This project looks at the intersection between race, national identity, and music within my film, BOMPLÉ, and a récit stemming from an ethnographic encounter during the production process of BOMPLÉ. The film shows the ...
In this thesis I provide historical contextualization of contemporary Church doctrine and official statements, as well as explore the transitional moments in the church's history as shown by General Conference talks and ...
Western medicine often invalidates and marginalizes the knowledge and health practices that come from low-income communities of color. This invalidation is dangerous as it negates the power of these communities and does ...
African Americans' experiences of racial and gender-related stress and discrimination negatively impact their behaviours and emotions related to their health care during pregnancy 6 that is deeply rooted in the United ...
Vermont is the only state in the United States that relies heavily upon a singular export, dairy, for agricultural revenue, a dependency that has left the state and its small-scale farmers fatally vulnerable in the past ...
In this thesis, I use an autoethnographic approach to demonstrate how the transition to college can be viewed as a migratory process, particularly for second-generation migrants. I leverage my lived experience as the eldest ...
Salem, Massachusetts is perhaps best known for the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, in which dozens of residents of Essex county were accused of witchcraft, and nineteen were executed. For several centuries after these tragic ...
Legal precedent is an integral, yet often overlooked, factor in producing social change. Through an interdisciplinary approach, I utilize a legal textual analysis of the asylum case Matter of A-B- in order to make visible ...
Within the past twenty-five years, especially as it pertains to the workforce landscape, there has been increasing discourse on the value of a liberal arts education. As a demographic, Black students—in comparison to their ...
This thesis will aim to consider the social processes and sociocultural environment central to viewing imagery of dead and dying bodies in Late Medieval Italy. Specifically, I will investigate The Triumph of Death (Il ...
Mainstream conceptions of eating disorders tend to be centered around images of the emaciated body, highlighting and bringing attention to the physical manifestations of a single narrative and experience of the mental ...
Haverford College was founded in 1833 by a group of Quakers. In 1980, one hundred and forty-seven years later, Haverford officially became a coeducational institution. This year, 2020, marks 40 years since the first admitted ...
When thinking about the various components of a nonprofit, it is likely that their direct service programs or advocacy programs will be the first components an individual imagines. However, there is another component ...
My ethnographic research focuses on how rumor and gossip create a toxic atmosphere of suspicion, fear, and even paranoia of the Trump Administration within the Latinx community of Franklin, Pennsylvania. Through an examination ...
This elegy in etchings for my grandparents and the life's work that connected them creates a metaphorical portrait of them by illustrating a series of defining moments in the arc of their lives. Each print tells a short ...
The Welsh and Irish languages, the indigenous languages of Wales and Ireland, respectively, have experienced significant declines in their speaker populations since the beginning of English settlement in their homelands. ...
This thesis documents the spelling system created by Aurora Sánchez Gómez for Zapotec (Otomanguean) as spoken in San Bartolomé Quialana, Oaxaca. Beyond documentation, areas of over and underrepresentation of the underlying ...
In the SIGMORPHON 2019 shared task 1, multiple teams attempted for the first time to leverage transfer learning to build more accurate models of natural language morphology with small amounts of target language data, with ...
This paper will investigate different loss functions used for various natural language processing (NLP) machine learning tasks. These loss functions have proven their worth in the area of machine translation but they have ...