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Degas and the Dancers Dancers: Sculpture and Drawings
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Posibilidades Normativas para la Creación y el Funcionamiento de una Comision Internacional Contra la Impunidad en El Salvador (CICIES)
No full textCLALS Working Paper Series, no.22, 2019. 22 pages
A Study of Lay Catholic Elementary School Principals: The Influence of Contemplative Leadership Practice Behaviors on Catholic School Culture
No full textThe Catholic school exists to educate the mind and form the spirit so that discerning wisdom may better lead individuals to come to a life in God (Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1977). This dual nature of the Catholic school, spiritual and academic, requires now predominantly lay professionals to lead academically and spiritually with equal acumen (Congregation for Catholic Education, 1997). Schein (2010) expresses institutional culture as having multiple layers of deepening complexity and impact: artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions. The work of the Catholic school principal is critical in the creation of the faith-based culture of the school (Belmonte, Cranston, & Limerick, 2006, Cook, 2007). Contemplative Leadership Practice is a leadership, decision-making model advanced by Schuttloffel (1999) that centers Gospel-based behaviors to advance the spiritual mission of the school. This research examined the relationship of principals utilizing Contemplative Leadership Practice and Catholic cultural indicators (caritative anthropology, sacramentality, community, lived tradition, informed wisdom) of their school (Gilkey, 1975; Groome, 1998). Metacognitive habits (Flavell, 1979) are utilized within Contemplative Leadership Practice, but this dissertation study extends the concept into the new construct of theological metacognition. Theological metacognition is the intentional efforts of an individual to establish cognitive processes so thought and habit best achieve theological goals. Participants in this study were lay principals of Catholic elementary schools and their teachers. The study included dioceses purposefully selected from each of the six NCEA geographic regions by the researcher. Twenty-three dioceses from across the United States participated. Only schools in those dioceses that were led by a lay principal with some configuration of grades kindergarten through 8th were eligible to participate in the study. Using these criteria, 132 total schools were included in the results, with data collected from 132 principals and 906 teachers. Principal Contemplative Leadership Practice behaviors were measured using an online, researcher-created anchored behavioral scale questionnaire. While given two plausible leadership choices, only one of the anchors in the scale expressed Contemplative Leadership Practice. In addition, principals and teachers completed a researcher-created Likert scale survey designed to solicit their perceptions of the Catholic culture of their school.This study provided an additional definition to the components of Contemplative Leadership Practice and further insight into the Catholic culture of schools. The finding of this study provided certain definitive but limited findings. Lay principals of Catholic elementary schools designated a high preference for Contemplative Leadership Practice behaviors. Those same principals are more likely to be associated with schools having higher scores with the Catholic culture indicator of sacramentality. Engaging in spiritual direction and retreats was found to be significantly related to principals with higher Contemplative Leadership Practice scores. Finally, the results note that the Contemplative leadership Practice behaviors of critical friends and prayerfulness were significant predictors of higher Catholic school culture. This research could be used by (arch) diocesan offices, higher education, professional development programs, pastors, and principals to better the faith formation mission of Catholic schools.Educational leadershipOrganizational behaviorSpiritualityCatholic School Culture, Catholic Schools, Contemplative Leadership Practice, Critical Friend, Educational Leadership, Theological MetacognitionEducationDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Education. The Catholic University of Americ
2006-07 The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for U.S. Manufacturing Investment: A Time-Series Analysis
No full textWorking paper No. 2006-07. 46 pages
Menzel's Berlin
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Death and Violence: A Study of Lynching Photography and Warhol's "Death and Disaster" Series
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Prosociality in business: a human empowerment framework
No full textPublished in: Journal of Business Ethics, October 2019, Volume 159, Issue 2, pp 361–380.This study introduces a human empowerment framework to better understand why some businesses are more socially oriented than others in their policies and activities. Building on Welzel’s theory of emancipation, we argue that human empowerment—comprised of four components: action resources, emancipative values, social movement activity, and civic entitlements—enables, motivates, and entitles individuals to pursue social goals for their businesses. Using a sample of over 15,000 entrepreneurs from 43 countries, we report strong empirical evidence for two ecological effects of the framework components on prosociality. We find that human empowerment (1) lifts entrepreneurs’ willingness to choose a social orientation for their business, and (2) reinforces the gender effect on prosociality in business activity. We discuss the human empowerment framework’s added value in understanding how modernization processes fully leverage the potential of social business activities for societies
Fear and Fantasy: Female Sexuality and the Witches of Hans Baldung Grien
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
A Renaissance Cassone in Richmond Reconsidered: Chastity in a Different Voice
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as thesis optio
2017-12 Effect of utility deregulation and mergers on consumer welfare
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2017-12. 32 pages.In the late 1990s, many U.S. states deregulated electric utilities, allowing for competition
among power generators. Deregulated states then adopted a retail choice program, allowing
customers to choose their power provider. In addition, a significant merger wave among large
utility companies ensued after deregulation. What was the impact of these changes on consumer
welfare? While this issue has been widely studied, the results remain ambiguous. This study
examines the effects of these events, by analyzing electricity price and output changes among
deregulated and regulated states from 2001 through 2014. The study finds that deregulation may
have had a positive effect when states adopted certain measures, such as retail choice or fuel
changes, that enhanced competition and lowered costs