Supplementary Index to "Women and Resistance in the 'Annals' of Tacitus"

An index locarum to "Women and Resistance in the 'Annals' of Tacitus," a book which explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on traditional forms of power. Women engage in political protests, legal disputes, public processions, and subversive religious rituals. They demonstrate resistance in acts of mourning and commemoration and overturn gender stereotypes by enduring pain and displaying courage in death. Tacitus illustrates how women's public movements, rituals, suicides and survivals become sites of resistance and opportunities for civic engagement open to women. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates non-imperial Roman women at the fore, reading them in comparison with Tacitus's narratives of imperial women and hierarchies of power. With this new analytical approach, stereotypes against women are variously confirmed or denied, challenged or evoked as evidence, or employed as a means of attack or defense. Women emerge to claim agency over their bodies, reputations, and actions, and though a vulnerable population, refuse to be passive victims of their circumstances.This document is an index locarum to Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus detailing where Greek and Roman authors and their works are mentioned in the book

Assessment of Pesticide Leachability on Long Island Using the Theoretical Groundwater Ubiquity Score (TGUS) Model

This study evaluates pesticide leachability on Long Island, New York, using the Theoretical Groundwater Ubiquity Score (TGUS) model, a theoretically based expansion of the empirical GUS model that includes soil properties, preferential flow, and dynamic degradation processes. Long Island's sandy soils and vulnerable aquifer systems offer a best-case study area for groundwater contamination risk assessment. The research provides improved calculations for the leaching risk of pesticides by introducing a Time of Leaching Risk Period (TLRP). TLRP is designed to forecast pesticides with a high risk of groundwater contamination by identifying a time window after application, following a rainfall that causes leaching risk and groundwater pollution. The results suggest that TLRP reliably predicts the leaching of pesticides in groundwater. Ninety-two percent of the pesticides that leached into groundwater were predicted correctly. One difficulty in the data analysis was that many pesticides were not found in the groundwater samples, including pesticides that were classified as leachers in other studies. Also, many of the pesticides were not applied on Long Island according to the Pesticide Use and Sales Reporting (PSUR) data. Using the PSUR that specified the pesticide use per zip code level in the risk analysis was only partially successful for predicting spatial leaching

POLITICAL CONNECTION, REPORTING TRANSPARENCY, AND RISK DISCLOSURE

89 pagesI examine the effect of losing political connections on corporate reportingtransparency and risk disclosure. Political cost literature suggests that firms receiving political attention are more likely to use accounting choices to reduce reported profits, likely resulting in less transparent disclosure. One of China’s anti-corruption policies, Rule 18, took effect in October 2013 and mandated independent board directors above certain civil ranks to resign from firms, constituting increasing political costs to firms. My empirical analysis employs this policy shock and a difference-in-difference research design. Using composite textual measures of reporting transparency and risk disclosure, I find that losing political connection does not affect reporting transparency or risk disclosure significantly, providing no support to the hypothesis. More nuanced analysis reveals that firms with high R&D intensity reduce their reporting transparency after Rule 18 more saliently, aligning with the increasing proprietary cost concerns leading to a less transparent information environment after firms lose their political connection. Finally, I provide the explanations for the insignificant effect of Rule 18 on reporting transparency and risk disclosure: firms don’t consider the textual transparency a counterpart of financial reporting quality in Hope et al. (2020) and this is partly due to investors’ disinterest. Risk disclosure also lacks the information content and the regulation does not significantly affect several underlying risks. Overall, my findings provide mixed evidence related to the effect of political connections on Chinese firms’ information environment and illustrate the difference in investors’ reaction to the linguistic disclosure information between China and the US

Community Engagement in Chile: A New Generation, Conditioned Legitimacy, and Academic Capitalism

179 pagesSince the 2011 student social movement erupted, Chile has become an example of resistance to neoliberal policies and inequalities in higher education, leading to a new Higher Education Law in 2018. In 2019, a social uprising shocked the country, inaugurating a “constitutional moment” where two constitutional assemblies created two drafts of national constitutions that were rejected in national referendums between 2020 and 2023. In this convoluted context, Chile is experiencing a new national reform on community engagement that mandates all higher education institutions to be accredited on community engagement (vinculación con el medio) by 2025. The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how engaged scholars in Chile are embedded in this socio-political context from a socio-historical approach. The study is presented in three articles that focus on three key areas of this context: the emergence of a new generation of engaged scholars, the struggle to earn and maintain legitimacy, and the entangled relation with academic capitalism. Research methods draw from an interpretivist and critical epistemology and qualitative methodologies. It used ethnographic research methods, participant observation, and interviews with 52 scholars from two universities (one public and one private) in Santiago, Chile. A new generation is observed whose purpose for developing community engagement projects is to promote systemic change, respond to pressing social demands, influence public policy, develop critical thinking, and help those considered in need. The university, governed by the requirements of the world class university project, offers a conditioned legitimacy to engaged scholars’ work, which is responded to by operationalizing the accreditation requirements, negotiating by demonstrating the academic value of their work, and resisting by recovering the Latin American university project. Academic capitalism and community engagement not only co-produce services for a fee but also entrepreneurs, consumers, clients, market niches, and a rationalization process expressed in professionalization and standardization.2026-06-1