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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:

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:

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