#doctoral dissertation

[frameacloud]

"Nonhuman Identity, Gender, Autism, and Mental Health: Results from my Dissertation," a panel by Bloodmuffins, presented at Othercon 2024.

Summary: "Please join for a discussion of the results and process behind my dissertation study, which looked at nonhuman mental health, minority stress, resilience, and the intersections between nonhuman, gender, and autistic identities. This was the largest and most comprehensive scholarly psychological study on nonhuman identity to date in terms of sample size, topics investigated, and community demographics assessed. This panel will share the results of the study; specifically, I will discuss interesting demographic trends in our community (spoiler alert: we're hella queer and neurodivergent), how nonhuman mental health compared with human mental health, and minority stress and resilience factors our community exhibits. I want to express a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated, and I'm excited to share the results with everyone!"

[i12bent]

Erik Wiedemann (May 7, 1930 - 2001) was the pre-eminent Danish Jazz critic for almost 50 years, from the 1950s onward. He wrote concert and record reviews for Danish newspapers and magazines and rarely missed an event. He has several books to his name, including a 3 vol. history of Jazz in Denmark based on his doctoral dissertation, a popular encyclopedia of Jazz and Jazz performers -  and a selection of seminal reviews...

From the latter volume, here is a translation of Wiedemann’s eulogy for Charlie Parker:

“But of course his music does not agree with everyone’s taste and philosophy of life. The escapist will find nothing to like in Charlie Parker, and perhaps even feel repulsed by his art, which is realist in the best and most profound sense of the word, and which ruthlessly expresses the uncertainty, doubts, and angst-ridden loneliness of modern man. One does not play Parker's records on an everyday basis; exactly because they mean so much, they are only brought out on rare occasions. But in fact, while they confront us mercilessly with ourselves, they also bring the resolution of showing us that we are not alone in being lonely, and that others also feel the same angst and doubts. These records are, first and foremost, irrefutable and deeply true documents of the times we live in, which is much more important than their ‘immortality’ and the potential reverence of future listeners. In his day, Louis Armstrong allowed modern man to rediscover the childish immediacy which lives inside us as an unrealized potential, but his music also inspired a desire to escape from our circumstance into carefree and irresponsible play, and to solve any problems by simply closing our eyes to them. It is to Charlie Parker’s everlasting credit that he managed to polish that facet of jazz which reflects and shows us the shadow-side of our modern consciousness.” - from Erik Wiedemann: Eulogy for Charlie Parker, 1955

[harvardbusinessschool]

2018 Clayton Awards Recognize Top Ph.D. Work

Congratulations to doctoral student Dafna Goor, winner of the 2018 Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition! Learn more about her dissertation and the competition. 

Read more. 

[howiseegradschool]

3 weeks until my thesis is due

[howiseegradschool]

Hey guys

Actually it’s more like

Sorry I’ve been so MIA! I’ve been locked away writing and working frantically to get my dissertation written. And to top things all off, my PI pushed up one of my deadlines because she wants to go through the full complete thesis first and give me edits before sending it out to my committee (which is understandable, I’m not surprised this happened).

So my completed draft is due to her by Tuesday, and my finished dissertation needs to be to my committee a week from tomorrow. I defend 3 weeks from tomorrow. This is the point I’m at

So thank you for putting up with me and my radio silence, it’s just hardcore go time on my end. The best part is I know you all understand, and we all have to go through this at some point. 

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I can do this. 

[tuxedomoon-64]

[arcticdementor]

ABSTRACT

This dissertation explores the frameworks of color-blind racism and gender-blind sexism as they are disseminated through the social media site Reddit. I analyze data in the form of posts and comments submitted to the site. Qualitative discourse analysis reveals employment of the frames of color-blindness and gender-blindness as well as narratives which function to anchor the dominant ideologies to apparent lived experiences. This dissertation offers two major contributions to the scholarship of racism and sexism. First, the findings demonstrate that ideologies of race and gender are often articulated through common narratives and intertwined rhetoric, establishing a foundation for future research into ideologies of White masculinity. Second, the study reveals the crucial role of definitions of racism and sexism play in justifying systems that maintain racial and gender inequality. In particular, how a rigid adherence to an individual-level approach to definitions of racism and sexism is necessary for ideologies that support those systems. Taken together the findings demonstrate the power of social media in maintaining and reproducing the dominance of color-blind racism and gender-blind sexism.

[gerrykavanaugh]

Gerry Kavanaugh has worked with many different organizations and has received accolades from the South Coast YMCA Board of Directors, the…