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The Impact Of Studying Abroad On The Intercultural Spiritual Formation Of Harding University Latin America Students, Jeremy Daggett

Harding School of Theology Dissertations and Theses

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The Limits Of Presence: Constraints On Women’S Political Representation In Serbia And Montenegro, Anja Vojvodić

Publications and Research

Women’s political representation has increased globally over the past few decades. Women are entering the political world in more significant numbers. This increase is visible among the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Within the last three decades, women have become present in greater numbers across the parliaments of the former Yugoslavia, primarily due to the adoption of gender quotas due to women’s movement activism. But is the presence of elected women enough to empower them politically and create “space” for activism, advocacy, and subsequently higher levels of substantive representation? In this work, I pose this main research question and focus …

Stress Response In Relation To Gender, Adverse Experiences, And Personality, Alyssa Kramer

Theses & ETDs

Behavioral responses to stress have typically been characterized as “fighting” or “fleeing.” However, humans may show a more complex set of behavioral strategies that are influenced by factors such as gender socialization, trauma, and personality. Fawning has recently been introduced as a response to stress that involves conflict avoidance. Although this term has been used colloquially, there is little empirical research that explores the fawn response and how factors such as gender, trauma, and personality may be involved in this stress response. The purpose of this study is to conduct an initial exploration on these factors. Sixty-nine undergraduate participants were …

Paradise Lost And Found And Lost And Found: Staging A Possible Future Through Workshop Facilitation, Nicole Silvera

Theses & ETDs

New College of Florida’s 58th Street Campus Development Plan has been in development since 2020. The plan has been deemed a “high-priority project” in the New College Master Plan as it will complete the College Drive loop by creating a two-lane paved road connecting 58th Street and College Drive. The road would pave through an underutilized greenspace and cost the school over $.600,000. There are multiple species of trees and animals that live in the greenspace, and it is a prime outdoor space suitable for students, faculty, staff, and guests to connect with the Earth and with each other. This …

Performing The Shift: Jewish Racial Identity In American Vaudeville And Its Social Context In The Early Twentieth Century, Jude Zelznak

Theses & ETDs

This thesis approaches the subject of Jewish racial identity in America through the lens of vaudeville performance. By combining the study of race with the study of performance, the distinctions made between white, Anglo-Saxon Americans and Others in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are explored in a multifaceted manner. I argue that said division is inherently visible in the notion of national identity that performers and audiences formed in the presentation of otherness in onstage performance. Vaudeville, specifically, presents simultaneous methods of resistance and receptivity toward the prospering divisions in whiteness. Beginning by contextualizing the shift in perceptions …

Hombres, Pumas Y Jaguares: Imágenes Del Poder Chamánico En Los Vasos Líticos Del Noroeste Argentino, María Alba Bovisio

Segundo congreso internacional de iconografía precolombina. Barcelona, 2023. Actas.

El presente trabajo se centra en el análisis de unos vasos de piedra, producidos en la región valliserrana del noroeste argentino durante el Período Formativo, que se destacan por su escaso número, su particular iconografía que gira en torno a felinos y humanos masculinos, y la maestría en su ejecución. Estos recipientes habrían estado asociados al consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en rituales de carácter chamánico. A través del análisis iconográfico articulado con las características materiales y funcionales se indaga el rol de estos objetos como agentes de legitimación y constitución del poder ejercido por los chamanes.

This paper analyzes lithic …

Rebuilding Old Empire: Bbc And Indigenous Language Broadcasting In Nigeria, Ololade Afolabi

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Using the framework of postcolonial and critical cultural studies of communication, this essay examines the rise of BBC indigenous language broadcasting in Nigeria. Taking an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of language studies, media studies, and cultural studies, the essay argues that media and communication contact that occurs between colonists and their previous colonies cannot be taken as coincidental or casual; therefore, the need to combine the local and global in theorizing new frameworks for understanding this complex relationship and the power dynamics that occurs alongside it.

