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Means to a Mend and Other Stories
Creative Thesis: Means to A Mend and Other Stories is a short story collection that explores love, infatuation, and the in-betweens. The four stories, each a self-contained narrative, focus on various themes—religion, queerness, depression—and at times, their intersections. Together, the stories…
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Opera 2
Creative Thesis: Opera 2 is a collection of poems about loss—how memory, language, and material forms break down, reassemble, and resist containment. Blending text and image, the work doesn’t just describe disappearance; it enacts it, making reading an act of excavation, piecing together something…
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Dog Rose
Creative Thesis: What follows is the first six chapters of Dog Rose, a story told at the intersection of trauma and magic. Chapters alternate between past and present. In 2009, twelve year old Kira arrives as a newcomer to Sandy Landing, a summer camp nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. Having lived in…
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Bodies from Wool
Creative Thesis: This collection of short stories is an attempt to investigate what lies in the cracks and corners of a community that was birthed by war. Five stories depict Vietnamese American protagonists as they navigate their unique positionalities, addressing topics like sexuality, class, and…
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Screen Memory
Creative Thesis: Screen Memory is a short story collection that fuses the science fiction and bildungsroman genres in a near-future Los Angeles. Focusing on the experience of young adult girls, these four short stories uncover the way technology encroaches on the mind, as well as what nostalgia…
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The Tenants of Señora Rosa's Residence
Creative thesis: This thesis is a collection of fictional short stories centered on Mexican legends reimagined in contemporary settings. The character-driven narratives explore the experiences of immigrants and first-generation individuals, highlighting generational struggles that shape their…
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Spécial
Creative Thesis: Spécial is a mixed-genre collection of poetry and prose exploring language acquisition from the perspective of a daughter of immigrants who is a French heritage speaker and struggled with English. I wrote this collection as an experiment in weaving the two languages, inspired by…
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After October
Creative Thesis: After October is a fiction novella that tells the story of four women facing an uncontained fire and their attempts to rebuild their life after everything has been destroyed, exploring themes of corporate harm, queerness, and families of choice along the way. The main character…
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Seekers
Creative Thesis: Seekers is a collection of short stories that explores the lives of characters in and around Silicon Valley: a girl in the fifth grade whose widowed mother begins dating another man; three twentysomethings whose lives are deeply intertwined; a couple in their thirties who clash…
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Passivity
Creative Thesis: Against my advisor’s judgment, I chose the name Passivity because it connotes both bottoming and depression (bottoming out). These two halves—relationships to others and self—frame a shift in my collection, as my advisor has also said, from passiveness into fixedness. This is a…
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Exposition
Creative Thesis: Exposition is a collection of poems grounded in family stories, childhood memories, religion, and my mixed race experience. Each poem is an inquiry to the significance of the personal and shared histories that were naturally brought to the forefront throughout the writing process…
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Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture
In Fiddling Is My Joy, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. Although music historians acknowledge a prominent African American fiddle tradition during the era of slavery, only recently have researchers…
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The Study of Indigenous Landscape and Seascape Stewardship on the Central California Coast: The Findings of a Collaborative Eco-Archaeological Investigation
This volume presents the results of a collaborative eco-archaeological project that examines evidence for Indigenous landscape and seascape stewardship practices over 7000 years on the Central California coast. The goal of this work is to develop a better understanding of practices employed by…
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Painting the Empire with Feathers
This comic is based on research presented in the article "Isotopic Analysis of Feathered Panels from the Southern Peruvian Desert Demonstrates Earliest Amazonian Feather Trade by Middle Horizon (600 – 1000 CE)," by Scaffidi et al.
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Public Law: A Casebook for Master's Degree Students
This casebook offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the legal relationship between government and individuals or organizations. Using selections from court cases and commentaries, the text guides students through the constitutional and statutory analysis of legal disputes in their…
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Mobility Justice: A New Framework
The purpose of this report is to define and document the origins, definition, and themes of mobility justice. Methods included a literature review of both academic and activist usages of the term and interviews with early mobility justice leaders. Results revealed that mobility justice emerged as a…
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The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall Language, Memory, and Indigenous California
In The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall, Andrew Garrett examines Kroeber’s work in the early twentieth century and his legacy today, asking how a vigorous opponent of racism and advocate for Indigenous rights in his own era became a symbol of his ...