This study examines English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' professional identity construction through an examination of the relationship between teachers' emerging knowledge and emerging identity. The participants in this study were four EFL student teachers enrolled in t…
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Introduction: Attrition of patients from care is a critical barrier toward an effective scale-up of HIV services in Sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the HIV care cascade, pre-Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) care is an important pre-requisite for early initiation of ART and optimal cl…
This thesis is a study of the city of Umm Durman during the period of the Sudanese Mahdiyya (1302/1844-1316/1898). The primary objective is the reconstruction, description, and analysis of the city's architecture, organization, spatial characteristics, and infrastructural system…
This dissertation provides an explanatory framework for why contemporary rebel groups experience different outcomes in civil war. I place these different fates along a spectrum of survival and demise to capture a wider range of outcomes beyond success or failure, rebellion or no…
Although Greco-Roman Egypt has received more scholarly attention, the contemporaneous Meroitic civilization of Nubia deserves recognition as an important culture in the history of North Africa and the greater Eastern Mediterranean world. This project focuses on the Meroitic civi…
This is an interpretive, ethnographic account of how gender relations between Nuer refugee men and women in San Diego are reconfigured as they confront cultural and structural forces in their new environments. I adopt an intersectional approach to analyze how gender articulates …
The Fur language of Darfur, Sudan has been undergoing a decades-long language shift to the more dominant and prestigious Arabic spoken throughout the country. However, a decade of conflict in Darfur has brought greater awareness of ethnic identity and disrupted the previously-do…
The geospatial perceptions of Sudan and South Sudan subject-matter-experts (SMEs) regarding the location of Sudanese ethnic groups were collected and analyzed, in order to determine how to synthesize and gain meaning from multiple geospatially explicit responses. This study util…
How and when do non-state actors matter? To date, the growing political salience of non-state actors has been acknowledged but not assessed. In this dissertation, I argue that non-state actors can impact international processes to the extent that they are able to leverage other …
This dissertation examines the ways in which Sudanese women employed their everyday dress as a public platform for constructing new national and gendered identities during the nationalist and independence periods of the early twentieth century. Though formally excluded from the …
This dissertation investigates economic development and ethnopolitical conflict in Sudan and South Sudan and focuses on the period from the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the North and South to emergence of South Sudan as a sovereign nation in 2011. Can Bremmer's (20…
American foreign policy in Africa has been at the epicenter of discussions in academia, government, and non-government institutions since post-colonialism. Policies that the US has pursued in Africa span from promoting democracy to ensuring peace in nations plagued by civil war.…
This study took place in Khartoum state, Sudan from August 2011 to April 2012. The purpose of the study was to explore barriers to the utilization of mental health services in Khartoum state. The study was mixed in nature applying both qualitative and quantitative designs. We in…
The role of British officials from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the Military Administration of British-occupied Palestine during and after World War I is examined. Particular focus is given to the administrative structures, personnel, and concerns faced by this Occupied Enemy Ter…
This thesis is concerned with rural development in Nuba peasant communities of the Southern Kordofan region, Sudan. Peasants have always been considered by planners as scapegoats for the failure of state-designed rural development schemes in Third World societies. This plainly d…
This thesis examines for the first time the Butana Group ceramics (ca. 4000 to 2500 BC) which are located in the far eastern Sahel of the Sudan. These particular ceramics are compared with other known Nilotic Neolithic and post-Neolithic ceramic groups in northeast Africa, inclu…
Collagen is an extremely stable protein that comprises 90% of the organic fraction of bone. Specific nutritional deficiencies and diseases are known to impair collagen synthesis and alter its typical amino acid composition. This study investigates the possibility that altered am…