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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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Fall 2024
This meta-synthesis study aimed to answer the research question: How is hope reflected in the phenomenological literature on the lived experience of PD? Utilizing Sandelowski and Barroso’s (2007) method for meta-synthesis reviews and an analytic strategy informed by thematic synthesis and...
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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 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...
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Fall 2019
The phenomenon of “not being listened to” is a universal experience, but particularly poignant for women with the lived experience of incarceration. These women’s voices, educator Max van Manen’s most recent (2014) phenomenology text, along with my discipline and practice of spiritual direction...
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On the Public Spaces of Resistance: Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and the Material Conditions for Critique
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In this dissertation I adopt a broad phenomenological perspective in order to develop in outline a ‘new materialism’ that facilitates the thinking of public space as a condition for political resistance. The project is motivated by recent movements such as Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo...
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Ontological Security, Movement, and Well-being: Teetł’it Gwich’in Experiences of Life Transformations
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Based on ethnographic field research in a northern Aboriginal community, this thesis explores Teetł’it Gwich’in experiences of personal transformations from suffering to well-being. Literature on Aboriginal health largely approaches social suffering as trans-generational trauma, and strength in...