Indecent Bodies In Early Modern Visual Culture: An Introduction, Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter, Alison Stewart

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

Indecency ‒ the polar opposite of propriety, appropriateness, respectability, decorum ‒ has played a central role in our understanding of Early Modern cultural norms since the beginning of art history as an academic field in the nineteenth century. Accordingly, the concept of indecency was fundamental to historical and contemporary discourses that attempted to balance social limits on indecorous behaviour and images. At the same time, the appeal of such visual imagery, the attraction of graphic depictions of bodies and their actions, resulted in conflicting responses on the part of viewers. Historically, decency and indecency played defining roles in both the …

“I Don’T Want To Cook”: Reconfiguring The Domestic Space In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rida Leonard

CGU Theses & Dissertations

In the scholarship that considers ways in which the concept of domesticity features in the lives of black and white women in history, there is less discussion of how these women’s unique challenges led them to alter the traditional domestic space. This dissertation first assesses a range of nineteenth-century American newspapers to understand the prevalent social milieu and then closely analyzes select literary texts of the time, to argue that the distinct racial circumstances that framed black and white women’s struggles enabled them to reform the domestic space as needed. Analysis of the nineteenth century press reveals that while white …

Finding Etheridge Knight: A Case Study On A University’S Public Humanities Project, Hanako Gavia, Lisa Farley

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

No abstract provided.

More Than The Renaissance: The Reclassification Of The Disney Animated Films Of The Classics Period, Alia R. Tyner

Publications and Research

Over the past ten years, more than 200 peer-reviewed articles with Disney in their titles have been published across disciplines, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Beginning in the 1930s with Disney’s first motion picture, the company, its venues, acquisitions, movies, and other products have become a robust research topic for academics, constantly refreshed with new ideas and perspectives. As Disney celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023, researchers and readers examining the movies could benefit from some consistency in how the passage of time is described, and yet the methods of classification of these movies are not robust or …

The Erotic Work Of Asian American Activism: Harnessing Kink, Queer, And Sex Worker Praxis, Chelsea Shi-Chao Liu

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This thesis discusses the harnessing of alternative, kink, and queer sexualities within the Asian American community towards anti-racist and sex work positive activism during the COVID-19 pandemic era of anti-Asian violence. It opens by tracing the shooting on Asian massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia in 2021 to historic immigration legislation such as the Page Act of 1875 that enshrined hypersexualized racism. The paper then analyzes the role of race and racial representation in the history of the BDSM (Bondage/Dominance, Dominance/Submission, and Sadomasochism) subculture from the 1950s to 2020s, tracking the emergence of groups like the Asian American Feminist Collective (AAFC) …

Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses Of The Erotic” Within Black Domesticity, Kiandra S. Jimenez

CGU Theses & Dissertations

What does being human mean for women who were artists denied the ability to live life on their own standards? What did it mean to live a creative life when your body was captured and held within a system that surveilled and penalized you for things like writing, reading, or the idea of creating was impossible? In Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens,” she asks us to consider what it meant to be a Black woman artist when you are considered “the mule of the world,” and are stuck toiling away—as a launderer, a maid, a cook, a …

"Real Queens Fix Each Other's Crown": Addressing The Misseducation Of The Blackgirl, Tiffani J. Smith

CGU Theses & Dissertations

To what extent, do Blackgirl collectives imbue its participants with values that inspire them to pursue a college education? Blackgirl collectives have the potential to promote intellectual diversity, justice, and equality that can deter violence and exclusionary policies in the pursuit of a higher education. The objective of this dissertation research project is to: (1) explore the ways in which these collectives increase their community cultural wealth, (2) understand the ways in which these collectives mission of empowerment, intellectual development, community, and social justice impact their higher education persistence, and (3) discover the intrinsic and extrinsic attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors …

