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Theorizing the Internal Movement of Lines: A Manifesto for Unfolding the Lines in an Open Ecology

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2025-May-14
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Bringing together Tim Ingold’s anthropology of lines, the internal
movement of Chinese calligraphic lines described by Zhenzhong Qiu and the
philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I argue that the internal movement
of lines, as a concept in its...

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To Accept or Avoid: A Retrospective and Prospective Reflection on Death and Coping Method Variations in Males and Females

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2025-May-10
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This thesis presents a narrative and cognitive investigation of grief, specifically, how individuals of different genders experience, anticipate, express, and adapt to the emotional, cognitive, and existential implications of death. Employing a phenomenological and gender-informed qualitative methodology, I draw upon...

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TRAVELING WITH MY MOTHER: The Work of Photographic Memory in Mourning

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2025-April-26
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At 20 years of age, my mother traveled to India by herself. It was 1990, and she was waiting to hear back from college. Getting away from this unknown, she dove into another. Both in the form of journal writing...

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TRAVELING WITH MY MOTHER: The Work of Photographic Memory in Mourning

Publication Date
2025-April-26
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At 20 years of age, my mother traveled to India by herself. It was 1990, and she was waiting to hear back from college. Getting away from this unknown, she dove into another. Both in the form of journal writing...

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What will you choose?

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2025-May-16
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What will you choose? is an exploration into the comfort and discomfort I experience relating to tradition and identity in competitive Irish dance.

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“Cities Are Places, Too”: Urban Studies Education at the Secondary Level

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2025-April-21
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Recent scholarship has pointed to the necessity of critical, community-engaged, place-based education at the K-12 level, but the field has neglected a powerful tool for developing active citizens and engaged community members: urban studies. This project includes a six session...

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