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Apr 20, 2010

A Reevaluation of Iron Age Fortified Sites on the Eastern Kerak Plateau

Brown, Stephanie Hope. “A Reevaluation of Iron Age Fortified Sites on the Eastern Kerak Plateau.” (Under the direction of Dr. S. Thomas Parker.) This thesis is concerned with the nature of ten Moabite fortified sites on the eastern Kerak Plateau in central Jordan. Based largely upon an attempted synthesis between the archaeological record of the…

Apr 20, 2010

Politics of the Black Flag: Guerrilla Memory and Southern Conservatism in the New South

Hulbert, Matthew C. “Politics of the Black Flag: Guerrilla Memory and Southern Conservatism in the New South.” (Under the direction of Dr. Susanna Lee.) This thesis explores the intersection of Civil War memory and the history of conservative politics in the New South through two critical phases and its historiographic context. Phase one examines the…

Apr 8, 2010

Southern Appalachian People’s Responses to Socio-Economic Change–The New Deal, the War on Poverty, and the Rise of Tourism

Gillespie, Jessica L. “‘Loved to Stayed On Like It Once Was’: Southern Appalachian People’s Responses to Socio-Economic Change–The New Deal, the War on Poverty, and the Rise of Tourism.” (Under the direction of Dr. Craig Thompson Friend.) Over the course of the twentieth century, southern Appalachian residents have been defined and described primarily by outside…

Mar 3, 2010

A Synthesis of Three Surface Surveys in Jordan and an Interpretation of Increased Settlement and Land Use in the Late Byzantine Era

Hunter, Frances. “A Synthesis of Three Surface Surveys in Jordan and an Interpretation of Increased Settlement and Land Use in the Late Byzantine Era.” (Under the direction of Dr. S. Thomas Parker.) The Middle East in the Byzantine period is one of the least analyzed historic periods. Scholars assumed that this was a time of…

Jan 28, 2010

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Jan 13, 2010

The Dominance of the Roman Army in Northern Britain and Subsequent Rift between Roman and Briton on the Military Frontier

Huber, Christopher Ryan. “The Dominance of the Roman Army in Northern Britain and Subsequent Rift between Roman and Briton on the Military Frontier.” (Under the direction of Dr. S. Thomas Parker.) Britain was a province far from the Roman heartland. An accomplishment in its mere inclusion within the Roman Empire, such distance made Britain a…

Sep 1, 2009

CHASS Student of the Month – September 2009

Tracy Turnbull, September 2009 CHASS Student of the Month