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Dissertations

Abbate-Winkel, Dee. 1995. “Voices, Mirrors, Names, and Dreams: A Case History of Participatory Management at Appalshop.” Ed.D. diss., Northern Illinois University. 280 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 2076A

Adams, Kathy Lynne. 2001. “The Making of Robots: Control and De-Skilling of Fourth-Grade Teachers in an Urban Appalachian School After the Implementation of the Ohio Proficiency Test.” Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 119 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1697A.

Adams, Sean Patrick. 1999. “Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths: The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810-1875.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Madison. 435 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3491A.

Adkins, Alfred Bradley. 2003. “Reaping the Whirlwind: A Psychological and Cultural Study of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud” [ W.Va., Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., Union Institute and University. 99 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4106B.

Agostini, Thomas Charles. 2002. “‘Cousins in Arms’: Experience and the Formation of a British-American Identity among Regular and Provincial Soldiers during the Seven Years' War.” Ph.D. diss., Lehigh University. 396 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1511A.

Ahn, Soeun. 1997. “Economic Analysis of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Trout Fishing in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.” Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 137 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4010A.

Alexander, John Murad. 1995. "The Design of a Book: Ethnographic Form in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Ph.D. diss., University of New York. 510 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3953A.

Algeo, Catherine Marie. 1998. “Tobacco Farming in the Age of the Surgeon General’s Warning: The Cultural Ecology and Structuration of Burley Tobacco Production in Madison County, North Carolina.” Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University. 233 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 842A.

Allen, April Diane. 2004. “The Social Importance of a Small-Town Theater: A Case Study of the Pulaski Theatre, Pulaski, Virginia” [1911 to present]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 162 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 326A.

Allen, Caffilene. 1996. "Mary Noailles Murfree's Literary Treatment of Cherokee-Caucasian Relationships in Eighteenth Century Tennessee." Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University. 244 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 2034A.

Amonkar, Mayur Mohan. 1997. “Matching Appalachians’ Preventive Services’ Utilization and Managed Care Strategies for Preventive Care” [underutilization of mammograms, breast physical exams, Pap smears, cholesterol and blood pressure screenings]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 382 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 6515B.

Andersen, Nancy Keever. 1999. “Cooperation for Social Betterment: Missions and Progressives in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1894-1921.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University. 284 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 309A.

Anderson, Bridget LeAnn. 2003. “An Acoustic Study of Southeastern Michigan Appalachian and African-American Southern Migrant Vowel Systems” [linguistics; 6 African American and 6 Appalachian white Detroit females]. Ph.D. diss, University of Michigan. 211 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3266A.

Anderson, Cynthia Diane. 1997. “The Social Consequences of Economic Restructuring in the Textile Industry: Change in a Southern Mill Village” [Fieldcrest Cannon; Kannapolis, N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 240 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3739A.

Anderson, Robert L. 2000. “Voices of Steel: New Left and Worker Resistance to Steel Industry Restructuring, Western Pennsylvania, 1979-1986.” Ph.D. diss., University of New Mexico. 420 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4433A.

Anderson, Robert Thomas. 2001. “The Transformation of the Upper Ohio River Valley” [18 th century]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 320 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 1511A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2123.

Andreescu, Viviana. 2000. “Beyond Myth, Toward Reality: Homicidal Violence in Appalachia in the 1990s.” Ph.D. diss., University of Louisville. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 338A.

Anthony, Darlene M. 2003. “Landscape Evolution and Cave Development Across the Appalachian Highlands in Response to Episodic Incision of the Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky, United States.” Ph.D. diss., Purdue University. 252 pp.

Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 1207B.

Applegate, Darlene Ann. 1997. “Lithic Evidence of Prehistoric Rockshelter Use in Eastern Kentucky.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 342 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1784A.

Arnold, Andrew Bernard. 2002. “Ordering Coal: Labor, Law, and Business in Central Pennsylvania, 1870--1900.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 387 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1094A.

Asbury, Robin Lynn. 2001. “Pitfalls, Promises, and Potential: West Virginia Community Colleges, Economic Development, and Senate Bill 547.” Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 159 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 1235A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2213.

Ashendel, Anita J. 1997. “‘She is the Man of the Concern’: Entrepreneurial Women in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1860" [Ky., Ohio, Ind.]. Ph.D. diss., Purdue University. 168 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4775A.

Ashurst, James Ray. 2002. “Rural Grief: The Grief Experience in Union County, Georgia” [eight males and 30 females from four age groups; in response to death of family member]. Ph.D. diss., Walden University. 105 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3463B.

Aurand, Harold Wilson J., Jr. 1998. “Regional Origin and Political Culture on the Upper Susquehanna Frontier, 1750-1800” [Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota. 286 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3937A.

Avery, Patricia Jo Kinman. 2001. “An Investigation of Music Education Rudiments in Selected American Tunebooks of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century: 1700 to 1900.” D.M.A. diss., Shenandoah University. 239 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2486A.

Bailey, Brent. 1999. “Social and Economic Impacts of Wild Harvested Products” [W.Va.; ginseng]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 111 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 12B. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=968.

Bailey, Rebecca J. 2001. “Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in Mingo County, 1793--1920” [W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 556 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2535A.

Baker, Christopher Warren. 1995. "The Small Town in the Global Economy: A Case Study of Development and Resistance in a Southern Appalachian Industrial Center." [Hamblen County, Tenn.] Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 324 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 884A.

Baker, Pamela L. 2003. “The National Road and the Promise of Improvement, 1802-1850.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Chicago. 255 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4174A.

Ballew, David Edwin, Jr. 2000. “The Popular Prejudices of Our People: Kinship, Community, and Male Honor in the Alabama-Mississippi Hill Country, 1820-1890.” Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi. 425 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 296A.

Barfield, Loretta May. 1994. “Family Influence on Fertility, Migration, and Aging: Coping and Adaptation in the Blue Ridge Province of Appalachia: Floyd County, Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 220 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 610A.

Barney, Sandra Lee. 1995. "'Accepting the Findings of Medical Science': Gender, Class and the Political Economy of Health Care in Central Appalachia, 1880-1935." [Ky., W.Va., Va.] Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 333 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1806A.

Barr, Daniel P. 2001. “Contested Land: Competition and Conflict Along the Upper Ohio Frontier, 1744-1787.” Ph.D. diss., Kent State University. 436 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 735A.

Barry, Joyce. 2004. “Mountaineers Are Always Free? An Examination of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia” [natural, economic, social and political impact]. Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University. 196 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 2247A.

Bassett, Dorothy Elizabeth. 1995. "Small Business Assistance Programs in Eastern Kentucky: Tailoring Services to Target Population Needs." Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 147 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2754A.

Batch, Rachel Ann. 2000. “Finding Stability in a Company Town: A Community Study of Slickville, Pennsylvania, 1916-1943” [immigrant families; coal mining; Westmoreland Co.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania. 386 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1043A.

Baumann, Robert William. 2003. “Three Essays on the Appalachian Region” [white poverty: wage and employment gaps]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 123 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 636A.

Bays, Kimberly Ann. 2003. “Beating the Odds: A Case Study of Post-Secondary Participation in Higher Education of Norton, Virginia High School Graduates.” Ed.D. diss., University of Virginia. 183 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 816A. Online link http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3083086.

Bean, Heather Ann Ackley. 1997. “Fly Pretty Bird: An Appalachian Woman’s Theodicy” [Migrants; Songs; Bird Symbolism]. Ph.D. diss., Claremont Graduate University. 199 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3177A.

Beard-Moose, Christina Taylor. 2004. “Public Indians, Private Cherokees: Indigenous Identity at the Intersection of Tourism, Acculturation, and Cultural Continuity” [ N.C.; Eastern Band of Cherokee]. Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa. 339 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1424A.

Beattie, Linda Elisabeth. 1997. “Tracking the Muse: A Study of the Nature of Creativity in Texts and Contexts of Selected Contemporary Kentucky Writers” [Jim Wayne Miller, Bobbie Ann Mason, Leon Driskell, James Baker Hall, Sena Jeter Naslund]. Ed.D. diss., Spalding University. 115 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 153A.

Beckner, Walton Thomas. 1994. “Pulling Time in Appalachia: A Comparative Study of Prison Argot.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 531-532A.

Beeman, Robert P. 1996. “The Pennsylvania Turnpike: An Historical Operating Technological Artifact” [includes cultural factors]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 361 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 5271A.

Beisswenger, Donald Andrew. 1997. “Fiddling Way Out Yonder: Community and Style in the Fiddle Music of Melvin Wine" [W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Memphis. 541 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2895A.

Benhart, John Edward, Jr. 1995. "Capitalism, Regional Development, and Place Formation: An Analysis of the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1860-1900" [Roane and Louden Counties, Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4514A.

Bennett, Milledge Franklyn. 1999. “Black Other: The Identities of Racially Mixed Native Americans in Northeastern Georgia” [Augusta, Ga.; tri-racial: Africans, American Indians, Europeans]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley. 182 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 1117A.

Berkey, Jonathan M. 2003. “War in the Borderland: The Civilians’ Civil War in Virginia’s Lower Shenandoah Valley” [Unionists and secessionists]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 324 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4592A.

Berry, Kenneth Wesley. 2000. “Landscapes of Healing: The Sick Self and Ecological Communities in Recent American Prose” [incl. Wendell Berry, Cormac McCarthy]. Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi. 197 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3168A.

Best, Ramona Goddard. 2002. “Perceptions of the Educational Experiences of Students Educated Exclusively in K--12 Rural Unit Schools in East Tennessee.” Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 166 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 429A.

Bicknell, Teresa Adele. 2001. “Faculty Perceptions of School Success in Four High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools in Appalachian Tennessee.” Ed.D. diss., Tennessee State University. 213 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 916A.

Biles, Rebecca S. 2000. “Regional Disparities in Welfare Reform: Appalachian Poverty and the Dilemmas of Public Policy” [welfare to work transition]. Ph.D. diss., University of Louisville. 210 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3385A.

Bingman, Mary Beth. 1995. "Appalachian Women Learning in Community" [Southwest Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 220 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2967A.

Binnicker, Margaret Duncan. 1999. “Erwin, Tennessee: Transformation of Work and Place in an Appalachian Community, 1900-1960” [Unicoi Co.; railroad, pottery]. D.A. diss., Middle Tennessee State University. 349 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4147A.

Black, Brian Clyde. 1996. "Petrolia: The Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom, 1859-1873" [social and cultural impact]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas. 425 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3089A.

Blackwell, Deborah Lynn. 1998. “The Ability ‘To Do Much Larger Work’: Gender and Reform in Appalachia, 1890-1935” [May Stone, Katherine Pettit, Eleanor Marsh Frost, Olive Dame Campbell, Mary Breckinridge]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 214 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3610A.

Blakeney, Anne Bacon. 2002. “Power, Politics, and Reproduction: ‘Teenage’ Motherhood in a Rural Appalachian County.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 272 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3992A.

Blalock, Kay J. 1998. “Shades of Green: Ethnic Diversity and Gender Considerations Among the Irish in a Southern Industrial Community, 1871-1921" [Birmingham, Ala.; mills, mines, political, cultural]. Ph.D. diss., University of Toledo. 259 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1307A.

Blevins, Brooks Robert. 1999. “A Social History of the Arkansas Ozarks” [19 th century to present]. Ph.D. diss., Auburn University. 451 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1721A.

Boggess, Carol B. 1995. "Following River of Earth from Source to Destination: A Critical and Contextual Study of James Still's Appalachian Classic." Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 252 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 211A.

Bohannon, Keith Shaw. 2001. “The Northeast Georgia Mountains during the Secession Crisis and Civil War.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 264 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4302A.

Bosman, Marcellus Martin. 2000. “Space, Power and Representation: The Case of ‘Team Toyota’ and the State of Kentucky” [Georgetown, Ky., assembly plant]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 361 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4127A.

Boyd, Lawrence William. 1993. “The Economics of the Coal Company  Town: Institutional Relationships, Monopsony, and  Distributional Conflicts in American Coal Towns.” Ph.D. diss.,  West Virginia University. 167 pp.  Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 4206A.

Brackenridge, Keith William. 1999. “Appalachian and Non-Appalachian School Districts in Ohio: A Comparative Study.” Ph.D. diss., Miami University. 156 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 946A.

Brammer, Charlotte Devon. 2002. “Identifying Southern Dialect Influences on Business Student Writing.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama. 166 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3533A.

Brandon, Stephen. 2003. “Sacred Fire and Sovereign Rhetorics: Cherokee Literacy and Literature in the Cherokee and American Nations, 1760-1841.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 244 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4049A.

Brashear, Charles Craig. 2000. “Election Ground: Place, Markets, and Class in East Tennessee’s Second American Party System” [1837-1844]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 215 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3729A.

Brennan, Mark Anthony. 2003. “Community Agency: A Comparison of Rural Community Action in Ireland and Pennsylvania.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 235 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4632A.

Brock, David Alan. 1996. "A Foundation for Defining Southern Shape-Note Folk Hymnody from 1800 to 1859 as a Learned Compositional Style." Ph.D. diss., Clarement Graduate School. 220 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 20A.

Brown, Malcolm B. 1997. “‘Is It Not Our Land?’: An Ethnohistory of the Susquehanna-Ohio Indian Alliance, 1701-1754.” Ph.D. diss., Oklahoma State University. 368 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1420A.

Brown, Margaret Lynn. 1995. “Smoky Mountains Story: Human Values and Environmental Transformation in a Southern Bioregion, 1900-1950. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky.” 258 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 1943A.

Brumfield, Susan Hendrix. 2000. “Jean Ritchie’s ‘Field Trip -- Scotland’: An Examination of Unpublished Field Recordings Collected in Scotland, 1952-1953” [transcriptions of 15 songs]. Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma. 291 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1669A.

Bryant, Angelia Shaw. 2000. “Relationship Between Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Gender-Equity Perceptions: A Study of the Appalachian Region of Kentucky.” Ed.D. diss., University of Louisville. 151 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4472B.

Bryant, Angelia Shaw. 2000. “Relationship Between Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Gender-Equity Perceptions: A Study of the Appalachian Region of Kentucky.” Ed.D. diss., University of Louisville. 151 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4472B.

Bryson, J. Scott. 1999. “Place, Space, and Contemporary Ecological Poetry: Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo, and Mary Oliver.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 212 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4008A.

Buchanan, Linda Rose. 1997. “Not Harvard, Not Holyoke, Not Howard: A Study of the Life and Death of Three Small Colleges” [Bowdon College, Ga.; Mary Sharp College, Tenn.; Simmons University, Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University. 414 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1213A.

