This research project examines the experiences of four women of colors in dance leadership in the United States currently, and the problematic patterns of system-wide issues in higher education that affect their lives. To develop that understanding, this study drew upon portrait…
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This is a multi-method research which consists of four studies. The first examined the influence of cultural values and ethnic identity on collective self-esteem, acculturative stress and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among 117 Saudi students living and studying in…
Under what circumstances does foreign donor assistance during war-to-peace transitions contribute to the strengthening of civil society and the deepening of democracy? I answer this question through a comparative study of civil society development in the Palestinian territories …
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the role that cultural traditions play in promoting high risk behavior for contracting HIV/AIDS among Anambra state women, Nigeria. The purposive sample consisted of female faculty, staff and students from Nwa…
The scope of cultural heritage management has been extended from tangible to intangible products in the few last decades. Debates surrounding the field of heritage raise fundamental questions about its inherent political character, calling particular attention to the ways in whi…
PROBLEM: In Somalia, the members of Yibir, Gaboye, and Tumal ethnic minorities are physically, culturally, religiously, and linguistically indistinguishable from other dominant groups. However, for two hundred years they have endured oppression, discrimination, and exclusion fro…
This is a co-scripted project that aims to understand the localized constructions of health, agency, and spaces for transformative changes in a community that is primarily based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Research was conducted with a community of patients who frequent the most renow…
Due to the numerous learning adaptations, a number of faculty and graduates within higher education are experiencing advent practices of marginalization. One of these challenges students face is learning to coupe with marginalization practices that tend to arise in the classroom…
This study describes the development of South Sinai, Egypt, including the role played in it by conservation. South Sinai has great ecological, cultural and strategic significance. Its central highlands, sacred to three faiths, form the St Katherine Protectorate, and its indigeno…
Generationally, Black women have faced oppression in both the workplace and academia and the oppression and marginalization suffered by Black women has often been ignored. This research aimed to explore the factors leading to success for Black women in CACREP accredited master’s…
The alternative health movement is a burgeoning phenomenon in contemporary American culture. Frequently overlooked by communication scholars in general and rhetorical critics in particular are a number of epistemological, economic and political forces at play in the agon, or com…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe perceptions of marginalization experienced by psychiatric mental health (PMH) nurses with respect to history, courtesy stigma, and professional identity. Crenshaw’s, Intersectionality theory (1989) was used as a theoretical f…
Language teacher identity (LTI) research in TESOL has neglected to consider the dynamic realities and developmental complexities of undergraduate pre-service language teachers. The following study draws from poststructural and sociocultural theories to explore the identity work …
In the past two decades, a significant number of revisionist literature has been published by queer Asian theologians challenging orthodox teachings on homosexuality and gender identity. The issue that the Asian American church faces today is pressure from society and culture to…
In a study of multicultural literature, the dominance of ignorance and prejudice in propagating and perpetuating oppression and marginalization of others is all too common, as is the denial or suppression of the identity of decolonized peoples. We even see the rewriting of histo…
From the second to the twentieth centuries, research has revealed various historical interpretations of Christ’s teaching on “the least of these.” One main argument is whether “the least of these” refers to the poor, Christian missionaries, or any human in need. This calls for a…
This Transformational Preaching project will use African American celebratory preaching to engage seniors to remain a relevant demographic within the church congregation and community. Seniors are often marginalized as they age and as their participation in church and community …
The Black church has served as a transformative religious entity in the Black community for many centuries. Throughout the years, the Black church has functioned as a haven of spirituality for Black congregants while simultaneously operating an empowerment laboratory for those a…
We structure our lives around social groups – belonging to them and thinking about them. In this dissertation, I develop a new stereotype content measure to assess the attributes associated with groups in America today, propose and support a theory of sociocultural essentialism,…