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"I Sing Night and Day": The Spiritual Songs of Elias Neau in the Atlantic World
No full textThis thesis examines the life and writings of Elias Neau (1662-1722), a Huguenot sailor, merchant and catechist for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG). I argue that Neau's devotional cantiques, written in French and influenced by European devotional movements, provide insight into the early catechetical practices in the mainland colonies and highlight the role of singing and affective religion, more than thirty years before the First Great Awakening brought revivalist practices to enslaved Africans.
I first trace Neau’s travels throughout the Atlantic world, from his childhood in France, to the West Indies, to Puritan Boston, to his imprisonment in Louis XIV’s galleys and prisons in Marseilles, to his life in New York as a catechist for the SPG. In studying Elias Neau as a “man of the Atlantic World,” I am able to show the complex interrelationship of experiences and opinions that formed his life and work.
In exploring Neau’s school for the enslaved in New York, I am able to examine what we know about the lives of his students, and I expose the troubles and conflicts that Neau faced in his controversial work.
In order to understand Neau’s writings, I outline the varied affective movements so prevalent across the Atlantic World in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. I then specifically analyze the content of Neau’s cantiques and the influence of European affective religion on Neau’s own beliefs. I concentrate on describing five prominent themes in Neau’s cantiques: creation as the “divine mirror” of its all-powerful Sovereign; the sinner’s need for grace and divine sanctification; the desire for union with God; personal salvation through the Blood of Jesus Christ; and the place of human suffering in obtaining a heavenly reward. I then set each theme in its context, pointing to other works that reflect similar concepts
Lyberti Bradley Oral History Interview Records
No full textLyberti Bradley of Sewanee, Tennessee was interviewed by Selena Piercy, Sewanee student, on November 30, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing her experiences as a woman of color growing up in both Alabama and the Atlanta metro area. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Donna McWhirter Oral History Interview Records
No full textDonna McWhirter of Colorado Springs, Colorado was interviewed by Kaila Seger, a Sewanee student, on October 26th, 2023 on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included the “Little Rock Nine” and her views on the movement’s name Black Lives Matter. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Do early competitive outcomes have long-term consequences for cognitive ability in the Mangrove Rivulus?
Full text linkIndividuals vary in their cognitive abilities for a number of reasons, one of which includes the influence of their early environment. Early social experiences and stressors can affect brain development, resulting in cognitive differences later on in life. This study examined whether competitive interactions early in life affected later associative learning in the mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus), a self-fertilizing hermaphroditic fish that essentially produces genetic clones of itself. Genetically identical siblings that hatched on the same day were paired together and grew up in a competitive environment for approximately five months with one fish eventually becoming larger (and presumably dominant) over its smaller, subordinate partner. Siblings were then separated and after five additional months, each individual was trained to associate a particularly patterned wall with a food reward over several days. At the time of these learning trials, subordinate partners had recovered from their initially smaller size and there was no remaining size difference between partners. Despite this compensatory growth, the consequences of the early competitive social environment continued to affect performance. Specifically, the initially larger dominant partner tended to successfully reach the rewarded feeder quicker than their initially smaller subordinate partner. Interestingly, no evidence was found that individuals improved in their performance over time (i.e. no learning), but instead these underlying differences between the initially large and small individuals seemed to be present across all of the trials. Overall, these findings suggest that early social and competitive experiences can have lingering effects on individuals and result in subtle differences on their performance and cognitive abilities
Maximizing Profit and Managing Risk: A Sector-based Diversification Strategy for Stock Portfolio Optimization
Full text linkOur senior thesis for the Finance Major involves managing a portfolio of five stocks with a figurative investment of 180,207, thanks to our use of CAPM to take on more risk
Nick Psarakis Oral History Interview Records
No full textNick Psarakis of Colorado Springs, Colorado was interviewed by Eli Baastiansten, a Sewanee student, on November 17th and 20th, 2023 on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included Psarakis work as a teacher including creating a Black History course, as well as the backlash against his course. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview
A Multi Temporal Landslide Inventory for Wetar Island, Indonesia
Full text linkWetar is a ~2652 km2 island in the Inner Banda Arc in Eastern Indonesia. The Inner Banda Arc consists of volcanic islands, of which many, including Wetar, are being rapidly uplifted by arc-continent collision between Australia and the Banda Arc. Volcanic activity on Wetar has shut off due to the cessation of subduction, but there is volcanic activity on neighboring islands, and rates of tectonic uplift are rapid. Furthermore, a gap in seismicity beneath the island hints at active reorganization of regional tectonics, making the Banda Arc a fascinating yet understudied region. To examine controls on mass wasting and landscape evolution in this complex environment, we assembled a multitemporal landslide inventory consisting of nearly 5000 landslides for Wetar from Google Earth imagery between 2002 and 2021. Of particular note is a concentration of flow-type landslides in a mining area on the north coast of Wetar that appeared in 2004 imagery as well as a large cluster of landslides during summer 2010. The combination of Wetar’s relatively high topographic relief, complex tectonic setting, and small population (~7,000) and accompanying relative lack of development, with the exception of some mining along the north coast, make the island uniquely situated to provide information on the interplay between tectonics, climate, land-use, and mass-wasting events on tropical islands. Here, we explore potential landslide triggers including rainfall and seismicity, alongside topography, geology, and land cover. We also examine trends of regrowth and recovery of landslides.Department of Environmental and Earth Science
Sarah Buchanan Oral History Interview Record
No full textSarah Buchanan of Dallas, Texas was interviewed by Stewart Buchanan, a Sewanee student, on November 30th, 2023, on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing protests that occurred in the wake of George Floyd’s death. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview