Abstract: The project focuses on the examination of the body image of women in various works of art and rhetoric throughout history while using the framework of the scholar Sonja Foss’s visual rhetorical criticism as a guide. The art depictions of women chosen for the...
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to explore children’s literature in the form of picture books while utilizing interdisciplinary, multi-modal techniques to express thinking and learning. Three questions guided this research: How does utilizing picture books...
Abstract: Recently, due to issues associated with overcrowding, underfunding, and the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a national push for prison downsizing. Advocates of downsizing have called for the decarceration, or removal, of non-violent offenders from penal...
Abstract: Police interactions with the public have gained considerable media attention. Prior research has examined the impact of news media and television drama series consumption on perceptions of police effectiveness. However, there is little empirical research on...
Abstract: Sentencing bias has been explored for a myriad of factors such as race, sex, and mental health, but not for LGBTQ+ identity. Considering such bias has been demonstrated to exist for some labels, it must be examined for different LGBTQ+ identities. Using a...
Abstract: Police reform has been a hot topic of discussion among academics, and a dominant theme in the American news and entertainment media for some time now. The goal of this project was to assess public perceptions of various types of police reform. Data were...
