Thesis (Ph. D)--Georgia State University, 1973. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-143).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Louisville, 2009. / Department of Pan African Studies. Vita. "May 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-85).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2005. / Degree granted in Educational Leadership. Joint doctoral program with California State University, Fresno. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web. (Restricted to UC campuses)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

The autobiographies of the nineteenth-century black women evangelists, along with the petition of their strongly African eighteenth-century precursor Belinda, have never been examined collectively as a genre changing considerably throughout the nineteenth-century, and developing in a chiasmic return throughout the twentieth-century to give rise to contemporary African American women's literary forms. Through close readings of primary texts, I examine the ways in which the evangelists employ discourses produced by socio-economic determinants such as race, gender and class to create a complex black female narrative economy, with its own unique figurations and forms. These figurations and forms--for example the cult of the "unnatural" woman, the quest for community, the trope of trial, or the valorisation of the sermonic mode--develop and change over time. This changing black female spiritual narrative economy is indicative of an important line in the ongoing traditions of black women's writing which has only now begun to be reclaimed and validated. In their texts, evangelist autobiographers such as Rebecca Jackson, Sojourner Truth or Julia Foote maintained African traditions (for example, orality), and African American ways of being and telling (such as the preacheriy, or the performance of the blues) which were signified upon in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, and· are still of utmost importance to many African American women writers today. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This research utilized a 1994 study administered by Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, et al. that examined the roles and status of black women in public relations, using individual and organizational discriminates.A survey of 46 questions was administered to 58 women over a seven-week period. The results offered the current profile of a black female practitioner, and suggested that both her role and status are closer to that of communication technician (low-level management) than to expert prescriber (high-level management).The study offered data not included in the original research, such as practitioner salary, region of practice, and professional affiliation. / Department of Journalism

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007. / Prepared for: Dept. of Psychology. Bibliography: leaves 135-149. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-79).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2006. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (p.78-100).