Competitive gaming, or esports, is a high-skill endeavor embedded in a highly gendered social context. Using multiple methodological approaches, this dissertation argues that gender-gaming inequality is a result of changeable stereotypes that impact women throughout their lives. Specifically, gender-gaming stereotypes limit women’s initial access to gaming, discourage their continued interest...
This dissertation narrates the circulation and institutionalization of an emergent category of talk performance within the late-twentieth century US avant-garde through the career trajectories of three artists from disparate disciplinary backgrounds working in and around the 1970s: theatrical monologist Spalding Gray, poet David Antin, and dance artist and filmmaker Yvonne...
The dissertation aims to explore the intersection between the artistic performance of blackness in contemporary Italian theater and the country's social stigmatization of black immigrants as a problem or national emergency. I argue that Italians live in a state of "historic forgetfulness" since they have not been able to absorb...
This dissertation aims at contributing to the literature of organizational learning and organizational change. More specifically, this dissertation focuses on three fundamental issues of exploitation and exploration: the relationship between exploitation and exploration, the balance of exploitation and exploration, and the performance implications of exploitation and exploration. This dissertation comprises...
The variable effects of self-awareness may be a result of multiple states of awareness being condensed under the umbrella term, "self-awareness". We posit that the cognitive and behavioral effects of self-awareness are largely dependent on another variable, level of abstraction, which modulates self-awareness on a continuum between conceptual and perceptual...
This dissertation, “Altered Belonging: The Transnational Modern Dance of Itō Michio,” argues that Itō forged an artistic and social identity out of the very categories of racial and national difference typically used to exclude Japanese from Euro-American society. The strategies he employed provide a paradigm for how performing bodies marked...