Theses and Dissertations from UMD: Recent submissions
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Revisiting the Reservation: The Lumbee Community of East Baltimore
(2020)“Revisiting the Reservation” is an analysis of the relationship between Baltimore’s Lumbee Indian community and the neighborhood where the community settled following the second World War. It is an inquiry into the roles ... -
"To Dwell, I'm Determined, on That Happy Ground": An Archaeology of a Free African-American Community in Easton, Maryland, 1787-Present
(2020)As early as 1787, free African Americans began making homes in the Easton, Maryland, neighborhood known as The Hill. Over successive generations, The Hill became the cultural and residential center of Easton’s African-American ... -
Quantifying the Organization and Dynamics of Excitable Signaling Networks
(2020)The transmission of extracellular information through intracellular signaling networks is ubiquitous in biology---from single-celled organisms to complex multicellular systems. Via signal-transduction machinery, cells of ... -
MAKING SHAKESPEARE ACCESSIBLE: CASE STUDIES OF THE AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER AND ATLANTA SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
(2020)Since the nineteenth century, theatre practitioners have sought to recreate the conventions of William Shakespeare’s original staging. This phenomenon was initially known as the Elizabethan Revival. Today, theatre practitioners ... -
THE VALUE OF STATE-BUSINESS CONNECTION IN THE POLITICS OF CROSS-BORDER CAPITAL
(2020)This dissertation demonstrates that in a highly integrated global economy, state-business relationships have significant value for cross-border investors. The first paper shows that the governments of developed countries ...