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Title: "But where is his voice?: " The Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence During the Holocaust.
Creator: Whitman, Kayleigh, Department of History
Abstract/Description: For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His...
Show moreFor the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His Holiness. While this thesis does not deliver a verdict against Pius, it does address the important question of how the contemporary reader can understand what has been written and the evolution of the charges that have been placed against him. In this paper Rolf Hochhuth serves as the leading example for the critics and Father Robert Graham S.J. serves as his defense counterpart. Beginning with these two men and their arguments, I examine the charges and responses of both the defenders and the critics during the controversial years of the 1960s and 1990s. Through this study I have found that though the Vatican's records remain sealed limiting the pool of information for researchers, the debate has continued to thrive because of the difference in perception of the two sides. The critics place their emphasis on the moral responsibility of the pope and the defenders focus their arguments on the political responsibility and implications of the pope's actions during this uncertain time.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0346
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Trafalgar Square Conservation Area": Deconstructing Spatial Narratives with/in a Collective Framework.
Creator: Bergholtz, Joel, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Abstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In...
Show moreAbstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In deconstructing these narratives, it attempts to find implicit meaning in what is explicitly inscribed into the land, and to examine this meaning alongside the social narrative that its occupants hold. This constructed narrative is explored through three frameworks: that of the physical framework of the square, those spatially enacted frameworks leading into it, and the larger collective framework of the city to which the square contributes. It finds that the frameworks of public space generally work toward establishing and authorizing a unifying ideological connection between the present society and societies of the past. However, these narratives are dependent on individual agents participating in the space's various frameworks; the meaning of a space is obfuscated by a society's current participant's usage of the space. In addition to this obfuscation, it discovers that the past role of a space can obfuscate the present meaning and role of the space in the overall framework, and that the present meaning can in turn obfuscate how individuals relate to and interpret the past.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0294
Format: Thesis

Title: Agency, Gender, and the Law in Slave Narratives.
Creator: Thomas, Alexandra, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes...
Show moreThis thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes the common elements discussed and represented in accounts of enslaved people and analyses the concept of a slave narrative.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0400
Format: Thesis

Title: Along freedom’s road: Ruth Willis Perry and the discourse of civil rights.
Creator: Cray, Adam F.
Date Issued: 2005-07-26
Identifier: 160602, FSDT160602, fsu:18990
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Asserting indigenous nationalism: Bolivia and the struggle for self-determination.
Creator: Weiss, Olivia V.
Date Issued: 2006-05-24
Identifier: 160495, FSDT160495, fsu:18938
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Blake's and Shelley's Reader Responses to Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost.
Creator: Noud, Jennifer, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of Milton's Satan are evident through their works. Blake's works that are examined are "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," an eleven-page poem, Milton, an epic poem, and the illuminated printings of Milton's Paradise Lost. Shelley's works that are studied are...
Show moreThis study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of Milton's Satan are evident through their works. Blake's works that are examined are "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," an eleven-page poem, Milton, an epic poem, and the illuminated printings of Milton's Paradise Lost. Shelley's works that are studied are Prometheus Unbound, a closet lyrical drama, and "A Defense of Poetry" which is an essay. Blake and Shelley believed that Satan was the proper hero of Milton's Paradise Lost. They both critiqued Milton's Satan by finding several imperfections in Paradise Lost. Both tried to surpass Milton by creating their own perfect version of Milton's Satan. Shelley goes a step beyond Blake when designing his Satan by producing a new tragic hero that does not have a hamartia.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0234
Format: Thesis

Title: The Bolshevik Party on Women's Rights and Equality 1917-1920.
Creator: Beck, Elizabeth, History
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with the opinions and views regarding women's rights and equality by the Bolshevik Party in Russia during the period of 1917 to 1920. This study examines the Bolshevik party's rhetoric involving gender issues, primarily that of women, and the proposed methods of creating a better environment for women. This work relies heavily on Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai's speeches and writings which express their views on women's equality and the rights of women. It also...
Show moreThis thesis deals with the opinions and views regarding women's rights and equality by the Bolshevik Party in Russia during the period of 1917 to 1920. This study examines the Bolshevik party's rhetoric involving gender issues, primarily that of women, and the proposed methods of creating a better environment for women. This work relies heavily on Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai's speeches and writings which express their views on women's equality and the rights of women. It also relies on the writing of Louise Bryant, a woman from the United States who was present during the Bolshevik revolution for the initial six months, as she expresses her own opinions on the work of the Bolshevik party regarding women's rights. This thesis addresses the initial steps made by the Bolshevik party towards liberating women and creating gender equality during 1917-1920, but primarily deals with the ideas expressed regarding the issue.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0004
Format: Thesis

Title: A Changing Promised Land: The Southern Baptist Convention and the Civil War.
Creator: Smith, Dalton L., Department of History
Abstract/Description: Before the final political division of Union and Confederacy leading to the Civil War, the people of the United States had already begun to separate on idealogical levels along geographical lines. In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention separated from Baptists in the North based on their desire to be equally represented in the convention and northern feelings that slave owners could not participate in some aspects of convention work, namely mission work. The paper focuses on the growth of...
Show moreBefore the final political division of Union and Confederacy leading to the Civil War, the people of the United States had already begun to separate on idealogical levels along geographical lines. In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention separated from Baptists in the North based on their desire to be equally represented in the convention and northern feelings that slave owners could not participate in some aspects of convention work, namely mission work. The paper focuses on the growth of the Southern Baptist Convention through the beginning of the Civil War, examines the difficulties the convention faced during the war, and finally how the Convention recovers during and after Reconstruction. This research follows both the political and intellectual shifts of influential Southern Baptists and is based almost entirely on primary resources, such as sermons, letters and meeting notes, taken from those influential Southern Baptists.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0579
Format: Thesis

