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| 1 |  | "And a soul in ev'ry stone": the Iudic natures of pale fire and gravity's rainbow | Kennedy, Robert Oran | Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities; Nabokov; Vladimir; Nietzsche; Friedrich; Play; Pynchon; Thomas | The author argues that ecocriticism has overlooked important works of mid-20th-century American literature because of their unorthodox approaches to writing about nature. These unorthodox approaches revolve around the use of humor and play to formulate arguments about nature. The author argues tha... | 2015 |
| 2 |  | "Archives of the better world": the nineteenth-century historian's office and mormonism's archival flexibility | Jensen, Robin Scott | Archival history; Book history; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Mormonism; Textual studies; Utah history | During the nineteenth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon or LDS Church) established a Historian's Office. This office, under the direction of multiple church historians and recorders, used historical narrative and archival records to form a collective memory of the Morm... | 2019 |
| 3 |  | "Every least thing": reading Cormac McCarthy's literary ecologies for a practice of thinking ethics | Call, Christy | Agency; Cormac McCarthy; eco-pedagogy; ethics; network theory; ontology | Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing presents an ecocentric cosmology that diverges radically from the traditional anthropocentric model, which centralizes the primacy of humans. McCarthy's vision of "joinery" reformats the place of humanity to a position of equality with "every least thing." My fo... | 2015 |
| 4 |  | "I shall never be cited as a bad example": religious idealization and humanity in crusader figures in the chanson de Roland and Rolandslied | Lehnardt, Anna Samantha | Comparative literature; French literature; German literature | This text comparatively examines the tensions at play in the figural representations of Roland and Charlemagne/Karl in the Chanson de Roland and the Rolandslied, moving away from nationalist critiques of both works. It is primarily concerned with the juxtaposition between the idealized representatio... | 2018 |
| 5 |  | "I'll always be that awkward one": How mothers and adolescents jointly construct adolescent selves in conversation | Weeks, Trisha L. T. | adolescent development; conversation; identity; maternal scaffolding; narrative construction | Identity issues are a major concern in adolescence. Self-views inform and shape identity. Self views are negotiated through conversation about life events with important others. In this study, I analyze mother-teen conversations about identity confirming and identity challenging events from 92 adole... | 2013-05 |
| 6 |  | "Living with our toxic legacy": parafictional practice and the national toxic land/labor conservation service | Sussi, Joseph Michael | contemporary art; greenwashing; national wildlife refuge; parafiction; performance art; toxicity | The way in which land is used and developed by the United States government has recently, over the past decade, become a topic of interest to individual artists and collectives. The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service (NTLCS) is one such collective that tracks government funded greenwashi... | 2017 |
| 7 |  | "Lost. Lost. and Lost" : a narrative analysis of desistance in the context of parole | Sarver, Christian Marie | desistance processes; results; policy and practice | Desistance scholars argue that identity transformation is a central component of the processes through which offenders terminate a criminal career. Offenders' ability to craft a credible self-narrative that is incompatible with offending is essential to maintaining desistance in the stressed social ... | 2019 |
| 8 |  | "Making do" in the land of opportunity: an exploration of the economic integration of refugees in Utah | Young, Yvette M. | sociology; American studies | In this project, I explore the economic integration of refugees resettled in Utah. I argue that previous models of economic integration have been applied to research in a piecemeal fashion and a more comprehensive approach is warranted. To fill this gap, I outline a Holistic Model of Refugee Economi... | 2018 |
| 9 |  | "No one know": untold narratives of Southeast Asian American student success | Coquemont, Kathryn Kay | Educational leadership; Asian American studies; Educational administration | This study explores how Southeast Asian American college students experience success in college despite systemic and institutional barriers. The underrepresentation of Southeast Asian American perspectives in higher education research has created a deficit in understanding this population's experien... | 2018 |
| 10 |  | "Nobody can give from an empty vessel": a qualitative study on self-care for women activists in counseling psychology | McCadden, Elizabeth P. | Activism; counseling psychology; qualitative research; self-care; social justice; women | Women psychologists have conducted social justice work since the beginning of psychology, when women were denied access to education. The efforts of first- and second-generation women psychologists paved the way for present day women in counseling psychology. Today's female psychologists and graduat... | 2016 |
| 11 |  | "Of mice and men": connective tissue regulation of muscle development | Colasanto, Mary Patricia | Genetics | Development of the limb musculoskeleton requires the coordinated morphogenesis of muscle with connective tissue, tendon, and bone. The close developmental association of muscle with muscle connective tissue suggests that interactions between these tissues may be critical for development. T-box trans... | 2017 |
| 12 |  | "On-task in a box": a validation study examining an evidence-based package intervention for increasing rates of on-task behavior and academic performance | King, Brian Scott | Education; academic performance; evidence; on-task behavior; package intervention | On-Task in a Box is an evidence based intervention system designed to increase a student's rates of on-task behavior and academic achievement. The primary interventions that are used in the program include self-monitoring and video modeling. The program also includes motivation systems for keeping s... | 2013 |
| 13 |  | "Raised money by hook and crook, got my paper out": sunshine and shadow in the life seasons of editor and physician Dr. Elihu S. McIntire (1832-1899) | Mcintire, Earl Henry | Biography; Cultural History; Diary; Framing; Journalism History; Textual Silences | Dr. Elihu S. McIntire (1832â€"1899) grew up on farms in Ohio and Indiana and was a physician who served as an assistant surgeon with the 78th Illinois Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He practiced briefly in Dallas City, Illinois, and Grantsburg, Crawford County, Indiana, before settling i... | 2017 |
