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A Moral Imperative: The Role of American Black Churches in International Anti-Apartheid Activism

Slade Martin, Phyllis E. (2015)

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A Multimethod Approach to Understanding the Association Between Interpersonal Stress, Proinflammatory Response, and Suicidality

Defayette, Annamarie Bailey (2022)

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults. Peer-related interpersonal stress increases suicide risk within this age group. However, not all individuals who undergo peer-related ...
A Primer on Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Methods for Health Psychologists

Yarbro, Jessica Lea (2017)

Recent changes to healthcare reimbursement and funding will likely make cost
A Public Airport for the District of Columbia: The History of Washington Dulles International Airport

Clark, Ray W. (2017)

On November 17, 1962, President Kennedy dedicated Dulles International Airport. Located on the border of Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, Dulles International was the world’s first airport built to accommodate jetliners. ...
A Rhetorical Analysis of Teacher Instructional Speech

Trott, Kyle D (2022)

The researcher examines the alignment between a teacher’s pedagogical justification for student learning and that of the American institutional discourse of education by studying the relationship between the localized ...
A RIGHT-TO-WORK MODEL, THE UNIONIZATION OF FAIRFAX COUNTY GOVERNMENT WORKERS

Johnson, Ann M. (2017)

Labor unions have been in steady decline for decades despite income and mobility inequality and the persistent struggle of most workers in the labor force. Based on the growing number of collective actions throughout the ...
A SOCIAL IDENTITY-BASED APPROACH TO IMPROVING CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION AND MOBILIZING COLLECTIVE ACTION

Julia Hathaway (2019)

Individual actions that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, while important, are insufficient on their own. Unfortunately, there is still a disconnect between the seriousness of the problem and our ...
A Sweet History in Bitter Times: Refining Sugar in the Transnistrian Borderlands (1898-2015)

Lesanu, Alexandru (2015)

My dissertation A Sweet History in Bitter Times: Refining Sugar in the Transnistrian Borderlands (1898-2015) traces the ground-level impacts that repeated changes of borders and political regimes had on the social, economic, ...
A Treaty Does Not Make a Community: Race and Migration in Barbados

Cumberbatch, Stacey Leandra (2015)

This dissertation is about the racialization of immigration in Barbados. Between 2008 and 2010, the topic of immigration generated a heated debate in Barbados. The so-called ‘immigration problem’ resulted from increasing ...
A-Identity Politics: Asexual Exceptionalism, Precarity, and Activism

Sheehan, Ryan (2015-08-19)

This thesis explores the rhetoric of asexual awareness activists, specifically in regards to recent formulations within queer and post-structural feminist theory regarding precarity, vulnerability, and affect. An asexual ...
About Time: The History of the War Refugee Board

Erbelding, Rebecca (2015)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board (WRB) in January 1944 to formulate and effectuate plans for the relief and rescue of Jews and other persecuted minorities from the threat of Nazi atrocities ...
Academic Affairs Professionals: An Identity Perspective

Banning Eckert, Brydin

This thesis seeks to acknowledge and understand the professional identity of academic affairs professionals: the staff and administrative faculty who support the academic enterprise at colleges and universities from within ...
The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional: Reassessing the Position

Perini, Michael R. (2015-08-25)

This qualitative case study extends Whitchurch's (2009) blended professional model, designed to consider the merging of academicians' roles across several spheres of professional and academic influence in a higher education ...
Academic Outcomes Associated with Enrollment in Middle School Music Among Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Students

Alegrado, Alenamie N

This study examined the effect of middle school music enrollment on 8th grade academic outcomes within a large-scale, community-wide, prospective, longitudinal study of predominantly low-income students (N = 38,284). Middle ...
Academic Outcomes for Students with Autism in Middle and High School

Keith, Kayla

There is debate over whether students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) should be held to the same standards as typical children in testing. This has raised concerns regarding standards, test accommodations, and alternate ...
Academic Trajectories for Latinx and Black Immigrant Advantage in Middle School

Mayra Parada (2020)

Immigrant children are found in all regions of the U.S. and make-up 27% of the U.S. child population. Students who arrive early in the U.S. face many obstacles but often have better outcomes compared to non-immigrants. ...
Access to Water, Sanitation, and Public Health Services among Urban Poor in Maceio, Brazil

Snyder, Shannyn R. (2010-05-19)

Access to water, sanitation, and public health services is a key indicator of quality of life, and these resources are greatly limited for the urban poor in Maceio, Brazil. Maceio, the capital of Alagoas state, is an ...
Acculturation and Resistance: Jewish Immigrant Dining in Baltimore, 1890-1930

Louderback, Rebecca Anne (2014-10-27)

Through examination of objects from the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Leo Baeck Institute, and Yeshiva University Archives, this thesis explores the acculturation of Eastern European immigrants in Baltimore, Maryland. From ...
Acts of Trespass

Beltrán, Paula (2015-08-19)

There’s arguably no more tangible or dangerous act of trespass than the illegal crossing of a country’s borders and in this regard, Houston, Texas, mere hours away from the United States – Mexico border, is the perfect ...
Adam Smith on Liberty and Reputation: Is Reputation Property? Are Defamation Laws Coercive?

Bonica, Mark (2013)

Esteem, admiration, fame, and reputation are powerful motivators of human behavior in Adam Smith's moral philosophy. According to Smith, we are willing to go to great ends to earn the esteem of others and achieve a lasting ...

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