From 2006 to 2010, ABC broadcast Ugly Betty, a one-hour dramedy based on one of the most popular telenovelas of all time. This dissertation examines at Ugly Betty from a rhizomatic perspective that brings together the areas of representation, political economy, and fandom studie…
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This study unites the burgeoning academic field of exhibition histories and the critiques of race-based exhibition practices that crystallised in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. It concerns recent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly f…
The purpose of the dissertation was to analyze the textual relationships of selected manuscripts to verify subgroups identified by Annemarie Weyl Carr in Byzantine Illumination 1150-1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition based on artwork. The research sought to answer the que…
My thesis examines the ways in which Black womanhood is constructed in introductory sociology textbooks. My research adds to the research on the depictions of Black women in sociology textbooks by looking beyond underrepresentation and marginalization to examining how the textbo…
This study examines and compares the realities of the Gulf War as constructed in two Arab, and two North American newspapers. The textual analysis of the New York Times (NYT), the Globe and Mail (G&M), Ad Dustour, and Al Ahram revealed the frames that were used in interpreting t…
This paper details the process of creating a workflow to extract, structure, andcategorize the text of historic-period cookbooks for future analysis using visualizationapplications. This includes a consideration of bias in both data science and data analysisprojects. After desig…
On the surface, this thesis explores a few incidents in the life of an individual Mountie, Harry Stallworthy. However, in depth it examines how Stallworthy’s work intersected with Canadian sovereignty and colonialism in a period of Canadian history when representations of Canadi…
This dissertation is an analysis of two cases of how cultural and legal discourses reinscribe the ethnic and religious boundaries around European identity. The first case is an analysis of the unprecedented European response to the Freiheitspartei's participation in the Austrian…