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Author:

Moore, Amy JoAnna

Title:

Latino/as with Disabilities: Do gender and race influence vocational rehabilitation?

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

hispanic
latino
latina
disability
gender
race
vocation
rehabilitation

File:

Download RC_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Brandon Hunt (Thesis: Keith Wilson), Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith B Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Freeman, Amy Louise

Title:

Money, Math and Engineering: The Relationships Between Community Economics, Math Preparation and the Graduation of Racially Underrepresented Engineers

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

prediction
recruitment
math programs
minority engineering program
STEM
poverty
race
retention
money
precollege
underrepresented
minority engineering
minority
math preparation
summer bridge
high school funding
MEP
diversity
graduation
engineering
multicultural
funding
high school
engineering shortage
Penn State

File:

Download Final_Document2.pdf

Committee Members:

William J Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Kenneth Carter Gray, Committee Member

Author:

Kundrat, Cara L.

Title:

Socio-demographic and Geographic Predictors of Health Care Receipt among Mothers and Infants in central Pennsylvania and North Carolina

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

geographic
socio-demographic
infant
mother
healthcare
health care
rural/non-metropolitan
race
SES

File:

Download Cara_Kundrat_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Clancy Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clancy Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark T Greenberg, Committee Member
Kathryn Bancroft Hynes, Committee Member
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Committee Member

Author:

Farrell, Chad R.

Title:

Urban Mosaics: Multiracial Diversity and Segregation in the American Metropolis

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

suburban
race
housing
segregation
neighborhoods
urban

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member
Susan Welch, Committee Member
Marylee Carmel Taylor, Committee Member
Mark Hill, Committee Member

Author:

Harris, Casey Taggart

Title:

A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MACRO-LEVEL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RECENT IMMIGRATION AND WHITE, BLACK, AND HISPANIC VIOLENT CRIME, 1990-2000

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

immigration
violence
crime
arrests
race
ethnicity
time

File:

Download Full_Manuscript_3-30-11_-_tables_and_figures_inserted.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell J Steffensmeier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Darigg Collis

Title:

Reducing HIV and AIDS stigma among university students in South Africa

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

HIV and AIDS
stigma
race
South Africa

File:

Download Darigg_Brown_Final_FullDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rhonda Belue, Committee Member
Gary King, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Tamul, Daniel John

Title:

Immigration news frames: Constructions of immigration and the passage of SB 1070

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

immigration
race
framing
News
SB 1070

File:

Download Tamul_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Karl Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Committee Member
Matthew Mc Allister, Committee Member
Gretchen G Casper, Committee Member

Author:

Leveston, Danielle Michelle

Title:

"Wow! I Didn't Even Know Black Artists Existed!" Advocating for Black Students in the Visual Arts through Autoethnography

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

art education
qualitative research
autoethnography
art
visual art
African American students
Black students
intersectionality
gender
class
race

File:

Download FINAL_Masters_Thesis_Danielle_Leveston.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ash, Erin Michelle

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO GAME AVATAR RACE ON IN-GAME BEHAVIORS AND POST-PLAY AGGRESSION

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

video games
Proteus effect
aggression
race
avatar embodiment

File:

Download Ash_Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pearson, Katherine E

Title:

Stereotyping Neighborhoods, not Individuals? Testing the Race-Based Neighborhood Stereotyping Hypothesis

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Neighborhood racial composition
stereotypes
residential preferences
race

File:

Download Pearson_Katherine_-_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Hardy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marylee Carmel Taylor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Auerbach, Karen J

Title:

Alcohol and Marijuana Use Across the Transition to Marriage: Group Differences and Psychosocial Factors

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

peer substance use
time spent with friends
race
gender
transition to marriage
substance use
substance use attitudes
young adulthood
multilevel modeling

File:

Download kjadiss.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Poniatowski, Kelly L.

Title:

NBC’S PORTRAYAL OF U.S. AND CANADIAN HOCKEY PLAYERS ON THE OLYMPIC STAGE: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER, RACE, AND NATIONALITY ISSUES IN THE COMMENTARY

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Olympics
race
nationality
sexual difference
hegemonic masculinity
hockey

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_Kelly_Poniatowski-Final_Thesis-_July_10_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Marie Hardin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Spicer Nichols, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Committee Member
Michelle E Day, Committee Member

Author:

Shreffler, Karina M.

Title:

Race/Ethnicity, Fertility Intentions, and Well-Being: The Importance of Occupational Characteristics in American Women's Lives

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

occupational segregation
ethnicity
race
job characteristics
occupational characteristics
fertility
life satisfaction

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Shreffler.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Booth, Committee Member
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Committee Member
Robert Drago, Committee Member

Author:

Logue, Melissa A

Title:

Familial Paternalism in the Federal System: Do The Types of Family Arrangements Matter?

Graduate Program:

Crime, Law and Justice

Keywords:

sentencing
race
gender
familial paternalism

File:

Download Loguedissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Silver, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member
John Henry Kramer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Paul Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Stout, Michael Damian

Title:

Social Capital and Political Participation

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

voluntary association
social networks
social trust
political participation
social capital
race
socioeconomic status

File:

Download Final_Draft2.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Sal Oropesa, Committee Member
Constance A Flanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Torregano, Michelle Early

Title:

Clean Slate: Making Sense of Public Education in the "NEW" New Orleans

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social equity
school reform
public education
race
Rebuilding and Transforming
privatization
politics
Bring New Orleans Back Education committee
charter schools
critical policy analysis
discourse
educational equity
greenfield
history of public education in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
interviewing
National Coalition for Quality Education in New Or
natural disaster
neoliberalism
teacher unions
United Teachers of New Orleans

File:

Download METDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Emilie Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Schwaller, Robert Clemens

Title:

Defining Difference in Early New Spain

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

race
colonial mexico
casta
early modern iberia
africans
mestizos
mulatos

File:

Download Schwaller_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Bennett Restall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Bennett Restall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kent Russell Lohse, Committee Member
Anthony Edward Kaye, Committee Member
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Member

Author:

Conn, Robert Edward

Title:

The Relationship Between Non-employment and Respondent Personal Charasterics, College Major, GPA and Work Experience Among 1992-1993 College Graduates

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

work experience
college major
GPA
non-employment
baccalaureate degree employment outcomes
race
gender
financial aid
age

File:

Download RobertEConnThesis1.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Gray, Committee Member
Elwood Lewis Shafer, Committee Member
William J Rothwell, Committee Member

Author:

Guldin, Rachel Elizabeth

Title:

LI’L FATTIES: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER, RACE, AND CLASS IDENTITY PORTRAYALS OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE CHILDREN IN POPULAR CHILDREN’S FILMS

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

children
film
movie
overweight
obese
fat
child
race
gender
class

File:

Download Guldin.Rachel.MAThesis2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Jeanne Lynn Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanne Lynn Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Leland, Sara J

Title:

Nietzschean Transformation Against the Grain of Race-Related Problems

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Nietzsche
race
self-overcoming
whiteness
transformation
social philosophy

File:

Download Leland--PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member