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"Learning the ropes : coaching and performing race, style, and identity in professional boxing"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
is extremely limited, my contribution has been to uphold the spirit of ethnographic research via full immersion participant observation to outline the personal and collective forms of identity that coaches navigate every day. I begin my findings by discussing...
The lost cause of Southern Country Club : an ethnographic study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This ethnographic study features a non-profit member owned country club in the Southern United States, Southern Country Club (SCC). SCC is an old guard ...
Shaping a true German identity : narratives in Hermann, Missouri, 1837-1857
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Often in social historical research immigrants are presented in a monolithic fashion that suggests all persons sharing an ethnicity, heritage, or language act in similar ways in response to social situations and to the forces of assimilation...
Playing on the margins : local musicians and their resistance projects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines the resistance projects used by local musicians in a mid-sized town in the Midwest. Drawing on a practice approach, I explore how ...
Turning money into speech: campaign finance, political advertising, and the civic sphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
for campaign finance reform. Specifically, I suggest that viewing campaign finance reform as the creation of icebergs-large dense networks of political power that are only partially visible is more apt than the hydraulics used by some legal scholars in the past....
Gendered racism : the lived experiences of black undergraduate women at an HPWI : microaggressions, space and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This current study examined how Black undergraduate women experience gendered racism at a historically, predominately white university in the South. ...
The ethical resister's last resort : news coverage over the allegations of a national security whistleblower
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
iniquity, this component of her allegations were dismissed in favor of characterizing her as a whistleblower who complained of organizational dysfunction within the FBI, espionage among one low-level co-worker, or "shoddy work" produced in the translation...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
feminist ethnography as a research method to explore the socio-cultural aspects of a domestic violence shelter in Pakistan, it asks the following questions: How do survivors of domestic violence (women) reach the shelter? How does the shelter enable women...
Killing them with kindness: a meso-dialectical study of the conceptual formation of humane and inhumane in the no-kill animal shelter movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research begins with one question: What is humane about humane? In the context of the no-kill animal shelter movement this study examines the social processes through which...
Emerging faith boundaries : bridge-building, inclusion, and the emerging church movement in America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, this project seeks to contribute to a generalized understanding of how social groups can work together across differences....
The (in)visibility of race, class, and gender : workers' standpoints on the transformation of Missouri's child welfare policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation is an institutional ethnography of changes in Missouri's child welfare system after House Bill 1453. I demonstrate how child welfare policy is gendered, raced, and classed by examining practices, texts, ...
Grieving the transgender (assumed-cisgender) child: gendered mourning, the harms of cisnormativity, and the possibilities of creating livable trans futures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation unpacks how feelings of loss and grief commonly experienced by parents of transgender and non-binary youth, which I call gendered mourning, give insight into the inner-workings of family gender systems. Diverging from...
A child sentenced to serve life without a mother : the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program and incarcerated women's mothering strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this research is to understand the emotional and physical impacts a mother's incarceration has on her children and to closely examine a program designed to help...
Gold star motherhood: spectacle, emotion, and identity construction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
loss. Gold star mothers are those who have lost a child that was serving in the United States military or died as a direct result from active duty in the military. This research takes a mixed method ethnographic approach through in-depth life history...
Bringing up context : reconciling inmates' narratives and institutional rhetoric in prison policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research evaluates narrative-style interviews conducted with thirty male inmates at a medium-security prison, the content in the instructor's manual of the mandatory...