Title: Charles IV: Religious Propaganda and Imperial Expansion.
Creator: Crowley, Stephanie, Art History
Abstract/Description: The Bohemian Charles IV (1316 – 1378) was crowned King of Bohemia in 1347, King of the Romans in 1349, and Holy Roman Emperor in 1355. At the time of his death, he had successfully expanded the borders of the Holy Roman Empire to include the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Burgundy, the Duchy of Pomerania, and he had himself crowned King of Lombardy. The artwork Charles IV commissioned played a major legitimizing role in this imperial expansion. My study investigates the artistic program...
Show moreThe Bohemian Charles IV (1316 – 1378) was crowned King of Bohemia in 1347, King of the Romans in 1349, and Holy Roman Emperor in 1355. At the time of his death, he had successfully expanded the borders of the Holy Roman Empire to include the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Burgundy, the Duchy of Pomerania, and he had himself crowned King of Lombardy. The artwork Charles IV commissioned played a major legitimizing role in this imperial expansion. My study investigates the artistic program of Charles IV in relation to his active promotion of religious cults devoted to three carefully selected saints; St. Wenceslas, St. Charlemagne, and St. Sigismund. I argue that the emperor employed a widespread and calculated artistic program to lay the foundations for his dynasty by creating strong visual ties between himself, his heirs, and the aforementioned royal saints while simultaneously promoting local devotion to those saints. In a detailed examination of the Crowned Reliquaries of Charles IV, the Holy Cross Chapel, and the Madonna of John Očko of Vlašim, I will prove the effectiveness of the emperor's expansive artistic campaign in shaping the way he was perceived in contemporary society, despite his contested ascent to the Bohemian and imperial thrones. I argue that the widespread artistic program of Charles IV was ultimately successful because, by the end of his rule, propagandistic themes common to artwork commissioned by the emperor were present in privately commissioned artwork as well.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0008
Format: Thesis

Title: Colonial Autonomy: Maryland's Legal Foundation.
Creator: Corkell, Liam, Department of History
Abstract/Description: The colony of Maryland, granted to Lord Baltimore by Charles I in 1632, was the host of considerable, political turmoil regarding the scale of the royal governor's authority. The Charter of Maryland granted Baltimore, for all intents and purposes, the authority of a liege lord within the province, with the intention of making the chartered colony as close a parallel to England as was physically achievable. However, with the withdrawal of supervision from across the Atlantic in the mid 17th...
Show moreThe colony of Maryland, granted to Lord Baltimore by Charles I in 1632, was the host of considerable, political turmoil regarding the scale of the royal governor's authority. The Charter of Maryland granted Baltimore, for all intents and purposes, the authority of a liege lord within the province, with the intention of making the chartered colony as close a parallel to England as was physically achievable. However, with the withdrawal of supervision from across the Atlantic in the mid 17th century, Maryland, like several of its fellow colonies, began to grapple with the idea of political autonomy. Although the sentiment behind this newly found desire for self-management was nowhere near the extent that it would be during the Imperial Crisis more than a century later, the royal governorship was effectively challenged, both in London, and North America. In this political environment, Maryland, with the absence of royal supervision, functioned not only as a colony, but as an autonomous, quasi-independent state.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0299
Format: Thesis

Title: Cool but Correct: Humanitarian Discourse and the US Justification for Intervention in Chile.
Creator: Forehand, Kristen D., Department of History
Abstract/Description: Intervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that humanitarian discourse, while present in the Spanish-American War of 1898, became essential to the US during the Cold War. Rationalizing the 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende, the US relied on anticommunist...
Show moreIntervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that humanitarian discourse, while present in the Spanish-American War of 1898, became essential to the US during the Cold War. Rationalizing the 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende, the US relied on anticommunist rhetoric joined with accusations that Allende violated Chileans' rights. However, the overthrow led to a brutal dictatorship. Thus, the thesis interrogates primary sources such as declassified government documents, speeches, memoirs, films, murals and music to discover hidden meanings. It employs the methodology of subaltern history as articulated by Ranajit Guha to investigate sources contrapuntally. Therefore, the thesis sheds light on the vaguely understood connection between imperialism and humanitarian intervention. The thesis utilizes a theoretical prism informed by Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Žižek and David Smith to understand how language can justify humanitarian intervention. Finally, the thesis adds to Latin American history and the history humanitarian intervention, specifically the scholarly works of Peter Kornbluh, Steve J. Stern and James Peck. I argue that the US manufactured rhetoric to gain approval for policies that would have otherwise been opposed. Following the Cold War, anticommunist justifications for intervention became less prevalent. However, humanitarian discourse continues. In many cases, the language becomes a façade for less noble reasons to intervene. Thus, Chile continues to provide a model for intervention in the name of protecting human rights.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0556
Format: Thesis

Title: A Cross-Cultural Look at a Meaningful Life and a Happy Life.
Creator: Batista, Rafael, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: There are many characteristics of a good life including a sense of meaning and happiness. A historical introduction presented here illustrates this dual conceptualization as existing since ancient times. Recent work by Baumeister, Vohs, Aaker, and Garbinsky (2013) revealed key differences between a meaningful life and a happy life. Meaningfulness, for example, was associated with integrating past, present, and future thinking, whereas happiness was primarily present-oriented. While...
Show moreThere are many characteristics of a good life including a sense of meaning and happiness. A historical introduction presented here illustrates this dual conceptualization as existing since ancient times. Recent work by Baumeister, Vohs, Aaker, and Garbinsky (2013) revealed key differences between a meaningful life and a happy life. Meaningfulness, for example, was associated with integrating past, present, and future thinking, whereas happiness was primarily present-oriented. While meaningfulness and happiness have each been studied independently across cultures, a cross-cultural comparison of the two has yet to be published. Baumeister (1991) suggests purpose, values, efficacy, and self-worth are universal needs for meaningfulness. Surveying students from Turkey (n = 124) and the United States (n = 231) we replicate previous findings and present empirical data supporting universal needs for meaningfulness while arguing for the inclusion of a fifth universal need: belongingness.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0412
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Debating and Defining: Historical Memory and America's Reaction to the French Revolution.
Creator: Diskin, Harrison M., Department of History
Abstract/Description: Beginning in 1789, Americans reacted to the French Revolution with the vociferous passion of a people whose very identity was at stake. Indeed this was precisely the case, for in the face of a new definition of revolution emanating from France, Americans were forced to confront the fragility and mutability of the legacy of their own. American supporters of the French Revolution therefore both consciously and unconsciously redefined the terms of their own revolution in a manner which...
Show moreBeginning in 1789, Americans reacted to the French Revolution with the vociferous passion of a people whose very identity was at stake. Indeed this was precisely the case, for in the face of a new definition of revolution emanating from France, Americans were forced to confront the fragility and mutability of the legacy of their own. American supporters of the French Revolution therefore both consciously and unconsciously redefined the terms of their own revolution in a manner which functioned to destabilize the foundations of the nascent country still struggling to survive, while those who spoke and wrote against the French did so in an effort to reassert what they considered as having been their Revolution's original terms.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0571
Format: Thesis

