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A grammar of Tiefo-D of Daramandugu: Niger-Congo language, Burkina Faso
(Language Description Heritage Library (online), 2021)
Reference grammar of Tiefo-D, a language of southwestern Burkina Faso.
Blindness and Water Divination in the Saharan West
(2024)
This dissertation examines the nexus between blindness, water divination, and perception through ethnography. It listens into the world of Dali Gimba, a hinterland village in Mauritania that is inhabited by the Awlād Ummār—a ...
Motion Sickness
(2024)
In this collection of stories from Toledo-based writer Alex McCullough, young adulthood and all its various joys and sorrows are rendered with equal measures humor and poignancy. In one story, a young woman and her sister ...
The Ones That Got Away: The Role of Eugenicists in the Sustainment of Medical Atrocities in Nazi Germany
(2024)
Holocaust atrocities have been well-documented, and many prominent leaders of the Nazi Party were subsequently held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials. Nevertheless, many culpable individuals escaped scrutiny, including ...
Bahrain Beyond the Pearl: Political Prisoners and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Gulf's Forgotten Uprising
(2024)
In February and March 2011, thousands of Bahrainis flooded into the streets and the Pearl Roundabout to protest political, economic, and social inequality. After approximately two weeks of protest, the Bahraini government, ...
Deciphering an Enigma: Maecenas and Gender Nonconformity
(2023)
This thesis conducts a case study, inspired by queer theory, on Maecenas. As the patron of Virgil and advisor to Augustus, he was an incredibly wealthy man who embraced luxury and ultimately challenged established norms ...
New World, New Rules: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Responses in Sweden and Denmark
(2024)
The COVID-19 Pandemic presented significant challenges for the Danish and Swedish governments. Despite overarching political and social similarities, these longstanding historical connections between countries did not ...
Choreographing National Identity: The Role of Movement and Biopower in Countries of Real Socialism
(2024)
The driving research question behind this thesis is: how do ballet and its derivatives choreograph society in countries of real socialism, like Cuba and Yugoslavia, by disseminating political motivations into the body of ...
The Nature of Space and Spacetime
(2024)
This thesis discusses the two views about space and spacetime, substantivalism and relationalism. I analyzed one specific view from the two schools each and argue that neither provides a satisfactory explanation to the ...
Rhetoric and Networked Religious Identity: Raised-Evangelical Social Media Users Writing Back in 2020
(2024)
This qualitative and ethnographic study examines the social media writing of American millennial raised-evangelicals who were active on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram in “long 2020.” All of these writers considered ...