This practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through co…
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Determining the postmortem interval (PMI) remains one of the most important but challenging factors to establish in a suspicious death investigation. Unfortunately, as time passes current methods lose accuracy and only allow investigators to approximate how long ago death occurr…
During the nineteenth century, the American Civil War destroyed the ideal of the good death that permeated throughout the general public. The hope for death at home with family around to hear the deceased’s last words soon was replaced with the soldiers dying alone with stranger…
Taking inspiration from my own life and family history, this project is a fictionalized record of the type of struggles in the way of prosperity, kinship, and redemption. These themes are shown through the lives of three generations of Afro-Caribbean women as they attempt reconn…
EMET is a multi-genre novel that combines history, creation myths, and well-known literature. This excerpt contains a large portion of the full novel and follows a group of angels who fell to earth and their subsequent effects on the world as we know it. Divided into two timelin…
This document is a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre. It is a detailed account of author Yu Miao’s artistic process in creating the role of Crissy in the Minnesota State University, Mankato’s production of Hair in the Fa…
The creation of categories of biological racial difference such as skin complexion and hair texture were key sites through which Black humanity was denied and which white slave owners used to position Africans as inferior. How did enslaved Black women in the French Empire mainta…
Most hair follicles on the human body have evolved to be miniaturized, rendering us practically ‘naked’. Despite sparse body hair, we retain thick hair on our scalps that varies significantly among populations. Yet little is known of the evolutionary history of our scalp hair an…
Background: This study supports the fact that noise induced hearing loss is a predominant occupational disease among construction workers. The overall aim of this study was to identify socio-demographic factors, family and personal history, occupational health and environmental …
This PhD project is comprised of two parts, each of which is intended to stand alone. Though each piece was conceived and written separately, they do stem from a similar desire: to speak to the practice of khatna (a form of female genital cutting) among the Dawoodi Bohra communi…
South Africa holds a traumatic history of injustice which has been propagated by ideologies centered around race. This history is still very present and visible in the scars that fragment its landscapes. These are scars that speak of segregation and unequal distribution of the n…
A collection of short stories, Pretty from a Distance deals with characters coming to terms with past demons and decisions, while negotiating sexual and romantic power dynamics and familial relationships. Comprised mainly of stand-alone stories, the collection also includes a tr…