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Title: "To better serve God and to save my soul" : marriage, gender & honor in Spanish New Mexico, 1681-1730
Creator: Gonzalez, Jennifer de la Coromoto
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Marriage in New Mexico, and indeed in all of colonial Spanish America, was significantly influenced by Spanish ideals of faith, honor, virtue and race. While it has long been argued that such ideals were handed down to the American colonies from the Iberian Peninsula unaltered, more recent scholarship asserts that the honor code, rather than a monolithic concept to be either accepted or rejected, was contextually determined and significantly influenced by socio-economic milieus and geo...
Show moreMarriage in New Mexico, and indeed in all of colonial Spanish America, was significantly influenced by Spanish ideals of faith, honor, virtue and race. While it has long been argued that such ideals were handed down to the American colonies from the Iberian Peninsula unaltered, more recent scholarship asserts that the honor code, rather than a monolithic concept to be either accepted or rejected, was contextually determined and significantly influenced by socio-economic milieus and geo-political circumstances. The contingent nature of the honor code and its influence on the institution of marriage clearly emerges in an investigation of colonial New Mexico, a region that for its peripheral position in the Viceroyalty of New Spain has suffered from a lack of deep historical analysis.Using prenuptial investigations, prenuptial disputes and deflowerment cases from the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe conducted between 1681 and 1730, as well as administrative records from the Archivo General de Indias, I challenge current assumptions regarding what constituted an appropriate marriage partner in this remote/distant area of the Spanish Borderlands. The "voices" I capture from these investigations allow me to analyze concerns regarding free will, sexuality, legitimacy, honor, and race, and how these informed marriage choice in colonial New Mexico fifty years after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Moreover, by examining the mechanisms Spanish colonists used to contract their preferred marriages-sometimes despite familial opposition-I challenge current assumptions regarding the importance of free will, what constituted an appropriate marriage partner in this remote area of the Spanish Empire, and detail the ways the inherent flexibility of the sistema de castas was manipulated in this region to buttress the cultural hegemony of the Spanish Empire.
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Title: "To find shelter she knows not where" : freedom, movement, and gendered violence among free people of color in Natchez, Mississippi, 1779-1865
Creator: Ribianszky, Nicole S.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This thesis explicates how freedom, movement, and violence were inextricably linked for free people of color in Natchez, Mississippi from 1779-1865. It considers the relevance that violence or the implicit threat of it--in the form of sexual exploitation, re-enslavement, kidnapping, deportment, poverty, and racial discrimination--exerted on this population. This work centers itself within the field of violence studies.

Title: "To the editor" : ideological themes expressed by individualist and collectivist newspaper letter writers
Creator: Fox, Dennis Roy
Date: 1985
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Todo por mis hijos" (everything for my children) : exploring the parenting experiences and needs of Guatemalan mothers
Creator: Escobar-Chew, Ana Rocio
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Guatemalan women are exposed to various health and mental health disparities due to the scarcity of appropriate interventions aimed at responding to their life experiences and specific parenting needs. This investigation had two major goals: (a) To understand the life experiences of a group of Guatemalan mothers, particularly as it refers to being a woman in the Guatemalan context, and (b) to identify the participants' parenting experiences and needs. A series of focus groups were implemented...
Show moreGuatemalan women are exposed to various health and mental health disparities due to the scarcity of appropriate interventions aimed at responding to their life experiences and specific parenting needs. This investigation had two major goals: (a) To understand the life experiences of a group of Guatemalan mothers, particularly as it refers to being a woman in the Guatemalan context, and (b) to identify the participants' parenting experiences and needs. A series of focus groups were implemented with a total of 30 low-income Guatemalan mothers. Findings from this investigation clearly describe the multiple challenges that Guatemalan mothers experience in their daily lives, which also impact their parenting practices. Moreover, data show relevant individual and contextual variables associated with the participants' extraordinary sense of resilience. Finally, research findings describe the participants' high desire to participate in interventions aimed at improving their quality of life and parenting skills. This investigation constitutes the foundation of a long-term program of research aimed at culturally adapting and disseminating mental health and parenting interventions responsive to Guatemalan mothers and their families.
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Title: "True to the highest ideals of the university" Viewing conflict as a catalyst for reevaluating institutional standards and practices
Creator: Vizvary, Gina
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Conflict at institutions of higher education is not new. However, with the prevalence of the internet, disputes now capture the attention of national media outlets and can spread quickly to a large audience via social media sites and online publications. Over the last decade, conflicts over athletics, curricular changes, online classes, and special-interest research initiatives have pitted faculty against faculty and faculty against administration. At times whole campus communities may become...
