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Through a qualitative case study (Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), this inquiry examined how eight African American adolescent girls wrote representations of themselves and which contextual factors contributed to their writings. The girls, ages 12-17 years old, participated in a four-…

This dissertation focuses on the Casa de Montejo (c. 1542-1549), its residents, those who came in contact with the building on the local level of Mérida, Yucatán, and those who confronted what it represented in the larger colonial context in which it existed. The casa, commissio…

The Denver Art Museum’s Native Arts Artist-in-Residency Program is an inter-departmental project dedicated to the collaboration between the museum, artists, and visitors. The residency and the physical studio were established to formalize artist involvement in the museum. There …

This dissertation draws on race, ethnicity, and print culture studies to investigate the intersections of race, gender, religion, class, and nationality in the Arab-American community. Using the Syrian World journal as a case study, I argue that the printing press facilitated th…