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Author:: Ross, Brenda M.
Title:: Language, identity, and investment in the English language of a group of Mexican women living in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Applied Linguistics
Keywords:: ethnic identity
discourse analysis
investment
identity
language
gender
agency
File:: Download BRoss_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Susan Strauss And Sr Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan G Strauss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Athelstan Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

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Author:: Toso, Blaire Willson
Title:: Latina Mothers' Enactments of Agency: Achieving Desires through Discourses in Family Literacy.
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: adult education
agency
family literacy
Even Start
mothering
Foucault
literacy
immigrants
Latina
narrative inquiry
discourses
Good Mother
File:: Download BWToso_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

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Author:: Stavrositu, Carmen
Title:: Technologies of Psychological Empowerment: The Role of Agency and Community in Blogging
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: blogging
new media
empowerment
agency
community
File:: Download Thesis_Stavrositu.pdf
Committee Members:: S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Stephanie A Shields, Committee Member

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Author:: Durceylan Kaygusuz, Esra
Title:: INDUSTRY DYNAMICS AND AGENCY
Graduate Program:: Economics
Keywords:: industry dynamics
moral hazard
productivity
efficiency
agency
File:: Download EsraDURCEYLAN-KAYGUSUZ-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: James R. Tybout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
Abdullah Yavas, Committee Member

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Author:: Kuperavage, Jessica Lauren
Title:: Becoming Rational: Rhetoric, Agency, and Mental Illness
Graduate Program:: Communication Arts and Sciences
Keywords:: mental illness
agency
rhetoric
File:: Download Bargar_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Anderson, Kyle David
Title:: Promises of Modern Renaissance: Italian Presences in Chinese Modernity
Graduate Program:: Comparative Literature
Keywords:: cultural borrowing
New Rome
Liang Qichao
Marco Polo
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Dante
Modernity
Chinese Renaissance
Jiao Naifang
Decameron
sonnet
nationalism
agency
File:: Download ChineseRenaissanceAllFiles02Aug2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Alexander C Y Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander C Y Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Davis Eckhardt, Committee Member
On Cho Ng, Committee Member
Robert R Edwards, Committee Member

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Author:: Whitworth, Kathleen Farrell
Title:: ACCESS TO LANGUAGE LEARNING DURING STUDY ABROAD: THE ROLES OF IDENTITY AND SUBJECT POSITIONING
Graduate Program:: French
Keywords:: identity
subject positioning
agency
study abroad
second language
language socialization
File:: Download Whitworth.pdf
Committee Members:: Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Jeannette Danielle Bragger, Committee Member
James Lantolf, Committee Member

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Author:: Menon, Niveditha
Title:: Domestic violence in India: Identifying types of control and coping mechanisms in violent relationships
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: agency
domestic violence
india
feminist theory
control
File:: Download Menon_Final_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Paul Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Salvador Oropesa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Nancy Landale, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

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Author:: Bradley , Stephanie A
Title:: Agentic Functioning in Adolescents: Development and Validation of a Brief Comprehensive Measure
Graduate Program:: Human Development and Family Studies
Keywords:: physical activity
efficacy
adolescents
agentic
agency
File:: Download SBradley-FullThesisApproved.pdf
Committee Members:: Edward A Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda L Caldwell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Vujkov, Aleksandar
Title:: Re-mapping Territories of Architectural Practice: Cedric Price and the Procedures of Social Action
Graduate Program:: Architecture
Keywords:: Cedric Price
agency
procedures of social action
program
space and social control
temporality
city as network
File:: Download VujkovA_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter John Aeschbacher, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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