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• Expanding the scope of interpersonal violence: An examination of violence, authority, and status within street harassment 

  Hutson, Ashley C. F. (2019-10-23)

  Street harassment offers a unique opportunity to examine interpersonal violence among strangers and loose acquaintances. In this project, I conceptualized the issue of street harassment by foregrounding inequalities—positioning ...

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• “That’s why we always fight back”: Structural violence and women’s responses on a Native American reservation 

  Morrow, Rebecca L. (2019-08-02)

  This project explores how women who live on a southern California reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation experience and respond to violence. Using a structural violence lens (Galtung 1969) enables a wider view of the definition ...

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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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