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Trauma In Guatemala And Postville, Iowa, Jessica J. Lechtenberg

Latin American Studies: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

This study uses a historical understanding of Guatemala to explain the significant trauma following the largest immigration raid in U.S. history which primarily deported Guatemalan residents who had been working at the Agriprocessors meat processing plant without documentation. Through an analysis of literature detailing the immigration raid, Guatemala's history of violence, and court proceedings, I have found that high levels of trauma exist for the individuals who were deported following the raid and for their families and friends. Personal communication with the current Dean of Students at Postville's public school lends a hand in gaining a deeper understanding of the …

2018 Transformations Program, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

Originally established as Scholars' Day in 1997, Transformations is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.

Technology Then And Now 2: Glass Beads, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

People at Fort St. Joseph used glass beads to embellish their appearance in the eighteenth century.

Technology Then and Now was developed by the students (Nicole Aquino, John Campbell, Patrick Dwyer, Abby Floyd, Jacob Kowalczyk, Allie Lewis, Amanda Owens, Brendan Sapato, and Callisto Wojcikowski) in the Museum Studies class (HIST 4080) at Western Michigan University under the direction of Professor Michael Nassaney. The research, contents, and design of the exhibit were made possible through the support and assistance of Christina Arseneau, David Brose, Mary Ellen Drolet, Joe Hines, Larry Horrigan, Cori Ivens, Erika Loveland, Meghan Williams and Michael Worline.

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Putting Rooted Networks Into Practice, Alida Cantor, Elisabeth Stoddard, Dianne Rocheleau, Jennifer F. Brewer, Robin Roth, Trevor Birkenholtz, Katherine Foo, Padini Nirmal

Geography

Rooted networks provide a conceptual framework that embeds network thinking in nature-society geography in order to investigate socio-ecological relations, while emphasizing the place-specific materiality of these relations. This progress report examines how geographers have put the framework into scholarly practice. The conceptual approach has enabled researchers to: 1) articulate the territoriality and materiality of networks as assemblages, which may be simultaneously rooted and mobile; 2) discern diverse types of power that flow through network connections; and 3) conduct analyses that unearth multiply-situated knowledges within networks. Challenges emerge as we seek to integrate the approach more fully with disciplinary traditions, including …

Work Of A Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism And Institutional Disruption In Swaziland, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

This article traces how contemporary funerary practices—foodways, prayer and burial cooperative participation—configure a Christian public culture in Swaziland that draws from ordinary citizens’ religious, ritual and political work and membership in diverse Christian churches. This kind of grassroots ecumenism importantly challenges the potency of orthodox institutional ecumenical projects of religious elites in the Kingdom. These projects include attempts to legislate Christianity as an official religion and the building of a national interdenominational church, both of which have failed to materialize. Exploring this emergent tension between religious institutions’ ideological goals versus communities’ practical engagement on pressing social problems invites a rethinking …

Virginia Commonwealth University Courses [2018], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of courses for the 2018-2019 year.

Environmental Studies 117: Human Ecology, Costanza Rampini

Faculty Publications, Environmental Studies

This is a required course in the major, which covers the diversity and similarity of human adaptation, cultural evolution, cultural change and environmental modification in African, Asiatic, Oceanic and Latin American cultural groups. The emphasis is on traditional non-Western conservation practices and their lessons for the modern-day resource manager. ENVS 117 is a core requirement for majors. Students interested in other cultures and world regions, and in particular international development, will find this course not only interesting, but useful.

Tuberculosis-Like Respiratory Infection In 245-Million-Year-Old Marine Reptile Suggested By Bone Pathologies, Dawid Surmik, Tomasz Szczygielski, Katarzyna Janiszewska, Bruce M. Rothschild

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

An absence of ancient archaeological and palaeontological evidence of pneumonia contrasts with its recognition in the more recent archaeological record. We document an apparent infection-mediated periosteal reaction affecting the dorsal ribs in a Middle Triassic eosauropterygian historically referred to as ‘Proneusticosaurus’ silesiacus. High- resolution X-ray microtomography and histological studies of the pathologically altered ribs revealed the presence of a continuous solid periosteal reaction with multiple superficial blebs (protrusions) on the visceral surfaces of several ribs. Increased vascularization and uneven lines of arrested growth document that the pathology was the result of a multi- seasonal disease. While visceral surface localization of …

Skeletal, Dentoalveolar, And Periodontal Changes Of Skeletally Matured Patients With Maxillary Deficiency Treated With Microimplant‐Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion Appliances: A Pilot Study, Peter Ngan, Uyen Kelly Nguyen, Tung Nguyen, Timothy Tremont, Chris Martin

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Introduction: Microimplant‐assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) has recently been offered to adult patients for correcting maxillary transverse deficiency. However, there is limited information in the literature on the success of this appliance and its skeletal and dental effects on skeletally matured patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the immediate skeletal, dentoalveolar, and periodontal response to MARPE appliance using cone‐beam computed tomography in a skeletally matured patient as assessed by the cervical vertebral maturation method. Materials and Methods: Eight consecutively treated patients (2 females, 6 males; mean age of 21.9 ± 1.5 years) treated with a maxillary skeletal …

2018 Symposium Brochure

Programs

No abstract provided.

Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurship: The Integration Of Faith And Business For Sustainable Social Impact, Christine Beech

Business as Mission Theses and Dissertations

Faith-based nonprofit organizations face myriad challenges in securing a sufficient donation base within a restricted pool of donors. This funding challenge often limits their ability to conduct their mission. To offset this challenge and model self-sufficiency, many faith-based organizations are looking to evolve into hybrid platforms that operate as faith-based social entrepreneurial ventures and manage to a triple bottom line of social good, financial impact, and spiritual mission. Yet even with the best of intentions, successfully merging a for-profit business model into a preexisting nonprofit organization often fails, even before the faith-factor is in play. This study of social entrepreneurship …

Brothers Without A Mother: An Exploration Of Fraternity Life, Anna Ehrlich

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

E-Boys And E-Girls: Constructing And Performing Identity In League Of Legends, Yelim Lee

Honors Thesis Collection

Conducted over the course of a year and 6 months, E-boys and E-girls is an ethnography of online communities, particularly the League of Legends gaming communities. League of Legends is a highly competitive and team-work orientated game that forces people from around the world to communicate with each other. As players want to find others to game with consistently, online communities have formed out of necessity. Through interactions with the men and women, e-boys and e-girls, on one such community, I have come to observe persisting and rigid norms regarding gender performance and interaction. Even though people have the ability …

Developed Toast, Modern Laundry: Nepali Household Appliance Discourses, Maureen J. Mccord

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Unlocking The Past: Behavioral Reconstruction Using The Clavicle In Archaeological Contexts, Audrey Choi

Honors Thesis Collection

Since it plays such a critical role in the movements of the upper body, the human clavicle is likely subjected to external forces, or mechanical loads, that influence its morphology. By observing the clavicle’s morphological modifications, anthropologists can potentially reconstruct the activity patterns of past populations. However, the clavicle is largely neglected by anthropological studies. To demonstrate the utility of the clavicle for behavioral reconstruction research, this study documents patterns of clavicular sexual dimorphism, directional asymmetry, and morphological variation to investigate the demographics of four medieval European populations.

“We Are Lonesome For Our Land”: The Settler Colonialist Use Of Exodus In The Diné Long Walk, Emma Brewer-Wallin

Honors Thesis Collection

Euro-American scholarship of the Diné Long Walk often concludes that the end of this traumatic experience “birthed” the Navajo Nation. This conclusion derives from the hegemonic narrative of nation-formation: the biblical Exodus, in which the people endured a grueling period in the desert and reached the “promised land” as a united people. The imposition of this narrative serves as a tool of the ongoing project of American settler colonialism. This project unpacks and challenges this presumption, in part through the use of Diné-recorded oral histories and native scholarship.

Cultural Vibrations: Measuring The Dominant Creative Class In Times Of Conflict: West Jerusalem 2014 To 2016, A Case Study, Ellie Neustein

Honors Thesis Collection

When walking in Jerusalem one cannot help but notice the presence of political and religious street art. Slogans, portraits of political and religious figures, ironic political statements, and religious symbols are spray painted, hung, or plastered in public view. At first glance the city seems to be peppered with political expression originating from authentic roots of civil society- the artisan social commentators. However, upon reflection, one comes to notice that much of the paint is chipped, and the political commentary is no longer relevant to contemporary issues. It is puzzling that a population having just achieved renewed dominant status in …

In Search Of Common Ground: Japanese Americans’ And African Americans’ Struggle For Citizenship During World War Ii, Sofie Werthan

Honors Thesis Collection

During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and incarcerated them in concentration camps. At the same time, over 150,000 African Americans moved from the South to the West Coast in search of wartime employment, oftentimes building communities in the same neighborhoods from which Japanese Americans had been displaced. The war thrust Japanese Americans and African Americans into close proximity with one another, both physically and ideologically. My senior honors thesis explores the ways the state altered dominant ideas of race and citizenship during World War II and analyzes how these …

Memories Of Asian America: Present Realities, Collective Pasts, Grace Ming

Honors Thesis Collection

While observing how ethnographic practices complement oral history practices during an internship at the Museum of Chinese in America in summer 2017, I was inspired to draw from ethnographic approaches to articulate the connectivity between historical records and experienced realities in representations of history. Memories of Asian America is an installation that offers a glimpse at how I see my personal experiences as building upon a long history of the presence of Asians in America. Through multiple media forms displayed in a living room-like setting, the installation space illustrates my take on what it means to have become aware of …

