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“For the Good of the King’s Service”: The British Legal-Military State, 1715-1781

Description:
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 …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Tatum III, William P (creator)
Harris, Timothy (Director)
Wood, Gordon (Reader)
Urwin, Gregory (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
military justice
courts martial
British Army
British Empire
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Great Britain. Army
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“Forget not the Sorrows of thy Mother”: Care for the Elderly in Early Modern England (1650-1750)

Description:
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. …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Mermin, Talia L. (creator)
Nummedal, Tara (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Old age
Older people--Care
Language:
English
Collection:
History
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“Good food, bad food”: Diabetes, medico-moralism, and the (re)shaping of identity

Description:
This senior thesis project explores the complicated intersection of food and culture, diabetes, biopower, and identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an endocrinology clinic …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Sarig, Ya'el (creator)
Smith, Daniel (thesis advisor)
Glasser, Irene (reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
Diabetes
Food habits
Eating disorders
Food
Medicalization
Culture
Biopolitics
performativity
Subjectivity
Language:
English
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
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“Hidden with Christ”: The Visibility and Agency of Seclusion at Mount Grace Priory

Description:
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 …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Marchetti, Kristen (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (thesis advisor)
Lincoln, Evelyn (reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Material culture
Architecture
Carthusians
Charterhouses
Monks
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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“Hidden with Christ”: The Visibility and Agency of Seclusion at Mount Grace Priory

Description:
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 …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Marchetti, Kristen (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (thesis advisor)
Lincoln, Evelyn (reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Material culture
Architecture
Carthusians
Charterhouses
Monks
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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“Hold Onto the Land”: Maintaining the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation Through Identity, Culture, and Autonomy

Description:
The revitalization of Mashantucket can only be understood through a throughline of continued identification with the label of Pequot and connection to the land of …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Clarke, Mary (creator)
Fisher, Linford (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Indigenous peoples
Oral history
Kinship
Twentieth century
Identity
Indian reservations
Cultural preservation
Connecticut
Federally recognized Indian tribes
Land claims
Pequot Indians
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“I Am A Revolutionary Black Woman”: Black Power Visions in the Narratives of Women in the Black Panther Party

Description:
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 …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Smith, Sydney L. (creator)
Hamlin, Françoise (thesis advisor)
Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah (reader)
Brown University. Africana Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Autobiography
Women, Black
Black Power
Motherhood
Language:
English
Collection:
Africana Studies
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“I am going to make tricks… whereby I am going to be a new person again”: Reimagining the framework for HIV care engagement from a cascade to a cycle model

Description:
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 …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Beeman, Aly (creator)
Lurie, Mark (Advisor)
Bengtson, Angela (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Qualitative research
HIV
South Africa
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“I go to therapy for conversations without judgment”: Insights into Mental Health and Mental Health Service Use and Satisfaction Among Sexual Minority Women

Description:
Background & Objective: Sexual minority (lesbian, bisexual, and queer) women continue to experience worse mental health outcomes and are more likely to express dissatisfaction with …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Haigh, Sylvia Valle (creator)
Wetle, Terrie Fox (Advisor)
White Hughto, Jaclyn (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mental health
Sexual minority women
Mental health services
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“I Have Not Come Here Alone, I Carry My People in My Bones:” Histories of Puerto Rican Community Resistance

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Rodriguez, Adriana (creator)
Rodriguez, Daniel (thesis advisor)
Shibusawa, Naoko (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Young Lords Party
Puerto Rico
Capitalism
Hurricane Maria (2017)
Mutual Aid
Language:
English
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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“I hustle to put food on the table for my children”: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis Of Financial (In)Security Among Pregnant And Postpartum Women Living With HIV In Cape Town, South Africa

Description:
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) …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Kopeka, Mamaswatsi Pearl (creator)
Pellowski, Jennifer (Advisor)
Harrison, Abigail (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
South Africa--Cape Town
Black Women
Intersectionality
black feminist studies
HIV-positive persons
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“I Wanted to Challenge Myself!”: Children’s Developing Metacognitive Understanding of Effort in a Building Task

