This dissertation analyzes and digitally archives queer literacy narratives from participants across the rural South through the frameworks of literacy, world-making, and access. Through this analysis and archival work, the author expands present definitions of queer literacy by asking the following: What does queer literacy, queer world-making, an...
'Reservoir Noir' illuminates the making of the New Deal Santee-Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project in rural South Carolina, the subsequent inundation of the floodplain between the Santee and Cooper rivers, and the unmaking of 901 Black and poor white families therein. Through the case study of the Santee-Cooper Project, this dissertation il...
This dissertation seeks to address the use of gender and race in constructing U.S. engineering identity. It analyzes individual and institutional identities at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) between 1933 and 1953 through a model of multiple white masculinities. Predominantly drawing on oral histories, autobiographical text, and correspondence...
