• Aiding the Epidemic: The effects of PrEP, PEP, and TasP on the Historical Stigmatization of HIV and AIDS 

  Orta Portillo, Gilbert (2017)

  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 ...
• “Aquí está mi corazón” Learning Race and Performing Citizenship: Narratives of Undocumented Mothers and a Non-Profit Organization 

  Coren, Freda (2017)

  This last year has been filled with nativist and anti-immigrant sentiments that place immigrants, especially undocumented, non-white immigrants, in diametric opposition to the white, male, wealthy American citizen. This ...
• A Transformative Escape: Stories of Black Womanhood Negotiated in the Dance Studio 

  Spencer, Angelique M. (2017)

  For my thesis, I aimed at using stories collected in interviews with four Black American women who have had experience in ballet and maintain their commitment to ballet at varying degrees in nonprofessional and professional ...
• The Imaginary Bridge: How Pearl Street Embodies The Neighborhood Struggle Over Space, Placemaking, and Art’s Work 

  Horwitz, Benjamin (2017)

  At a time of increasingly contested physical, social, and cultural spaces, with global forces of gentrification and economic inequality acting aggressively on a local level across the world, it is crucial to pay attention ...
• Unsettling Spring Health 

  Eckert, Caleb (2017)

  Studying the work of the Springs Stewardship Institute in Northern Arizona, this project considers how springs ecologists work within and against settler colonialism. First, I consider Flagstaff as a settler society, arguing ...
• Refugees, Radishes, and Relationships: How Urban Gardens Facilitate Social Integration Opportunities for Refugees 

  Greenler, Ellie (2017)

  Refugees who immigrate to the United States face specific and unique challenges to becoming full members of the communities they join. This thesis focuses on how urban farming can provide an opportunity for refugees to ...
• Humans, Plants, and Three Temporalities 

  Miswardi, Gillian Wong (2017)

  If the age of the anthropocene has arrived, then it would seem odd to turn the spotlight away from humans and onto the non-human. Yet this new geologic age suggests that we must rethink our relationships with our surroundings. ...
• Self Making Through Hybridized Cultural Citizenship: Diasporic Korean American College Students and Their Engagement with Korean Popular Media 

  Kang, Jee Soo (2016)

  This thesis examines the experiences of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean American immigrant college students and the ways that their hybridized Korean American cultural citizenship place them into processes of self-making ...
• Speaking Abortion: Understanding Stigma, Support Networks, and Faith Within the Lives of Abortion Care Providers 

  White, Kaziah (2016)

  Abortion has been a constant of human reproductive life throughout recorded history. Its more recent history in the United States, however, has been extremely contentious. Abortion has turned into a polarizing issue for ...
• Sex: The Critical Truth - Stories of Rejection, Resistance and Self-Discovery 

  Vargas, Joaquin (2016)

  Sexuality. What about it matters so much? Why is it a crucial part of who we are as humans? Why are we defined by it? For this work I set about interviewing people about their sexualities, as well their ideas surrounding ...
• Finding Identity Within Online Communities: A Cyber-Ethnography of FTM YouTubers 

  Figa, Harlow B. (2016)

  This thesis examines FtM (female to male) transgender YouTubers, their relationships with Internet platforms, with each other, with their bodies, and with mass media. Exploring content uploaded by trans YouTubers, as well ...
• The Yellow Piece of the Mosaic: The Racialization of Asian American Students at the Nation’s Most Diverse High School 

  Feng, Jessica (2016)

  Mosaic High School, named the most diverse in 2015, subtlety upholds two problematic stereotypes of Asian Americans thus impacting diversity and inclusion at Mosaic and beyond. Racialized as the forever foreigner, Asian ...
• Linking Policy to Real World: Exploring Policy Objectives of HIV Program Funders in Nigeria 

  Alliyu, Oluwatobi (2016)

  This thesis explores the national and transnational climate that informs and influences Nigerian policy and approaches to combatting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It seeks to draw the connections between the historical, political, ...
• "A Dialogue of Life": Fostering Interfaith Coexistence in Hyderabad, India 

  Leter, Deborah (2015)

  This thesis is an ethnographic study of local civil society organizations dedicated to fostering interfaith coexistence and communal harmony amongst Hindu and Muslim communities in Hyderabad, India. My fieldwork for this ...
• "Soy Un Mexicano Al Que Le Gustan Los Estados Unidos": Understanding the Mexican Immigrant Experience in South Philadelphia as a Counternarrative to the Vulnerable Immigrant Trope 

  Reyes, Melissa (2015)

  Pro-immigrant advocates (1) showcase stories of Mexican immigrants experiencing violent and traumatic interactions with local and federal levels of immigration enforcement in an attempt to bring Latin@ immigration issues ...
• Do you really need the blue crayon? Medicalization and affective experiences in special needs parenting 

  Shea, Danielle (2015)

  In this piece, I attempt to unpack how caretakers of children with special needs experience difference. I argue the affective experience offers an alternative to a medicalized narrative that usually dictates what is best ...
• Facets of Faith: Sadaqa as a motivator for self-advancement and community development in North Philadelphia 

  Dhanani, Hiba (2014)

  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 ...
• Enacting Elitism: Experiencing Race and Class at Haverford College 

  Zieve, Hannah (2014)

  Since the implementation of the G.I. Bill following World War II, college has been seen as the pathway to a more secure economic future in the United States. Significantly, though, students from wealthier homes attend ...
• Problematizing the future: Brazil, biofuels, and basic science 

  Ulrich, Katie (2014)

  Biofuels are widely recognized as a possible solution to some of the most pressing problems of the contemporary: energy insecurity, declining resources, and climate change. Rather than taking biofuels as already given, ...
• Operating Room Productions 

  Lee, Christina S. (2014)

  This senior thesis analyzes both plastic/aesthetic reconstructive and neurosurgery operating rooms under a performance theory framework. The application of performance theory in a medical context provides the analytical ...

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