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“Mapping Where Once Ignored”: Narratives of Black Spaces in Traditional Guidebooks vs. The Green Book

Description:
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 …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Oliver, Avery C. (creator)
Hamlin, Françoise (thesis advisor)
Guterl, Matthew (reader)
Ater, Renée (reader)
Brown University. Africana Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
race
Tourism
Space
Guidebooks
Language:
English
Collection:
Africana Studies
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“Me Teaching Me”: A Qualitative Analysis of Mindfulness Training for Black Pregnant Women at Risk of Hypertension

Description:
Background/aims: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are the most common medical diagnoses for pregnant people in the US, with disproportionately high rates among Black mothers. …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Gregory, Regan (creator)
Bublitz, Margaret (Advisor)
Sun, Shufang (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Pregnancy
Gestational Hypertension
Racial justice
Mindfulness Training
integrative health
Collection:
Public Health
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“Monument… to our love”: Brooklyn’s Sephardic Home for the Aged, 1951-2015

Description:
This thesis looks at a Sephardic Jewish old-age home in Brooklyn that operated from 1951-2015, tracing its founding, development, and eventual decline and assessing its …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Farbiarz, Sarah L (creator)
Grasso, Christopher (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Aging
Jewish history
Sephardim
Language:
English
Collection:
History
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“Mouvements estranges & extraordinaires”: Dance, Witchcraft, and the Body in Early Modern France

Description:
This thesis looks at the construction of the body of the witch in early modern France. It focuses on movement, particularly dance, arguing that the …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Loren, Michal (creator)
Nummedal, Tara (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Medieval and early modern world
France
Dance history
Witchcraft--Social aspects
Disability studies
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“My Involvement in These Events Is Not a Happy Memory:” Operation Igloo White and George Kistiakowsky’s Failed Effort to De-Escalate the Vietnam War

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Smolar, Alexander (creator)
Smith, Kerry (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982
Cold War (1945-1989)
Technology--Military aspects
Asia--Ho Chi Minh Trail
Bombing, Aerial
Peace movements
Language:
English
Collection:
History
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“On Curses and Issues in the Women’s Synagogue”: The Social and Religious Centrality of Women’s Synagogues in Ashkenaz, 1350-1500

Description:
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 …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Nelkin, Nesya B L (creator)
Remensnyder, Amy (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Germany
late medieval
Jewish history
Jewish women--Religious life
Women in synagogues
Women--Middle Ages
Synagogue architecture
Language:
English
Collection:
History
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“Ought” and Deliberation: Exploring the Deliberative Reading of the Practical “Ought”

Description:
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 …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Renaud, Mary (creator)
Dreier, Jamie (Advisor)
Christensen, David (Reader)
Dowell, Janice (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Practical "Ought"
Deliberative Reading
Deliberation
"Ought" Implies "Can"
Principle of Contextually Relevant Alternatives
Collection:
Philosophy
Theses and Dissertations
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“People have very gendered dreams about their children”: A Qualitative Description of Provider Perspectives on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

Description:
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 …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Wagle, Sojas S (creator)
Operario, Don (thesis advisor)
Sun, Shufang (reader)
Forcier, Michelle (reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Qualitative research
Transgender youth
Gender identity disorders
Language:
English
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“Polite Anarchy”: An Analysis of the Institutional and Leadership Forces behind Judicial Confirmation Delay in the Senate, 1980 to Present

Description:
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 …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Lichtblau, Matthew S (creator)
Schiller, Wendy (thesis advisor)
Cheit, Ross (reader)
Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
United States. Congress. Senate
Courts
Language:
English
Collection:
Political Science
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“Pornographies of flight”: Anal(ytic) Eroticism in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
St. Germain, Tristan (Author)
Redfield, Marc (thesis advisor)
Gould, Philip (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Eroticism in literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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“Redefining” the College Experience: Students Who Abstain from Alcohol and Other Drugs

