways. Therefore, this project demonstrates how seemingly innocuous images of foodstuffs and consumption became implicated in a broader visual, experiential, and commercial battle over the definition of nationalist attitudes toward indigeneity. The manuscript consists of five chapters and an appendix. Chapter 1, “Introduction,” surveys Mexican food and art histories and establishes my intersectional framework. Chapter 2, “Nursing the Nation: Pulque and the Indigenous Body in Tina Modotti’s Baby Nursing,” argues that Tina Modotti’s celebrated photograph Baby Nursing (1926) invokes the problematic consumption of pulque, an indigenous fermented beverage, as a metonym for nationalist ideologies that simultaneously celebrate and rebuke indigenous lifeways. Chapter 3, “The ‘Spirit of Mexico’: Consuming Heritage in Café de Tacuba,” demonstrates how an iconic but previously unstudied painting depicting the mythic invention of mole poblano, commissioned for Mexico City’s famous Café de Tacuba (1946), negotiates modern consumption by evoking colonial production. Chapter 4, “Mister Watermelon/Señor Sandía: Fruitful Anxieties in the Work of Rufino Tamayo,” argues that Rufino Tamayo’s still life mural Naturaleza muerta (1954), commissioned for the Sanborns department store café, mediated the state’s aggressive removal of fruteros [informal fruit vendors] by acting as both an icon of Anglophone modernity and a visual celebration of Mexican tropicalia. Chapter 5, “The Colonial in the Contemporary: On the State of Mexican Gastronomy,” presents the book’s conclusions while engaging in a critique of Mexico’s contemporary gastronomic movement and its reliance upon colonial aesthetics to veil Mexico City’s socio-economic fragmentation. The Appendix catalogues recipes for pulque, mole poblano, and watermelon-based dishes, all of which have been compiled from nineteenth- and twentieth-century cookbooks and manuscripts.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Wolff_fsu_0071E_14737
Format: Thesis

Title: Sacred Reality: Transhumanism in American Religious History.
Creator: Leverage, Megan A., Corrigan, John, Ruse, Michael, McVicar, Michael J., Drake, Jamil William, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: This dissertation explores what is religious about transhumanism, a cultural and intellectual movement that seeks to transcend the limits of the human condition by means of new science and technology. Specifically, I examine how transhumanism is situated within the context of American religious history, especially with respect to postwar new religious movements. Previous studies have focused almost exclusively on the Judeo-Christian apocalypticism of transhumanism, but in this study I...
Show moreThis dissertation explores what is religious about transhumanism, a cultural and intellectual movement that seeks to transcend the limits of the human condition by means of new science and technology. Specifically, I examine how transhumanism is situated within the context of American religious history, especially with respect to postwar new religious movements. Previous studies have focused almost exclusively on the Judeo-Christian apocalypticism of transhumanism, but in this study I consider the religious nature of the embodied, "real" world orientation of transhumanism. That is, what is religious (and American) about realizing the promises of religion in the here-and-now and by natural and scientific means alone? Using historical methods, including, intellectual, institutional, and microhistorical approaches, I trace transhumanism back to several religious contexts, namely, the modern skeptical movement, secular humanism, and most broadly, American Spinozism. This project is also comparative. Each chapter examines transhumanism within its religio-historical context as well as transhumanism’s interactions and relationships with other new religious and cultural movements, including, the Human Potential Movement, Scientology, the paranormal, posthumanism, New Atheism, Mormonism, and others. Contrary to popular belief, transhumanism is deeply entrenched in the history American religions. By illuminating an understudied network of postwar religious movements, of which transhumanism is part, this project contributes to the fields of American religious history and new religions studies.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Leverage_fsu_0071E_14689
Format: Thesis