Buckley, Geoffrey Littlefield. 1997. “Tapping the Big Vein: Coal Mining and Environmental Alteration in Maryland’s Appalachian Region, 1789-1906" [George’s Creek Valley; Allegany Co.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland. 291 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3662A.

Bukenya, James Obadiah. 2001. “An Analysis of Quality of Life, Income Distribution and Rural Development in West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 283 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2503A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2107.

Bundy, Rosemary Gray. 1997 “Identity Development and Student Involvement of African-American Undergraduate Students at Historically White Colleges and Universities in Southern Appalachia.” Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 208 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 2037A.

Burgraff, Donna L. 1995. "A Social/Cultural Perspective of the Development of Southern West Virginia Community College." Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 183 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2944A.

Burke, Dawne Raines. 2004. “Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865-1955” [Harpers Ferry, W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 477 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 437A.

Burkes, Constance Mae. 1995. "The Adjustment Problems of African-American Undergraduate Students Studying at West Virginia University." Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 337 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2369A.

Burkette, Allison Paige. 2001. “An Examination of Language Variation in a Small Blue Ridge Community” [western N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 181 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3025A.

Burkley, Margaret Nola. 1998. “Floyd County, Georgia, During the Civil War Era.” Ph.D. diss., Florida State University. 450 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3167A.

Burks, Jarrod D. 2004. “Identifying Household Cluster and Refuse Disposal Patterns at the Strait Site: A Third Century A.D. Nucleated Settlement in the Middle Ohio River Valley.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 335 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 4510A.

Cahill, Kevin John. 1999. “Fertilizing the Weeds: The New Deal’s Rural Poverty Program in West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 269 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 297A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1073.

Callahan, Richard Joseph, Jr. 2002. “Working with Religion: Industrialization and Resistance in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, 1910--1932.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara. 262 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2279A.

Cameron, Andrew Elliot. 1998. “A Real Options Model for the Evaluation of Telemedicine” [West Virginia Mountaineer Doctor TeleVision]. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan. 165 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 5300B.

Cameron, Mary E. 2001. “The Land Developer's Disputed Frontier: A Geographical Interpretation of Northwestern Pennsylvania Settlement, 1790--1820” [Erie and Crawford Cos.]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 241 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2845A.

Camp, Joe Hardin, Jr. 2002. “Birch Rod to Arsenal: A Study of the Naval Ordnance Plant at South Charleston, West Virginia and the Search for a Government Industrial Policy” [Kanawha Valley; Franklin D. Roosevelt]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 233 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2342A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2359.

Campbell, Diana Kaye. 1999. “‘Mutual Answerability’: Aesthetics, Ethics, Transgredients from Mikhail Bakhtin to Lee Smith to Leslie Marmon Silko” [Lee Smith’s 1992 novel Devil’s Dream]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 254 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 2915A.

Campbell, Roberta Marilyn. 1994. “Appalachian Experience and Appalachian Self-Concept: Toward a Critical Theory of Regional Identity.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 279 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 714A.

Carlson, Richard Allen, Jr. 2003. “‘Who’s your people?’: Cumulative Identity among the Salyersville Indian Population of Kentucky’s Appalachia and the Midwest Muckfields, 1677-2000.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University. 711 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4514A.

Carney, Virginia Moore. 2000. “A Testament to Tenacity: Cultural Persistence in the Letters and Speeches of Eastern Band Cherokee Women.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 313 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4433A.

Carr, Philip James. 1995. "Hunter-Gatherers, Mobility, and Technological Organization: The Early Archaic of East Tennessee." Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 263 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3183A.

Carson, James Taylor. 1996. "Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal." Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 382 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1288A.

Carter-Schwendler, Karen Lea. 1995. "Traditional Background, Contemporary Context: The Music and Activities of Jean Ritchie to 1977." Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 374 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2472A.

Casner, Nicholas A. 1994. “Acid Water: A History of Coal Mine  Pollution in Western Pennsylvania, 1880-1950.” Ph.D. diss,  Carnegie Mellon University. 297 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55: 1071A.

Chambers, Thomas A. 1999. “Fashionable Dis-Ease: Promoting Health and Leisure at Saratoga Springs, New York and the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860.” Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary. 413 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3097A.

Che, Deborah Lisa. 2000. “Tourism, Timber, and Manufacturing: Rural Restructuring, Commodification, and Institutional Relationships in Forest County, Pennsylvania” [Allegheny National Forest]. Ph.D. diss., Clark University. 318 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3706A.

Chhabra, Deepak. 2001. “Heritage Tourism: An Analysis of Perceived Authenticity and Economic Impact of the Scottish Highland Games in North Carolina” [Grandfather Mountain; Flora Macdonald]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 187 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4295B.

Churchill, Mary Cecilia. 1997. “Walking the ‘White Path’: Toward a Cherokee-Centric Hermeneutic for Interpreting Cherokee Literature” [women’s literature]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara. 291 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3734A.

Cleveland, Roger Craig. 1998. “Through Black Eyes: Perceived Key Factors that Affect the Academic Success of African American Students of Appalachian Descent.” Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 155 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1973A.

Clifton, Amanda Keedy. 1996. "Mission Women in the Southeast and on the Southern Plains, 1817-1861." [Mt. Holyoke; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Osage] Ph.D. diss., University of Memphis. 218 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 2639A.

Cockley, David Edward. 1996. “The Effect of Subsidized Primary Care Centers on Avoidable Hospitalizations in West Virginia Communities During 1988-1992” [57 centers surveyed]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 101 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 7477B.

Cockley, Suzanne K. 2003. “School and Community on Their Minds: Appalachian Perspectives on Education” [attitudes toward leadership and familial structure of schools]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 148 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 105A.

Colley, Sharon Elizabeth. 2002. “‘Getting Above Your Raising’: The Role of Social Class and Status in the Fiction of Lee Smith” [Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Peterson]. Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. 352 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2239A.

Concotelli, James Anthony. 1996. "The Influence of Culture on Participation in Nutrition Programs: A Case Study of Rural Appalachian Elderly." Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 114 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1272A.

Cook, Jeffery Blane. 1998. “The Ambassador of Development: Aretas Brooks Fleming, West Virginia’s Political Entrepreneur, 1839-1923” [governor (1890-93), coal magnate, business investor]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 402 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 2190A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=350.

Cook, Samuel Robert. 1997. “Monacans and Mountaineers: A Comparative Study of Colonialism and Dependency in Southern Appalachia” [Amherst Co., Va., and Wyoming Co., W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona. 429 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4325A.

Cordery, Renee Helene. 1999. “Addressing Issues of Domestic Violence Among Urban Appalachian Women and Their Families.” Psy.D. diss., Wright State University. 45 pp. Not listed in Dissertation Abstracts International.

Corey, Jean Thompson. 2000. “The Gendering of Literacies: The Reading and Writing Practices of Adolescent Girls in Rural Appalachia.” D.A. diss., Middle Tennessee University. 132 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2690A.

Corley, Elizabeth Ann. 2002. “Public Values and Spatio-Temporal Scales of Logging: A Case Study of Citizens and Experts in the Chattahoochee National Forest” [Ga.]. Ph.D. diss., Georgia Institute of Technology. 273 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2998A.

Cox, John Jobe. 2003. “Community Dynamics among Reintroduced Elk, White-tailed Deer, and Coyote in Southeastern Kentucky” [1997-2001; Redbird Wildlife Management Area, Daniel Boone National Forest]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 292 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 5290A.

Creamer, Kimberly. 2004. “Integration, Adaptation, and Change: An Ethno-History of Reading Instructional Methods at a Rural Primary School” [20 years; mountain community]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 102 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1302A.

Crouch, Eric A. 2003. “A Rural Perspective: A Study of the Utilization of Workforce Development in Selected Small Businesses in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in 2002.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 233 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3170A.

Cumfer, Cynthia Dee. 2001. “‘The Idea of Mankind is So Various’: An Intellectual History of Tennessee, 1768--1810” [“explores the ideas and cultural assumptions of the Cherokee and the white and black borderers who met”]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles. 632 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3158A.

Cummins, Linda K. 1996. "In and Out Homelessness and 'Making It on My Own': A Qualitative Study of Rural Women" [Ohio]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 360 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3252A.

Cummisk, Gary Thomas. 1995. "Appalachian Springs: Nature Writing and Environmental Views of the Southern Mountains." Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon. 275 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4093A.

Cushman, James E. 1978. “Beyond Survival (The Reemergence of the Small Church as the Center of Community in Rural West Virginia).” Ph.D. diss., Union Institute and University. 316 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 2229A.

Dabbs, Jennifer Mae. 1994. “Women and Men in Central Appalachia: A Qualitative Study of Marital Power.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Texas. 355 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 3331A.

Daily, Mark Alan. 1999. “Cultural Models of Forests and Ecological Change on the Appalachian Plateau, 1750-1840” [W.Va.; Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 305 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4070A.

Dalbey, Matthew. 1999. “Regional Vision versus Metropolitan Reality: Putting the Parkway in the Region, 1921-1936” [Skyline Drive, Va., and Green Mountain Parkway, Vt.]. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University. 352 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3817A.

Daniel, M. Jane. 1997. “A Case Study of Barriers to Adult Undergraduate Education As Perceived by Degree-Seeking Adults Enrolled at the University of Rio Grande” [Gallia Co., O.]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 157 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1538A.

Daniels, Anthony Hawthorne. 1997. “Empowering the African-American Church in Appalachia with a Focus on Youth and Alternative Funding” [Pulaski, Va.]. D.Min. diss., United Theological Seminary. 159 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4689A.

Darling, Ruth Ann. 1999. “The Experience of Rural, Southern Appalachian, First-Generation College Students at a University: A Narrative Study” [eight student interviewees]. Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 246 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 104A.

Davis, Donald Edward. 1993. “Where There Be Mountains:  Environmental and Cultural Change in the Appalachian South.”  Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee.  Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 758A.

Davis, Jeffrey Alan. 1997. “The Democratic-Republican Societies of Pennsylvania, 1793-1796" [frontier leadership; Whiskey Rebellion]. Ph.D. diss., Washington State University. 244 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1421A.

Davis, Luise Kalberkamp. 1995. “Wetlands Protection and Surface Mining in Pennsylvania: Effectiveness of the Permitting Program, 1980-1992.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 139 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 2966B.

Day, Douglas Turner, IV. 1994. “In the World of My Ancestors: The  Olive Dame Campbell Collection of Appalachian Folk Song, 1908- 1916.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania. 462 pp.  Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 55: 1352A.

Day, James Sanders. 2002. “‘Diamonds in the Rough’: A History of Alabama’s Cahaba Coal Field” [1840s-1950s]. Ph.D. diss., Auburn University. 301 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4059A.

Deakins, Mark Alan. 1999. “Appalachian Music, the Kentucky Education Reform Act, and Jesse Stuart: Preserving a Musical Heritage” [music in secondary school curricula]. Ph.D. diss., Union Institute. 456 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1057A.

Dean, Rebecca Kay. 1998. “I’ll Meet You in the Air: A Cultural Study of Appalachian Pentecostal Radio Preaching.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 349 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 2071A.

Dee, Christine Doyle. 2002. “Land Worth Fighting For: Scioto County, Ohio and Madison County, Alabama during the American Civil War.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University. 715 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1515A.

DeMeo, Thomas Eugene. 1999. “Forest Songbird Abundance and Viability at Multiple Scales on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 159 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 620B. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1059.

Denham, Sharon Ann. 1997. “An Ethnographic Study of Family Health in Appalachian Microsystems.” D.S.N. diss., University of Alabama at Birmingham. 447 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 2352B.

Denkler, Ann Elizabeth. 2001. “Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town” [Luray,Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland College Park. 202 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4216A.

Dennis, Jeffrey William. 2003. “American Revolutionaries and Native Americans: The South Carolina Experience.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame. 359 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 3689A.

DePalma, Margaret C. 2000. “Dialogue on the Frontier: Catholic and Protestant Relations, 1793-1883” [Ky., Ohio]. Ph.D. diss., Miami University. 343 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1130A.

Despain, Stanley Matthew. 2000. “The Mountain Man in American History and Culture.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma. 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1130A.

Dewees, Sarah. 1998. “The Role of Social Infrastructure in Rural Community Economic Development in Kentucky, 1970 to 1990” [98 county study]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 231 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3668A.

DiCiccio, Carmen Peter. 1996. “The Rise and Fall of King Coal: A History of the Bituminous Coal and Coke Industry of Pennsylvania from 1740-1945.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 560 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4777A.

Ditto, Susan C. 1998. “Conjugal Duty: Domestic Culture on the Southern Frontier, 1830-1910” [Miss.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi. 197 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3938A.

Documet, Patricia Isabel. 2001. Latinos' Health Care Access in Southwestern Pennsylvania.” Dr.P.H. diss., Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3987B.

Donehower, Kimberely Kay. 1997. “Beliefs About Literacy in a Southern Appalachian Community” [ten informants]. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota. 206 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 2190A.

Douglass, Thomas Edward. 1995. "The Other Side of Both Dreams: The Life and Work of Breece D'J Pancake." Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 332 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3955A.

Dowis, Joe Malcolm. 1996. “A Multivariate Analysis of the Political Motivation of the Religious Right in the Greenville County, South Carolina, School District” [71-question survey]. Ph.D. diss., Clemson University. 130 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4228A.

Drew, Bettina Lee. 2001. “Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery” [1767-1820]. Ph.D. diss., Yale University. 269 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3536A.

Druggish, Rick. 2003. “Nourishing Roots and Inspiring Wings: Building a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Southern Appalachia” [study conducted at two elementary schools and one college over three years]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 106 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4334A.

Duff, Betty Parker. 2004. “Class and Gender Roles in the Company Towns of Millinocket and East Millinocket, Maine, and Benham and Lynch, Kentucky, 1901-2004: A Comparative History.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maine. 264 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 662A.

Duggan, Betty Jean. 1998. “Being Cherokee in a White World: The Ethnic Persistence of a Post-Removal American Indian Enclave” [Ducktown Basin, Tenn., 1838-1910s]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 376 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 787A.

Dunaway, Wilma Alene. 1994. "The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World-Economy, 1700-1860." Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 1161 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 798A.

Dunmore, Ralph E. 2001. “Appalachian Essays from North Central Pennsylvania: A Forest History and Natural History of the Lost Run Watershed, with a Buddhist Emphasis.” Ph.D. diss., The Union Institute. 326 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 43B.

Dzialak, Matthew Richard. 2003. “Peregrine Falcon, Falco Peregrinus, Reintroduction in Cliff Habitat in Kentucky” [33 birds: Red River Gorge and Dorman State Nature Preserve]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 219 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 5861B.

Eason, Thomas Hunter. 2002. “Population Ecology of Black Bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park” [1968-1998]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 158 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2164B.

