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 …
This thesis traces histories of caste, brahmanical patriarchy, and South Asian migration to the United States to tell a story about South Asian diasporic identity …
A social-contextual approach to health promotion includes exploration of the influence of faith leaders and religious communities in health behaviors and outcomes. This thesis reports …
This thesis explores dreams in the works of the ancient Jewish authors Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. Although the two wrote in different cities, …
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 …
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 …
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’ …
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 …
This paper employs the social ecological model to examine changes in the association of demographic, relationship, and school-level environmental variables in predicting youth uptake of …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
This thesis traces the development of carceral feminist logics in the Rhode Island mainstream feminist movement, beginning in the 1970s with feminism’s second wave and …
Abstract of (POST)-PARANOIA FROM HOBBES TO ARENDT, by Noga Rotem, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021 Common responses to the seeming return of ‘the paranoid style’ …
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 …
