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POCAHONTAS’S PERPLEXING LEGACY: NOBLE NATIVE SUBJECTIVITY AND THE INDIAN PRINCESS
(2016-05-03)
In this dissertation, “Pocahontas’s Perplexing Legacy: Performing the Indian Princess,” I analyze how Native American women performed the Indian Princess identity—a Western archetype of idealized indigenous femininity that ...
Experiences of Interracial Couples in a “Post-Racial” Society
(2016-12)
In spite of the perception held by some Americans that race/ethnicity no longer matters much (i.e., the United States is a “post-racial” society), racial/ethnic prejudice and discrimination continue to shape the lives of ...
Red State Re-Claimed: The Transrhetorical Recovery of Resistance in Oklahoma
(2016-05-13)
My project argues for critical attention to local rhetorics and characterizes Oklahoma as a unique site for understanding their impact on student writers and writing instruction. Despite rhetorical suppression from dominant ...
ON THE EXISTENCE OF KAM TORI FOR PRESYMPLECTIC VECTOR FIELDS
(2016-05)
We prove the existence of a torus that is invariant with respect to the flow of a presymplectic vector field found in a family of presymplectic vector fields. Moreover, the flow on this invariant torus is conjugate to a ...
ESSAYS ON THE SUBJECT OF EDUCATION FINANCE AND MOBILITY
(2016)
This dissertation is an exploration of education finance. Most notably the passage of education financing bonds as well as the effects of the school construction that comes from the passage of education bonds. Chapter 1 ...
Trust: On Acts and Attitudes of Trust
(2016-08)
Trust comes in many forms. Trust is, at the very least, both an act and a set of attitudes. In this dissertation, I motivate the distinction between acts and attitudes of trust and offer partial accounts of each. Acts of ...
EXPLORING FACTORS THAT IMPACT QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ADULTS WITH AUTISM
(2016-08-12)
The purpose of this study was to (a) explore factors that may impact the quality of life
for adults with ASD, and (b) based on those results, offer recommendations for
interventions designed to improve the quality of ...
Real-time 3-D Scene Reconstruction
(2016-05)
This dissertation describes a complete system that captures image data from multiple stereoscopic camera pairs and reconstructs a 3-D model of the imaged scene in real-time. To achieve real-time rates, the system is organized ...
As the Crone Flies: The Imagery of Women as Flying Witches in Early Modern Europe
(2016)
Early modern European images of women as flying witches present fantastical scenes that were initially associated with the Waldensian heresy. Originally these subjects featured both men and women, but they came increasingly ...
Investigation of Methodologies for Minimizing Buildings Electricity Demand and Cost
(2016-05)
Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are the largest consumer of electricity in buildings. The HVAC system is complex in terms of components that make them up and their different time scales. The ...