Eastman, Jane M. 1999. “The Sara and Dan River Peoples: Siouan Communities in North Carolina’s Interior Piedmont from A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1700.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 382 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4486A.

Eelman, Bruce William. 2000. “Progress and Community from Old South to New South: Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 1845-1880.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park. 504 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1573A.

Eilbert, Kay Wylie. 2003. “A Community Health Partnership Model: Using Organizational Theory to Strengthen Collaborative Public Health Practice” [W.Va.; New Orleans]. Dr.P.H. diss., George Washington University. 413 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 661B.

Elam, Constance. 2003. “That’s Just the Way It Was: Teacher Experiences in Appalachian Kentucky, 1930-1960” [Pike Co.; 16 retired teachers interviewed]. Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin. 225 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 58A.

Elliott, Sarah E. 1998. “Dead Bodies, Burned Letters, and Burial Grounds: Negotiating Place Through Storytelling in Contemporary Southern Fiction” [Clyde Edgerton, Lewis Nordan, Lee Smith, regionalism]. Ph.D. diss., Northern Illinois University. 165 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 741A.

Ellis Anne Michelle. 1995. "Theatre and Community Formation: Two Models of Self-Representation." [Roadside Theater] Ph.D. diss., Cornell University. 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2939A.

Ellis, Jay. 2003. “No Mind’s Compass: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.” Ph.D. diss., New York University. 377 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1652A.

Engelhardt, Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche. 1999. “Southern Appalachian Ecological Literature and Feminism: Women Authors Address the Land, 1890-1910.” Ph.D. diss., Emory University. 231 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1794A.

English, Beth Anne. 2003. “A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Massachusetts Textile Industry, 1880-1934” [relocation to N.C., S.C., Ga., Ala.]. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary. 317 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1816A.

Engstrom, James Denton. 1998. “Industry, Social Regulation, and Scale: The Carpet Manufacturing Complex of Dalton, Georgia.” Ph.D. diss., Clark University. 397 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1289A.

Ennis, Lynn Jones. 1995. “Penland and the 'Revival' of Craft 'Traditions': A Study of the Making of American Identities.” Ph.D. diss., Union Institute. 553 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 2297A.

Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn. 1996. “A Contest for Land: The Creek Indians on the Southern Frontier, 1796-1816” [Ala. and Ga.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 465 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 497A.

Evans, Betsy Erin. 2001. “Dialect Contact and the Northern Cities Shift in Ypsilanti, Michigan.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University. 110 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2741A.

Farmer, Jackie Dean, II. 1999. “‘If You Don’t Have Your Heart in It, Get Your Hind End Out of It’: Discursive Practices, Identification, and Power in the Sandy Valley Basin” [community solidarity; UMW/Pittston coal strike, 1989-1990]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 389 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 938A.

Faux, William V., II. 2004. “The Discursive Enactment of Anthracite Coal Miner Identity” [Pa.; interviews]. Ph.D. diss., University of Denver. 196 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1591A.

Fennell, Christopher Connor. 2003. “Consuming Mosaics: Mass-Produced Goods and Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac Region” [Harpers Ferry region, W.Va., Va., 1750-1865]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 764 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1725A. Online link http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3091166.

Fernandez, Wanda Louise. 2002. “Teacher Descriptions of How the Principal Influences the Culture of Southern Appalachian Rural Schools” [cultural values]. Ed.D. diss., Western Carolina University. 127 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2058A.

Flanagan, Barry Edgar. 2003. “Race, Employment and Poverty in Two New South Cities: The Case of Greenville-Spartanburg” [S.C.; blacks and Hispanics, 1960–2000]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 198 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3020A.

Ford, Jennifer Lee. 2001. “Landscape and Material Life in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1798--1838.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 133 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4304A.

Fotos, Michael A. III. 2000. “Organized Interests and the Implementation of Environmental Policy” [U.S. Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 283 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 748A.

Fowler, John Derrick. 2000. “Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America” [East Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 385 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3731A.

Fox, Jan Isobel. 2000. “Review of the Factors Influencing the Satisfaction of Learning in Online Courses at Marshall University.” Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 128 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 95A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1345.

Francis, Sam Wilson. 1998. “Plant Communities of Sandstone Rockshelters in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 170 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 4558B.

Franklin, Jay Douglas. 2002. “The Prehistory of Fentress County, Tennessee: An Archaeological Survey.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 275 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4361A.

Frazier, Kevan Delany. 2000. “Big Dreams, Small Cities: John Nolen, the New South, and the City Planning Movement in Asheville, Roanoke, and Johnson City, 1907-1937.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 246 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 1552A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1524.

Freed, Jason Eric. 2004. “Creating the Appalachian Trail: Technological Influences on Symbol Production.” Ph.D. diss., Clemson University. 125 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1111A.

Fuller, John Lewis. 1998. “An Investigation of Administrators’ Perceptions of Enrollment Management at Public Colleges and Universities in West Virginia” [declining high school graduates; low college-going rate]. Ph.D. diss., Kent State University. 242 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1933A.

Gabriel, Selvamany P. 1997. “‘When I Had Her, My Life Turned to Hers’: A Phenomenological Study of the Perceptions of Low-Income Single/Sole-Parent Mothers in Appalachia of Their Communication with Their Adolescent Children” [12 participants]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 238 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1985A.

Gagnon, Michael John. 1999. “Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870” [cotton mills]. Ph.D. diss., Emory University. 424 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4149A.

Gammons, Phillip Keith. 2001. “Revivalist Rhetoric and the North Carolina Regulator Rebellion.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 157 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 997A.

Garland, Hettie Lou. 1997. “Reactions of Native Southern Appalachian Children and Youths to Sudden Death.” Ed.D. diss, North Carolina State University. 230 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3850A.

Garrison, Timothy Alan. 1997. “The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern State Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations, 1776-1838.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 426 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4416A.

Gatrell, Jay Dean. 1999. “Localized Innovation: A Geography of the Petro-Chemical Industry in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 235 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 279A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=752.

Gearhart, Dona G. 1996. “Surely, a Wench Can Choose Her Own Work!”: Women Coal Miners in Paonia, Colorado, 1976-1987” [includes discussion of history of women in the mines; gender and labor issues]. Ph.D. diss., University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 231 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3209A.

George, Samuel Bolivar, III. 1995. "Ministry to Persons With HIV Infection in Cherokee County." [South Carolina] D.Min. diss., Drew University. 55 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4813A.

Gibson, Alvin L. 1999. “Employee Involvement and Underground Coal Mine Safety” [seven case studies; nine years]. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama. 189 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 1069A.

Gillespie, Margaret Gail. 1998. “Havens for the Fashionable and Sickly: Society, Sickness and Space at Nineteenth Century Southern Spring Resorts” [Va., W.Va., mineral springs]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 246 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3144A.

Glawson, Gailya T. 1996. “Evaluating and Modeling Flood Potential in Ungaged High Relief Basins in East Tennessee: A Hydrogeomorphic Approach” [Roaring Creek, Richland Creek, Piney River]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 163 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 6149B.

Gneiting, Gary Layne. 2002. “Brigadoon Reborn: Forming and Performing Culture at the National Storytelling Festival” [Jonesborough, Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., Arizona State University. 341 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1818A.

Goan, Melanie Beals. 2000. “‘First, Foremost, and Above All for Babies’: Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service” [1881-1965]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 361 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2884A.

Goerman, Patricia Lynn. 2004. “The Promised Land? The Gendered Experience of New Hispanic ‘Proletarian’ Immigrants to Central Virginia” [interviews with 73]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 242 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 298A.

Gold, Debra Lynn. 1999. “Subsistence, Health and Emergent Inequality in Late Prehistoric Interior Virginia” [archaeological study; A.D. 1000 to 15 th century; Monacan peoples]. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan. 343 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1637A.

Gooden, Randall Scott. 1995. "The Completion of a Revolution: West Virginia From Statehood Through Reconstruction." Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University." 374 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3278A.

Gore, Prasanna Rameshchandra. 1996. "Childhood Immunizations in Rural West Virginia: Identification of Immunization Barriers and Development of Persuasion Strategies." Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 408 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 3680B.

Gorman, Michael Joseph. 1997. “Political Culture in the Lower Shenandoah Valley: Frederick County, Virginia, 1836-1861.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, San Diego. 401 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4043A.

Grammich, Clifford Anthony, Jr. 1996. “The Bible and Political Change: A Study of White Bible-Based Protestant Southerners” [Tenn. and eastern Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago. 228 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4912A.

Grand, Jeffrey Scott. 2001. “A Study of an Innovative Approach to the Delivery of Mental Health Services in Rural Appalachia: The RHOP in Perry County, Kentucky” [Rural Health Outreach Program]. Psy.D. diss., The Wright Institute. 64 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 5373B.

Graybeal, Daniel Y. 2001. “A Snow Hydroclimatology of the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains, United States of America” [flood vulnerability]. Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware. 216 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4051B.

Greene, Gail Curtis. 2001. “ Working Toward Literacy for a New Social Order: Human Agency and the Curriculum Work of Septima Poinsette Clark, 1898--1987” [Highlander School]. Ed.D. diss., University of South Carolina. 177 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2328A.

Greene, Janet Wells. 2000. “Camera Wars: Images of Coal Miners and the Fragmentation of Working Class Identity, 1933-1947” [variant portrayals by UMWA, Truman Administration, and National Coal Association]. Ph.D. diss., New York University. 580 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1574A.

Greene, Winifred. 2001. “Knowledge, Beliefs, and Health Behaviors among African Americans Residing near the Coosa River” [Ala.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama. 120 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1351B.

Greenwood, Kristine Louise. 1997. “A Study of the Rhetoric of John D. Rockefeller IV, 29 th Governor of West Virginia: 1977-1985” [examines six speeches to identify outsider’s forms of identification with West Virginians]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 234 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 4594A.

Gregg, Sara M. 2004. “From Farms to Forest: Federal Conservation and Resettlement Programs in the Blue Ridge and Green Mountains” [1920s-1930s Va. and Vt.; Shenandoah National Park]. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University. 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1508A.

Gregory, Michael McCallum. 2002. “The Incorporation of Denmark, Virginia, into the World Economy: A Historical Archaeological Study” [1870s-1920, transition to capitalism]. Ph.D. diss., Arizona State University. 406 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3988A.

Griffin, Frank Winger. 1997. “Walking ‘The Same Path’: Indian Voices and the Issues of Removal” [Indian Removal Act of 1830]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 281 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 552A.

Griffin, Patrick Neil. 1999. “The People With No Name: The Ulster Presbyterian Transatlantic Experience and Identity in a British Atlantic World” [Pa. frontier]. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University. 256 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 4553A.

Griner, Brian Porter. 1997. “A Valuation of Water Quality Enhancements in the Lower Allegheny Watershed Using Discrete Choice Models and Conjoint Analysis” [Loyalhanna Creek and Conemaugh River, Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 217 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1008A.

Groover, Mark Davis. 1998. “The Gibbs Farmstead: An Archaeological Study of Rural Economy and Material Life in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920” [Knox Co., Tenn.; world systems theory]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 858 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 2548A.

Gruenwald, Kim Marie. 1994. “Settling the Old Northwest: Changing Family and Commercial Strategies in the Early Republic.” Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado at Boulder. 366 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1091A.

Guess, Angela Cole. 2000. “Dropping Out of School in One Rural, Appalachian School System in Alabama” [574 eighth-graders; 1989-90]. Ed.D. diss., University of Alabama. 145 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4626A.

Guy, Roger Stephen. 1996. “Diversity to Unity: Uptown’s Southern Migrants, 1950-1970" [Chicago]. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. 249 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4952A.

Haimes-Bartolf, Melanie Dorothea. 2004. “Policies and Attitudes: Public Education and the Monacan Indian Community in Amherst County, Virginia, from 1908 to 1965” [Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Commonwealth University. 316 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 92A.

Hall, Betty Watson. 1997. “William Benjamin Townsend: The ‘Cynical Seer’ of the North Georgia Mountains from 1897 to 1933" [editor of The Dahlonega Nugget weekly]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 253 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4109A.

Hall, Joseph McLean, Jr. 2001. “Making an Indian People: Creek Formation in the Colonial Southeast, 1590--1735.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Madison. 335 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3909A.

Hall, Katherine Lelia. 2001. “Trade Readjustment Act Women in Developmental Writing: Preparing for Education and Retraining.” Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 286 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1704A.

Halvi, Sharon. 1995. "The Path Not Taken: Class, Gender, and Race In the South Carolina Backcountry, 1750-1800." Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa. 446 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4117A.

Hamlin, Amy Kay. 2004. “Compensatory Education or Maximum Feasible Participation: Voices of Head Start Mothers/Teachers from the Blue Ridge Mountain Foothills.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 134 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 874A.

Hanna, Stephen Phillips. 1997. “Representing Appalachia: Appalshop Films and the Politics of Regional Identity.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 382 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3257A.

Hannah, Leslie Deon. 2002. “We Still Tell Stories: An Examination of Cherokee Oral Literature.” 2002. Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma. 288 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4313A.

Hardt, Richard Alan. 1993. “Characterization of Old-Growth Forests  in the Southern Appalachian Region of the United States and  Implications for Their Management.” Ph.D. diss., University of  Georgia. 162 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 11B.

Harkins, Anthony Andrew R. 1999. “The Hillbilly in Twentieth-Century American Culture: The Evolution of a Contested National Icon.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Madison. 486 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 740A.

Harper, Craig Andrew. 1998. “Analysis of Wild Turkey Brood Habitat Within the Southern Appalachians.” Ph.D. diss., Clemson University. 166 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1938B.

Harris, Jim. 2003. “A Study of a Variant Black English Vernacular Developed by African American and White Immigrant Coal Miners in the Coal Mining Camp Towns of Central Alabama.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 167 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 483A.

Harrod, Jonathan C. 1999. “Disturbance History and Ecological Change in a Southern Appalachian Landscape: Western Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1936-1996” [Tenn.; vegetation patterns]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 171 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3072B.

Hartley, Lou Ann. 2003. “Longitudinal Analysis of Access to Health Care, Use of Preventive Health Services, and Practice of Health-Related Behaviors of Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Adults in Kentucky” [six-year period]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 163 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 5449B.

Hassan, Ruby Jewel Anderson. 1999. “Desegregation in Knoxville, Tennessee: A Case Study” [1989-1996]. Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 297 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3216A.

Hawkins, Robert Dean, Jr. 1998. “Social Control in the Eastern Kentucky Subculture of Violence” [1971-1990]. Ph.D. diss., Sam Houston State University. 228 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2726A.

