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Fall 2019

Ivanycheva, Diana

This dissertation is an attempt to explain how Tarkovsky uses paintings of famous artists such as Andrei Rublev, Pieter Bruegel, Leonardo da Vinci, and Piero della Francesca in order to address the question of cinematic temporality and spirituality in his films. The dissertation expands on what...

Spring 2019

Toapanta Tuarez, Jesus L.

This study compared three intact classes of Spanish learners who received three different types of listening instruction: a metacognitive pedagogical cycle following Vandergrift and Tafaghodtari (2010), an awareness-raising approach which exposed L2 listeners to the factors associated with...

Spring 2018

Panenko, Svitlana

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...

Spring 2018

Oneschuk, Nadya

Project SUCH (Save the Ukrainian Canadian's Heritage) was conducted in the summers of 1971 and 1972 in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Young, largely untrained fieldworkers were tasked with interviewing Ukrainian pioneers in the target areas about their immigration...

Spring 2018

Guyot, Alexandra

This thesis proposes an English translation of the Romanian short story "Ivan" by Mircea Eliade. Eliade is a renowned scholar and author, best known for his work A History of Religious Ideas (1978-1985). Part of his literary repertoire is the short story "Ivan" (1968), one of the few if not the...

Spring 2018

Brandvold, Sarah

Although the pan-Inuit unikkaaqtuaq (story) of the origin of the Sea Woman is quite well-known among anthropologists, folklorists, and Religious Studies scholars, to date very little attention has been given to either the broader Sedna tradition, or its individual performances, as serious,...

Fall 2018

Mumm, Shanna

The goal of this dissertation is to legitimize and to bolster the validity of an intuitive epistemology. By using Léopold Sédar Senghor’s “Revolution of 1889” as the foundation for deeper consideration of a movement towards an intuitive epistemology, I not only consider the meaning of intuition...

Fall 2018

Shaw, Lina

Abstract This study attempts to provide a literary analysis of some of the most popular contemporary Orthodox bestsellers in an effort to discuss their literary and cultural values and to explain their widespread appeal, focusing on historical, social and political concern that inform the...

Fall 2018

Abdolmaleki, Kara

In the wake of the 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état in Iran and the toppling of the democratically elected government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, a cultural-political movement that opposed the Shah’s policy of rapid, authoritarian modernization emerged in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This study...

Fall 2018

Hall, Amelia

The construction of colonial cities manifests itself as a Eurocentric projection onto the spatial and human environment of the Americas. The built environment was expressly designed to serve the colonial hegemony, each feature with a purpose and signification. The Historical Center of the city of...