Show moreConflict at institutions of higher education is not new. However, with the prevalence of the internet, disputes now capture the attention of national media outlets and can spread quickly to a large audience via social media sites and online publications. Over the last decade, conflicts over athletics, curricular changes, online classes, and special-interest research initiatives have pitted faculty against faculty and faculty against administration. At times whole campus communities may become involved in the fray, from students to staff to alumni. Organizational literature on colleges and universities tells us that higher education institutions have unique characteristics that distinguish them from the business or for-profit world. Universities must continuously innovate and adapt in order to stay relevant to society. Yet they are also decades or centuries old, with traditions, legacies, and unique cultures that pervade campus life. This tension between the old and the new, tradition and innovation, presents challenges to university leaders. When new decisions seem to contradict longstanding traditions, there is bound to be backlash. The focus of the current study was to understand the tensions that fuel university conflict. The study utilized a historical perspective to research the conflict over the planning and implementation of the Milton Friedman Institute (MFI) at the University of Chicago in 2008. Administrators and faculty involved provided their views on the conflict through interviews. Additional data came from news articles, op-ed pieces, meeting minutes, letters, and e-mails. Historical information on the University of Chicago, Milton Friedman, and the Chicago School of Economics was drawn on to provide institutional and biographical information, and well as to make connections between the 2008 conflict and past people or events that emerged in documents and interviews. Four primary factors were found to have influenced the nature of the MFI dispute: Reputation, Academic Freedom, Philanthropy, and Governance. The research data provide the opportunity for a discussion of conflict not as a negative, but as a chance to reevaluate institutional values, standards, and practices. Future directions of research and suggestions for practice are considered.
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Title: "Trying to succeed" : a descriptive study of perceptions of "success" in teaching/learning Spanish in a high school classroom
Creator: Roberts, Linda Pavian
Date: 1988
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Type-C" : empowerment, blame, and gender in the creation of a carcinogenic personality
Creator: Pratt, Carolyn Maria
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "The belief that mind-set and emotional well-being can improve cancer survival time has become something of a truism in the United States. Despite claims that this is a commonsense and consistent belief which stretches back to Galen, mind-body approaches to cancer have varied radically in response to changing social and cultural contexts. This dissertation tracks shifting meanings of this claim and the varying institutional acceptance of it from the rise of psychosomatic medicine in the 1930s...
Show more"The belief that mind-set and emotional well-being can improve cancer survival time has become something of a truism in the United States. Despite claims that this is a commonsense and consistent belief which stretches back to Galen, mind-body approaches to cancer have varied radically in response to changing social and cultural contexts. This dissertation tracks shifting meanings of this claim and the varying institutional acceptance of it from the rise of psychosomatic medicine in the 1930s and 40s to the embrace of Contemporary and Alternative Therapies (CAM) in the 1990s. Through the 1950s and 60s, claims of a connection between mind, carcinogenesis, and survival were shaped by psychoanalytic theory and case narratives which reinforced a restrictive view of femininity. However, by the 1970s, mind-body medicine reflected newer gender roles and more eclectic beliefs about psychology. Of the cancer patients depicted in these later case narratives, women were often seen as over-reliant on family for personal fulfillment and lacking in opportunities for personal growth. Men with cancer were often depicted as caught within pathological versions of masculinity. Fixed gender roles came to be seen as potentially carcinogenic. Despite the increasingly feminist tone of these case narratives, there were growing disagreements about whether or not mind-body approaches were empowering or blame-ridden which stretched from feminist collectives to medical journals. In order to show these shifts, I analyze debates within medical journals, the shifting claims in popular self-help books, news reports, the notes and drafts of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the papers of the Office of Technology Assessment, tobacco industry documents, and Norman Cousins' papers. In these sources, it is possible to see the diverse motivations that encouraged people to advocate for mind-body cancer care. Many doctors were motivated by their insecurities about the growing interest in alternative medicine. Feminists adapted these ideas in ways that more closely matched their beliefs and goals. The tobacco industry had a clear financial incentive to find explanations for cancer that did not point to the carcinogens in cigarettes. Mind-body cancer literature is also an exceptionally useful lens for understanding changing ideas about emotional well-being, particularly as they tie to gender. Case narratives distill key beliefs about what it means to be healthy and well-adjusted, making it possible to see how gender roles change over time and what people believe the consequences might be for failing to conform. This literature also helps to show changing assumptions about the responsibility of the individual patient for healing, and changing beliefs about whether or not the natural world is inherently fair, just, or good."--Abstract.
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Title: "Union Democracy", a limited replication : the case of an Argentinian printing union
Creator: Jorrat, Jorge Raúl, 1940-
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Unprincipled men who are one day British subjects and the next citizens of the United States" : the Nova Scotian merchant community and colonial identity formation, c. 1780-1820
Creator: Rogers, Patricia L.
