Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Education For Freedom: A Look at Education's Role in Economic and Human Development, Devon Scarlett
“Human Betterment”: The Fight For and Against 50 Years of Sterilization in North Carolina, Kay Bielak Schaffer
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
"I Don't Post About Politics" An Analysis of Speech among Palestinian Youth in the West Bank, Lauren Elizabeth Blaxter
Dying For: Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and their Contemporary Forms in Modern America, Clay Robert Coffey
Ritual Surgeries: The Discourse Surrounding Female Genital Cutting and Tostan, Anna Karin Gors
Re-Envisioning Humanism in a Reductionist World, Anna Elizabeth Hadfield
The Gilded Gift: A Study in Celebrity Humanitarianism, Sanchi Illuri
#GonnaKillMyself: An Examination of Suicide Prevention in Social Media, Margaret Elizabeth Kucera
You Say Tomato, I Say Injustice: How Farmworkers Brought Human Rights to the Table, Phyllis Jeanne Kuplast
"(A) boot stamping on a human face--forever:" Gender, Sex, and Human Rights in Science Fiction, Rosemary Karin Limburg
Transitional Justice: A Long Overdue and Difficult Way Forward for Afghanistan, Mohammad Mehdi Rahmati
Politics By Other Means: Authenticity As Dissent In Post-1968 Czechoslovakia, Kasra Kurt Sarikhani
Human RIghts as Education: A Comparison of Models of Human Rights Education (HRE) in American Classrooms, Caitlin Marie Simon
Is the Gag Still On? The Lasting Impacts of America’s Rescinded Global Gag Rule on Abortion, Margot Elaine Sirinek
Human Rights and the Russian Avant Garde, Alexandra Marie Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Narratives of Survival: Ogojas, Igbos, and the Biafran War, Beatrice Ajaero
"Bang Bang Cut" & "O4O, Casey Asprooth-Jackson
'Amakwerekwere': an assessment of xenophobic sentiment and violence in South Africa, Travis Bostick
Television News and its Detriments to Conflict as explored in the short film "White Ants", Ayana Enomoto-Hurst
"A Truthful Accounting of Events": The Roles of Linguistic Strategy, Narrative, and Performance in United States Asylum Hearings, Celia Feldman
Regimes of Separation and Settlement:The Construction of Israeli Identity, Paulina Gorczyn
Hijabs, Morgan Green
Democracy & the Dangers of Security: Politics of the Nepali Armed Police Force, Dhana Laxmi Hamal
Hidden and Unregistered: The Migrant Domestic Labor Industry in Lebanon, Sadaf Hasan
Cracking Joe's Six-Pack: A Study of Masculinity and its Discontents, Patricia C. Hochheim
Interrogating the Good: Humanitarian Appeals and the Limits of Our Political Imagination, Irina Kalinka
Brotherhood and (Dis)Unity?: Politics of Memory and the Reconstruction of History in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marina Lazetic
Rationalizing the Pleasure in Another Group’s Suffering: From Schadenfreude to Dehumanization, Mengyao Li
Si ce n’est pas Genet, je ne sais pas: Theatre, Aliens, and Revolution, Shaun Allen Mahan
The Heart of Light: Rights, Justice, and Representations of History and Conflict in the Congo, Nion T. McEvoy Jr.
The Influence of Key Adult Relationships on the Motivation and Achievement of Urban High School Students: A Qualitative Analysis, Danielle Moses
On Space, Place, and Identity: Armenians in Bourj Hammoud, Nora Palandjian
The Call For Critical Responsibility: Theoretical Suggestions For Practical Human Rights Discourses and Strategies, Melissa Patel
La generación perdida: The Negative Effects of American Immigration Policy on Future Generations of Latin American Youth in the U.S., Diana Pitcher
Transitional Justice: A Long Overdue and Difficult Way Forward for Afghanistan, Mohammad Mehdi Rahmati
"Captivity of the Mind": Education and Incarceration in America, Veronique Pearl Whittaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Learning to Include, Shaveena Z. Anam
Inclusion vs. Unity and the Immigrant as a Potential Political Actor, Isabel Barber
Artifacts of Technoscience: Surrogacy and the Technological, Medically Mediated Reinvention of Nature, Lizzie Logan Baur
Breaking Down Testimony: Remembering, Reliving, and Representing, Sarah E. Bessel
The Atomized Self: Violence in Global Society, Kevin A. Cassem
Between Nation and State: Examining the International Romani Unions, Anna M. Fischer
Compete Narratives: The Search of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo for the Missing Children of Argentina, Johanna Greenberg
Resistance in Appalachia: What the Movement Against Mountaintop Removal Can Tell Us About Combating Corporate Power, Elias Isquith
Discipline and Doctrine: Learning from the Catholic School Model for Public School Success, Claire E. Phelan
"Go now and tell them": Bulgarian folksongs and political resistance to the Turkish "yoke", Thea Piltzecker
The Paradox of Language: Alienation and Reconstructed Identity in Exile Narratives, Chloé Ravel
The Narrative of Efficacy: Contemporary US Grassroots Food Movements and Formulations of Resistance to Globalized Food Systems, Emilie Ruscoe
The Al-Huda movement and the Inculcation of Gender Roles and Identities Among Urban Pakistani Women, Mahwish Tazeem
Development as Freedom? Questioning Foreign Aid Development Assistance and Turning to What We Can Learn From Nicaragua, Chelsea Lea Whealdon
Submissions from 2010
Contemporary Immigration Detention Practices in the United States: A Study in Sociology and Human Rights, Robert D. Goodis