There is an absence of research addressing Women of Color leaders in the academy, specifically relative to the influence of their cultural identity on their leadership styles. The purpose of this study is to understand the lived experience of Women of Color leaders who served in…
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The urbanization of the Qatari neighborhood ( freej ) is moving at a rapid rate in the modern times, that has wrought dramatic societal change due to social, economic and cultural forces. This thesis investigates the cultural value of the Qatari freej , and the impacts on the Qa…
This study employs a new methodological approach in examining Egyptian and Egyptianized material in the Levant, which entails a thorough analysis of a range of broad and narrow Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age contexts at three sites in the Levant, entirely from an Egyptian pe…
Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991 the concept of a "Soviet" identity fell into decline and general academic disdain. The disintegration of the Soviet state and the subsequent rise in "ethno-national" violence across its former territory was said to belie the coming-toge…
For this Thesis project I interviewed seven women of West African descent and documented their unique stories about identity and the tensions they have experienced between their West African and American cultural heritage(s). One important charge of the film is to engage the inf…
The cultural identity of multilingual Lebanese students is examined in academic writing (mainly argumentative) in Arabic and in English essays using case studies. This area is important because it helps reach an understanding on whether different languages allow us to take up di…
The purpose of this thesis is to examine Diana Abu-Jaber's memoir, The Language of Baklava, and its approach to the question of identity. To this end the thesis utilizes close reading of passages to explore the relationship between language and identity in the memoir. The thesis…
At the end of “The Other Side/El Otro Lado,” Julia Alvarez writes of leaving the Dominican village where she has gone to sort out her divided Dominican-American mind. Lured back to the U.S. where she can have “a life of choice, a life of words,” she also hears the village muses …
It is in the tension between hegemonic and subaltern cultures that creative responses originate. These responses allow the reader to recognize the degrees of influence the subaltern cultures are willing to accept, the way they appropriate and change the instruments of this hegem…
Diversity in the American classroom has created an unavoidable debate about cultural identity and its impact on students' performance. The acculturation or assimilation level is crucial to the development of the self and determines the level of comfort of dealing with people fro…
The impingement of extreme poverty and violence on the identity formation and cultural lives of street children in Haiti has been an overlooked phenomenon in anthropology. Sickness, scarcity, sexual abuse, armed conflict, hunger, and thirst all contribute to a set of conditions …
Processes and patterns of migration on a global scale have changed in profound ways during the last two decades (Smith and King, 2012). In the European context, this is exemplified by transformations to the traditional mobility patterns from East to West Europe (Koser and Lutz, …
This thesis explores the Malay songket motifs in relation to Malaysia'scultural identity and the transformations of these motifs within the context ofthe researcher's own art works.An examination of Malaysian government's fixed National Culture policy onidentity is contrasted wi…
Identifying (with) performance: Representations and Constructions of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Theatre Practice - Three Case Studies discusses ways in which contemporary live performance affirms, challenges or constructs collective models of cultural identity by addressi…
This thesis focuses on the importance of the ballad in constructing national identity in Germany during the 20th century from 1918-1978. It presents a comparative approach using Scotland as a comparator, based on three significant time periods throughout the century: the Weimar …
In this thesis I investigate connections between modern Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean fiction between the 1950s and the present. My study brings into focus literary representations of inter-related histories and cultures and problematises the fragmentation of Caribbean st…
In this thesis, I propose to study the life and oeuvre of Leïla Sebbar who remains a little-known and studied writer. This marginalization seems to have resulted from the difficulty in properly positioning the author within a clearly defined literary field. She was born in Alger…
Recent research has documented the negative intergroup attitudes between Jewish and Arab youth and adults in the Middle East (Bar-Tal & Teichman, 2005; Brenick et al., 2007; Cole et al., 2003), yet little is known about how these negative intergroup biases manifest in the same c…
The ubiquitous nature of technology in our lives and the growing cultural diversity in American society call not only for an integration of technology and curriculum, but also for instructional designers and practitioners to understand how culture may affect learning about techn…