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Tracking Privilege-Preserving Epistemic Pushback In Feminist And Critical Race Philosophy Classes, Alison Bailey

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

Classrooms are unlevel knowing fields, contested terrains where knowledge and ignorance are produced and circulate with equal vigor, and where members of dominant groups are accustomed to having an epistemic home-terrain advantage. My project focuses on one form of resistance that regularly surfaces in discussions with social-justice content. Privilege-preserving epistemic pushback is a variety of willful ignorance that many members of dominant groups engage in when asked to consider both the lived and structural injustices that members of marginalized groups experience daily. I argue that this dominant form of resistance is neither an expression of skepticism nor a critical-thinking practice. …

Muscogiana Vol. 28(2), Fall 2017, Mike Bunn, Rachel Dobson

Muscogiana

A journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society

Commonthought (2017), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Slathered, Zapped, Nipped, And Tucked: An Ethical Analysis Of Cosmetic Dermatology, Barbara Lowe

Philosophy and Classical Studies Faculty/Staff Publications

It has become common practice for dermatologists to offer cosmetic enhancing products and procedures and to do so alongside the medically required services offered (e.g., annual skin checks, treatment of rashes, removal of pre-cancerous moles, etc.). As a patient, it is likely that a visit to the dermatologist will include exposure to advertisements for these cosmetic products and procedures. Advertisements are found in the waiting area, examination room, and, in some cases, even at checkout in the form of a coupon for future use, all situated where the patient is a captive audience. This practice may not be the cause …

Sentinel, Bailey Merlin

Graduate Thesis Collection

Devastated by the mysterious death of her guardians, Elizabeth Davenport finds herself thrust into a new world that proves to be scintillating and dangerous. Can she trust those who claim to be her friends? Or will her trust lead her into trouble? When a mysterious letter presents itself and proves that her guardians might have been more than they ever let on, Elizabeth must gather her courage and pursue the truth, whatever the cost.

Ursinus Magazine, Fall 2017, Brock Blomberg, Ed Moorhouse, Mark Schneider, Ellen Labrecque, Jack Croft, Geoff Gehman, Matthew Mizenko, Cory Straub

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Introducing the student commons • Heroic couplet • A mark of pride • Prestigious honors for alumni • Meet the new Dean • Teaching and learning • A commitment to arts • Grant to fund Christian studies pilot program • Lost and found: Centennial Homecoming celebration • Out of this world • Serving the underserved: At home and around the world • A passion for service • The write stuff: Ursinus alumni pen books that level life's playing field • The mission of admission • Burning question: Could internment camps for American citizens be established again? • Anatomy of the …

“No But”—Understanding Sally Jenkins’ Friction With Feminism, Steven Master, Taylor Joy Mitchell

Publications

In a conversation years ago with the late, legendary college basketball coach Pat Summitt, Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins asked Summitt if she was a feminist (“To ‘Sum It Up”’). It seemed an odd question, considering Summitt’s unparalleled role in the rise of women’s athletics. Yet, for sports journalism scholars, Jenkins’ question was compelling for another reason. What if Summitt had responded by asking, “Are you?” Much like Summitt, Jenkins has achieved success in an overwhelmingly male-dominated profession, and she has moved the needle forward for women in sports and, by extension, for women in general. Her visibility allows …

A Word From The Writing Center (October 2017), Jennifer Wilson, Ms, Els

A Word From the Writing Team (Newsletter)

This issue includes:

• Selecting a target journal using journalguide.com
• Teaching and Communication Skills workshops

Book Review: Baroque Naples And The Industry Of Painting: The World In The Workbench, Jesse Locker

Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design Faculty Publications and Presentations

A brief review of Christopher Marshall's "Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench," published by Yale University Press in 2016.

High School Girls”: Women’S Higher Education At The Louisville Female High School, Amy J. Lueck

English

Nineteenth-century women gained access to significant higher education opportunities under the auspices of the urban, public high school (as well as at seminaries, academies, normal schools, and other variously named institutions) even when they did not matriculate into colleges proper. Women made great strides in all forms of higher education in the last half of the nineteenth century, but particularly in high schools and academies; while remaining underrepresented in colleges until 1978, women constituted a majority of graduates from high schools as early as 1870. This trend held true both nationally and in the local context of Louisville, where women …

Identity, Decolonialism, And Digital Archives, Cruz Medina

English

In April, I was the keynote speaker at the University of Texas at El Paso’s Spring Symposium, an annual event hosted by Frontera Rétorica, the graduate student chapter of Rhetoric Society of America. In my talk, “Decolonizing Digital Platforms,” I cited a 2017 Hispanic Pew Research report that provided exigency for my call to decolonize digital habits of mind in the context of the U.S./Mexico border. The Pew Report found that 54% of Latinxs felt confident about their place in the U.S. under the new presidential administration (Hugo Lopez and Rohal). These findings suggest disparities among Latinx in the U.S. …

Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike Senior Project By Lauren Frautschi, Lauren Frautschi

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This is a description of my acting process throughout my senior project production. I played Masha in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and documented my discoveries and education along the way.

