Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "O'Neill, Sean"
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An Analysis on Luis Humberto Salgado's Works for Cello and Piano
Fernández Vizcaíno, Adriana Cristina (2024-05-11)Luis Humberto Salgado was an Ecuadorian pianist and composer who wrote in a variety of instrumental settings, including two works for cello and piano. Although he composed the Caprice and Sonata for Cello and Piano over ... -
An Ancient Practice in the Modern Age: An Examination of the Camino de Santiago and the Impact of Technology on Modern Pilgrimage
Jackson-Kerr, Roni (2017-12-15)For more than twelve hundred years, sojourners have been walking the pilgrim routes of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of Saint James, in northern Spain. With a long and varied history, the Camino ... -
Anthropological Literacy: Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Varieties of Human Experience through Oklahoma Social Studies Education
McLeod, Allison (2021-12-17)In conversations about education in Oklahoma, there are differing views on how to handle equipping students to navigate a diverse world. Social studies education research has long sought new approaches to prepare students ... -
Anxiety and Empowerment: An Ethnography of Science in the Middle
Doucette, Janessa (2017)Stacked within the Frontier Strip, 70,000 square miles of land constitutes the 46th state of the Union, Oklahoma. The state is known for its agriculture, energy, and aerospace industries, as well as rich cultural history ... -
At Home In The Lows: An Ethnography of Meaning-Making In Intimate Spaces
Oliver, Elisha (2018-05-11)There has been long-standing interest in the ways in which spaces are used by various cultures and communities. Through an ethnographic study of women, space, and narrative, this dissertation explores the ways in which ... -
The Ball Game of the Southeast: Stickball and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in the Anthropocene
Ketchum, Terry (2017-05)Forests are an essential source of natural resources in the production of racquets used by Choctaw (Chahta) people to play Kapucha Toli, also known as stickball or the ball game of the southeast. Choctaw efforts to sustain ... -
Cherokee compositions: the (re)discovery, restoration, and revival of the music of Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Giacona, Christina (2023-12-15)This dissertation documents and analyzes the (re)discovery, restoration, and revival of the music of Jack Frederick Kilpatrick (1915-1967), a composer and intellectual who identified as Cherokee and who spent his career ... -
COMMUNICABILITY, WELLNESS, AND RURAL HEALTH ECONOMICS: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA
Blanton, Ryan (2014-05-09)Through an analysis of chronotopic discourses, or discourses that provide meaning in connection to time and space, focused on the (re)definition of rurality in relation to health, this dissertation examines the overall ... -
COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
Thornton, Tyler J. (2015)Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ... -
An Ethnography of Twitch Streamers: Negotiating Professionalism in New Media Content Creation
Bingham, Christopher (2017-05-12)Twitch is an online video distribution platform that allows individuals to broadcast live video of themselves playing video games, and includes features that allow viewers to financially support their favorite Twitch ... -
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY AT A SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC: A COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY
Powell, Bryan (2016-05)Music educators today are faced with the challenge of bridging the gap that exists between conventional music curricula and the music with which many students engage on a daily basis. As a result, popular music is being ... -
Memory Comes Before Knowledge- North American Indigenous Deaf: Socio-cultural Study of Rock/Picture Writing, Community, Sign Languages, and Kinship.
McKay-Cody, Melanie (2019-05-10)Because of both their deafness and their ethnicity, Indigenous Deaf people area doubly marginalized group, not only in society as a whole, but also within both Indigenous and Deaf communities. This dissertation will present ... -
Purism, Prescriptivism, and Privilege: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
Kickham, Elizabeth A (2015-12)Oklahoma Choctaw, a Muskogean language originally spoken in the American southeast, is currently the focus of language revitalization efforts by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The School of Choctaw Language, which has ... -
Pursuing an understanding of relationship making within language revitalization: conversations with Indigenous language activists
Young Wolf (Freeman), Royce K. (2022-05-13)We are born into a universe of pre-existing relationships (kinship, ancestral lineage, social and interpersonal, environmental, economic, political, etc.), in addition to the many relationships made intentionally or ... -
SHAPING THE FUTURE: THE EVOLVING ROLE OF NARRATIVES IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION.
Wilson, Karis K. (2024-05-10)This dissertation study examines and produces empirical evidence on how organizational members, who are food pantry employees, share stories and narratives created by the organizational group. This exploration provides ... -
Sojourners’ Identity Transformation As A Function Of Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Communication Model Of Multicultural Identity Development
Biwa, Valerie (2022-08-04)This dissertation explored the multicultural identity(ies) development of sojourners as a function of their cross-cultural adaptation (CCA). Several theories of CCA, identity, and identity development are discussed and ... -
"The Wish to be a Red Indian:" Indianthusiasm and Racial Ideology in Germany
LaFramboise, Kelly (2017-12)This dissertation analyzes the role of Indianer – Germans (and other Europeans) who wish to be Native American so much that they embody and practice essentialized notions of Native American cultural traditions – in German ...