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Vision For 2020, Teresa Fishel
Vision For 2020, Teresa Fishel
DeWitt Wallace Library Reports
Our vision for the DeWitt Wallace Library of 2020 is to expand and build up our current vibrant and active space for engaging scholars. We want a library that contributes to the transformative experience for all students as well as a space that will attract faculty to utilize our space, resources, and expertise for collaborating on digital projects. We want to continue to be a community gathering space where all points of view can be shared and civil discussions can take place. We want to be a welcoming center of learning and understanding.
Responding To The Affordable Care Act: Health Insurance Exchange Policy Diffusion, Margaret Worman
Responding To The Affordable Care Act: Health Insurance Exchange Policy Diffusion, Margaret Worman
Political Science Honors Projects
Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the government of each U.S. state either adopted a state run health insurance exchange or defaulted to a federally run exchange. This study uses event history analysis to examine this decision making process and the broader diffusion of health insurance exchange policy among the states. The results of this analysis indicate that states with a government controlled by the Democratic Party, a moralistic political culture, and a large uninsured population were more likely to adopt a state run exchange at an earlier date.
The Utility Of Darkness: Figments Of A State Called The Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Aimee M. Mackie
The Utility Of Darkness: Figments Of A State Called The Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Aimee M. Mackie
International Studies Honors Projects
Since the Heart of Darkness brought the cruelty of King Leopold’s rule of the Congo to the world’s attention, it has been viewed internationally as the locus ofinhumanity. My thesis examines how this perception has excused the role of neocolonial actors in furthering destabilization. After independence, the United States and Belgium, with the assistance of Mobutu Sese-Seko, exploited the nominally sovereign Congo. The weakening of the Congolese state has continued in recent years through a lack of accountability for international interventions brought about by bureaucratic secrecy, popular ignorance, and human rights rhetoric.
Medical Metropolis: The Impacts Of The Healthcare Industry On Rochester, Minnesota, Agata J. Miszczyk
Medical Metropolis: The Impacts Of The Healthcare Industry On Rochester, Minnesota, Agata J. Miszczyk
Geography Honors Projects
Specialized-function cities are dominated by one or two related industries that comprise the majority of the economic base of the area. Rochester, Minnesota is a prime example of such a city. The case of Rochester challenges much of conventional theory regarding economic diversification and spillovers of different economic systems. This case study presents new ideas regarding these spillovers and the success of specializations, as well as provides an in-depth analysis of the affect the Mayo Clinic - a premier medical facility – has on the local infrastructure and economy. This study illustrates how the healthcare industry has shaped Rochester's urban …
Rural Renaissance: The Redevelopment Of Rapid City, South Dakota, Callie S. Tysdal
Rural Renaissance: The Redevelopment Of Rapid City, South Dakota, Callie S. Tysdal
Geography Honors Projects
By many quantitative measures set by the United States Census and academic literature, Rapid City, South Dakota is an urban settlement. However, Rapid City is a thriving example of how a city and its residents willfully and overtly ascribe to a rural identity. This rural character is very present in local discussions, events, lifestyles, and institutions in Rapid City. As recently as 2012, the previously fading downtown of Rapid City has undergone a renewal that cannot escape notice. Main Street Square, a new downtown attraction that provides outdoor gathering spaces for entertainment, recreation, and cuisine, has brought new life to …
The Painted City: Public Art, Placemaking, And Communities In The Twin Cities, Lora Marie P. Hlavsa
The Painted City: Public Art, Placemaking, And Communities In The Twin Cities, Lora Marie P. Hlavsa
Geography Honors Projects
Over the last century, mural painting has become an increasingly prominent fixture within the urban landscape. Decorating the walls of urban streets throughout American cities, mural paintings can be considered powerful tools within urban communities because of their ability to create place through inspiring meaningful relationships between populations and space, represent marginalized populations and provide a means for expression for communities. Using the case studies of Northeast Minneapolis, the West Side of Saint Paul, and Lake Street, this paper examines the purpose of mural artwork within urban communities, focusing on spatial and contextual analysis to determine the impact of this …
“Normalizing” Japan?: Contestation, Identity Construction, And The Evolution Of Security Policy, Daisuke Minami
“Normalizing” Japan?: Contestation, Identity Construction, And The Evolution Of Security Policy, Daisuke Minami
Political Science Honors Projects
In this thesis, I address two puzzles regarding Japan’s security policy: (1) its minimalist military posture despite its economic power during the Cold War and (2) the recent shift from this minimalist security policy to an assertive one marked by a strengthening of its international security role and military. I argue that although many IR scholars, mainly from the realist camp, claim that the formation of the original security policy (puzzle 1) and subsequent transformation (puzzle 2) is driven by the state’s rational response to external conditions in the international security environment, it can more adequately be explained by the …
The Development Of A New Paradigm Of Humanitarian Intervention: Assessing The Responsibility To Protect, Jayne Discenza
The Development Of A New Paradigm Of Humanitarian Intervention: Assessing The Responsibility To Protect, Jayne Discenza
Political Science Honors Projects
The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) concept aimed to clarify the relationship between state sovereignty and humanitarian intervention, and its invocation during the recent intervention in Libya provides an opportunity to assess its impact. This project compares the events of Libya with the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina of the early 1990s, examining the framing of these conflicts as well as the perceived role of other states, the engagement of international organizations with the concept, and the effect on operations during the humanitarian interventions themselves. Providing a historical comparison more accurately situates the contributions of RtoP in the re-prioritization of human rights over …
Making War And Securing Peace: The Viability Of Peace Enforcement As A Mechanism For Promoting And Securing Civil War Termination, Shawn H. Greene
Making War And Securing Peace: The Viability Of Peace Enforcement As A Mechanism For Promoting And Securing Civil War Termination, Shawn H. Greene
Political Science Honors Projects
Peace enforcement—the threat or use of military force to compel belligerent adherence to a civil war settlement—has become increasingly salient in the past decade. Using a hazards analysis of all civil wars and associated third party interventions between 1945 and 2013 in addition to three structured, focused case studies, I argue that peace enforcement operations that 1) utilize the appropriate typological spoiler management strategy and 2) maintain legitimacy and impartiality through close cooperation with UN peacekeepers, are the most successful at catalyzing civil war termination and securing durable peace. I also provide a theoretical framework through which to study peace …
Elements Of Cohesion: The Role Of Business Improvement Districts In Neighborhood Cohesion, Bo Scarim
Elements Of Cohesion: The Role Of Business Improvement Districts In Neighborhood Cohesion, Bo Scarim
Psychology Honors Projects
The current research examines the relationship between sense of community and business improvement districts (BIDs) in urban neighborhoods. Study 1 employed the method of imagined scenarios to distinguish sense of community ratings between hypothetical neighborhoods with and without BIDs. This study found that participants in the imagined BID neighborhood scenario reported higher sense of community than those in the imagined non-BID neighborhood scenario. In Study 2, residents of two neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York, one with a BID and one without a BID, were surveyed on their neighborhood experience and sense of community. This study found no difference in sense …
Bullying And Sensitivity To Rejection: The Role Of Individual Difference Variables In Social Exclusion’S Impact On Eating Behaviors, Karen M. Ramos
Bullying And Sensitivity To Rejection: The Role Of Individual Difference Variables In Social Exclusion’S Impact On Eating Behaviors, Karen M. Ramos
Psychology Honors Projects
Social exclusion negatively impacts health behaviors such as eating, and new research suggests that individual difference variables can influence the strength of its effects. Two studies examined whether prior experience with bullying is an individual difference variable that could influence ostracism’s impact on food consumption. I hypothesized that people with a history of bullying would be more likely to eat unhealthy foods than healthy foods after experiencing social exclusion, and that this group would likely consume more food after experiencing social exclusion. Neither study found that prior experience with bullying impacted the strength of ostracism’s effect on food consumption, although …
Deceiving Others After Being Deceived: Lying As A Function Of Descriptive Norms, William F. Johnson
Deceiving Others After Being Deceived: Lying As A Function Of Descriptive Norms, William F. Johnson
Psychology Honors Projects
Previous research has found that being lied to makes a person more likely to respond with deception in a reciprocal manner. I hypothesize that lying instead creates a descriptive norm. Thus, a person being lied to will lie not only to the person who lied to them, but in new conversations with new people. Within a mock job interview, participants were lied to by one confederate, and then given the chance to lie to a second confederate. Being lied to did not produce significantly more lies, favoring existing theory that lying is reciprocal and not transitive.
