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Title: Accepting Plurality as an All-Encompassing Religion
Description: Explores how the Hong Kongese blended ancestor worship into Christianity making the two compatible for individuals.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13174

Title: Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Nepal
Description: Disparities in access to care are greatly amplified in a developing country like Nepal due to social factors such as gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18504

Title: Adivasis and the Two Faces of Violence: Emergence of the postcolonial Indian State
Description: This essay investigates the epistemic and physical harms committed against the Adivasis (tribes) of Chhotanagpur by the early postcolonial state.
Date Created: 2022
PID: grinnell:31980

Title: An Evaluation of Al Exito's Impact on Participants in the Program's First Three Years (2006-09)
Description: A research project with Al Éxito focused on determining the impact of this youth Latina education program on its participants in its first three years (2006-09).
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:12980

Title: Analysis of an Unidentified Medieval Codex in the Grinnell College Libraries Department of Special Collections and Archives
Description: Project investigating an unidentified Latin manuscript in the Grinnell College Libraries Department of Special Collections and Archives.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:51

Title: Big Meat, Small Towns: The Meatpacking Industry’s Shift to Rural America and the Reemergence of Company Towns, Meatpacking Industry's Shift to Rural America and the Reemergence of Company
Description: This study explores the reemergence of company towns in American society through the analysis of slaughtering communities in rural Iowa.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:122

Title: CAFOs, Conflict, and Compromise: An Ethnographic Approach to Attitudes Towards Livestock Production and Related Conflict in Iowa
Description: Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. .
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18956

Title: Critical Fabulation for Survival: Knowledge of Pre-colonial Gender in Igbo Culture to Sustain Queer Imaginings of Care
Description: Through legislation and social code, modern-day Nigeria has become a hostile and dangerous country for queer people. As a queer person of the Nigerian diaspora, I struggle to hold both my “queer” and “Nigerian” identities because they seem contradictory. In this paper, I detail my journey reckoning with these two seemingly dissonant parts of my identity. In my endeavor to find communal belonging in Nigeria and its diaspora, I turn to the archive of pre-colonial Nigeria to discover if the nation of my ancestry was always hostile towards queer people. In particular, I try to uncover the violence British colonialism introduced to Nigeria. In this paper, I draw on the work of Saidiya Hartman to contextualize and guide my research and archivally-driven quest for belonging. As I have matured into myself, I have grappled with the intersections of my Nigerian-American and queer identities. Recently, I learned how Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation," a method for being attuned to and coping with archival gaps, can be a tool for survival when multiple realities conflict (Hartman, 2008). I practice critical fabulation in my venture to grapple with my “contradicting” identities by researching and drawing on the history of gender in Nigeria to imagine a more inclusive nation. Further, in this essay, I co-opt W. E. B. Du Bois’ framework of double consciousness to describe the internal conflict I feel regarding the friction between my Nigerian heritage and my queer identity because of the violence modern-day Nigeria inflicts upon queer people (Du Bois, 2007). Throughout this auto-ethnography, I discuss my double consciousness that stems from the intersectional oppressive structures in my life, such as patriarchy, transphobia, and homophobia. Additionally, in this paper, I demonstrate how the act of critical fabulation allows me to reconnect with myself and my (pre-colonial) Nigerian heritage to imagine and create spaces where queer Nigerians and I can belong (Hartman, 2008, p. 11).
Date Created: 2023
PID: grinnell:34246

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003
Description: Student papers for Fall 2003 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:4251

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004
Description: Student papers for Fall 2004 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:4252