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- Title
- A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
- Author
- Sweitzer, Mackenzie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
- Description
- When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...
- Title
- Afro-Brazilian Culture As a Means of Transformation: Spaces, Businesses and Political Participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- Author
- Timoteo de Oliveira, Carolina Helena
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Area studies
- Description
- CAROLINA HELENA TIMÓTEO DE OLIVEIRA. Afro-Brazilian culture as a means of transformation: spaces, businesses and political participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (Under the direction of DR. OSCAR DE LA TORRE) This research investigates the conne...
- Title
- BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
- Author
- Gallemore, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...
- Title
- Bastion of the Dispossessed: The Free People of Color's Fluid Identities Across the Haitian Revolution
- Author
- Hill, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- Take a step back in time to the western half of the island named Saint Domingue in the 1780s, a place we now call Haiti. In 1785, the island produced more sugar and coffee than any other colony in the western hemisphere. French colonial administra...
- Title
- Beyond Religion: Liberation Theology and Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador, A Comparative Analysis
- Author
- Lopez de Arcia, Gabriela
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies
- Description
- This Master’s thesis presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical principles and actions of Liberation theology, started within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, and the Theology of the Hammer, the core of Habitat for Huma...
- Title
- Counting Days in Ancient Babylon: Eclipses, Omens, and Calendrics during the Old Babylonian Period (1750-1600 BCE)
- Author
- Jedael, Steven
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Astronomy, Area studies
- Description
- STEVEN JEDAEL. Counting days in ancient Babylon: eclipses, omens, and calendrics during the Old Babylonian period (1750-1600 bce).(Under the direction of DR. JOHN C. REEVES) Prior to the sixth century BCE, each lunar month of the Babylonian calend...
- Title
- Doctors in Dictatorship: An Oral History Approach to the Chilean Medical Body’s Role in Regime Change.
- Author
- Urrutia, Ana
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History, Labor economics
- Description
- From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional authority and power. Working both collectively through their professional associ...
- Title
- EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
- Author
- Willard, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- ABSTRACTJOSEPH WILLARD. Ebony in Exile: An Examination of RevolutionaryBlack America and the Cuban Influence 1960s-1980s.(Under the Direction of DR. JURGEN BUCHENAU)In the 1960s Black America began to embrace an ideology of revolution shifting the...
- Title
- HAZARA DIASPORA RELIGIOUS DISAFFILIATION: AFGHANISTAN’S SHI'A WHO TURN AWAY FROM ISLAM
- Author
- Fekrat, Nasim
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Area studies, Islam--Study and teaching
- Description
- The topic of irreligiosity and secularism among Muslim immigrants is an understudied subject. Academic studies of Muslim immigrants, in particular, tend to focus on religious beliefs at the expense of other issues. This is particularly evident in ...
- Title
- Healthcare at the Intersections of Race and Gender: Critiquing Eugenics in Rosario Castellanos's Ciudad Real and Renee Tajima-Peña's No más bebés/No More Babies
- Author
- Pinales Frutos, Perla
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the use of medicine as a technology of power used to uplift white hegemonic actors: whites in the United States and mixed-race Ladinos in Mexico. Through this lens I discuss and analyze two mid-twentieth ce...
- Title
- Mark: A Messianic Post-War Gospel
- Author
- Beaumont, Jenny
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, Bible, Theology
- Description
- The Gospel of Mark, understood as our earliest post-70 CE early Christian/Jewish writing, can provide a new interpretive lens for setting forth the parameters of an understanding of spirituality for Mark’s community in a new era in which Jerusalem...
- Title
- Meal Patterns, Binge Eating, and BMI Among Latinas
- Author
- Thomas, Colleen
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology, Area studies
- Description
- The underrepresentation of ethnically diverse women in the binge eating literature contributes to the false assumption that eating disorders are less prevalent among these women. This thesis represents the first known study examining a sample of e...
- Title
- Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- ABSTRACTALEXANDRA JEAN FITZGERALD. Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films (Under the direction of DR. DAVID DALTON) The purpose of this thesis is to address how film composers and film directors in the Gold...
- Title
- Naming The Boogeyman: Constructing Marginalized Religion As Threats To White Bodies In The X-Files
- Author
- Richards, Oliver
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies
- Description
- The X-Files is an American science fiction television series that ran from 1993 to 2002, spawning an extended universe of books, two feature films, and an additional two seasons of the show which aired in 2016 and 2018. The show revolves around tw...
- Title
- Needles and Dust
- Author
- Douglas, Charles
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
- Description
- Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...
- Title
- PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
- Author
- Kimbrel, Suzannah
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies
- Description
- This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...
- Title
- Praise the Sun: The Game Dark Souls Illuminated by Ritual Theory
- Author
- Gonzales, Aaron
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- By focusing on the social meaning-making of ritual Catherine Bell paved the way for new avenues of exploration for religious studies. My paper pulls this theory into a realm of playful activity unique to the digital age: the world of video gaming....
- 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
- RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
- Author
- Moore, Mary
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies, History
- Description
- This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...
- Title
- Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Neoliberal and Post-neoliberal Bolivia: A Study of Two Films
- Author
- Flores, Bertha
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, Religion
- Description
- ABSTRACTThe objective of this thesis is to use two films: Marcos Loayza’s Cuestión de fe (1995) and Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s The Devil’s Miner (2005) to analyze their representations of Indigenous religious practices. I focus on two dif...