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Author:

Morgan, Allison Janeice

Title:

AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON WEB SEARCHING BEHAVIOR AMONG BLACKS AND WHITES: A CASE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SEARCHING

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Human information behavior
Individual differences
Race
Health information
Web searching
Diversity
Human variation

File:

Download MorganDissertation_vFinal2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Kvasny, Committee Member
Bernard James Jansen, Committee Member
Dr. Ronald Jackson II, Committee Member

Author:

Jimenez, Carmen Julia

Title:

LITERATURE AND NEOCOLONIALISM: THE LUIS LLORENS TORRES' CASE

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Gender
Caribbean Literature
Race
Puerto Rican Literature
Luis Llorens Torres

File:

Download THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Aníbal González Pérez, Committee Member
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Laurence E Prescott, Committee Member
Dr Aída Beaupied, Committee Member

Author:

Nale, John Elias

Title:

Descartes and the Generation of the Mind-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Descartes
Mind-Body Problem
Blood
Race
Generation
Sex
Love
Jean Fernel
William Harvey
Ficino

File:

Download Nale_Dissertation_Final_REVISED.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Jennifer Mensch, Committee Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member

Author:

Graff, Peter Alan

Title:

Indian Identity: Case Studies of Three John Ford Narrative Western Films

Graduate Program:

Musicology

Keywords:

John Ford
Musicology
Race
Westerns
Iron Horse
Stagecoach
Searchers

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Dowell Youmans, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Moses

Title:

Student Affairs and the Black Experience: Exploring How Black and African American Student Affairs Staff Experience Race at Predominantly White Institutions

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Student Affairs
Racism
Workplace Diversity
Race
Staff of Color

File:

Download Moses_Davis_Dissertation_Final_Copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Edgar I Farmer Sr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Craig D Weidemann, Committee Member
Susan Ruth Rankin, Special Member

Author:

Mislan, Cristina

Title:

Transnationalism, Race and Revolution: The Case of Cuba's Radio Free Dixie

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Cuba
Radio
Race
Transnationalism U.S.-Cuba Relations
Civil Rights Movement
Black Power Movement

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Elavsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Elavsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Ford Risley, Committee Member
John Spicer Nichols, Committee Member
Solsi Del Moral, Special Member

Author:

Ortmann, Susan M

Title:

"telling You Who We Are": Identity Formation on America's First Western Frontier

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Identity
Frontier
Old Northwest
Captivity Narratives
Race
Native Americans

File:

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Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Francis Bremer, Special Member

Author:

Gnanadass, Edith N

Title:

Perpetual Outsiders?: Learning Race in the South Asian American Experience

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

CHAT
Critical Race Theory
Desicrit
South Asian Americans
Postcolonial Theory
Adult Learning
Race
Racism
Indian Americans

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul C Taylor, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Member
Mrinalini Sinha, Special Member
Ian E Baptiste, Special Member

Author:

Oke, Ronke Abidemi

Title:

Completing the Uncompleted Argument: An Existentialist Response to Appiah's Reading of Du Bois

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

individuality
Race
Identity
Critical Philosophy of Race
Du Bois
Existentialism
Kwame Anthony Appiah
cosmopolitanism
individuality

File:

Download DISSERTATION__Final_for_ETD__.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Member
Kathryn Teresa Gines, Committee Member
Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Committee Member

Author:

Monteiro Pereira Nunes, Evelyn

Title:

ESSAYS ON DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Education
Race
Returns to Education
Vouchers

File:

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Committee Members:

Russell Wade Cooper, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Wade Cooper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kala Krishna, Committee Member
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Liang Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Vrana, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Writing Transgressions: Publication Contexts and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Black Women's Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American literature
Poetry
Textual studies
American literature
Race
Critical race theory
Gender studies

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody-Turner, Committee Member
Linda Ferguson Selzer, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

Author:

Toth, Adam Joseph

Title:

PERFORMING THE LETTER OF THE LAW: THE ROLE OF ORIENTALIST RACE THEORY IN KAFKA’S WRITINGS

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Kafka
Orientalism
Race
Race Theory
Hegel

File:

Download Final_Manuscript.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Purdy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel L. Purdy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Beebee, Committee Member
Sabine Doran, Committee Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Outside Member
Bettina Brandt, Special Member

Author:

Nadermann, Kristen Marie

Title:

Work Values: Examining Opportunities for Integration and Differences Across Generation, Race, and Between Gender

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Atlas Model
Work Values
Generation
Race
Gender

File:

Download Dissertation.KMC.Final.8.4.17_1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jolynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jolynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Member
Allison R Fleming, Committee Member
Daniel Max Crowley, Outside Member

Author:

Kammerling, Thomas Eugene

Title:

The Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Age in Developmental Mathematics

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Intersectionality
Race
Gender
Adult Education
Developmental Mathematics
Narrative

File:

