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Title: River Monkeys: How River Tourism Influences Patterns of Aggression in The Introduced Rhesus Macaques in Silver Springs State Park
Author: Lam, Celeste
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences
Description: Silver Springs State Park is Florida’s largest limestone artisan formation, as well as one of the most popular tourist attractions in the state. The park’s popularity began in the late 1870s when the beloved glass-bottom boats were invented (Wolfe...

Title: Same-Sex Parents' Hypervisibility: Effects of Panopticism and Reactions to Increased Visibility
Author: Bradley-Volz, Kathleen
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Queer studies, Ethnology
Description: The purpose of this project is to determine how same-sex parents in the Charlotte, NC area are affected by homophobia and restrictions on displays of affection. This research is unique to the study of gay parenting in its focus on comparing gay ma...

Title: Social Organization and Resource Sharing at Buen Suceso Based on the Analysis of Subadult Skeletal Remains
Author: Bowers, Mozelle
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The study of children in the past provides bioarchaeologists with the opportunity to understand not only the health and wellbeing of a society, but various forms of identity and power structures. In this study, I will present findings on subadult ...

Title: Spatial Analysis of Activity Areas at the First Charles Town Settlement in North Carolina
Author: Bowers, Nicolas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Charles Town, North Carolina was an inhabited settlement just to the south of Wilmington, and was occupied from 1664-1667 and has only seen one major excavation, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the 1980’s-90’s. In th...

Title: Strangers in a new land: the effects of ecology on female social relationships, Macaca mulatta, Ocala National Forest, Florida
Author: Johnson, Adam
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Ecology, Animal scientists
Description: Despite the vast research into rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) social behavior, little is known about how they adapt to novel environments, particularly in cases where they experience little or no between-group competition and are not provisioned....

Title: THE COLORS OF PRESTIGE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FORMS, DECORATIONS, AND USES OF INCA STONE VESSELS
Author: Banikazemi, Cyrus
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The ethnohistoric and archaeological record provides ample evidence of the ideological significance of metals and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world. This study explores the use of these materials in the complex decorative techniques utili...

Title: The Impact of Socialization on Collaborative Group Work: A Ritual Perspective
Author: Maximov, Noah
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Ethnology
Description: In this thesis, I explore how classroom processes in the active learning classrooms at UNC Charlotte impact group collaboration. Using an analysis that draws on ideas from Robbie Davis-Floyd, Richard Quantz and Peter Magolda, I argue that the proc...

Title: To Be Young, Black, and Resilient: Navigating a Predominantly White University
Author: Strickland, Jasmine
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Ethnology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The current study examines how Black undergraduate students at a predominantly White university respond to the racism they encounter on campus. Specifically, the case study seeks to identify (a) the response strategies that Black undergraduate stu...

Title: Tree canopy networks in Charlotte: Challenges, strategies, and outlooks for more adaptive climate governance systems.
Author: Blanchard, Benjamin
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: Tree canopies are an essential tool for climate change mitigation and adaptation, primarily due to their ability to store and sequester atmospheric carbon. They have a number of inherently appealing co-benefits that make them a key element of gree...

Title: Variation in Patterns of Allocare In Captive Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas): The Potential Effects of Environment and Kinship in the Development of Novel Behavior
Author: Carter, Amanda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Physical anthropology, Zoology
Description: The goal of the this research was to examine the social dynamics among extended matrilines of Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) housed at the North Carolina Zoo (NCZ) in Asheboro, North Carolina, including the putative existence of allocare, def...

Title: WORKING FOR FREEDOM AND WORKING FOR FREE: RECOGNIZING AND RESISTING THE REPRODUCTION OF OPPRESSIVE STRUCTURES IN UNPAID ORGANIZING WORK
Author: Karout, Samantha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: This ethnographic research is an inquiry into the obstacles that LGBTQ people face in their unpaid organizing work in Charlotte, NC. Field work included participant observation from 2014 to 2018, and 26 semi-structured and unstructured interviews ...