This thesis explores the constant negotiation between cultures for Mexican migrant workers in the United States. To examine this negotiation between the American and Mexican cultures, Tomás Rivera’s novel …y no se lo tragó la...
In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the...
Farrell, Amy E. '“When I Was Growing Up My Mother Cooked Dinner Every Single Day”: Fat Stigma and the Significance of Motherblame in Contemporary United States." Body Politics – Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte 3, no. 5 (2015):...
Japanese American Incarceration during World War II, often referred to as “internment,” remains a dark part of United States history. This paper explores three memoirs by Nisei, or second-generation Japanese Americans: I Call...
On February 17, 1909, Virginia Stephen (not yet Woolf) accepted a marriage proposal from a panicked Lytton Strachey; it was called off before the end of their conversation. Other prominent queer authors in the early twentieth...
This essay brings the discourse of “weak theory” to bear on Lyn Hejinian’s feminist experimental poem of the 1980s, My Life. It argues that the eating matters of My Life—the poem’s steady references to eating, cooking,...
In order to sustain dictatorship, achieve totalitarian governance, and actualize massive demographic and imperialist goals such as a population increase of twenty million people and the creation of a new Roman Empire,...
The personal relationship between Primo Levi and Philip Roth, two of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century, has been studied in depth, but scholars have devoted less attention to the recurring presence of Levi...
Using twenty-three oral history interviews as a foundation, this article examines the student residential experience at the Scotland School for Veterans’ Children (SSVC) between 1930 and 2009. The interviews were conducted with...
Cucchiara, Maia, and Amy C. Steinbugler. '“The Books Make You Feel Bad”: Expert Advice and Maternal Anxiety in the Early 21st Century." Sociological Forum (Article published online August 23, 2021)....
Paul Ko is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College. , Kirss, Alexander, Paul Ko, and Cleo O'Brien-Udry. '“Less Stress, More Confidence”: Supporting Junior Scholars Online at the Graduate Student International Political...
Definitions for the culturally trendy “clean” eating phenomenon vary: whereas some characterize it as natural and healthy, others adopt more restrictive, moralizing, and affectively-laden definitions that may reflect disordered...
Ellison, James. 'Everyone Can Do as He Wants': Economic Liberalization and Emergent Forms of Antipathy in Southern Ethiopia. American Ethnologist 33, no. 4 (2006): 665-86. and After the fall of Ethiopia's socialist...
Killing over 50 million people worldwide in the aftermath of World War I, the 1918 influenza epidemic followed soldiers home to all corners of the globe. In New Zealand, almost 8,600 people died, approximately half the number...
Keats’s poetry on Classical relics invokes the tradition of ekphrasis, a rhetorical device that indicates a verbal representation of an artwork. While critics have explored the symbolic, often gendered, implications of these...
Ellison, James G. 'A Fierce Hunger': Tracing the Impacts of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Southwest Tanzania. In The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918: New Perspectives, edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray,...
Ball, Jeremy. The ‘Three Crosses’ of Mission Work: Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Angola, 1880-1930. Journal of Religion in Africa 40, no. 3 (2010): 331-357....
Published as:Reiner, J. Toby. ‘Supreme Emergencies’, Ontological Holism, and Rights to Communal Membership. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (March 10, 2015). DOI:10.1080/13698230.2015.1004837 ...
Early research on black racial identity development cautioned that close relationships with whites signalled an alienation from blackness and a subconscious acceptance that ‘white is right’. These assumptions mirrored popular...
For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., An inquiry in historical sociology using textual interpretation of educational curricular documents to analyze the role assigned to Islam in the official...
Qualls, Karl D. “Історія, міське планування та творення повоєнного Севастополя.” [History, Urban Planning and the Making of Postwar Sevastopol] Схiд/Захiд 15, (2011): 111-124.
“Создание и реконструкция памяти города-героя: Севастополь, 1944–2004” in Поздний Сталинизм и эпоха Н.С Хрущева в Советском Союзе (St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg State University, 2010).
After the Sharpeville Massacre in March of 1961 the primary agents sponsoring the decades old South African anti-Apartheid movement, the African National Congress (ANC), agreed to suspend non-violent methods in favor of an...
This purpose of this thesis paper, which had originally been written for the Russian Department at Dickinson College, was meant to be both an analytical and informational approach to current developing international relations...
Qualls, Karl D. Агитировать и создавать условия: перепланировка города-героя Севастополя, 1944–1953 гг. [To Agitate and to Render Service: Replanning the Hero-City Sevastopol, 1944-1953]. Новейшая история Росии [Modern...
In 1733 the French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, posed and solved the following problem in geometric probability: when a needle of length L is dropped onto a wooden floor constructed from boards of width D...
Los que trabajamos en salud indígena sabemos que es muy común que los pobladores indígenas o campesinos sean representados como culpables de sus problemas de salud, desconociendo que los pobres indicadores de salud en los...