Title: E42: Architecture and the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy.
Creator: Ciampittiello, Masha, Art History
Abstract/Description: During the reign of Benito Mussolini (1925–1943), Italian architects reevaluated the purpose and direction that modernism had taken in Italy, reorienting its previous focus on progressive, functional architecture for the masses to include political propaganda for the state. From the Novecento, Rationalist, and Futurist movements, the Regime chose designs that referred back to the stark monumentality of Imperial Rome. This thesis argues that despite such constraints, Italian architects managed...
Show moreDuring the reign of Benito Mussolini (1925–1943), Italian architects reevaluated the purpose and direction that modernism had taken in Italy, reorienting its previous focus on progressive, functional architecture for the masses to include political propaganda for the state. From the Novecento, Rationalist, and Futurist movements, the Regime chose designs that referred back to the stark monumentality of Imperial Rome. This thesis argues that despite such constraints, Italian architects managed to find innovative solutions and novel forms for representing Italian fascist rhetoric, producing a great deal of individual variation within the architectural schools with which they were associated. Support for Mussolini's empire rested on popular mythologizing about the former Roman Empire and the belief among Italians that the nation and its people were destined to revisit its glory. The propagandistic forms designed by Italian architects employed by the state, as I argue, reflect this understanding as to the role of classical heritage in the present and the place of individual innovation. The principal evidence for my claim is the architecture and urban planning associated with the aborted Esposizione universale of 1942 (colloquially known as E42). The state used this suburban network of exhibition halls to display the supremacy of contemporary Italian culture by making reference to classical Roman antiquity and to a lesser extent the monumental forms of the Renaissance. My study investigates the ways in which the architects of E42, in seeking to integrate the masses on a personal level with the political ideology of the state, referenced Roman antiquity and the Renaissance, thereby visualizing connections between Mussolini's empire and the successful authoritative governments of Italy's past. I provide a detailed assessment of E42 and the various architectural schools competing for state sponsorship in order to demonstrate that the production of Italian fascist visual culture was contingent to a greater degree than has previously been acknowledged upon the notion that the state fostered some measure of individualism in artistic design.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0095
Format: Thesis

Title: Exploitation of Labor in College Football: A Comparison of Arguments.
Creator: O'Dea, Heather, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis uses parallels in the theories of amateurism in college athletics and paternalism in slavery to better understand college football as a system of exploitation of labor. To provide the reader with a background of these theories, it begins with in-depth explanations of their developments and various components. This study focuses on the similarities in arguments made by proponents of both theories, and pays particular attention to the idea that these systems of exploitation...
Show moreThis thesis uses parallels in the theories of amateurism in college athletics and paternalism in slavery to better understand college football as a system of exploitation of labor. To provide the reader with a background of these theories, it begins with in-depth explanations of their developments and various components. This study focuses on the similarities in arguments made by proponents of both theories, and pays particular attention to the idea that these systems of exploitation supposedly benefit those exploited. It compares the argument that college athletics creates for athletes the opportunity to receive a "free education" with the notion of slavery "saving" Africans by introducing them to Christianity. Through analysis of these arguments and the findings of multiple studies that examine the experiences of those exploited, this thesis reveals the inherent logical fallacies of these theories and the impact they have on those that operate under these exploitative systems.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0372
Format: Thesis

Title: Faux Finishes: Water-Based Mediums Compared to Oil-Based Medium.
Creator: Noyes, Rebeccah, School of Theatre
Abstract/Description: An introductory technical manual to faux finishing with an oil medium, Proceed Low-Viscosity Glazing Medium, Adicolor Wetedge Medium, and Nova Color Gloss Medium. It compares the the oil medium to the three water-based mediums in four areas: application technique, aesthetic quality, environmental impact, and personal hazard.
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0407
Format: Thesis

Title: Female Aristeiai and Women in Masculine Roles in Epic Literature.
Creator: Chasteen, Bethany, Department of Classics
Abstract/Description: This honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia as a tool used by an author to foreshadow the success or failure of a character in battle in Homer's Iliad, Vergil's Aeneid and in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy. There is an exploration of German scholar Tilman Krischer's model which tracks the process that a...
Show moreThis honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia as a tool used by an author to foreshadow the success or failure of a character in battle in Homer's Iliad, Vergil's Aeneid and in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy. There is an exploration of German scholar Tilman Krischer's model which tracks the process that a hero undergoes in his aristeia as well as how his model fits other masculine Greek heroes in the Iliad. An analysis of some works by J.G. Howie on Krischer's work is included. Aristeiai for Hera in book 14 of the Iliad and Dido in book 4 of the Aeneid are proposed, following the model by Krischer. Comparison of the Amazonian warrior Penthesileia to the Greek hero Achilles is performed and an analysis of her role as a warrior in Quintus of Smyrna's Fall of Troy.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0187
Format: Thesis

Title: From Rubrication to Typography: Die geesten of geschiedenis van Romen and the History of the Book in the Low Countries.
Creator: Gibbons, Jacob, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I...
Show moreThe development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I will discuss the changes in the structuring and layout of books at the end of the fifteenth century, with a particular focus on "rubrication," the strategic use of red ink to guide readers' eyes through the pages of the medieval manuscript. Despite the development of printing and its affordances for using font, size, and spatial arrangement of the text to orient the reader, rubrication continued to be used in complex and multivalent ways throughout early printing. A detailed case study of several early print and manuscript editions of the Gesta Romanorum—one of the most popular storybooks of the Late Middle Ages—reveals a gradual transition from the use of rubrication and other visual cues in the medieval manuscript to the spatially-typographically oriented printed book. This transition was characterized by continuity and measured evolution—rather than an abrupt shift to something as concrete as "print culture"—in which the new technology emulated its predecessor as it progressively developed its own identity and made its own imprint on literate society.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0207
Format: Thesis

