The purpose of this sacred ethnography is to examine the implications of living at the intersections of dis/ability, race, gender, sexuality, spirituality/religion, and class, while persisting through doctoral education in what is referred to as the United States. To further hel…
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This study examined how first-year, gay, male undergraduate students attending Jesuit Catholic institutions make sense of their transition to college experience. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The participants included seven gay, cisgender, male individua…
Any media that is targeted toward children should bear in mind how impressionable young children are. The intention of this study was to examine the portrayal of gender roles and other values in Hindu mythology from the perspectives of adults who work with children. Data was col…
This dissertation explores the identity development of Muslim American women (N = 25) in higher education, utilizing intersectionality as both a methodological and theoretical framework. First and foremost, it centers the lived experiences, agency, and autonomy of Muslim women t…
Like many institutions of high education throughout the United States, the University of North Texas requires all students to pass introductory United States History courses. While the purpose of these courses should be to create a population well versed in U.S. history and soci…
Schools are becoming more linguistically and racially diverse in K-12 settings, yet there is relatively little research that explores how language teachers incorporate student and community diversities in their pedagogies. Situated at one, northeastern public secondary school in…
Throughout history, women from around the world have experienced multiplediscriminations and oppressions. In this context, women from different backgrounds havebeen organizing and collaborating to dismantle unfair systems. Their strategies take manyforms to amplify their voices …
This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of the significance of contemporary film in our understandings of gender, race, and sexuality in Georgian England. I argue that while films set in this period may lack the subtleties and depth of the realities that make up the Geor…
Sexual motivations of women, sexual minorities, and racial/ethnic minorities, have a history of been misunderstood and/or understudied. Due in part to certain models, such as the minority stress model, as well as pervading stigmas and stereotypes, the sexual behaviors of underre…
Public Health’s dominant focus on white opioid users coupled with a colorblind ideology has resulted in the reiteration of racially stratified public health discussions, strategies, initiatives, and treatment both nationally and in the Pittsburgh region. This case study uses dis…
This study seeks to examine the ways in which existent power structures of intersectionality influence visual media through a historical case study of news photography. Photography, a less subjective visual media than painting and drawings, is often perceived as truthful. News p…
While there are over 1,500 PreK-12 independent schools in the United States that are members of the National Association of Independent Schools, there were only seven Asian American women heads of schools in 2019. This paper explores the intersectional impact of race and gender …
This thesis examines the role of advocacy and social justice in the music of three living American women composers, and the ways their efforts as mentors, patrons, academics, and educators interact with their work as composers. Case studies include Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972),…
In this dissertation, I examined the educational and life experiences of 13 first-generation Hmong women and how their lived experiences impacted their earlier education experiences as well as their post-secondary educational choices and their children’s educational pathways. Dr…
This dissertation study used an intersectionality framework to examine the experience of Japanese American women in their educational and vocational trajectories before, during, and after internment. The study explores how the vocational education program and employment opportun…
In 2010, the role of public health called to action research priorities to include causal pathways for mental illness and chronic disease within vulnerable populations of race, culture, and language. The field of mental health and health psychology has described trauma as being …
This study explores the potential impact the woman in the Mark 5 biblical text weighs on Jesus’s ministry. The research gives texture to a character that is often used as an object lesson of faith in the scope of biblical exegesis. Using redaction criticism and a Womanist discou…
Video games are steadily becoming one of the largest and most influential forms of media in history. Today, video games are so popular that the Nintendo mascot Mario from the Mario Brothers video game series is more recognized than Disney's Mickey Mouse. The reach and influence …
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how formerly incarcerated community college students experience stigma related to the self-disclosure of their incarceration history in the campus community. In this study, I sought to understand how formerly incarcerated stud…