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From South Korea To South Central: The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising And The "Rooftop Korean", Mina Althea Lamson Jung

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis examines the historical formation of the "rooftop Korean," the racial figure of the armed Korean American shopkeeper that emerged during the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising and has since been mobilized repeatedly in service of anti-Black counterinsurgency. Drawing on the framework of racial capitalism, this thesis argues that the rooftop Korean was not a spontaneous product of the Korean-Black conflict in South Central Los Angeles but the culmination of decades of U.S.-Korea relations, South Korean militarization, and the racial geography of capitalist development on both sides of the Pacific.

Tracing a transnational arc from the Korean War through the …

Rebuilt From The Same Stone: Religion And Colonization In Sixteenth-Century Mexico, Aziren South

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

When the Spanish landed in what is now Mexico in the early sixteenth-century, religious figures on mission trips took it upon themselves to convert indigenous peoples to Christianity and to the European way of life. The role of these missionaries was complex. They wanted to abolish the way of life of the societies they encountered, but they were also some of the most prominent defenders of the people they were trying to convert. They lived with them, learned their languages, advocated for their protection, and some supported indigenous efforts to preserve their history in writing. Ultimately, this paper aims to …

A Digitized History Of Undergraduate Student Government At The University Of Akron, Samuel Stillion

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The digitization process of a representative sample of the physical records of the University of Akron's Undergraduate Student Government held in the University Archives and Special Collections, including notes for future archive projects with the larger records of Undergraduate Student Government

Presidential Slaves: The Story Of Black People In The Lives Of Antebellum U.S. Presidents, Nika Davis

History Dissertations

The historical narrative about American slavery included many topics such as the African slave trade, the Middle Passage, slave culture, rebellions, religion, and abolition.  This study revealed more information to be examined in the record of American slavery relating to the presidents of the United States and their enslaved laborers.  This oversight proved prevalent during the years leading to the American Civil War from 1820-1860.  Therefore, this dissertation focused upon the enslaved and free Black people who intersected with the presidents and their friends, political acquaintances, and family.  By studying their lives, this dissertation revealed that the slaves associated with …

Ft Lt George William Nickerson Mm - Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: George William Nickerson

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF Flight Lieutenant George William Nickerson MM, Administration Officer at 5BFTS, who died in Lawson Hospital, Atlanta on July 31, 1943. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Plot at Oakwood Cemetery Annex, Mongomery, Alabama.

Ft Lt George William Nickerson Mm - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: George William Nickerson

Biography of RAF Flight Lieutenant George William Nickerson MM, Administration Officer at 5BFTS, who died in Lawson Hospital, Atlanta on July 31, 1943. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Plot at Oakwood Cemetery Annex, Mongomery, Alabama.

Andante: Introduction, Ilaria Serra

Andante: An Introduction

Cover art: Dorothy Tennant (1855-1926), Al gioco

Problems And Possibilities Of Namelessness In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages, Jamie Wood, Hope Williard, Máirín Maccarron, Julia Hillner, James R. Burns

Medieval People

No abstract provided.

Women's Work And Wealth: Measuring The Impact Of Incremental Liberations, 1850-1870, Hannah Kelly

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Using a two-way fixed effects difference-in-difference model, this project analyzes data from the IPUMS Full Count census for 1850, 1860, and 1870 at a state level for 48 states. Four models assess the impact of property laws on women's real property holdings, labor force participation, household types, and real property values.

By quantifying the impact of various legal reforms on women's economic empowerment, this project fills a gap in the understanding of the intersection between law, society, and women's economic agency during a transformative period in pre-industrial American history. These impacts can implicate the effectiveness of legislative measures in advancing …

Bodies Of Knowledge: The Accuracy Of Medical Anatomical Drawings From The 14th To The 18th Century, Marina G. Mitchell

Honors Undergraduate Theses

From the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, European anatomical illustration underwent major transformations in response to changing scientific methods, technologies, and visual conventions, reflecting critical transitions in anatomical history. Scientific evolution allowed these images to achieve increasing structural precision and internal detail, though they frequently diverged from anatomical forms as they are understood today. This study examines how anatomical inaccuracies across five centuries emerged not from ignorance, but from deliberate mediation between purpose, observation, pedagogy, artistic convention, and cultural ideology. Through close analysis of works in visual comparison to their modern counterparts, this thesis identifies specific deviations from the twenty-first …

Personhood Amidst Process, Bennett B. Gilbert

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Both process philosophy and key forms of philosophical personalism aim to harmonize the flux of reality, especially of organisms, with cosmic values and human meaningfulness. This is because both must face our mortality. This paper makes four suggestions for considering further the connection between these two approaches. First, that process philosophy can supply for personalism a thoroughly reasoned ground for nonreducible complexity. Second, that process thought borrows from personhood its model for cosmic creativity. Third, that both approaches share strong notions of the interdependence of all parts of a relational universe. And fourth, that they differ in respect of moral …

A Transnational Feast Of Our Lady Of Guadalupe: Globalization, Identity, And Collective Memory In Dodge City, Kansas, David A. Solis-Enriquez

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This work examines the transnational connections of Dodge City’s Mexican immigrants and their celebration of the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe and how their cross-border activity were parts of larger systems like globalization, identity, and collective memory. With migration into Southwestern Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle increasing intensely in the 1980s, because of the economic opportunities that the livestock and meat manufacturing industries offered, Dodge City’s Mexican population reached unprecedented heights. These migration waves mark the starting point of this thesis.

