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The British Women’S Land Army: Gender, Identity, And Landscapes, Hilary M.K. Anderson Aug 2014

The British Women’S Land Army: Gender, Identity, And Landscapes, Hilary M.K. Anderson

Masters Theses

The land girls who comprised the Women’s Land Army in Great Britain during the Second World War challenged cultural assumptions regarding gender and femininity. Through their work in agriculture, social anxieties were provoked regarding proper notions of femininity and separate spheres, which left these women in conflicting positions as they carved a spot for themselves in a war torn society. In order to carry out their work in the Women’s Land Army, land girls operated at the convergence of private and public spheres in a conjoined space. Living and operating in this conjoined space enabled them to blur the ideological …


Gesture-Sensing Technology For The Bow: A Relevant And Accessible Digital Interface For String Instruments, Zachary Boyt Aug 2014

Gesture-Sensing Technology For The Bow: A Relevant And Accessible Digital Interface For String Instruments, Zachary Boyt

Masters Theses

Technological advances in powerful, miniaturized electronics have created a growing potential to continue the evolution of string instruments through an accessible digital interface. Although many new types of instruments and controllers have explored this goal, gesture-sensing technology, when paired with the expressive nature of the bow, has provided the most eligible solution towards bridging technology and tradition. Through a selective showcase of technical development, artistic application, and future possibilities, this thesis traces the evolution of gesturesensing bow technology as an accessible digital interface in string instrument performance.


The Pagan Pudicitia Of Early Christian Roman Women, Iris Rebecca Petty Aug 2014

The Pagan Pudicitia Of Early Christian Roman Women, Iris Rebecca Petty

Masters Theses

Accessing the everyday experiences of late antique non-elite Roman women in the Latin west is limited by sources and issues of authorship. Interdisciplinary scholarship, however, has opened up new avenues in recent years through which these women’s experiences may be studied. When literary-historical questions are asked of these sources’ authors, audiences, motives and intents, the answers provide insight into the roles women and femininity played in early Christianity. By examining an array of late antique Roman representations of good classical women, a unique continuity is seen in the transition from pagan to Christian Rome. The Latin patristic writers capitalized on …


Career And Technical Education Faculty Members Secure Federal Grant, College Of Education And Human Development Jul 2014

Career And Technical Education Faculty Members Secure Federal Grant, College Of Education And Human Development

Family and Consumer Sciences News

Dr. Adam Manley and Dr. Rick Zinser recently secured another federal flow-through grant for $10,513.


Students Win Regional Competition For Second Consecutive Year, College Of Education And Human Development Jul 2014

Students Win Regional Competition For Second Consecutive Year, College Of Education And Human Development

Family and Consumer Sciences News

Textile and Apparel Studies majors Sarah Lyons and Erin Johnson have won first place in two recent Fashion on the Shore student design competitions.


July 15, 2014: 2015-16 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, Department Of English Jul 2014

July 15, 2014: 2015-16 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.


The Laureate, 13th Edition (2014) Jul 2014

The Laureate, 13th Edition (2014)

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Secret Contours, K. Orsini Jul 2014

Secret Contours, K. Orsini

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Vanishing: African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) – Vulnerable, D. Randy Huffman Jul 2014

Vanishing: African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) – Vulnerable, D. Randy Huffman

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Hooky, Nicole Burchette Jul 2014

Hooky, Nicole Burchette

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Strip Steak, Nicole Burchette Jul 2014

Strip Steak, Nicole Burchette

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Vanishing: Saudi Gazelle (Gazella Saudiya) – Extinct, D. Randy Huffman Jul 2014

Vanishing: Saudi Gazelle (Gazella Saudiya) – Extinct, D. Randy Huffman

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


A Minute Passes In Dresden, Or Sixty Seconds In The Day Of A Life, Emily W. Recchia Jul 2014

A Minute Passes In Dresden, Or Sixty Seconds In The Day Of A Life, Emily W. Recchia

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Waxing, Shaana Way Jul 2014

Waxing, Shaana Way

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


The Sun Baked Quad, Elyse Hogan Jul 2014

The Sun Baked Quad, Elyse Hogan

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Untainted, Dustin Brown Jul 2014

Untainted, Dustin Brown

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


A Scalding Winter, Samantha Edwards Jul 2014

A Scalding Winter, Samantha Edwards

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Itchy Wrists, Kathryn Ashbay Jul 2014

Itchy Wrists, Kathryn Ashbay

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Upon The Sea With A Line From Whitman, John Hutchinson Jul 2014

Upon The Sea With A Line From Whitman, John Hutchinson

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


The Three In One, Emily W. Recchia Jul 2014

The Three In One, Emily W. Recchia

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Detroit Meijer, Lauren Hoepner Jul 2014

Detroit Meijer, Lauren Hoepner

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Lent, Lauren Hoepner Jul 2014

Lent, Lauren Hoepner

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Cat, Holly Carlson Jul 2014

Cat, Holly Carlson

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Becoming: Emergence, Holly Carlson Jul 2014

Becoming: Emergence, Holly Carlson

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


The Driver Speaks To The Vehicle & It Shouts Back, Cal Lafountain Jul 2014

The Driver Speaks To The Vehicle & It Shouts Back, Cal Lafountain

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Grey/Yellow, C. Charles Bley Jul 2014

Grey/Yellow, C. Charles Bley

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Red Puch From Austria, C. Charles Bley Jul 2014

Red Puch From Austria, C. Charles Bley

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Rat Race, Justin Goodrich Jul 2014

Rat Race, Justin Goodrich

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Paul Left, Jess Mckellar Jul 2014

Paul Left, Jess Mckellar

The Laureate

No abstract provided.


Object, Brendan Egan Jul 2014

Object, Brendan Egan

The Laureate

No abstract provided.