習字 (Graphein) is a series of visual poetic experiments dedicated to an aesthetic computational study of visual and linguistic patterns in Chinese characters. It is …
Using over one million tweets from Spanish speaking Twitter users in South America I aim to analyze in depth the linguistic differences in the region. …
Whether and how does white habitus change when actors make a concerted effort to counteract color-blind racist ideologies and the toxicity of whiteness in their …
How do the concepts and practices of “music” and “community” intersect in the experiences of the various constituencies of a Providence-based music school grounded in …
The objective of this study was to elicit patient perspectives on the experience of living with serious illness while incarcerated. The study was conducted at …
This thesis examines three lesbian-feminist publishing collectives in the United States between 1974 and 1985: New Victoria Printers and Publishers, the Bloodroot Collective, and Persephone …
This study explores the experiences of sex workers within the HIV continuum of care (CoC) that is made up of HIV education, prevention, and treatment …
There is a shortage of work on the role of self-reflection and “spiritual indwelling” (Holmes 2017) in Black healing faith practices, let alone how these …
This project offers a revision to the social historiography of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. Due to the increase in gendered and sexualized rhetoric …
Background & Aims: The ghettoization of Jews during the Holocaust created a public health crisis of which there has been little study, creating a gap …
This dissertation is a study of the shifting definitions and political currency of nationalism in Brazil from 1955 through the end of the dictatorship (1964-1985). …
Based on original ethnographic research at a refugee resettlement agency, this thesis argues that various systemic contributors to burnout are overlooked in the existing literature. …
Objective The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the pregnant and postpartum healthcare experiences of Black women in the United States to inform …
This thesis explores the precarious and uncertain position of slaves in Marseille during the long fourteenth century (approximately 1280-1430). It argues that in Marseille, the …
Background: Studies are clear about the protective nature of a balanced diet and physical activity against chronic conditions, but review of the current literature indicates …
Although the US college is predominantly understood as an environment characterized by heavy substance use, studies have illustrated that about one in every five college …
This thesis explores growing delay in the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of federal judges. After introducing the practices of modern judicial selection, it investigates the institutional …
Purpose: Transgender and gender diverse (abbr. trans) youth are a vulnerable population faced with a disproportionate burden of adverse mental health outcomes. Parental support as …
This dissertation attempts to make sense of several intuitions and apparent inconsistencies in connection with the use of practical "ought" claims under conditions of uncertainty …
This thesis examines women’s synagogues––permanent spaces for women’s prayer that were distinct from the men’s prayer space, either in other rooms of the synagogue or …
The relationship between science and the military is critical to understanding foreign policy decisions and the impact that militaries can have in far-flung regions. More …
This project explores themes of Black community, mobility, and the inclusion of underrepresented narratives in perceptions of space. It positions the Green Book as a …
Background: In South Africa, individuals who visit a healthcare setting during pregnancy are tested for HIV, and if positive, are started on antiretroviral therapy (ART) …
This project is an interdisciplinary analysis of radical care and its employment as a strategy for community resistance. It explores the scholarship of radical care …
Background & Objective: Sexual minority (lesbian, bisexual, and queer) women continue to experience worse mental health outcomes and are more likely to express dissatisfaction with …
Background: Long-term patient engagement and retention in care has been an ongoing challenge within the HIV health system. Many patients who are thought to have …
This project explores the many ways in which women in the Black Panther Party navigated their roles as Black women, mothers, and revolutionaries and theorized …
In my thesis, I investigate the architecture and materiality of cloistered life at Mount Grace Priory, the best preserved Carthusian monastery in England. Although scholars …
This project maps the contours of filial duties in the realm of eldercare and the forces compelling intergenerational performances of care in early modern England. …
In 1715, the British government began the arduous process of integrating the British army’s disciplinary system into the overall institutional infrastructure of the state. Parliament …
As antebellum slavery’s organizing logic was spatial discipline, the elasticity of “geographies of containment” mapped the daily understanding of the institution of racial slavery in …
In Australia during the twentieth century, more than half a million children grew up in out-of-home care, spanning over 800 state-run institutions across the country. …
This thesis presents a systematic review of PHRs and health literacy followed by a mixed method study of Midwifery patients at clinic in Providence, RI.
