This thesis explores how Jewish individuals use and create communities online to enrich their Jewish identity. The Internet provides Jews who do not fit within their brick and mortar communities an outlet that gives them voice, power, and sometimes an . . .

This thesis explores Latinas’ relationship to food as depicted in four contemporary American films: Tortilla Soup (2001), Woman on Top (2000), What’s Cooking? (2000), and East Side Sushi (2014). in these films, food shapes the depictions of Latinas an . . .

The Shadows of Assimilation: Narratives and Legacies of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School, 1879-1918, investigates the United States policy for assimilating Native Americans into the American national identity by using education as it means. Indian . . .