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Examining individual and joint sense-making in stressful relational narratives
(2014-05)
This dissertation examined individual and joint storytelling as a communicative process to explore relational turbulence about stressful events. Response to change in romantic relationships inherently involves a degree of ...
Finding the “I” in the “we” : three modes of identity merger in close relationships
(2012-05)
Upon entering a relationship, individuals merge their identities with their partner’s identities to form a relational self. This proposal draws from the self-expansion and identity fusion theories to suggest three ways ...
African diaspora in reverse : the Tabom people in Ghana, 1820s-2009
(2010-05)
The early 1800s witnessed the exodus of former slaves from Brazil to Africa. A number of slaves migrated after gaining manumission. Others were deported after they were accused of committing various “crimes” and after slave ...
Cusco después de Los zorros : the legacy of Arguedas in contemporary Andean narrative
(2012-05)
This dissertation is an in-depth investigation of the manner in which Peruvian Andean identities are represented and constructed in Cusqueñan literature after José María Arguedas’s posthumous publication of El zorro de ...
To sit in splendor : the ivory throne as an agent of identity in Tomb 79 from Salamis, Cyprus
(2013-05)
The objects discovered in Tomb 79 at the necropolis of Salamis, Cyprus have garnered much attention since their discovery. The material from this tomb, however, needs an in-depth, object-by-object analysis that will lead ...
Constructing Tibetanness from the 'in-between' : self-representations of hybrid identity in Tibetan fiction films
(2016-05)
Tibet is a contested and ambiguous concept perched precariously between multiple and contradictory sociocultural and historical discourses. In this thesis, I examine self-representation in the liminal space of Tibet through ...
The black male athlete through the prism of sport : a mixed method study examining identities, academic self-concept and experiences
(2012-05)
The Black experience throughout the history sport has engendered significant transformations to the landscape and culture of both sport and society. However, in the present sociocultural climate of intercollegiate athletics, ...
After rupture : innovative identities and the formalist poetry of Akilah Oliver, Sharon Bridgforth, and Alice Notley
(2010-08)
This dissertation reveals a twentieth-century tradition of poetic formalism that positions race, gender, and sexuality as formal concerns, and further, as
key factors in the development of contemporary formal poetics. My ...
From Bolivar to Katari : indigenous representations in the legislative assembly of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, 2012
(2013-08)
The purpose of this research is to discover the new symbols and new histories that are being constructed in the Plurinational State of Bolivia on 2012. The Legislature is the main stage where the research takes place and ...
Identity and participation in social networking sites amongst pre-service elementary school teachers
(2012-08)
Recent trends in social networking site (SNS) use amongst teachers have led to some alarming circumstances. Practicing and pre-service teachers have been fired or otherwise punished (e.g. suspension, licensure revocation, ...