Description:
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 …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Phillips, Kiana (Author)
Villarreal, Christina (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Education (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Alcohol abstinence
Temperance
Language:
English
Collection:
Education Theses and Dissertations
Education
Theses and Dissertations
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“Socio-demographic Factors, Not Race Alone”: Describing Racial and Socio-demographic Disparities in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Physical Activity, 2011-2019

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Brinker, Morgan (creator)
Aubert, Ronald E. (thesis advisor)
Smith, Katherine F. (reader)
Brown University. Biology Undergraduate Education (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Nutrition
Social status
Disparities
Determinants
Health--Social aspects
Public health--Social aspects
Exercise
socio demographic
Language:
English
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
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“TELL ME, YOUNG MOTHERS, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CITIZEN?” DEBATES OVER MOTHERHOOD IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA

Description:
In my dissertation, I explore the origins and transformation of public discussion on motherhood in nineteenth-century Russia. By the late 1850s, motherhood was no longer …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Smykovskaya, Ksenia (creator)
Golstein, Vladimir (Advisor)
Evdokimova, Svetlana (Reader)
Fenghi, Fabrizio (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Slavic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Gender
Russian literature
Feminism
Motherhood
russian history
Collection:
Slavic Studies
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“That neat, angel-devil theory was no longer useful:” Prisoners Against Rape, The D.C. Rape Crisis Center and the Partnership that Transcended the Prison Walls and Critiqued the Society that Built Them

Description:
“While I was on the outside I raped women. Now, on the inside, I rape men. I want to stop raping. Can you help me?” …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Kupetz, Sophie R. (creator)
Shibusawa, Naoko (thesis advisor)
Hamlin, Françoise (thesis advisor)
Remensnyder, Amy (reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Imprisonment
Community organization
Sex crimes
Community education
Women's studies
African Americans--Study and teaching
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“That odd whir of wings in the head”: Illness, Treatment, and Virginia Woolf’s Modernism

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Harvey, Anna Eve (creator)
Armstrong, Paul (thesis advisor)
Readey, John (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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“The bond of said child’s blood through her, his slave”: The Social Worlds of Slavery in Late Medieval Marseille

Description:
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 …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Steinman, Charles E. (creator)
Remensnyder, Amy (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Middle Ages
Slavery
France--Marseille
Social history--Medieval
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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“The name of this is fourth trimester. A lot of people don’t know about it”: A Qualitative Analysis to Inform the Development of a Web-Based Tool

Description:
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 …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Rodriguez, Mariela Fernanda (creator)
Vivier, Patrick (Advisor)
Bourjeily, Ghada (Reader)
Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Qualitative research
Pregnancy
health disparities
Postnatal care
maternal health
Fourth Trimester
Collection:
Public Health
Theses and Dissertations
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“The System Played a Glitch on Me:” Systemic Contributors to Burnout at a Refugee Resettlement Agency in Massachusetts

Description:
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. …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Cox, Isabel I (creator)
Flores, Andrea (thesis advisor)
Polatty, Dave (reader)
Sackett, Blair (reader)
Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Refugees
Burn out (Psychology)
United States. Resettlement Administration
Social case work--Management
Civil service
Language:
English
Collection:
Office of the Dean of the College
Independent Concentrations
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“The Theater of Formidable Battles” The Struggle for Nationalism in Modern Brazil, 1955-1985

Description:
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). …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Pagliarini, Andre Ricardo (creator)
Green, James (Advisor)
Cope, R. Douglas (Reader)
Williams, Daryle (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazil
Cold War (1945-1989)
Latin America
Nationalism
Developmentalism
Partido Comunista Brasileiro
Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro
Movimento Democrático Brasileiro
Prestes, Luís Carlos, 1898-1990
Tenentismo
Collection:
History
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“The Unlikely Homelands of George Abramovic Koval”

Description:
In this thesis, I look at an example of one family swept up in the migratory currents of twentieth-century Jewish politics to show how various …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Gomberg Shkolnikova, Maria (creator)
Pollock, Ethan (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
History, Modern
Language:
English
Collection:
History
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