The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how clergies in Pennsylvania described their experiences when responding to adult female victims of domestic violence. The social learning theory was the theoretical framework that guided the research. The research…
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The premise of this dissertation is that gradual abolition legislation did not abolish slavery in Pennsylvania. In the broadest terms, it argues that there is a history of chattel slavery in Pennsylvania that begins rather than ends with gradual abolition. It is the first study …
The Moravian town of Bethlehem went through a series of developmental changes between 1740-1745 that saw the community go from a closed-form of church-controlled communalism to an entirely open society. This change was precipitated by the outside world’s direct influence on the …
This dissertation describes and interprets an example of a relationship between belief, imagination, reading, writing, and the art of gardening in colonial Pennsylvania. The chapters analyze and interpret the role and influence of Francis Daniel Pastorius’ art of gardening in ea…
The purpose of this research was to lead Ezekiel Baptist from a congregation to a community. The research showed that by introducing Scripture to select members of Ezekiel Baptist Church, their beliefs would change, thus beginning the transformation of becoming a community.
Every place has a history, but not every place has a future. What happens to a place once its time has run out is usually always a mystery and this mystery grows when the reason a place loses itself is sparked from tragedy. In certain cases, these places struggle to hold on to w…
This thesis focuses on the diasporic Lumbee community of Philadelphia that formed following the Second World War and developed throughout the late twentieth century. Faced with economic hardship, thousands of Lumbees migrated out of Robeson County and settled in urban centers in…
This project refigures the histories of yellow fever, cholera, and typhus through the rubric of intimacy, defined as a value-neutral condition of physical and sensory proximity that can acquire a positive or negative valence based on context. It considers how disease-specific sy…
There is a substantial amount of evidence that suggests Indiana County was a part of the Underground Railroad (UGRR) landscape. Some residents of Indiana County established groups that provided aid to freedom seekers who traveled through the area. One such resident was John Graf…
Recently Pittsburgh has experienced a noticeable increase in the number of incoming refugees, which has put added pressure on local service providers to develop more efficient resettlement practices. While female refugee's experiences have been largely ignored, this study attemp…
In the last decade, the immigrant population in Allegheny County has doubled and currently accounts for approximately seven percent of the general population. This number, despite being low, especially compared to other counties and states, is very diverse from an ethnic point v…
In 2001, a federal program, the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), was initiated in 20 counties in south-central Pennsylvania to address soil erosion and water quality with an expected secondary benefit of providing habitat for wildlife. Because of the decline in g…
Sperling Enterprises conducted a survey for Money Magazine in January, 2004 which in part examined one hundred large, medium and small metropolitan areas in the United States to determine which metropolitan areas were the most and least stressful places to reside. The Harrisburg…
War Stories is a thematically cohesive collection of poems that reveal the pressures and anxieties that are brought to bear upon families and individuals that are profoundly affected by military tradition and lifestyle, specifically in the blue-collar and Irish American communit…
The issue of how immigrant populations combine traditional and Western health beliefs and practices has not been given due attention. Hence, this qualitative research study of Yoruba immigrants, an ethnic group from south-western Nigeria, living in the Philadelphia, PA-Wilmingto…
Millard's Quarry Pond is located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, which is an agricultural area. The Tulpehocken Creek, which flows alongside Millard's Quarry Pond, meanders through farmland as well as towns. Along with agricultural runoff, there is also domestic and industrial …
Since the eighteenth century, visitors to the Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania have marveled at the strange, medieval appearance of the Cloister's architecture. Established in 1732, the Ephrata community was a religious settlement founded by Conrad Beissel, a G…
The passenger pigeon—Ectopistes migratorius—is an extinct subspecies of pigeon that was used as a staple food source by the Haudenosaunee—also known as the Iroquois Confederacy. The largest passenger pigeon flocks were described by eyewitnesses as covering hundreds of miles, and…
This thesis examines the concepts of geographic scale and place as they pertain to protest events. Much of the literature in social movements theory has yet to address geographic issues in a specific and meaningful way. This thesis uses comparison in order to demonstrate the imp…