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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. d