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Retreats Into Nomadism: Negotiating "The Good Life" in the Intimate Publics of Postfeminist Online Culture
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This dissertation explores how models of the “good life” promoted within the “solo female” travel blog genre are inflected by postfeminist sensibilities of retreat. Specifically, it looks at an emerging cultural current I call the “retreat into nomadism” paradigm in lifestyle blogging. I look at...
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Towards Critical Realism: Marginality in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Photography (1980s–1990s)
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This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...
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Single-Session Art Therapy as Mind-Body Medicine: A Systematic Review of Treating Emotional Crisis in Time-Limited Psychotherapy
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This research study presented and elaborated on the published materials, in recognized search aggregators, OVID and EBSCO, regarding the topic of emotional crisis in brief and short-term psychotherapy, single-session therapy, and art therapy literature. An emotional crisis is an unexpected and...
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Towards Critical Realism: Marginality in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian Photography (1980s–1990s)
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This thesis explores the unofficial photography of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in the 1980s and 1990s: an art form that is barely studied in academia and therefore remains almost completely unknown to the general public. The dissertation offers a novel perspective of research within Eastern...
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Fall 2016
This exploratory work investigates the “transformational festival,” a contemporary form of celebratory leisure that revolves around music, the arts, community, and co-creativity. By integrating interpretative phenomenological analysis with methods from arts-based research, critical ethnography,...
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Spring 2015
In this dissertation I consider a famous self-translation, the Russian version of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, through the prism of a descriptive approach in translation studies. Self-translations have been traditionally excluded from consideration in scholarly studies as unrepresentative of...
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Spring 2014
Adolescents’ safety on the Internet is a prime concern in society. Sexual predators use the online environment regularly to solicit adolescents for sexual purposes; however, we know very little about the experiences of adolescents who become victimized in this way. This research used a thematic...
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Competitive Discourse in an Imitational Democracy: The Multifaceted Image of the Opponents in the Online Materials of Russian Political Parties and Leaders
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In contemporary Russia, the Internet serves as the most diverse and open platform of sharing and contrasting ideas. While the most life-like imitational democracy elements do manifest themselves to a limited extent in the mainstream print and electronic media, only online do all political forces...
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Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Electron Transport Through Diazonium Derived Films and Mixed – Mode Bonded Layers on Gold and Carbon Surfaces
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For Molecular Electronics to become a viable replacement or complitment to current elec- tronic devices a fundamental understanding of device operation and functionality is needed. This work explores electron transport through diazonium derived molecular junctions via conductive atomic force...
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Spring 2012
Islamophobic rhetoric used by popular media: such as television, newspapers and blogs, has heightened the fear of Islam to levels that have contributed to the US and Canada beginning to institute anti-Shari’a legislation. The financial backers of this rhetoric realise that fear has a strong...