The historic preservation field is grappling with a “diversity deficit:” resources that are officially recognized as significant do not fully represent America’s diverse population, and historically marginalized communities are underrepresented in National Register of Historic P…
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This mixed-methods study investigated why Black female teachers remain in the profession by analyzing how they support their teacher efficacy. Situated in a social cognitive theoretical framework and a critical race feminist framework, the researcher analyzed teacher efficacy co…
AmeriCorps, a voluntary public service program founded in 1993, has largely consisted of a nonminority middle-class group, generally 20 to 29 years old, who had the financial assistance of family while serving. African American participants may be experiencing AmeriCorps-based p…
This research began as an investigation of the #metoo movement, with the initial impetus to illuminate the voices located on the margins, those who often go unheard or are never recognized. This work aimed to understand the intersectional aspects of how these hashtag variations …
Black American women are excelling and thriving at extraordinary measures in the field of entrepreneurship. Their journeys to becoming full-time entrepreneurs remain multi-dimensional as they navigate through the pathways of survival entrepreneurship or opportunity entrepreneurs…
Gender equity remains an evolving issue within the United States, in spite of the long history of women’s rights legislation, including the 1986 ruling by the Supreme Court that a work environment can be declared hostile or abusive because of discrimination based on sex. In the …
This interdisciplinary dissertation examines the last century of U.S. housing policy, including the construction and outcomes, as a phenomenon in which a ubiquitous pro-homeownership stance taken by those in power in the U.S. takes shape and is maintained through official rhetor…
The lives of Somali born high school students are complicated by intersections with both race and religion. They often carry refugee histories of trauma and displacement that are further exacerbated during the resettlement process. Schools are struggling to make the kinds of acc…
Identifying as a Jewish transgender woman can come with a plethora of stigma and challenges. Compounded by the ongoing existence of microaggressions and violence, a 2009 survey found individuals who identify as transgender are 40 times more likely to have attempted suicide than …
Thul and LaVoi (2011) conducted a study in 2008, titled "Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Immigrant Adolescent Girls," to learn about barriers facing this underserved population. The purpose of the study was to explore Eas…
The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that new and varied views of dementia surface when the concept of intersectionality is applied to dementia research; and that these perspectives pose challenges to our assumptions about what it is like to have dementia. Grounded theory re…
Popularly known as “the seduction of Joseph,” Genesis 39 is a familiar segment of the Joseph Story (Gen 37-50). As Gen 39 involves a Hebrew slave in an Egyptian household, contemporary interpreters tend to mention issues of gender, ethnicity, and class, but most fail to address …
This dissertation examines the effects of health values on the decisions made by elderly Black women to use self-care methods and homecare services. The research is grounded in the healthicization or wellness promotion paradigm, which prescribes behavioral or lifestyle changes f…
This dissertation seeks to answer two major questions: (a) How do women in Turkey articulate their relationship to the Turkish State? and (b) How can women's understandings of the state help them build coalitions for a more democratic state? It constructs an analytic space that …
This dissertation responds to Syrian nationals' stories of displacement and settlement. Within these accounts, people contend with forced migration through language, personal networks, and technology. A sociomaterial theory of literacy recognizes the way in which these interview…
This qualitative phenomenological study investigated Akan widows' lived experiences of widowhood, widowhood rites, violations against their property rights and the protective resources they employ to survive. The dissertation also explored how the widows make meaning out of thei…
This qualitative study explored the unique experiences of individuals in same-sex binational relationships. Same-sex binational couples are comprised of two LGB individuals in a romantic relationship but who have different citizenship statuses and are from different nations as w…
This research is an attempt to answer two calls: (1) Betty A. Reardon?s (2019a) call to move her work forward, and (2) Tony Jenkins and Betty A. Reardon?s (2007) call for the study of masculinities within a peace education, human rights frame using a feminist scholarship and ped…
Across postsecondary education in the United States, women continue to be underrepresented in executive-level leadership roles, in contrast to the fact that women earn the majority of degrees at all levels. This underrepresentation is notable in the context of Christian higher e…