Apache

This creative thesis comprises the first three chapters of Holding Her Own, a novel which explores the career of a young warrant officer who trains on the AH-64 Apache helicopter two years after the United States Army lifts the ban on women in combat aviation. Seventeen-year-old…

This dissertation seeks to understand two universal experiences that have pervaded human society since man first climbed out of the trees: violence and trauma. Using theories gleaned from the Holocaust and other twentieth century atrocities, this work explores narratives of viol…