In the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, James II was overthrown for attacking the law and institutions in England, and trying to establish Catholic absolutism. Universities …
This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of house music, the rhythmically-focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial “maroon” spaces of Chicago’s queer, black, and …
What is photography? This deceptively simple question was foundational to the creation of photographic theory in the early 1970s, and has remained central to scholars …
Background Recently, the Philippines had one of the highest HIV incidence-prevalence ratios globally. Prevention strategies include education, distribution of condoms, and awareness campaigns. The Department …
Over the twelve years of the Salvadoran civil war (1979—1992), the Salvadoran population in the United States grew from roughly 95,000 to more than half …
In telling the place-specific history of the Chicago Bulls, this study argues that sports franchises at the end of the twentieth century shaped and capitalized …
This thesis explores the intellectual history of Jewish feminist prayer over the last third of the twentieth century through the lens of the Brown Women’s …
In recent years, the disproportionate rates of maternal morbidity and mortality in the US within Black communities have drawn more attention to the work of …
As one of the first state hospitals in the United States, the Worcester State Hospital (est. 1833) set a precedent for asylum design and administration …
Climate change and the difficulty of addressing displacement are not future problems: they are challenges the international community faces and has been facing for some …
This thesis analyzes how Nigerian characters interact with North African/Middle Easterners, South Asians, and East Asians, across two generations of Nigerian literature. Through a close …
This dissertation argues that much of the critical imagination of mid-twentieth century liberal thinkers in the United States is best understood as a worldview shaped …
The recent recovery of manuscripts of a Sanskrit text calling itself the Skandapurāṇa has provided a critical impetus for this project of rethinking early Śaiva …
Abstract of “‘Art on the Edge between Creation and Dissolution’: Nakhwa, the Korean Pyrography,” by He Ri Kwon, Degree M.A., Brown University, May 2020. This …
Abstract of “‘A machine which winds its own springs’: Fictions of Self-invention in the Eighteenth Century” by Swetha Regunathan, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2018 As …
Quantum Mechanics does well in its description the phenomena of small particles but suffers from some significant flaws. Most importantly, Quantum Mechanics struggles to determine …
Acute urinary retention (AUR), or the sudden inability to empty the bladder completely, can result in permanent impairment of bladder smooth muscle (BSM), also known …
Antibiotic resistance and the emergence of multidrug resistant bacteria poses a great public health threat and complicates treatment of infections. One of the most impactful …
Abstract of β-Lactamase Responsive Delivery of Bacteriophages for the Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, by Alison M Veintimilla, ScM, Brown University, May, 2022. Antibiotic …
Transition metal mediated methods for the conversion of CO2 have the potential to provide more sustainable and economically attractive syntheses for acrylate and other commodities. …
This dissertation analyzes the representation of the orphan in the contemporary Portuguese literature that constitutes a critical revisiting of the end of Portuguese colonialism in …
O estudo realizado nesta dissertação debruça-se sobre a relação incontestável entre o escritor e o militante político no contexto revolucionário africano, por via do caso …
The first part of this thesis concerns conservation laws subject to random initial conditions. Using a discrete set of values for the solution, one can …
As the release of novel chemicals into the environment outpaces the ability to perform exhaustive toxicological assessments, there is growing concern about the effects of …
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process in which epithelial cells undergo biochemical and morphological transition to acquire a mesenchymal phenotype. It has been shown …
Using a life course perspective, I examine cohabitation in a cohort of Danish women and men born in 1954, whom formed families as cohabitation became …
Intimate relationships are important social relationships for adults, yet research on dating and sex rarely focuses on the experiences of racialized women from immigrant families. …
This dissertation explores the intersections of class relations, social mobility, and bodily self-care. In recent years, yoga has become increasingly accessible to Mexicans through state-sponsored …
The question of compositional unity has intrigued Pindaric scholarship for centuries. I seek a new approach to the question by examining the role which the …
The primary objective of the research presented in this dissertation is the development and application of Spatial Frequency Heterodyne Imaging (SFHI), a novel x-ray imaging …
The primary objective of research described in this dissertation was the development of an X-ray imaging technique to enhance normal X-ray phase contrast imaging. Phase …
Taking as my point of departure the work of early social scientist and dramatist Henry Mayhew, I examine how early social research appropriates sentimental themes …
Troubled by the uncertain status of language as an instrument of knowledge, early modern writers sought new means to discover, communicate, and even produce knowledge. …
This dissertation examines the emerging cultural question of vernacular writing during the mid-sixteenth century in France. Combining cultural history, literary studies, and critical theory, it …
The dissertation examines how poetry from the mid seventeenth century to the mid eighteenth century sought to dissociate allegiances from their political implications and disentangle …
Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom documents the experiences of six queer and/or trans fans of the actual …
Abstract of World Donut: Cambodians, Donut Shops, Los Angeles, 1975-Present, by Erin Michelle Curtis, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016 At the turn of the twenty-first …
North Africa’s densely occupied urban landscape, well-documented sources of historical and archaeological data, and long history of colonial interactions make the region a natural fit …
Prefrontal cortical dysfunction is well-established in schizophrenia and is thought to contribute to working memory (WM) impairment, which occurs early in development before the onset …
Work is a social determinant of health that creates and sustains health inequities. This dissertation aims to elucidate pathways and quantify associations between work and …
Throughout 2011, Chile was swept by a wave of protests using performance to communicate demands for educational reform. Ranging from flash mobs to kiss-ins, these …
This is a study of formal, royal Egyptian stelae that were carved into living-rock outcrops. The driving research question is twofold: under what circumstances did …
This thesis investigates contemporary queer identity in the Maghreb and in Maghrebi diaspora in France through the works of Nina Bouraoui. It forges a queer …
Background: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective biomedical HIV prevention method first introduced in the South African public sector in 2012 to MSM and sex …
The relationship between women’s employment and fertility generally shows an inverse relationship in industrialized societies. Italy is an exception in this regard because it exhibits …
In Trauma and Recovery, author Judith Herman describes a cultural investment in the belief that some forms of violence and trauma are so uncomfortable, shameful, …
This dissertation recovers the experiences of women in arms by investigating their representations during the Italian Risorgimento. An analysis of their experience can illuminate the …
In my dissertation, "Women Healers Crossing Gender Role Boundaries in Old French Narrative," I examine the role and representation of women healers in the literature …
What does it mean to bear witness in contemporary Palestinian visual culture? This dissertation analyzes and historicizes Palestinian films and artworks that reconfigure witnessing as …
Mechanically produced time grids have been present in music-making at least since the advent of the metronome, and much of today’s popular music is rhythmically …