Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 0, East Asian Languages and Literatures

This dissertation aims at examining the revival of local folk culture and Confucian tradition in the context of recent government initiatives such as the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) movement and President Xi Jinping's promotion of “excellent traditional culture.” Based on my fieldwork in the Qimen County, Anhui Province from 2015 to 2020, my dissertation explores various social and political factors at work in the cultural revival and multiple modes and layers of cultural transmission, formal and informal, particularly “exemplarity” as a modality of tradition that sustains revived Confucian lineage practices. First, from a descriptive and analytical perspective, my dissertation argues against an indiscreet application of the concept of invented tradition in Chinese scholarship. The government has invented and manipulated certain aspects of traditional cultural forms to enhance its global status and feed nationalist imaginations, but this is not a complete picture. Underneath the invention of tradition, there is a cultural continuity in local community that maintains inherited traditions despite political upheaval. Secondly, in normative and ethical terms, this dissertation argues against a simplistic and lopsided definition of cultural transmission as no more than the manipulation of a community's cultural past to serve their present needs and justify their current actions. While individuals may actively shape the past body of discourse and practice into a new whole that fits current needs and agendas, we cannot afford to neglect how they feel obligated to follow the cultural past. As scholars, we should respect people's claims about what they are doing, especially the deeply felt sense of historical responsibility inculcated in them. My study is thus engaged with memory studies and I have developed the concept of bloodline memory (xueyuan jiyi血缘记忆) to dig deeper into individuals' habitual behaviors and the collective forces behind a group that pushes them (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Mark Bender (Advisor); Patricia Sieber (Committee Member); Dorothy Noyes (Committee Member); Meow Hui Goh (Committee Member) Subjects: Cultural Anthropology; Folklore; Literature; Performing Arts; Religion

MA, Kent State University, 2015, College of the Arts / School of Music, Hugh A. Glauser

In the 1970s, a group of Scottish fiddling enthusiasts began a Scottish fiddling revival in the United States to bring back this fiddling genre after it was lost to centuries of Americanized fiddling. Competitions, as the revivalists' first and main method of reestablishment, are examined to determine the revival's success and the consequences on the musical style. From competitions, other elements of the revival can be explored and discussed, such as how the tradition is passed on, how the history and musical stylistics are maintained, and how the community celebrates their music. The revival is ultimately thriving and growing beyond the competition format, which slowly changes the music as well. A collateral consequence of this revival is a Scottish fiddling community of both fiddlers and non-fiddlers that keep the revival in motion.

Committee: Jennifer Johnstone PhD (Advisor); Andrew Shahriari PhD (Committee Member); Susan Roxburgh PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: American History; European History; Music

MA, University of Cincinnati, 2009, Arts and Sciences : Communication

Throughout America's religious history, there have been periods of increased religious sentiments leading to times of religious revitalization known as America's Great Awakenings. This thesis project performs a rhetorical criticism of exemplary sermons delivered by the prominent figure from each of America's Great Awakenings. Previous rhetorical scholarship on the Great Awakenings has typically identified broad patterns in awakening sermons, but few have focused on the internal dynamics of individual sermons. This thesis supplements these studies with an examination of the internal dynamics of individual sermons. This thesis develops standards for identifying prominent preachers and representative or exemplar sermons, and focuses on the following sermons and figures: “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts” by Charles Finney, and “Lost and Saved” by Dwight Moody. Key rhetorical features include the organization of the sermon and use of appeals to emotions and values, specifically fear and responsibility. Shifts in the organization and appeals used by each speaker can be attributed to three major factors: the dominant theological perspective (i.e. Calvinist versus Arminian views of salvation), the training and background of each preacher, and the relative diversity and size of the audiences addressed.

Committee: John Lynch PhD (Committee Chair); Steve Depoe PhD (Committee Member); James Crocker-Lakness PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication; Religion; Rhetoric

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1982, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects:

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Dayton, 2024, Theology

Katherine Burton (1887-1969) is a forgotten, yet prolific US Catholic writer who wrote for average, middle-class, white women in the mid-twentieth century. From her conversion to Catholicism in 1930 to her death in 1969, Katherine wrote a monthly “Woman to Woman” column in The Sign for thirty-six years, over forty-four biographies and histories of Catholic men, women, and religious communities, and countless articles for other Catholic periodicals. Her books, as well as the Catholic periodicals in which her writing regularly appeared, had a large, nationwide readership. Katherine's words hold significance for religious scholars today seeking to further understand the faith lives of middle-class women in the pews during one of the most turbulent time periods in US history. Examining Katherine's writing provides scholars with a view into how Catholicism and Catholic womanhood were understood and presented by a laywoman to her mid-twentieth century laywomen audience. Katherine's writing is also a compelling example of how intricately an author's personal life is often entwined with their work and how studying the two side by side enriches the narratives they both tell.

