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“Benign Negligence: U.S.-South Korean Relations at the End of the Carter Administration”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)
President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
“In Short, I am a West Indian": Planters, Performance, Anxiety, and Abolition in Georgian Britain
(2018)
Kathleen Wilson writes that the domestic elite of Georgian Britain sought a psychological "disavowal" of the West Indian planting class because elite flaws were reflected in the perceived degeneracy and excess of the ...
Missionary Girls’ Schools Yearbooks in Republican China: Navigating Youth, Gender and Nation, 1917-1948
(Vanderbilt University. Department of History, 2018)
This thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students ...