This study in biblical theology proceeds from a basic curiosity: why do the foundational literature of many religions, Jewish and Christian ones in particular, enshrine stories of highborn individuals who (for one reason or another) are alienated from their inherited context of …
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The thesis research on flower production, power relations and water use in Ecuador aims at gaining comprehension about the situation of irrigation development, particularly about the competition and conflicts regarding the highly unequal access to water, rights of water control,…
The sexual violence and terrorism inflicted upon enslaved Black women by white men was integral in shaping the character of Caribbean Atlantic slavery, as was the resistance to that violence. The ramifications of these encounters set and shaped social parameters of intimacy, sex…
This dissertation explores the assertions that changes in form, function, practice, and perceptions of puha primarily arose from the dispossession of landscapes and oppression of specific religious practices due to Euro-American contact, resource depletion, and reservation confi…
This is blended qualitative and arts-based methods study of high school students, aged 16-17 years old, from an art and design high school in a large midwestern urban city. The purpose of this research is to show how museum collections can be used to promote critical thinking an…
The dissertation is comprised of three papers about the social space of Chinese local environmental protection.
The Chi-Rho (☧), or Christian monogram, is one of the most common religious symbols in Christian art. Traditional archaeology has considered the presence of a chi-rho to be an indicator of a Christian artifact, as a result of a long-standing association with the figure of Christ…
Accusations and persecution of witchcraft have been embedded in global culture for centuries. For as long as these persecutions have occurred, women have found themselves accused most frequently. Older women with herbal knowledge were often called on to assist with childbirth or…
Inequity in healthcare has long been understood to be caused by individual and structural racism in the health system. Little progress has been made in diminishing the disparities that exist between Black and African American minoritized populations and the White majority. Cultu…
During the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.), elite women wore hufu dress to subdue the Tang court’s conventional representations of women. In contrast to the women’s classical dress styles, the hufu dress, or male foreign clothing, typically included a long robe with decorative patte…
Phenotypic plasticity, the capacity of individuals to respond to changing environments by modifying traits, is critically important in allowing biological innovation in the face of environmental change. My dissertation used the clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) study system…
The relationship between elitism and corruption in the United States has become problematic for the prosperity of our democracy. Throughout United States history, this relationship has continually evolved and allowed for elites to be able to pursue personal interests and abuse t…
Spanning multiple fields of scholarly inquiry, the bulk of this study concerns itself with competing notions of sovereignty, citizenship, boundary-making, and belonging in twentieth and twenty-first century Indigenous North America. Situated at the productive confluence of Borde…
This thesis addresses the research question of: How does the Holy Ground Spiritual Movement coincide with the theory, concepts, and principles of Indigenous Ways of Knowing as reflected in the literature and through participant observation by the author? Indigenous Ways of Knowi…
The interpretation of Paul’s command to imitate him in the New Testament has been widely and variously understood. This work uses close attention to the Hellenistic Jewish context of imitation in Paul’s world and the Latin and Greek epigraphic evidence to demonstrate that imitat…
What keeps American political society from recognizing the Mad (commonly called "people with mental illness" or "the mentally ill") as a collective with unique political claims? My answer emerges in what I call a foundational politics of madness–an account of the existing discur…
This study of alienation is centered on the process of exchange between power and knowledge primarily within the context of South African fiction as represented by Alan Paton, Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer and Ezekiel Mphahlele. Through a brief discussion of romance, it is establ…
This thesis presents a critical analysis of the dilemmas of doing a PhD in the social sciences from the perspective of discursive psychology. It aims to contribute to qualitative studies of higher education, especially work in the sociology of education on social science doctora…