Committee: Bill Portier (Committee Chair); Sandra Yocum (Committee Member); Mary Henold (Committee Member); Jana Bennett (Committee Member); William Trollinger (Committee Member) Subjects: American History; Religious History; Theology

Bachelor of Music, Capital University, 2022, Music

Theatre is an art form with the capacity to enact real change in our communities. Because of the wide array of topics theatre explores, it can help us to hold up a mirror to real life, critique and comment on proceedings within it, hold space for human emotion and therefore catharsis, and get viewers invested in a good story. This begs a responsibility for theatrical professionals to tie in aspects of community outreach to create a more enriching show, and harness the true power of this art form. In this project, I will be producing and directing Indecent, as well as creating opportunities for community outreach through talkbacks, service projects, and campus engagement opportunities. I will be creating a directorial concept, choosing actors, designing a rehearsal plan, finding costumes, set design elements, lighting, sound, and anything else needed to produce the show, all while organizing the opportunities for community engagement, complementary to the show's themes of LGBTQ+ rights and the history of Yiddish theatre. I have received permission also to conduct interviews and surveys of audience members directly after the show as well as check-ins to measure how the themes resonated with them, and later, how they have noticed them appear in their lives since, or any changes they have made. In the final paper in the execution semester, I will then explore these effects through the findings of this production and outreach components to demonstrate that theatre has the ability, and therefore responsibility to benefit others.

Committee: Joshua Borths (Advisor); Jens Hemmingsen (Advisor); Chad Payton (Advisor) Subjects: Art Criticism; Art Education; Art History; Arts Management; Behavioral Psychology; Communication; Curricula; Curriculum Development; Dance; Demographics; Design; East European Studies; Education; Education Philosophy; Educational Evaluation; Educational Psychology; Educational Sociology; Educational Theory; Ethics; European History; European Studies; Fine Arts; Folklore; Foreign Language; Gender; Gender Studies; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration; History; Holocaust Studies; Industrial Arts Education; Intellectual Property; Judaic Studies; Marketing; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern History; Modern Literature; Music; Music Education; Performing Arts; Personal Relationships; Social Research; Social Work; Teacher Education; Teaching; Theater; Theater History; Theater Studies; Theology; Womens Studies

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2020, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts)

In this dissertation, entitled The Radif as Musical Syntax: Instrument Revival in Persian Traditional Music, I investigate the ways in which the radif (canonic musical repertoire) functions as a system of melodic governance for composition and improvisation. Through ethnographic fieldwork and analytical approaches, I consider how the performance of radif-based melodies on relegated Persian musical instruments (namely, the barbat and qanun) has facilitated their ongoing process of revival. In dialoguing with my interlocutors and surveying the scholarship, I found that this dissertation has served as the first of its kind, documenting the music performed on the instrument as the driver for its revival. Furthermore, there has been very little scholarship documenting the work of current Persian musicians. Through my dissertation, I hope to help fill this lacuna and contribute to the extant literature in ethnomusicology. Segments of this research have been presented at various national conferences, including the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, 12th Biennial Conference of the Association for Iranian Studies, and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Committee: Garrett Field (Committee Chair); Mark Phillips (Advisor); Robert McClure (Committee Member) Subjects: Ethnic Studies; Middle Eastern History; Middle Eastern Studies; Music

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, 2019, English

My project examines the work of Loyd Haberly (1896-1981), a self-styled “bookbuilder” who hand printed and illustrated over 30 books in the UK and US in the first half of the 20th century. This thesis examines Haberly's works in order to trace the influence of Britain's Arts and Crafts movement on this American artist. By extension, it studies the impact in the US of both the Arts and Crafts aesthetic and the hand-press revival and considers their relevance to artistic movements that followed.

Committee: Nicole Reynolds (Advisor); Joseph McLaughlin (Other) Subjects: Art History; British and Irish Literature; Literature

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1991, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Literature

Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, 2014, English

Salome: Reviving the Dark Lady is a rationale for an impending interdisciplinary reimagining of the literary Dark Lady for the early twenty-first century. The work comprises of poetry, dance, and film. This thesis recounts the history of beauty in the Early Modern Period and discusses the historical context of the Dark Lady to provide a frame for the journey of marginalized archetype into the twenty-first century. The choreopoem itself is built upon Salome, the character from Elizabeth Cary's1613 closet drama "The Tragedy of Mariam Fair Queen of Jewry." The choreopoem contains transliterated soliloquies of the princess interspersed through original poems and prose inspired by works of spoken-word artist Andrea Gibson, twentieth-century Afro-Scandinavian author Nella Larsen, and various literary and cultural critics.