The Cultural Omnivore In Its Natural Habitat: Music Taste At A Liberal Arts College, Anna Michelson
The Cultural Omnivore In Its Natural Habitat: Music Taste At A Liberal Arts College, Anna Michelson
Sociology Honors Projects
This mixed-methods study examines college students’ music preferences in order to better understand the phenomenon of cultural omnivorousness, or eclectic taste. I found that the majority (76%) of students were cultural omnivores. Education is a very important influence on music taste, but it works in complex ways. Formal classes increase appreciation of new genres. Parent influences were a factor, but musicianship was a more important predictor of “highbrow” taste than parents’ education level. The major way college education promotes omnivorousness is through increased diversity of social networks. There were, however, patterned dislikes that suggest both music as a symbolic boundary …
The Effects Of Objectifying Hip-Hop Lyrics On Female Listeners, Ellen S. Nikodym
The Effects Of Objectifying Hip-Hop Lyrics On Female Listeners, Ellen S. Nikodym
Psychology Honors Projects
Research has demonstrated support for objectification theory and has established that music affects listeners’ thoughts and behaviors, however, no research to date joins these two fields. The present study considers potential effects of objectifying hip hop songs on female listeners. Among African American participants, exposure to an objectifying song resulted in increased self-objectification. However, among White participants, exposure to an objectifying song produced no measurable difference in self-objectification. This finding along with interview data suggests that white women distance themselves from objectifying hip hop songs, preventing negative effects of such music.
Negotiating Neoliberalism: Community-Based Organizations And The Production Of Urban Place, Caroline S. Devany
Negotiating Neoliberalism: Community-Based Organizations And The Production Of Urban Place, Caroline S. Devany
Geography Honors Projects
Focusing on two community-based organizations’ roles in producing urban place, this thesis contributes to the “New Urban Politics” literature that explores the neoliberal governance of space. Synthesizing participant observation, informant interviews and ideas introduced in Henri Lefebvre’s Production of Space my thesis explores the possibility of aesthetic practices rooted in everyday life to create alternate subjectivities of people and place. While both organizations engage urban governance in ways that do not directly contest neoliberalization, they each affirm participants as agents in the production of urban place in ways that can destabilize the marketization of everyday life.
Social Media And The Transformation Of The Humanitarian Narrative: A Comparative Analysis Of Humanitarian Discourse In Libya 2011 And Bosnia 1994, Ellen Noble
Political Science Honors Projects
Within humanitarian discourse, there is a prevailing narrative: the powerful liberal heroes are saving the helpless, weak victims. However, the beginning of the 21st century marks the expansion of the digital revolution throughout lesser-developed states. Growing access to the Internet has enabled aid recipients to communicate with the outside world, giving them an unprecedented opportunity to reshape discourses surrounding humanitarianism. Through a comparative discourse analysis of Libyan Tweets, 1994 newspaper reports on Bosnia, and 2011 newspaper reports on Libya, this paper analyzes whether aid recipient discourse can resist the dominant humanitarian narrative and if that resistance can influence dominant …
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, A. Kiarina Kordela
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, A. Kiarina Kordela
German Studies Faculty Publications
The full issue can be found at http://re-press.org/books/penumbra.
Self-Reflection As Scholarly Praxis: Researcher Identity In Disability Studies--Guest Editors' Introduction, Joan Ostrove, Jennifer Rinaldi
Self-Reflection As Scholarly Praxis: Researcher Identity In Disability Studies--Guest Editors' Introduction, Joan Ostrove, Jennifer Rinaldi
Faculty Publications
The guest editors of this special issue on researcher identity offer reflections and an overview of the issue.
The Role Of World Knowledge And Episodic Memory In Scripted Narratives, Micah L. Mumper
The Role Of World Knowledge And Episodic Memory In Scripted Narratives, Micah L. Mumper
Psychology Honors Projects
Readers recruit information from both general world knowledge and episodic memory during reading comprehension. The present experiment used eye tracking to investigate the time-course of how these two sources of memory interact. Participants read passages describing scenarios in which an actor performs a role that was either scriptually appropriate or inappropriate. Half the passages containing the inappropriate role-filler were preceded by an episodic justification for this scriptural violation. Using the same paradigm, Cook and Myers (2004) found context had an early influence on the integration of the role-filler, but world knowledge showed a later effect in the post-target region. The …
Decolonization And Community Media: Fostering A Decolonial Imaginary In El Alto, Bolivia, Rebecca Jackson
Decolonization And Community Media: Fostering A Decolonial Imaginary In El Alto, Bolivia, Rebecca Jackson
Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects
Radio Trono, a community radio in Bolivia, uses grassroots critical theory and participatory media to illuminate the influence the colonial matrix of power has on participant's bodies, daily lives, and imaginations. Corporal decolonization, the theory of decolonization developed by the collective that manages Radio Trono, focuses on the body as a site of liberation at multiple scales of geography, and links new bodily configurations to new imaginaries and possibilities for resistance to coloniality of power. This theory infuses Radio Trono's production process and content while the radio's presence in El Alto works to decolonize and democratize the city's media system.
Productive Resistance, Nihilist Production, And The Fetish Of Negation, Hanna Backman
Productive Resistance, Nihilist Production, And The Fetish Of Negation, Hanna Backman
Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
Historical And Contemporary Development In Lakhota Infixation, Kevin Schaefer
Historical And Contemporary Development In Lakhota Infixation, Kevin Schaefer
Linguistics Honors Projects
No abstract provided.
Property Restitution And Sustainable Return: Lessons From Bosnia Herzegovina, Dragana Marinkovic
Property Restitution And Sustainable Return: Lessons From Bosnia Herzegovina, Dragana Marinkovic
International Studies Honors Projects
Bosnia's four years long conflict ended in 1995 with the signing of Dayton Peace Agreement and a hope that with international help and domestic cooperation, people of Bosnia will reconcile and work towards a more prosperous future. The conflict left behind not only 90 000 deaths but also around 2.2 million of displaced people. Country that used to be ethnically mixed before the war later became ethnically segregated into two regions, one with a Serb majority and the other one with Bosniak and Croat majority. In their search for safety during the war, many left their homes and cities and …
The Performative Speech And Silence Of Rape Trees: Staging Sexual Violence Against Migrant Women In The U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Hana Masri
International Studies Honors Projects
"Rape trees"—trees and bushes in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands upon which hang bras and underwear—serve as a display of the sexual assault and labor exploitation to which marginalized migrant women are vulnerable. Women making the journey to and across the border contend with sexual violence, as well as the political and economic violences that both construct the economies of the border and compel migrant women to it. The continued performance and re-performance of rape trees attempt to reinstate the silencing of migrant women. They also shed light on the intricacies of power, citizenship, and subjectivity that migrant women confront at the …
Geographies Of Poverty And Retail: The Impact Of Supermarket Expansion On Food Insecurity In Cape Town, Stephen D. Peyton
Geographies Of Poverty And Retail: The Impact Of Supermarket Expansion On Food Insecurity In Cape Town, Stephen D. Peyton
Geography Honors Projects
The rapid rise in supermarkets in developing countries over the last few decades has resulted in the radical transformation of food retail systems. In the city of Cape Town, the introduction of supermarkets has coincided with rapid urbanization and increasing levels of food insecurity. In the context of a neoliberal approach toward economic development and redistribution, regulatory policies have largely ignored urban problems of food insecurity; therefore, retail modernization has become a largely unregulated market-based solution to improving food access for the poor. However, the introduction of formal food retail formats is often seen as conflicting with the informal food …
Rice, Tobacco, And Agricultural Globalization: Exploring The Narrative Of The Chinese Agricultural Colony In Sub-Saharan Africa, Hunter Bradley
Rice, Tobacco, And Agricultural Globalization: Exploring The Narrative Of The Chinese Agricultural Colony In Sub-Saharan Africa, Hunter Bradley
Geography Honors Projects
According to media outlets, China's involvement in the Sub-Saharan African agricultural sector is part of a colonial land grab to meet the needs of a modernizing China. This paper challenges this narrative by examining the two constituent narrative elements: 1) China actively purchases land or land rights to meet the food needs at home and 2) that this process has led to decreased food security for African states. Using Zimbabwe and Mozambique as cases, this paper demonstrates China's participation is not part of a long-term food security strategy and is better understood in light of the "Go Out Policy." However, …
How Race Matters: The Parental And Neighborhood Determinants Of Child Protective Services Involvement, Emma Kalish
How Race Matters: The Parental And Neighborhood Determinants Of Child Protective Services Involvement, Emma Kalish
Economics Honors Projects
This paper examines the determinants of child protective services involvement. Using the Illinois Family Study I examine layers of interacting demographic, economic, and locational factors that might increase the probability of child protective services intervention. While the effects of some of these are well established in the literature, the inclusion of racial interaction terms is unique. Using these interaction terms I find that the effects of a variety of circumstances, from domestic violence to homelessness to welfare receipt, differ for African American and non-African American families.
Financial And Sovereign Debt Crises In Spain: Fiscal Limits And Spillovers, Alexandra Indarte
Financial And Sovereign Debt Crises In Spain: Fiscal Limits And Spillovers, Alexandra Indarte
Economics Honors Projects
Sovereign debt crises have four consistent features: 1) financial crises tend to coincide with them; 2) they are followed by credit crunches; 3) the domestic costs of default are higher where financial institutions hold large portions of their sovereign's debt; and 4) sovereign risk premiums are countercyclical and exhibit nonlinear dynamics with respect to debt levels. These facts indicate that spillover between financial and debt crises are important means of amplifying economic downturns. Current models cannot replicate all four of these facts because they either lack investment, an endogenous fiscal limit on the accumulation of sovereign debt, or a nonlinear …