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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:

Download GRAFF_Thesis_Final_Draft.pdf

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:

Download Final_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Download Susan_Ortmann_Dissertation_Final.pdf

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:

Download Gnanadass_dissertation_final_etd.pdf

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:

Download Nunes_dissertation.pdf

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

File:

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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