This essay argues that the representation of Maximiiano Rubin in Benito Pérez Galdós' 1886-87 novel Fortunata y Jacinta is largely based on typologies of male gender and sexual deviance described in medical texts and popular...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , For more information on the published version, visit Revistas Bolivianas' Website....
After publishing his first major literary work between 1930 and 1932, the momentous trilogy Die Schlafwandler, Hermann Broch found himself a critically acclaimed author but not a wealthy one. The modest sales expectations of...
La conferenza tenuta da Andrea Manganaro presso il Dickinson College in Pennsylvania intende me!ere a fuoco, a!raverso un close reading del cap. XI dei Malavoglia, la modernità del confli!o tra il giovane “ribelle” ’Ntoni e i...
Although it is impossible to construct a regular heptagon and a regular nonagon using a compass and unmarked straightedge, it is possible to construct them with a compass and marked straightedge using the neusis technique. We...
I am privileged to have been raised to be in a city filled with a wealth of diverse
artwork. During the initial interview portion of my application to attend Dickinson through the Posse Foundation I spoke about how badly I...
For more information on the published version, visit The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide's Website. The full interview can be found in Voices in Italian Americana, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2017)., White, Edmund. "A Year in La Dolce Vita...
The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) 58-month catalog has produced a catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected without bias by Compton-thin obscuration. Some of the AGN detected by the Swift BAT have spectral properties...
Online information literacy tutorials can be highly successful supplements to traditional library instruction sessions. Although the creation of tutorials is initially a time consuming process, designing them and using them can...
Pfannkuchen, Antje, and Leif Weatherby. “Writing Polarities: Romanticism and the Dynamic Unity of Poetry and Science,” in “Writing Polarities: Romanticism and the Dynamic Unity of Poetry and Science,” ed. Antje Pfannkuchen and...
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Anthony Underwood is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The...
The author describes a first-year seminar in cryptology with three major assignments which were planned to help students develop information literacy, oral presentation, and writing skills. and Published as:Koss, Lorelei....
The Instructor's Manual contains teaching tips, syllabus planning, and lesson organization to assist professors using the book Writing Analytically in...
The Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. The initial shock had a magnitude of approximately 7.9, serious by any calculation, but, like many destructive natural events, the...
This paper argues that conservatives have invoked the memory of Martin Luther King in the decades since his death to several crucial ends: to shed the conservative movement’s associations with opposition to popular ‘60s civil...
For more information on the published version, visit Bucknell University Press's Website. https://www1.bucknell.edu/script/upress/book.asp?id=4743, He said...that there were very fine things in his Night Thoughts, though you...
For more information on the published version, visit Psi Chi: The International Honor Society in Psychology's Website., Research shows that the degree of acculturation may affect individuals' views within a given culture as...
When I began thinking about the form of this essay, I envisioned it as a retable, one of those elaborate altarpieces designed by Baroque artists in eighteenth-century Spain and its colonies. In the main panel I would like to...
Nichols, Ashton. Wordsworth as EnvironmentalNatureWriter. In Nature and the Environment, edited by Scott Slovic, 100-117. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013., William Wordsworth is perhaps the romantic poet most often...
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., Copeland, Eva Maria. Women Writers in Spain: 1700-1900. In World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia, edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A....
Women in Iraq had more freedom and rights under the Baath Regime than they do in the post-2003 Iraqi state. This research offers an analysis of women’s rights from the beginning of the Baath regime, through the American...
The loss of land, livelihoods and home associated with displacement frequently has profound impacts on people, with women particularly vulnerable to violence, impoverishment and marginalisation. Lessons gleaned broadly from the...
For more information on the published version, visit Wesleyan University Press's Website. and Su, Adrienne. With Insomnia Goes Imagination. In Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English, edited by Agha Shahid Ali, 152....
For more information on the published version, visit Science Direct's Website., Rauhut, Anthony S., Isaac J. Zentner, Stacey K. Mardekian, and Jason B. Tanenbaum. "Wistar Kyoto and Wistar Rats Differ in the Affective and...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor & Francis Website., Helweg-Larsen, Marie, Hilary G. Harding, and William M. P. Klein. "Will I Divorce or Have a Happy Marriage?: Gender Differences in Comparative...
Wild bees, like many other taxa, are threatened by land‐use and climate change, which, in turn, jeopardizes pollination of crops and wild plants. Understanding how land‐use and climate factors interact is critical to predicting...
We study a ferrofluid in a horizontal Hele-Shaw geometry subjected to a vertical magnetic field. Specifically, we calculate the energy of a single ferrofluid finger using an idealized model for the finger. By minimizing this...
