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• The world is broken: Expanding frame-alignment theory with campus ministries 

  Peach, Matthew (2019-04-19)

  Employing an extended case method ethnography combined with in-depth interviews and content analysis, this project approaches two university-level chapters of campus ministries, Cru and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, ...

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• Destabilizing gender norms: Women in masculine occupations in the Islamic Republic of Iran 

  Sattari, Negin (2018-06-26)

  This dissertation tackles the vastly discussed puzzle of women’s low rates of labor force participation in the Middle East, using the case of Iran while focusing on an under-explored perspective. Iran has one of the lowest ...

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• Carceral civil society: Citizenship and communities in a U.S. prison 

  Kurisu, Sheri-Lynn Sunshine (2018-04-15)

  Couched in frameworks of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, this dissertation uses the lenses of citizenship and civil society to examine communities in a men’s medium security Illinois state prison. Prisons are ...

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• Type II diabetes and the embodiment of development in post-colonial Belize 

  Schmidt, Michelle Lee (2018-04-10)

  This dissertation explores diabetes as the embodiment of pathological forms of development on a Maya reservation in Belize, C.A. The global diabetes pandemic is estimated to affect 10% of the world’s population, with 80% ...

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• From military government to bases: Race, gender, and U.S. empire in Korea 

  Kwon, Yaejoon (2018-04-05)

  Through a socio-historical case study of the United State Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) from 1945 to 1949, this dissertation examines the relationships between race, gender, and U.S. empire. I argue that the ...

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