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Title: “Why so serious?” : antisocial trolling behavior and its relationship with everyday psychopathy and sadism
Author: Siegel, AJ, Peach, Hannah D.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Online trolling, Antisocial personality disorders
Description: Trolling is an antisocial form of online communication in which users, known as trolls, initiate negative and taunting interactions to disrupt digital communication. While trolling is a common online practice ranging from innocent to potentially d...

Title: “We’re Not ‘Baby Daddies’ We Are Fathers. Dads.”: Nonresidential Fathers’ Online Stigma Management
Author: Schambach, Emma
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Family and stigma communication research have barely scratched the surface of the dynamic and diverse arrangements of stigma in the family context. Though some research has investigated the stigma surrounding nontraditional family structures (e.g....

Title: “We won’t die secret deaths anymore”: Education, Memory, and Screen Media in Public Understanding of the American AIDS Crisis, 1981-2000
Author: Chadwick-Schultz, K.M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Despite the obvious devastation of the American AIDS crisis—the period of time from 1981 to 2000 when the United States experienced social, cultural, and political repercussions directly related to the presence of AIDS—educated collective memory o...

Title: “WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
Author: Warlick, Tommy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...

Title: “WE DON’T LOVE THESE HOES” EXPLORING MISOGYNOIR AND BLACK MALE PATRIARCHY THROUGH SEXUAL DOUBLE STANDARDS
Author: Webber, Mariah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: While much research has been dedicated to exploring how Black people as a collective respond to racism, or how White women as collective respond to sexism, little empirical research has been found regarding the experiences of combatting both racis...

Title: “The Name With Which You Ascend to Heaven”: Semiotic and Linguistic Ideology in the Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el
Author: Cornett, Aleah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Linguistics, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description: The Midrash of Shemhazai and ‘Aza’el may appear much like other midrashic exegetical texts that seem ubiquitous in Rabbinic Judaism. It is, however, different not only because it appears much later and is a part of a larger recontextualization con...

Title: “THAT MUCH-MALIGNED MONSTER – NEW MATH:” AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF NEW MATH, 1950 TO 1975
Author: Howell, Randi
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, History
Description: Education reform is a continuous cycle. The cyclical nature of American mathematics education reform began in the 1950s, during the height of the Cold War. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the American government felt education, specifical...

Title: “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
Author: Winch, Debora
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...

Title: “Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Metaphysics
Description: This essay is an attempt to explain why Charles Sanders Peirce’s evolutionary metaphysics would not have seemed strange to its original 1890s audience. Building on the pioneering work of Andrew Reynolds, I will excavate the scientific context of P...

Title: “PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Author: Whittington, Joseph
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
Description: In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...

Title: “Our Children’s Children Live Forever”: The Educational Activism of The Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America From 1866 To 1986
Author: Thomas, Christina
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Since slavery, Southern states prohibited the education of Black Americans. Post-emancipation, the first actions of these newly emancipated Black men and women involved the opening of informal and formal schools. The self-determination of Black Am...

Title: “Not Negroes Nor Slaves But Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade.
Author: Cullinan, Brian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines the role of free people of color in the colonial Indian trade in England’s southern American colonies, primarily Virginia and the Carolinas, from the1640s to that trade’s decline in the colonial southeast by the early 1770s. F...

Title: “Making peace” with bodies and sexual selves : changes during COVID-19 among adults in the United States
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Basinger, Erin, Montanaro, Erika
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Body image
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of many and has necessitated widespread societal shifts, including changes to work and family activities. These changes have impacted individuals’ identity, including the...

Title: “MY BABY COULD LIVE THE BEST LIFE”: FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICES FOLLOWING A PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF DOWN SYNDROME
Author: Martin, Zachary
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Early childhood education
Description: Screenings and diagnostic tests provide individuals the opportunity to receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. Post-diagnosis, families are presented with opportunities for services and supports ...

Title: “Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
Author: Carpenter, Layne
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Law, History
Description: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...

Title: “Just because I have a medical degree does not mean I have the answers” : using CBPR to enhance patient‐centered care within a primary care setting
Author: Siegal, Rachel, Case, Andrew, Nance, Andrew, Johnson, Atalaya
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Medical care, Patient-centered health care
Description: Patient-centered care (PCC) is a health care delivery model that is considered a means to reduce inequities in the healthcare system, specifically through its prioritization of patient voice and preference in treatment planning. Yet, there are doc...

Title: “It just feels right” : perceptions of the effects of community connectedness among trans individuals
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Barker, Jordan, Lace, Tatim, Gunn, Laura
Subjects--Topical: Transgender people, Mental health
Description: Trans individuals (e.g. trans men and women, non-binary, gender fluid) are at higher risk for mental health concerns, in part due to marginalization. Previous work has documented the effects of social support and community engagement on health out...

Title: “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
Author: Uri, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
Description: Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...

Title: “International House, Where Charlotte Welcomes the World:” A Case Study of an Immigrant-Serving Nonprofit in an Emerging Global Gateway City, 1980-2010
Author: Rhinehart, Madison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The city of Charlotte saw a substantial increase in international diversity beginning in the late 1980s. Since that time, the city developed into what is termed a Global Gateway City, becoming home to a population that is 16.4% foreign-born. Paral...

Title: “In the contradiction lies the hope”: White student affairs administrators’ understanding of whiteness
Author: Forester, Rachael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Among white people, there is a pervasive mentality that color-evasiveness (Bonilla-Silva, 2003) is an ideal approach to racial equity, meaning many white student affairs professionals may equate refusing to see race as synonymous with being anti-r...