Haynes, Julie Ann. 2003. “Feminist Cowboys and Other Contradictions: Women’s Rights Rhetoric and Country Music Videos in the 1990s” [12 videos analyzed; Appalachian folk ballad roots]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 188 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2474A.

Hayslette, Sandra Diane. 2002. “‘Not at the Top, but Climbing’: Teaching and Learning About Appalachia and Identity at Berea College, 1920--1940” [Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 423 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1099A.

Hennen, John C., Jr. 1993. “The Americanization of West Virginia:  Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925.” Ph.D. diss.,  West Virginia University. 443 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 1364A.

Henry, Kathleen Marie. 2000. “The Social, Political and Economic Disenfranchisement of American Tribal Women” [Cherokee matriarchy eroded]. Ph.D. diss., Fielding Institute. 84 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2053A.

Henwood, Dawn Elayne. 1998. “Voice From the Borderland: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Southern Roots of American Social Protest Fiction” [1831-1910; (West) Virginia]. Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto. 303 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 181A.

Herman, Karl Robert. 2001. “An Investigation into the Relevance of Postmodern Versus Traditional Analyses of the Appalachian Population in Appalachian Ministry” [United Methodist; Pa.]. D.Min. diss., Lancaster Theological Seminary. 119 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 204A.

Herndon, Connie Jeanette. 2003. “At the Limits of Cultural Identification and Personal Integrity: Border Theory from an Appalachian Frame of Mind.” Ph.D. diss., University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 228 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1793A.

Hetherington, Dan. 2001. “Disaster Trauma: A Phenomenological-Linguistic Analysis of Buffalo Creek Flood Accounts” [W.Va., 1972]. Ph.D. diss., Duquesne University. 231 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 102B.

Hickman, Carolyn Neale. 1999. “‘What to Throw Away/What to Keep’: Mobilizing Expressive Culture and Regional Reconstruction in Appalachia” [five case studies: Jim Wayne Miller; Gurney Norman; Herb Smith; Denise Giardina; Hazel Dickens]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 295 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 2493A.

Hidalgo, Thomas Gene. 1999. “Reconstructing a History of Spanish Immigration in West Virginia: Implications for Multicultural Education” [drawn to coal mining jobs primarily]. Ed.D. diss., University of Massachusetts. 257 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 313A.

Hilliard, K. Mark. 1998. “An Instructor’s Guide to Traditional Native American Games of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee: Grades 5-8.” D.A. diss., Middle Tennessee State University. 255 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2324A.

Hinshaw, John. 1994. "Dialectic of Division: Race and Power Among Western Pennsylvania Steelworkers, 1937-1975." Ph.D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University. 431 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3278A.

Hopkins, Robert Dale. 2001. “A Comparison of Attitudes of Clergy and Psychologists toward an Indigenous Appalachian Religious Sect” [snake handling]. Ed.D. diss., Tennessee State University. 56 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4273B.

Hosley, Brenda Lea. 2004. “We Survived: Health Care Choices of Appalachian African Americans” [folk medicine; interviews with eight women from Ky. and W.Va. coalfields]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 187 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1985A.

Hough, Jill Suzanne. 1999. “Fathers and Brothers: Familial Diplomacy of the Creek Indians and Anglo-Americans, 1733 to Removal” [Georgia]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Davis. 264 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3768A.

Housch-Collins, Linda Gail. 1998. “Selling Bread and Freedom: The Aircraft Organizing Drives of the United Automobile Workers in Birmingham, Alabama, 1943 to 1952" [wages, Communism, and race issues]. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 596A.

Hovis, George Rhyne. 2001. “The Yeoman Ideal in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction” [Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Randall Kenan]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 359 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2761A.

Howley, Craig Barrett. 1996. "Sizing Up Schooling: A West Virginia Analysis and Critique." Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 294 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 948A-949A.

Huber, Patrick Joseph. 2000. “The Modern Origins of an Old-Time Sound: Southern Millhands and Their Hillbilly Music, 1923-1942.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 290 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2885A.

Hudson, Fraser Berkley. 2003. “Possum Town ‘Photo-Biography’: Culture, History, and Identity through the Mississippi Lens of O. N. Pruitt, 1920–1955” [Lowndes Co.]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 376 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3886A.

Hudson, Karen Elaine. 1995. "'God Held the Torch That Brought the Old House Down': Class, Gender, and the Built Environment of the Appalachian Kentucky Social Settlement Movement, 1880s-1930s." Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania. 189 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2908A.

Huffman, Karen Lynn. 1999. “Dropouts and Dropout Prevention Programs: How West Virginia High School Principals View Their Roles.” Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 165 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1848A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=631.

Hughes, Mark Handly. 1994. “The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fishes in the Holsten River System of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 538 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1882B.

Huskins, Anita Kay. 2003. “Culture and Value Perceptions in the Experience of Identity, Self, and Meaning for Southern Appalachian Women: A Qualitative Analysis.” Ph.D. diss., James Madison University. 84 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 6376B.

Ishii, Izumi. 1999. “‘Poisoned by the Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree’: Cherokees and Alcohol, 1700-1907.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 253 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4151A.

Israel, Charles Alan. 2001. “‘There Can Be No Education without Religion’: Tennessee Evangelicals and Education, 1875--1925.” Ph.D. diss., Rice University. 387 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2537A.

Jackson, Clarence Alan. 1999. “‘A Certain Essence of the Sun’: Byron Herbert Reece and the Southern Poetry Tradition” [1917-1958]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 168 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 609A.

James, Jenny. 1996. “A Reconstructive Hermeneutic of Eastern Cherokee Spirituality Via the Theology of Bernard Lonergan.” Ph.D. diss, University of St. Michael’s College (Canada). 344 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 1773A.

Janda, Sarah Eppler. 2002. “The Intersection of Feminism and Indianness in the Activism of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma. 241 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2668A.

Jenrette, Jerra. 1996. "'There's No Damn Reason for It -- It's Just Our Policy': Labor-Management Conflict in Martinsburg, West Virginia's Textile and Garment Industries." Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 422 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1291A.

Johnson, Bart Reinholdt. 1995. "The Ecology and Restoration of a High Montane Rare Plant Community" [15 rare herbs]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 199 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4112B.

Johnson, Dolores M. 1995. Not a Story to Be Told: Discourse, Race, and Myth in Huntington, West Virginia Newspapers, 1872 and 1972. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 291 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 1756A.

Johnson, Freddie Lee, III. 1999. “The Tracks of War: Confederate Strategic Rail Policy and the Struggle for the Baltimore and Ohio” [Civil War; 500-mile route, Baltimore to Ohio River]. Ph.D. diss., Kent State University. 365 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 1132A.

Johnson, Jeffrey Guy. 2000. “Feud, Society, Family: Feud Narrative in the United States, 1865-1910” [John Fox, Jr.]. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University. 338 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3567A.

Johnson-Webb, Karen Denise. 2000. “Formal and Informal Hispanic Labor Recruitment: North Carolina Communities in Transition” [research triangle]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 157 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2861A.

Johnston, Cheryl A. 2002. “Culturally Modified Human Remains from the Hopewell Mound Group” [Ohio]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 341 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 56A.

Jones, Gary Richard. 1998. “American Cossacks: The Pennsylvania Department of State Police and Labor, 1890-1917" [strike-breaking; violence; class, conflict, reform]. Ph.D. diss., Lehigh University. 251 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 4417A.

Jones, Jane Myers. 2001. “University Image: Perceptions Held by Internal and External Stakeholders of East Tennessee State University.” Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 189 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3710A.

Jones, Kimberly Marie. 2003. “Pittsburgh Ex-Steel Workers As Victims of Development: An Ethnographic Account of America’s Deindustrialization.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 258 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4108A.

Jones, Lois Faye Helms. 1994. “Inefficiencies and Inequities  Identified in a Study of Federal Regulations, and Those of Ten  Southeastern States, for Municipal-Solid-Waste-Landfill  Disposal.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama. 178 pp.  Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 55: 2307B.

Jones, Reba Pestun. 2003. “An Examination of Coal Mining Song Repertoire in the Virginia Elementary Music Curriculum with the Creation and Incorporation of a Suggested Coal Mining Musical Unit of Study.” D.M.A. diss., Shenandoah University. 230 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3898A.

Jurgens, Eloise Hollyfield. 1996. "Southern Appalachian Settlement Schools as Early Initiators of Integrated Services." [Hindman (Ky.); Pine Mountain (Ky.); Crossnore (N.C.)] Ph.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 204 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1054A-1055A.

Justice, Daniel Heath. 2002. “Our Fire Survives the Storm: Removal and Defiance in the Cherokee Literary Tradition.” Ph.D. diss., University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 229 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 944A.

Kahn, Patricia Hymson. 2003. “How the Social Reform Movement Impacted Handiwork at Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky During 1902-1920.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 203 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 1158A.

Kairies, Candace Lianne. 2003. “Characterization of Precipitates Associated with Bituminous Coal Mine Drainage, Northern Appalachian Region, United States.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 98 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 127B.

Kanayama, Tomoko. 2003. “Strategic Web Use by Nonprofit Organizations in Appalachian Ohio: The Influence of Resource Dependency and Institutional Expectations.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 291 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 324A.

Kane, Michael J. 2001. “Administration and Operations of Local Law Enforcement Agencies in the Southern Appalachian Mountain Region of West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., The Union Institute. 222 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4955A.

Kang, Daiwen. 2001. “Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of Nonmethane Hydrocarbons and Ozone in the Southeast United States National Parks” [Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 229 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4432B.

Kathryn, Erica Lillian. 1996. "Theory of Profound Knowing: A Study of Nurse-Midwifery Knowledge" [Frontier Nursing Service, Hyden, Ky., 1925-1965]. Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University (Health Sciences). 608 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4298B.

Kell, Glenn Leroy. 2003. “Estimated Effects on Selected Student Outcomes of Attending a College with an Evangelical Identity in the Appalachian Region” [28 schools; 4130 alumni: 1974-96]. Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa. 101 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4384A.

Kelly, Brian. 1998. “‘Up Against It’: Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921.” Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University. 361 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 4779A.

Kelton, Paul Timothy. 1998. “Not All Disappeared: Disease and Southeastern Indian Survival, 1500-1800" [European-introduced epidemics; Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws]. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1311A.

Kievit, Joyce Ann. 2002. “Trail of Tears to Veil of Tears: The Impact of Removal on Reconstruction” [Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole; 1830s-1877]. Ph.D. diss., University of Houston. 317 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 1818A.

Kiffmeyer, Thomas J. 1998. “From Self-Help to Sedition: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty in Eastern Kentucky, 1964-1970.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 443 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1311A.

Kimbrough, David L. 1992. “Park Saylor and the Eastern Kentucky  Snake-Handlers: A Religious History.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana  University. 346 pp. Dissertation Abstracts  International 54 (1994): 4478A.

King, Adam. 1996. “Tracing Organizational Change in Mississippian Chiefdoms of the Etowah River Valley, Georgia” [northwest Ga., AD 1000-1550]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 309 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 5199A.

King, David Ashley. 2001. “‘Christ-Haunted’: Religion and the South in Four American Films” [The Night of the Hunter, Wise Blood, The Apostle, Sling Blade]. Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University. 208 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3975A.

Klein, Janet Ginsberg. 1997. “‘I Never Knew You Could Play with Your Kids’: The Experience of Some Families in a Family Support Program in Appalachia” [Cumberland Mountains region]. Ph.D. diss., New York University. 239 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3410A.

Kleit, David H. 2003. “‘We Wanted the Land’: The Cherokee Country during the Era of Removal and Resettlement” [Ga., Ala., Tenn., N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., Duke University. 394 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 2228A.

Klingensmith, Daniel E. 1998. “‘One Valley and a Thousand’: Remaking America, India and the World in the Image of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1945-1970.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago. 488 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2668A.

Klingler, Jill C. Rieman. 1999. “Relation of Adaptation, Life Meaning and Belief in God in Central and Southern Appalachian Culture in Response to the Unexpected and Violent Death of a Child” [interviews with six women]. Ph.D. diss., Union Institute. 175 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4230B.

Knaff, Sheila Rhaan. 1998. “ Case Study of the Effects of Integration on Two Black High Schools in East Tennessee.” Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 175 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 699A.

Knowles, Lloyd Alan. 2000. “The Appeal and Course of Christian Restorationism on the Early Nineteenth Century American Frontier: With a Focus on Sidney Rigdon as a Case Study.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University. 395 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2004A.

Koehler, Anita Nucci. 1997. “The West Virginia Healthy Schools Nutrition Study.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 290 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1222B.

Kokolus, John Joseph. 1999. “Imagined Burdens: Lithuanian Ethnicization On an American Industrial Frontier, 1870-1894” [Shenandoah, Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., Temple University. 233 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 860A.

Krehbiel, Lee Edward. 1997. “From Race to Region: Shifting Priorities at Berea College Under President William Goodell Frost, 1892-1912.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 413 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 435A.

Kruja, Zana. 1997. “Capital Access in Rural Virginia” [five-county survey: southwestern Va.]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 133 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4006A. Online at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-7997-201727/.

Kuempel, Eileen Devine. 1997. “Development of a Biomathematical Lung Model to Describe Respirable Particle Retention and to Investigate Exposure, Dose, and Disease in U.S. Coal Miners” [autopsy studies of 131 W.Va. miners]. Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 364 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 5919B.

Kunkle, Barbara Lynn. 1997. “Appalachia and the Imagination of Empire” [literature; postcolonial theory]. Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University. 184 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2505A.

Kurtz, Rebecca J. 2002. “God-Centered Living: The Cultural Meaning of Spirituality among Appalachian Christian Women: An Ethnography.” Ph.D. diss., Duquesne University School of Nursing. 182 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4595B.

Kyriakoudes, Louis Michael. 1997. “Country Comes to Town: Rural Migration to Nashville, Tennessee, 1890-1930.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University. 307 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1050A.

Lafon, Charles Wilber. 2000. “Patterns and Consequences of Ice Storms in Forested Appalachian Landscapes.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 230 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3708A.

Laing, Craig Robert. 1997. “Mountain Aid: Geographic Assessment of the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Social Programs” [education and health care]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 318 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 275A.

Lane, Janet E. 2004. “The Silenced Cry from the Factory Floor: Gastonia’s Female Strikers and Their Proletarian Authors” [studies six novels based on the 1929 Gastonia, N.C., Loray Mill strike; Fielding Burke, Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, Mary Heaton Vorse]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 199 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 518A.

Lange, Jeffrey John. 1999. “‘Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly’: The Modernization of Country Music and the Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954” [six sub-genres and 5000 recordings analyzed]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 674 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3494A.

Lanham, Joseph Drew. 1997. “Attributes of Avian Communities in Early-Successional, Clearcut Habitats in the Mountains and Upper Piedmont of South Carolina.” Ph.D. diss., Clemson University. 126 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 5721B.