| 14 |  | "Ray system" of underground mining | Balckner, Lester A. | Ray consolidated copper company; copper mines and mining | The main ore body is a disseminated deposit in schist and porphyry formed by secondary enrichment. Its existence was proven by churn drilling, and is at present one of the largest proven copper deposits in the world. The ore body itself covers 205 acres with an average thickness of 121 feet, and o... | 1915-02 |
| 15 |  | "Sometimes there are differences of opinion as to what the data mean": bureaucracy and facticity in the face of inconclusive science | Gardett, Marie Isabel | FDA; Medicine; Philosophy of science; Rhetoric; Science; Technical writing | Bureaucratic rhetorics have been largely overlooked in rhetorical scholarship, in part because of an assumed synonymy between bureaucratic approaches, purposes, and language uses and political ones. This dissertation applies rhetorical analysis to a case study of bureaucratic rhetoric-the 2011 U.S. ... | 2013-08 |
| 16 |  | "Superheroes in the resource room": a study examining implemention of the superhero social skills program by a resource teacher with students with externalizing behavior problems | Springer, Benjamin James | Educational psychology; special education; clinical psychology | The current study evaluated the effectiveness of the Superhero Social Skills program in increasing the social engagement skills and decreasing the aggressive behavior of students with externalizing behavior problems as implemented by a resource teacher. There have been no empirical evaluations of th... | 2012 |
| 17 |  | "Superheroes social skills": an initial study examining an evidence-based program for elementary-aged students with autism spectrum disorders in a school setting | Block, Heidi Marie | Autism spectrum disorders; Generalization; Peer-mediated; Self-management; Social skills; Video-modeling | The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a multimedia social skills program in increasing the social engagement skills of 4 elementary-aged students with an autism spectrum disorder. The Superheroes Social Skills for Children with Autism program incorporates several evidence-based practices ... | 2012-05 |
| 18 |  | "That's my experience": negotiating what it means to be "Indian" in a school counseling program | Searle, Kristin Anne | American Indian; education; school counseling | Schooling for American Indians developed differently than it did for other groups in the United States. This difference is largely the result of the unique relationship between American Indians and the U.S. government and the ways in which government policies and practices were carried out. Thus, ... | 2016 |
| 19 |  | "This is what I've seen": climate change communication and the articulation of local and scientific knowledge in Yosemite National Park | Lahr, Kelsey Elaine | climate change; environment; national parks; rhetoric | Climate change is predicted to have profound effects on ecosystems around the globe. Yet meaningful policy to address climate change has yet to be enacted, and American publics are perceived as disinterested and unconcerned about the issue. Public lands have the potential to act as valuable sites of... | 2017 |
| 20 |  | "What if they fill this position with a man?": a feminist exploration of women outdoor leaders in higher education | Roger, Elizabeth Bond | Gender studies; Recreation; Womens studies | The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of women outdoor leaders in higher education. While outdoor education provides many positive learning outcomes for students, it is a field in which women and people of color are underrepresented, particularly in leadership roles. T... | 2018 |
| 21 |  | "Wolves guarding sheep": how women police in London and Cape Town brokered a deal to protect and control women, 1914-1918 | Laird, Katie | Police; women police; policewomen; women's movement; suffrage; britain; social purists | At the outbreak of World War I, women in Britain and South Africa formed groups of volunteer police women who patrolled the streets for indecent behavior, found homes for runaway children, and encouraged moral behavior of young women and girls. Despite their success at penetrating one of the most ma... | 2016 |
| 22 |  | "Wow, that bitch is crazy!": exploring gendered performances in leisure spaces surrounding reality television | Spencer, Callie Cross | Cultural studies; Duoethnography; Gender; Performance studies; Poststructuralism; The Bachelor | In Reality Bites Back, Jennifer L. Pozner states, "Women are bitches. Women are stupid. Women are incompetent at work and failures at home. Women are gold diggers. How do we know? Because reality TV tells us so." Not only does reality TV shape what we think about the "way things are," it also shapes... | 2014-12 |
| 23 |  | "You are not who you said you were when you were hired!": an autoethnographical account of a student affairs professional's trans* becoming | Medina-Martinez, C. Kai | Higher education; Social work; Educational administration; LGBTQ studies; Higher education administration | Following the format of autoethnographic vignettes, this study describes the experience of a student affairs educator as they navigate their trans* becoming while working on a university campus. While many higher education institutions include gender identity and gender in their nondiscrimination po... | 2019 |
| 24 |  | "You have no life other than that, so you better like what you're doing": a feminist phenomenology of women in undergraduate engineering majors | Mcdonald, Lori K. | engineering; undergraduate; women | The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and experiences of female undergraduate engineering students who either switched their majors or stayed in engineering to graduate. Historically women are underrepresented in undergraduate engineering majors despite deliberate recruitment an... | 2016 |
| 25 |  | "You have to be your own doctor": neoliberal reconfigurations of expertise on TheBump.com | Siska, Amanda Friz | authenticity; expertise; neoliberalism; online communities; pregnancy; rhetoric | Expertise is increasingly relied upon in the making of decisions, particularly decisions pertaining to health and pregnancy. And yet, recent interactions between scientists and the American public have highlighted the fact that scientific expertise has become a contested, if not rejected, form of kn... | 2013 |