Significance: Substance use in Lebanon has been a generally understudied topic, especially among displaced populations, youth, populations outside of Beirut, LGBTQ, and prison populations. This study seeks to understand these populations’ specific substance use patterns to bette…
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This study investigated the workplace experiences of transgender organizational leaders. Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or other sexual identities (LGBTQ+) in the workplace rarely focuses specifically on the transgender population, and a literature revie…
Limited research has examined the impact of religious trauma on sexual minority Christians and what factors these individuals utilize to maintain their faith after trauma. This study sought to address this concern by examining the psychological, physical, and spiritual effects o…
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of LGBTQ Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students at a large public university in the south-western United States, as it relates to the culture and climate of the program and campus. The LGBTQ community faces its own uniq…
What follows discusses how BBC’s Dracula uses character representations, scripted dialogue, and narrative to challenge and perpetuate the dominant ideologies of our society. Dracula exposes the tensions in the growing cultural acceptance of, but also increased resistance to, the…
This dissertation argues that social media constitutes a space for innovation on pre-existing forms of narrative resistance dating back to Chile’s military dictatorship (1973-1990), in which individual and group memory-work became a salient form of resistance. I argue that onlin…
This dissertation connects the aesthetic commitment to the ordinary world in twentieth-century women’s literature to the invention and consolidation of modern sexuality. Owing largely to a political antipathy between “the ordinary” and “the queer,” scholars have not addressed th…
While every public school in the United States has to accommodate the bathroom needs of those who work and learn there, the bathroom spaces themselves are understudied in education research. Simultaneously, school bathrooms occupy a distinct place in the social consciousness. Ne…
Fundamental cause theory encourages researchers to consider broad social conditions that put people at risk of individual-level health-related risks that can lead to health disparities between social groups. Stigma has recently been proposed as a fundamental cause of health disp…
This dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study of queer fans and their overlapping interactions with fanfiction texts, online platforms, and each other. Informed by queer theory, assemblage theory, and other perspectives from Library and Information Science (LIS), M…
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a sprawling urban area. Using data from thirty-five…
The concept of love has been largely ignored in academic literature outside of the dominant Western cultural narrative, and in particular as it relates to sexuality and intersectional identities of Two-Spirit people and communities. Two-Spirit literature continues to be an emerg…
My dissertation explores the demographics and composition of sexual minority populations in the United States, their labor market experiences, and public policy, respectively. Using a novel method of Cross-Survey Multiple Imputation (CSMI), I create a unique dataset which allows…
This study considers the case of representation of transgender people and issues on American fictional television from 2004 to 2014, a period which represents a steady surge in transgender television characters relative to what came before, and prefigures a more recent burgeonin…
This dissertation presents findings from the first known Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study of how nine transgender and/or gender expansive youth, aged 13-17, experienced their gender identities and additional intersecting identities. The purpose of this study was to…
The primary aim of the dissertation was to examine associations among external stressors, resources, and relational outcomes among underrepresented populations and during historical transitions. The overarching theoretical frameworks were the integration of the systemic transact…
: El objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar las disposiciones de población religiosa hacia personas LGB, a la luz de las posibles relaciones existentes entre los valores, las imágenes de Dios, los estilos de liderazgo de sus superiores y comportamientos prosociales o …
Arthur George Smith (1917-1982) or Art Smith was a significant mid-twentieth-century American studio jeweler. He was critically received, had gallery representation, and participated in important jewelry, art, craft, and design exhibitions in the United States and Canada. His je…
Black transgender subjecthood places many at the crux of multiple marginalizations and often thinking the self apart, unable to find space in a world that isn’t built for those who are most marginalized. Between the persistent issues of colonialism and cisheterosexism Black tran…