For more information on the published version, visit Simon & Schuster's Website., In Why They Run the Way They Do, critically acclaimed author Susan Perabo illustrates the triumphs and tragedies of daily life. Perfectly...
Research suggests a U.S. political ideology gap for taking COVID-19 precautions, but we do not know the role of cognitive risk (assessed here as perceived risk) and affective risk (assessed here as worry) in explaining why...
Tra Pham was awarded the Waidner-Spahr Library Prize for Excellence in First Year Research for this paper in 2019. Advisor: Assistant Professor Emily Pawley and This paper argues that among female adolescents, Photoshop leads...
This author pre-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., With the approval of Admiral Oktriabrskii (Commander of...
On May 13, 1988, Stephen Roy Carr, a so-called mountain man living in Michaux State Forest in south central Pennsylvania, shot two female hikers while they were making love at a campsite near the Appalachian Trail. Rebecca...
Published as:McCausland, Jeff. Who Will Sound the Call to Service? The Washington Post, July 2, 2007.For more information on the published version, Click here., A soldier's day was once regulated by bugle calls, from morning...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. Who Makes Local Memories?: The Case of Sevastopol after World War II. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 38, no. 2 (2011): 130-148....
In order to understand the experiences of male caregivers of the elderly, it is important to look at the cultural context in which the caregivers, both male and female, reside. Therefore in the following sections I will not...
In this project, we investigated the effectiveness of the Super-Resolution algorithm on a distant whiteboard scenario. Imagine a person taking a video or an image sequence of a whiteboard from a distance. Due to the limitation...
In his provacatively titled piece We're all behavioral economists now, Erik Angner (2019) argues that, far from being peripheral to economics, behavioral economics is now a central part of the field with the result that we...
Sevastopol-City of Glory and Hero-City Sevastopol adorn books, posters, buses and trolleys in the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine. The ubiquitous image of heroism and glory is neither new nor passively remembered. During two...
Between 1877 and 1885, a Southern Cheyenne chief named Stone Calf gathered a coalition of Southern Cheyenne women and men, cultural intermediaries, ranchers, missionaries, and U.S. soldiers together in northwestern Indian...
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., Why do some parties formed by social movements develop top-down structures while others stay more open and responsive to their social...
Yost, Megan R., and Laura A. Smith. When Does It Cross the Line? College Women's Perceptions of the Threshold Between Normal Eating and Eating Disorders. Journal of College Student Development 53, no. 1 (2012): 163-168., This...
The unprecedented increase in transoceanic migrations in the second half of the nineteenth century was a major catalyst for an explosion in letter-writing and for the expansion of letter-writing to the working classes. Through...
Baumann, Zachary D., Kathleen Marchetti, and Benjamin Soltoff. What's the Payoff?: Assessing the Efficacy of Student Response Systems.Journal of Political Science Education 11, no. 3 (2015): 249-263., For more...
As cigarette sales have fallen in the U.S. over the past two decades, large tobacco companies who traditionally focused most of their business on manufacturing and selling cigarettes have begun to buy smaller tobacco companies...
Kingston, Sharon. What's the Buzz: MedReturn Boxes Offer Residents Safe Medication Disposal. The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA), January 27, 2015. and In order to combat the growing problem of prescription drug abuse and protect our...
Jeff Engelhardt is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., Some content externalists claim that if C is a theoretical concept and “C” expresses C, then the content of C in a community at a time is determined by how...
Neil Diamant is a professor of Asian Law and Society at Dickinson College. , For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website....
Objective: Interdependence with family is considered a core element of collectivistic cultures, and it is routinely endorsed by people of ethnic/racial minority backgrounds in the United States. In contrast, a preference...
The demand for geoscience to inform policy decisions continues to rise. For science to effectively inform policy, scientists must have training that enhances their understanding of the movement of knowledge across boundaries,...
As part of a broader goal of understanding how discourses of nature inform and affect gender and sexuality, this essay analyses two films by Argentine director Lucía Puenzo, XXY (2007) and El niño pez/The Fish Child (2009)....
Jeff Engelhardt is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., The philosophical literature contains at least three formulations of the problem of causal exclusion. Although each of the three most common formulations...
Azriel Grysman, and Cade D. Mansfield. What Do We Have When We Have a Narrative?, in Narrative Methods in Cognitive and Personality Psychology Research, ed. Azriel Grysman and Cade D. Mansfield, special issue, Imagination,...
Women’s use of hookup narratives was examined through their understanding of hookup culture and the benefits and consequences of conversations with their female friends. The traditional sexual script has dictated that women...
What Can Be Computed? is a uniquely accessible yet rigorous introduction to the most profound ideas at the heart of computer science. Crafted specifically for undergraduates who are studying the subject for the first time, and...
About 1 in 100 Gazans have been killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health’s Jan. 8, 2024, update. More than 24,000 people have died, an average of 250 each day. The Israel...