Title: Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire: external hindrances to economic development from colonization to structural adjustment.
Creator: Selman, Caleb
Date Issued: 2005-12-23
Identifier: 160415, FSDT160415, fsu:18900
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Heretical Visual Journey into the Apocrypha.
Creator: Ondina, Eric, Department of Art
Abstract/Description: This thesis is both a research paper and a personal reflection which explores the connections between several formative apocryphal texts and my most recent series of paintings. It is through the medium of painting that I have analyzed and visually distilled these heretical narratives into a duel-part body of work. Through this I intend to illuminate the mysteries of our ancient spiritual past, demonstrate these apocryphal scriptures significance and influence in later Jewish, Christian, and...
Show moreThis thesis is both a research paper and a personal reflection which explores the connections between several formative apocryphal texts and my most recent series of paintings. It is through the medium of painting that I have analyzed and visually distilled these heretical narratives into a duel-part body of work. Through this I intend to illuminate the mysteries of our ancient spiritual past, demonstrate these apocryphal scriptures significance and influence in later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theology, illustrate the fallibility in the argument for divinely ordained scripture, and ponder the question of how our worldly civilization's history and culture would appear had these books become canonical.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0214
Format: Thesis

Title: Historical Writing in the Hijazī Nahda: The Writings of Muhibb Al-Din Al-Khatib as a Vehicle for the Modern.
Creator: Holmes, Phillip C., Program in Middle Eastern Studies
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the position of the Hijazi Nahda in the intellectual history of the Middle East by analyzing how historical writing shaped the character of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite state. Examining the Hijazi newspaper al-Qibla and the writings of its chief editor Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib, this thesis explores how the discipline of history developed within the medium of print in the Hijaz and how that development influenced notions of citizenship, law, rights, and religion....
Show moreThis thesis examines the position of the Hijazi Nahda in the intellectual history of the Middle East by analyzing how historical writing shaped the character of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite state. Examining the Hijazi newspaper al-Qibla and the writings of its chief editor Muhibb al-Din al-Khatib, this thesis explores how the discipline of history developed within the medium of print in the Hijaz and how that development influenced notions of citizenship, law, rights, and religion. Historical writing in al-Qibla increasingly became a sign for the modern and defined how perceptions of time and space were understood within its readership while altering the nature of authority, legitimacy, and statehood. This thesis argues that the Hijazi Nahda remained the only movement focused upon the nation-state model and shows how that orientation influenced the development of historical writing within the Hijaz.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0547
Format: Thesis

Title: How the Culture of Eastern Europe Affected the Rise and Development of communism.
Creator: Hazzard, Karissa, History
Abstract/Description: As a philosophy for the masses, Karl Marx, combined the essential components of both socialism and nationalism to create an ideology that would aid in shaping the latter part of the Twentieth Century: Communism. Many facets of a country's political culture combine to compose the overall environment of a country. The manipulation of these components is how communists were able to develop and dominant within these countries. There are three countries that represent the extreme spectrum of the...
Show moreAs a philosophy for the masses, Karl Marx, combined the essential components of both socialism and nationalism to create an ideology that would aid in shaping the latter part of the Twentieth Century: Communism. Many facets of a country's political culture combine to compose the overall environment of a country. The manipulation of these components is how communists were able to develop and dominant within these countries. There are three countries that represent the extreme spectrum of the communist takeover: Bulgaria, with its historic ties to Russia, Poland, with Russia as its traditional adversary, and Yugoslavia, which developed communism completely independent of Russia and did not bend to Moscow's rule. While communism too different paths to get established, each nation felt a desire for change and a feeling of despair and failure with Western political ideology. These sentiments were evident in the different sectors of the culture during the development, establishment, and domination of the communist party. The elements most important for communist rule are the tensions between the majority ethnicity and the multiplicity of ethnic minorities, the focus of individuality versus communalism and the economic status of the country at the end of WWII versus the initial performance of the communist governments. Other factors include the development, actions, and platform of the communist party, the relationship of the communist party with the Soviet Union, and the use of the military in the communist takeover. although these differed in each country, the outcome was the same by 1948: communist rule.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0015
Format: Thesis

Title: Humanizing the Enemy.
Creator: Cook, Anna, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis studies how the shift in American popular perception of the Japanese changed and shows how Japan's relationship with the United States changed from that of an enemy to ally in the mid-1950s. The cause of this positive change in U.S.-Japan relations can be directly linked to that of the Occupation of Japan, particularly the American servicemen stationed in Japan for occupation duties. When these servicemen returned home, many with Japanese war brides, there was an initial negative...
Show moreThis thesis studies how the shift in American popular perception of the Japanese changed and shows how Japan's relationship with the United States changed from that of an enemy to ally in the mid-1950s. The cause of this positive change in U.S.-Japan relations can be directly linked to that of the Occupation of Japan, particularly the American servicemen stationed in Japan for occupation duties. When these servicemen returned home, many with Japanese war brides, there was an initial negative perception of the Japanese women. However, this changed drastically in the mid-1950s. After careful review of the change in American public opinion, it can be seen that the relationships formed between the American GIs and the Japanese caused the shift in American popular opinion and made an eventual alliance with Japan possible. This thesis is based off of research on primary resources from two archival institutes along with media publications such as newspapers and magazines. Not only does this thesis incorporate original military documents and journal publications from the archives at the U.S. Army Military History Institute but it also uses letters, diaries, manuscripts and occasional transcribed oral histories from the World War II and the Human Experience Institute. These resources were a bulk of the primary sources for this thesis; however, there is also an incorporation of original media in order to portray the social condition of American opinion of the Japanese. In this thesis each primary resource was considered for its bias and was treated accordingly.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0118
Format: Thesis

