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Spring 2020
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of the body as a critical part of linguistic meaning-making, taking a cognitive and usage-based approach to language. These approaches prioritize the investigation of the linguistic conventions of everyday interactive contexts, namely, of spontaneous...
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Making Meaning in Modern Yoga: Methodological Dialogues on Commodification and Contradiction
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This study explores the meaning of commodification in modern yoga and finds that commodification often contradicts yoga’s ethical principles. Two different analyses of this phenomenon also produce contradictory accounts. One analysis attempts to understand how practitioners experience...
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Negotiating Identities: Embodied Experience as Resistance to the Orientalist Gaze in the Artworks of Three Contemporary Women Artists from Iran
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This dissertation offers three case studies of contemporary women artists from Iran: Ghazaleh Hedayat (b. 1979), Simin Keramati (b. 1970), and Katayoun Karami (b. 1967), to challenge stereotypical readings of Iranian contemporary art that are based on homogenized notions of Iranian identity. I...
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Fall 2023
This thesis examines Charles R. Knight’s images of dinosaurs produced around the turn of the nineteenth century in comparison to natural history images of living animals. Using a combination of scholarship from animal studies and an analysis of the side of production, it argues Knight used visual...
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Fall 2013
Given that normalcy is contingent upon social valuation, the theoretical and socio-political conditions that give rise to the disabled speaker must be interrogated. I contend that disabled speech is made intelligible as an embodied activity that threatens rational structures and is performed (1)...
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2023-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Mathematics is typically conceived as a cerebral, solitary activity. Tasks are ubiquitous in the mathematics classroom. From traditional textbook questions and worksheets to collaborative, inquirybased problems, tasks are the stage on which mathematical knowing and doing...
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Spring 2020
Virtual reality in its digital and non-digital forms has been followed by a long history of criticisms concerning the reality of the impressions it generates and the justified beliefs we can form about such experiences. Faced with the recent breakthroughs of digital VR, a re-evaluation of past...
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2016-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...
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This is Not For You: The Rise and Fall of Music Milieux in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, 1950s -1990s
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This thesis examines the rise and fall of music communities in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest from the 1950s to the 1990s: the jazz mileu in Seattle in the 1950s, the Pacific Northwest garage rock network of the 1960s, and the alternative music community of the 1980s and early 1990s. It looks...
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Fall 2012
Motivated by the apparent ineffectiveness of feminist critiques to ameliorate my negative experiences of my body, this thesis investigates Michel Foucault’s understanding of experience and critique in an effort to explain this inefficacy. Caught between intuitions that my “stubborn” experiences...