This thesis explores the arts as a potential framework for achieving social justice through the system of education. The author uses her experience as a student-teacher in a charter school with an arts-based social justice ...

In the mid-2000s, thousands of young men from Senegal and other West African countries began migrating to Europe in a way that was considered peculiar to some, and insane to others, and extreme to most. Known colloquially ...

In this thesis, I argue that while Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, proposes a compelling theory of gender, his model of the pre-Oedipal and Oedipal stages of psychosexual development does not adequately address ...

This thesis is premised on the argument that three subjects are born in the process of childbirth-baby, mother, and doula. If childbirth is seen as a rite of passage, or a ritual that accompanies some kind of transition ...

This thesis examines cultural representations of nightlife in the iconic oceanfront New York City neighborhood Coney Island, produced between the turn of the twentieth century and World War II. By looking at the night in ...

This thesis focuses on the opposing accounts of aesthetic experience presented by Immanuel Kant in the Critique of the Power of Judgment and by Pierre Bourdieu in Distinction. Using close textual analysis, I will detail ...

This thesis analyzes the continued relevance of the Voting Rights Act in the aftermath of the United States Supreme Court Shelby County v. Holder decision and in the midst of 21st Century voter suppression laws. This ...

This thesis presents the coffee shop as a center for urban sociability and traces its development over time. In order to contextualize and unpack the social meaning and uses of a coffee shop, I use theories of public and ...

This thesis explores approaches to and concepts of food held by students of binary gender identities on a college campus. Based on testimonies from focus groups and in- depth interviews with students attending Swarthmore ...

This thesis examines discourse on Cuban healthcare from international development organizations, governments, public health literature, and mainstream media inside and outside of Cuba, drawing from anthropological perspectives ...