Title: The Importance of Geographical Background of Supreme Court Appointments in the Period of 1830-1920.
Creator: Abbatiello, Shawna M., Department of History
Abstract/Description: This paper analyzes the complex relationship of United States Supreme Court appointments with the appointees' geographical background. With a focus on the period of 1830-1920, this research will examine possible reasons why no justice has ever hailed from Florida in particular, and the importance of appointees' geographical background as a whole. First, I discuss the ideological reasons that made geography so important but yet may have prevented a justice from Florida, and then I examine the...
Show moreThis paper analyzes the complex relationship of United States Supreme Court appointments with the appointees' geographical background. With a focus on the period of 1830-1920, this research will examine possible reasons why no justice has ever hailed from Florida in particular, and the importance of appointees' geographical background as a whole. First, I discuss the ideological reasons that made geography so important but yet may have prevented a justice from Florida, and then I examine the practical implications of circuit riding and its relations to geographical importance. Finally, the paper looks at Nixon's failed appointment of G. Harrold Carswell who, though technically labeled a Floridian, had equal ties to the state of Georgia. Using Florida as a case study of the larger issue, this paper will then examine the judiciary's role in nation building and politics.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0480
Format: Thesis

Title: In the Footsteps of Clara Schumann.
Creator: Falling, Frances, College of Music
Abstract/Description: I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research topic in my music history class last year, I chose Clara – focusing on her growth from Wunderkind to mature artist, how she has greatly influenced the customs of concerts, and how she championed composers that we consider "greats" today. Throughout the research...
Show moreI first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research topic in my music history class last year, I chose Clara – focusing on her growth from Wunderkind to mature artist, how she has greatly influenced the customs of concerts, and how she championed composers that we consider "greats" today. Throughout the research process I became more and more intrigued by Clara. She was not only a female performer and composer, and therefore pioneer in her time, but she also carved out a unique partnership with her husband, Robert Schumann. This paper led to my idea for an Honors Thesis Project. Many of the current scholarly works about Clara Schumann have not been translated into English. I was able to contact four of the living research authors and they were amazingly receptive and supportive of my inquiries. This film not only traces the footsteps of Clara Schumann, it also introduces these German scholars to the Florida State University community. Interviews with them bring the life and times of Clara Schumann to life, while also providing valuable insight into how music scholars work. The enthusiasm of these musicologists who live, breathe, and study their subject, certainly inspired me and I believe their insights will spark curiosity in those who have not yet heard of Clara Schumann. This project encompasses not only a short version of all the footage and interviews I took during my journey, but also full-length documentary film, to be available in the music library before I graduate.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0422
Format: Thesis

Title: Irreconcilable Worlds: A Shift in the Relationship between Japanese Women and the Other World beginning with Literature from the 1950s.
Creator: Evans, Jessica M., Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: There has been a shift in how the relationship between Japanese women and the other world is portrayed in Japanese popular culture: the shift is important because it reflects societal beliefs that have undergone a drastic alteration. This previously unsuccessful and death-ridden relationship has recently seen the addition of successful endings in the 1980s. This shift can be seen in both literature and folk tales. According to Ian Reader, folk tales can be regarded as folk religion, which in...
Show moreThere has been a shift in how the relationship between Japanese women and the other world is portrayed in Japanese popular culture: the shift is important because it reflects societal beliefs that have undergone a drastic alteration. This previously unsuccessful and death-ridden relationship has recently seen the addition of successful endings in the 1980s. This shift can be seen in both literature and folk tales. According to Ian Reader, folk tales can be regarded as folk religion, which in turn reflects the beliefs of the common people.1 As such, ancient tales and The Legends of Tono can all be seen as representing contemporary beliefs of the other world by the people. Folklore recorded in the Kojiki and Fudoki can be read as reflecting societal beliefs, and the shift seen in my sources can therefore reflect a change in society. More modern literature also illustrates a belief in the other world, as can be seen in works from the 1980s, such as Kitchen and Alseep by Banana Yoshimoto, as well as in manga. All of the stories I will examine below feature a relationship between Japanese women and the other world. Looking at literature may help us to better understand religious changes in modern society, by investigating the mangas and literary depictions of successful relationships.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0470
Format: Thesis

Title: Landscape and Identity in the Work of Albert Huie, Edna Manley and Osmond Watson.
Creator: Assam, Alexis, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: My aim in this paper is to investigate this history of Jamaican through the lens of twentieth-century Jamaican art from the theoretical perspectives of cultural landscape and identity studies, specifically by focusing on the work of Albert Huie and his contemporaries. I examine the formal and stylistic qualities of these artists' works and speculate on how they operated within their cultural milieu, specifically as agents in the production of discourses about Jamaica. My project poses two...
Show moreMy aim in this paper is to investigate this history of Jamaican through the lens of twentieth-century Jamaican art from the theoretical perspectives of cultural landscape and identity studies, specifically by focusing on the work of Albert Huie and his contemporaries. I examine the formal and stylistic qualities of these artists' works and speculate on how they operated within their cultural milieu, specifically as agents in the production of discourses about Jamaica. My project poses two main questions: first, what do these works say about Jamaican art in terms of the representation of race in Jamaican society? Second, what is the state of Jamaican art history and how can a more sophisticated examination of these artists and their work through landscape and identity studies constructively contribute to the historiography? These artists broke through cultural and ideological barriers in an attempt to transcend colonized thought and bring forth ideas that served to decolonize the Jamaican people and promote Black Nationalism. My analysis of Jamaican art from the 1930's through the 1970's has brought Osmond Watson into the discussion of Jamaican art history in relation to two of its most well-known artists Edna Manley and Albert Huie in the discussion of the decolonization of Jamaican art. These artists helped to ideologically rework the island's cultural landscape away from the British perception and control of the colonial landscape; into a national landscape of an independent-minded Jamaica and Manley, Huie, and Watson change the way Afro-Jamaicans are represented in the art of the island.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0573
Format: Thesis

Title: Legislating the invisible hand: the Port of London and the Atlantic World, 1750-1815.
Creator: Seeber, Kevin
Date Issued: 2006-05-23
Identifier: 160411, FSDT160411, fsu:18898
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Local Diets, Global Foods: The Dietary Habits of Ivorian Immigrants in the United States.
Creator: Rojas, Alfredo, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: Food production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral...
Show moreFood production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral relationships persist abroad. My fieldwork among West African immigrants in Atlanta, GA reveals that immigrants use mass-produced African foods to sustain their diets and moral relationships in order to avoid foods produced in the United States. In the United States, immigrant women usually cook for themselves, their husbands, and friends. Men with no strong moral ties to an African woman may have to resort to fast food unless they can cook. My research attempts to explain these relationships.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0333
Format: Thesis

