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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Achal, Roshan
- 1Alain, Claude.
- 1Bickersteth, Patrick.
- 1Climenhaga, Lily M
- 1Comish, Sara Elizabeth.
- 1Davidson, Tonya Katherine
- 14Department of Psychology
- 12Department of Educational Psychology
- 3Department of Elementary Education
- 2Centre for Neuroscience
- 2Department of English and Film Studies
- 2Department of History and Classics
- 1Ball, Karyn (English and Film Studies)
- 1Defraeye, Piet (Drama)
- 1Dickson, Clayton (Psychology, Physiology)
- 1Dickson, Clayton T (Psychology, Physiology, Centre for Neuroscience)
- 1Dickson, Clayton T. (Psychology)
- 1Dr. Clayton T. Dickson (Psychology, Physiology, and Centre for Neuroscience)
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"Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" The Portrayal of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the Museums of Lviv
DownloadFall 2015
This thesis examines the portrayal of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the museums of Lviv, Ukraine. Founded in 1929 by veterans of the Polish-West Ukrainian War and nationalistic student associations, the primary objective of the OUN was to attain a sovereign and united...
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“Not Everything was Good, but Many Things were Better”: East German Everyday Life, Material Culture, and the Museum
DownloadFall 2014
This dissertation draws on the rich context of contemporary Germany for interrogating divisive public debates on Germany’s socialist past. Grounded in the analysis of specific places and objects, particularly those relating to museums, it investigates simultaneously three distinct but also...
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Fall 2015
A Hole in the World is an open composition for prepared electric guitar, archival recording, and audio programming. Text-fragments culled from my father’s recorded autobiography serve as the focal point of the piece. Transformations of these text-fragments within the audio programming language...
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Affective Landscapes: Re-negotiating the Ordinary in Contemporary Lebanese Cultural Production
DownloadSpring 2018
This dissertation examines contemporary Lebanese cultural production and its shifting relationship to the everyday/ordinary as a site that unfolds in the midst of or in proximity to violence. I argue that attention to the ordinary is an effective mode through which to approach societies, like...