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Spring 2012

Carson, Glenda A

The patient teaching relationship is entwined within the dialogue between nurse and patient. Using interpretive phenomenology, consistent with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, this research study explores the meaning of the relationships that develop for patients with nurses during their...

Spring 2011

Sopcak, Paul

A prominent hypothesis in literary studies is that readers, especially those that are fully immersed, engage empathically with fictional characters. This dissertation provides a critique of the Cartesian assumptions embedded in contemporary (cognitive scientific) models of empathy and then goes...

Fall 2011

Smith, Jorden

With many current initiatives to promote information literacy, it is necessary to assess the state of information literacy instruction in secondary school and the factors influencing information literacy. Teachers have the opportunity to instruct information literacy (IL) yet students enter...

Fall 2014

Vargas Madriz, Luis F

In the online classroom, students often find themselves in front of a computer, looking at a bright screen, interacting with classmates and teachers through a keyboard and a mouse, and in some cases, listening to and watching someone that is not physically present with them. Some researchers...

Fall 2009

Kippen, Lorelee

This dissertation explores the connections that exist between Gertrude Stein’s late nineteenth-century psychological studies at Harvard University, her fin-de-siècle brain research at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and her early twentieth-century cubist writings. This study is important to...

2016-04-08

Chittick, Kyler

This thesis critiques the Creative Class's attraction to urban "authenticity" through the lenses of phenomenology and affect theory, particularly drawing on Deleuze, to interrogate its role in the gentrification of urban spaces. It argues that the Creative Class’s gentrification of New York City...

Spring 2015

Rodier, Kristin Anne

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...

Spring 2010

Hartford, Sean Daniel

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...

Fall 2012

Dowling, Matthew E

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...

Fall 2024

Murdoch, Kenneth C

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...