Lapham, Heather Alynn. 2002. “Deerskin Production and Prestige Goods Acquisition in Late Woodland and Early Historic Southwest Virginia” [1400-1700]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 303 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2287A.

Larkin, Jeffery Louis. 2001. “Demographic and Spatial Characteristics of a Reintroduced Elk Population” [Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 146 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4414B.

Leader, Mary Bryce. 2000. “Legible Ashes: Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Book of the Dead’” [poem dealing with W.Va.’s 1930s Hawk’s Nest tunnel industrial disaster in which hundreds of workers died of silicosis]. Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University. 293 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 182A.

Ledford, Katherine Elizabeth. 2002. “Progressive Desires: Travel Writing, National Identity, and the Mountain South in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 237 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 188A.

Lee, Renee Gravois. 1996. "Uneasy Tensions in Health Care Delivery in a Rural Appalachian Coal Mining Community: Envisioning Alternative Solutions." Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 196 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3138-3139A.

Lee, Tommy David, II. 2001. “‘Rise Up and Call Us Blessed’: From Farm to Factory in the Tri-Cities, Tennessee-Virginia, 1900--1950” [Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 443 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 333A.

Leimgruber, Peter. 1998. “Landscape Structure in a Managed Forest Mosaic of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Its Influence on Songbirds and Small Mammals” [logging; George Washington National Forest, Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma. 181 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 6167B.

LeMaster, Michelle Marie. “‘Thorough-Paced Girls’ and ‘Cowardly Bad Men’: Gender and Family in Indian-White Relations in the Colonial Southeast, 1660--1783.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University. 451 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3537A.

Lennon, Mary Ellen. 2002. “Creating Coalitions: ‘Outside Agitators’ and the Harlan County Coal Strike, 1931-1932” [Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University. 308 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3611A.

Lerman, Hilary. 1997. “Power to the People: Community Organizing in South-Eastern Ohio, 1969-1973" [Athens, Hocking, and Perry Counties]. Ph.D. diss., Miami University. 308 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1051A.

LeRoy, Donald Todd. 2004. “The ‘Church Hymnal’ (1951): A Shape-Note Hymnal of the Church of God” [Cleveland, Tennessee]. D.M.A. diss., University of Memphis. 180 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 754A.

Lewin, Virloy Elizabeth. 2002. “Effectiveness of Pre-Baccalaureate Health Careers Opportunity Programs (HCOP) for Disadvantaged Students in Three Southern States” [Tenn., Va., Ky.; 393 participants, 1990-1999]. Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 114 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 1158B. Online at http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0531102-181849/unrestricted/LewinV062702.pdf.

Lewis, Charlene Marie. 1997. “Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 676 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1051A.

Lewis, John Sherwood. 2000. “Becoming Appalachia: The Emergence of an American Subculture, 1840-1860.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 342 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2887A.

Lilly, Everett A. 1997. “Leaving Clear Fork Valley: A Story of Appalachian Migration” [1950s-60s W.Va.; 86 interviewees]. Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University. 114 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1949A.

Lipold, Paul F. 2003. “Laying It All on the Line: The Configuration and Causes of Strike Fatalities within the United States, 1877-1947.” Ph.D. diss., Florida State University. 215 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2665A.

Littleton, Robert Allen. 2001. “African American Student Persistence at Small Colleges in Appalachia.” Ed.D., diss., University of Tennessee. 353 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1284A.

Livers, Ancella Bickley. 1998. “Defining Ourselves: Gender Construction and the Creation of a Black Community in Pittsburgh, 1925-1955.” Ph.D. diss., Carnegie Mellon University. 310 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 2174A.

Lloyd, Timothy Charles. 2002. “Mortuary Patterns, Social Organization, and Ideology at the Hopewell Site” [Ross Co., Ohio]. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Albany. 238 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3990A.

Lobertini, Jo Alison. 2000. “Rural Nonfarm Scott County, Tennessee Women and Their Pathways to Baccalaureate Degrees.” Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 97A.

Long, Creston S., III. 2002. “Southern Routes: Family Migration and the Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry” [N.C., Pa., Va.]. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary. 222 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 625A.

Long, Lucy Margaret. 1995. “The Negotiation of Tradition: Collectors, Community, and the Appalachian Dulcimer in Beech Mountain, North Carolina.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania. 617 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 1925A.

Loughry, Allen Hayes, II. 2003. “‘Don’t buy another vote. I won’t pay for a landslide’: The Sordid and Continuing History of Political Corruption in West Virginia.” S.J.D. diss., American University. 467 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3822A.

Love, Revella Logan. 1995. "Assessing the Common Bonds Between African-American Appalachians and European-American Appalachians: An Exploratory Study. Ph.D. diss., Union Institute." 128 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4158A.

Lucas, Rebecca L. 2000. “The Southern Appalachian, Adolescent Female’s Experience of Being Violent” [ten interviews]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 172 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2197A.

Lueders, Pamela A. Evans. 2003. “Disaster, Trauma and Community: The Impact of Floods on Buffalo Creek and Riley County” [W.Va. (1972) and Kansas (1993)]. Ph.D. diss., Kansas State University. 173 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1865A.

Lutz, Regan Ann. 1995. "The Historiography of the Trail of Tears." Ph.D. diss., University of Toledo. 266 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2840A.

Lynch, Timothy. 1995. "Strike Songs of the Depression Era: Reading Between the Lyrics." Ph.D. diss., Miami University. 232 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3714A.

Mackey, Robert Russell. 2000. “The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865” [Ark., Tenn., Ky., Va.]. Ph.D. diss., Texas A&M University. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4518A.

Mackin, Randal Thomas. 2002. “Walking the Paths of His Own Premise: The Life and Literature of George Scarbrough.” D.A. diss., Middle Tennessee State University. 160 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 595A.

MacTavish, Katherine Anne. 2001. “Going Mobile in Rural America: The Community Effect of Rural Trailer Parks on Child and Youth Development.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 180 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2894A.

Mangin, Michael. 2002. “Freemen in Theory: Race, Society, and Politics in Ross County, Ohio, 1796-1850.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, San Diego. 467 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4063A.

Mannion, Elgin. 2003. “The Method of Growth: Development Models and Income Distribution in Appalachian Kentucky from 1969-2003.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 489 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1872A.

Mantooth, Wes. 2004. “‘You factory folks who sing this song will surely understand’: Cultural Representations in the Gastonia Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargan” [N.C.; 1929 textile-mill strike]. Ph.D. diss., George Washington University. 335 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 926A.

Marcikonis, Mary Frances. 2001. “Scars of the Anthracite: A Critical Study of the Sculpture, Painting, and Drawing of Anthracite Miners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1830-1930, and Its Implications for Art Education.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 183 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2318A.

Martin, Christopher Brenden. 1997. “Selling the Southern Highlands: Tourism and Community Development in the Mountain South” [focus on Buncombe Co., N.C., and Blount and Sevier Cos., Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 290 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 293A.

Maxwell, Louise Passey. 1999. “Remaking Jim Crow: Segregation and Urban Change in Birmingham, Alabama, 1938-1963.” Ph.D. diss., New York University. 466 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1727A.

Mayfield, Jana. 1994. “A Clash of Ideas: ‘Progress’ among West Virginia Baptists, 1830-1880.” Ph.D. diss., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 360 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 596A.

Maynard, Peter William. 1996. "A Discrete Choice Conjoint Analysis and a Discrete Contingent Valuation Assessment of Southern Appalachian Resources: A Comparison and Contrast" [environmental resources; technical economic study]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 257 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3153A.

McCarthy, William David. 2002. “Building the Beaver and Lake Erie Canal: The Politics of Public Improvements in Pennsylvania, 1783-1845.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 391 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3324A. Online link http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2442.

McClinton, Rowena. 1996. "The Moravian Mission among the Cherokee at Springplace, Georgia." Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 563 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1293A.

McCoy, Cindy Lee. 1996. “The Impact of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College on Appalachian Women: A Naturalistic Inquiry” [interview data]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 64 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 5031A.

McCusker, Kristine Marie. 2000. “‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’: Women, Work and Barn Dance Radio, 1920-1960” [focuses on Linda Parker, Lily May Ledford, Sarah Colley Cannon (Minnie Pearl), and Rose Lee Maphis]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 377 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2888A.

McFarland, Robert Ernest, Jr. 1997. “Of Time and the River: Economy, People, and Environment in the Tennessee Valley, 1500-1990.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama. 404 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3689A.

McKelway, Henry St. Clair. 1994. “Slaves and Master in the Upland South: Archaeological Investigations at the Mabry Site.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 299 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 992-993A.

McKinney, Karen Janet. 2004. “‘Mountaineers guard well the past’: Ethnologists, Adventurers, Storytellers, and the Representation of Twentieth Century Appalachia” [Frantz Fanon, Mary Louise Pratt, James Mooney, Horace Kephart, Harvey Miller]. Ph.D. diss., University of New Mexico. 337 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1371A.

McKnight, Brian Dallas. 2003. “‘The grate strugel of war’: The Civil War in the Mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., Mississippi State University. 388 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1044A.

McMillan, Fay Cobb. 2003. “A Qualitative Study of Adult Women in a Northeast Tennessee Community College” [returning students, ages 23-50]. Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 92 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2358A.

Megalos, Mark Arthur. 1999. “North Carolina Landowner Responsiveness to Forestry Incentives” [nine counties sampled statewide]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 119 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 612B.

Messinger, Penny. 1998. “Leading the Field of Mountain Work: The Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1913-1950” [leadership; gender dynamics]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 539 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 294A.

Metheny, Karen Bescherer. 2002. “The Landscape of Industry and the Negotiation of Place: An Archaeological Study of Worker Agency in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town, 1891--1947” [Helvetia]. Ph.D. diss., Boston University. 860 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 639A.

Mickelson, Andrew Michael. 2002. “Changes in Prehistoric Settlement Patterns as a Result of Shifts in Subsistence Practices in Eastern Kentucky.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 258 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 551A.

Middlesworth, John Paul. 2000. “The Epic Transition in Contemporary American Drama: Robert Schenkkan, August Wilson, and Tony Kushner” [Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle (1993)]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 155 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4390A.

Miewald, Christiana Elke. 2000. “Women’s Work? Caring, Kinship and Community in Appalachian Kentucky.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 413 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4443A.

Miles, Tiya Alicia. 2000. “‘Bone of My Bone’: Stories of a Black-Cherokee Family, 1790-1866.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota. 250 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4054A.

Miller, Dana Ellen. 2002. “A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Direct Reading Instruction on Students of Caucasian and Hispanic Backgrounds” [Dalton, Ga.]. Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 70 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2493A.

Miller, Paul William. 1998. “A Coal Region Opera” [for six singers; set in Pa.’s 19 th century anthracite coal fields]. D.M.A. diss., Temple University. 226 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 656A.

Mills, Lisa A. 2003. “Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Ohio Hopewell of the Hopewell Mound Group” [near Chillicothe, Ohio]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 177 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4111A.

Minich, Frances Johanna. 2004. “Hopewell Stone Carvers: Reinterpreting the Roles of Artist and Patron” [Ohio, Ill.; 100 B.C.–A.D. 600]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Commonwealth University. 233 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1154A.

Mitchell, Anne Virginia. 1997. “Parkway Politics: Class, Culture, and Tourism in the Blue Ridge” [1933-42]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 351 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1425A.

Modesitt, Maureen Cecile. 2001. “Dolly Parton: A Semiotic Study of Her Life and Lyrics.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 231 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1638A.

Mohney, Kenneth Walter. 2002. “Steubenville Projectile Points: Social and Technological Functions in the Panhandle Archaic of the Upper Ohio River Valley” [W.Va.; archaeology]. Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh. 331 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 197A.

Montag, Michele Lynn. 2001. “Small Sites and the Monongahela Settlement System: A View from the Sandrocks Shelter (36GR68)” [Pa. archaeological site; AD 1050-1640]. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Binghampton. 222 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1100A.

Montrie, Chad. 2001. “To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 376 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1555A.

Mooney, Stephen Douglas. 1998. “‘Coal Dust in Our Blood’: Central Appalachian Coal Mining Culture in the American Novel” [1890-1930; 1930-1970; 1970-- ]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 426 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3457A.

Moore, Jonathan Barrons. 2003. “Local Economic Development in the Post-Industrial Service Economy: Manufacturing Communities in the Ohio River Valley” [Ohio: Jackson, Athens, Muskingum Cos.]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 255 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 1065A.

Moore, Martha Norris. 2003. “A Cross-Case Study of Six Women Who Experienced Layoffs in the Apparel Industry and Enrolled in Retraining Programs at a Southwest Virginia Community College.” Ed.D. diss., University of Virginia. 143 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 826A.

Moore, Mary Buchanan. 1994. “Early Childbearing in Kentucky  Communities: An Ecological Approach.” Ph.D. diss., University  of Kentucky. 129 pp. Dissertation  Abstracts International 55: 1386A.

Moore, Toby Harper. 1999. “The Unmaking of a Cotton Mill World: Place, Politics and the Dismantling of the South’s Mill Village System” [1870-1970]. Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa. 267 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4547A.

Moran, Nathan Kent. 1999. “Isham Harris and Confederate State Government in Tennessee” [secessionist governor; based in east Tenn. 1862-1863]. Ph.D. diss., University of Memphis. 277 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2195A.

Morgan, Jewel Dean Thomas. 1998. “The Nature, Scope, and Consequences of Drug and Alcohol Use of Students Enrolled at Three Southern Appalachian Community Colleges” [Va., Tenn., N.C.]. Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 129 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 54A.

Morris, Christine Marie. 1995. “Roots, Branches, Blossoms, and Briars: Cultural Colonialism of the Mountain Arts in West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 204 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 1631A.

Morris, Tony Ray. 2002. “A Quiver in the Wire” [original writing, poetry: two mountain women]. Ph.D. diss., Florida State University. 68 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2243A.

Morrissey, Janice Clark. 1996. “Citizen Participation in Environmental Policy: A Study of Landfill Siting in Two Appalachian Communities” [Oliver Springs, Tenn.; McDowell County, W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 339 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4526A.

Moyer, Paul Benjamin. 1999. “Wild Yankees: Settlement, Conflict, and Localism along Pennsylvania’s Northeast Frontier, 1760-1820” [upper Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers]. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary. 322 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3103A.

Mugleston, Theran K. 1998. “Leadership and Decision-Making: The Legacy of the K-25 Site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee” [1942-1997]. Ph.D. diss., Walden University. 177 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3884A.