Title: A Nation Apart: Nationalism and Tribalism in Kurdistan.
Creator: Resha, Adrienne, Program in International Affairs
Abstract/Description: The relationship between nationalism and tribalism in Kurdistan is a nuanced one that has, and will continue to have, an important role in efforts to create an independent Kurdistan. The Barzani family, a politically influential group of neo-tribal origins, presents a case study of the relationship between nationalism and tribalism. The Kurdish ethnic identity has a long history and, over the course of this history, it has not had a national identity secured by political borders. Kurds have...
Show moreThe relationship between nationalism and tribalism in Kurdistan is a nuanced one that has, and will continue to have, an important role in efforts to create an independent Kurdistan. The Barzani family, a politically influential group of neo-tribal origins, presents a case study of the relationship between nationalism and tribalism. The Kurdish ethnic identity has a long history and, over the course of this history, it has not had a national identity secured by political borders. Kurds have found the most independence in operating as a semi-autonomous region in Northern Iraq. Members of the Barzani family, including Mullah Mustafa Barzani and his son, Massoud Barzani, holding the presidential office today, have governed this semi-autonomous region as members of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP). Nationalism is defined as both the attitude of peoples who are concerned with their own national identity and the collective actions taken by a people in pursuit of self-determination. Tribalism is defined in a Middle Eastern context as being a sort of "balanced opposition." In this "balanced opposition," everyone is a member of a set of kin groups that organize, while remaining decentralized, for the purpose of creating alliances with purposes such as defense. Neo-tribalism is defined as a return to tribal factions without the once necessary kin ties that would have united tribal groups. Neo-tribes may be comprised of individuals, families, or similar groups who have come together like a tribe in order to capitalize on the political power of tribes that they may not be entitled to through their own lineages. The Barzani family is an example of this in that they do not come from tribal origins, but have come together as a neo-tribe and employed their group power in politics and government in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0381
Format: Thesis

Title: Nietzsche's Transgression: Philosopher as Criminal.
Creator: Hettig-Rolfe, Kasey, Department of Philosophy
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates the figure of the criminal within Nietzsche's thought in order to generate a more profound understanding of Nietzsche's relationship with the philosophies that he critiques. In particular, there is a concern that Nietzsche cannot himself escape the crime which he accuses his philosophical predecessors of committing. This investigation was motivated by a suspicion of interpretations which attempt to stabilize Nietzsche's thought into pronouncing a clear moral...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the figure of the criminal within Nietzsche's thought in order to generate a more profound understanding of Nietzsche's relationship with the philosophies that he critiques. In particular, there is a concern that Nietzsche cannot himself escape the crime which he accuses his philosophical predecessors of committing. This investigation was motivated by a suspicion of interpretations which attempt to stabilize Nietzsche's thought into pronouncing a clear moral imperative or which attempt to situate him in a strict and violent opposition with the entire history of philosophy. By conducting an investigation on Nietzsche's portrait of the philosopher as the "criminal of criminals," I generate an account of how Nietzsche's critical philosophy simultaneously does and does not commit the crime which he has levied against his opponents. This paradoxical crime which reverberates through Nietzsche's body of work reveals what I have termed a "daemonic" conception of truth and value being communicated between the lines of Nietzsche's texts.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0189
Format: Thesis

Title: An Ontological Argument and an Inquiry into the Possibility of God.
Creator: Bernstein, Czar, Department of Philosophy
Abstract/Description: In this paper I shall defend an ontological argument (OA) from the concept of perfection whose only two dubitable premises are (i) that God's existence is metaphysically possible, and (ii) it is necessarily the case that contingent beings are not perfect. Since I take (i) to be the most important premise in any OA, and since current defenses of this premise tend to be rather underwhelming, I devote a considerable amount of ink to its defense. In defense of (i) I demonstrate that all...
Show moreIn this paper I shall defend an ontological argument (OA) from the concept of perfection whose only two dubitable premises are (i) that God's existence is metaphysically possible, and (ii) it is necessarily the case that contingent beings are not perfect. Since I take (i) to be the most important premise in any OA, and since current defenses of this premise tend to be rather underwhelming, I devote a considerable amount of ink to its defense. In defense of (i) I demonstrate that all perfections are compatible and that this, in conjunction with the necessary and sufficient conditions of possibility, provides us with good reason to think that it is true. Finally, I amend a premise in another contemporary OA so that it is true and then argue that it entails the truth of (i). I take (ii) to be much more obvious than (i). Nevertheless, I do provide arguments for (ii) from the existence of abstract objects and from the nature of perfections. I then examine some common objections to OAs, such as parody objections, and conclude that they need not bother proponents of the OA. The conclusion is that there are good reasons to suppose that all of the premises in the OA are true such that theists have good reason to suppose that God exists. I do not argue that these arguments rationally compel atheists to believe in the existence of God. This is a problem I leave to the reader to ponder.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0213
Format: Thesis

Title: Oxford Romance: Male Homosexuality in Modernist Literature.
Creator: Carper, Kelsey, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Gregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, "It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the emergence of male homosexuality as a significant issue in the make-up of incidental characters and even, in many cases, of central characters" (192). Homosexuality makes a large appearance in many modernist works, as Woods argues, and yet male homosexuality,...
Show moreGregory Woods states in A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, "It would be difficult – though many critics have managed it, perhaps inadvertently – to take an overview of flourishing Modernist fiction without acknowledging the emergence of male homosexuality as a significant issue in the make-up of incidental characters and even, in many cases, of central characters" (192). Homosexuality makes a large appearance in many modernist works, as Woods argues, and yet male homosexuality, in particular, is greatly overlooked or outright denied by scholars when discussing modernist novels. Woods' assertion is a response to early scholarship that has notably ignored and rejected the existence of romantic relationships between male characters that clearly shared intimate bonds. Unfortunately, there has continued to be a large gap of scholarship to really refute these statements of denial. In dismissing these relationships, critics ignore an important aspect of modernism. By including homoerotic relations in their novels, modernist writers presented a forum for their society to explore relations that would have been considered taboo or even punishable, which can be observed in the 1928 trial against Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness, or the Labouchere Amendment that prosecuted homosexual men in Britain from 1885 until 1967.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0425
Format: Thesis

