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Laboratory in Biochemical Research
No full textWelcome to the laboratory in biochemical research! We will explore how nature evolved biosynthetic enzymes of different\ud
structure and function. This is an original and hypothesis-driven experiment, and you are at the helm! As we explore laboratory concepts and techniques at the chemistry-biology interface, we will learn about how to conduct phylogenetic and sequence analyses in silico, prepare novel plasmids, express and purify protein, evaluate protein structure using various biophysical methodologies, and determine the bioactivity of proteins in vitro. Concomitant goals for this course include learning how to safely and efficiently conduct independent research in the KINSC, troubleshoot, navigate the \ud
scientific literature, and communicate scientific results in the form of a publication and grant proposal
Cross-Cultural Lament Traditions
No full textThis course surveys lament traditions, broadly defined, across a range of cultures. In this course we will read a selection of ancient, medieval, and early modern lament; taking Greek lament traditions as our starting point, we will conclude by examining the role of modern social media in the expression and sharing of grief. The focus of the course will be the rich traditions of lament and elegy in medieval and early modern Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia.Topics to be considered include the relationship between gender and lament, the intersection of orality, performance, and literacy, the societal function and purpose of mourning rituals,restrictions on mourning, and the social role of the professional mourner in some cultures.While we will primarily be concerned with textual evidence, we will also listen to recordings of funeral laments, and consider the evidence for the modern decline of traditional mourning practices
“Launcelot sholde love hir and sche hym agayne”: The Erotic Triangle and Doomed Chivalry in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
No full textTax Migration: Tax Rate Effects on Free Agent Skill Level in the NBA
No full textThis paper examines income tax differentials and their effect on tax migration in the United States. Using contract level data for individuals between 2010 and 2014, I identify the effects that state and local marginal income tax rates for 30 cities have on free agent decision-making in the NBA. The plethora of performance measures allows us to control for free agent skill level, and finds that franchises under lower state and local marginal income tax rates see no significant advantage at attracting higher skilled free agents
Examining the Impact of Foreign NBA Players on the Wages and Employment of American Basketball Players
No full textThis paper analyzes the impact that the influx of foreign players has had on the salaries and labor market outcomes of domestic players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The study builds on previous literature in the field of labor economics by examining this research question in a highly specialized labor market with a rigid salary structure. First, an unbalanced panel data set at the player-year level from 1990-2008 is used in combination with a log-linear regression model to estimate the impact that the number of foreign players in the NBA has on the wages of domestic players. Results are insignificant. A handcrafted dataset tracking the careers of Chad Ford’s top 50 American prospects from 2001 through 2015 is used with a series of ordered logistic regressions to examine foreign players’ impact on the career length and outcomes of American players. Additional ordinary least squares regressions are used to estimate the career quality of American prospects by the quality of the leagues in which they played. Results of all regressions investigating the career outcomes of American prospects are also insignificant
Self Making Through Hybridized Cultural Citizenship: Diasporic Korean American College Students and Their Engagement with Korean Popular Media
No full textThis thesis examines the experiences of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean American immigrant college students and the ways that their hybridized Korean American cultural citizenship place them into processes of self-making within the contexts of social networks, their changing legal citizenship, and experiences of racialization as Asians in America. This thesis specifically focuses on the consumption of Korean popular media, including Korean popular music, TV shows, news, and movies, as a manifestation of hybridized Korean American cultural citizenship. Using Korean popular media as a lens through which to consider hybridized Korean American cultural citizenship, this thesis ultimately aims to consider the ways that young diasporic Korean Americans continually navigate the constructions and contestations of their hybridized cultural identities as they negotiate belonging within both Korean and American national imaginaries
Collages of Redefinition and Resistance: Scrapbooks, Memorial, and American Society during World War I
No full textThe entry of the United States into World War I signaled a new internationalism for the American state. While the idealism of the Wilsonian era was not uniform throughout American society, the vision for which he advocated was influential, especially because of Wilson’s direct appeals to the American public. Meanwhile, the fighting of the war in faraway Europe was destroying a generation of men. Many Americans, including influential political and military figures, thought that the war would be an opportunity for heroic soldiers to fight a noble, glorious crusade, a perception that had long since given way to war-weariness and cynicism in Europe, but the American Expeditionary Force soon confronted the harsh realities of modern war on the western front. This thesis is concerned with the memorialization of the war in the United States within the scope of both American perceptions of the war and its brutal physicality on the front. It analyzes a series of World War I scrapbooks created by Americans with different relationships to the war: soldier, Red Cross worker, widow, town archivist. Each of these scrapbooks functioned as personal war memorials that commemorated certain aspects of the war, each supporting, challenging, and modifying social understandings of what it meant to be an American during World War I. This thesis argues that these scrapbooks constituted an act of resistance against the bodily anonymity the war wrought and represented a way in which Americans made sense of their place in both the United States and the world as the United States changed during the World War I period
African Politics and Literature
No full textThe novel is often a political text that provides a glimpse into another time and place. This class uses African novels as a lens to explore politics and everyday life in sub-Saharan Africa. We will read seven novels from the continent. These novels cover vastly different moments in Africa including the pre-colonial period, colonialism, the struggle for independence and its aftermath. We will explore politics of dictatorships and the turbulence and excitement of political transitions. Common themes will include: war, the role of religion and ethnicity, education, and implications of gender on everyday life. Political science and history readings will be used to supplement the selected books and help us to analyze central themes of the course. This course will focus on improving writing skills by writing short papers, a midterm and a final paper