An increased awareness of cultural diversity by students, faculty, and administrators has been emphasized in American higher education in recent years. International education has played a major role in adding to the diversity of American college and university campuses by facil…
My research into ethnic representations in the major newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, the Commercial Appeal, between 1990 and 2006 looks at the relationship between changing patterns of immigration, particularly in Memphis, the dominant political ideologies during this period--n…
The Memphite Sarapieion, the sacred precinct in the royal necropolis of Saqqara that was dedicated to the burial and mortuary cult of the Apis bull from at least as early as the Dynasty 18 reign of Amenhotep III (circa 1390-1353 B.C.E.), was significantly altered, probably durin…
Flush with the victory of World War II, America faced an expansive industrial and agricultural landscape that had been focused on war. As factories re-tooled themselves from military production to a domestic market, kitchen appliances, metal cabinets, plastics, and synthetic fab…
This dissertation is a study of the life and music of early country music songwriter Bob Miller (1895-1955). Miller was a prolific songwriter, who wrote music of multiple genres, but he was also a performer and recording artist during the 1920s and 1930s. As an early white compo…