Committee: Albino Carrillo (Advisor) Subjects: African American Studies; American Literature; Bible; British and Irish Literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Anthropology; Dance; European Studies; Experiments; Folklore; Gender; Language Arts; Literature; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern History; Religion; Scandinavian Studies; Theater; Womens Studies

M.M., University of Cincinnati, 2014, College-Conservatory of Music: Music History

The musical Chicago represents an anomaly in Broadway history: its 1996 revival far surpassed the modest success of the original 1975 production. Despite the original production's box-office accomplishments, it received disparaging reviews regarding the cynicism of the work's content. The musical celebrates the crimes and acquittals of two murderesses, and is based on Maurine Dallas Watkins's coverage as a Chicago Tribune reporter of two 1924 murder cases, from which she generated a 1926 Broadway play. The 1975 Broadway production of Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville utilized this historical source material to comment on contemporary American society, highlighting parallels between the U.S. justice system and the entertainment industry, which critics and audiences of the post-Watergate era deemed as too cynical. Although Chicago initially achieved a mixed reception, the revival's producers made few changes to John Kander's music, Fred Ebb's lyrics, and Ebb and Bob Fosse's book, aside from simplifying the title to Chicago: The Musical. This suggests that the musical's newfound success can be attributed to a societal shift in the perception of its subject matter. With further success from Chicago's 2002 film adaptation, the originally dark and sardonic material became a smash hit and found itself as mainstream entertainment at the turn of the millennium. The contrast between the revival's and film adaptation's rave reviews and the musical's initial mixed reception has received little scholarly attention. This thesis provides the most thorough account of Chicago's reception history, which includes a comparison of the critics' reviews of both Broadway productions in addition to a selection of reviews for its first national tour and 2002 film. An interdisciplinary methodology with criminological and sociological theories demonstrates that Chicago's growth in popularity has paralleled American society's changing attitudes towards crime, deviance, and celebrity worship—from (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: bruce mcclung Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Roger Grodsky (Committee Member); Jonathan Kregor Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Music

MS ARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2004, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture

The social and political implication of Chinoiserie, and its potential relationship with Colonialism, have not been thoroughly studied by historians in recent decades, as it has generally been dismissed as merely a stylistic novelty. In contrast, the Gothic Revival has been proven to be a contributor to Modernism and scholarly exploration of it has continued. Recent research has shown that patrons employed Gothic Revival in art and architecture for political and social reasons in eighteenth-century England. The aims of this thesis are to examine Chinoiserie beyond the stylistic meaning through a comparison with the contemporary Gothic style, and to discover a new interpretation of eighteenth-century British Chinoiserie phenomenon in relationship to nineteenth-century European Colonialism. Literary works on Chinoiserie, Gothic Revival, Picturesque and Orientalism indicate that it is an extraordinary phenomenon that in the eighteenth-century England, Chinoiserie, Gothic Revival and many other historical revival styles existed simultaneously. However, Chinoiserie never gained entire public acceptance, while the Gothic style developed into the major English domestic style of the nineteenth-century. Two case studies are examined: “Chinese Chippendale” furniture of the 1750's and 1760's, and the Chinese Room at Claydon House (1757-1771), in Buckinghamshire, England. In the first case study, “Chinese Chippendale” furniture is considered. This includes an exploration of Thomas Chippendale's inspiration, the changes of the Chinese style in the three editions of Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director (1754, 1755, and 1762), an investigation of his commissions, and an inquiry into its stylistic and cultural meanings. In the second case study, the history of the Verney family and Claydon House in England is explored. The 2nd Earl Verney (1712-1791)'s intentions of rebuilding Claydon House are also investigated, revealing definite social and political implicati (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Patrick Snadon (Advisor) Subjects: Architecture

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2012, East Asian Languages and Literatures

The purpose of this work is to analyze the reasons behind the decline of the unique Chinese picture books known as “lianhuanhua”, and to discuss whether or not revival of lianhuanhua is a possibility in future. The format of this thesis can be manly separated into three different sections. The first section deals with how lianhuanhua developed, whether or not it was a successful media in different time periods, and its current situation in China. The second section looks at the reasons behind lianhuanhua's decline from different view points, including the effects of changes in art quality, government policies, new media, publishers, and artists. The final section discusses whether or not the traditional form of lianhuanhua can be revived, and lianhuanhua's influence on other narrative art in China. Research techniques used in this thesis include historical research, case studies, art analysis and comparative research.

