The subject of this thesis is literary onomastics – the study of names in literature. My focus is on American literature, and, specifically, on two important authors within the genre: William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. ...

South Azerbaijanis have faced systemic discrimination in Iran since 1848, to the extent that they are not allowed to give their children “Azerbaijani” names. However, their aspirations for self-government or separation are ...

An understudied dimension of recent cross-border movement in Asia pertains to marriage migration, defined as women from countries in East, Southeast and South Asia migrating to marry men in more economically prosperous ...

Community health workers (CHWs) represent an invaluable link between individuals and health care in diverse regions around the world. They have been employed on varied scales since the 1800s to connect people with resources ...

Multiple studies have investigated the pay-performance relationship for coaches of college football and basketball. Typically football and basketball programs are responsible for generating the majority of revenue within ...

All over the world, the performing arts constitute a means of communal and individual identity expression, and serve as a platform for societies to exhibit their perceived triumphs, as well as explicitly or implicitly ...

This summer I was a research intern at the Jinnah Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan. I was carrying out independent research on the persecution of religious minority groups in the country. Over the past few years incidents ...

This summer I worked as a curatorial intern for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. I worked with the Curator of Toys, conducting research and updating catalog entries for items in the collection. ...

Performed independent research to begin a thesis on a particular foreign policy case: the growing relations between China and Latin America and what security implications it has for the United States. Throughout the process, ...

This thesis examines the evolution of the Turkish guest worker in Germany to the integrated Turkish-German business owner, through an analysis of the guest worker history within Germany, case studies of current successful ...