Sin, Impurity, And Community In Leviticus 16, Kathelijne Steens

Honors Thesis Collection

The Book of Leviticus contains a considerable amount of material pertaining to sin, covering a great variety of types of behaviour that incur sin, methods for atonement, punishments, and ritual context for sin offerings. This thesis considers the nature of sin and its function in society, as depicted in Leviticus 16, by means of comparing several different theological and anthropological models regarding sin and impurity, in combination with a close reading of the Hebrew. The image of sin and impurity that emerges includes a dual system of ritual and moral impurity, which in part could well be used to establish …

Theatre As A Paradigm: Chinese Theatre As Expressive And Western Theatre As Active, Kendra Cui

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis is a comparative exploration of the different paradigms that Western and Chinese theatre-making and theatre-viewing are based on. In examining the paradigms of Western and Chinese theatre, various components of the theater-making and theatre-viewing experience are considered, including assumptions regarding what a theatrical experience should entail, expectations shared between creators and audiences, and the prevailing methodologies of theatrical creation that are used to fulfill these expectations. In executing this comparative analysis of Chinese and Western theatrical paradigms, this thesis is broken down into two main components: the first component consists of secondary research, which is used to inform …

From Tokyo To Boston, Brazil, Britain, And Beyond: How Japanese Religious Movement Soka Gakkai International Adapted To A 21st-Century World, Arianna Regalado

Honors Thesis Collection

My religion honors thesis examines the roots of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan, founded by Japanese Buddhist monk Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282) in the 13th century. I explain how this branch of Mahayana Buddhism has managed not only to survive over hundreds of years but grow, branching out overseas from Japan and amassing millions of followers from Brazil to Boston. Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren was born in 1222 in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan and lived during the Kamakura period of 1185-1333. He is known for his emphasis on the study of the Buddhist sacred text, the Lotus Sutra, as the …

Origin Stories: Personal Genetics Testing, Transnational Adoption, And The Adoptee Identity Narrative, Margaretta Mitchell

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Wellesley Magazine Winter 2018, Wellesley College Alumnae Association

Wellesley Magazine (Alumnae Association)

Featured in this issue:

Immigrant Journeys / by Amita Parashar Kelly ’06

Humanities, Meet Technology / by Catherine O’Neill Grace

Frozen in Time / by Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99

How to Raise a Feminist Boy / by Jordan Namerow ’05

2017 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System

Faculty Publications Books

This is the 2017 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College & University System. It includes all eligible 2017 publication citations of faculty within the Touro College & University System, including New York Medical College (NYMC). It was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.

Spiritual Formation In The Graduate School Of Clinical Psychology At George Fox University, Rodger K. Bufford, Nancy S. Thurston, Kathleen Gathercoal, Marie-Christine Goodworth, Lynn H. Holt

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

At its inception, the training model in the Graduate School of Clinical Psychology (GSCP) at George Fox University was informed by the approach inaugurated at Fuller Theological Seminary School of Psychology in the 1960s. In the original model, training in Christian religion/spirituality and theology accompanied training in professional psychology. In the interim, our culture, psychological knowledge, perceived psychological needs, and training programs have changed greatly. Here we report changes in religion/spirituality (RIS) training and integration over the last two decades. We describe our current spiritual formation structure and process, and program evaluation efforts. Over the past several years the GSCP …

Planned Social Network Change And Modern Contraceptive Use In A Rural Ethiopian Community, Mark Edberg, Erica Sedlander, Rajiv Rimal, Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Hina Shaikh, Wolfgang Munar, Lakew Gebretsadik Abebe, Fira Abamecha, Abraham Tamirat Gizaw, Sudhakar Morankar

Prevention and Community Health Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Panther First Recipients Of 2018, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Panther First Awards

The Panther First Award identifies and rewards employees who have provided excellent customer service to customers, co-workers, or other members of the UNI community. This is the list of recipients from 2018.

Comparative Headstone Analysis And Photogrammetry Of Cemeteries In Orange County, Florida., Tyra Robinson

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Headstones manifest an abundance of historic information and embody society's cultural and socioeconomic statuses over time. Cemetery research has been conducted throughout various regions in the United States, but very little has been focused on headstone analysis in the state of Florida. The purpose of this comparative research is to use a typology established by Meyers and Schultz to compare headstone attributes of Orange County, FL and establish a temporal correlation (2012). The analysis of this study has the ability to highlight societal perceptions and ideals surrounding death and mortuary practices while providing a historical context specific to the state …

Niu Working Papers 2017-2018, Northern Illinois University

Working Papers

No abstract provided.