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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
This thesis is an ethnographic study that examines how adolescents with type 1 diabetes conceptualize the clinical encounter, how the interactions within this space contribute to identity formation, and the nature of the ...
Daughter of Mothers addresses the ways that young adult daughters of LGB mothers understand motherhood, both in the abstract and as a possibility for their own
lives. Considering the current controversy regarding homosexuality ...
As the "eyes and ears" of the police, town watches "observe, document, and report" suspicious behavior. Many town watch volunteers do not go on patrols, and those that do rarely, if ever, encounter criminals. Based on my ...
As national anxieties over the 'obesity epidemic' increase in the U.S., nutrition education programs are being started in schools. I conducted ethnographic research on a nutrition education program called the 'Cooking Crew' ...
Despite our best efforts to give authority and voice to survivors through the nationalized establishment of public testimonials, it is my contention that the burden placed on survivors to articulate something that inherently ...
Mexican-American women navigate themselves as individuals with bi-cultural identities in the United States. As they become more acculturated, they search for a balance between the lessons learned in their upbringing and ...
Nationalism is not reliant upon position or locality. Nationalism is fluid and dynamic, and it is a combination of give and take between the people and their state; resulting in fluctuations of intensity and public presence ...