• Locating Earth disturbances using the SDR Earth Imager 

  Sharif, Radwan; Tanyer, Suleyman Gokhun; Harrison, Stephen; Junor, William; Driessen, Peter; Herring, Rodney (Remote Sensing, 2022)

  The Radio Wave Phase Imager uses monitoring and recording concepts, such as Software Defined Radio (SDR), to image Earth’s atmosphere. The Long Wavelength Array (LWA), New Mexico Observatory is considered a high-resolution ...
• Dave Brubeck and White Middlebrow: A case study of Time Out 

  Kashfi Yeganeh, Babak (2023-01-03)

  My thesis investigates the tension between popular appeal and critical failure in Brubeck’s most flourishing years – during the ‘50s and early ‘60s – through the notion of “middlebrow” music. Middlebrow is a term originally ...
• From Daʿwa to State: Castles and the Formation of the Nizari Ismaʿili State in Quhistan, Iran 

  Yeganehfarzand, Seyedhamed (2022-12-22)

  The present research concerns the network of Nizari Ismaʿili castles and the concept of Nizari Ismaʿili state in Iran during the so-called Alamut period (1090-1256). The research discusses various roles of the castles in ...
• Aspects of cyclical structure in Schubert's "Schwanengesang" 

  Reintjes, Mikki (2022-10-26)

  Schubert's Schwanengesang has never been understood as a song cycle in the same way as Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise. Lacking a cogent narrative structure or unity of musical style, Schwanengesang has traditionally ...
• "Dames Amazon," "Nobles Chevaliers," and Imaginary Worlds: Text-Image in King René d'Anjou's Book Production 

  Keating, Françoise (2022-10-03)

  This thesis looks at the court of Anjou-Provence’s book production, under the guidance of King René d’Anjou, during the decades of the 1440’s and ‘50s. It examines four literary works of which three were authored by the ...
• Dreaming up a Main Character: Persona and Vocal Agency in Debussy’s “De rêve” 

  Hayes, Alana Ruth (2022-09-01)

  This thesis stems from a performance I gave of Claude Debussy’s song cycle Proses lyriques in March 2020, and from the particular difficulties I encountered during the preparation process. In most art song, it is not ...
• Thinking in Lines and Circles: Geometric Script Patterns and Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval Islamicate Societies (1100–1250 AD) 

  Kazani, Zahra (2022-08-25)

  What do we see when we look at writing? In addition to the verbal messages conveyed by the written words, visual dimensions of script are powerful tools that hold semantic value. This dissertation focuses on one such visual ...
• Applied theatre with gatekeepers 

  Jerke, Lauren (2022-05-02)

  Applied theatre projects that aim to address social justice issues almost exclusively involve those who are experiencing injustice; while members of the state, who actively maintain the status quo, are frequently overlooked, ...
• Jazz music: the technological mediation of an aural tradition 

  Jarvis, Brent (2021-09-28)

  Jazz music is transmitted by aural and oral means. As recording and broadcast mediums became increasingly ubiquitous, starting in the mid twentieth-century, an ever greater proportion of jazz’s aural transmission would be ...
• Applied theatre as post-disaster response: re-futuring climate change, performing disasters, and Indigenous ecological knowledge 

  Gupa, Dennis D. (2021-09-07)

  In this dissertation, I foreground local elders’ epistemology and ontology embedded in sea rituals and traditional fishing methods in a typhoon-battered community in the Philippines. I do this through the practice of applied ...
• Board games and paper dolls: playing with age and masculinity in the late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century English domestic interior 

  Zajac, Linda P. (2021-09-01)

  In the late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century English domestic interior, games mediated and influenced the experience of age and masculinity. Games embodied, reflected, and shaped culture. Games united education, ...
• The merchant's moral eye: money, merchants, and the visualization of morality in Trecento Italy 

  Pollick, Brian A. (2021-06-22)

  My dissertation is a study of how merchants in Trecento Italy used the imagery they commissioned as a form of moral self-representation and as a practical tool in their pursuit of eternal life in heaven. The study is ...
• Wycliffite music: theological and aesthetical critiques of compositional practices within the Wycliffite movement 

  Foss, Kieran Alexander (2021-05-04)

  In his article “The vision of music in a Lollard florilegium: Cantus in the Middle English Rosarium theologie,” Bruce W. Holsinger acknowledges the need for musicological attention to be given to the fourteenth- century ...
• Interrogating the dead: re-assessing the cultural identities of the Samma Dynasty (1351-1522) at the necropolis of Makli, Sindh (Pakistan) 

  Akhtar, Munazzah (2021-01-12)

  During the preliminary phase of analytical discourse on South Asia’s medieval history, the scholarship rigidly demarcated the material cultures of the pre-Islamic societies from those of the Muslim communities that were ...
• Phonetic journey: sound in singable translations 

  Basu, Kyron (2020-08-31)

  Singable translations have a long history as a tool to broaden the reach of foreign language music to new audiences. Current translation theory prioritizes the transfer of poetic meaning and structure. I argue that the ...
• Elusive quartet, Imaginary Songs: understanding and experiencing the music of Morton Feldman and Helge Sten 

  Miskey, Nicholas W. (2020-08-27)

  Many commentators experience difficulties describing and analyzing Morton Feldman's String Quartet no. 2 (1983), implying that the quartet eludes stable ascriptions of meaning. Feldman's own philosophy frames these ...
• You're doing what?! At your age?! Intergenerational, community-based theatre to address social stigma of sexuality across the life course 

  Tidey, Leah (2020-05-06)

  Social stigma about sexuality across the life course is pervasive and deeply rooted in “Anglophone West” and patriarchal society that strives to police the sexuality of youth and older adults in diverse yet interconnected ...
• A re-consideration of participation and ethics in applied theatre projects with internally displaced and internationally displaced persons in Africa and beyond 

  Afolabi, Taiwo (2020-04-27)

  This research started as a quest to understand better the ethics of doing Theatre for Development/Applied Theatre with under-served, marginalized and vulnerable populations especially in post-conflict zones in the Global ...
• The perfect storm of seduction: Investigating tactical femininity in Bizet's Carmen 

  Kazdan, Alanna (2020-02-03)

  Premiered in France in 1875, Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (with libretto by Henri Meilhax and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée) provided audiences with a main character who is not only aware of her ...
• Contemporary independent Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) in Córdoba, Argentina 2001-2016: documenting a community of practice 

  Bessey, Kate (2019-12-19)

  My premise in this dissertation is that the tradition of independent theatre for young audiences created in Córdoba, Argentina is a worthy community of practice for Applied Theatre study. To provide the much needed ...

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