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2017, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum

• Ascending the Mountain: A Story of the People of the Great Hill (Michalyn Steele)
• Unlocking Potential: How a Law Degree Amplifies Your Ability to Bless the World (Jane Mitchell)
• The EU Apple Case: Who Has a Dog in the Fight? (J. Clifton Fleming, Jr.)

Graffiti, Thomas Harris '18

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Photograph | 7" x 5"

The Write Stuff - Autumn 2017 (Vol. 14, No. 4), Research Medical Library

Write Stuff 2017

• ICMJE member journals to begin requiring data sharing statements
• Online tools for researchers
• Changes to NIH forms for studies involving human subjects
• Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Text recycling

Solomon Northup’S Singing Book, Lara Langer Cohen

English Literature Faculty Works

This essay examines the musical score included at the end of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853), a setting of a song called “Roaring River” that Northup earlier recounted enslaved people singing as they patted juba. I argue that “Roaring River” stages questions that the narrative itself cannot ask about how to represent the experience of slavery once one is outside of it. In particular, it asks how to love what’s made in the shadow of slavery—the intimacies forged, and especially the music borne of them.

Communiqué: College Of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine, Volume 6, Fall 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts, And Sciences.

Communiqué: College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine

Contents:
-- Message from the Dean
-- CHAS Briefs
-- Class Notes
-- Into the Woods
-- Wilson Lecture Turns 20
-- Environmental Ethics
-- Hearst Lectureship
-- Proud & Torn
-- Carver Grant Awarded
-- Physics 3 + 2 Program
-- Alum Speaks to UN
-- Clinic Director Named
-- Cornucopia
-- Woman in Innovation
-- Susan & Paul Rider

Theatre Uni Alumni Newsletter, Fall 2017-Spring 2018, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Theatre.

Theatre UNI Alumni Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

-- Letter From the Department Head
-- The Best Week of My Life
-- Magical Moments in Lighting
-- A Cornerstone Project of Theatre UNI
-- Into the Woods Production Collaboration
-- Career Profiles
-- Theatre UNI National Advancement Board
-- Spotlight on Acting
-- Spotlight on Acting
-- An Actor's Path
-- A Letter from Steve Palmquist
-- Career Profile
-- Alumni Profile
-- Alumni Profile
-- Thoughts on Returning
-- Poster Retrospective

Rhythms: Music At The University Of Northern Iowa, V36, Fall 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Rhythms: Music at the University of Northern Iowa

Contents:

Jazz Band Tours Cuba --- pg.3
Marching Band Tours Rome --- pg.4
Wind Symphony 35 - Year Reunion --- pg.5
From the Director --- pg.2
Orchestra Hosts International Guests --- pg.6
All in the Family --- pg.6
Opera at UNI --- pg.7
Midwest International Carillon Festival --- pg.8
Hall of Fame Awards --- pg.9
Guest Artists 2016-17 --- pg.10
Community Outreach --- pg.11
Spectrum Project. --- pg.12
Phi Mu Alpha Beta Nu Reunion --- pg.13
Midwest International Conducting Symposium --- pg.14
Scholarship Benefit Concert --- pg.15-16
Student Awards and Honors --- pg.17-19
Spotlight Series 2017-18 --- pg.20
Faculty News …

“A Disconnected Dialogue: American Military Strategy, 1964-1968,” Oklahoma Humanities, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2017., Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

"The admission, supported by a careful reading of the historical record, begs larger questions: How do we remember American strategy in Vietnam? What language do we use to describe a war that proved so tragic, not only for the United States but, perhaps more importantly, for the millions of Vietnamese who lost their lives in a decades-long civil war? In coming to grips with a complex war, Americans, then and now, have relied on a series of tropes to streamline their conversations about a distasteful war."

Review Of Dumitru, Diana, The State, Antisemitism, And Collaboration In The Holocaust: The Borderlands Of Romania And The Soviet Union And Geissbühler, Simon, Ed., Romania And The Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath, Stefan Cristian Ionescu

History Faculty Articles and Research

Reviews of The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union by Diana Dumitru and Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath, edited by Simon Geissbühler.