Mullins, Terry Wayne. 1996. "A Coal Camp and Its Classrooms: A Historical Study of a Virginia Coalfield Community and Its School, 1888-1987. [Bishop; Tazewell County] Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 350 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1055A.

Murrell, Amy Elizabeth. 2001. “The Divided Family in Civil War America, 1860--1870” [200 families: Tenn., Ky., Va., Md., Mo.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 337 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2540A.

Myers, Aimee Patrice. 1995. "Developing the Rural Landscape: A Case Study of Two Early National Pennsylvania Communities" [Chester and Fayette Counties]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Riverside. 247 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4120A.

Najar, Monica Elizabeth. 2000. “Evangelizing the South: Gender, Race, and Politics in the Early Evangelical South, 1765-1815” [Va., N.C., Ky., Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Madison. 252 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3319A.

Napier, Jerry Wayne. 1997. “Mines, Miners, and Machines: Coal Mine Mechanization and the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, 1890-1990. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 254 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 2363A.

Nassif, Nader Raif. 2002. “Predicting Intentions for Cervical Cancer Screening in Eastern-Band Cherokee Women.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama at Birmingham. 84 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4629B.

Natalini, Robert S. 2004. “‘Chi lascia la via vecchia...’: Law, Ethnicity, and the Immigration Experience. Italians in Industrial America, 1890-1925” [Washington Co., Southwestern Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania. 330 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1085A.

Nelson, Julia Burckes. 1999. “Soil and Soil Solution Chemistry in the Rooting Zone of a Southern Appalachian High Elevation Spruce Fir Forest Ecosystem” [technical study; Clingman’s Dome, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 156 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 901B.

Nesbitt, James Todd. 1997. “‘Regional’ Political Ecology and Underdevelopment in Appalachia: Case Studies from Two West Virginia Counties” [Pendleton, Randolph]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 222 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4759A.

Newell, Carol Elena. 2002. “Women Folk and the Landscape of Modernism: The Novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Julia Peterkin, and Zora Neale Hurston” [Roberts' The Time of Man (1926)]. Ph.D. diss., Emory University. 271 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2544A.

Newell, Carol Elena. 2002. “Women Folk and the Landscape of Modernism: The Novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Julia Peterkin, and Zora Neale Hurston.” Ph.D. diss., Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2544A.

Newell, Claire Leigh. 1997. “Local and Regional Variation in the Vegetation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1008 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1647B.

Newfont, Kathryn D. 2001. “Moving Mountains: Forest Politics and Commons Culture in Western North Carolina, 1964-1994.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 294 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1182A.

Newton, Roxanne. 2004. “The Fabric of Hope and Resistance: Narratives of North Carolina Women Workers on Strike” [13 women across the state]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 230 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1086A.

Nicolaeva, Marina Yurevna. 2001. “Multilevel Analysis of Migrant Selectivity to Appalachian Counties” [1980, 1990 U.S. Census]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 351 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2581A.

Nolan, Andrew Shane. 2001. “A Defining Moment for Dayton: The Scopes Trial as an Act in the Theater of the Modern” [Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 379 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3911A.

Nolen, Carolyn Pilla. 1996. "The History of Ferrum College: From a Mission School to a College." Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 210 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1055A.

Noor, Ismail Khalil. 1996. “Northern Michigan and Eastern Kentucky: A Comparative Study of Regional Development” [1940-1993]. Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University. 413 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 301A.

Norman, Julie Marie. 2001. “The Relationship between Interorganizational Collaboration and the Perception of School-Business Partnership Effectiveness in West Virginia.” Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 114 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2305A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2044.

Norris, Randall Ted. 1998. “God and Nature in Cumberland County: Disaster Narratives from East Tennessee” [camp meetings, singing schools, core religious beliefs]. Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University. 249 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 1172A.

Norwood, Karen Kay. 2002. “Propensity of West Virginia Craftspeople to Use Electronic Media for Marketing Their Products.” Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 165 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4284A. Online link http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2746.

O'Boyle, Timothy J. 2001. “Gambling and Small Business Crime Deterrence: The Illegal Use of Video Poker Machines by Public Bars and Private Social Clubs in Pennsylvania.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark. 212 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3196A.

Oakley, Christopher Arris. 2002. “The Reshaping of Indian Identity in Twentieth Century North Carolina.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2671A.

Odon, Beverly Williams. 2002. “‘Ties that bind’ Contemporary Grandparents: Voices Securing Families of the Past; Embracing Families in the Present; Re-Defining Families for the Future” [black and white Appalachian family elders raising their grandchildren; Dayton, Ohio area]. Ph.D. diss., Union Institute and University. 168 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 1850A.

Oladosu, Gbadebo Ayodeji. 2000. “A Non-Market Computable General Equilibrium Model for Economic Analysis of Climate Change in the Susquehanna River Basin” [Pa.; carbon tax]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 234 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1088A.

Oliver, Sylvester Walker, Jr. 1995. “African-American Music Traditions in Northeast Mississippi” [religious and secular oral music traditions]. Ph.D. diss., University of Memphis. 668 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3742A.

Olson, Charles Strong (Ted). 1997. “The Folklife of the Blue Ridge Region” [published as Blue Ridge Folklife, University Press of Mississippi, 1998]. Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi. 397 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 2136A.

Osborne, Mary Nelle. 2003. “Without a Vision the People Perish: Introducing Collaborative Learning to Community Service Leaders in Southern Appalachia.” Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 137 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1973A.

Owen, Helen Mintz. 2000. “The Significance of a Rural Education: An Examination of the Ways Work and Play Set Patterns for the Heritage of Learning of One Appalachian Family” [Gloucester, Transylvania Co., N.C.]. Ed.D. diss., Western Carolina University. 145 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4334A.

Page, Karen Lund. 2003. “Blood on the Coal: The Effect of Organizational Size and Differentiation on Mine Accidents from 1983-1999.” Ph.D. diss., Stanford University. 96 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1752A.

Palmer, Ronald R. 1998. “The Politics of Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Cherokee.” Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina. 298 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 541A.

Palumbo, Carmine David. 1997. “Folklore and Literature: The Poetry and Fiction of Fred Chappell.” Ph.D. diss., University of Southwestern Louisiana. 238 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 174A.

Pancake, Ann. 1998. “Past (Im)perfect and the Present Progressive: Time in Americans’ Class Consciousness” [Appalachia in literature and film]. Ph.D. diss., University of Washington. 247 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 2025A.

Papyach, Joan Boyer. 1993. “Gardening, Food Preservation and the  Dietary Status of Older Rural Kentuckians.” Ph.D. diss.,  University of Kentucky. 154 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 6139B.

Paris, Sandra Kay Carroll. 2001. “Service Utilization and Readmission in a Rural Southern Appalachian Battered Women’s Shelter” [339 women; 1996-98]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 126 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1585A.

Patterson, Larry Richard Patlis. 2001. “The Eastern Band of Cherokee and Their Boarding School Experiences: Stories and Reflections from the Elders.” [N.C., 1917-1950]. Ed.D. diss., Tennessee State University. 523 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2955A.

Patterson, Laura Sloan. 2001. “Where's the Kitchen? Feminism, Domesticity, and Southern Women's Fiction” [Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith]. Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University. 229 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2425A.

Pattillo, Laura Grace. 2001. “Appalachia on Stage: The Southern Mountaineer in American Drama” [1880s-1990s]. Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. 366 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2426A.

Pauff, James Richard. 2002. “Symbolization, Social Structure, Collective Behavior and the Yellow Creek Massacre of 1774” [Ohio, W.Va.; Upper Ohio Valley group violence patterns]. Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University. 185 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3422A.

Pauley, Rudy Dale. 1998. “A Study of Factors Relating to the Attrition from the West Virginia University - Marshall University - West Virginia Graduate College Cooperative Doctoral Program Administered by the West Virginia Board of Trustees.” Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 124 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 37A.

Pavesic, Christine Lynn. 2002. “Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales of Appalachia: Their Origins and Significance.” 2002. Ph.D. diss., Northern Illinois University. 167 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3196A.

Pecknold, Diane Elisabeth. 2002. “The Selling Sound: Country Music, Commercialism, and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1920--1974.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 306 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 334A.

Perkins, Carol Compton. 1994. “The Piano in an American Society: The Coalfield Area of Bluefield, West Virginia, 1890-1960.” D.M.A. diss., University of South Carolina. 117 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 1737A.

Perkins, Caroline Courtney. 2000. “Living Responsibly in Community: Wendell Berry’s Port William Fiction.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Dallas. 195 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4055A.

Perkins, Deborah Godwin. 1999. “Power, Resistance, and the State: A Case Study of Economic Development in Roane County, Tennessee.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 195 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 775A.

Peters, Emma Gene. 1997. “Southern Bells: Voices of Working Women. A Telling in Three Parts” [storytelling performance piece: mill girl; mill labor organizer; Appalachian woman]. Ph.D. diss., Union Institute. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4046A.

Peyton, Billy Joe. 1999. “‘To Make the Crooked Ways Straight and the Rough Ways Smooth’: The Federal Government’s Role in Laying and Building the Cumberland Road” [1811-1821; Cumberland, Md., to Wheeling, (West) Va.; 131 miles]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 239 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 300A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=724.

Philyaw, Leslie Scott. 1995. "Virginia's Western Visions: Political and Cultural Expansion on an Eighteenth-Century Frontier." Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 325 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 831A.

Pierce, Daniel Smith. 1995. "Boosters, Bureaucrats, Politicians and Philanthropists: Coalition Building in the Establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 248 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 831A.

Pitts, Wayne J. 2003. “Recent Mexican Immigration to the Rural South: A Case Study in Western North Carolina” [Buncombe Co.]. Ph.D. diss., University of New Mexico. 187 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 675A.

Plyler, Jennifer Lee. 1997. “An Evaluation of the Organizational and Interpersonal Communication Strategies Used by a Major Forest Products Firm in East Tennessee” [Champion International Corp., and 54 community leaders from four counties]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 211 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3364A.

Podber, Jacob J. 2001. “The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Early Effects of Radio, Television, and the Internet on Appalachia and the Melungeon Community.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 261 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 824A.

Polhemus, Richard Rowand. 1998. “Activity Organization in Mississippian Households: A Case Study from the Loy Site in East Tennessee” [archaeological site; Jefferson Co.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 349 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 785A.

Porter, Maureen K. 1997. “Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School” [set against Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990]. Ph.D. diss., Stanford University. 455 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 5008A.

Porter, Robert Preston, Jr. 2001. “Environmental Justice and North Georgia Wilderness Areas: A GIS-Based Analysis.” Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 101 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3185A.

Posadas, Benedict de la Cuadra. 1998. “Evaluating the Use of Constructed Wetlands in Producing Catfish in Multi-Enterprise Farming in Mississippi Black Belt Area” [Noxubee Co.]. Ph.D. diss., Mississippi State University. 137 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 1272A-1273A.

Powell, James Edward. 1995. "Teachers' Beliefs About Young Learners in an Appalachian Geographic Setting." Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 271 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2514A.

Powers, Mary Therese Osweiler. 1999. “The Ballot, the Bayonet, and the Schoolhouse: The Dynamics of Change in the Common Schools in Franklin County, Tennessee” [1806-1873]. Ph.D. diss., University of Dayton. 497 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3619A.

Powers, William Douglas. 2001. “‘In the Beginning...’: An Eliadean Interpretation of Frank G. Speck's Account of the Booger Dance of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.” [Mircea Eliade]. Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri - Columbia. 211 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2928A.

Prajznerova, Katerina. 2001. “Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia Cherokee Elements in Four Selected Novels by Lee Smith” [The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, Black Mountain Breakdown, Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies]. Ph.D. diss., Baylor University. 215 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 176A.

Puckett, Anita Marie. 1993. “Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Speech Acts  and Economic Relationships in A Rural Eastern Kentucky  Community.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin.  505 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International  54 (1994): 3089-3090A.

Putman, Heidi Patricia. 2002. “Knowledge, Health Beliefs, Attitude, and Behavioral Intention as Predictors of Compliance with Prescribed Treatment Regimens in Rural Appalachian Adults Diagnosed with Asthma” [Western Md.]. D.N.Sc. Diss., Widener University School of Nursing. 170 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 742B.

Quinn, Edythe Ann. 1994. “Delivering Health Care to Rural America: The Community Health Care Program in Southwest Virginia, 1975-1994.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 346 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1500A.

Qureshi, Rashida. 1996. "Dependency and Internal Migration: A Comparative Study of Outmigration from the Appalachian South and Core South" [European Americans and African Americans; 1930-1960]. Ph.D. diss., Kansas State University. 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 2962A.

Raines, Belita Diane. 2003. “Nontraditional Female Students Enrolled in Developmental English Courses at Roane State Community College” [Oak Ridge, Tenn.]. Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 188 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 55A.

Rake, Valerie Sanders. 2000. “‘In the Old Days, They Used Scraps’: Gender, Leisure, Commodification, and the Mythology of Quiltmaking, Wayne County, Ohio, 1915-1995.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 369 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2007A.

Rakes, Paul Hellmut. 2002. “Acceptable Casualties: Power, Culture, and History in the West Virginia Coalfields, 1900-1945.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 240 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3325A. Online link http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2576.

Ralston, Charles Frederick. 2000. “Adult Education As a Welfare Measure during the Great Depression: A Historical Case Study of the Educational Program of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942” [Pa.]. D.Ed. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 443 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4646A.

Rapp, Carl Steven. 1997. “A Survey of Factors Affecting Computer Implementation in Rural Northeast Tennessee K-12 Public Schools.” Ph.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 158 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3480A.

Rasheed, Saba. 2001. “Prediction of Post Secondary Plans for Rural Appalachian Youth” [374 high school juniors]. Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon. 203 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2737A.

Reed, Betty Jamerson. 2000. “The Brevard Rosenwald School: An Historical Case Study” [black education; Transylvania Co., N.C.; 1910-1966]. Ed.D. diss., Western Carolina University. 218 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 1350A.

Reed, Diane Jeannette. 2001. “Burning Spring” [novel about an urban Appalachian family]. Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 305 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1836A.

Reel, Sally Jane. 1994. “The Meaning of Childbearing among Appalachian Adolescent Women Living in Eastern West Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 227 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 4323-4324B.

Reichart, Karaleah Sabina. 2000. “Walking the Line: Women and Industrial Conflict in Southern West Virginia” [coal; labor conflicts; Logan Co.; Pittston Strike; UMWA corruption; mountaintop removal]. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University. 346 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2365A.

Reichert Powell, Douglas Andrew. 1999. “Hick Town: The Cultural Politics of American Regionalism” [southern Appalachia; Abraham Verghese’s My Own Country (1994), James Dickey’s Deliverance (1972), James Still’s River of Earth (1940), Jo Carson’s Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet (1988)]. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University. 316 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 658A.

