Campylobacter and Salmonella are the leading bacterial agents causing foodborne illness and are commonly found on raw poultry. An expanding body of literature suggests minority populations are at a greater risk for campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis. An interdisciplinary appro…
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The goal of this thesis is to document, analyze and interpret the process that led to the realized scenic design of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo , produced by Temple University Department of Theater, and presented at the Adrienne Theater as part of the Philadel…
“Black Urban Revolution” traces a cultural history of the MOVE Organization, a mostly Black naturalist collective established in 1970s West Philadelphia. This project examine how MOVE members confronted conditions of racialized and gendered state violence and displacement throug…
In response to fears of crime and decay, the University of Pennsylvania attempted, during the 1960s and 1970s, to change its environs in a way that its planners believed would be more attractive to students, faculty and staff. Under the umbrella of the West Philadelphia Corporat…
This paper uses the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia as a case study to examine the origins and institutional evolution of American regional art museums, identify some of the challenges they currently face, and the important civic and cultural roles they play in their communi…
The COVID-19 Pandemic has exemplified the weaknesses in science education. Americans struggle to understand the scientific process and why its findings change. This has caused skepticism to brew. Since museums serve their respective communities as translators of complex informat…
The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, one of America’s oldest community music organizations, is currently completing its 146th season. Founded in 1873, the Mendelssohn Club has participated in significant performances around the world, worked with composers of great renown such …
This thesis focuses on the diasporic Lumbee community of Philadelphia that formed following the Second World War and developed throughout the late twentieth century. Faced with economic hardship, thousands of Lumbees migrated out of Robeson County and settled in urban centers in…
This study examines the historical-geographic development of agriculture in Philadelphia in order to better understand the city’s contemporary urban agriculture movement. More specifically, the study provides historical context to the contemporary application of racial justice p…
This project refigures the histories of yellow fever, cholera, and typhus through the rubric of intimacy, defined as a value-neutral condition of physical and sensory proximity that can acquire a positive or negative valence based on context. It considers how disease-specific sy…