• The Failures of Consent: How the (En)gendering of Sexual Scripts and Desire within Consensual Sex Preserves Rape Culture within the University 

  Narvaja, Tomás (2016-08)

  The epidemic of sexual assault on American university campuses that was first acknowledged by Mary P. Koss in 1987 has resulted in the centering of consent as a key way of distinguishing between acceptable, normal sex and ...

• How Eco-Drone Monitoring and Successful Conservation Methodology can Mitigate Deforestation 

  Winkler-Schor, Sophia (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  Forest cover is declining at an unsustainable rate as development frontiers expand. Though the amount of conservation science being conducted and policy being implemented is ever increasing, forests continue to decline ...

• Gulbadan and Nur Jahan: The Role of Women in the Creation of the Mughal Court and Imperial Policy 

  Schrieve, Hal (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  Using translated primary sources (principally Gulbadan Begum's biography of Humayun) and secondary sources, I analyze the position of women in the early Mughal court and how Akbar's new institutions altered their position. ...

• The Impact of September 11th on Arab-American Youth 

  Sabha, Reem (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  The events of September 11th deeply shook the American psyche, leading to a shift in political and social realities that impacted every citizen. Overwhelmingly divisive, the response to September 11th drew a clear boundary ...

• Bringing the Gods Onstage: Anthropomorphic Deities in Plautus' Amphitruo and Moliere's Amphitryon 

  Ransom, Benjamin (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  Plautus’ "Amphitruo" and Molière’s adaptation are divine burlesque plays that depict surreal scenes of divine cuckoldry and mistaken identity. In these plays a highly comic figure of reverse-anthropomorphism is employed, ...

• Gender in Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" 

  Sangesland, Mona (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” depicts 1930s African-American life in the slums of South Carolina through the romance between the crippled beggar Porgy and the licentious “bad” woman Bess. Bess’ depravity causes ...

• All the President's Women: Barbara Hackman Franklin's Women Power in the Nixon White House 1971-1973 

  Buzan, Cathleen (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  In April 1971, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Barbara Hackman Franklin, the first ever White House women’s recruiter, as Staff Assistant to the President in the White House Personnel Office. Her recruiting efforts ...

• Rape and the Law: An Examination of the Relationship between Sexist Cultural Attitudes and Washington State’s 1975 Rape Law Revision 

  Leonetti, Sara (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  In 1975, Washington State’s legislature approved a complete overhaul the state’s rape statutes. As was the case in many states, societal assumptions about sex and gender roles were embedded in Washington’s rape law prior ...

• A Musical Collaboration: the Orchestras of Auschwitz 

  Gunning, Nora (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  In the historiography of the Holocaust, the subject of music is often disregarded in favor of politics, and when it is mentioned it is done so in passing. This paper seeks to understand how Nazis used music as a tool to ...

• How to be a Good Ally: a Guide to Dismantling Colorblindness, White Normativity and Everyday Racism without Erasing Oppressed Voices 

  Burwell-Chen, Arista (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and increasing racialized police brutality, I have encountered many friends and colleagues who feel too paralyzed to talk about racial inequality, or engage in problematic ways. ...

• The Rise of Cities as Catalysts for Effective Climate Action in a Post-Westphalian Landscape 

  Lower, Chris (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  Globalization is a dynamic, transboundary force challenging the Westphalian model of state-dominated geopolitics that has dominated world affairs for nearly 400 years. Equally problematic to state-centric ...

• Drama in the TV Industry: A Study of New Entrants, New Services, and New Consolidations 

  Xue, Jing (Samantha) (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  Cable companies’ historical dominance in the TV market is eroding away with the rise of telephone companies and streaming video providers offering similar services. Consumers who value cost, content, and ...

• An Examination of Widows’ Status within the Orphan Chamber of New Amsterdam 

  VanHorne, Erika (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  In this paper, I coupled case details with quantitative analysis to examine features of widowhood and womanhood in New Netherland. I did so by examining the records of the Orphan Chamber, a court that would ...

• Swedish –s-passives and Object Shift: Reference in the Syntax 

  Swanson, Steph (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  In this project I attempt to shed light on an array of interacting syntactic phenomena relating to the so-called morphological passive in Swedish. Its morpheme, -s, has been assumed to be a voice morpheme, but ...

• Viral Myths and Biopolitical Disruptions Amidst the Emergence of a Novel Coronavirus 

  Tsang, William (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  Since 2012, a novel coronavirus named Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, has infected 491 people and killed 147 in 18 countries— a case fatality rate of almost 30%—twice as high as the ...

• Electronic Dissidence: Ai Weiwei and Maoist Legacies in the Reform Era 

  St. John, Hope (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  Over the past decade, Ai Weiwei has emerged as a prominent artist activist in China. He is recognized across the globe for his dissident perspectives and large-scale art projects. Noted for his pro-democratic ...

• Bad Girls: The Role of the “Mala” in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 

  Piper, Malia (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  The figure of the mala or “bad woman” is present in much of Ancient Greek and Latin literature. In this context, being a mala means being a woman who participates in the process where an older woman advises a ...

• Re-Imagining Identities: Racial and Ethnic Discourses within Seattle’s Habesha Community 

  Madebo, Azeb (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  My research explores the means by which identities of “non-white” Habesha (Ethiopian and Eritrean) immigrants are negotiated through the use of media, community spaces, collectivism, and activism. As immigrant ...

• A Giant in a Changing Ocean: Unveiling the Mysteries of the Greenland Shark (Somniosus Microcephalus) 

  Knoll, Garrett (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  The Arctic is a changing ecosystem that supports a wide diversity of organisms. Multi-year ice in the Arctic is declining due to warming temperatures and being replaced by thinner first year ice. This change ...

• “Born dying:” Cultural Futures, Social Space, and the Reproductive Economy in Southern African AIDS Narratives 

  Pizelo, Samuel (University of Washington Libraries, 2014)

  This essay reads several of the pieces in a Southern African AIDS narrative anthology, and attempts to uncover a space of possibility for representing HIV, which, as Brown reminds us, is a prerequisite to ...

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