Rhoades, Matthew Lawson. 2000. “Assarigoa’s Line: Anglo-Iroquois Origins of the Virginia Frontier, 1675-1774.” Ph.D. diss., Syracuse University. 303 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4151A.

Rice, Christopher Scott. 2002. “Discourses of Sustainability: Grassroots Organizations and Sustainable Community Development in Central Appalachia” [Letcher Co., Ky.; Lee Co., Va..; and Athens Co., Ohio, former coal-economy counties]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 398 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2993A.

Richards, Melinda Lou. 2001. “An Examination of Change in Selected Vowel Structures of Three Generations of Native Appalachian Speakers.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 237 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 2094A.

Richardson, David Barrie. 1997. “Time-Related Factors in Radiation-Cancer Associations Among Workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 214 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1835B.

Ricketts, Elizabeth Cocke. 1996. "'Our Battle for Industrial Freedom': Radical Politics in the Coal Fields of Central Pennsylvania, 1916-1926." Ph.D. diss., Emory University. 597 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1811A.

Riggs, Brett High. 1999. “Removal Period Cherokee Households in Southwestern North Carolina: Material Perspectives on Ethnicity and Cultural Differentiation” [examines two competing classes: full blood and mixed blood Cherokees]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 641 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 661A.

Roberts, Lisa Sue. 1995. "Population Redistribution and the Restructuring of Rural Settlement: A Western Virginia Case Study" [three county area, 1960-1980]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 185 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4517-4518A.

Robertson, Judith Hale. 2003. “The Influence of the Monitoring Process on Special Education Services in West Virginia” [1996-2001; 22 counties]. Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 126 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1931A. Online link http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2826.

Robertson, Wendy Lee. 2000. “The Discovery of a New Measure: Creative Institutions and the Visionary Arts from Black Mountain College to MoMA.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa. 334 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4589A.

Robins, Roger Glenn. 1999. “Plainfolk Modernist: The Radical Holiness World of A. J. Tomlinson” [cultural biography; Holiness-Pentecostal tradition co-founder]. Ph.D. diss., Duke University. 537 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 309A.

Robinson, Barbara Smith. 2001. “To Thine Own Selves be True: The Possible Selves of Low-Income Women” [East Tenn., eight counties.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 119 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3838A.

Robinson, Jennifer Meta. 2001. “Writing Before the Ending: Art and Gender in the Work of Rebecca Harding Davis” [1831-1910; W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 209 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2764A.

Robinson, Linda Kay. 2000. “The Influence of Curricular and Co-Curricular Experiences on Students’ Openness to Diversity at a Predominantly White, State-Supported University in the South” [Appalachian State University; N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., The Union Institute. 147 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3920A.

Robinson, Sherry Lee. 1998. “Lee Smith: The Flesh, the Spirit, and the Word.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 208 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 746A.

Rohr, Karl Barousse. 2003. “The Road to Nowhere and the Politics of Wilderness Legislation” [Swain Co., N.C., unfinished road (1943) into Great Smoky Mountains National Park; 1960s wilderness management; access to cemeteries]. Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi. 236 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2627A.

Rohrer, Stephen Scott. 1999. “Planting Pietism: Religion and Community in the Moravian Settlements of North Carolina, 1750-1830.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 361 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1731A.

Roth, Cathy A. 1993. “‘Our Best Hope is in the People’: Highlander Center and Education for Social Change Toward a More Just and Democratic Society.” Ph.D. diss., University of  Massachusetts. 231 pp. Dissertation  Abstracts International 54 (1994): 3655A.

Rulli, James. 1998. “Restructured Communities and Well-Being: Infant Deaths and Industrial Change in the Ohio River Valley, 1970-1990.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 133 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3148A.

Rush, Leslie Susan. 2002. “Multiliteracies and Design: Multimodality in the Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiking Community.” Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 543A.

Safford, Sean C. 2004. “Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown: Social Embeddedness and the Transformation of the Rust Belt” [Ohio, Pa.; 1980s-90s]. Ph.D. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 753 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1983A.

Salinas, Rene Armando. 2003. “Modeling the Effects of Harvesting on Black Bears in the Southern Appalachians” [Great Smoky Mountains National Park region]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 145 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4404B.

Salinas, Tracie McLemore. 2004. “Parent and Student Perspectives on Mathematics Education in Four Rural East Tennessee Communities” [four high schools; questionnaire surveys to 2,530 students and 1,018 parents]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 137 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1291A.

Sampson-Cordle, Alice Vera. 2001. “Exploring the Relationship between a Small Rural School in Northeast Georgia and its Community: An Image-Based Study Using Participant-Produced Photographs” [Woody Gap School]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 395 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 3011A.

Sandow, Robert Matthew. 2003. “Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Mountains of Pennsylvania.” Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 263 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3451A.

Sarris, Jonathan Dean. 1998. “‘Hellish Deeds. . .in a Christian Land’: Southern Mountain Communities at War, 1861-1865” [Fannin and Lumpkin Co., Ga.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia. 222 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3942A.

Schafer, Patricia Day. 1998. “Cherokee Education: Balancing History, Culture, Language and Traditions With Modern Methods and Technology to Prepare Students for the 21 st Century” [Qualla Boundary, Cherokee, N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana State University. 170 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4272A.

Schaub, Joseph Henry, Jr. 2001. “Regional Borderlands: Contemporary Southern Authors Go West” [Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver]. Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina. 210 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 4171A.

Scheper, Dianne Ganz. 1999. “Sacramental Style and Vision in Annie Dillard’s Nature Texts” [metaphor; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)]. Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of America. 355 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1172A.

Scherch, Jonathan Matthew. 1997. “Living Responsibly: A Study of Sustainable Living in East Tennessee and the Southern Appalachian Bioregion” [94 interviewed]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 240 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 325A.

Schlueter, Luke Cyril. 2000. “The Ground Sense Necessary: Mining the Domestic in Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry.” Ph.D. diss., Kent State University. 321 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2721A.

Schmoll, Brett Jordan. 1998. Chapter One: “Male and Dead in the Mining Community: The Gendering of Death and the Monongah Mine Explosion of 1907” [W.Va.]. In “Gendered Death in Public Life.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara. Pp. 55-112. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 3943A.

Schneider, Bethany Suzanne. 2002. “From Place to Populace: Indian Removal and State-Formation in Antebellum American Literature” [Elias Boudinot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ross, Catharine Brown, Catharine Maria Sedgwick]. Ph.D. diss., Cornell University. 221 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4316A.

Schneider, James Dennis. 1999. “Documentary Film in the Public Sphere: Pare Lorentz’s The River and Its Alternatives” [1937 New Deal classic film; March of Time’s “Tennessee Valley Authority”; and People of the Cumberland]. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Madison. 401 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 406A.

Schorger, John Rodger, Jr. 1997. “A Qualitative Study of the Development and First Year of Implementation of the Blacksburg Electronic Village” [Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech, and Bell Atlantic; 1994]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 89 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3480A.

Schuler, Thomas Myrl. 1998. “Patterns of Oak Regeneration in Central Appalachian Forest” [W.Va.; technical study; 1787-1997]. Ph.D. diss., Purdue University. 121 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3041B.

Schwartz, Tammy Ann. 2002. “‘Write Me’: A Participatory Action Research Project with Urban Appalachian Girls.” Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 203 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1695A.

Scott, Michelle Renee. 2002. “The Realm of a Blues Empress: Blues Culture and Bessie Smith in Black Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1880-1923.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University. 271 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3311A.

Seelinger, Kathy L. 2000. “‘I’m Right There’: Central Appalachian Women in Public School Leadership” [five women; feminist standpoint theory]. Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 140 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 44A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1418.

Seivers, Lana Carmen. 2002. “Words of Discrimination, Voices of Determination: Reflections on the Desegregation of Clinton High School” [Tenn., 1956-58]. Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 321 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1780A.

Sellers, Candace Ann. 1998. “Urban Appalachian Women: Changing the Barriers of Oppression Through Reentry Education” [case study, five women]. Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 109 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 1867A.

Sepko, Catherine Cook. 1998. “Critical Literacy in an Appalachian Classroom” [S.C.; Appalachian literature in the curriculum]. Ph.D. diss., Clemson University. 395 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 1002A.

Serafini, Tina Marie. 2002. “Electronic Business Issues in Rural Manufacturing” [13 county area, northwestern Pa.]. D.Sc. diss., Robert Morris University. 117 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 1447A.

Sharif, Zaki Jamal. 1999. “The Social Construction of Underachievement Among Urban Appalachian Youth: A Case Study” [Ohio]. Ph.D. diss., Miami University. 177 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3878A.

Sheidley, Nathaniel J. 1999. “Unruly Men: Indians, Settlers, and the Ethos of Frontier Patriarchy in the Upper Tennessee Watershed, 1763-1815” [masculine ethos]. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University. 327 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3500A.

Shevitz, Amy Hill. 2002. “Streams: Small Jewish Communities on the Banks of the Ohio” [1830-1990]. Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma. 415 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1969A.

Shrestha, Suraj Prasad. 2002. “Opportunities and Limitations of Animal Logging in the United States South” [mules, horses]. Ph.D. diss., Auburn University. 174 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 608B.

Shriner, Susan Ann. 2001. “Distribution of Breeding Birds in Great Smoky Mountains National Park” [GIS]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 179 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 1661B.

Shriver, Thomas Eugene. 1995. "Social Control and Environmental Degradation by the Military: The Case of Oak Ridge, Tennessee." Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 134 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3318A.

Silver, Peter Rhoads. 2000. “Indian-Hating and the Rise of Whiteness in Provincial Pennsylvania” [18 th-century]. Ph.D. diss., Yale University. 402 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 1184A.

Simpson, Mary Rado. 2001. “‘God Healed Me’: Religious Responses to Events in the Cancer Trajectory of Breast Cancer Survivors in Central Appalachia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 234 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 2667B.

Slavishak, Edward Steven. 2002. “Bodies of Work: Industrial Workers' Bodies in Pittsburgh, 1880--1915.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 446 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1103A.

Smith, Jennifer Sue. 2001. “Mining the Mountain of Appalachian Children's Literature: Defining a Multicultural Literature.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 207 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 121A.

Smith, Langdon, Jr. 2002. “The Democratization of Nature: State-Park Development During the New Deal” [500 state parks built between 1933-1942]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas. 236 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 4044A.

Smith, Roland M. 1995. "A Project to Design, Administer, and Analyze an Instrument to Test for Cultural Awareness of Pastors Working in an Appalachian Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church." D.Min. diss., Andrews University. 237 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3619A.

Smith, Stephen Garth. 2000. “Secession, War and Rebirth: The Civil War in West Virginia’s South Branch Valley of the Potomac.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 278 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 1104A . Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1626.

Smith, Trevor Augustine. 2003. “Pioneers, Patriots, and Politicians: The Tennessee Militia System, 1772--1857.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 239 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 2231A.

Smoller-Phillips, Mary-Jeane Elizabeth. 2000. “Wake: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of Franklin County, Tennessee” [historical fiction novel]. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. 316 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 991A.

Smoot, Pamela Annette. 1999. “Self Help and Institution Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1830-1945” [black history; migratory city]. Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University. 502 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3756A.

Sneed, Nedra Ann. 2000. “Interactional Discourse Used in Book Reading by Urban Appalachian Mothers and Their Preschool Children.” Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 141 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4719A.

Snow, Mary Margaret. 1999. “A Reintroduction of American Ginseng” [significant difficulties; three studies at Hart Co., Ky., and Ind.]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana State University. 133 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 4549A.

Sobol, Joseph Daniel. 1994. “Jonesborough Days: The National Storytelling Festival and the Contemporary Storytelling Revival Movement in America.” Two volumes. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University. 592 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2642A.

Sohn, Katherine Kelletter. 1999. “Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Development Since College” [eastern Ky.; case studies of three women]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 245 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3649A.

Soliman, Hussein Hassan. 1993. “Factors that Influence Family  Response to Contamination of Water Resources: The Case of the  Pigeon River.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee.  254 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 3877A.

Soucek, David John. 2001. “Integrative Bioassessment of Acid Mine Drainage Impacts on the Upper Powell River Watershed, Southwestern Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 152 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 5642B. Online link http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232001-133500/.

Spalding, Susan Eike. 1993. “Aesthetic Standards in Old Time  Dancing in Southwest Virginia: African-American and European-American Threads.” Ph.D. diss., Temple University. 385  pp. Dissertation Abstracts International  54 (1994): 2364A.

Specht, Neva Jean. 1997. “Mixed Blessing: Trans-Appalachian Settlement and the Society of Friends, 1780-1813" [western Pa.; Ohio Valley]. Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware. 246 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2820A.

Spyker, Stephen Kenneth. 2004. “Spirituality and Technology on the Appalachian Trail: A Study in Frontiers” [based on 2002 thru-hike]. Ed.D. diss., Ball State University. 440 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 2060A.

Stanlake, Christy Lee. 2002. “Mapping the Web of Native American Dramaturgy.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University. 262 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 1190A.

Stanley, Talmage A. 1996. "The Poco Field: Politics, Culture, and Place in Contemporary Appalachia." [McDowell County, W.Va.: David Huddle; Lee Smith; Denise Giardina; Meredith Sue Willis; Donald Secreast; Harry Caudill] Ph.D. diss., Emory University. 698 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1700A.

Starling, Mariah Long. 1997. Influencing the Probability of Dropping Out of School in an East Tennessee Rural County” [Sevier Co.; study population of 233]. Ed.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 140 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 130A.

Starnes, Richard Dale. 1999. “Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina” [19 th century to present]. Ph.D. diss., Auburn University. 286 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 2653A.

Steelman, Toddi Angela. 1996. “Democratic Theory, Public Participation and National Forest Management: A Case Study of the Monongahela National Forest.” [W.Va.] Ph.D. diss., Duke University. 285 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 2197A.

Stephens, Carol Crane. 1994. “Health Beliefs and Practices of  Rural, Southern Appalachian Women from an Ethnographic  Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama at  Birmingham. 160 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55: 1382B.

Stephens, Randall James. 2003. “‘The Fire Spreads’: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements.” Ph.D. diss., University of Florida. 295 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4597A.

Stephenson, Robert Scott. 1998. “With Swords and Plowshares: British and American Military Society in the Trans-Allegheny West, 1754-1774.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 305 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2691A.

Stevens, Max Bodean. 2001. “Black Diamonds and White Knights: Capitalist Class Formation in America’s Bituminous Coal Industry.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles. 279 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4954A.

Stinnett, Carolyn Elizabeth. 1996. “A Qualitative Study of Family Resource Centers in Rural East Tennessee” [human service and education]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 246 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 2410A.

