Adjunct faculty members are an increasingly more significant percentage of instructors at institutions of higher learning. In addition to this rise, adjunct instructors have reported feelings of marginalization and disrespect from their full-time colleagues and their administrat…
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Breathable air, water, food, shelter, sleep: these are the five basic requirements for human survival. Providing these basics to a single person living on Earth is a challenge; providing them to 1,200 people living in the harsh Martian environment is a different matter entirely.…
The need related behavioral dynamics that are revealed in self-determination and academic motivation research control factors which pinpoint and examine settings that facilitate self-motivation and well-being. This study examined differences in motivational and self-determinatio…
Following a series of profound conflicts in the early 21st century, Bolivia became the world’s first pluri-national state in 2009. The idea of the pluri-national state goes beyond the (uni-)national state; imagining a state that allows peoples’ coexistence on an equal footing in…
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of religion's integration into the self in a Jewish sample of 214 individuals from 3 sample groups. A college undergraduate sample, a Jewish religious school sample from Israel, and community sample from 8 local synagogues we…
This research project focuses on the states with emerging/transitional democracy from authoritarian governments in the Post-Cold War periphery world, namely, Andean South America (Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) and the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan). The study limits its…
The dissertation examines recognition of new states, the practice historically employed to regulate membership in international society. The last fifteen years have witnessed novel or reinvigorated demands for statehood in many areas of the world. The claims of some, like those …
This dissertation examines the role of civilian-based resistance in three conflicts pitting nations against states. It analyzes how three popular movements systematically employed nonviolent sanctions including protests, strikes, civil disobedience, non-cooperation, and the crea…
Why do the institutional outcomes of armed separatist conflicts vary? Separatist conflicts have diverse institutional effects. Though many separatists hope to create sovereign states, few achieve their aims. More often, their conflicts lead to forms of intra-state autonomy, inde…
The literature on the case of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq focuses mainly on the historical aspect of the Kurds' struggle against successive Iraqi regimes. The literature lacks a solid theoretical and analytical framework for examining the feasibility of an independent Kurdish S…
Autistic individuals experience marginalization and stigmatization, and are often not connected to mainstream services or organizations fostering peer relationships (Boundy, 2008; Jaarsma & Welin, 2012; Robertson, 2010). Therefore, the accomplishments of the online Autistic comm…
Self-determination claims to statehood continue to be the basis for war, strife and contention. Often state power interests can either align or collide with legitimacy claims for self-determination. How, when and why is the noise made by such claimants accorded the space to beco…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how Black parishioners describe their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to volunteer and how volunteerism impacts their spiritual capital at a Black Baptist Church in Arizona. Two research questions guided this st…
This dissertation explores the growing legal recognition of what has become known as ‘gender self-determination.’ Examining sex reclassification policies on a global scale, I show a shift within sex reclassification policies from the body to the self, from external to internal t…
The thesis examines the development and implementation of special education’s transition policy in the United States and North Dakota from the 1980s to the 1990s. Researchers have primarily sought to further evidence-based practices in preparing adolescents with disabilities for…
In 1995, I released a musical album and faced criticism for calling myself an island girl, because I am Filipino and not CHamoru, one of the Guåhan’s indigenous people. Through the years, I have become more conscious of how my ways of knowing and being are primarily a colonial e…
In 2016, enrollment in a public school Indian education program in the western United States dropped by over 1,000 students. Changes in enrollment policy for Title VI Formula Grants in 2015, coupled with findings of a program review conducted by the Office of Indian Education, f…