• SPINNING SUGAR, REFINING AMERICA: CONSUMERS AND CREATORS OF DESSERT IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 

  Flaherty, Morgan (2019)

  Dessert presentations in America shifted in the eighteenth century from simple desserts with few ingredients to elaborate confections of sugar. As a luxurious end to the meal, dessert increasingly reflected class and race. ...

• The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 

  Sfondiles, Angelo (2019)

  This study focuses on changes that occurred within the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople in the second half of the seventeenth century in response to the difficulties and challenges the Ottoman Empire faced. The ...

• To Drink a Cup of Fire: Morality Tales and Moral Emotions in Egyptian, Algerian, and French Anti-Colonial Activism, 1945-1960 

  Abu Sarah, Christiane Marie (2019)

  In the 1940s and 1950s, newspapers in Egypt, Algeria, and France debated the behavior of activists who sacrificed themselves for a cause, calling them “hysterics,” “radicals,” “fanatics,” and “terrorists.” Underlying these ...

• BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST: THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, 1780-1865 

  Holness, Lucien (2019)

  This dissertation examines the making of free soil and black freedom, as well as the abolitionist movement in southwestern Pennsylvania. I frame the region as a borderland between the free North and the slave South, where ...

• “Intimate Entanglement: The Gendered Politics of Race and Family in the Gulf South" 

  Bearden, Joshua L (2019)

  “Intimate Entanglement: The Gendered Politics of Race and Family in the Gulf South,” uses manuscript court records, newspapers, records of colonial administrators, and accounts of merchants and travelers to investigate the ...

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