This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of immigrant Nigerians in North Carolina and their adjustment and coping mechanisms. The study involved 10 immigrant Nigerians telling their personal stories regarding their struggle to adjust to life in North Carolina. …
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America's longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to the war in Afghanistan. The United States must decide the best alternative for ending the war and it must decide now. The U.S. has limited time to make meaningful progress on the…
Historical evidence from events as far back as the 1964 Niigata earthquake and most recently the devastating 1995 Hyogoken Nanbu (Kobe), Japan and 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey earthquakes indicates that sites with ground improvement as a liquefaction countermeasure suffer less ground de…
The political economy and settlement systems of medieval Morocco witnessed major transformations between the ninth and fifteenth centuries A.D. Based on a recent theoretical framework, it was postulated that medieval Moroccan political economy changed from a reliance on agricult…
The Assyrian capitals of Nineveh, Nimrud, Khorsabad, and Ashur were the most important cities of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Assyrians regarded the territory surrounding these cities as a land that belonged to their chief god Ashur. Historical sources indicate that they devoted…
The primary aim of this dissertation is to investigate the economic and social conditions effecting spatial congruity and temporal continuity of settlement sites in the 6th millennium cal BC landscape of Kahramanmaraş-southeastern Turkey. The dissertation also explores an altern…
This thesis reports on three months of excavation and a month of site survey undertaken in 1999–2000 in the central sector of the Middle Senegal Valley that was associated with the historical polity of Takrur. The focus of the research was two-fold: to investigate the earliest p…
The purpose of this research is to explain the processes by which communities develop their settlements outside of formal planning and regulatory frameworks in order to recommend ways these processes could be improved. Drawing on empirical evidence from the development processes…
This thesis explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Utilising archaeological evidence as the primary source for study, the central aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the ways in which settl…
This practice-based research was born out of the short documentary, My Kosher Shifts, which was made for a Master's in Documentary Practice at Brunel University, London. The film was shot in an ultraorthodox Jewish hotel in London, in which the filmmaker worked as a receptionist…
The overall aim of this thesis is to provide an holistic assessment of the financial practices of migrants in advanced Western economies using the analytical lens of risk. More specifically, this research argues that a geographical approach to risk, informed by concerns about ti…
This thesis describes the results of a three year study which collected larvae of the acorn barnacles Semibalanus balanoides on a rocky coastline in Fife, East Scotland. The nauplii larvae of S. balanoides are released from their parent in springtime in the United Kingdom and de…
Investigations into the supply, settlement and recruitment of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides (L.) to shores in Fife, East Scotland were undertaken over three consecutive years (2004 – 2006). Several designs of a passive larval trap, based on earlier published designs, were …
This dissertation examines settler fear of 'natives' and its 'unsettling' impact on decolonization in French Algeria. The work employs extensive archival research, historiographical critique, and theoretic reasoning to argue that French Algeria's so-called pieds-noirs community …
The environment and landscape of southern Mesopotamia provide the crucial context in which the first urban centers arose. It has long been held that "complex civilized societies depended upon a subsistence base that is sufficiently intensive and reliable to permit sedentary, nuc…
Though the number of Nigerian immigrants in the United States has increased since 1965, the literature on transnational communities has been selective in its examination of this population. The present study examines the adjustment and settlement issues of Nigerian immigrants in…
Questions concerning the basis of power and processes which lead to social stratification have occupied anthropological research for decades, resulting in a number of competing schools of thought. This research examines two of these; factional competition and managerial models f…
The principal objective of this study is to perform an intracemetery analysis of biological distance, or biodistance, at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, to better understand its social organization. Biological distance is a statistical measure of observable phenotypic …
This study explores the Italian project of nation-building in South Tyrol and Libya under Fascism. Settlers from across the peninsula were entrusted with the task of transforming these "foreign" borderlands into model Fascist homelands. Libya, an African colony, was renamed Ital…