Title: The Performativity of the Creation of Visual Art.
Creator: Jordan, Jasmine, School of Theatre
Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0319
Format: Thesis

Title: The Power of Memory and Manipulation in Anglo-Norman England: Symeon, St. Cuthbert, and Durham Cathedra.
Creator: Sauer, Michelle L., Department of History
Abstract/Description: Cultural memory is the collective perception of a group on their own history, and the way in which remembrance and emphasis of specific elements of that history build the identity of a culture. The formation and alteration of cultural memory throughout history has become an important area of interest in the field of history, as this building of identity and memory informs how cultures operate and view themselves to this day. English memory has been built and changed throughout time by various...
Show moreCultural memory is the collective perception of a group on their own history, and the way in which remembrance and emphasis of specific elements of that history build the identity of a culture. The formation and alteration of cultural memory throughout history has become an important area of interest in the field of history, as this building of identity and memory informs how cultures operate and view themselves to this day. English memory has been built and changed throughout time by various invading groups, and has contributed to the enduring legacy of the British people that exists to this day. This project seeks to examine the ways in which the cultural memory of the Anglo-Saxon people was altered after the Norman Invasion through historical propaganda, particularly the writings of Symeon of Durham, and the building of Durham Cathedral. Symeon, a Norman monk in Durham, is a figure who shows the power of memory in the middle ages, as he effectively rewrote the history of the monks who came before him, giving the new Norman population of Durham an imagined history of themselves in that place. The Normans also built Durham Cathedral as a way to consolidate power and legitimize their reign through an emphasized devotion to the religious scene in Durham. Through analysis of historical documents and religious art used as a means of political and religious manipulation by the Normans, this thesis examines the pre-Norman cultural memory of Durham and delves into the ways that perception changed to include the Normans and merge the two groups into one.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0563
Format: Thesis

Title: Rescue the perishing: reform activity of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and an examination of the Magdalene Union of North Tampa, Florida, 1905-1922.
Creator: Kaufmann, Caroline E.
Date Issued: 2006-11-14
Identifier: 160727, FSDT160727, fsu:19046
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Rhetoric of Acts: A Critical Analysis.
Creator: Roche, Megan, School of Communication
Abstract/Description: Rhetoric is an agent of the kind of persuasion designed to produce conviction. Conviction is the motivation of Christianity as a Social Movement. The New Testament book of Acts is the harbor for the launching of the movement of Christianity. By critically analyzing the rhetorical devices used in this book, this Thesis offers a discussion of the discovered rhetorical devices and the way in which they influenced the forward propelling of Christianity.
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0193
Format: Thesis

Title: Rugs and Silver, Artists and Craftsmen: The Development of Artistic Autonomy in Southwestern Native American Art.
Creator: Sunnergren, Victoria A., Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: The two styles that best exemplify the cultural interaction integral to the artistic development of Native American art in the American southwest are Navajo weaving and Hopi silver overlay. These two styles show that the development of Native American art styles in the American southwest is the result of hundreds of years of social interaction and artistic experimentation. While much has been written on Navajo weaving, and to a lesser extent on Hopi silver overlay, this will be among the...
Show moreThe two styles that best exemplify the cultural interaction integral to the artistic development of Native American art in the American southwest are Navajo weaving and Hopi silver overlay. These two styles show that the development of Native American art styles in the American southwest is the result of hundreds of years of social interaction and artistic experimentation. While much has been written on Navajo weaving, and to a lesser extent on Hopi silver overlay, this will be among the first scholarly works to link the two as similar models for the development of art styles under the forces of cultural interaction, and to link those models to the expression of gendered and racial identities in artwork. The somewhat surprising results of this research, as demonstrated here, is that what is perceived as traditional design has its roots in the dictates of early traders and other non-natives, and that contemporary artists in these fields are utilizing these techniques for autonomous artistic expression, in some cases defying assumptions of traditional gendered roles. This paper benefits greatly from my fieldwork during the summers of 2014 and 2015, which includes personal interviews and interactions with traders and artists, as well as general knowledge gained from time spent among the Native American arts community in the southwest. This paper also builds on existing research by art historians and anthropologists in many ways.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0451
Format: Thesis

Title: The Russian bell: did the Soviets alter the zvon?.
Creator: McGurgan, Heather., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This research will determine whether the Soviet efforts to first silence, then substitute, annihilate, and finally alter the church bell succeeded in changing its importance in Russian culture and society. Through historical analysis of the bell's role before and after the Soviet era, it is believed that the resurgence of the ringing tradition illustrates the cultural and social integrity of the bell in Russia--and furthermore, of Orthodoxy's hardiness, despite some intrusion on modernity's...
Show moreThis research will determine whether the Soviet efforts to first silence, then substitute, annihilate, and finally alter the church bell succeeded in changing its importance in Russian culture and society. Through historical analysis of the bell's role before and after the Soviet era, it is believed that the resurgence of the ringing tradition illustrates the cultural and social integrity of the bell in Russia--and furthermore, of Orthodoxy's hardiness, despite some intrusion on modernity's part. It is hoped that this will not only shed some light on a rarely discussed yet vital tradition in Russia, but also will illustrate the often disregarded continuity of Russian culture, even through the Soviet era.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: 468826476, 341763, FSDT341763, fsu:19332
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Seeing Red in Double Vision.
Creator: Yost, Austin, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis represents my attempt to broaden our understanding of the root causes and underlying nature of the Red Scare phenomenon. I cover both the Frist Red Scare of the early 1920s as well as the Second Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s. After considerable research, I came to the conclusion that the traditional understanding of anti-communism in the US - as a reactionary movement largely motivated by the international hostility of the USSR - provides us with only half of the...
Show moreThis thesis represents my attempt to broaden our understanding of the root causes and underlying nature of the Red Scare phenomenon. I cover both the Frist Red Scare of the early 1920s as well as the Second Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s. After considerable research, I came to the conclusion that the traditional understanding of anti-communism in the US - as a reactionary movement largely motivated by the international hostility of the USSR - provides us with only half of the truth. In fact, the development of public hysteria over perceived Soviet infiltration had far more to do with domestic circumstances than it had to do with foreign threats. Chief among these motivating factors was the state of the US economy. During the 1920s, when many poorer Americans felt they had been left behind by the post-war boom, the federal government's attempts to develop public hostility towards socialism failed somewhat. But after the Fair Deal and the GI Bill ensured a new, broader prosperity for the larger American public, it became easy to galvanize citizens in response to a perceived threat to their happy way of life.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0283
Format: Thesis

