Philosophers like Montesquieu, Voltaire and Beccaria made criminal law reform central to their agenda in the second half of the eighteenth century. By consequence, the carceral subject emerged in their denunciation of the ...
Part of the Technology & Justice Series, an on-campus series at Haverford College organized by Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Laura McGrane, Associate Professor of English and VCAM Director. ...
This report describes the results of a study we conducted to determine how literature and Romance languages faculty at Haverford College perform research and the challenges they face. Our work was coordinated by Ithaka ...
Current research fails to determine the underlying neurological explanations of peripartum mood disorder (PMD) and its many behavioral components. In particular, peripartum anxiety behavior has been found to have increased ...
The Friends Asylum and Eastern State Penitentiary are a useful pair of institutions for studying insanity and criminality in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. The asylum opened in 1817 and the penitentiary opened in ...
I base my work on an idea of organized chaos. I make collages that are not meant to be a portrait of each city (as that would imply my power to give cities totalizing definitions), but rather, of my experience of examining ...
For my thesis, I researched the history and development of Yves Reynaud’s monologue, Apnée ou le Dernier des militants, translated the script French to English, and performed the play in the original French, with English ...
L’histoire violente de l’Algérie a toujours été une source de traumatisme chez les générations qui ont vu le jour après l’indépendance du pays en 1962. On peut en trouver l'évidence dans les textes publiés après cette date ...
Salt marshes provide critical ecosystem services, including storm protection, water filtration, wildlife habitat, and carbon sequestration. Nutrient pollution poses a major threat to these ecosystems as runoff from ...
Homero Aridjis, a Mexican author and environmental activist, explores themes of nature and its destruction in his poems and prose. I focused on a pair of his novels, "La leyenda de los soles" (1993) and "¿En quién piensas ...
In Guatemala, Maya comadronas (midwives) play an essential role in the provision of maternal and infant health; comadronas attend two thirds of the births in the country and often act as important healthcare providers in ...
Scholars have come to recognize over the last few decades that Apuleius’ novel, the Metamorphoses, must be allowed to enjoy multiple, coexisting interpretations. To that end, I demonstrate how a certain class of allusions, ...
With the emergence of new ethical critiques driven by dialectic and rational discourse in Greece, the beloved Homeric poems began to fall under heavy criticism, most notably by Plato, who has Socrates launch a more ...
This close reading of the Io episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue between classical studies and psychology by examining indicators of trauma in the character Io. Unlike previous studies ...
My thesis is a comparative analysis of two life narratives written by opium addicts in the nineteenth century: one from England and one from China. The goal of this thesis is to assess to what extent can writing capture ...
My thesis aims to tie together two short stories, Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” and Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Zahir,” by means of examining their shared themed of the idée fixe. The “persistent idea” ...