Historically and especially in the past year under the Trump administration, the United States government has advanced anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that marginalize, fracture, and harm migrant communities. This ...

Since their formal recognition in the 1980’s, both HIV and AIDS have had a global impact on many aspects of life. The unknown nature of HIV led to a social and cultural marginalization of individuals with either condition ...

In a rural area of Upstate New York, public educators are infuriated with the state of their profession. Many aspects of creative and thoughtful instruction have been abolished through public education reform. Beginning ...

This thesis studies the different contexts behind and understandings of the term "Filipinx", which is intended to be a gender-inclusive alternative to "Filipino" but is now a controversial topic that is largely divided ...

Over the past few years, Philadelphia has sustained budget cuts, which threaten the social and economic welfare of many individuals in the region. Baabun Nasr is an Islamic charity which strives to alleviate burdens faced ...

Segregation and racism have systematically existed in the United States for hundreds of years. Today, though there have been strides taken in alleviating these inequalities, they manifest themselves in new ways. In Strawberry ...

This thesis attempts to interrogate questions of nostalgia, asking how former citizens of the USSR remember the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as state discourse put forth by the Soviet regime. I ask how people ...

The close temporal proximity of the FIFA hijab ban and 2016 U17 Women's World Cup in Jordan played a significant, but under-researched role in the development of women's football in Jordan. The 2016 World Cup was both the ...

My thesis explores the intimate engagement of young women with the popular HBO television show Girls. While the show emerged amidst a storm of controversy and critiques, my subjects found that Girls spoke to their lives ...