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Until that song is born" : an ethnographic investigation of teaching and learning among collaborative songwriters in Nashville
Creator: Hill, Stuart Chapman
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: With the intent of informing the practice of music educators who teach songwriting in K–12 and college/university classrooms, the purpose of this research is to examine how professional songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee—one of songwriting’s professional “hubs”—teach and learn from one another in the process of engaging in collaborative songwriting. This study viewed songwriting as a form of “situated learning” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and “situated practice” (Folkestad, 2012) whose...
Show moreWith the intent of informing the practice of music educators who teach songwriting in K–12 and college/university classrooms, the purpose of this research is to examine how professional songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee—one of songwriting’s professional “hubs”—teach and learn from one another in the process of engaging in collaborative songwriting. This study viewed songwriting as a form of “situated learning” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and “situated practice” (Folkestad, 2012) whose investigation requires consideration of the professional culture that surrounds creative activity in a specific context (i.e., Nashville). The following research questions guided this study: (1) How do collaborative songwriters describe the process of being inducted to, and learning within, the practice of professional songwriting in Nashville, (2) What teaching and learning behaviors can be identified in the collaborative songwriting processes of Nashville songwriters, and (3) Who are the important actors in the process of learning to be a collaborative songwriter in Nashville, and what roles do they play (e.g., gatekeeper, mentor, role model)? This study combined elements of case study and ethnography. Data sources included observation of co-writing sessions, interviews with songwriters, and participation in and observation of open mic and writers’ nights. I transcribed co-writing sessions and interviews and coded all data for emergent themes. Trustworthiness procedures included triangulation through multiple data sources, “member checking” of transcripts by participants, and review of coded documents by two colleagues in the music education research community. Songwriters located their learning in classrooms and workshops, in the co-writing room, in individual learning pursuits, and in the broader context of the Nashville songwriting community. Songwriters’ learning combined both formal and informal modes. Some of their informal practices aligned with those described in previous research on popular musicians’ learning, though the “listening and copying” identified by Green (2002) did not “translate” directly, given that “copying” is not as valued when generating original material is the goal. Co-writer selection was an important factor in songwriters’ learning. The learning that occurred in co-writing spaces seemed to reflect Green’s (2002) concepts of both “peer-directed learning” and “group learning,” but also a form of “peer coaching” through “checks and balances” that seemed distinct from the learning modes that Green described. Pressure was an important factor for some participants: on one hand, the company of co-writers reduces pressure surrounding creative activity; on the other, accountability to one’s collaborators increases the pressure to be engaged and thoughtful in the co-writing process. Songwriters also valued a safe and open co-writing environment that supported both creativity and learning. Participants identified several “important actors” in their Nashville songwriting lives. Professional organizations played an important role, as did certain individuals—managers, veteran writers, open mic and writers’ night hosts, and publishers. Some of these actors played important mentor/sponsor roles, whereas others acted as gatekeepers in the environment. Findings from this study prompt teachers of songwriting and music educators in general to consider how formal and informal practices can be combined in formal situations. These findings also reveal the potential power of co-writing as a learning tool in songwriting classes, though it should be balanced with other activities. Recommendations for future research in the teaching and learning of songwriting are offered as well.
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Title: "Until the lion learns to speak" : refugee youth-led participatory research towards critical consciousness
Creator: Clements, Kathryn A. V.
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: According to the United States Department of State, 85,000 refugees were admitted to the U.S. in 2016, and 37,710 (44.4 percent) of those admitted were under the age of 18 (Department of Homeland Security, 2017). Resettled adolescent refugees face the challenges of adolescence while also navigating the loss of homeland, cultures, languages, and families. Research suggests that refugee youth desire the same ability to develop themselves and participate in school and community contexts as other...
Show moreAccording to the United States Department of State, 85,000 refugees were admitted to the U.S. in 2016, and 37,710 (44.4 percent) of those admitted were under the age of 18 (Department of Homeland Security, 2017). Resettled adolescent refugees face the challenges of adolescence while also navigating the loss of homeland, cultures, languages, and families. Research suggests that refugee youth desire the same ability to develop themselves and participate in school and community contexts as other youth, but they face consistent marginalization in their schools and communities (Hastings, 2012). To support marginalized groups, scholars and activists have promoted CC as a social-justice oriented construct that increases equity and access to resources through two main components: critical reflection and critical action (Diemer et al., 2017; Watts & Hipolito-Delgado, 2015). Youth Participatory Action Research (yPAR) offers a structured, empirically-supported model for engaging youth in social change (Ozer, 2017). yPAR methods guide youth through three research phases; (1) Introduction to research and identification of a problem, (2) Data collection and analysis, and (3) Action. The current study explored how the CC components of critical reflection and critical action developed among refugee youth participating in a community-based yPAR project in which they researched the issue of bullying in schools. Four primary research questions explored how the yPAR framework supported the development of specific CC aspects of identity, power, critical skills, and inequity. Ethnographic field notes were collected at all yPAR sessions by three nonparticipant observers and retrospectively by the facilitator as a participant observer. Field notes were analyzed using a modified analytic induction approach. This method generates empirically-based assertions that elucidate the connections between CC components and the three phases of yPAR. These assertions explain how the components of CC were developed within and across the yPAR phases.
