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Love On - The Life Of A Suicide Survivor: A Performance Autoethnographic Study, Patricia R. Wheeler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Suicide touches the lives of millions of people each year in this country alone, yet conversations about suicide loss and survival after a loss remain taboo and often do not happen. The story I performed for this performance autoethnographic study centers on my life as a survivor of suicide. It provides a starting point for dialog regarding trauma, grief, and suicide loss. The narrative was constructed directly following the sudden death of my father, which had a direct effect on my ability to produce artistic work. The development, staging and performance of the story were altered to account for the …

Branding Faith: Do Christian Ministries Reach Millennials With Branding?, Bolashade Hanson

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research study is to discover what branding techniques used by Christian organizations are effective in connecting with Millennials and why, and to determine what are effective branding practices in a religious context. A convergent parallel mixed–method research design was used to gather the data. It included a content analysis of the branding components of four Christian organizations that target Millennials—The Passion Conference, The VOUS Conference, Acquire the Fire and Winterfest. A survey of 150 Millennials of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds within the age range of 18-34 was conducted to collect quantitative data on Millennials’ predispositions …

Uncovering America’S Horror Story: A Content And Critical Analysis Of American Horror Story., Jessica Maio

Honors Projects in Communication

The popular television series American Horror Story has captivated millions of Americans with its shocking and twisted plotlines that never fail to surprise. Perhaps one of the reasons that the show has become so popular is that it uses the horror genre as a way to explore controversial topics. The purpose of this project is to examine the controversial topics that are presented in American Horror Society and compare them with the current views of mainstream society to determine whether the show primarily reflects the views of the larger society or challenges them. In other words, how does American Horror …

"In The Land Of Tomorrow": Representations Of The New Woman In The Pre-Suffrage Era, Natalie B. O'Neal

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This digital anthology explores feminism in selected short fiction by women writers from the 1911 run of the popular women’s magazines Woman’s Home Companion, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The Farmer’s Wife. This fiction furthered the women’s rights movement by allowing women to imagine a world similar to their own with a heroine who voiced their desires and enacted change. Rather than the more experimental, inaccessible literature of avant garde high modernist writers consumed by the upper class, popular fiction reached a wider, middle class audience and was more effective at producing a progressive zeitgeist following the stilted Victorian …

2nd Place Contest Entry: From A Chat In The Parlor To Viral Music Videos: An Analysis Of Music As A Social Occasion, Emma F. Plotnik

Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize

This is Emma Plotnik's submission for the 2016 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won second place. She wrote about the impact of salons on the musical world in past centuries, and created a modern virtual salon of her own.

Emma is a senior at Chapman University, majoring in Music with a minor in Law, Justice, and Social Control. Her faculty mentor is Dr. Jessica Sternfeld.

Discourses Of Madness And Me: Critical Examinations Of Western Discourses Of Madness And Psychiatry, Erin E. Casey

Showcase of Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Activities

This paper is a critical examination of western medical paradigms alongside histories of psychiatry that argues for a culturally situated approach to mental health advocacy that maintains the importance of the physiological foundations of traditional biomedical approaches to disease. In doing so, I examine the discourses of madness, and society’s attempts to control and “fix” what is deemed “mad” through a historical lens. My position and critique utilizes a reflexive narrative process embracing my identities both as a consumer of mental health services and as an advocate for those with mental illnesses.

But What Does “It” Mean: An Analysis Of Feminist & Mainstream Pornographies, Alexandra S. Melnick 2225930

SEWSA 2016 Intersectionality in the New Millennium: An Assessment of Culture, Power, and Society

In this project, I am interested in how we as a culture talk and make stories about heterosexual non-fetish pornography that contains fellatio scenes. Fellatio, being a site of social power and relation, can be conceptualized and portrayed in different ways based on the ideology and intentions of the context a text portraying fellatio it is created in. In this project I reasoned that mainstream pornography and feminist pornography would show fellatio in different ways, revealing the basic differences in each genre’s content and execution. To this effect, I analyzed six films from both feminist and mainstream pornographies and have …

Femme-Ing The Fandom: A Cross-Cultural Approach, Lynslei Harris

SEWSA 2016 Intersectionality in the New Millennium: An Assessment of Culture, Power, and Society

In our ever-global society, fandoms, with their ability to reach and reproduce across cultures, have emerged as an important new media worthy of study. As the participatory practices of fans are explored, it is necessary to also apply the intersection of gender. Although each fandom constitutes a public, female members often participate in ways that allow them to form an artistic counterpublic. While male fans tend to gather data and act as gatekeepers of the fandom, their female counterparts engage in dress up or cosplay (costume play) and produce almost all of current fan fiction. These kinds of participatory practices …

Monetizing State Services To The Poor: Intentional Analysis Of Three Latin-American Conditional Cash Transfer Programs, Andrés Dapuez Ph.D., Sabrina Gavigan, Talita Eger

Journal of International and Global Studies

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been described as fundamental to the “post-neo-liberal” turn in Latin America. Through an analysis of the stated and unstated goals of three CCT development programs in Latin America, Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades, begun in 1997; Brazil’s Programa Bolsa Familia (PBF), started in 2003; and Argentina’s Asignacion Universal por Hijo (AUH), started in 2009, this paper suggests that CCTs portend the continuation of longestablished economic monetarist policies in the region, providing poor families with meager amounts of money, barely sufficient for their subsistence. Despite the fact that progressive populisms in Brazil and Argentina have imbued cash transfers with …

Contesting The Political Economy Of Higher Education: Educating The Good Citizen, Alberto Nicotra, Fay Patel Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

In national and international sectors, citizenship is constantly contested, negotiated, and reinvented across geographical boundaries. Higher education institutions around the world have focused on embedding graduate outcomes that characterize the ideal global citizen across the curriculum. International mobility programs promote international staff and student exchanges as a strategy to develop global citizenship. This paper presents a critical review of the notion of global citizenship through the narrative of a doctoral graduate who made his journey as a good citizen within an international mobility context. A research network-based framework is proposed for the higher education sector to assess the impact of …

Israeli, R. From Arab Spring To Islamic Winter. New Brunswick And London: Transaction Publishers, 2013., Joseph Alagha Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Vila, Pablo (Ed.) Music And Youth Culture In Latin America: Identity Construction Processes From New York To Buenos Aires. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014., Maximiliano E. Korstanje Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

O’Connor, Richard & Penny Van Esterik. From Virtue To Vice: Negotiating Anorexia. Oxford & New York: Berghahn, 2015., Helen Gremillion Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Ismael, T. Y.,& Jacqueline S. Ismael. Iraq In The Twenty-First Century: Regime Change And The Making Of A Failed State. New York: Routledge, 2015., Aliaksandr Filipau Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Meijer, Hugo. (Ed.) Origins And Evolution Of The Us Rebalance Toward Asia: Diplomatic, Military, And Economic Dimensions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015., Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Barnes, J. Cultivating The Nile: The Everyday Politics Of Water In Egypt Durham And London: Duke University Press. 2014., Chris A. Georges

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Heathershaw, J. & Herzig, E. (Eds). The Transformation Of Tajikistan: The Sources Of Statehood. London: Routledge, 2012., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

James, P. (Ed.). Religion, Identity, And Global Governance: Ideas, Evidence, And Practice. Toronto: University Of Toronto Press, 2011., Dale Walton Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Acharya, Arabinda. Ten Years After 9/11: Rethinking The Jihadist Threat. London: Routledge, 2013., Abdul-Karim Khan Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

King, Diane E. Kurdistan On The Global Stage: Kinship, Land, And Community In Iraq. New Brunswick, New Jersey, And London: Rutgers University Press, 2013., Farhan Hanif Siddiqi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Ringmar, Erik. Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction Of The Palace Of The Emperor Of China By Erik Ringmar, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013., Irmy Schweiger Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Middle East Research Institute. Iran: Meri Report. Middle East Research Institute Routledge Revivals. New York: Routledge, 2015., Maryam Kamali

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Allison, A. Precarious Japan. Durham, Nc: Duke University Press, 2013., Wayne E. Arnold Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

The Tragedy Of The Search For Security, Charmaine Misalucha-Willoughby

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review on:

• Francois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder. Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Vivienne Jabri. The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina, and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui, eds. Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.

Hunt, Michael H. & Levine, Steven I. Arc Of Empire: America’S Wars In Asia From The Philippines To Vietnam. Chapel Hill: The University Of North Carolina Press, 2012., Hsiang-Wang Liu Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Dickson, H. R. P. The Arab Of The Desert: A Glimpse Into Bedawin Life In Kuwait And Saudi Arabia. London: Routledge, 2015., Daniel Martin Varisco Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Casavantes Bradford, A. The Revolution Is For The Children: The Politics Of Childhood In Havana And Miami, 1959-1962. Chapel Hill: The University Of North Carolina Press, 2014., Maximiliano E. Korstanje

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Alizadeh, P. & Hassan Hakimian (Eds.). Iran And The Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam And Economic Sanctions. London And New York: Routledge, 2014., Sina Ansari Eshlaghi, Ariane Sadjed Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Hussein, C. The Re-Emergence Of The Single State Solution In Palestine/Israel. London And New York: Routledge, 2015., Muhammad Yaseen Gada Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Bahramitash, R. & Hooglund, E. (Eds.). Gender In Contemporary Iran: Pushing The Boundaries. New York And London: Routledge, 2011., Kathleen Foody Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.