Title: Spectacle Lynching and the NAACP's Push for Anti-Lynch Legislation: A Reception Study of the Claude Neal Lynching.
Creator: Correa, Pablo, Houck, Davis W., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Graves, Brian, McDowell, Stephen D., Florida State University, College of Communication and Information, School of...
Show moreCorrea, Pablo, Houck, Davis W., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Graves, Brian, McDowell, Stephen D., Florida State University, College of Communication and Information, School of Communication
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Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the historical and cultural context of lynching and lynching trends in scholarship and places Claude Neal's lynching within that context. The dissertation provides a detailed account of the Neal lynching by comparing previous accounts of his lynching supplemented with an analysis of primary documents. Further, the dissertation examines how NAACP secretary Walter White staged a rhetorical campaign that situated Claude Neal at the center of their renewed push for...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the historical and cultural context of lynching and lynching trends in scholarship and places Claude Neal's lynching within that context. The dissertation provides a detailed account of the Neal lynching by comparing previous accounts of his lynching supplemented with an analysis of primary documents. Further, the dissertation examines how NAACP secretary Walter White staged a rhetorical campaign that situated Claude Neal at the center of their renewed push for Antilynching legislation. White worked with Senator Edward Costigan of Colorado and Senator Robert Wagner of New York to reintroduce the Costigan-Wagner Antilynching bill in the 1935 Congressional proceedings. This dissertation examines the ways in which Claude Neal's lynching has been interpreted and used by White and the NAACP in their push for Federal antilynching legislation through the 1935 Costigan-Wagner bill. Finally, the dissertation ends with a look at how lynching has become the root of systemic racism in America that manifests today in police brutality, criminalization of black men, unequal medical care, housing, education for black people. Through a discussion on Equal Justice Initiative's new memorial, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama, it examines how public memory and efforts to memorialize lynching aid in the reconciliation process.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_Correa_fsu_0071E_14879
Format: Thesis

Title: Now I Am in Distant Germany, It Could Be That I Will Die: Colonial Precedent, Wartime Contingency, and Crisis Mentality in the Transition from Subjugation to Decimation of Foreign Workers in the Nazi Ruhr.
Creator: Osmar, Christopher Michael, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Maier-Katkin, Daniel, Williamson, George S., Hanley, Will, Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreOsmar, Christopher Michael, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Maier-Katkin, Daniel, Williamson, George S., Hanley, Will, Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: By the end of the Second World War over half a million foreign civilians were living within the confines of a system of forced labor in and around the Ruhr region of Germany. While the use of some degree of coercion had characterized this foreign labor deployment scheme since its institution in 1939, mass execution was not introduced as a tool for controlling foreign workers until September 1944. What prompted this resort to extreme violence? The conventional explanation for so-called crimes...
Show moreBy the end of the Second World War over half a million foreign civilians were living within the confines of a system of forced labor in and around the Ruhr region of Germany. While the use of some degree of coercion had characterized this foreign labor deployment scheme since its institution in 1939, mass execution was not introduced as a tool for controlling foreign workers until September 1944. What prompted this resort to extreme violence? The conventional explanation for so-called crimes of the end phase of this sort has been that the collapse of German society at the end of the war removed constraints on ideologically committed perpetrators who had become increasingly radicalized and brutalized by the war, creating a vacuum of authority where they could act on violent impulses. This dissertation seeks to correct the prevailing view, arguing instead that moments of crisis activated longstanding institutional and cultural norms that endorsed specific kinds of violence within specific contexts, and that a series of these crises in western Germany prompted the resort to executions as a temporary measure to prevent societal collapse within a restructured but still functioning system of authority. This dissertation traces the genealogy of end phase violence and the wider system for controlling forced labor back to the German colonial experience. Colonial notions of extracting labor within the tight controls of an apartheid regime persisted into the Third Reich, as did patterns of thinking that criminalized resistance to domination and justified the utilization of extreme violence when resistance occurred within a climate of crisis. Still, there was not a straight line from Africa to the mass execution of foreign workers in the Ruhr, and norms established in the colonies were malleable and subject to change when confronted by historical contingency. Nazi conception of race and community elaborated on the colonial foundation, while the subsequent conquest and subjugation of people in the East, along with the experience of the partisan war in the Soviet Union, further refined ideas about managing coerced labor and resistance to it. The Second World War also introduced problems that had not been encountered in the colonies. With the weaponization of morale, Allied and National Socialist propaganda organizations vied for control of both attitudes about foreign workers and the attitudes of the foreigners themselves. The strategic bombing campaign was an important component of this morale war in which foreign workers would play a role. In considering the protection to afford to foreigners threatened by bombs, German captors were confronted with questions about how to balance economic and ideological needs, and often determined that the lives of foreigners were expendable. In the end, Germany won the morale war, and the will of the people to continue to resist did not break. The Allies were victorious, however, in the propaganda battle over perceptions of foreigners, succeeding in instilling a deep fear of an impending foreigner uprising the minds of German security forces. When the war front finally reached the German border it brought with it a crisis that would prompt a shift in the Gestapo's frame of reference from that of domestic policing to that of rear-area security. This shift activated norms for combating recalcitrant forced laborers developed in the colonies and filtered through the experience of the anti-partisan war. Even in the end phase, however, crisis was not a perpetual state. The Gestapo's reliance on violence fluctuated as the intensity of the emergency ebbed and flowed with the local contingencies of the war. Amidst these crises Berlin reorganized the Gestapo in the Ruhr and relinquished some of its authority over them, but it remained intact and continued to engage with local, regional, and national authorities in negotiating its execution policy.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_Osmar_fsu_0071E_14915
Format: Thesis

