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Author:

Gatzke, Andrea F.

Title:

The Role of Philhellenism in the Political Invective of the Late Roman Republic

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Roman Republic
politics
rhetoric
philhellenism
luxury
tyranny

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Garrett Fagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Fagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tandberg, David A.

Title:

Politics, Budgetary Tradeoffs, and State Funding of Public Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Higher education
politics
budgetary trade-offs
finance
state support of higher education

File:

Download DavidTandberg_dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald E Heller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick T Terenzini, Committee Member
Roger Lewis Geiger, Committee Member
Michael Barth Berkman, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, John

Title:

Intelligent Design and Educational Policy: The Case in Kansas

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

evolution
intelligent design
educational politics
educational policy
school boards
Kansas
politics

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David Alexander Gamson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Member
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Committee Member

Author:

Torregano, Michelle Early

Title:

Clean Slate: Making Sense of Public Education in the "NEW" New Orleans

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social equity
school reform
public education
race
Rebuilding and Transforming
privatization
politics
Bring New Orleans Back Education committee
charter schools
critical policy analysis
discourse
educational equity
greenfield
history of public education in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
interviewing
National Coalition for Quality Education in New Or
natural disaster
neoliberalism
teacher unions
United Teachers of New Orleans

File:

Download METDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Emilie Smith, 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:

Download Drake_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Burton, Sarah J

Title:

“MORE THAN ENTERTAINMENT”: THE ROLE OF SATIRICAL NEWS IN DISSENT, DELIBERATION, AND DEMOCRACY

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

discussion
debate
deliberative democracy
mediaocracy
infotainment
role
criticism
dissent
First Amendment
history
legal research
ethnography
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
fake news
satirical news
deliberation
entertainment
politics
media
intentions
comedy
comedians
satire

File:

Download Burton-GraduateThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Halstuk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Halstuk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Frank Jordan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Dwayne Richards, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wesley, Timothy Leon

Title:

The Politics of Faith: Religious Authority and Politics During the American Civil War

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Civil War
religion
preachers
politics

File:

Download Timothy_Wesley_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

William Alan Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Alan Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Harwood, William Henry

Title:

Phronesis in the Politics: The Education of the polis

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Aristotle
phronesis
political philosophy
politics
ancient philosophy
God Among Men

File:

Download Phronesis_in_the_Politics_-_Harwood.pdf

Committee Members:

Veronique Marion Foti, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher P Long, Committee Member
Mark Munn, Committee Member
Paul C Taylor, Committee Member
Daniel Joseph Conway, Committee Member

Author:

Flores-portero, Luis

Title:

After the Storm did not Come, the Calm: Love, Memory, and Identity in the Modern Mexican Novel, 1947-1963

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Mexican Revolution
politics
literature
Eros
Tanatos
neocolonialism

File:

Download Luis_Flores-Portero_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Andres Ochoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicolas L Fernandez Medina, Committee Member
Guadalupe Martí Peña, Committee Member
Stephen Wheeler, Special Member

Author:

Kinne, Elizabeth Lee

Title:

Persuading The Polity: Authority, Marriage, and Politics in Late-Medieval France

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

conduct literature
French medieval literature
politics
mirrors for princes
marriage
authority

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_Elizabeth_Kinne_Penn_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Norris Joiner Lacy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Clark Evans, Committee Member
Jean Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Robert R Edwards, Special Member

Author:

Sandoe, Kathryn Jeanne

Title:

Why Barbie Will Never Be President: Popular Culture Pedagogies and the Political Glass Ceiling in America

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

Critical cultural studies
pedagogy
feminism
politics
myths
popular culture
Barbie
Commander in Chief
Twilight
24

File:

Download Masters-Thesis_Kathryn-J-Sandoe.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Jones Kareithi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Peter Winch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rice, Douglas Ralph

Title:

Agenda Dynamics in the U.S. Federal Courts

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

courts
agenda
politics
congress
president
Supreme Court
federal courts
district courts
courts of appeals

File:

Download Rice_Doug_Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Jon Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Burt Monroe Iii, Committee Member
Marie Hojnacki, Committee Member
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Special Member

Author:

Rudewalker, Mathew Craig

Title:

Where Our Dead Lie Buried: Articulating American Indian Sovereignty

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Sovereignty
American Indian
Native American
rhetoric
politics
literature

File:

Download MRW_Where_Our_Dead_Lie_Buried_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Carla Mulford Conklin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Member
Toni Jensen, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Special Member

Author:

Nya, Nathalie Yonga

Title:

Sartre, Fanon, and de Beauvoir: Politics, Existential Ethics, Gender, and Colonialism under the Lens of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

politics
existential ethics
gender
race
sartre
de beauvoir
fanon

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Teresa Gines, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Teresa Gines, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Jeremy David

Title:

Convergence Rhetorics: Negotiating Digital and Offline Identities

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
communication
digital
online
identity
video games
politics
reality
publics
private
privacy
rhizome

File:

Download Thesis_-_Jeremy_David_Johnson_-_Convergence_Rhetorics_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moses, Kelema Lee

Title:

Kingdom, Territory, State: An Architectural Narrative of Honolulu, Hawaii (1882-1994)

Graduate Program:

Art History

Keywords:

Hawaii
architecture
urbanism
colonialism
nationalism
regionalism
internationalism
politics
identity

File:

Download MosesDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig Robert Zabel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Committee Member
Madhuri Shrikant Desai, Committee Member
Deryck William Holdsworth, Committee Member
Dr Stacy Kamehiro, Special Member

Author:

Linden, Andrew David

Title:

Political Football: Social Movements and the Professional Gridiron in the United States, 1955-1979

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

football
American football
social movements
politics
NFL
history
sport history
U.S. history

File:

Download Political_Football__Linden_Dissertation_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jessica Lynn Schultz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Lynn Schultz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Dyreson, Committee Member
R. Scott Kretchmar, Committee Member
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Outside Member

Author:

Hayashida-Knight, Christopher Howard

Title:

"Sacrifices and sufferings of True Americans": Black Women's Nationalism and Activism in Philadelphia, 1863-1901

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

black
women
African-American
Philadelphia
Gilded Age
Reconstruction
feminism
activism
nationalism
patriotism
neighborhood nationalism
African American
politics
racism
sexism

File:

Download Diss_CHKnight.pdf

Committee Members:

William Alan Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Alan Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Member
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Outside Member

Author:

Iglesias Monsalve, Luis Eduardo

Title:

Deconstructing cognitive bias of the Latino electoral public opinion in the U.S. and its relationship with media during the Post-Truth era

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

strategic misinformation
post-truth
bias
propaganda
social media
Latinos
ideology
politics
audience
public opinion.
cognitive bias
public opinion
truth

File:

Download Thesis_-_Luis_Iglesias_Monsalve.pdf

Committee Members:

Nakho Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Catherine Anne Rios, Committee Member

Author:

Peterson, Brice Anders

Title:

Regeneration in Early Modern English Literature: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Early moden English literature
religion
Protestant soteriology
regeneration
spiritual rebirth
romance
tragicomedy
politics

File:

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Committee Members:

Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Garrett Sullivan, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick G Cheney, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Daniel Chapin Beaver, Outside Member
Carla J. Mulford, Committee Member