Romy Franks A few weeks ago, I was in my office with my younger sister, Maya, as she looked over our International Cinema poster. To my astonishment, I heard her say, “What? There’s a German film about Indians? Weird!” I think my disbelief stemmed from the fact that I had just returned from a research […]
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The Effect of Identity: Explicit Source Cues’ Influence on Independent Expenditure Committee Ads
Kyrene Gibb and Dr. Christopher Karpowitz, Political Science In the 2012 Presidential election cycle, independent expenditure committees, or Super PACs, had spent a more than $237 million advocating for one or the other presidential candidate (OpenSecrets.org, 2013). Given the large sums of money that independent expenditure committees are raising and spending to influence the outcome […]
Independence: Perceptions of Self-identity in the Life of a Native & American Woman
Tyler K. Lee and Professor David Shuler, Anthropology Summer was rapidly approaching and I was busy making plans to visit Oaxaca, Mexico in search of answers. Several cases of labor abuse involving Mixtec Indians from that region working in Californian fields had emerged and I wanted to find out if Mixtec communal living patterns were […]
American Memorials: Forging a National Identity A Study of Selected Monuments in the U.S.
Lindsay Larson and Dr. Susan Rugh, History Yale historian Robin Winks writes, “We all know history is, simultaneously, three things: what actually happened, what historians choose to record, and what the people—and people, some people, these people, those people—believe to be true about the past.”1 The study of “what people believe to be true […]
Transformation of the Storyteller’s Identity and Role Through the American Storytelling Movement
Rachel Parkinson and Dr. Marsha Broadway, Harold B. Lee Library Juvenile Literature Librarian Twenty-four storytellers and prominent people involved in the American storytelling movement were interviewed to gather information on the following research question: How has the American storytelling movement changed the identity and role of the storyteller? Storytelling seems as definable as the taste […]
Identity in a Changing West
Elizabeth Parnell and Dr. Richard H. Jackson, Geography Department As suburbanization sweeps across the United States, creating a more homogeneous society, historians and geographers are interested in knowing the impact this is having and will have in the future on the “sense of place” that distinguishes small towns. Particularly in the state of Utah, questions […]
Psychosocial Factors Related to Mexican Immigration and Subsequent Identity Formation
Mark Mills and Professor Lynn England, Sociology In my research proposal, I indicated that my research had three primary objectives: 1) discover the underlying psychosocial reasons for Mexican immigration and evaluate the push/pull theory of immigration (i.e. what factors, either psychological, economic, or social, push immigrants away from their native land, and what factors pull […]
Slave Women in Euripides: Struggling For Identity and Power in a Hostile World
Iantha M Haight and Dr. Norbert H O Duckwitz, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature Euripides’ plays continue to be very popular today because of their powerfully human themes. Because of their strong, emotional impact, however, many critics disagree on how to interpret Euripides’ views on women. Since so much knowledge about Greek society in general […]
Revealing Identity through Artifacts
Paul Reed Stavast and Dr. Marti Lu Allen, Anthropology The first research objective was to study how personal, community, and culture area identities are portrayed through artifacts originating from Mesoamerica. The second objective was to integrate the research done on identity as a sub-theme into an exhibition at the Museum of Peoples and Cultures. The […]
A Journey Home: Transnational Dominican American Identity in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Bethany A. Dolman and Dr. Trenton L. Hickman, English Transnationalism is sociology’s relatively new model of national identity that explains and validates a phenomenon that most immigrants from the Dominican Republic to the United States experience: a simultaneous sense of connection to multiple countries, cultures and national identities. I examined Dominican American transnationalism from an […]
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