"The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and indiv…
Family history of alcoholism (FHA) is posited to convey its risk on problematic drinking, in part, though how individuals react to stressful situations. Research thus far, however, has found equivocal results, with some studies concluding that FHA is associated with heightened s…
Family history is an important screening tool that can highlight features suggestive of a cancer predisposition syndrome (CPS). In collaboration with the McGill Interactive Pediatric OncoGenetic Guidelines (MIPOGG) project through McGill University and the Genome 4 Kids (G4K) st…
Genealogy and family history have reemerged as a popular interest in the West and its diaspora, fueled in part by the mediatized and commodified portrayal of family history and genetic ancestry as an integral pursuit of self-discovery, and by the accessibility of online genealog…
In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out. In evasion of the war, my family (the Lis) fled from Xinhui of Guangdong Province, China, to Myanmar and was based in the Chinatown of Yangon, spending more than 20 years there. However, after the 1962 Myanmar coup d’état, the Ne …
The following is a novel manuscript. Apeman Lake focuses on Will, recently unemployed and uncertain of what direction to take in life. When Will’s grandfather dies, he inherits an Upstate cabin on what is known as Apeman Lake—a past-its-prime tourist destination and supposed hom…
Yesterday We Were Girls is a body of work which includes photographs selected from family albums and current images I create based in and around my childhood and adolescent memories. The photographs are accompanied by porcelain recreations of precious girlhood treasures, handwri…
What is the ancestral shadow, and how can an imaginal exploration help an individual to heal and integrate the shadow of multiple generations? Drawing on Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow, the ancestral shadow is explored in this thesis as being a part of the unconscious that hol…
Morbidity and mortality related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) among African American men (AAM) in the U.S. surpasses that of all cancers combined (AHA, 2019). AAM in Jackson, Mississippi, have the highest prevalence of cardiac disease and mortality in the United States compare…
Heavy drinking among college students has been identified as a major public health concern in the United States. While research on college drinking is extensive, it is almost exclusively focused on white non-Hispanic populations, with minimal attention to ethnic minority groups-…
Family history of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is frequently endorsed by chronic pain patients. Although individuals with a family history of AUD have demonstrated enhanced sensitivity to painful stimulation, we are not aware of any previous research that has examined clinically-r…
It starts with my mother. Her stories. A single seed. A seed I sucked in my mouth in order to remember the flavor of an orange. As a child, I listened to my mother's stories and later, as an adult, I began writing these stories down. Big Road is a memoir blending family history …
This arts-based dissertation explores the stories and silences of the Winston branch of my family in order to consider how families reproduce ideologies, with the focus of this study being white supremacy and to lesser extents capitalism and patriarchy. In social studies educati…
More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and this number is expected to rise and surpass 12.7million individuals by the year 2050. Currently there is no cure for the disease and prior research has focused on prevention by identifying risk factors. K…
This project examines a variety of documentary evidence preserved on papyrus in order to discern the nature of family obligations and negotiations for mutual support in Roman Egypt (ca. 30 BC – 4 th c. AD). Modern scholarship on ancient families has largely focused on literary, …
