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Not Just A Golden State: Three Anglo ‘Rushes’ In The Making Of Southern California, 1880-1920., Glen Gendzel

Faculty Publications, History

Three southern California rushes-the health rush, the land rush, and the orange rush-deserve the kind ofattention historians have lavished on northern California's gold rush. The three booms in the southern portion of the state were not only bigger than the gold rush, they concentrated the state's population in the south. They also played roles in the racially-based social and cultural patterns that developed in the region.

Indonesian Souvenirs As Micro-Monuments To Modernity: Hybridization, Deterritorialization And Commoditization, Kathleen M. Adams

Anthropology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Front Matter: Re-Purpose

SWITCH

Front Matter for Volume 24 of SWITCH. The theme of this issue is “Re-Purpose” - highlighting creative ways artists reuse and rethink technology, spaces, and ideas.

Interview With Richard Wright And Graham Harwood Of Mongrel, Yumika Tanaka

SWITCH

This interview features Richard Wright and Graham Harwood of Mongrel, a digital artist group known for working with marginalized communities. They talk about their creative process, including how they collaborate with groups like Irish Travelers and Congolese immigrants, and how those communities use digital technology in unique and meaningful ways.

Purpose Machines, Douglas Edric Stanley

SWITCH

This article explores how machines can be designed to have purpose - not just to follow instructions, but to react, adapt, and change based on their environment. The author compares early ideas from cybernetics and computer science with modern technologies, showing how machines today can be flexible, creative, and open-ended. He also questions the idea that artists can “re-purpose” machines, since machines are already made to be re-used.

Architectural Sustainability, Mike Lowell

SWITCH

This article explores how architecture is evolving to be more sustainable, responsive, and integrated with the environment. Contemporary architects consider local communities, ecological impact, and energy efficiency. The author discusses examples like Morphosis, Herzog + Partner, and MVRDV, who design with environmental and social responsibility in mind.

Eco-Poetry, Julia Butterfly Hill

SWITCH

This piece shares three poems by Julia Butterfly Hill. Her poems explore connections between people, nature, spirit, and justice.

The Gift Economy Of Artistic Practice And The Social Systems Created Through Dialogic Artworks., Wayne Madsen

SWITCH

This article explores the idea of gift culture in art, focusing on how artists can move beyond commercial markets to create public, participatory experiences. It discusses Ghosttown, a project by Red76, and its Open Kitchen event - a mobile, community-run kitchen where food and memories are shared freely.

Green Graphics, Teck Liew, Vivian Mak

SWITCH

In this interview, graphic designer Brian Dougherty discusses the meaning and impact of green design. As cofounder of Celery Design Collaborative, Dougherty shares how his team integrates environmental responsibility into the design process. He explains how designers can lead by example, creating value beyond cost savings.

Front Matter: Issue 25, Danielle Siembieda

SWITCH

Front matter for Volume 25 of SWITCH. This issue explores how artists are rethinking their relationship with the environment and technology. It challenges readers to go beyond buzzwords like “green” and examine sustainability in deeper, more meaningful ways. Contributors from many backgrounds discuss the impact of art-making on the planet, the influence of environmental issues on creative practice, and the role of technology in shaping a more sustainable future.

As The Owl Discreet: Essay Towards A Conversation And Carly's Dance A Novel, Vahri Mckenzie

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis comprises a novel entitled Carly's Dance and an essay entitled As the Owl Discreet. Although separate works, a line runs through them that might be described as an urge to connect; each work, although self-contained, is concerned with the co-existence of opposites, or more precisely, apparent opposites. The essay's title is ironic, borrowed from Hillaire Belloc's perverse verses collected as Cautionary Tales. Discretion is exactly what the thesis tests the bounds of, as do the characters in my novel. And so do I, in using family history to motivate my research.

