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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 ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Raising Little Russians: Language Socialization and Language Shift in an Urban Kyrgyz Family
Author: McDermott, Ashley
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Sociolinguistics, Language and languages
Description: In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Russian prevails as the lingua franca despite efforts by policymakers and language activists to promote the Kyrgyz language. This study uses language socialization as a lens to investigate language shift in the city by analy...

Title: RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Author: Winful, Olawunmi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Area studies, History
Description: Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...

Title: Providing Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of North Carolina Nurses' Experiences with COVID-19 Positive Patient Care
Author: Lee, Abigail
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: This is a case study of nurses’ perceptions providing care in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses participated in semi-structured interviews via Zoom about the impact of the pandemic on their working and personal lives. Drawing fro...

Title: Osteoarthritis and the Effects on the Accuracy of Age at Death Estimation
Author: Wiedre, Samantha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Forensic anthropology
Description: There are many methods by which forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists estimate the age at death of an individual. Many of these methods, however, are flawed. Currently, anthropologists within these fields are researching which of these me...

Title: Osteoarthritis and the Effects on the Accuracy of Age at Death Estimation
Author: Wiedre, Samantha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Forensic anthropology
Description: There are many methods by which forensic anthropologists and bioarchaeologists estimate the age at death of an individual. Many of these methods, however, are flawed. Currently, anthropologists within these fields are researching which of these me...

Title: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
Author: Robbins, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...

Title: Moving right along: The effect of habitat type on ranging patterns in white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in western Thailand
Author: Sobaszek, Margaret
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Animal scientists, Wildlife management
Description: White-handed gibbons are found through Southeast Asia, but little is known about how they adapt to lower quality resources. At Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Thailand, these gibbons inhabit a heterogeneous landscape that encompasses...

Title: Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Blattenberger, Philip
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
Description: For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...

Title: Marshallese Participatory Mismatches in South Central United States' School Systems
Author: Anderson, Katlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics, Education, Ethnology
Description: Since the Compact of Free Association between the Marshall Islands and the United States, many Marshallese Islanders have immigrated to the United States, leading to a growing number of Marshallese children enrolled in primary and secondary school...

Title: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...

Title: Life Course Theory and Dual Indexicality in Taiwanese American Households
Author: Fogal, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociolinguistics
Description: Minority groups in the United States face unique challenges that help to shape and mould not only the migrants but their children as well. This study is concerned with Taiwanese-American young adults that have grown up in migrant households, how t...

Title: Latino Narratives of Educational Experience in the Greater Charlotte Area
Author: Gray, Michelle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: In analyzing interviews with ten Latino participants who have attended or are attending public school in the Greater Charlotte area using narrative discourse analysis, I found significant connections between identifying as self-motivated with rega...