Dissertations from 2016

“Daring propaganda for the beauty of the Human Mind:” Critical Consciousness-Raising in the Poetry and Drama of the Black Power Era, 1965-1976, Markeysha D. Davis

Dissertations from 2015

Imaging Her Selves: Black Women Artists, Resistance, Image and Representation, 1938-1956, Heather Zahra Caldwell

“The Imagination and Construction of the Black Criminal in American Literature, 1741-1910”, Emahunn Campbell

Creating the Ideal Mexican: 20th and 21st Century Racial and National Identity Discourses in Oaxaca, Savannah N. Carroll

The (Dis)Ability of Color; or, That Middle World: Toward A New Understanding of 19th and 20th Century Passing Narratives, Julia S. Charles

The Physical Uplift of the Race: The Emergence of the African American Physical Culture Movement, 1900-1930, J. Anthony Guillory

Race Patriots: Black Poets, Transnational Identity, and Diasporic Versification in the United States Before the New Negro, Jason T. Hendrickson

Sweat the Technique: Visible-izing Praxis Through Mimicry in Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, Karla V. Zelaya

Dissertations from 2014

AFRICAN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: BLACK INTELLECTUAL PERSPECTIVES 1850-1965, Vanessa Fabien

“Survival Kits on Wax”: The Politics, Poetics, and Productions of Gil Scott-Heron, 1970-1978, Donald Geesling

Dissertations from 2013

Uncovering the Covered Word and Image: Framing a Black Woman’s Diasporan Stage-Space, Allia Abdullah Matta

Composing the African Atlantic: Sun Ra, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and the Poetics of African Diasporic Composition, James Gregory Carroll

Approaches to Black Power: African American Grassroots Political Struggle in Cleveland, Ohio, 1960-1966, David M. Swiderski

Dissertations from 2012

In Search Of The Fraternal: Salvific Manhood And Male Intimacy In The Novels Of James Baldwin, Ernest L. Gibson III

Pen Stroking the Soul of a People: Spiritual Foundations of Black Diasporan Literature, McKinley Eric Melton

Ethel Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press: Black Journalism and its Advocacy Role from 1954 – 1991, Jamal E Watson

Dissertations from 2011

Intellect, Liberty, Life: Women’S Activism And The Politics Of Black Education In Antebellum America, Kabria Baumgartner

“Journey Toward A Black Aesthetic”: Hoyt Fuller, The Black Arts Movement & The Black Intellectual Community, Jonathan Bryan Fenderson

Dissertations from 2010

Africanizing the Territory: The History, Memory and Contemporary Imagination of Black Frontier Settlements in the Oklahoma Territory, Catherine Lynn Adams

Where I Want To Be: African American Women‘s Novels And The Journey Toward Selfhood During The Civil Rights And Black Power Movements, Jacqueline M Jones

“It is a new kind of militancy”: March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946, David Lucander

The Fight For Freedom Must Be Fought On All Fronts: Liberator Magazine And Black Radicalism, 1960-1971, Christopher Matthew Tinson

Dissertations from 2009

A Woman Of Action: Elma Lewis, The Arts, And The Politics Of Culture In Boston, 1950-1986, Daniel N McClure

The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine McFadden

Liberation at the End of a Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff

Dissertations from 2008

“The social responsibility of the administrator”: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and the dilemma of Black leadership, 1890–1976, Thomas John Edge

City of amalgamation: Race, marriage, *class and color in Boston, 1890–1930, Zebulon V Miletsky

Dissertations from 2007

American man: the ambitious searches of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway/, Michael Kwame Forbes

The Politics of Creation: The short story in South Africa and the US, Lloren Addison Foster

Against wind and tide : African Americans’ response to the colonization movement and emigration, 1770-1865/, Ousmane Kirumu Greene

Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery, Rita, Reynolds

Intersections in theatrics and politics: The case of Paul Robeson and “Othello”, Lindsey R Swindall

Vindicating karma: jazz and the Black Arts movement/, W. S. Tkweme

The politics and poetics of African American women’s identity performances: (re) reading black hair in fictional/non-fictional writings and cultural productions/, Eunice Angelica Whitmal

Submissions from 2006

Mapping intersections: Black women’s identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women’s fiction, Sandra Caona Duvivier

Courage under fire : African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality/, David A. Goldberg

Dissertations from 2005

“To lawless rapine bred”: A study of early Northeastern execution literature featuring people of African descent, Tanya M Mears

Disrupting dissemblance: Transgressive black women as politics of counter-representation in African American women’s fiction, Trimiko C Melancon

Dissertations from 2004

“We know our rights and have the courage to defend them”: The spirit of agitation in the age of accommodation, 1883–1909, Shawn Leigh Alexander

Refusing to be silent : tracing the role of the black woman protector on the American stage/, Brandon LA Hutchinson

Remembering Jim Crow: The literary memoir as historical source material, Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Dissertations from 2003

Living legacies: Black women, educational philosophies, and community service, 1865–1965, Stephanie Yvette Evans

Dissertations from 2002

Black representation in American short films, 1928-1954 , Christopher P. Lehman

Race for sanctions : the movement against aparteid, 1946-1994/, Francis Njubi Nesbitt

“What’s love got to do with it?[“] : the dynamics of desire, race and murder in the slave South/, Carolyn. Powell