Download Kammerling_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Adnan A Qayyum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Davin Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Committee Member
Rose Mary Zbiek, Outside Member

Author:

Inara Rodis, Paulina Dela

Title:

U.S. Racial Constructions in Adolescent Friendship Networks

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Race
Adolescents
Friendships
Social Networks

File:

Download Rodis-Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary J Adler Jr., Committee Member
Steven Michael Gaddis Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Hanrath, Lily Savannah

Title:

MORE THAN JUST MONEY: HOW THE BAIL PROCESS CREATES UNINTENDED RACIAL DISPARITY

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Bail
Focal Concerns
Race
Pennsylvania
Judges
Disparity

File:

Download Hanrath_Lily_Final_Thesis_Formatting_11.28.2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Todd Ulmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Member

Author:

Paris, William Michael

Title:

The Value of Invention: On the Ungendering of Black Life in Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, and Hortense Spillers

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Frantz Fanon
Hortense Spillers
Sylvia Wynter
Race
Gender
Phenomenology
Semiotics

File:

Download The_Value_of_Invention_Fanon_Wynter_Spillers_Paris_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Member
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Member
Annemarie Mingo, Outside Member

Author:

Valentine, Desiree

Title:

Conceptions of Mixed Race and the Politics of Temporality

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Mixed Race
Political Ontology of Race
Racism
White Supremacy
Race
Liberatory Thought
U.S. Racial History
Blackness
Mixedness
Liberatory Politics

File:

Download Valentine_Full_Dissertation_7.18.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Committee Member
Ariane R Cruz, Outside Member

Author:

Badenhorst, Paul Roger

Title:

Kintsugi and Processes of Productive Damage: The Values of Embodiment and Emotion For Antiracism Work in Education

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Race
Higher Education
Teacher Education
Embodiment
Emotion
Melancholic Object Attachments
Antiracism

File:

Download Pauli_Badenhorst_Ph.D_Dissertation_The_Pennsylvania_State_University_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine M Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph M Valente, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Samuel Jaye Tanner, Committee Member
Julia A Green Bryan, Outside Member

Author:

Francisco, Sara Chari

Title:

Race and Gender Effects on Attitudes Toward Friendship Norm Violations

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Sociology
Race
Gender
Friendship
Social Norms

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Francisco_Sara_final_v6_.pdf

Committee Members:

Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashton Michael Verdery, Committee Member
S. Michael Gaddis, Committee Member

Author:

Zvonkovich, Jordan Tyler

Title:

Exploring the Effects of Prior Record on Sentencing Decisions

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Sentencing
Prior Record
Race

File:

Download Thesis_Final__With_grad_school_revisions_.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Barry Ruback, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member

Author:

Theriault, Cristina

Title:

DIF in the CRT-A

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Aggression
DIF
CRT-A
Gender
Race
Implicit personality

File:

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Committee Members:

James Marshall Lebreton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rustin David Meyer, Committee Member
Kenneth Levy, Committee Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Allen, Patrick Sean

Title:

A Practice of Print: Race, Doctoring, and Medicine in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem Black Print Culture

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Race
Medicine
African American Literature
Print Culture
Critical Medical Humanities
Doctors

File:

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Committee Members:

Shirley Moody, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shirley Moody, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Member
Sean X Goudie, Committee Member
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Bryde, Brynne D

Title:

Public Bodies: The Nude and Public Health in Nineteenth-Century France

Graduate Program:

Art History

Keywords:

Art
Art History
Nineteenth Century
Nude
History
History of Medicine
Public Health
Health
Medicine
Gender
Sexuality
Bathing
Masculinity
Gynecology
Women's Health
Intersex
Intersexuality
Pornography
Postcolonial Theory
North Africa
Dance History
Race
Painting
Photography
Visual Culture
Illustration
Book Illustration
Medical Illustration
Caillebotte
Courbet
Nadar
Gerome

File:

Download McBryde.Dissertation.LoRes.pdf

Committee Members:

Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarah K Rich, Committee Member
Madhuri Shrikant Desai, Committee Member
Christopher Gervais Reed, Outside Member
Elizabeth C Mansfield, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bacon, Rachel Jeannine

Title:

THREE PAPERS ON DIETARY ACCULTURATION: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND TWO EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS TO THE BLACK CARIBBEAN POPULATION

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Dietary acculturation
Caribbean immigrants
Segregation
Race
Health Disparities
Adventist Health Study

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Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Roger Finke, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wilson, Oliver

Title:

College student aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity inequities

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Emerging adults
Exercise
Race
Sexual orientation
Gender
Gender identity
Equity
Health

File:

Download Wilson_-_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Jean Bopp, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Jean Bopp, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Blair Evans, Committee Member
David S Guthrie, Committee Member
Jen Putnam Agans, Outside Member
Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brooks, Matthew

Title:

The Changing Landscape of Affordable Housing in the United States

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Affordable Housing
Rural
Urban
United States
Population Growth
Population Aging
Natural Amenities
Race
Policy
Income Measurement
Spatial Econometrics

File:

Download Brooks_Dissertation_vFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian Clemens Thiede, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Clemens Thiede, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
Laszlo Kulcsar, Committee Member
John David Iceland, Outside Member
Laszlo Kulcsar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sanoubane, Dara Noi

Title:

Labor Force Status of Asian American Pacific Islander Groups By Citizenship, Nativity, and English-language Proficiency, 2011-2012

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

AAPI
Asian American
Immigrants
Labor Force Participation
Unemployment
Employment
English Proficiency
Nativity
Citizenship
Race
Ethnicity
Disaggregated Data

File:

Download DaraSanoubane_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
Allison Fleming, Outside Unit Member
Edgar Yoder, Outside Field Member
David Passmore, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cynthia Pellock, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ancic, Ivana

Title:

At The Limits of the Human Rights Regime: Perpetrator Perspectives in Contemporary Literatures and Visual Cultures

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

World Literature
Human Rights
Global South
Perpetrator
Race
Global Capitalism

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Committee Members:

Rosemary Jolly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Major Field Member
Sarah Townsend, Outside Unit & Field Member
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Belsare, Akash

Title:

Humanimal Narratives: Genre and Animality in Contemporary Ethnic Literatures

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Multi-ethnic literature
Race
Animality

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Committee Members:

Cynthia Young, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rosemary Jolly, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tina Goudie, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aldon Nielsen, Major Field Member
Shirley Moody, Major Field Member
Mark Morrisson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Billing, Samantha

Title:

Indigenous Identity on the Edge of Empire: Diplomacy and Destruction in Colonial Central America

Graduate Program:

History (PHD)

Keywords:

Miskitu
Indigenous history
Latin America
Caribbean studies
Atlantic World
early modern history
British empire
Spanish empire
Nicaragua
Honduras
Indigenous slavery
Race

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Committee Members:

Amara Solari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Restall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Greenberg, Major Field Member
Ronnie Hsia, Major Field Member
Michael Kulikowski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gonzales, Carlos

Title:

The Fear of Identity Motivated Crime: An "Identity-In-Community Context" Vulnerability Perspective

Graduate Program:

Criminology (MA)

Keywords:

Fear of Crime
Fear
Hate Crime
Vulnerability
Gender
Race
Political Identity
Identity

File:

Download Gonzales_ThesisTemplate_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Pamela K Wilcox, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Corina Antohi Graif, Committee Member

Author:

Hedgecoth, Nikki

Title:

What’s In a Face? Faces Perception at the Intersection of Race, Gender/sex, Emotion, and Skin tone

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Face Perception
Race
Gender/sex
Emotion

File:

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Committee Members:

Reginald Adams, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jes Matsick, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member

Author:

Correa, Jonathan

Title:

Caught in a Bad Romance: Race and Ontologies of the Human in Middle English Literature

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

Race
Human
Middle English Romances
Medieval Literature
Premodern Critical Race Theory

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Committee Members:

Scott Smith, Major & Minor Field Member
Stephen Wheeler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Edwards, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Caroline Eckhardt, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair
Nahir Otaño-Gracia, Special Member

Author:

Tsantsoulas, Tiffany

Title:

Embodied Orientations and Decolonial Praxes of Resistance

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Philosophy
Feminism
Decolonial Theory
Embodiment
Disorientation
Race
Resistance

File:

Download Tsantsoulas_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nancy A Tuana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Committee Member
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Member
Hilary Jade Malatino, Outside Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Committee Member
Ted Toadvine, Committee Member
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rajagopalan, Adithi

Title:

Understanding the Relationship between Racial Salience and Stress Adapted Coping in Minoritized Youth

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Race
racial salience
Minority
Stress
Coping
Poverty
Discrimination

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Committee Members:

Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yo Jackson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member

Author:

Francisco, Sara Chari

Title:

Hashing it Out: Racial Conversations and Harassment on Social Media

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

Social Media
Social Networks
Race
Gender
Cyberbullying
Black Lives Matter

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Committee Members:

Ashton Verdery, Major Field Member
Burt Monroe, Outside Unit & Field Member
Diane Felmlee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Melissa Hardy, Major Field Member
Kevin J Thomas, Special Member
Kevin Thomas, Special Member

Author:

Lyu, Sung Ryung

Title:

MOBILIZING WITHIN WHITENESS: MULTICULTURAL APPROACHES IN RURAL HEAD START

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

Head Start
Multicultural Education
Early Childhood Education
Race
Whiteness
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Policy
Ethnography

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Committee Members:

Ashley Patterson, Major Field Member
Allison Henward, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Minor Field Member
Samuel Tanner, Major Field Member
Andrea Vujan Mccloskey, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kai Schafft, Outside Unit & Field Member