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Spring 2015
Feminist resistance to gender oppression, while surely a collective political project, has an important individual dimension. Individual resistance most often takes the shape of self-transformation where one works on the self to change desires, attitudes, and practices. I argue that paradigms of...
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Spring 2010
This thesis deals with Martin Heidegger’s critique of the Cartesian problem of scepticism in Being and Time. In addition to the critique itself, Heidegger’s position with regards to the sense and task of phenomenological research, as well as fundamental ontology, is discussed as a necessary...
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Fall 2012
This thesis explores the determination of a few of the fundamental constants of the standard model by employing different methods than those historically used. Modern field theory techniques are applied to the calculation of the α2(Zα)5 corrections to the Lamb shift leading to an increase in the...
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Spring 2015
In this dissertation, I read gender humour through the lens of masculinities studies and critical humour studies to contribute to gender studies and humour studies. I engage two crucial problems and propose solutions and possibilities. The first problem concerns the state of the concept of...
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Fall 2016
At the heart of this thesis was one simple question, “What is the essence of my happiness?” This question was explored, with the guidance of the problem solving steps outlined in Heuristic research. I employed insights from my interests in classical psychology and existential phenomenology to...
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Images of the Experiential: The Petroleum Roots of the Phenomenology of Religion and Architectural Phenomenology, 1945–1967
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This dissertation, titled “Images of the Experiential: Petroleum Roots of Architectural Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Religion (1945–1967),” exposes the petrocultural philanthropy that funded imperialist knowledge production and gave rise to the phenomenology of religion and...
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Spring 2014
Purpose: To explore the lived-experiences of waiting to have bariatric surgery. Research Question: What is it to wait for bariatric surgery? Methods & Participants: I responded to this question using a human science approach to phenomenology of practice. I conducted multiple, in-depth,...
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Fall 2015
This thesis is based on a textual analysis of three translations of a book in the New Testament, Ephesians, to look for differences in the translators’ treatment of gender. The three versions used are the older 1984 New International Version (NIV) and a retranslation of the NIV that uses...
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Fall 2014
This doctoral project describes beauty as it is lived. It is an exploration of beauty’s experiential qualities as well as an investigation of its structural characteristics. Beauty has an eidetic structure that is morphological (rather than exact), which means that its essence has properties that...