Title: Dancing with a Ghost: Reckoning with the Legacy of Racial Vioelnce in North Florida in the 1920s.
Creator: Martinez, Meghan Helena, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, Grant, Jonathan A., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Florida State University,...
Show moreMartinez, Meghan Helena, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, Grant, Jonathan A., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Mooney, Katherine Carmines, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This work employs historical memory as a theoretical framework in which to explore racial violence in Florida in the 1920s. Focusing on Baker County and Taylor County, I explore the ways in which white memory was (and is) commemorated in public spaces while black memory is often relegated to a more private sphere. Because black memory is underrepresented in archives and public spaces, black citizens and their experiences have been, in many ways, left out of the historical record. In both...
Show moreThis work employs historical memory as a theoretical framework in which to explore racial violence in Florida in the 1920s. Focusing on Baker County and Taylor County, I explore the ways in which white memory was (and is) commemorated in public spaces while black memory is often relegated to a more private sphere. Because black memory is underrepresented in archives and public spaces, black citizens and their experiences have been, in many ways, left out of the historical record. In both communities, violent atrocities were committed against African Americans who lived there. I explore the long-term effects of these incidents and how local residents continue to contend with or commemorate their past. This work also examines how memories concerning racial violence and southern identity are created and maintained.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_Martinez_fsu_0071E_14922
Format: Thesis

Title: Tempered Inclusion: Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian Immigrants and Progressive Era Policy Making, 1894-1924.
Creator: Soash, Richard E., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Edwards, Leigh H., Sinke, Suzanne M., Garretson, Peter P., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Taken as a whole, the progressive reformers who interacted with Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian immigrants generally tried to help, rather than hinder, the two peoples as they began to adjust to life in the United States. Many of the same reformers who sought to aid the two groups were strong nativists who disliked southern and eastern European immigrants’ occupational and political choices and considered Asian immigrants too “alien” to assimilate into the United States. Yet several self...
Show moreTaken as a whole, the progressive reformers who interacted with Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian immigrants generally tried to help, rather than hinder, the two peoples as they began to adjust to life in the United States. Many of the same reformers who sought to aid the two groups were strong nativists who disliked southern and eastern European immigrants’ occupational and political choices and considered Asian immigrants too “alien” to assimilate into the United States. Yet several self-described progressives – both pluralists who accepted most ethnic groups and xenophobes who feared and detested the majority of immigrants – helped the Syrian-Lebanese and Armenians in a variety of ways. They helped the immigrants find employment in the United States. They defended the two groups as “White” and therefore as eligible to become U.S. citizens. And, when passing discriminatory legislation against immigrants from the Asian continent, progressives in Congress carved out exceptions for the two groups. When officials create immigration policy, they are drawing legal lines of inclusion and exclusion. Sometimes the divide falls along the lines of ideology, other times the line is drawn to separate groups of people by geography, class, or religion. As policy-makers work through this process, their biases can have a dramatic effect on immigrants’ lives. The Syrian-Lebanese and Armenians understood the importance of emphasizing the ways in which their socio-economic characteristics aligned with the socio-economic preferences of the era’s policy-makers. This dissertation interrogates the apparent contradiction of progressive nativists advocating in favor of Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian immigrants. By doing so, this work illustrates the intricacies of progressive era policy-making and the far-reaching impact that obscure Congressmen, a lame-duck Senator, and officials buried deep within the federal bureaucracy could have on the lives of everyday individuals trying to navigate life in their new country.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Su_Soash_fsu_0071E_14528
Format: Thesis

