Liquefaction is a secondary hazard that occurs during earthquakes and can cause severe damage to overlying infrastructure. As a result, liquefaction can be a significant contributor to loss due to earthquakes as observed during the 2011 New Zealand earthquakes or the 1995 Kobe e…
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People respond in widely varying ways to the loss of a loved one. Although most people manage the experience of loss without significant disruptions in healthy functioning, others show markedly divergent reactions including chronic grief symptoms and recovery from initial elevat…
The experiences and responses of individuals living in mineral enclaves command a lot of scholarly attention. Such attention is evident in the Niger Delta of Nigeria where neoliberal oil exploration has gone on for the past five decades. Yet missing in the delta narratives is th…
This production dissertation explores the friendship dynamics between women as they contend with the stresses of changing life circumstances. Research indicates that friendship is a powerful factor in resilience to stress for both women and men. However, recent socio-biological …
Melville's revision and completion of his two most ambitious novels, Mardi and Moby-Dick, uncannily mirrored the pregnancies and births of his first two children. With both, Melville revised nearly complete but less ambitious works at learning of the pregnancies. Despite financi…
This study is the result of observations and questions that stem from my professional role as a senior key worker with families where a child has a life-threatening or life-shortening illness. This project explores the cultures of families where a child has been diagnosed with a…
This study used the assimilation model to elaborate the continuing bonds model of mourning. According to the continuing bonds model of mourning, immigrants dealing with the loss of their native culture incorporate elements of this culture (i.e. their families, friends, identity,…
This study explored the inter-relatedness among identity, faith, trauma and loss, and re-negotiating self-understanding in a new geographical location. Seven Christian women from the Oromo cultural group of Ethiopia were interviewed. The taped interviews were transcribed and ana…
This dissertation explores the relationship between subordinate and dominant themes in the love introduction and the panegyric section of the classical Arabic and Persian panegyric qasida. The classical Islamic qasida that is comprised of a love introduction and a main panegyric…
This project begins by suggesting that the question posed by the Hebrews in exile—“How could we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” (Psalm 137)—is descriptive for individuals who experience loss. In the experience of loss, the securities of a life one has known, even of God…
This phenomenological survey explored how professional artists navigated personal loss experiences that were a result of the death of a loved one. Although artists have worked within themes of death throughout history, most studies on art and bereavement to date have focused on …
Loss is under theorized in narrative fiction, with recent trends in literary criticism treating loss predominantly in relationship to psychoanalytic theory or trauma. But experiences of loss are uniquely resistant to language; the project of representing loss in writing thereby …
The dissertation considers how a heterogeneous group of observers in the disciplines of natural history and lyric poetry write their attention to the natural world. The “intelligence” of their attention refers to the writing itself, as observation that bridges the divide between…
Research on loss has found that there are correlations between loss and individual factors in a persons’ life, such as substance use (Johnson, 2012; Vaswani, 2008; Zinzow et al., 2009), mental health symptomology (Godfrey, 2017; Harner, Hentz, & Evangalista, 2011), adverse child…
Following the death of my younger brother during my first year back in school, I became acutely aware that my photography was changing in ways that I couldn’t quite articulate. One thing that I was certain of—that since my brother’s passing, I had been consumed with the idea and…
During my time at the University of California, San Diego, I experienced the most challenging moment of my life: the loss of my mom in the Fall of 2019. The discovery of my mother’s health concerns happened towards the end of my first year, and her abrupt passing fell right arou…
Grief is a natural reaction to the loss of a loved one. Although most individuals learn to live with the loss, some struggle with ongoing difficulties, including depression and anxiety. In children, grief can negatively impact their development and overall life trajectory. Resea…