Title: Sorting out the callaloo: the effect of East Indian identureship on race relations in the former British Caribbean.
Creator: Phillips, Anne Marie
Date Issued: 2007-02-01
Identifier: 160348, FSDT160348, fsu:18869
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Sovereignty, Religion, and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs ) in Sudan, with a focus on the Nuba Mountains.
Creator: Marks, Madison, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis addresses the causes and consequences of displacement in Sudan. By focusing on the themes of sovereignty and religion throughout Sudanese history, the complex challenges of the long-standing Sudanese conflict become apparent. This is clear through a focus on the Nuba Mountains. Colonial rule had a direct impact in shaping contrasting visions for the future of a sovereign Sudanese state. After Sudan's independence in 1956, the question over the fusion or separation of religion and...
Show moreThis thesis addresses the causes and consequences of displacement in Sudan. By focusing on the themes of sovereignty and religion throughout Sudanese history, the complex challenges of the long-standing Sudanese conflict become apparent. This is clear through a focus on the Nuba Mountains. Colonial rule had a direct impact in shaping contrasting visions for the future of a sovereign Sudanese state. After Sudan's independence in 1956, the question over the fusion or separation of religion and state contributed to two devastating civil wars, resulting in the death of two million and displacement of four million. According to the concept of Sovereignty as Responsibility, a state's sovereignty depends upon its protection for the rights and wellbeing of its people. The Sudanese government has engaged in direct assaults against its own people, and has prevented humanitarian assessment missions and relief personnel from responding to affected populations. This model of regime-induced displacement has posed many questions regarding the best methods for protection of IDPs when their rights are being violated or threatened by their sovereign. This thesis also provides an analysis of the hopeful prospects for future protection of IDPs in Africa through increased regional accountability and placing the rights of the individual over the state. This thesis provides a framework for future conversations among international stakeholders, humanitarian aid organizations, civil society groups, academics, media personnel, and Sudanese to discuss the impacts of sovereignty and religion on displacement in Sudan. Moreover, this thesis seeks to fill a gap in research on the Nuba Mountains.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0151
Format: Thesis

Title: Staging Ireland: The Sociopolitical Import of John O'Keeffe's Comedies.
Creator: Hause, Brittany, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Despite the current general lack of critical acclaim for the works of John O'Keeffe (1747-1833), this study suggests that the stage comedies of the Dublin-born, London-residing playwright merit examination within the context of the notoriously conflicted relationship between the perceived nations of Ireland and England. Where some have claimed that O'Keeffe's plays pander to their London audiences by supporting English-constructed, debilitating stereotypes of Irishness, this study instead...
Show moreDespite the current general lack of critical acclaim for the works of John O'Keeffe (1747-1833), this study suggests that the stage comedies of the Dublin-born, London-residing playwright merit examination within the context of the notoriously conflicted relationship between the perceived nations of Ireland and England. Where some have claimed that O'Keeffe's plays pander to their London audiences by supporting English-constructed, debilitating stereotypes of Irishness, this study instead demonstrates that the comedies implicitly argue against nationalistic prejudice, critique the British government of O'Keeffe's day, and promote a less restricting view of what it is to be Irish or English, thereby deflating arguments in favor of an antagonistic opposition between the two countries.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0122
Format: Thesis

Title: A Study of Verism in Imperial Portraiture: Antoninus Pius to the Tetrarchy, 138-305 C.E..
Creator: Zook, Brianna, Department of Classics
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with the artistic style of verism during the later Roman Empire. This work examines the constructions which define verism and questions whether those attributes seen in the Roman Republican period translate into imperial portraiture in the later Roman Empire, specifically between 138 and 305 C.E. This study relies heavily on the work of Sheldon Nodelman and Susan Wood, but extends beyond the temporal scope on which these scholars had previously observed this phenomenon. This...
Show moreThis thesis deals with the artistic style of verism during the later Roman Empire. This work examines the constructions which define verism and questions whether those attributes seen in the Roman Republican period translate into imperial portraiture in the later Roman Empire, specifically between 138 and 305 C.E. This study relies heavily on the work of Sheldon Nodelman and Susan Wood, but extends beyond the temporal scope on which these scholars had previously observed this phenomenon. This work outlines the development of the veristic style from the Roman Republican period to the death of Hadrian, giving background on the uses and conventions found in this style. After the death of Hadrian, this work selects images which have traditionally been seen as belonging to some later style and reevaluates them to see if they possess the same veristic elements as those seen in the Roman Republic. When these stylistic attributes are present, this work seeks to situate the development of these attributes in the social and political ideology of the emperor, thereby explaining the reasoning behind the re-emergence of these traits.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0182
Format: Thesis

Title: Symbiosis: the relationship that led to Euthanasia Aktion T4 and medical experimentation on human subjects.
Creator: Jonczak, Hilary Kay
Date Issued: 2005-08-02
Identifier: 160721, FSDT160721, fsu:19043
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A tale of two cities: an analysis of factors for Genoese and Venetian expansion during the crusading era, as seen in their naval technology and tradition.
Creator: Zwilling, Andrew
Date Issued: 2007-02-01
Identifier: 160523, FSDT160523, fsu:18950
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The decline of African-American participation in Major League Baseball.
Creator: Barrow, Howard J
Date Issued: 2006-04-21
Identifier: 160314, FSDT160314, fsu:18852
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Judenrate: Jewish councils in the ghettos during the Holocaust.
Creator: Buck, Laura A.
Date Issued: 2005-06-24
Identifier: 160554, FSDT160554, fsu:18966
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Polish government and ethnic minorities: the effects of nationalism during the inter-war period.
Creator: Ricke, Amber Rose
Date Issued: 2005-08-03
Identifier: 160387, FSDT160387, fsu:18887
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The role of non-professional soccer clubs and leagues on Latin American immigrants in the United States.
Creator: Pratt, Jennifer C.
Date Issued: 2005-07-28
Identifier: 160369, FSDT160369, fsu:18878
Format: Document (PDF)

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