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This critical ethnography documents the process of the Washington State Accessible Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) Committee. Formed in 2004, its mission was to train disability advocates who would in-turn train members of their communities in disaster preparedness …

The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (Trypanosomatida: Trypanosomatidae) is the etiological agent of Chagas disease, reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) as responsible for over 10,000 deaths in 2015. Chagas disease is considered a Neglected Tropical Disease by th…

This thesis explores the crime variously referred to as modern-day slavery, forced labor, or human trafficking. I define “human trafficking” as the coercion of one human being by another in order to extract labor and various forms of servitude, in criminal circumstances that res…

Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about their social group. The present study varied the stereotype vulnerability of Jewish participants taking a brief yet robust test of cog…