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Author:

Rose, Mary Lai

Title:

Investigating the role of social and emotional competencies as predictors of problem behaviors among a sample of South African youth

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

adolescent substance use
delinquency
South Africa
social competencies
emotional competencies
co-occurring problem behaviors

File:

Download Mary_Lai_Rose_-_Dissertation_HDFS.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward A Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Marie Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda L Caldwell, Committee Member
Michael L Hecht, Committee Member

Author:

Weybright, Elizabeth Hall

Title:

Healthy leisure and its relationship to substance use in South African adolescents: A variable and person centered approach.

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

healthy leisure
adolescents
South Africa
substance use

File:

Download Dissertation_8.21.13.pdf

Committee Members:

Linda L Caldwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Daniel Hickerson, Committee Member
Edward A Smith, Committee Member
Nilam Ram, Committee Member

Author:

Decker, Michelle Gene

Title:

African Genres: Literature, Geography, and Poetics in the Long East Coast

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

African literature
South Africa
East Africa
Egypt
genre
comparative literature
African poetics
Zanzibar
Arabic
Swahili

File:

Download DECKER_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Robert Hayot, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Robert Hayot, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Committee Member
Nergis Erturk Lennon, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Committee Member
Christopher Gervais Reed, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Jacqueline Ann

Title:

The Context and Consequences of Sexual Coercion towards South African Boys and the Impact of Enhancing the School Environment on School Sexual Climate and Coercion

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

sexual violence
male victimization
adolescents
South Africa

File:

Download JAM_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward A Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward A Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda L Caldwell, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Tavenner, Kathleen Anne

Title:

A FEMINIST POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INDIGENOUS VEGETABLES IN A SOUTH AFRICAN PROTECTED AREA COMMUNITY

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Feminist Political Ecology
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Biodiversity Conservation
Forest Foods
South Africa

File:

Download Tavenner_Dissertation_Final_Copy_Dec6_Revisions.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Carolyn Sachs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Carolyn Sachs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Ann Tickamyer, Committee Member
Dr. A.E. Luloff, Committee Member
Dr. Robert Crane, Outside Member

Author:

Bediako, Phylicia Twumwaa

Title:

Adolescent HIV Risk in South Africa: Multiple Perspectives on Sexual Behavior

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

adolescent
sexual behavior
sexual risk
HIV/AIDS
systems science
South Africa
abstinence
transactional sex

File:

Download Bediako_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Rhonda BeLue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rhonda Belue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Linda L Caldwell, Committee Member
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Outside Member

Author:

Layland, Eric Keith

Title:

Association Leisure Boredom with Risky Sexual Debut During Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

adolescence
leisure boredom
risky sexual behavior
sexual debut
South Africa
adolescence
leisure boredom
risky sexual behavior
sexual debut
South Africa

File:

Download LAYLAND--ASSOCIATION_OF_LEISURE_BOREDOM_WITH_RISKY_SEXUAL_DEBUT_DURING_ADOLESCENCE_.pdf

Committee Members:

Nilam Ram, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda Caldwell, Committee Member

Author:

Boyle, Margaret

Title:

National Development Identities in the Self-Differentiated Paris Climate Agreement: Implications for Multi-scalar Climate Governance

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Climate Change
Governance
Paris Agreement
Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Food Security
South Africa
Development
Differentiation
Self-Differentiation

File:

Download Margaret_Boyle__Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian H. King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian H. King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Bronwen Powell, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Outside Member
Jia-Ching Chen, Special Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Deane, Chanel

Title:

Analysis of Seismic Source Characteristics Across A Broad Range Of Spatial Scales

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Geophysics
Seismology
Pennsylvania
Southwest Indian Ridge
South Africa

File:

Download Dissertation_final_cd.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Nyblade, Major Field Member
Charles Ammon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Major Field Member

Author:

Manzini, Zinhle

Title:

AN EXISTENTIAL- STANDPOINT READING OF SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKWOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES UNDER APARTHEID

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Apartheid
Blackwomen
Autobiography
South Africa
Black Feminism
Sartre
Fanon
Biko
Ramphele
Makhoere
Collins
existential-standpoint

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Committee Members:

Sarah Miller, Program Head/Chair
Nancy Tuana, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ariane Cruz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kris Sealey, Major Field Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Special Member