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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

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:

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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:

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:

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:

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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:

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

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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

Author:

Nguyen, Chi Phuong

Title:

Education in the reform era: How policy and politics transformed Vietnamese students, school leaders, and communities

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Vietnam
Vietnamese education
rural education
international education
comparative education
education reform
education policy
college expectation
college access
politics
educational leadership
principal

File:

Download NGUYEN__CHI_Dissertation_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai Arthur Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soo-Yong Byun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Soo-Yong Byun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lepore, Judith A

Title:

Civilizing the Unruly Masses: The Impact of Edward L. Bernays's Invisible Governance on American Democracy

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Edward Bernays
public relations
democracy
engineering of consent
masses
Sigmund Freud
politics
American Studies
mass manipulation
propaganda
Progressive Era

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Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Simon Bronner, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Haddad, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

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:

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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