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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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TitleWho teaches where?

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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TitleThe transformation of metropolitan universities

AuthorHill, Diane

Date Created2012

Degree Date2012-05

DescriptionDuring the past decade, urban colleges and universities have been undergoing changes attributable to the reemergence of outreach initiatives. More recently, these outreach efforts have been...

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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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TitleShootings and crime places

AuthorXu, Jie

Date Created2011

Degree Date2011-05

DescriptionThis dissertation presents a systematic approach to identify the determinants of gun shooting and forecast the distribution of gun shooting. Using frameworks of opportunities theories and social...

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TitleEducating students about AIDS through art

AuthorGrosso, Ashley

Date Created2011

Degree Date2011-05

DescriptionThis dissertation evaluates the effects and implementation of an education program aimed at increasing knowledge and changing attitudes about HIV and AIDS among high school students. Using a...

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TitleHungarian strong men: a dictator, a cardinal, and nationalism today

AuthorDalina, Stephen

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-10

DescriptionThe Syrian Refugee crisis, which began in 2010, has brought Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the forefront of global political news. It has revealed Hungarian political discourse is...

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TitleFolk feminism: the women of the American folk revival

AuthorMahmassani, Addie

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation approaches the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s from a feminist perspective, offering the concept of folk feminism as an analytical framework for...

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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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TitleNew presidential war powers

AuthorNeeley, Alexander J.

Date Created2018

Degree Date2018-05

DescriptionAmerican foreign policy has drastically changed since September 11, 2001. In the decade before that date America was engaged in a series of smaller conflicts, but nothing sustained over a long period...