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Elucidation of quantum magnetic dynamics in semi-classical honeycomb lattice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] The artificial spin ice systems are essentially arrays of single domain nanomagnets with specifically designed patterns, e.g. squares, honeycombs, etc. As a natural extension of the classical ...
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, and discourses in child...
A lacanian reply to Marx : the necessity of topology in the formation of the social
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study addresses Lacan's comments on Marx. While much has been done towards reading Marx with psychoanalysis generally, little had has been done ...
Point of view : examining the magazine industry standard
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Point of view permeates every aspect of magazines. As a relatively modern concept, the journalistic device went previously unstudied in scholarly form. The research question, "How and why do U.S. consumer magazine writers ...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
" assimilationist Jews of the New York theater, publishing and newspaper worlds, and against the Jewish moguls of Hollywood. This dissertation weaves the two narratives together: one of Hecht's affinity for the militant outlaw, and the other of his devotion...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
I have long been concerned with what the United States of America owes its citizens. My mind is preoccupied with identifying gaps between the violent disparities endured by Black and marginalized communities and the rhetoric ...
Preparing birds to fly : Lloyd Richards and the actor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Lloyd Richards (1919-2006) was one of the preeminent theatre practitioners in the United States from the mid-twentieth century through the beginning of the twenty-first. Through his work as Artistic Director of the Eugene ...
Refrain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Refrain is set in 1950s Larissa, TX, where the disappearance of four local girls catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points ...
Spirals of silence : examining Afrocentric and Eurocentric hairstyling for black women in broadcast newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)