are available in Special Collections and Archives, 25th floor. Arranged by year, by department or alphabetically by name. These cannot be checked out.
Dr. Stephanie Evans received her PhD from the UMass Amherst Department of Afro American Studies in 2003.
Her dissertation, Living legacies : Black women, educational philosophies, and community service, 1865-1965, is available for checkout and online.
To identify individual doctoral dissertations, use the Library Catalog author, title, subject or keyword search. To browse all Afro American Studies dissertations, use the general subject heading: Theses -- Afro American Studies -- Doctoral The Library keeps physical copies of UMass doctoral theses, and provides online access to recently completed dissertations:
Use the database Dissertations and Theses, which now provides full text of recent doctoral and some masters theses, mostly completed in colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. (In instances when full text is not available, try requesting through Inter-Library Loan.)
Two books by graduates of the Afro American Studies department were selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008. Both books began as dissertations in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The Colored cartoon: Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954 by 
"Closer to the truth than any fact": memoir, memory, and Jim Crow by 