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Fall 2010

Mason, Courtney Wade

This study examines some of the significant challenges that Nakoda peoples encountered from 1870-1980 in the Banff-Bow Valley, Alberta. Beginning with missionary movements, the 1877 Treaty Seven agreements and the establishment of the reservation systems, I trace the emergence of a disciplinary...

Spring 2014

Jorgenson, Shelane Rae

Over the last few decades, the concept of global citizenship has emerged in policies and vision statements of higher educational institutions without clarity of what it means or how to educate for it. In North America the discourse of global citizenship study abroad has become increasingly...

Fall 2014

Gladwin, Derek E

This dissertation examines how bogs are represented in Irish literature and culture between 1890 and 2010. Bogs – a type of wetland topography similar to mires or fens – are visually deceptive, physically volatile, and conceptually elusive. Bogs sprawl across Ireland and are often associated with...

Spring 2018

Whitford, Adam N

The World in an Object Lesson addresses the ways in which nineteenth-century reading audiences of the United States were taught to make sense of the visual stimulus of worlds fairs. The Object Lesson was one visual method which was both promoted and critiqued in the material culture of the...

Fall 2009

Jorgenson, Shelane

Several writers have described the aim of global citizenship education as developing in students a global ethic of social justice. Western post-secondary institutions have endeavored to educate students for global citizenship by traveling to and volunteering in developing countries. Such programs...