Literary practices, personhood, and students as researchers of their own communities.

This dissertation reports findings from a sociolinguistic ethnography that examined relationships between literacy practices and personhood. The study involved the formulation of a writing club at an urban middle school, involving a multiracial group of women from the lowest academic track; two were described as special education students. They researched and wrote about their communities, investigating questions of personal concern about issues of racism and sexism. Students interviewed community members, including artists, organizers, neighbors, and peers. Students wrote up and published their findings. I collected data on the writing project, including forty-five hours of taped data. Analysis involved thematic and textual analyses of the students\u27 written artifacts, and microanalysis of videotaped events. A microethnographic analysis examined sociolinguistic processes that research suggested is important. Attention was paid to the social construction of intertextuality during writing activities. The findings show that the nature of literacy practices and personhood is such that they are continuously and inherently constructed within particular fields of intertextual semantic potentials. These intertextual potentials are described along five dimensions: (1) ways students\u27 definitions of personhood changed over the course of the project, (2) strategies students, community members, and myself used to position students, (3) how the project\u27s structure positioned students, (4) community literacy practices and how they positioned people, (5) how students used community literacy practices to position themselves and others. The student\u27s definitions of personhood changed. The established field of intertextual semantic potentials was influenced by changes in literacy practices that led to changes in literacy practices that led to changes in the students\u27 definitions of writing, their views about themselves and life in the community. Literacy practices established in the writing project built on ones students encountered as they researched their communities. Community members shared ways of acting for social justice, including the importance of reclaiming cultural heritage, learning history from the community\u27s perspective, analyzing multiple forms of oppression. Students\u27 ethnographic research helped them reflect on their communities by enhancing their understanding of the cultural dynamics in which they live. Students recreated methods and theoretical frameworks to address the issue of personhood as students, as community members, and as ethnographers of their own communities

Therapists’ and Interpreters’ Perceptions of the Relationships When Working with Refugee Clients

This dissertation consists of two articles focusing on foreign language interpreters in mental health. The first article is a literature review examining the existing research on mental health professionals working with foreign language interpreters while conducting therapy with refugee clients. After excluding articles that were not research studies and those that focused on physicians rather than therapists, 19 articles fit the search criteria. The majority of the articles that did not fall into the research category focused on recommendations and protocols for treatment. Those that did fit within the criteria were categorized into 5 main themes. Those themes were: effectiveness research, emotional influences, therapeutic alliance, role of the interpreter, and therapists’ experiences of interpreter roles. The second article explored the interpreters’ and therapists’ perceptions of the triadic and dyadic relationships within the therapist-interpreter-refugee client system. A systemic lens was adopted to directly examine the question of how interpreters and therapists working with refugee clients experience the relationships among interpreters, therapists, and refugee clients in therapy. Three interpreters and three therapists were interviewed and four themes and nine subthemes emerged, all centered around a triadic relationship between the therapist, interpreter and client. This study revealed a circular process within the triadic system in which all of the members of the system influenced one another. It also revealed a reciprocal process in which both the therapist and the interpreter’s perception of the other member’s relationship with the client influenced the individual’s feelings of effectiveness in therapy

Therapists’ and Interpreters’ Perceptions of the Relationships When Working with Refugee Clients

This dissertation consists of two articles focusing on foreign language interpreters in mental health. The first article is a literature review examining the existing research on mental health professionals working with foreign language interpreters while conducting therapy with refugee clients. After excluding articles that were not research studies and those that focused on physicians rather than therapists, 19 articles fit the search criteria. The majority of the articles that did not fall into the research category focused on recommendations and protocols for treatment. Those that did fit within the criteria were categorized into 5 main themes. Those themes were: effectiveness research, emotional influences, therapeutic alliance, role of the interpreter, and therapists’ experiences of interpreter roles. The second article explored the interpreters’ and therapists’ perceptions of the triadic and dyadic relationships within the therapist-interpreter-refugee client system. A systemic lens was adopted to directly examine the question of how interpreters and therapists working with refugee clients experience the relationships among interpreters, therapists, and refugee clients in therapy. Three interpreters and three therapists were interviewed and four themes and nine subthemes emerged, all centered around a triadic relationship between the therapist, interpreter and client. This study revealed a circular process within the triadic system in which all of the members of the system influenced one another. It also revealed a reciprocal process in which both the therapist and the interpreter’s perception of the other member’s relationship with the client influenced the individual’s feelings of effectiveness in therapy

