Social identity

Given the patriarchal society of the Italian Renaissance, a female’s life was characterized by the male perspective. A woman’s life was tightly divided into four phases: adolescence, marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. Little opportunity existed for women beyond these expected …

The internet has quickly made the world a smaller place, forming networks that spread media and make connections farther than ever at our fingertips. This globalization exacerbates social pressures and strains individuals’ subjectivity by limiting access to space needed to form …

This dissertation is founded on the idea that the formation and maintenance of a community run parallel to the formation and maintenance of memories for shared experiences of public events. A series of studies examined the unique relations of various social identity constructs w…

This study examines identity formation in the Nehemiah memoir. The account of Nehemiah’s mission to rebuild the wall in Jerusalem amid conflict with the inhabitants of the land exemplifies the polemic between the golah and those who did not experience exile. However, this tradit…

The unifying theme of the chapters presented in this thesis is how people who are not in paid work respond to the stigma of unemployment or the possibility of being regarded as (similar to the) unemployed. Although unemployment is a topic of continuing interdisciplinary interest…

The central thesis of this study is that the narrative of Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers, as well as those on either side of the debate over non-Judean inclusion in the Christ movement, into a common ingroup with a superordinate iden…