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Archives Annual Report, 2017-2018, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2017-2018, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
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Jim Simeone And How Earley Settlement Patterns Helped Shape Illinois Politics, Charlie Schlenker
Jim Simeone And How Earley Settlement Patterns Helped Shape Illinois Politics, Charlie Schlenker
Interviews for WGLT
Illinois settlement patterns did a lot to shape the early politics of the state and remain a force today, according to Illinois Wesleyan University Political Scientist Jim Simeone. Simeone spoke with WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker before a presentation at the McLean County Museum of History.
Todd Fuist Discussing His Book, Religion And Progressive Activism, Eric Stock
Todd Fuist Discussing His Book, Religion And Progressive Activism, Eric Stock
Interviews for WGLT
Assistant Professor of Sociology Todd Fuist speaking with WGLT's Eric Stock about his book "Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics."
Sexual Violence Against Males In Armed Conflict: How State Masculinity Helps To Explain Its Occurrence, Jia Muyi Yang
Sexual Violence Against Males In Armed Conflict: How State Masculinity Helps To Explain Its Occurrence, Jia Muyi Yang
Honors Projects
Sexual violence against male victims during armed conflict still remains largely under-researched. The small amount of research that does exist attributes the occurrence of such violence to the perpetrator’s desire to assert their own masculine power. However, claiming that sexual violence against males is perpetrated only to assert personal masculinity fails to explain the attempt of individual perpetrators to use sexual violence to feminize enemy communities during armed conflict. Instead, this essay argues that it is the state that embodies normative masculinity. The State as an ideational entity demands the defense and expansion of its normative masculinity during armed conflict. …
Why The Right?: Evaluating Vote Choice In Rural America, Zoe Bouras
Why The Right?: Evaluating Vote Choice In Rural America, Zoe Bouras
Honors Projects
Why the Right? Evaluating Vote Choice in Rural America focuses on explaining the seemingly “counterintuitive” vote choices of many poor, white, rural Americans. Theoretically, one would anticipate that those with low incomes would have a vested interest in redistributive policies. In reality, however, many of these Americans do not vote for these policies or the political party that champions them, The Democrats. This idea that these residents vote against their interests is growing increasingly popular and it is often referenced in explanation of the results of the 2016 US Presidential Election. Using data from the American National Election Study and …
The Value Of Green Certification On Single-Family Houses In The Chicagoland Area, Raymond Bolton
The Value Of Green Certification On Single-Family Houses In The Chicagoland Area, Raymond Bolton
Honors Projects
In the United States, residential buildings alone account for 33% of energy consumption. Rising concerns about environmental impacts due to human consumption, as well as health concerns related to pollution have caused a higher demand for environmentally conscious houses. Homebuilders have responded by providing green certifications for houses, attesting to a building’s efficiency in various aspects, such as site design and energy and water consumption. Using Multiple Listing Services real estate data on zero- to five-year-old houses sold between 2010 and 2017 in the Chicagoland area, this study examines whether there is a price premium associated with qualifying for green …
Implications Of Regional Banking Industry On Regional Business Dynamics, Rowland Filbert
Implications Of Regional Banking Industry On Regional Business Dynamics, Rowland Filbert
Mark A. Israel '91 Endowed Summer Research Fund in Economics
Entrepreneurship and its job creation capacity play an important social function and this study analyzes how the health of a regional banking industry affects these regional business dynamics. Using a panel dataset covering all 50 states and Washington, DC for the period 1977-2014, several key outcome variables were estimated using a fixed effects and instrumental variable regressions. These included net business formation, net job creation, net job creation among continuers, the job creation rate, and employment growth. These were explained by banking variables like return-on-assets and capital-to-assets as well as regional macroeconomic variables like real personal income and housing price …
Colleen Connelly: Taking The First Step Towards Improving Food Accessibility, Michelle Rekowski '19
Colleen Connelly: Taking The First Step Towards Improving Food Accessibility, Michelle Rekowski '19
Outstanding Ethnographic Research Projects
Colleen Connelly is nineteen years old and already in her third year running the Sunnyside Community Garden in West Bloomington. She co-founded the nonprofit to provide fresh produce to the West Bloomington community as part of an entrepreneurship program at Normal Community High School. She wants to provide a space for the community to actively learn about the food they are growing, as a way to work towards economic and environmental sustainability. Describing the garden as a food forest is part of sustainability planning, as food forests are designed to efficiently utilize existing natural landscapes. In other words, food forests …