S. Williams

A series of 3-n-alkyl-1-vinylimidazolium iodides and their corresponding polymers was investigated for their catalytic behavior in a phase transfer reaction. Kinetic efficiency was confirmed to be a function of alkyl chain length and catalyst concentration. The system chosen for…

This dissertation is an investigation of the process of urbanization and its effect on musical behavior among the aristocratic Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia. The musical genre of tembang Sunda is the most refined form of cultural expression for the Sundanese, and is performe…

H.D., the twentieth century American woman poet, is most often thought of as "the perfect imagist," or the imagist poet whose work best demonstrates the early twentieth century's imagist movement's poetics. But H.D. is also known, at least by her contemporaries, as an exceptiona…