Voices Of Endo: Cultural Factors Influencing Delayed Diagnosis Of Endometriosis, Arline Karen Votruba

CGU Theses & Dissertations

An estimated one in ten people born with internal reproductive anatomy, meaning the vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries, live with endometriosis, which is about 200 million people worldwide. Endometriosis is a disease in which the growth of endometrial-like tissue grows around the reproductive organs, rectum, bladder, or throughout the body in places it does not belong. Endometriosis often leads to devastating effects such as painful, prolonged menstruation, nausea and bowel issues, pain that radiates down the legs, and it is a leading cause of fertility challenges. Endometriosis is diagnosed through laparoscopic surgery, in which a surgeon inserts a …

Playing With Power: An Autoethnographic Study Of "The Last Of Us" As A Black Gamer, Adrienne Domasin

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This research project concerns the types of meaning making that video game players and audiences can derive as active participants in the realm of digital media culture. This dissertation argues that embodied play as viewers and audiences has the potential to relieve the alienation caused by capitalism and its desire to strip individuals of their humanity through reification. This study contributes to academic studies of fandom by prioritizing my dissertation as an unapologetic expression of my fandom and the source of knowledge production that drives my research through a critical autoethnographic lens. As an acafan, I analyze my ludic experiences …

Female Pleasure And Theories Of Desire In Narrative Structure: Evolution, Futurity, And Species Survival In The Post-Human And Science Fiction Imaginary, Laura L. S. Bauer

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation explores the complex relationship between an expanded narratological theory of narrative desire, inseparable in its relation to evolution and biological reproduction, and the future survival of humanity imagined across the narrative structures of three 21st-century works of dystopian science fiction. By examining the genre's potential to address species survival specifically through female forms of desire identified as narrative recurrence, prolonged duration, and emotional resolution, this study concurrently develops a metatextual methodology that cultivates the overlooked liminal space of quiescence. This analytical framework emphasizes narrative structure over theme-based analysis to unlock the radical imagination present in the texts …

Contact-Tracing Apps As Boundary Objects Of Pandemic Governance: The State-By-State Approach To Contain The Spread Of Covid-19 In The United States, Eugene Jang, Jeeyun (Sophia) Baik, Katrin Fischer

Communication: Faculty Scholarship

Digital contact tracing has been claimed as imperative to controlling the spread of COVID19. However, the state-by-state approach in the United States led to divergences in contact tracing. This study analyzed contact-tracing apps as “boundary objects” through which each state worked toward the governance of the pandemic without having a formal consensus. Through media coverage and walkthrough analyses of three digital contacttracing apps in Alabama, California, and New York, we closely investigated both convergences and divergences of the apps. In the process, we located the implications of Google/Apple’s Bluetooth-based exposure notification system for digital contact tracing within and beyond state …

Restorative Pedagogy To Build Community In The Classroom: Autoethnographic Reflections From Faculty, Sheila Mcmahon, Zara Ahmed, Michelle Bemiller

School of Leadership and Education Sciences: Faculty Scholarship

Restorative justice (RJ) is a philosophy and set of practices that center harms and needs. Within a classroom setting, an RJ pedagogical approach invites a process of shared learning that attends to critical issues of equity, power, and voice. Utilizing an autoethnographic approach, this manuscript includes critical reflections from three faculty members from diverse disciplines and positionalities about the use of RJ approaches to teaching in our respective classrooms. This paper includes discussion about the intersection of RJ with critical pedagogy, power differentials, and pragmatic issues of classroom structure learning design.

Imperial Anxieties And Urbane Transgressions: The Indianos Of Benito Pérez Galdós’S Lo Prohibido, Stacy L. Davis

Decimonónica

Chapter eleven of Lo prohibido (1884-5), “Los jueves de Eloísa,” presents a detailed description of a lavish Restoration era dinner party. As narrator-protagonist José María Bueno de Guzmán outlines the sumptuous dishes, elegant décor, and coy intrigues taking place among the elite society members present, Eloísa’s husband, Pepe Carrillo, lies dying in an adjacent room; his cries of agony cause the distinguished guests to drop their forks and run to his aid; that is, all but one. Colonial entrepreneur Don Alejandro Sánchez Botín remains seated and, as the obese man continues to eat, the sounds of his chewing loudly …

"I Smiled As I Died": An Intermediate Performance On Gendered Violence In The Bible, Tara Sandlin

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Effects Of Elevated Extracellular Dopamine On Astrocytes In The Nucleus Accumbens, Mengfan Xia

Theses and Dissertations--Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Nucleus accumbens is involved in processing of motivational and affective behaviors and plays a significant role in development and maintenance of substance use. Released from the ventral tegmental area into the nucleus accumbens, the mesolimbic dopamine controls incentive salience and facilitates learning of reinforcement and reward-related motor functions. Recent studies reveal that, in the context of cocaine exposure, dopamine transmission in the ventromedial striatum is pivotal to the regulation of initial drug use. Astrocytes, a major subpopulation of the brain glial cells, are an active component of the so-called tripartite synapse and communicate with neurons through the release of transmitters …

Open Access At A Crossroads: Library Publishing And Bibliodiversity, Lai Ma, Jane Buggle, Marie O'Neill

Faculty Research

The open access movement has gained momentum since the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) first launched twenty years ago. Notably, there has been a drastic increase in the number of open access articles. Concerns have been raised about equality and diversity issues, however, for researchers without an affiliation (e.g. independent, unemployed and retired researchers) and researchers on the ‘scientific periphery’ who are excluded from the gold open access model. This article argues that the gold open access model is destructive to the knowledge production ecosystem by addressing the importance of bibliodiversity and the ways in which library publishing can contribute …

Evaluation Of Photochemically Cross-Linked Collagen/Gold Nanoparticle Composites As Potential Skin Tissue Scaffolds, Evri̇m Meri̇ç Yelkuvan, Özge Erdemli̇, Bengi̇ Yilmaz, Ömer Aktürk

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Collagen type I is the main structural unit in skin tissue and is therefore used preferentially in skin tissue scaffolds. However, collagen-based 3D scaffolds have weak aqueous stability and degradation profiles in their uncross-linked states and chemical cross-linking reagents arise toxicity concerns, which generally restrict the spectrum of their biomedical applicability. Here, the research goal is to photochemically cross-link collagen type I with rose bengal (RB) when subjected to green laser light and to investigate the effect of silk sericin-capped gold nanoparticles (S-AuNP) when incorporated into scaffolds on the cross-linking process and thus on the scaffold properties. All the collagen …

Promoting Antihepatocellular Carcinoma Activity Against Human Hepg2 Cells Via Pyridine Substituted Palladium Complexes: In Vitro Evaluation And Qsar Studies, Öğünç Meral, Fati̇h Mehmet Emen, Emi̇ne Kutlu, Ruken Esra Demi̇rdöğen, Nesli̇han Kaya Kinaytürk, Görkem Kismali, Şevki̇naz Doğan

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Bis(4-(4-nitrobenzyl)pyridine)dichloropalladium(II), [PdCl$_{2}$L$^{1}$$_{2}$], bis(2-amino-5-bromopyridine)dichloropalladium(II), [PdCl$_{2}$L$^{2}$$_{2}$], bis(2,4-dimethylpyridine)dichloropalladium(II), [PdCl$_{2}$L$^{3}$$_{2}$], bis(3,4-dimethylpyridine)dichloropalladium(II), [PdCl$_{2}$L$^{4}$$_{2}$] were prepared. The spectroscopic techniques (FT-IR and $^{1}$H-NMR, $^{13}$C-NMR) were used to characterize the compounds. Theoretical calculations were used to validate the experimental results. The LanL2DZ-based DFT/B3LYP method was used to define the most stable possible molecular structure for the complexes. Potential energy distribution analysis was performed to determine the theoretical vibration bands of the complexes. Molecular electrostatic potential maps, boundary molecular orbitals and Mulliken charge distribution were used to determine the active sites of the molecules. The interaction mechanisms between the complexes and liver cancer protein were investigated via molecular docking. …

