Browsing by Author "Brooke Ackerly"
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Attanasi, Katherine (2009-09-21)Department: ReligionThis study employs qualitative methods to describe black South African women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS in two Pentecostal church communities. It analyzes beliefs and practices, connecting gender roles and divine healing ...
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Williams, Damian Terry (2010-12-21)Department: SociologyWithin the “entrepreneurial city,” a distinctive organizational and spatial environment has emerged that serves to manage the activities of dispossessed populations, referred to here as an “organizational ghetto.” Previous ...
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Loonat, Farhana (2014-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWithin liberal societies victims of gender-based violence have access to institutions of justice but these do not always guarantee them access to justice. There is a misfit between the assumptions of liberal institutions, ...
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Clifford, Stacy Anne (2011-12-10)Department: Political ScienceIn my dissertation, I argue that democratic theory harbors a paradox of personhood in which theorists hinge human equality to the concept of personhood, but then invest personhood with a cluster of cognitive requirements ...
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Koul, Ashish (2017-07-27)Department: HistoryThis dissertation focuses on the Arains, a lower-status Muslim community of colonial Punjab. I examine the historical construction of the Arains’ ‘caste’ identity and its deployment in the domains of reformist Islam, ...
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Chen, Yong (2005-06-15)Department: ReligionThis project examines how the controversy on Confucian religiosity has shaped the conceptualization of Confucianism and of religion, and how it has contributed to the understanding of Chinese tradition and modernity in ...
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Katz, Sheila Marie (2008-07-22)Department: SociologySweeping changes in 1996 to the national welfare system prioritized “work first” policies and restricted educational opportunities for mothers in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. The purpose of ...
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Cusick, Carolyn Marie (2012-10-03)Department: PhilosophyI demonstrate how listening functions in deliberative endeavors. Because speaking does not much matter if no one is listening, I argue that democratic participation can be undermined by those who simply refuse to listen ...
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Hathaway, Jennifer I. (2009-07-09)Department: Teaching and LearningThe study investigated the impact of teachers’ literacy-related beliefs on their participation in the professional development setting of literacy coaching. It also expanded current theoretical understandings regarding the ...