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"Monuments to a Nation Gone By": Fortified Houses, King Philip's War, and the Remaking of a New England Frontier, 1675-1725

Description:
During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Porter, Colin Arms (creator)
Rubertone, Patricia (Director)
Simmons, William (Reader)
Anderson, Douglas (Reader)
McBride, Kevin (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Garrison houses
King Philip's War
Historical archaeology
War and memory
King Philip's War (1675-1676)
Archaeology and history
New England
Collection:
Anthropology
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"Not the Boss of Me": Reviving the Relationship Between Political and Parental Authority

Description:
Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Silverstein, Jed Daniel (creator)
Estlund, David (Director)
Larmore, Charles (Director)
Brettschneider, Corey (Reader)
Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Parental authority
Political Authority
Children
Parents
Collection:
Philosophy
Theses and Dissertations
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"Prevalence of proteinuria among the Orang Asli aborigines and ethnic minorities of Malaysia" AND "Survival of elderly and non-elderly end stage renal failure patients with and without dialysis"

Description:
This thesis consists of two studies related to kidney disease. The first paper explored the prevalence and risk factors for proteinuria, an early marker for …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Ch'ng, Chin Chin (creator)
Ong, Loke Meng (Advisor)
McGarvey, Stephen (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
chronic kidney disease
Proteinuria
Dialysis
Collection:
Public Health
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"Such a Method of Doing Business": Local Shipping Agents, the Hajj, and the Divide between Corporate and Colonial Priorities in Late 1870s Jeddah

Description:
Captain George de Jong Beyts served as the British consul in Jeddah from 1874 through 1878. He was also a shipping agent, sent to Jeddah …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Follett, Margaret (creator)
Ahmed, Faiz (thesis advisor)
Toksöz, Meltem (reader)
Brown University. Middle East Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Islam
Indian Ocean
Saudi Arabia--Jiddah
Turkey
British Empire
Steamboats
Singapore
Indonesia
Hajj
Hadrami (Arab tribe)
Collection:
Middle East Studies
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"Svetlana Alexievich : Fiction and the Nonfiction of Confessions"

Description:
This dissertation examines literary style and problematics of genre in the writing of Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Hniadzko, Iryna (creator)
Mihailovic, Alexandar (Advisor)
Golstein, Vladimir (Reader)
Levitsky, Alexander (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Slavic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Russian literature
Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
non-fiction
Interviews
super-literature
Svetlana Alexievich
historic trauma
Collection:
Slavic Studies
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"The Way Comes about as We Walk It": The Huainanzi and Classical Daoist Ethics

Description:
This dissertation is a detailed study of ethics in the second-century BCE text Huainanzi, and its implications for our understanding of classical Daoist ethics in …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Duperon, Matthew Lee (creator)
Roth, Harold (Director)
Rosemont, Henry (Reader)
Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
Cladis, Mark (Reader)
Bush, Stephen (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
daoism
huainanzi
Dewey
Taoism
Ethics
Huainan zi
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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"To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South":Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949

Description:
Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Cortina, Caroline C. (creator)
Patterson, James (Director)
Self, Robert (Reader)
Campbell, James (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
Will W. Alexander
Howard W. Odum
Mary McLeod Bethune
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Jessie Daniel Ames
American South
Sex
Civil rights
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Southern Regional Council
Odum, Howard Washington > 1884-1954
Bethune, Mary McLeod > 1875-1955
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins > 1883-1961
Ames, Jessie Daniel > 1883-1972
Southern States
Collection:
History
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"Until We Weep": Rhode Island Protestant Christian Churches and Moving Beyond a Diversity Paradigm to Feeling Equality

Description:
Underlying, interweaving with, and impacting the implementation of diversity paradigms are racialized emotions present in an organization. However, emotions are under-engaged in literature on organizations’ …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Bell, Jocelyn Tirzah (creator)
Pacewicz, Joshua (Advisor)
Hirschman, Daniel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
emotions
Church
Nonprofit organizations
Focus groups
Racial justice
Collection:
Sociology
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"You Divided Sea by Your Might": The "Conflict Myth" and the Biblical Tradition

Description:
In "'You Divided Sea by Your Might': The 'Conflict Myth' and the Biblical Tradition," I analyze the ancient west Asian theme of divine combat between …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Ballentine, Debra Scoggins (creator)
Olyan, Saul (Director)
Rutz, Matthew (Reader)
Kraemer, Ross (Reader)
Stowers, Stanley (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Baal
Anzu
Marduk
Bible
Myth
Baal (Canaanite deity)
Enuma elish
Anzu (Epic)
Leviathan
Marduk (Babylonian deity)
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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$L^p$ Dirichlet problem for second order elliptic operators having a BMO anti-symmetric part