Title: The Bible, the Classics, and the Jews in Pseudo-Hegesippus: A Literary Analysis of the Fourth-Century De Excidio Hierosolymitano 5.2.
Creator: Bay, Carson M., Levenson, David B., Kelley, Nicole, Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla, Goff, Matthew J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: The late fourth-century work often called Pseudo-Hegesippus, or De Excidio Hierosolymitano (On the Destruction of Jerusalem), is a rendition of Jewish history from the second century BCE to 70/74 CE. It ends with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 and a brief mention of the Jewish mass-suicide atop Masada in 74. In effect, it is a Christian attempt to write the Jews out of history. Within this literary enterprise, the work enlists biblical traditions and classical rhetorical habits and motifs...
Show moreThe late fourth-century work often called Pseudo-Hegesippus, or De Excidio Hierosolymitano (On the Destruction of Jerusalem), is a rendition of Jewish history from the second century BCE to 70/74 CE. It ends with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 and a brief mention of the Jewish mass-suicide atop Masada in 74. In effect, it is a Christian attempt to write the Jews out of history. Within this literary enterprise, the work enlists biblical traditions and classical rhetorical habits and motifs to construct an aesthetically- and ideologically-compelling history. Though based upon Flavius Josephus' Jewish War in large part, this work is a Christian history written for particular discursive purposes; namely, to explain why Jerusalem's and the Temple's destruction in 70 CE marked the effective historical endpoint of the Jews. This dissertation illustrates and explores the character of this text through what is arguably its most interesting and important chapter: Book 5, Chapter 2. It shows how the author creatively interweaves biblical references to key characters and episodes to construct an anti-Jewish rhetoric. It argues that this text must be understood in the light of the classical tradition. The Greek and Roman authors of classical antiquity established a tradition that prescribed particular ways of articulating the past and the people that populated it. Pseudo-Hegesippus draws heavily upon these traditions. This dissertation illustrates this in detail, and explores the particular rhetorical contours of De Excidio as a text involved in constructing a past-tense Jewish identity for a fourth-century Christian audience. In so doing, it exposes an important and understudied source for our knowledge of fourth-century Jewish-Christian relations; it reveals a new angle on nascent Christian historiography in its formative period; and it shows to what extent Greco-Roman literature can function as important framing comparanda for reading Christian literature from late antiquity.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_Bay_fsu_0071E_14861
Format: Thesis

Title: Recognizing the 'Learned Lady' in the English Upper Class, 1750-1860.
Creator: Kent, Kimberly A., Upchurch, Charles, Williamson, George S., Sinke, Suzanne M., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Class is one of the most frequently invoked analytic categories used in the study of British history. Yet, as recognized by scholar Eileen Boris, "class as a category of analysis is pervasive, but taken for granted instead of problematized in the field as a whole." This is perhaps especially true in the way that class intersects with questions of gender. Works such as Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall's, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 and Anna Clark's...
Show moreClass is one of the most frequently invoked analytic categories used in the study of British history. Yet, as recognized by scholar Eileen Boris, "class as a category of analysis is pervasive, but taken for granted instead of problematized in the field as a whole." This is perhaps especially true in the way that class intersects with questions of gender. Works such as Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall's, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 and Anna Clark's The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class have illustrated how English women experienced class differently from their male counterparts in both the Middle and Working classes within this period. However, there is no equivalent body of study which seeks to explore the disparity in privilege and agency amongst upper-class women. While elite men were ensured certain standards of agency and privilege, defended by legal systems and patriarchal societal expectations; women within the upper-classes enjoyed no such guarantees or protections. The 'Learned Lady' paradigm is a strategy designed to better recognize the way one kind of upper-class woman subverted gendered norms of behavior to exercise agency and privilege, without sacrificing her social respectability.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Fall_Kent_fsu_0071N_14543
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