Stockdale, Kay Little. 2000. “Elizabeth B. Williams: Portrait of a Rural Missionary Educator” [N.C.; Asheville Farm School, 1895-1942; Presbyterian]. Ed.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 136 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1703A.

Stoller, Terry. 2003. “Staging Local and Oral History in America: Maryat Lee’s EcoTheater, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, and Tectonic Theater Project” [W.Va., Pa.; community stories staged through voices of townspeople]. Ph.D. diss., City University of New York. 205 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2708A.

Sturgeon, Douglas Aaron. 2002. “Filling a Need: Administrative Practices in Mason County, West Virginia One-Room Schools from 1935-1950.” Ed.D. diss., Marshall University. 188 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2339A.

Sturgis, Amy Halleen. 1998. “From Aniyuwiya to Indian Territory: Cherokee Civilization, 1500-1839.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University. 215 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2691A.

Summerlin, Donna Jan. 1995. "A Portrait of the Woman as Artist: Woman's Struggle for Artistic Expression in the Fiction of Six Appalachian Women Writers" [Roberts, Dargan, Arnow, Settle, Smith, Giardina]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 305 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 685A.

Swain, Patricia Elizabeth. 1993. “Bessie Mae Eldreth: An  Appalachian Woman's Performance of Self.” Vols. I and II.  Ph.D. diss., Indiana University. 750 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 3551A.

Swanson, Mark A. 2001. “No Substitute for Tobacco: The Search for Farm Diversification in Appalachian Kentucky.” Ph.D. diss., University of Florida. 204 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 255A.

Takatsuka, Yuki. 2004. “Comparison of the Contingent Valuation Method and the Stated Choice Model for Measuring Benefits of Ecosystem Management: A Case Study of the Clinch River Valley, Tennessee.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 197 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1045A.

Talley, James Robert. 2001. “Demographic Shifts and Green Values in Rural America: A Southern Appalachian Case” [Norris Lake area, East Tenn.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 212 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2002): 371A.

Taul, Glen Edward. 2001. “Poverty, Development, and Government in Appalachia: Origins of the Appalachian Regional Commission” [1956-1965]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 433 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4921A.

Taylor, Melissa Anne. 2002. “Regional Variation in New Firm Formation: An Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors” [Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3000A.

Tehie, Janice Beveridge. 1996. "A Trans-Generational Study of Education and Employment among Slovak Women on the 'Mountain Top', 1900-1995" [central Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University. 290 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1526A.

Temple, Alan Jon. 1997. “The Effects of Coal Mining on Sedimentation and Fish Assemblages in the Powell River, Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 386 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1078B.

Terrell, Lavern. 2000. “Assessing the Racial Awareness of Majority Group Member Students at East Tennessee State University and the Factors Related to Racial Awareness.” Ed.D. diss., East Tennessee State University. 118 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 431A.

Teunissen van Manen, Frank. 1994. “Black Bear Habitat Use in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 229 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2503B.

Thapa, Brijesh. 2000. “The Association of Outdoor Recreation Activities and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors Among Forest Recreationists” [data collected at Bald Eagle State Forest, Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 220 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3348A.

Thapa, Brijesh. 2000. “The Association of Outdoor Recreation Activities and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors among Forest Recreationists” [Bald Eagle State Forest, Pa.]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 220 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 3348A.

Thomas, Carolyn K. 2001. “The Portrayal of the Cherokee in Children's Fiction Books.” Ed.D. diss., Oklahoma State University. 118 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2002): 2676A.

Thomas, Stacy Edward. 2003. “Community Colleges and Economic Development: A Case Study of Appalachian Southwest Virginia.” Ed.D. diss., University of Virginia. 170 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1508A. Online link http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3091127.

Thompson, Ellen Keith. 1996. “The Demise of the One-Room School: School Improvement and Consolidation in the Whitfield County, Georgia, Schools, 1916-1939.” Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University. 207 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3852-3853A.

Thurman, Sharon Wimpey. 2000. “‘A Rolling Town’: The Long Bus Ride in a Rural Southern Appalachian County.” Ed.D. diss., Western Carolina University. 248 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 1374A.

Timm, Patricia Ziegel. 1996. "Early School Leaving: An Analysis Across Three Generations of Urban Appalachian Women." Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 160 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 2962A.

Tong, Quansong. 2003. “Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of Ozone and Its Key Precursors in the Southeast United States National Parks” [Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains, and Mammoth Cave National Parks]. Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University. 199 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3329B.

Tooman, L. Alex. 1995. "The Evolving Economic Impact of Tourism on the Greater Smoky Mountain Region of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina." Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 524 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3247A.

Torbert, John Lee. 1995. "Reclamation of Surface-Mined Forest Land in the Southern Appalachians" [Va., W.Va., Ky.]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 90 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 3356B.

Toth, Barbara Joselyn. 1999. “The Hatfields and the McCoys: Beliefs About Arguing and Aggressive Communication in the Appalachian Culture” [speech communication study; 57 respondents]. Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 169 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 939A.

Trawick, Benton Jefferson. 2001. “New Blood: A Study of Session Transitions in a Small Rural Church” [Va.; Presbyterian]. D.Min. diss., Princeton Theological Seminary. 105 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1092A.

Trollinger, Linda Judith. 2004. “Perceptions of Autonomy and Parental Influences among Appalachian Adolescents” [questionnaire administered to 705 high school English students in “distressed” counties]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 171 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1555A.

Turcott, Jean Marie. 2001. “Waiting for the Erie Line: Property, Improvement, and Market Revolution in the Southern Tier of New York State, 1790-1850.” Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo. 378 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4922A.

Turner, James Morton. 2004. “The Promise of Wilderness: A History of American Environmental Politics, 1964-1994” [a dozen case studies includes Dolly Sods, W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University. 360 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1512A.

Turner, Martha Billips. 1997. “Agrarianism and Loss: Kentucky Novels of Harriette Simpson Arnow” [Mountain Path (1936); Between the Flowers (1939); Hunter’s Horn (1949)]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 209 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3138A.

Underwood, Susan O'Dell. 1995. “The Appalachian Literary Tradition and the Works of Fred Chappell: Three Essays.” Ph.D. diss., Florida State University. 247 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 1360A.

Van Tassel, Kristin Lynn P. 2003. “The Yeoman in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature: Resisting, Reviving, and Revising the Agrarian Myth” [Wendell Berry, Charles Frazier, Barbara Kingsolver, et al.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas. 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2895A.

Vanderburg, Timothy Warren. 2001. “Cannon Mills: A Case Study of Southern Industrialization” [Kannapolis, N.C.; 1887-1971 industrial paternalism]. Ph.D. diss., Mississippi State University. 371 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 745A.

Varat, Daniel Raymond. 2002. “The Champion Family: Mountaineers in the Modern World” [paper mill; Pigeon River; Haywood Co., N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Mississippi. 301 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 3695A.

Vautrot, Leaona Diane. 2004. “Why Don’t They Come? Perceptions of Illiterate Adults in an Appalachian Mountain Region Regarding Nonparticipation in Adult Literacy Programs.” Ph.D. diss., University of New Orleans. 151 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 1216A.

Vlahovic, Gordana. 1999. “Seismotectonic Model of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone” [technical study]. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 225 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (2000): 3817B.

Vonhof, Sarah L. 2001. “Of Sticks and Seesaws: Private Property and the Stewardship of America’s Lands and Forests.” Ph.D. diss., State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. 304 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1159A.

Waddell, Kenneth Gary. 2000. “‘I’m Not Like Them!’: Voices of At-Risk Students in a Southern Appalachian, Urban Middle School.” Ed.D. diss., Western Carolina University. 469 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 1372A.

Waldrep, George Calvin, III. 1996. "Politics of Hope and Fear: The Struggle for Community in the Industrial South." [Spartanburg County, S.C. textile workers] Ph.D. diss., Duke University. 353 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 2182A.

Walker, Melissa Annette. 1996. "'All We Knew Was to Farm': Gender, Class, Race and Change Among East Tennessee Farm Women, 1920-1941." Ph.D. diss., Clark University. 469 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 1813A.

Walkingstick, Tamara Lynne. 1996. "Pulpwood, Dinettes, and Double-Wides: Comparative Case Studies of Forest Dependency in Alabama." Ph.D. diss., Auburn University. 256 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57: 794B.

Wallace, Robert M. 2004. “This Wild Strange Place: Local Narratives of Literacy Use in Appalachian Families Over Three Generations” [southern W.Va.; case studies of three families]. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 190 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 2188A.

Walsh, Brendan Michael. 2001. “A New World Proletariat: Expropriation, Transience, and Redemption in Twentieth-Century United States Narrative” [Part II: Harriette Arnow]. Ph.D. diss., Yale University. 336 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1097A.

Wang, Jenny Jie. 2003. “First-Generation College Students: College Impacts and Labor Market Outcomes” [28 schools; Central Appalachian Region]. Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa. 126 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2408A.

Warlick, Leslie Taylor. 2003. “A Study of Robert Ward’s Three Works for Violin and Piano” [including Appalachian Ditties and Dances, inspired by James Agee’s book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men]. D.M. diss., Florida State University. 70 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3534A.

Washburn, Donald Lee. 2003. “Teacher Commitment to Place-Based Education in Rural Southeastern Ohio Appalachian High Schools” [samples 407 teachers]. Ed.D. diss., Ohio University. 206 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3159A.

Wathen, Sandra Duncan. 2000. “The Relationship Between Spirituality, Religious Affiliation, Psychological Well-Being, and Adjustment of Undergraduate, Appalachian, First-Generation College Students.” Ed.D. diss., University of Cincinnati. 106 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1744A.

Wayland, John Walter. 1907. “The German Element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia” [W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 312 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 269A.

Weiler, Stephan A. 1994. “Industrial Structure and Unemployment in  Regional Labor Markets: Tales from the West Virginia Hollows.”  Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley. 168  pp. Dissertation Abstracts International  54: 2938A.

Weiner, Deborah R. 2002. “A History of Jewish Life in the Central Appalachian Coalfields, 1870s to 1970s” [W.Va., Ky., Va.]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 499 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63: 2348A. Online at http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2405.

Weise, Robert Spencer. 1995. “Economy and Society in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 468 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 56: 1502A.

Weissman, Karen Hyde. 1997. “Hidden Treasures: Stories of Coal in Ethnography and Ethnohistory from the West Virginia Coal Fields” [strike activity and resistance]. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia. 295 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4712A.

Welborn, Steven Keith. 1998. “‘Come All You Coal Miners’: The Struggle for Justice in the Coal Fields of Central Pennsylvania, 1924-1933" [human rights struggle]. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo. 334 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 296A.

Welleford, Paul B. 1998. “Leadership in a Community-Based, Nonprofit Organization: Total Action Against Poverty, Roanoke, Virginia.” Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 248 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2004): 285A.

West, Stephen Alan. 1998. “From Yeoman to Redneck in Upstate South Carolina, 1850-1915.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University. 619 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2692A.

Westman, Erik Christian. 1999. “A Characterization and Determination of the Coal Reserves and Resources of Southwest Virginia” [14 percent still mineable]. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 250 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1825B. Online at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-040899-151628/.

Whittemore, Barry Thomas. 1996. “The Rural to Urban Shift in the Appalachian South: Town Building and Town Persistence in Virginia’s Blue Ridge, 1880-1920” [Carroll and Grayson Counties]. 260 pp. D.A. diss., Carnegie Mellon University. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4904A.

Williams, Dennis R. 1997. “The Frequency and Perceived Value of Formal Training in Selected Small Business Firms in Pennsylvania’s Lycoming and Columbia Counties” [survey]. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 95 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 1622A.

Williams, Gary Allan. 2002. “Appalachian Male Attitudes toward Drinking and Counseling.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio University. 179 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 63 (2003): 2803A.

Williamson, William Paul. 1999. “The Experience of Religious Serpent Handling: A Phenomenological Study” [17 participants]. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 305 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2000): 1136B.

Wilson, Carol Lynne White. 2000. “Faculty Issues and Attitudes About Distance Learning: A Case Study of the Kentucky Virtual University.” Ed.D. diss., University of Louisville. 275 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 62 (2001): 138A.

Wilson, Linda Joy. 1994. “Appalachian Studies in Grades 6-12 Language Arts and English Curricula in Central Appalachia.” Ed.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 280 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2270A.

Winders, Jamie Lynn. 2004. “(Re)working the United States South: Latino Migration and the Politics of Race and Work in Nashville, Tennessee.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky. 418 pp. Dissertations Abstracts International 65: 2318A.

Winston, Amy Rebecca. 2002. “Factions and Corporate Political Strategies in Harlan County, Kentucky: Implications for Community Sustainability” [economic shift from coal mining; female activism of Benham Garden Club]. Ph.D. diss., Purdue University. 569 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3358A.

Wise, Larry Anthony, Jr. 1997. “‘A Sufficient Competence to Make Them Independent’: Attitudes Towards Authority, Improvement and Independence in the Carolina-Virginia Backcountry, 1760-1800.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee. 214 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2693A.

Wolensky, Kenneth Carl. 1996. “We Are All Equal: Adult Education and the Transformation of Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley District of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 1944-1963.” Ed.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University. 268 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 5022A.

Wood, Gerald Emerson. 1998. “Organizational Culture and Leadership at Berea College: An Historical Inquiry into Saga Development and Underlying Cultural Assumptions” [founded 1858]. Ed.D. diss., West Virginia University. 314 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 59: 435A.

Woodrum, Robert H. 2003. “Race and Industrial Transformation in the Alabama Coalfields, 1933-2001” [Birmingham]. Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University. 506 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2628A.

Wooley, Amy Suzanne. 2003. “Conjuring Utopia: The Appalachian String Band Revival” [ethnographic study]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles. 362 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64: 1906A.

Workman, Michael Edward. 1995. "Political Culture and the Coal Economy in the Upper Monongahela Region: 1776-1933" [northern W.Va.]. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University. 573 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2644A.

Wray, Matthew Taylor. 2000. “Not Quite White: Poor Rural Whites in the Southern United States, 1877-1927” [class, racial, cultural stereotyping]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley. 385 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 2776A.

Yarbrough, Fay Ann. 2003. “‘those disgracefull and unnatural matches’: Interracial Sex and Cherokee Society in the Nineteenth Century.” Ph.D. diss., Emory University. 363 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 3453A.

Yeager, Kevin Lee. 2000. “The Power of Ethnicity: The Preservation of Scots-Irish Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry” [Pa., N.C.]. Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. 422 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 61 (2001): 4924A.

Zogry, Michael Jonathan. 2003. “Playing or Praying? The Cherokee Anetso Ceremonial Complex” [ritual ball game as a symbol of identity and culture]. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara. 444 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 4083A.