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Experiencing Defeat, Remembering Victory: The Army Of Tennessee In War And Memory, 1861-1930, Robert Lamar Glaze
Experiencing Defeat, Remembering Victory: The Army Of Tennessee In War And Memory, 1861-1930, Robert Lamar Glaze
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the meaning of the Civil War in the South by examining white Southerners’ perceptions of the Army of Tennessee from 1861 to 1930. While scholarship on the war’s memory is immense and growing, little of this literature examines the memory of the Confederacy's war effort in the western theater—the area of operations military historians now deem central to the war's outcome. This project rectifies that oversight by examining white Southerners’ memory of the Army of Tennessee in the post-war decades. Unlike Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy’s primary western field army suffered a near …
Lost-And-Found Photos: Practices And Perceptions, Todd J. Wemmer
Lost-And-Found Photos: Practices And Perceptions, Todd J. Wemmer
Doctoral Dissertations
Personal photographs become separated from their original owners in a number of ways, due to time or tragedy, sometimes ending up in strangers’ hands. Dealers, collectors, curators, bloggers, scholars, and families actively seek what are frequently called “orphaned,” “abandoned,” or “found” photos and present them to the public in multiple formats. This dissertation offers an analysis of the practices and perceptions that surround these presentations, and it argues for use of a more inclusive term (“lost-and-found”) to describe personal photos that are connected to both finders and losers. Data were collected in three primary ways: (1) examination of the current …
Change Of Sight, Sites Of Creativity: The Visual Arts In Albania After Socialism, Sofia Kalo
Change Of Sight, Sites Of Creativity: The Visual Arts In Albania After Socialism, Sofia Kalo
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines Albania’s fine art world after the end of state socialism in 1991. Drawing on two years of anthropological fieldwork (January –August 2006 and January 2010-August 2011) in Tirana, Albania’s capital city, this study investigates how the withdrawal of state support and oversight on the arts, the introduction of a market economy and efforts toward European belonging have been reflected, responded to and challenged in the discourses and practices of aesthetic production. Viewing art as a productive site of social meaning, where people perform and struggle over their identities, their pasts and futures, this dissertation explores the social …
Melting And Crystallization Of Si And Ge2sb2te5 Nanostructures, Adam D. Cywar
Melting And Crystallization Of Si And Ge2sb2te5 Nanostructures, Adam D. Cywar
Doctoral Dissertations
Recent technological advances in fabrication processes have allowed for the production of solid-state devices with dimensions as small as ~10 nm. Improving the functionality and efficiency of these devices must come from new technologies and fabrication processes. In this work, two device technologies which are driven by the thermal processes of melting and crystallization are studied in detail. A novel oscillator device concept is explored in which a Si micro-/nanowire exhibits relaxation oscillations as it switches between solid and liquid phases, resulting in large amplitude current pulses. Phase change memory (PCM), a non-volatile memory technology that shows promising scaling and …
Overcoming Violations Of Real-World Knowledge In A Fantasy-World Text, Erinn K. Walsh
Overcoming Violations Of Real-World Knowledge In A Fantasy-World Text, Erinn K. Walsh
Doctoral Dissertations
Fantasy-text is a genre in which events routinely violate the rules we know to be true in the real-world. In six experiments I explored the inherent conflict between unrealistic fictional events and general world knowledge (GWK) to examine these competing sources of information within the context of extended fantasy-narrative. Experiments I-III demonstrated that fantasy-unrelated violations caused measurable disruption to the comprehension of an extended fantasy narrative despite an abundance of contextual support for real-world impossible events that violate GWK. Experiments IV and V demonstrated that fantasy-related violations caused measurable disruption when they occurred at the local level and the fantasy-context …
Using Your Mind To Train Your Body: An Experimental Autobiographical Memory Intervention For Adolescent Physical Activity, Mathew Biondolillo
Using Your Mind To Train Your Body: An Experimental Autobiographical Memory Intervention For Adolescent Physical Activity, Mathew Biondolillo
Doctoral Dissertations
Developmentally, physical activity levels tend to decline from adolescence to early adulthood. Adolescent physical activity programs have been largely ineffective, leading to a call for new low-cost interventions. This study examined the effects of an autobiographical memory intervention on adolescent physical activity. Over six weeks, students (N = 558) in a New England middle school completed questionnaires and were timed weekly in physical education classes while training for a school-wide race. During Week Three, some students were asked to provide a positive motivational physical activity memory and others a control memory. Students indicated their intentions to be physical active, completed …