Benjamin Bascom and Dr. Matthew Wickman, English Literary studies continually shape and reshape the study of historical time-periods. With a fascination on how aesthetic objects—specifically literature—becomes a vantage point through which to see a bygone age, I began my ORCA project with the hopes to better understand the relationship between eighteenth-century British poetry and the […]
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CREATING CITIZENS IN THE MODERN IRISH STATE: PRIMARY SCHOOLS AS INDICATORS OF IDENTITY AMBIGUITIY
Charlotte Williams and Dr. Julie Hartley-Moore, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University In Europe, notions about national identity are being called into question as historical state-sponsored conceptions encounter new forces present in current affairs—including, relative economic prosperity, mass immigration, conflicting ideas about religion, and desired assimilation into a collective European identity. Ireland provides a case […]
Memory-texts and the Interdiscursive Construction of Identity among the Khmer Diaspora
Brandon Bales and Dr. Janis Nuckolls, Linguistics Department and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology Department Abstract Displaced people present a problem for ethnographic research in that they generally lack stable socio-cultural contexts on which researchers rely for making empirical observations. This study shows how people produce memory-texts as a way of recontextualizing themselves in new or […]
The Narrative Identity of Foster Youth as a Component of Readiness for Independence
Jessica Woodbury Professor Jini Roby, Social Work Researchers in a variety of disciplines have begun to describe identity development as having a narrative character (Kellas, 2005; Vangelisti, 2004). They explain that narrative identity consists of a self-perception which is rooted in personal and shared (especially within the family) stories (Vangelisti, 2004). These stories, or core memories, help […]
You Raise Me Up: The Social Identity Underpinnings of Campaign Contributions
David Lassen and Dr. David B. Magleby, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences A record number of individuals financially contributed to presidential candidates during the 2008 election cycle. Many academic researchers and pundits have speculated on why these individuals chose to participate in this manner, often asserting that donors likely anticipated a personal material […]
Understanding Student Ethnic Identity in Schools
Carol Ann Litster and Dr. Erin Feinauer Whiting, Teacher Education The purpose of this study was to understand the tensions Latino students feel in understanding their ethnic and academic identity and what motivates these students to do well in school. Using Latinos in Action as a case study, we uncover tensions for high school students’ […]
Transformation of the Storyteller’s Role and Identity in the American Storytelling Movement
Rachel Parkinson and Dr. Marsha D. Broadway, Harold B. Lee Library To observe the transformations caused by the American storytelling movement, I interviewed national storytellers who are prominent in progressing the movement. Although I have not completed my goal of interviewing 24 national storytellers, 22 storytellers have responded and agreed to be interviewed. Of the […]
The Mediated Effects of Moral Identity on Religiosity and Prosocial Behaviors
David Rackham and Dr. Sam Hardy, Psychology Proposed Project The proposed project sought to examine moral identity as a mediation of relations between religiosity and positive and negative behaviors among emerging adults. Upon receipt of the ORCA grant in February 2010, Dr. Hardy and I began the data analysis. The analysis was performed on a […]
National Identity and Culture: Through Traditional Language and Music in Okinawa, Japan
Ryler Nielsen and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, School of Music Two of the most often used methods that we, as humans, use to identify with each other are language and music. The Omoro Soushi, compiled in the early 1600s, is a compilation of poems and songs in the Okinawan language that were used to create music. […]
Self-Shaping and National Identity in Transylvania
Nick Jones and Dr. Lance Larsen, Department of English My project involved researching and observing Romania’s Székely population and their efforts to maintain cultural autonomy despite their minority status in Romania. The Székely people are a Hungarian-speaking group of disputed origin that has lived in Transylvania for at least 1,000 years, and currently they comprise […]
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