This thesis uses the framework of language socialization to investigate the socializing potential of children's clapping games. Adapting Schieffelin and Och's 1986 definition of language socialization to refer to music, I ...

Muñeca Limé is two-part exploration of gendered Blackness in the Dominican Republic, my senior thesis created in partial fulfillment for the International Studies degree. I started my project by focusing on conceptions of ...

Often unseen, faith-based institutions and organizations in the United States today mobilize for progressive causes in ways that vitally contribute to grassroots democracy. Most scholars approaching the topic of congregational ...

Hirsch wrote his Nineteen Letters on Judaism as a response to Jewish emancipation in Europe and the start of Reform Judaism. While emancipation of Jews had not reached Germany at the time of writing, other European countries ...

Acts of idleness and labor have become moralized within American culture to end that the former is criminalized and the latter is institutionalized. This thesis asks from where does the American prioritization of work and ...

In 1965 the Second Vatican Council produced a document known as Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions also known as Nostra Aetate. This document marked a shift by the Vatican towards tolerance ...

In Northern Ireland, education is separated along the contentious Catholic and Protestant divide. Overall, 93% of students attend a predominately Protestant or Catholic school. The degree of separation within these schools ...

This thesis exists within the realms of international mediation and interstate conflict. It examines interstate conflicts marked by power asymmetries and asks the question of how mediators are chosen for these conflicts. ...

What determines whether or not people participate in social assistance programs for which they are eligible? In this thesis, Iinvestigate individual determinants of welfare claiming. I explore the implications of Joseph ...

Over the past decade, there has been a rise in far-right movements in the political mainstream. Extreme right-wing leaders like Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Narendra Modi, to list a few, have come into power in major ...