Search results | Digital Grinnell

Title: Jacobian Varieties of Hurwitz Curves with Automorphism Group PSL(2,q)
Description: We present a decomposition of the Jacobian varieties for all curves of this type and prove that no such Jacobian variety is simple.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:13254

Title: Landscapes of affect : exploring the concept of safe space and identity formation at Grinnell College, Exploring the concept of safe space and identity formation at Grinnell College
Description: Explores issues of identity formation at Grinnell College during the years 2007-2010 during which time several homophobic incidents took place.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:3418

Title: Lithuanian Catholicism and the KGB
Description: Exploration of the relationship between the KGB and Catholic Church in Lithuania after 1940.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:11385

Title: Local Food and Grinnell College Dining Services: a report from the Group Independent Study, Spring 2006
Description: The project focused on seven topics around bringing local food into the dining halls: environmental impact, nutrition, dining service logistics, producer logistics, economic impact, student opinion, and local foods at public schools.
PID: grinnell:3470

Title: Managing the Faithful: The Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church, Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church
Description: Although economists in recent years have begun to apply economic theory to the activities of religious organizations, very few have ventured deeply into the realm of the Roman Catholic Church and almost none have considered the confluence between Internal Labor Market Theory and the promotional job ladder for ordained Catholic clergyman. This analysis explores the implications of the Catholic Church’s internal promotional ladder on its level of theological flexibility and hence its ability to adjust to changing market conditions. Specifically, by treating the Catholic Church as an organization subject to many of the same market forces as ordinary business firms, the research presented in this analysis shows how much of the “crisis” the church is confronting in the modern era—such as the rapid decline in the number of priests—can be explained by microeconomic structures that have developed over the past two millennia. At the broadest level, this analysis offers a new paradigm for viewing resistance to change in the church and provides a model for understanding the long-term implications of inflexibility on the viability of the church as an institution.
PID: grinnell:31983

Title: Matter, Agency, and Transcendence in Milton's Prose and Verse
Description: In contrast to critics who characterize John Milton's work as unconcerned with the material world, this essay argues that the material world is crucial to Milton's conception of the sublime.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31903

Title: Milton and the Disintegration of the Public Space
Description: I examine the role of writing and the poet in creating knowledge through an analysis of Milton’s history of the public sphere. I
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:30067

Title: Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Ignored Pandemic
Description: Jake Lindstrom's submission to the 2012 Peace Studies Student Conference
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:98

Title: New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism, Film and the critique of neoliberalism
Description: In 1992, B. Ruby Rich coined the term New Queer Cinema to describe a cycle of films in the late 1980s and early 1990s that broke with conventional cinematic practices to show rethought subjectivities, generic subversions, and revised histories. New Queer Cinema, however, saw little of the same bursts of innovative directors and their films after 1992. This lag in revolutionary filmmaking left many evaluating queer cinema’s current state, even mourning the supposed end of New Queer Cinema. In this paper, I argue that queer filmmaking is not void of revolutionary potential; it is more that the driving force behind these films has changed. Instead of acting in opposition to a conservative government that failed to respond to the AIDS crisis, current queer work resists the normalizing effects of today’s neoliberal government. A cycle study of recent queer films reveals this driving revolutionary force.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3419