eScholarship@Goucher: Recent submissions
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Hotels Check in to Historic Buildings: Quantitative and Qualitative Success Factors For Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings to Hotels
(2019-06-18)Economics drive projects that rehabilitate historic buildings, but environmental and social factors are just as important in the balancing act of benefits that a successful project can provide. The premise of this study ... -
Sacred Preservation: Approaching Religious and Sacred Historic Properties with Appropriate Recognition as Cultural Heritage
(2019-06-19)This study examines current preservation criteria and treatment considerations specific to sacred and religious properties and identifies opportunities to increase understanding of religious importance as cultural heritage. ... -
Arts, Culture & Mobility: Addressing Participation Barriers through Transportation Equity
(2019)Inequities in transportation policy and infrastructure pose barriers to arts and cultural participation for individuals in communities with poor transit options. Arts organizations can address transportation barriers through ... -
Organizational Identity: How Theology, Cultural Sustainability and Systems Theory Inform Institutional Thrive-ability
(2019-05)The research presented in this thesis addresses the complexities of identity and systems by narrating different pieces of both and how they are at play in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This narration offers ... -
Sex and The State: The Impact of State Policy on Sexual Expression in China
(2018)China’s Cultural Revolution (1966—1976) was a time of strict sexual repression wherein the state, led by Mao Zedong, made efforts both explicitly and implicitly to construct a largely asexual nation. However, in the forty ... -
Converted Christian and Islamic Architecture: A Path to Understanding
(2018)I became strongly aware of how different religions, especially Islam and Christianity, view each other when a Muslim girl from Afghanistan joined my high school class. As I became closer with her, I started to notice the ... -
Whiteness, Man: Whiteness and King of the Hill
(2018)I wrote this paper for my Race and Media course, where we were tasked with analyzing the racial imagery in a piece of media of our choosing. Immediately, I knew that I wanted to write about King of the Hill, an underrated ... -
Interactions & Environmental Attitudes: A Statistical Analysis of How Experiences Determine Outlook Towards Goucher’s Woods
(2018)This analytical essay sprung from a classwide project during the Fall of 2017. Along with several other Environmental Studies majors, I conducted an online survey of Goucher College students regarding their attitudes towards ... -
TCK Beyond the Anglosphere: a Case Study in a Rabat International School
(2018)Third Culture Kids are a group raised in multiple cultures, whose common worldview as a result of repeated cultural change becomes a “Third Culture” in and of itself. Third culture is frequently characterized as an example ... -
Exploring the History of Subliminal Racism in Ivory Soap Commercials
(2018)I got the idea for the paper after exploring the archives for a previous research paper and finding a children’s magazine from 1926. I discovered that P&G would buy a page every month in the magazine to create an ongoing ... -
The Empathetic Author in the Internet Age: The Victorian Serialized Novel and the Internet Serial as Social Experience
(2018)Serialized fiction was the norm in the 19th century, and now, in the 21st, it’s making a comeback. This paper explores the differences between serialization then and now, paying special attention to the impacts of author-reader ... -
Structural Violence in The Baltimore Sun’s Coverage of 1910 McCulloh Street
(2018)Housing in Baltimore has had a long and complicated history of racist, exclusionary policies and practices. From intense racial segregation to redlining and blockbusting, both legal and social pressures have enforced a ... -
Amid clouds of change, “The Sun comes out every day”
(2018)Amid clouds of change, ‘The Sun comes out every day'” is a feature story written for a class with Dan Rodricks, a reporter at the Baltimore Sun who taught at Goucher in Spring 2017. Everyone in the class was asked to write ... -
Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Sexual Selection Methods in Birds Inform Mate Choice by Serving as Indicators for Mate Quality
(2018)I wrote “Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Sexual Selection Methods in Birds Inform Mate Choice by Serving as Indicators for Mate Quality” in Fall of 2017 while taking a class entitled Ecology and Evolution. My professor, ... -
The Political is Personal: Examining the Role of Personal Connection to a Disease as an Access Point for Singledisease Interest Groups
(2018)Approximately 133 million Americans live with a chronic illness (“The Power of Prevention”). Government funding through the National Institutes of Health and other programs are an important source of research funding for ... -
Placekeeping for Preservation: Building a Culturally Sustainable Preservation Model
(2019-06-03)Focusing on preserving significant architecture and landscapes by identifying character-defining features and the historic context of significance has long been in the purview of the historic preservation professional. ... -
A Brave Space for Community: Bolstering K-12 Theatre Education for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(2019-05)Changes in and enhanced access to K-12 theatre education can create greater long-term diversity, equity, and inclusion in American theatre. Recent data on theatre participation demonstrates audience participants to be ... -
Sustainable Farms: The Role of Historic Preservation on Working Farms
(2019-05)This thesis was designed to better understand how historic preservation engages with farms and how this can be improved. Historic preservation as practiced in the United States does not engage well with working landscapes. ... -
Brick by Brick: Building Social Capital Through Artist Agreements in Community Theater
(2019-05)This paper highlights the importance of creating effective written agreements between authors, composers, lyricists, and nonprofit community theaters. Nonprofit community theaters, by assuming responsibility to produce ... -
Influence, Recognition, and Reward: the Quest for Gender Parity within Nonprofit Arts Leadership through Organizational Structure
(2019-05)The major premise of this paper is arts organizations embracing flatter organizational models will more aptly reflect within key positions the current gender demographics of the nonprofit arts community, thereby increasing ...