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Author:

Anders, Abram Daniel

Title:

Rhetoric for Becoming Otherwise: Life, Literature, Genealogy, Flight

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

genealogy
ethics
health
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Doyle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Matthew Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Committee Member
Robert Anderson Yarber Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Duncan, Angela Lydia

Title:

Assessing the Impact of Legal Issues on Private Boarding Schools

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

boarding schools
law
ethics
decision-making
turbulence theory
independent schools

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr Preston Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Preston Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Member
Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Member
Daniel Robert Cahoy, Committee Member

Author:

Armstrong, Brian Arthur

Title:

The Ethical Purpose of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Tractatus
Wittgenstein
ethics

File:

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Committee Members:

Dale Jacquette, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Committee Member

Author:

Carr-Chellman, Davin Jules

Title:

Ethical Becoming: Adult Ethical Development in Christian Congregations

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

ethics
ethical development
adult education
religious education
John Dewey
Jurgen Habermas
spirituality

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Committee Member
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member

Author:

Seltzer, David Saul

Title:

Beauvoir's Moral Period Philosophy

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Pyrrhus and Cineas
ethics
Existentialism
Phenomenology
Hegel
Kant
Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity
freedom
autonomy

File:

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Committee Members:

Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Member
Brady Lee Bowman, Committee Member
Allan Inlow Stoekl, Committee Member

Author:

Mackey, Hollie Jonel

Title:

An Analysis of the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Zero-Tolerance Court Decisions in K-12 Public Education

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

school safety and order
school discipline
ethics
education policy
education law
zero-tolerance
school violence
restorative justice

File:

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Committee Members:

Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Preston Green Iii, Committee Member
David Alexander Gamson, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Dr Anthony Normore, Committee Member

Author:

Gephart, Jennifer

Title:

Nonconscious Goal Activation and Unethical Behavior: Examining the Effects of Status Threat Cues on Over-Reporting Performance

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

ethics
decision making
nonconscious
status

File:

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Committee Members:

Linda K Trevino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Linda K Trevino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Louise Gray, Committee Member
David Harrison, Committee Member
Margaret Grace Meloy, Committee Member

Author:

Drake, Ryan Thomas

Title:

The Limit of Life: The Ethics of Discourse in Plato's Protagoras

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Plato
discourse
measure
ethics
politics
dialectic
interpretation

File:

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Committee Members:

John Sallis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Joseph Conway, Committee Member
Charles Edward Scott, Committee Member
Mark Munn, Committee Member

Author:

Moiles, Sean

Title:

Ethics and Urban Realities: American Fiction since 1984

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

urban renaissance
urban crisis
multi-ethnic literature of the United States
ethics
urban fiction
contemporary American fiction

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathryn Hume, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Hume, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Member
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Frick, William Charles

Title:

An empirical investigation of secondary principals' perspectives on "the best interests of the student" as a viable professional ethic for educational leadership

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

ethics
education administration
education leadership
values
decision making
moral practice

File:

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Committee Members:

Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald K Letendre, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yang

Title:

A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE REGULATION AND BEHAVIOR OF WEB CRAWLERS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

botseer
ethics
bias
web crawler
robots.txt

File:

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Z Wang, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Jenkins, Stephanie

Title:

Disabling Ethics: A Genealogy of Ability

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Foucault
genealogy
ethics
disability

File:

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Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member

Author:

Crawford, Emily Ruth

Title:

In Whose Best Interest?: How Educators Make Sense of and Respond to Immigration Enforcement Near School Property

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

undocumented students
ethics
educational access
decision making

File:

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Committee Members:

Dana Lynn Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suet Ling Pong, Committee Member
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Member
Emily Kate Greenman, Special Member

Author:

Reiley, Peter Joseph

Title:

Sensing the Force: Followers’ Preferences, Perceptions, and Responses to Leaders’ Power Use

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

leadership
power
ethics
followers
performance
justice
Implicit Leadership Theories
Organizational Citizenship Behavior

File:

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Committee Members:

Rick R Jacobs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rick R Jacobs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Committee Member
Weichun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Gutworth, Melissa Beth

Title:

The Dark Side to Creativity: Testing an Intervention to Deter Deviance

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

creativity
deviance
intervention
ethics
saliency

File:

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Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Minbiole, John Francis

Title:

Interrupting Cinematic Narratives of the First World War

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
narrative
cinema
film
war
first world war
ethics
Heidegger
Gadamer
interruption

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Dennis Schmidt, Committee Member

Author:

Hasan, Aminah Amatullah

Title:

Metaphysics, War And The Critique Of The Conatus Essendi In Emmanuel Levinas

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Levinas
french philosophy
phenomenology
early modern
20th century philosophy
17th century philosohphy
spinoza
Heidegger
metaphysics
ethics
politics
war
peace
conatus
philosophy
17th/18th century philosophy

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Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Benjamin Jared Schreier, Outside Member

Author:

Scott, Stephanie Marie

Title:

Beyond National Trauma: Experiential Memory and Epistemic Practices in the Literature of Ireland and Irish-America's Minoritized Populations

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

contemporary literature
epistemology
ethics
Ireland
postcolonial literature

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Committee Members:

Mark Stewart Morrisson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Edmond Marsh, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member
Paige Reynolds, Special Member

Author:

Birriel, Barbara A

Title:

Surrogate Decision-Making in the Context of Critical Illness

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

Surrogate decision-making
critical care
bioethics
ethics

File:

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Committee Members:

Lisa Kitko, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa Kitko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Hupcey, Committee Member
Susan Loeb, Committee Member
Michelle McGowan, Outside Member

Author:

Aggleton, Sabrina Irene

Title:

VULNERABLE BODIES: THE THREAT OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE ERROR OF RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

rape
ethics
embodiment
phenomenology
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Simone de Beauvoir
gender
vulnerability

File:

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Committee Members:

Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member

Author:

Jean, Elisabeth

Title:

An Analysis of the Clif Bar & Company brand, LUNA Bar's Equal Pay Campaign

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

feminist
commodity feminism
marketplace feminism
Pay inequality
Celebrity feminism
Gender marketing
race marketing
Clif Bar & Company
LUNA Bar
Critical Theory
Female athletes
Pay equality
Racial equality
Institutional racism
Narrative analysis
Semiotic Analysis
Friendly-feminism
Corporate feminism
social justice
Social activism
Cause branding
Cause-branding
Black feminism
Western feminism
Feminist critical analysis
Athletes
Pay gap
USWNT
USSF
mainstream feminism
ethics
capitalism
racial justice
women athletes
professional football
professional soccer
soccer

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amira Rose Davis, Committee Member
Ann Marie Major, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jois, Himavath

Title:

Evaluating Human Response to Robot-Administered Punishment

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

human-robot interaction
ethics
roboethics
authority
punishment
exoskeleton

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

San Martin Vasquez, Angela Paz

Title:

Inter-american Modern and Modernist Poetry: The Poetics of Reimagining the Americas

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Poesis
freedom
democracy
modernity
modernism
the Americas
ethics
aesthetics
epistemology

File:

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Committee Members:

Djelal Kadir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Member

Author:

Leon-Carlyle, Rawb

Title:

Moral Invention: Innovation, Imitation, and the Intellect in Bergson’s Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Bergson
duration
ethics
imitation
instinct
intellect
intelligence
invention
morality
personality
precariousness
sociality
vulnerability
Bergson
duration
ethics
imitation
instinct
intellect
intelligence
invention
morality
personality
precariousness
sociality
vulnerability

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Committee Members:

Sarah Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member
Nicolas De Warren, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Claire Colebrook, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Laferte-Coutu, Meredith

Title:

The Missed Encounter Between Husserl and Levinas: On the Possibility of Ethics

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

Husserl
Levinas
ethics
phenomenology
responsibility
subjectivity
values

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nicolas De Warren, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Major Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member