Description:
In this thesis we study the $L^p$ Dirichlet problem for second order divergence-form operators having a BMO antisymmetric part. To be precise, for the divergence-form …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Li, Linhan (creator)
Pipher, Jill (Advisor)
Dong, Hongjie (Reader)
Pausader, Benoit (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Mathematics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Differential equations, Partial
Harmonic analysis
Collection:
Mathematics
Theses and Dissertations
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'Make me a Fruitfull Vine:' Dealing with Infertility in Early Modern England

Description:
Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Oren-Magidor, Daphna (creator)
Harris, Tim (Director)
Nummedal, Tara (Reader)
Sluhovsky, Moshe (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
early modern England
Infertility
Medicine
Sex
Religion
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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'Population Prescriptions': State, Morality, and Population Politics in Contemporary Russia

Description:
This dissertation explores how post-Soviet Russia's demographic reality came to be conceived of as a dramatic national problem and as an object of government intervention. …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Leykin, Inna (creator)
Smith, Daniel (Director)
Lutz, Catherine (Reader)
Brown, Keith (Reader)
Rivkin-Fish, Michele (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Population Politics
Postsocialism
Anthropology of the State
Kinship and Family
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
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'The Feel of Not to Feel It': British Romanticism, Melancholic Historiography, and the Degree Zero of Emotion

Description:
The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Block, Daniel Robert (creator)
Keach, William (Director)
Khalip, Jacques (Reader)
Bernstein, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
British Romanticism
affect studies
Hume
Wordsworth
Scott
Keats
Historiography
Wordsworth, William
Scott, Walter > 1771-1832
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
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'There Goes HOBBS, the Atheist!' On Hobbes on Religion

Description:
Interpreters of Thomas Hobbes take two distinctive approaches to his views on religion, either rendering God foundational to his vision or giving primacy to human …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
MacMillan, Alissa Amy (creator)
Bagger, Matthew (Director)
Larmore, Charles (Reader)
Cladis, Mark (Reader)
Lewis, Thomas (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Hobbes
Religion
Naturalism
Hobbes, Thomas > 1588-1679
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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'Unhackneyed Solitudes': Recycled Fragment as Lyric Voice in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath

Description:
My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Rayburn, Laurel G (creator)
Blasing, Mutlu (Director)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Lyric voice
Moore
Bishop
Plath
recycled
genre
Literary form
Plath, Sylvia
Collection:
English
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(Re)configuring Dirty Bodies: Early AIDS, Melodramas, and the Work of Remembering and Reimagining

Description:
Andy’s honors thesis in Ethnic Studies critically examines visual representations of AIDS and perceived associated communities. Through a deployment of cleanliness as an analytic, “(Re)configuring …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Pham, Andy (creator)
Weinstein, Debbie (thesis advisor)
Ramos, Nic (reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Public health
AIDS (Disease)
Hygiene
Visual Culture
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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(Re)Imagining Brown 250+: histories of violence in the making of an American university

Description:
This thesis asks, what histories are forgotten in order for the campus to uncritically celebrate its origins in 1764? And, how does this present-day process …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Young, Phoebe (author)
Martinez, Monica (advisor)
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brown University
Slavery
Colonization
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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(RE)PRODUCING THE CITIZENRY: REPRODUCTION AND THE PALESTINIAN (QUASI) STATE-BUILDING PROJECT

Description:
While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and the news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Hammoudeh, Weeam S (creator)
Hogan, Dennis (Director)
Chorev, Nitsan (Reader)
White , Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Palestine/Palestinians
state-building
Fertility
Demography
Population policy
Nation-building
Collection:
Sociology
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(Un)Making the Racial State: Decolonization, Race, and the Ideal Bureaucrat in Bolivia

Description:
Despite the increasing presence of formerly excluded ethnoracial populations in state spaces across the Americas, research seldom investigates how race shapes their experiences within the …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Bohrt, Marcelo A. (creator)
Itzigsohn, José (Advisor)
Heller, Patrick (Reader)
Henry, Paget (Reader)
Loveman, Mara (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Latin America
Political sociology
Racism
Anti-racism
Bolivia
Racial movements
Race in organizations
Ethnography of the State
Racial State
Racial Bureaucracy
Collection:
Sociology
Theses and Dissertations
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1)The Role of Sucrose Non-Fermenting Related Kinase in Ameliorating Aortic Endothelial Dysfunction & Atherosclerotic Risk 2)Can Literature Weighted GRS for Height Predict Beta Cell Function and Insulin Resistance in Han Chinese?

Description:
The Role of Sucrose Non-Fermenting Related Kinase in Ameliorating Aortic Endothelial Dysfunction & Atherosclerotic Risk Background - Atherosclerotic complications such as ischemic heart disease and …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Teng, Chih Yun Angelica (creator)
Liu, Simin (Advisor)
Xu, Haiyan (Reader)
Chan, Juliana (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Inflammation
Atherosclerosis
Genome Wide Association
Genetic Risk Score
Height
Pancreatic beta cells
SNRK
Han Chinese
Hong Kong
Primary Aortic Endothelial Cell
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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