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This thesis seeks to utilize a distant reading of seventeen essays written by James Baldwin alongside sustained close readings of three topics within those essays in order to understand why Baldwin has maintained increased popularity when the original historical context of the e…

Probabilistic topic models are a class of statistical techniques that bring out the latent representation in the data. These models are able to find new data correlations in a low-dimensional topic space. Unigram based probabilistic parametric topic models assume that the order …

In this dissertation, I explain how the predominant concern among reformers and policymakers in education policy in the United States shifted from one focused on inequitable access in the 1960s to one focused on higher expectations of students and better standards in the 1980s a…

This dissertation presents a novel approach to tracing the history of techne in 1990s through a data feminist curation methodology that selects, models, visualizes, and analyzes a selection of 1990s journals in Rhetoric and Composition. This dissertation arises from an interest …

In economics, it is increasingly recognized that "culture matters". In this light, it is important to understand why culture changes and how it affects economic outcomes. In my dissertation, I examine the causes and effects of changing culture on economic development through a f…