Description:
Few studies have explored the metacognitive mechanisms behind effort-based decision making in dynamic paradigms designed intentionally for young children. In this preregistered study, we introduced …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Kiefer, Sarah L. (creator)
Sobel, David (Advisor)
Buchsbaum, Daphna (Reader)
Shenhav, Amitai (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Metacognition
Cognitive Development
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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“In Sisterhood I Will Remain Strong:” Indigenous Women’s Resistances, Writings, and Relations, 1970s-1980s

Description:
This thesis explores Indigenous women’s activisms in the late-1970s to mid-1980s United States, which filled a dire lacuna in organizing to address the needs of …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Doumani, Yara (creator)
Shibusawa, Naoko (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples--Women
Activism
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“In the face of total austerity”: Harm reduction providers’ views on and experiences with delivering sexual and reproductive health services to people who use drugs

Description:
Background: People who use drugs face barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare in institutional healthcare settings. Harm reduction settings are perceived by people who …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Byers, Mikaela (creator)
Collins, Alexandra (Reader)
Agénor, Madina (Advisor)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Qualitative research
Harm reduction
Reproductive Justice
People who use drugs
SRH care
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion?”: Hip Hop as Religious, from Bronx Roots to Mumble Rap

Description:
Is hip hop a euphemism for a new religion? This thesis will attempt to chart hip hop’s trajectory from its humble beginnings in Bronx neighborhoods …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Novoa, Andrew (creator)
Nahme, Paul (thesis advisor)
Vaca, Daniel (reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Religion
Music
Popular culture
Rap (Music)
Hip-hop
West, Kanye
Black popular culture
Language:
English
Collection:
Religious Studies
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“It’s The Wild West”: Organizational Context and Teacher Sensemaking in the Age of AI

Description:
Artificial intelligence has entered the K-12 classrooms faster than schools have been able to respond, leaving teachers to figure out what to do with it …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Jenkins Jr., Quentin (creator)
Carter, Prudence L. (Advisor)
Diamond, John B. (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Artificial intelligence
Teacher Discretion
Sensemaking
Street-Level Bureaucracy
Organizational Context
Loose Coupling
Collection:
Sociology
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“It’s underfunded, it’s fractured, it’s broken”: Stakeholder perspectives on Rhode Island’s mental health crisis care system

Description:
Nationwide, the need for mental health crisis care has trended upwards in recent years and currently exceeds capacity. This qualitative study aims to explore stakeholder …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Suben, Anna María del Pilar (creator)
Laws, M. Barton (Advisor)
Gaudiano, Brandon (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mental health
behavioral health
Mental health services
Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“Let a dead thing go”: The contemporary philosophies of herbal abortion providers in the United States following heightened reproductive regulation

Description:
Background & Aims. The contemporary, clandestine U.S. phenomenon of herbal abortion is informed by the customs of precolonial West African herbalists, Black healers enslaved in …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Covington, Meta Stridiron (creator)
Agénor, Madina (Advisor)
Brockmann, Bradley (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
biomedical model
Reproductive health
Abortion
Herbs--Therapeutic use
Purity, Ritual
Collection:
Public Health
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“Local Co-op Has Interesting Background”: Constructing Jewish Communism in the Bronx

Description:
For sixteen years in the early twentieth century, a group of Jewish Communists ran a housing cooperative in the Bronx, seeking to forge a fortress …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Mica Binder Maltzman (creator)
Hein, Benjamin (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Judaism
Communism
Housing, Cooperative
Language:
English
Collection:
History
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“Madness for Identity” or Overcoming Obstacles: A Qualitative Review of Self-Diagnosis among Gen-Z

Description:
Many people have an opinion regarding self-diagnosed mental health conditions, but few have an in-depth understanding of why individuals self-diagnose and what the process entails. …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Cork, Lily J. (creator)
Pacewicz, Josh (thesis advisor)
Mason, Katherine (reader)
Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Mental health
Diagnosis
Identity politics
Internet
Language:
English
Collection:
Sociology
Theses and Dissertations
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