Faculty Theses (CLA)

Evacuation, extended displacement and recovery: Survival responses of low-income women to the Hurricane Katrina disaster

Pardee, Jessica Warner (2010-09-15)

This study examines the lived experiences of 51 low-income, former and current public housing residents from New Orleans, LA in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Using a mixed-methodology, I assess women's capacity to ...
Learning to see: visual tools in American mining engineering, 1860-1920

Nystrom, Eric C. (John Hopkins University, 2007-08)

The period between 1860 and 1920 saw the development of mining engineering as a profession, with journals, societies, and university programs. At the same time, mining engineers, as a group, gradually assumed more control ...