The American south as a postcolonial space: The search for identity in William Faulkner's writings.

Adam Long

ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Pub

In Colombia, the three million forced migrants, or internally displaced persons (IDPs), are symptomatic of an armed conflict in which both the guerillas and the Colombian armed forces are guilty of human rights violations. Land seizures, forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and threats are the most common ways that the various armed actors have forced civilians to flee strategic zones throughout the countryside. In 1994, the Colombian government officially recognized its internally displaced population, but the legal definition of who qualified as internally displaced and what services the state would provide remained vague. During the same period, there was an exponential increase in the number of international and local nongovernmental organizations working with the IDP population--a political intrusion that the state could not diplomatically refuse. My research compares how nongovernmental organizations and state agencies represent internal displacement and define Colombia's internally displaced population. I examine the instructional materials provided by state IDP agencies and nongovernmental organizations and how they promote their services to the public. What cannot be gleaned from the publications alone is how the representatives of NGOs must strategically balance their subjective positions about the internal armed conflict against their need to represent their clients with the uniformity that is implicitly demanded by the state and the local community. I argue that it is for this reason, the ability to carry on their work, that many NGOs mechanically produce representations of the internally displaced that mimic those produced at the state level and reinforce the stereotypes of displacement to the general public.

Competing or cooperative representations? State and NGO depictions of Colombia's internally displaced population.

Politics & Social Sciences

Jessica Marie Novak

Social Sciences

The wounding and healing of the mother-daughter relationship.

Michele Rogers

This dissertation explores the ways in which the group of people identified as the Azd adapted to and exploited the changes of the seventh and eighth centuries associated with the rise of an ever more imperial caliphate occurring simultaneously with the massive and widespread settlement of the former peoples of the Arabian peninsula in the settled world. It argues that the relation of tribe to state in this formative period cannot be understood through a simple logic of action and reaction, but rather as a set of dynamic processes in which each redefined itself as it sought to come to terms with the other. Chapter one addresses issues related to sources and methodology, issues which are extremely complex for the period under study. It argues for a traditional critical methodology which focuses on collections of information and their transmission in attempts to use their information for historical reconstruction. Chapter two examines a number of issues related to the origins of the Azd grouping and its development up through the period of the conquests, highlighting the patterns of its interaction with the outside world which set the base for the politics of the early caliphate. The focus of the third chapter is on the garrison towns of Kufa and Basra during the critical Sufyanid period. Chapter four concerns the Muhallabid family which played a critical role in Azdi history, while chapters five and six will examine the Azd in Mosul and Khurasan, respectively.

Modern Time: Repetition in James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.

John Turner

History

Pitch structure in Morton Feldman's compositions of 1952.

Paul Steven Undreiner

Humor & Entertainment

Minority programs in undergraduate science education have sought to remedy the continuing underrepresentations of ethnic/racial minorities in the sciences for more than thirty years. Researchers agree on the lack of understanding on the work minority programs do, yet few studies set out to examine what minority programs teach in practice. My interpretive study describes and analyzes the enacted curriculum of a selective minority program in undergraduate science education. Using a research seminar called Journal Club as the case, I show that rather than solely focusing the curriculum on academic knowledge and skills, the program teaches students cultural competencies as research scientists, as well as, and distinctly, as underrepresented minority scientists. The former involves a hands-off learning environment in which students develop and experiment with habits, skills, and styles research scientists employ when presenting and discussing research articles by performing the role of research scientist. The latter involves recruiting students to a commitment to ethnic/racial solidarity and success in science as leading research scientists. The significance of the curriculum taught is the embedded recognition that to want to become a research scientist, students need not only academic but also cultural competencies that allow them to interpret, comfortably act in and respond to the world of science secure that they too are or may become competent members in it. At the same time, I question the program's narrow definition of success of becoming or being a leading research scientist. While recognizing the urgency to remedy the continued and particularly severe ethnic/racial underrepresentations in these positions, I submit that it is unjustifiable to place the burden of remedying such underrepresentations on a few high-achieving students in a minority program, as they, as any students, should have the freedom to explore and choose careers that befit their inclinations.

Recruiting underrepresented minority undergraduates to research science: An investigation of the curriculum of a minority program.

Eva Ritter

This paper focuses on a critical examination of racial profiling. It includes the history of racial profiling and the laws and requirements that have been implemented to control and eliminate this practice, which utilizes race and ethnic background as indicators in the discretionary process of law enforcement. The purpose of this analysis is to learn if there are steps that police departments can take to eliminate, or at least minimize and control, this practice that plagues communities and departments across the country. This paper will include an exploration of the theoretical and empirical literature regarding the improvement of laws and police policies that can be implemented to prevent certain groups of people from future unnecessary law enforcement targeting. This paper will identify research trends in the literature and provide recommendations for areas of future scholarly inquiry.

A critical analysis of racial profiling.

John E. McLaughlin

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Science & Math

Shivas Rajni Amin

Biological Sciences

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Liangliang Cao

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