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CYDNI K. VANDIVER
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Educational Background
- B.A., 2007, Texas Womens University
Cydni
Vandiver is a second year Masters student. She
came to SMU from Texas Woman's University where
she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of
Arts. Although her interests initially lay in
rural women, her research focus has recently
begun to shift. After taking a research seminar
in the Spring of 2008 with Prof. John Chavez and
under the tutelage of Prof. Christa DeLuzio, she
began to research North Texas women in the
Methodist church during World War II. Her
research question centers around the idea of the
"back-to-home movement."
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Through her research Cyndi has noticed that although the
Methodist church urged women to work during the war,
they also warned women that this was temporary and that
as soon as the war was over they needed to return to
their homes-- "a woman's proper place." She will argue
that in the national context, the Methodists actively
supported the "back-to-home movement," sooner than even
the national government.
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