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Gender as a Determinant of Public Relations Role and Salary in Alabama
(University of Alabama Libraries, 1986) Nesmith, Alisa Ann
This study incorporates the traditional origins and modifications
of professional orientation with women in the workplace and their
obstacles for professional advancement. More specifically this study
examines the woman's role in public relations including the categorization
of her duties and the salary she is eventually paid. Several
questions are asked concerning public relations practitioners within
Alabama. Are females more or less professionally oriented than males?
Do they hold positions more or less responsible than their male
counterparts with little or no chance of advancement? And do females,
regardless of role, receive smaller salaries?
Restoration of low-intensity fire in Quercus–Pinus mixedwoods following a prolonged period of fire exclusion
(2024) Goode, J. Davis; Hart, Justin L.; Dey, Daniel C.; LaFevor, Matthew C.; Torreano, Scott J.
Low-intensity surface fire is required to restore and maintain Quercus-Pinus mixedwood composition, structure, and function. However, historical fire exclusion has resulted in altered vegetation-fuel-fire feedbacks in long-unburned mixedwoods. Fire is now being reintroduced to reduce fire-intolerant understory and midstory stem density, consume excessive litter accumulation, eradicate the duff layer, and achieve various other goals; however, the consequences of restoring fire are poorly understood. The goal of this study was to quantify the effects of fire reintroduction on intra-stand Pinus echinata neighborhoods in a mixed Quercus-P. echinata stand following an extended period of fire exclusion. We report results from a 3-year sampling of the effects of one dormant season and one early growing season fire on woody plant dynamics, understory light, fuel conditions, and P. echinata basal duff-ring accumulation. The sapling assemblage was unaffected by one fire, but the second fire resulted in shoot mortality across all taxa. Understory light availability was unchanged after two fires, and litter depth was significantly reduced after the first and second fire. We found that fire seasonality was likely more important than fuel conditions to achieve desired fire effects. Our results indicated that continued fire and midstory treatment will be required to regenerate P. echinata.
Faith of the Dark Past and Hope for the Present: Black History Education and the Teaching of Historical Truth
(Taylor & Francis, 2025) Lewis, Terrance J.; Tirado, Jesús A.
This Black archival review used Black historical consciousness (King, 2020)
as a conceptual framing and Black archival practice (Sutherland & Collier,
2022) as qualitative methodology to examine the early formation of formal
Black history education to address contemporary movements surrounding
the censorship and restriction on teaching race and historical truth. We
conclude with a call to remember that Black historical consciousness continues
to provide a roadmap to navigate all contemporary and future
threats to American democracy.
The Literary Dialect in the Simon Suggs Stories of Johnson Jones Hooper
(University of Alabama Libraries, 1981) Sharp, Ann Wyatt
This study examines the literary dialect used by Johnson Jones Hooper in the stories of The Adventures of Simon Suggs and in "Taking of the Census," "Widow Rugby's Husband," "Daddy Biggs's Scrape," and "The Muscadine Story," in order to determine Hooper's representation of the language of lower class whites of East Alabama during the period 1840-1860. The assessment of the dialect will
contribute to our knowledge of the dialect of the area in a time before any formal study of language patterns was made. Included are descriptions of the phonology, the syntax and morphology, and an appendix with lists of This study examines the literary dialect used by proverbs and word choices that Hooper evidently considered part of the dialect.
A new translation and production of the cante-fable Aucassin and Nicolette by Emily Helen Evans
(University of Alabama Libraries, 1965) Evans, Emily Helen