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AuthorKhalil, Deena

Date Created2012

Degree Date2012-05

DescriptionResearchers have demonstrated that schools with low-income and predominantly minority students, especially those in urban districts, have the most difficulty recruiting and retaining teachers. In...

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TitleShades of life and death

AuthorOku, Makiko

Date Created2011

Degree Date2011-10

DescriptionThis dissertation reconceptualizes the problematics of wartime sexual and gender-based violence and examines the ontological question of why rape is used as a weapon of war. As human bodies are...

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TitleThe immanent American fantastic: immanence and liminality in contemporary U.S. fantastic literature

AuthorCiccolo, Drew J.

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation is a study of “the American fantastic,” i.e. the literary fantastic in an American context. I suggest that conceiving of the fantastic in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and...

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TitlePolitical instability in petrostates

AuthorDemkiv, Anita

Date Created2012

Degree Date2012-05

DescriptionThis dissertation explores the correlation between petrostates’ oil revenue fluctuations and political stability or political instability. Petrostates (countries heavily reliant on oil revenues)...

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TitleThe problematics of independence

AuthorBarnes, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph)

Date Created2012

Degree Date2012-05

DescriptionSince Independence in 1962, Jamaican society has witnessed a substantial ebb and flow of dominating political ideologies. At the center of this political friction are the Premierships of Michael...

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TitleThe Brick

AuthorSinger, Sean Daniel

Date Created2013

Degree Date2013-05

DescriptionThe Brick: Newark’s Artistic Inquiry into Urban Crisis reads Newark through its artists, through their biographies and oral histories, and through their work as texts, and reads its artists through...

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TitleA tangled pathology

AuthorChernesky, Jason M.

Date Created2013

Degree Date2013-01

DescriptionAs AIDS proliferated in Newark, New Jersey through the 1980s, local AIDS-care advocates conceptualized AIDS in ways that reflected the disease’s impact on Newarkers. In reframing a problem that was...

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TitleReconciliation in former Yugoslavia

AuthorBryan, Nicole

Date Created2010

Degree Date2010-10

DescriptionThe aim of this dissertation is to gain insight into the role and meaning of reconciliation in the post-conflict communities of former Yugoslavia. The study is designed to create an understanding of...

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TitleThe castaways: affect, alienation, and authorship in American sitcoms of the 1960s

AuthorDurst, Lawrence Bruce

Date Created2024

Degree Date2024-05

DescriptionThis dissertation reassesses a novel style of American sitcom that emerged in the mid-1960s in which serene depictions of suburbia that had dominated the genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

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TitleAir pollution, meteorology and public health in New Jersey

AuthorRoberts-Semple, Dawn

Date Created2012

Degree Date2012-05

DescriptionAir pollutant concentrations vary with local meteorological conditions and can have deleterious effects on human health. This dissertation adapts an integrated approach to improve understanding about...