"Our Rights Are Getting More & More Infringed Upon": American Nationalism, Identity, And Sailors' Justice In British Prisons During The War Of 1812, Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger

Staff Scholarship

American maritime prisoners during the War of 1812 took seriously their government's assertion of "free trade and sailors' rights," but when the United States government failed to make this rhetoric a reality, imprisoned sailors clashed with both British and American officials. The U.S. government lacked effective mechanisms to challenge impressment, influence prisoner exchange, or meet the daily needs of its imprisoned citizens, who often interpreted this inefficacy as indifference to their situation. However, the relative absence of government support gave American prisoners space to create a form of nationalism that stressed self-reliance, cooperative action, aggressive masculinity, and occasional violence and …

Mechanical Parts, Kyle W. White-Mcginn

Creative Writing Programs

A collection of poems related to cancer, boxing, and a fictionalized Rochester, Minnesota (renamed Medicine City).

United States Drone Laws, Jacob Crittenden

Student Works

The purpose of this Directed Study was to investigate and compile the drone laws that exist within the United States, both on the federal level and for each individual state. The federal laws are directed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under laws that pertain to “Unmanned Aircraft Systems” (UAS) and are relatively new. Most states have further regulations on UAS that they have passed. Most of these laws are in place to protect public safety and privacy, but some also prohibit certain locations of flight and certain modifications that might be made to the platform. State laws that limit …

Algorithm Controls: An Examination Of Ethos, Agency, And Interfaces In The Fallout Series, Daniel Cox

English Theses & Dissertations

Presenting a framework for videogame agency based on relationships, the constraints on those relationships, and their context, an examination of the representations of ethos and karma, agency models, and interfaces in the Fallout series is shown. Reviewing ethos through its historical and quantifications across the games, the presentations of the Reputation and “Karma” systems across the games are examined as affecting player choice in different ways. Building across agency models and past scholarship, a temporal framework for agency is considered and applied to a case study of Fallout 3 (2008). Closing the framework through positioning actions as happening within layers …

Indigenous Knowledge Centers (Ikc): Strong Medicine On Higher Education Campuses, Melissa Delikat

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

Indigenous Knowledge Centers (IKC) on higher education campuses are unexplored in educational research, but they may be one of the most critical advancements in equality and decolonization efforts. This dissertation presents findings to descriptively introduce IKCs through a shared learning journey that is both culturally safe and relevant. Using Indigenous and qualitative methodologies, this shared learning journey found that IKCs are an Internationalization at Home (IaH) practice that produces Indigenization by bringing awareness to and valuing Indigenous Knowledge and Culture. It offers healing through land connection, honoring Elders, and building respectful relationships. IKCs are Strong Medicine.

An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Of The Lived Experiences And Mentoring Relationships Of Black Women Student Affairs Administrators, Tiffany Shawna Wiggins

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

Contemporary literature regarding the experiences of Black women in higher education administration is scarce, and that which does exist, often focuses on those who serve in teaching faculty roles, and/or fails to provide a holistic perspective on the lives of those who makeup this group. Utilizing an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach, this qualitative investigation explored the lives of Black women college administrators from their perspective. Grounded in the theoretical framework of Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought, this study aimed to uncover the lived experiences of Black women student affairs administrators as they relate to their professional demands and pursuits …

Formalizing The Panarchy Adaptive Cycle With The Cusp Catastrophe, Martin Zwick, Joshua Hughes

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

The panarchy adaptive cycle, a general model for change in natural and human systems, can be formalized by the cusp catastrophe of René Thom's topological theory. Both the adaptive cycle and the cusp catastrophe have been used to model ecological, economic, and social systems in which slow and small continuous changes in two control variables produce fast and large discontinuous changes in system behavior. The panarchy adaptive cycle, the more recent of the two models, has been used so far only for qualitative descriptions of typical dynamics of such systems. The cusp catastrophe, while also often employed qualitatively, is a …

The Legend Of The Wehrmacht’S “Clean Hands”: The Attempt To Remove Nazism From The German Military, Kenneth R. Mccracken

Student Publications

The legend of the Wehrmacht’s “clean hands” was created with the Himmerdoer Memorandum of 1950 and sought to disassociate the German military with its Nazi past. The legend gained popularity in the minds of the German people and successfully led to Germany’s rearmament after World War Two. Beginning in 1990, the legend was destroyed as the actions of the Wehrmacht during World War Two created a different picture than that of the legend. The Wehrmacht’s hands were far from “clean” and instead were very dirty.

Horror Fiction, Aljoša Mršović

Student Publications

Horror is a relatively new emotion. It is based on the subversion of a scientific account of the world. Therefore, it could not have existed prior to the establishment of such an account. Furthermore, it is unique because it can only be experienced through a fictional medium, as only a fictional medium allows the violation of the scientific, or natural, account of the world. There are several schools of thought that attempt to explain the phenomenon of fictional emotions, but 'irrationality' appears to be the most in touch with the scientific understanding of how the brain processes fictional emotions. Ultimately, …