I Can Talk: Corporate Moral Responsibility, Word-Of-Mouth, And Shared Values, Gargi Bhaduri, Saheli Goswami

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Faculty Publications

This study investigated how inconsistencies between corporate moral responsibility (CMR) messages and CMR actions undertaken by corporations impact consumers’ positive and negative word-of-mouth (PWOM and NWOM) intentions using the expectancy violation theory. It also investigated the moderation effect of different types of CMR issues and consumers’ shared values on the relation. Analyses of data collected from 1296 U.S. consumers revealed that participants’ word-of-mouth (WOM) intentions, both positive and negative, were impacted by inconsistencies between CMR initiatives and actions. When inconsistency was absent, highest PWOM intention was generated for issues related to workers and least for shareholders. Shared values significantly moderated …

Lying By Telling The Truth – The Risks Of Deception By Paltering And Hypocrisy In Corporate Social Responsibilities Context, Saheli Goswami, Geetika Jaiswal

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Faculty Publications

This research investigated how fashion corporations’ paltering-based deceptive marketing, specifically related to corporate social responsibility (CSR), might influence consumers. Specifically, it investigated if it evokes hypocrisy perceptions to influence consumers’ purchase decisions and how the mediating roles of consumer-corporation-relationship and consumer-based corporate-reputation can explain such influences. Using a two-factor online experiment (paltering x message replications), data were collected from 252 US consumers. PROCESS results indicated that CSR-paltering positively evoked hypocrisy and, in turn, dampened consumer-corporation-relationship and corporate-reputation. Such hypocrisy significantly reduced purchase-intentions, but only when mediated through consumer-corporation-relationship. No significant negative relationships between deception and purchase-intentions were observed when mediated …

A Puerto Rican Diasporic Study In Central Florida, Chelsea Vélez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This study seeks to explicate the intercultural experiences of Puerto Ricans within the diaspora of Central Florida. Specifically, the navigation of communication behaviors among intergroup and outgroup behaviors as Puerto Rican individuals acculturate into the area. This study utilizes communication accommodation theory as its basis to understand integration into a host culture and the impacts on socio-cultural communication behaviors. Findings show the importance of studying diasporic communities as they develop such as that of the Puerto Rican community in Central Florida because it situates the reality of an individual and groups sense of identity in a new cultural context. This …

Character Composition: A New Framework For Tv Serial Drama Characters, Marco Ianniello

Arts Papers and Journal Articles

From an industry and craft perspective, despite the many manuals and ‘how to’ guides, feature film paradigms (notably three- to five-act structures) and character arc frameworks (e.g., the hero’s journey) dominate the discussions of character development in serial TV drama. The work of structure-based industry writers, notably Christopher Booker, Christopher Vogler, Linda Aronson and Craig Batty, focuses on feature films and this article will connect their influential frameworks and analyses with the practice of serial TV drama screenwriting. While there are several key screenwriting manuals specifically for writing television, particularly Pamela Douglas’s Writing the TV Drama Series (2018) and John …

On The Way To Maturity, Mikhail Ilyin

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

My experience as a dance maker is rooted in the following: use of space, interpersonal relationships, efforts in dynamics, psychology, and personal memory, all of which inform my thesis project. This thesis project specifically investigates the stages of psychosocial development as seen through the theories of psychologist Erik Erikson. It explores the emotional effect of these psychosocial stages on people, including conflicts and positive impacts. I demonstrate how these developmental stages can define a person's identity and how audience members, choreographers, and artists from various fields might be influenced by them. Weaving together my research and personal experiences in fine …