Committee: Jianqi Wang PhD (Advisor); Galal Walker PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Art History; Asian Studies; Fine Arts; Mass Media

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1943, History

Committee: Lawrence Hill (Advisor) Subjects:

Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, 2005, Geography (Arts and Sciences)

This study investigates the present day toponymns of Waterford County, Ireland. By using the Land Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps, a database was created with the place names of the county. This study draws upon both traditional and contemporary theories and methods in Geography to understand more fully the meaning behind the place names on a map. In the “traditional” sense, it focuses on investigating changes in the landscape wrought by humans through both time and space (the naming of places). In a more “contemporary” sense, it seeks to understand the power relationships and social struggles reflected in the naming of places and the geography of those names. As such, this study fills a void in the current toponymns and cartographic literature, which are both focused mainly on patterns of diffusion and power struggles in North America.

Committee: Timothy Anderson (Advisor) Subjects: Geography

Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Ohio University, 2003, Art History (Fine Arts)

The portrait miniature revival is examined regarding contemporary influences and artists, during the period c. 1890-1930. Modern influences, including the philosophies of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, are defined in context of the miniature. The fine arts of John Singer Sargent's portraiture, as well as the abstraction and color of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, are revealed as instrumental in altering the style of the revival miniature. Photography is examined for its influence versus eclipse of the miniature. The miniaturist's environment is found to be highly significant, as the city of New York provided constant immersion in art societies, exhibitions, and studio residences where artists coexisted while creating new styles. Focus is on the works of miniaturists Eulabee Dix and Laura Coombs Hills. Patronage is found to be highly supportive of the portrait miniature and essential to an understanding of why the miniature was revived during the period.

Committee: Jody Lamb (Advisor) Subjects: Art History

Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, 2011, History

Against the tumult of the American Revolution, the first white settlers in the Ohio Valley imported their religious worldviews and experiences from a colonial past to their unfamiliar new surroundings. Within a generation, they witnessed the Great Revival (circa 1797-1805), a dramatic mass revelation of religion, converting thousands of worshipers to spiritual rebirth while transforming the region's cultural identity. This study focuses on the lives and careers of three prominent Kentucky settlers: Christian revivalists James McGready and Barton Warren Stone, and pioneering newspaper editor John Bradford. All three men occupy points on a religious spectrum, ranging from the secular public faith of civil religion, to the apocalyptic sectarianism of the Great Revival, yet they also overlap in unexpected ways. This study explores how the evangelicalism characteristic of McGready and Stone fatally eroded the public sphere envisaged by the deistic Bradford. It also examines the Presbyterian Church's reaction against the alleged enthusiasm within its own clergy, embracing a more socially conformist mode of religion. It looks at how Stone's faith led him to denounce the direction of Presbyterian Church. Even as McGready submitted himself to the discipline imposed by his denominational colleagues, Stone withdrew instead into a primitive Christianity marked by political quietism and civil disengagement. This study follows the consequences of such diverging paths, as McGready rehabilitated himself into the Presbyterian fold and Stone struggled to maintain his prophetic voice while charting an independent course. An epilogue charts the political persecution of the Shakers, whose emergence in the Ohio Valley marked the apex of evangelical enthusiasm. The impact of the Great Revival is finally considered against the cultural parameters of religious expression that emerged in its wake, both regionally and throughout the United States.

Committee: Carla Gardina Pestana PhD (Advisor); Mary Cayton PhD (Committee Member); Andrew Cayton PhD (Committee Member); Katharine Gillespie PhD (Committee Member); Peter Williams PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: History

Master of Arts, University of Akron, 2010, Clothing, Textiles and Interiors

In the late-nineteenth century notable interior decorators gradually emerged to help make interior decoration a serious, individualized, and worthwhile discipline. This study traces H. F. Huber & Co., one of New York's first American interior decorating firms to successfully design, execute, and install complete high-end commercial, hospitality, and residential interiors in close conjunction with the project architect. Despite significant commercial contracts Hugo F. Huber's career was built on a range of residential work for wealthy clients, often German-American like Huber. Two residences, each with fine archival resources and well-preserved interiors, provided the author with great insight into Huber's design philosophy, expertise, and work ethic. The Christian Heurich Mansion interiors (1892-1894), Washington, DC, provided an example of Huber's immense talent during his early-career, and Stan Hywet Manor (1911-1917), Akron, Ohio, provided an example of Huber's artistic genius during the peak of his career.

Committee: Virginia Gunn Dr. (Advisor) Subjects: American History; Architecture; Art Education; Art History; Biographies; Design; Fine Arts; History; Interior Design; Museums