The incoming Mexican population flooded the city’s Catholic facilities, which prompted the community and the local diocese …

Beyond Judicial Intent: The Agency Of The Defense Counsel In Ozawa’S And Thind’S Supreme Court Cases, Bret K. Luchs

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This thesis seeks to examine how specific legal strategies by the defense counsel in Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922), and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), compelled the Supreme Court of the United States into a reactive and contradictory position. A re-examination of Ozawa and Thind delves deeper into the legal briefs and arguments made by Takao Ozawa and Bhagat Singh Thind, alongside their legal teams. These briefs, opinions of the court, past lower court cases, and personal statements by Ozawa and Thind demonstrate how they did not surrender to the confines of …

Open Casket: The Black Press And The Unmasking Of America, Clarence J. Hood

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.

Forbes M Robertson - Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Forbes McKenzie Robertson

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF cadet Forbes Mckenzie Robertson who died on April 24, 1943, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the CWGC British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

The Long Shadow Of The Boys In Blue: Civil War Memory & The Evolution Of Veteran Identity In Twentieth Century Pennsylvania, Alexander L. Barbolish

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents a case study of the transformation of veteran identity and civic culture in Northeastern Pennsylvania, tracing the profound shifts in the way Americans remembered war, commemorated sacrifice, and defined what it meant to be a veteran, from the turn of the twentieth century to the dawn of World War II. By examining the complex interactions and relationships between three distinct and overlapping generations of veterans—those of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I—this study argues that veteran identity was neither static nor monolithic, but was continually renegotiated through commemorative practice, organizational culture, and public …

Thomas W Calderhead - Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Thomas Wallace Calderhead

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF cadet Thomas Wallace Calderhead who died on May 4, 1945, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the CWGC British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Thomas W Calderhead - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Thomas Wallace Calderhead

Biography of RAF cadet Thomas Wallace Calderhead who was killed in a plane crash on May 4, 1945, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Mervyn H E 'Terry' Thomas - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Marvin H.E. (Terry) Thomas

Biography of RAF cadet Mervyn H E ‘Terry’ Thomas who was killed in a plane crash on April 28, 1943, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Leonard George Stone Course 14 Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Leonard George Stone

Biography of RAF cadet Leonard George Stone who was killed in a plane crash on August 24, 1943, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia alongside his co-pilot, Edward C F Vosper died in the same crash.

Edward C F Vosper - Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Edward C.F. Vosper

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF cadet Edward C F Vosper who died on August 8, 1943, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the CWGC British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Alfred Thomas Lloyd - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Alfred Thomas Lloyd

Biography of RAF cadet Alfred Thomas Lloyd who accidentally drowned while training to be a pilot under the Arnold Scheme at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Robert Albert Wood - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Robert Albert Wood

Biography of RAF cadet Robert Albert Wood who was killed in a plane crash with George Henderson Wilson on September 15, 1943, while training to be pilots at 5BFTS. They are buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Dennis Herman Washer - Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Dennis Herman Washer

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF cadet Dennis Herman Washer who died on April 28, 1943, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the CWGC British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Leonard George Stone Course 14 Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Leonard George Stone

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF cadet Leonard George Stone who died on August 24, 1943, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the CWGC British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Louis Wells - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Louis Wells

Biography of RAF cadet Louis Wells who died in a car accident while training to be a pilot under the Arnold Scheme at Gunter Field, Montgomery, Alabama. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Richard Baden Thorp - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Richard Baden Thorp

Biography of RAF cadet Richard Baden Thorp who was killed in a plane crash on July 16, 1942, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Ronald Albert Purrett - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Ronald Albert Purrett

Biography of RAF cadet Ronald Albert Purrett who was killed in a plane crash on December 14, 1942, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Alfred Thomas Lloyd - Cwgc Certificate, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Alfred Thomas Lloyd

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Certificate for RAF cadet Alfred Thomas Lloyd who accidentally drowned while training to be a pilot under the Arnold Scheme at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.

Dennis Herman Washer - Biography, Jenifer A. Harding

Documents: Dennis Herman Washer

Biography of RAF cadet Dennis Herman Washer who was killed in a plane crash on April 28, 1943 October 9, while training to be a pilot at 5BFTS. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Plot. at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia.