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Author:

Smith, Carissa Dawn Turner

Title:

Placing Religion: The Spiritual Geography of Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

religion
feminism
spiritual geography
literature
place

File:

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Committee Members:

Deborah L Clarke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Lee Gorby, Committee Member
Iyunolu Folayan Osagie, Committee Member
Robin G Schulze, Committee Member

Author:

Endsley, Crystal Leigh

Title:

"One of Ya'll Got My Lyrics": Student Artists Exploring Spoken Word Poetry, Performance, and Activism

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

cultural program
poststructuralism
subjectivity
artist
college students
poetry
activism
feminism
pedagogy
performance

File:

Download PS_Thesis_diss_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marnina Gonick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie Springgay, Committee Member
Margaret Ann Lorah, Committee Member

Author:

Wyble, Erin Theresa

Title:

Telling Stories: Applying Feminist Writing Strategies to "Emerging Church" Theologies

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

emerging church
evangelicalism
feminism
feminist poststructuralism

File:

Download DISSERTATION-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Marnina Gonick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
B�n�dicte Monicat, Committee Member
Dr Jack Selzer, Committee Member

Author:

Chan, Hsing-I Michelle

Title:

AT HOME OR AN "OTHER" IN THE U.S.: TAIWANESE IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S AMBIVALENCE, RESISTANCE, AND BORDER CROSSING

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

poststructuralism
feminism
identity
women
Taiwanese immigrant
ESL
Narrative
English learning and teaching

File:

Download Hsing-I_Michelle_Chan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Committee Member

Author:

Hayes-Conroy, Jessica Suzanne

Title:

Visceral Reactions: Alternative Food and Social Difference in Two North American Schools

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

political ecology
visceral
body
feminism
food

File:

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Committee Members:

James Mc Carthy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Mc Carthy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Sandra Morgen, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member
Julie Guthman, Committee Member

Author:

Levin, Julia

Title:

Bodies and Subjects in Merleau-Ponty and Foucault: Towards a Phenomenological/Poststructuralist Feminist Theory of Embodied Subjectivity

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

merleau-ponty
foucaul
subjectivity
embodiment
feminism

File:

Download JuliaLevinDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Jane Juffer, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Leisha J.

Title:

Girling the Girl: Visual Culture and Girl Studies

Graduate Program:

Special

Keywords:

performativity
Visual Culture
Women's Studies
Girl Studies
Gilles Deleuze
feminism

File:

Download colatedfinal.doc.pdf

Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yvonne Madelaine Gaudelius, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member

Author:

Lipscomb, Michael E.

Title:

"Critical Desire" and the Feminist Other of Critical Theory

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Other
Nietzsche
feminism
desire

File:

Download C_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Stephen K White, Special Member
Dr Nancy S Love, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Plutzer, Committee Member
Robert Emmett O'connor, Committee Member
Charles Edward Scott, Committee Member

Author:

Jolly, Natalie Pearl

Title:

PUBLIC CULTURE, PRIVATE BIRTH: SOCIAL PATTERNS OF AMISH DOMESTIC SPACE

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

pregnancy
birth
homespace
sociology
feminism
homebirth
midwifery
amish
feminist theory

File:

Download NJolly_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Stedman, Committee Member
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Stephanie Springgay, Committee Member

Author:

Kale, Verna

Title:

Women Writing War: The Evolution of the Girl Reporter 1845-1945

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
captivity narrative
affect
sentimental
Martha Gellhorn
Nellie Bly
Fanny Fern
Margaret Fuller
stunt reporting
journalism
women war correspondents
New Woman
feminism
public sphere
modernism
His Girl Friday
Brenda Starr

File:

Download Kale_dissertation_final_copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin G Schulze And Sandra Spanier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Schulze, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra Spanier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Member
James L W West Iii, Committee Member
William Leonard Joyce, Committee Member

Author:

Bender, Rebecca Marie

Title:

First-wave Spanish Feminism: Negotiating the Changing Faces of Maternity and Motherhood through Narrative

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Spain
motherhood
maternity
feminism
angel del hogar
novela
essay
literature
Burgos
Nelken
Montseny

File:

Download RMBender_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicolas L Fernandez Medina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Robert Blue, Committee Member
Guadalupe Marti Pena, Committee Member
Joan Landes, Committee 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:

Parikh, Aparna Uday

Title:

Neoliberal Islands: Gated Spaces, Permeable Boundaries and Urban Hygiene in Mumbai, 1990-2013

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

neoliberalization
hygiene
urbanism
feminism
spatial analysis

File:

Download Aparna_Parikh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexandra Staub, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Geraths, Cory Paul

Title:

Digital Missionaries: The Neoliberal Sponsorship Rhetoric of Compassion International

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Christianity
mission
technology
neoliberalism
rhetoric
feminism

File:

Download Geraths_Thesis_-_Final_for_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Stefanie Elizabeth

Title:

Pretty and Plastic: The Real Life Pressures to be News Anchor Barbie

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

female broadcasters
gender inequality
credibility
appearance
feminism
power

File:

Download StefDavisFinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Colleen Connolly Ahern, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brooks, Jason Kent

Title:

Medea Unmasked: Innokentii Annenskii’s Proto-feminist Translation of Euripides’ Medea

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

literature
Russian symbolism
Annenskii
classical studies
Classics
Euripides
Medea
feminism
feminist
translation

File:

Download Dissertation_Full_Final_Version_Jason_Brooks.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrian Johannes Wanner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrian Johannes Wanner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Committee Member
Michael Marion Naydan, Committee Member
Zoi Stamatopoulou, Committee Member

Author:

Brennan, Elizabeth L

Title:

BLOGGING BETTY(S): HOW BLOGGERS USED THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE TO DISCUSS FEMINISM

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

blogs
feminism
The Feminine Mystique
mixed-methods

File:

Download Brennan_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino Colocino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Durmus, Deniz

Title:

Existentialist Roots of Feminist Ethics

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

existentialism
feminism
feminist ethics
care ethics
Sartre
Beauvoir

File:

Download Durmus_DISSERTATION_August_3.pdf

Committee Members:

Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Christine Clark Evans, Special Member

Author:

Zawadzki, Tomasz Stanislaw

Title:

Male Sexual Entitlement and men’s responses to two campus sexual assault prevention approaches.

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

social
psychology
rape
sexual assault
campus
prevention
male sexual entitlement
feminism
empathy
consequences
applied

File:

Download 2015.12.03_-_TSZawadzki_MS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Melvin Michael Mark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa K Vescio, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sandra T Azar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rattner, Laura Esther

Title:

The Media(ted) Girl: Creating (feminist) Spaces

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

girls' studies
feminism
media literacy

File:

Download Rattner_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Booker Stephen Carpenter Ii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Committee Member
Michelle Rodino Colocino, Committee Member

Author:

Quesenberry, Krista Dawn

Title:

Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, and Lifewriting Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
modernism
modernist
lifewriting
autobiography
feminism
feminist
gender
sexuality
interdisciplinary
cross-disciplinary
feminist science studies
feminist ethics
disability studies

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Committee Members:

Dr. Susan Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Susan Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Robert Caserio, Committee Member
Dr. Sandra Spanier, Committee Member
Dr. Sarah Clark Miller, 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:

Mensah, Shaeeda

Title:

Hidden in Plain Sight: A Philosophical Examination of the Invisibility of Black Women in Analyses of State Violence

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

State violence
philosophy of punishment
feminism
racism
mass incarceration
police brutality
black women

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Committee Members:

Sarah Clark Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Committee Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Manting

Title:

COMPARISON OF FRAMING OF CHINA #METOO MOVEMENT IN THE DISCOURSES OF CHINESE AND US NEWS MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

#MeToo movement
feminism
Chinese news media
U.S. news media

File:

Download manting_zhang_THESIS_edited__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Jones Kareithi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Doane, Bethany

Title:

Weird Reading: Horror as Radical Politics at the End of the World

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

horror
weird fiction
reading methods
critical theory
nonhuman turn
feminism
gender studies
black studies
queer studies

File:

Download BDoane_Diss_Final_for_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Claire Colebrook, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claire Colebrook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Squier, Committee Member
Matt Tierney, Committee Member
Rosemary Jolly, Outside Member

Author:

Sibo, Alex

Title:

Mary Wollstonecraft: Social Reproduction Pedagogy

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Mary Wollstonecraft
eighteenth century
British literature
feminism
marxism
social reproduction theory
pedagogy

File:

Download SIBO_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Carla Mulford, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member

Author:

Rea, Elizabeth

Title:

Programming Women: Rhetorical Education, Literacy, and Coding

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

literacy
coding
rhetorical education
feminism

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Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stuart Selber, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Debra Hawhee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gutiérrez Fuentes, Camila

Title:

The Origins, Migrations, and Queer Imaginations of Global Women’s Comics Cultures

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

comics
graphic novel
feminism
visual culture
Shōjo
aesthetics
women's studies
Japanese literature
manga
historieta
Boys Love
BL
comix
girls
phenomenology
illustration
lyrical image
少女
漫画
マンガ
queer
LGBT

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Committee Members:

Scott Smith, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Marr, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Abel, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Anna Yinqi

Title:

Understanding Pre-service Teachers Perspectives on STEM and Robotics Classroom Integration: A Critical Feminist Perspective

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

educational robot
critical feminism
feminism
teacher education
early childhood education

File:

Download THESIS_FORMAT_REVIEW_06292023.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian R Belland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pui-Wa Lei, Committee Member
Matthew McCrudden, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies