Browsing by Author "Crowther, Kathleen"
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An Analysis of Three Recital Pieces by William Lloyd Webber
Barkoskie, Alvez, IV (2021-12-17)Born into a family of musicians, William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982), composed numerous pieces for the organ. Many of the pieces were published during his lifetime, but several more were found and published after his death ... -
As the Crone Flies: The Imagery of Women as Flying Witches in Early Modern Europe
St. Clare, Lisa (2016)Early modern European images of women as flying witches present fantastical scenes that were initially associated with the Waldensian heresy. Originally these subjects featured both men and women, but they came increasingly ... -
Astronomy in Safavid Persia: Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿĀmilī and the Patronage of Science
Mahdavi, Younes (2021-08-05)This dissertation offers the first account of a scientific tradition in theoretical astronomy (ʿilm al-hayʾa) initiated by Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547-1621), a polymath and a chief jurisconsult in the Safavid monarchy ... -
Canids and Humans in Oklahoma: How Rabies Shaped the Interactions Between Humans, Dogs, and Coyotes in Oklahoma between 1870 and 1920
Gehrke, Kendall (2021-08)Focusing on the period between 1870 and 1920 in Oklahoma, this thesis examines the ways in which rabies and hydrophobia shaped the interactions between humans, dogs, and coyotes, primarily by examining the ways in which ... -
Confessionalized Optics: The Society of Jesus and Early Modern Optics
Purkaple, Brent (2022-05)This dissertation explores the investigation and explanation of optics among prominent members of the Society of Jesus during the early modern period. In doing so it aims to explain why it was that optics became one of the ... -
Cross Cultural Medical and Natural Knowledge Exchange on the Mississippi Frontier between Gideon Lincecum and the Choctaw Nation: 1818 to 1833
Maupin, Matthew (2016-12-16)This paper closely investigates the natural and medical exchange of knowledge and its social and historical context between Gideon Lincecum (1793 – 1874) and his Choctaw neighbors in Mississippi between the years 1818 and ... -
Encounters with Alcabitius: Reading Arabic Astrology in Premodern Europe
Gaida, Margaret (2017-08-01)This project examines the transmission and reception in medieval and early modern Europe of the Introduction to Astrology, written by the tenth-century Arabic author al-Qabīṣī and known to his Latin readers as Alcabitius. ... -
"Expressing the Inexpressible": Art Posters, Graphic Modernism, and the American West, 1890–1925
Jerman, Hadley (2020-05)The “art poster” movement swept the United States during the 1890s, generating enthusiasm and commentary for advertising posters designed by fine artists. While American art posters prompted much discussion in their time, ... -
The Liturgical Music of Richard Proulx as a Fulfillment of the Musical Directives of the Second Vatican Council
Ganza, Christopher (2020-05)The thesis of this study is that Richard Proulx (1937-2010) composed sacred music in a manner that fulfilled directives on sacred music from the Second Vatican Council. Council documents Sacrosanctum Concilium, Musicam ... -
Local Lunacy: A Legal, Political, and Spatial History of the Early British Psychiatric System and the Causes for the Lunacy and County Asylums Acts of 1845
Coffman, Rivers (2022-05-14)Between 1774 and 1845, British social outlook towards mental health changed drastically and a new wave of prominent medical people revolutionized the field. Quaker beliefs and Enlightenment philosophy influenced ideas of ... -
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
McCool, Calandra (2016-05-13)Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ... -
Normalcy and Pathology: Biology, Social Reform, and American Domestic Handbooks, c. 1840-1910
Parry, Alexander Ian (2016-05)This article examines the relationships between the biological and social content of the domestic handbooks Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1868-1935) wrote during the mid-nineteenth and ... -
Nosology, Urban Infrastructure, and Public Health Discourse in 18th-century Philadelphia: An In-Depth Look at Fever Debates During the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic
Root, Elizabeth (2022-05)By the 1790s, Philadelphia was a thriving port city that saw numerous ships arriving daily from foreign ports throughout the Atlantic world. In 1793, many of these in-bound ships were not carrying the typical goods to be ... -
ORAZIO GRASSI AND A 1623 TREATISE ON THE SPHERE: ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS AT THE COLLEGIO ROMANO IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Bartel, Kraig (2016-12)The University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections recently acquired a 1623 manuscript which has been attributed to the Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The first section of the manuscript, entitled “Tractatus ... -
Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650-1810
Grissom, Julie (2014-05)From antiquity, parasites, and especially worms, were thought to be responsible for human suffering and disease. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, worms became the subject of extensive scientific ... -
PERIODIC SOLUTIONS OF THE DISPERSION-MANAGED NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION
Adekoya, Oreoluwa (2019-05-10)We study the existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions to the initial-value problem for the periodic dispersion-managed nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DMNLS) equation, an equation that models the propagation of periodic, ... -
"Physicke for Body and Soule": Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England
Paek, Samuel (2021-05-14)The body and soul were intimately linked in early modern religious thought. This thesis examines one facet of this connection: the relationship between medicine and religion in published sermons, religious tracts, and ... -
Pregnancy, Magic, and Medicine: The Many Roles of Midwives in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Baez, Margaretta (2017-05-12)Despite the vast research by historians of 18th-century Mexico on women’s and gender history, New World medical cultures, and witchcraft, little is known about the lives and practices of late colonial parteras (midwives). ... -
Science and the Construction of Therapeutics in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1879-1906
Beasley, Caitlin (2018-05)The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a crisis in therapeutics as scientific developments overturned the theoretical underpinnings of humoral medicine, leaving room for lively and pluralistic discourses of health ... -
THE TRANSITION OF A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE TO A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY
Leggate, Abigail (2018-05-11)Professional Learning Communities are hailed as efficient tools for fostering collaboration among teachers and improving achievement among students. This qualitative case study seeks to understand the transition of an ...