2025

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

This thesis uses Professor Kodai Abe's theory of Afro-Korean antagonism as a framework to understand literary depictions of relationships between Black and Korean subjects, particularly in the context of the Korean War. Professor Abe proposes that the U.S. government strategically...

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...