This thesis examines the interactions between Latin and Eastern Christians in the period between the calling of the First Crusade in 1095 and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 through Latin chronicles and letters. ...
In 2013, the number of charter schools in the United States topped 6,000, with enrollment exceeding more than 2.3 million students. Charters, which are privately run but publicly funded schools of choice, were founded with ...
This paper uses an econometric model to quantify the relationship between appearing on The Colbert Report and increases in political campaign donations. Using a fixed effects approach on a data set of 64 political candidates ...
In 2005, the German government introduced various integration courses in order to better support migrants and refugees. Since 2010, the refugee population in Germany has exponentially increased, particularly after Chancellor ...
In this thesis, I study an approach inspired by game theory to explain how features in the input data affect the output of machine learning models without access to the models' internal working. This approach assigns a ...
In this paper I examine the political songs of Chilean poet and ethnomusicologist Violeta Parra. I propose that, throughout her career, Parra develops a mode of narration that is explicitly feminine. Over time, this narration ...
In my thesis, I examine how Birdie’s existence, action, and environment all make the case that any kind of racial utopia will not erase race but embrace it. Specifically, it will embrace blackness, the essential “mixed” ...
In this thesis I look at E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women as a primary text that offers a complex, deep understanding of the religious and spiritual lives of Black sapphics in the American ...
Based on the work of Johnson and Fujita (2012) and Stevens et al. (2008), this study investigated a method through which to activate system-change motivation in White American liberals and moderates. Using articles about ...
The 1692 biography of the Indian slave and religious figure Catarina de San Juan by her confessor Juan Castillo Grajeda constructs a vision of Catarina, and by proxy Asians in New Spain, as inherently servile and humble, ...
In this paper, we seek to confirm whether or not changes in growth of research and development (R&D) subsidies to the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) industry cause increases in growth of patents in that industry. Using ...
Hirsch wrote his Nineteen Letters on Judaism as a response to Jewish emancipation in Europe and the start of Reform Judaism. While emancipation of Jews had not reached Germany at the time of writing, other European countries ...
This paper examines the role that racial bias plays in The War on Drugs. Today, more African American men are under correctional control than were enslaved in the year 1850 largely due to the highly racialized police ...