Three hundred and sixty degrees : a celebration of costume technology

textThree Hundred and Sixty Degrees: A Celebration of Costume Technology was an immersive theatrical installation piece that integrated physical costume pieces, three hundred and sixty degree projection mapping, digital storytelling, and an original musical composition comprised of sounds found in a costume shop. The purpose of the story was to give an artistic overview of the essential steps in a garment's creation. It allowed the audience to view and experience the evolution of how a theatrical costume is constructed, beginning with the designer's rendering, then moving into the muslin half-drape, the paper pattern, the fitting, the pattern pieces cut in real fabric, and ending with the completed garment. The installation also focused on the role played by historical undergarments (created here in half scale) as the building blocks of costume construction.Theatre and Danc

Brugia phangi: effects of third stage larvae ES immunization on early migration and parasite establishment in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

Brugia infections occur via the bite of an infected mosquito. Third stage infective larvae (L3) deposited on the skin during feeding migrate into the bite wound, through skin and into the lymphatic system. It is hypothesized that L3 excretory/secretory products (ES) are important in this initial phase of the infection. A model for these early migrations has been established by inoculating L3s into the dermis (ID) of the permissive gerbil host. In this model, most L3s injected ID in the louer hind limb travel to the popliteal lymph node by 3 days post infection. Adult parasites are located primarily in the spermatic cord lymphatics by 28 days post infection. L3s injected into the peritoneal cavity (IP) do not migrate, thus ES may play a different role in these infections. Knowledge is lacking on the role of L3 ES in B. pahangi migration and establishment. Proteins in 24 hour L3 ES may facilitate early L3 migration and antibodies to ES may inhibit migration and/or worm establishment. Migration inhibition was assayed in vivo by immunizing gerbils with either 24 hour L3 ES in RIBI adjuvant or RIBI alone. Gerbils were subsequently challenged either ID or IP with 100 L3s and euthanized at 3 and 106 days post infection. Western blot analysis indicates that antibodies in prechallenge sera are produced against ES and share homology with antigens in other B. pahangi stages. ES immunization increased L3 recovery in both ID and IP infected animals at 3DPI. No difference was noted at 106DPI. ES immunization also reduced L3 migration in ID infected gerbils at 3DPI. At 106DPI, immunized animals showed fewer circulating microfilaria and intralymphatic thrombi. At 3DPI, the increase in worm recoveries following immunization may be associated with a decrease in larval migration. The results also suggest that antibody to ES is insufficient to provide protection at both 3DPI and 106DPI. Nonetheless, this response appears to limit the fecundity of adult worms and subsequent formation of intralymphatic thrombi

Norma Robertson and Barbara Bell in a Joint Junior Recital

This is the program for the joint junior recital of soprano Norma Robertson and pianist Barbara Bell. Dora Ann King accompanied the performance. The recital took place on April 21, 1966, in Mitchell Hall Auditorium

The Philosophical Roots of the Marx-Bakunin Conflict

This essay explores the underlying philosophical differences separating Marxism and anarchism by examining the specific philosophies of Marx and Bakunin. The conflicting philosophical foundations of these two philosophers reveal why there were irreconcilable political and strategic differences between them, even though both were members of the First International and both were equally dedicated to the abolition of capitalism. Bakunin, for example, posited humans as basically natural creatures with permanently fixed natures while for Marx humans have been evolving throughout history, becoming more rational in the process, and thus exhibiting different human natures in different historical periods. Accordingly, both authors adopted starkly different conceptions of freedom, where Bakunin sought to identify freedom with acting according to natural impulses while Marx defined it in terms of conscious, rational collective action. With these contrasting philosophical foundations Marx and Bakunin proceeded to outline incompatible theories of the State and diverging strategies in abolishing it; they disagreed on who would be most likely to lead a revolutionary upheaval; and they differed on what organizational forms would be needed to accomplish their revolutionary aims