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Title: "Urtheil und ein schönes Lied" : Das Armesünderblatt (1750-1820) in der Sammlung "German Criminology Collection" der Michigan State University
Creator: Bollen, Magelone
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Poor sinner's pamphlets" are mostly four-page leaflets, printed and sold cheaply on the occa-sion of an execution. They contain the official court document with death sentence, confession, a religious or moralistic poem, and at times an illustration. During the transitional period of 1750-1820, they were a wide spread cultural practice in Bavaria and the neighboring regions in southern Germany. While the authorities aimed at deterrence and social discipline, bourgeois readers enjoyed an...
Show more"Poor sinner's pamphlets" are mostly four-page leaflets, printed and sold cheaply on the occa-sion of an execution. They contain the official court document with death sentence, confession, a religious or moralistic poem, and at times an illustration. During the transitional period of 1750-1820, they were a wide spread cultural practice in Bavaria and the neighboring regions in southern Germany. While the authorities aimed at deterrence and social discipline, bourgeois readers enjoyed an illicit pleasure. Based on the extensive, yet unexplored holdings of Michigan State University's German Criminology Collection, this study investigates form, function, devel-opment and commercialization of the medium and places it within the historical, juridical, liter-ary and medial context. It analyzes the literary features of the poems and how they indicate a change in the conception of the criminal. Five extensive case studies focus on different im-portant aspects: the oral and written publication, crime investigation and confession, the spec-tacle of the execution, robbers' threat to inner security, as well as the connections between several documents related to the same murder case. A detailed comparison of the variants of-fers insights into the succession and adaptation of prints. An excursus presents parodies of death sentences ranging from mere puns to the subversive political satire.
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Title: "Use my name, they need to know who I am!" : Latina/o migrant and seasonal farmworker youth at the interstices of the educational pipeline
Creator: Gutierrez, Lorena
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Schooling experiences of Latina/o migrant farmworker youth in K-12 schools and a High School Equivalency Program in the Midwest support the author's contention that many of the students prefer to pursue a General Education Development (GED) degree instead of a high school diploma as an act of survivance from K-12 schools.

Title: "Vocal" communication : the effects of rate (speed) and intensity (loudness) in response to spoken messages
Creator: Opubor, Alfred Esimatemi, 1937-
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Wait! I can use that in my classroom?" : popular culture in/and secondary English Language Arts
Creator: Schoon Tanis, Kathryn A.
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "We have father and mother and each other" : Little Women and the American nuclear family romance, 1868-1994
Creator: Hughes, Mary
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "We stranded in school" : survival literacy through adaptive colorations among high-achieving African American middle school students
Creator: Ives, Denise Kay
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "What happens to a dream..." in the land of milk & honey? : understanding immigrant youth racial-ethnic identity & aspirations
Creator: Sawyers, Baranda Jahel
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Racialization, the aspirations of young people and discrimination have been at the heart of sociological investigation since the birth of sociology as a discipline in the United States. Since the election of Barak Obama as president of the United States, one critically important discussion that has emerged is the impact of this event on the aspirations of young people, especially the children of immigrants and young people of color. However, as researchers we can only understand this impact...
Show moreRacialization, the aspirations of young people and discrimination have been at the heart of sociological investigation since the birth of sociology as a discipline in the United States. Since the election of Barak Obama as president of the United States, one critically important discussion that has emerged is the impact of this event on the aspirations of young people, especially the children of immigrants and young people of color. However, as researchers we can only understand this impact if we first understand critical aspects of the aspirations and goals of these groups of young people before this epic historical event. Using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) data this dissertation research investigates the racial-ethnic identity and aspirations of the children of immigrants in the United States. The research will probe the relationships that exist between aspirations and racial/ethnic identity for youth as they move through adolescence into emerging adulthood. The overarching research questions are: (1) What relationships exist between identity and aspirations for the children of immigrants; (2) What types of aspirations exist among 1.5 and second generation immigrant youth; and (3) How do these youth integrate aspects of racialization and social position into their identity? The research described herein has two goals; (1) ascertain the types of aspirations that exist among immigrant youth; and (2) begin to understand the relationships that exist between racial-ethnic identity and aspirations for these youth. This dissertation research is seen to contribute to our present understanding of immigrant youth of color, aspirations and identity in at least two ways. First it will facilitate an understanding of the way that identity, specifically racial-ethnic identity is integrated and used by youth to make decisions about their lives. Second, this study will illuminate how the aspirations of immigrant youth change over time and if these changes are related to changes in racial-ethnic identification and other social aspects of racial-ethnic identity.
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