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Climate Change And The Ancestors: Rain, Gender And Politics In An African Water Catchment, Jessie Fredlund

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Uluguru, a small mountain range in eastern Tanzania and one of the rainiest places in East Africa, serves as the principal water catchment for Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, and for commercial farms along the country’s central coast. Home to smallholder farmers who cultivate a variety of crops on mostly rain-fed farms, the catchment has been a site of struggle over water and nature since the nineteenth century. Today, climate change has rendered rainfall increasingly unpredictable, and a wave of “sustainable development” interventions has pressured farmers to change their practices and to engage in unpaid forms of ecological labor …

Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights And Musical Participation In Dakar, Senegal, Lynne Stillings

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation provides a critical examination of how music is used to introduce concepts of children’s rights to children and youth in Dakar, Senegal. I explore why music has been chosen as a tool of engagement and promotion, building on Senegal’s history of youth activism and music as a grassroots tool for inspiring social change and sparking political movements. Both international NGOs and local programs use musical activities, centering children as performers and songwriters, to address rights in Senegal including girls’ equality, the right to education, early marriage, violence towards women and children, access to healthcare, and street children. Outside …

From An Art To A Science: Features And Methodology In Computational Authorship Identification, Jonathan I. Manczur

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Nearly thirty years ago, the United States Supreme Court revaluated the criteria for accepting forensic science and expert testimony, challenging Forensic Linguistics to assert itself as a reputable science. Much work has been produced in the interim to that end, but much still needs to be accomplished to satisfy the judicial standards. Computational linguistics has the potential to provide that necessary analytical framework. This paper’s intent is two-fold. First, there are two competing theories on the proper features necessary to identify an unknown author. Four features were drawn from the syntactic computational linguistics tradition and four from computational stylometry to …

The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance Of Mattering Through A Hip-Hop Lens In Education And Beyond, Kashema Hutchinson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The goal of this dissertation is to examine the theoretical frameworks of mattering (Rosenberg & McCullough, 1981; Schlossberg, 1989; Love, 2018) in traditional and non-traditional spaces through a Hip-hop lens. When mattering is applied to marginalized groups, it centers them to a certain extent. In my dissertation, I examine how Dr. Nadia Lopez, the former principal of junior high school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy (MHBA), employed mattering in her holistic approach to education. Her dedication to her students, faculty and staff went viral on the popular blog Humans of New York in January 2015. Lopez’s commitment is to “open a …

Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms And The Everyday Culture In Dalian, Yingkun Hou

Dissertations

Tea is a beverage that has long been taken to symbolize a key aspect of Chinese tradition and history. However, it is one of many beverages drunk in contemporary China, where in recent times knowledge of wine has come to stand for the West and as a much-desired cultural capital. This dissertation examines everyday tea drinking and tea tasting in Dalian—a northeastern city in Liaoning Province, China. Through ethnography of practices, processes, and interactions taking place in daily events of tea drinking and tasting, this dissertation provides a window into social conflicts, ideas and desires, historical consciousness, and national identity, …

Frsc 498-001: Forensic Anthropology, Sara C. Zapico

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

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Advice For Educational Counselors, Advisors, Faculty, And Staff: Paving The Pathways To Post-Secondary Education: Removing Barriers And Creating Opportunities For Students Of Color (Soc) And First-Generation College Students (Fgcs) To Flourish, Amanda R. Morales, Edmund T. Hamann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this Equity Tool is to guide education stakeholders with roles in various parts of high school students’ development, in developing shared understandings to discuss the transition from high school to higher education.

For supplemental guidance, please see the companion pamphlet for Students of Color and First Generation College Students: Advice for Students of Color and First-Generation Students: Successful Transitions from High School into and Within College/University

Anty 122s.Bh1: Race And Minorities, Jamie L. Ogden

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 515.01: Theory And Methods In Biological Anthropology, Randall Royce Skelton

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 314.01: Principles Of Forensic Anthropology, Randall Royce Skelton

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Traditional Theories For Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Revisiting Their Current Applicability On The Transition Of Mexican Postgraduate Students To Life In The Uk

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Spns 201.00: Intermediate Spanish I, Jannine Montauban

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Mart 510.01: Core Research - Narrativity And Experiments In Media, Michael Robert Murphy

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Cjus 125n.01: Fundamentals Of Forensic Science, David Garrett Kerr, Haley Nicole O'Brien

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 595.03: Special Topics - Forensic Casework, Katherine Scot Baca

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 510.01: Seminar In Human Variation And Evolution, Meradeth H. Snow

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 500.01: Contemporary Anthropological Thought, G.G. Weix

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 466.01: Archaeology Survey, Kelly J. Dixon, Nikki Marie Manning

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 454.01: Lithic Technology, Anna M. Prentiss

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 430.50: Social Anthropology (Online), G.G. Weix

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 430.01: Social Anthropology, G.G. Weix

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 310.01: Human Variation, Meradeth H. Snow

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 213n.00: Introduction To Physical Anthropology Lab, Keith Biddle

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 122s.01: Race And Minorities, Gregory R. Campbell

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 101h.02: Anthropology And The Human Experience, Ashley E. Hampton, David Garrett Kerr

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Traditional Theories For Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Revisiting Their Current Applicability On The Transition Of Mexican Postgraduate Students To Life In The Uk, Elizabeth M. Hernández López

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Frsc 359-001: Physical Methods Of Forensics & Lab, Kevin Parmalee

Chemistry, Environmental and Forensic Science Syllabi

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Nepalese In Denmark: How Their International Education Aspirations Transformed Into A Quest For ‘Greener Pasture’

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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‘Those First Few Months Were Horrible’: Cross-Cultural Adaptation And The J-Curve In The International Student Experience In The Uk And Norway

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Recording Studio Living Archive-Melbourne: Diy Histories, A Social Justice Approach, Lilith Lane

Postgraduate

This dissertation serves as the theoretical underpinnings for development of the digital archival project [recordingstudios.net.au]. It examines the background methodologies of excavating existing ethnographic data of Melbourne recording studio histories from previous research by the author. As a female studio recording engineer in a sector where very few women are present, the researcher is positioned as an inside-outsider. Long-term involvement in the Melbourne music industry as a songwriter, musician, audio engineer and educator, offers an immersive approach to the project and research. Original research excavated for this current project focused on examining the contribution of recording studio spaces to Melbourne …