Toward A General Theory Of Polymeter: Polymetric Potential And Realization In Elliott Carter's Solo And Chamber Instrumental Works After 1980, Ève Poudrier

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation proposes a conceptual framework and tools for the analysis of polymeter in contemporary musical practices applied to the short instrumental works of Elliott Carter, where multiple temporalities have been identified as an essential aesthetic component. Three works are discussed in more detail: Changes for guitar (1983), Esprit rude/Esprit doux I for flute and clarinet (1985), and 90+ for piano (1994). The composer's use of metrical modulations and structural polyrhythms is re-evaluated in the context of a theory of polymeter. Structural polyrhythms are represented by means of proximity charts, and Carter's compositional strategies are explored, including rhetorical use of …

Less Realism : More Meaning : Evaluating Imagery For The Graphic Designer, Stuart Medley

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Typography' as a defining term has become interchangcable with 'graphic design'. and while font choice and application is seen as of paramount importance. image choice, virtually half , . of the communication design equation, is neglected in the theory and in pratice is left to the instinct of the designer. In this thesis I try to find approaches for graphic designers to understand image to the degree that they understand type. These approaches are tested through assignments for graphic design students and the results recorded and analysed. I seek to address the paradox that we are able to communicate more …

Review Of Jewish Roots In Southern Soil: A New History, Harriett Denise Joseph

History Faculty Publications

Because the first Jews came to America in 1654, a "stream of books and essays" (p. xi) has been published in recent years to commemorate the 250th anniversary of that event. Among these have been anthologies focusing on specific states and regions, such as Lone Stars of David: The Jews of Texas (2007), edited by Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Roseman, and Jewish Life in the American West (2002), edited by Ava F. Kahn. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil (2006) is a "timely contribution" (p. xi) to that genre.

Review Of Tío Cowboy: Juan Salinas, Rodeo Roper And Horseman., Thomas A. Britten

History Faculty Publications

Tío Cowboy chronicles the life and achievements of legendary rancher, calf roper, and professional rodeo performer Juan Light Salinas. The son of a prominent South Texas rancher, Juan Salinas was born in 1901 and learned to ride a horse and to rope cattle during his early childhood. During the 1930s and 1940s, he became one of the first Mexican American cowboys to perform on the professional rodeo circuit. Author Ricardo D. Palacios was Tío Juan's nephew and number one fan. The book is a moving tribute to his uncle, who at one time enjoyed celebrity status in the South Texas …

"Dark Spirits: The Emergence Of Cultural Nationalism On The Sidelines And On Campus", Kurt E. Kemper

Research & Publications

Black college students in the 1960s and 1970s struggled to gain access to the university extracurriculum, particularly in spaces dominated by the Greek system and Black females struggled against prevailing assumptions of traditional white femininity. Efforts by Black female students at UCLA to participate in the university spirit squads became enmeshed with broader efforts to create a campus Black Studies Department and the growing campus debate around Black Power.

A Critical Assessment Of Professional Skills And Knowledge In Supplier Diversity: A Delphi Study, Mia Cole

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Today, many US corporations have made great strides to embrace supplier diversity as a social consideration, and most importantly, as a strategic business enabler. From the earlier years of mandating minority inclusion to the realization that diversifying the supply chain creates value by capitalizing on the diverse background and experiences of minority businesses, supplier diversity has emerged as a major business initiative. It is one of the initiatives that contribute to the welfare of the country by building minority communities and strengthening our society. By developing business coalitions and partnerships with minority suppliers there is tremendous opportunity to impact the …

Dialogue In Three Prose Tracts Of John Milton, Lora Catherine Lamb

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Oil & Water, Miranda Allbritten

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I am interested in subtleties and the understated, the trace of impact and the slight of presence. As the ability to accurately recall past experiences lessens with time, we are left with an outline, a shadow, a hint of sensation that may have, at once, been thorough and exhaustive. How experience is lost and then reinvented, how subtle but specific changes in tone, expression and movement linger and reinvent themselves in memory, are motivating elements in my work. The paradox between an encounter and the recollection or reinvention of that encounter is at the core of my investigation, both in …

Paintings, Michael Burton

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

In my current work I explore process and my fascination vvith human flesh by using the physical nature of paint as an equivalency for images and surfaces. I am fascinated vvith how nesh can have different quaitities. It can be brittle, rough, or smooth, it can form calluses and it can change color. Paint has these same quaUties. When I see peeling skin on my body, it reminds me of peeling paint and I find it hard to resist touching either surface . Ideas for images are generated by examining my nesh for cuts, wrinkles or boney protrusions or by …

Replacing The Native American With The "New American" In Margaret Fuller's Summer On The Lakes, In 1843, Laura M. Reilly

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

In the summer of 1843, New Englander Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) set off with friends on a westward journey that would take her through the areas of the Great Lakes, Illinois and Wisconsin. Fuller kept copious notes during her trip, and during the eight months after her return home, she revised and enhanced her text and published it as a book, entitled Summer on the Lakes, In 1843.

