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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Dicicco, Elaine Claire

Title:

The Boundary Conditions of Backlash for Black Women: When Black Women Escape Backlash for Agentic and Dominant Behavior in the Workplace

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

stereotypes
gender
race
workplace
intersectionality
backlash
agency
dominance
leadership

File:

Download Dicicco_Format_Review_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie A Shields, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cone Hernbloom, Lisa Ann

Title:

Negotiating Race To The Top: An Intervention Teacher's Story

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

positioning
Race to the Top
intervention
autoethnography
critical policy analysis
agency

File:

Download Lisa_Ann_Cone_Hernbloom_Dissertation_The_Pennsylvania_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen Mary Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Special Member

Author:

Choi, Youngjoon

Title:

Online Travel Media and Touristic Experience: Examining the Psychological Effects of Technology Affordances

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

media technology
affordance
touristic experience
modality
agency
navigability

File:

Download eTD_Youngjoon_Choi.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Daniel Hickerson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Daniel Hickerson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Lee Kerstetter, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Ruobing

Title:

CAN INTERACTIVE MEDIA ATTENUATE PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE? A STUDY OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY USER COMMENTING AND AUDIENCE METRICS IN PROMOTING PERSUASION

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Psychological Reactance
agency
persuasion
bandwagon cue

File:

Download Dissertation_to_be_submitted_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Shyam Sundar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
James Dillard, Outside Member

Author:

Southard, Emily

Title:

Empowerment and Exploitation: A Critical Feminist Analysis of Gender in Cambodia’s Vegetable Value Chains

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

empowerment
marxist feminism
cambodia
agriculture
rural sociology
division of labor
agency
ideology
gender studies

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Draft_for_Submission_fixed.pdf

Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Halberstadt, Alexandra

Title:

Personality Traits and Interpersonal Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

agency
communion
personality traits
personality dynamics

File:

Download formattedFinalV4.pdf

Committee Members:

Aaron Lee Pincus, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Emily B Ansell, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Michael Hallquist, Committee Member

Author:

Rincon, Guadalupe

Title:

Graduate Student Academic Socialization through Mentored Writing Interactions: Between Empowerment and Marginalization

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

academic socialization
interthinking
identity development
agency
academic writing

File:

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Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mari Haneda, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Johnson, Major Field Member
Sinfree Makoni, Major Field Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies