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- Title
- “You Good, Bruh?” An Exploration of the Influence of Race and Masculinity on Millennial Black Men’s Decisions to Seek Mental Health Treatment
- Author
- Cofield, Demetrius
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- In recent years there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of mental illness among millennials. However, there is still a significantly lower rate of Black millennials, specifically Black men, utilizing mental health services compared...
- 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
- “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
- Author
- Erega, Arna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...
- 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
- “THEIR LIVES ARE SO MUCH BIGGER OUTSIDE OF MY LITTLE CLASSROOM:” ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH MULTILINGUAL STUDENT ADVOCACY DURING MANDATED SCHOOL CLOSURES
- Author
- Pazzula Jimenez, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way education transpired for teachers and learners worldwide. Widespread virtual learning brought deeper academic and social inequities among K-12 diverse learners to light. Multilingual learners an...
- 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
- “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
- Author
- Norwood, Jessica
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...
- Title
- “Seeing it in Action is More Beneficial Than Learning About it in School”: A Multi-Case of Clinical Experiences and Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
- Author
- Schmidt, Leslie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- This multiple case study explored the characteristics of clinical experiences that support preservice teachers' understandings of culturally responsive literacy in elementary classrooms. In particular, this study focused on capturing the voices an...
- 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
- “Re-membering” History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education
- Author
- Teasdell, Annette
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACTANNETTE TEASDELL. "Re-membering" History to Counter Miseducation: Explorations of Curriculum Development and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Urban Education. (Under the direction of DR. GREG WIGGAN) Excellence in education is based on a ...
- 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 ...