Fuller’s book reflects a myriad of influences, especially from those most known for their Romantic writings. Jacques Jean Rousseau’s ideas of “The Noble Savage,” Edmund Burke’s theory of the sublime, Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s …

Forgetting The Subject, Christa Davis Acampora

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

2007 Ade Award Recipients

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Julian P. Boyd Award: Gary E. Moulton; Lyman H. Butterfield Award: Beth Luey; Distinguished Service Award: Philander D. Chase; Boydston Essay Prize: Raymond Stephanson; Life Service Award: John P. Kaminski

Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2: 2008

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Spring and Summer 2008, Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2

• If You Have to Explain It, Is it Still Funny?, Beth Luey
• Humor and Its Hazards: Editing The Papers of Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert
• Yet Another George Washington Website: The Digital Edition and the Future of Documentary Editing, Jennifer E. Stertzer
• Long before the NHPRC: Documentary Editing and Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Brent Tarter
• Balancing Public and Private Lives in the Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott and Florence Kelly, Beverly Wilson Palmer
• Founding Fathers and the Senate, Charlene Bickford
• The Risks of a Mammoth Edition: The Example of The Complete Letters …

If You Have To Explain It, Is It Still Funny?, Beth Luey

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Is editing humor different from editing political correspondence, personal letters, journals, and the materials that most documentary editors deal with? Transcription surely is the same, but what about annotation? When I asked three editors to present papers on the subject, they were reluctant to do so because they didn’t think they did anything differently than editors whose subjects are less funny. But it seemed to me that there would be differences. Humor is often topical and very much tied to its time: any script of The Daily Show resurrected fifty years from now would require a lot of explanation. Does …

Yet Another George Washington Website: The Digital Edition And The Future Of Documentary Editing, Jennifer E. Stertzer

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

In 2005, work commenced on what has become The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition. A small team was assembled, and the process of converting legacy volumes to XML began. For the past two years we have been busy entering corrections and changes, linking documents, tackling consistency issues, and correcting errors introduced by our conversion vendor. Though much of the work has been tedious, the resulting digital edition, released earlier this year, is an important milestone for the project. But it’s more than just another George Washington website. This site contains all the features of the print edition, but it …

Manuel Molins: Una Altra Ofèlia I Els Fantasmes De Shakespeare, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

L'apropiació i reinscripció que de Hamlet ha fet Manuel Molins, titulada Una altra Ofèlia (2001, estrenada al Teatre Rialto de València el 2004), comença, com a l'obra de Shakespeare, amb l'aparició d'un fantasma. A la primera de les nou escenes, el personatge d'Ofèlia explica a la falstaffiana I pitonissa I herborista Dida (personatge síntesi que és el resum de molts personatges shakespearians) un somni que ha tingut i en el transcurs del qual ha presenciat la manifestació d'un espectre en l'esplanada del castell. D'alguna manera, des del moment que comença l’obra, Ofèlia sembla haver usurpat el paper de Hamlet, ja …

Over The Line: John Edward Lawler And Fbi, Gregory C. Hershey

Theses and Dissertations

The FBI is the most recognized law enforcement entity in the world. During its nearly 100-year history, the Bureau has been involved in many controversies, most as a result of straying from its stated mission to investigate violations of federal law. This survey is based on personal papers of the former head of the Richmond Bureau, John Edward Lawler. Fortunately for historians, these files, many of which exist nowhere else in the agency's archives, open a window into the operational methods and investigative techniques of FBI agents. An examination of John Lawler's career provides insight into the conduct of field …

In The Spin, Kathryn Noel Beles

Theses and Dissertations

In the Spin is a semi-autobiographical collection of poetry, dealing primarily with themes of family, marital infidelity, loyalty, the female body, and the tension between political vs. aesthetic existence. This is a collection of poems influenced by the work of French Feminism, Shakespeare and Faulkner, and hybrid lyric-narrative poets of the last fifty years.

In An Expression Of The Inexpressible: Even This Title Is Stolen, But I Chose It, Carmen Alis Mcleod

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis provides a tour through an imaginary building that contains the work I have completed in the last two years at Virginia Commonwealth University. The body of the text provides a discussion of specific paintings as well as more general themes related to painting and art. The discussion includes thoughts on futility, desire, schism, the leap, collage, photography, materiality, painting, image, and landscape. The second part of the text is an abstract statement about the paintings included in the thesis show, Splinter Paintings.