Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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The Harana Singers of Nova Scotia: Transnationalism, cultural identity, and collective music-making in a Filipino choir
(2023-05)The Harana Singers of Nova Scotia is a choir of mostly Filipinos, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Many studies have been conducted on Filipino migration and occupation (Gardiner Barber, 2008; Reyes, 2005), but little research ... -
Sober Sociability: How non-drinking students navigate outside the norm
(2023-05)Drinking culture on campuses has been written about for decades, and drinking students see drinking culture as a means of forming and maintaining friendships, socializing in large groups and vital in their university ... -
Connecting Through Faith: An Analysis of Dalhousie and Kings Religious Societies
(2023-05)In Canadian society today, there is a growing problem of university dropouts and deteriorating mental health conditions in university students with a leading cause being loneliness. This qualitative sociological study ... -
Why This Metamorphosis?
(2023-03)“Why This Metamorphosis?” investigates ideas of immigrant longing, loss, and love, by examining second-generation American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s work, and particularly too, her radical and courageous decision to abandon ... -
A Conversation with Selin: Meaning, Truth, and the Academic/Personal Divide in The Idiot by Elif Batuman
(2023)Through a blend of critical analysis and personal narrative, this essay explores frameworks of meaning-making and their place in a student’s life using The Idiot by Elif Batuman as a touchstone text. In this work, my own ... -
Intergenerational Trauma and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
(Dalhousie University, 2023-02-28) -
The Human Condition: A Synthesis of Spirituality and Sensuality
(2023-02-28)This is a Capstone Paper for the Dalhousie Department of English. It studies the work of James Broughton in contrast to Cartesian dualism. After establishing how Broughton's poetry characterizes the human condition as a ... -
“They Want Me to Play F*cking Bingo!”: The Social Lives of Young at Heart Seniors
(2022-04)There are many sociological studies concerned with the social lives of senior citizens who fit the traditional aging norms of society. In comparison, the social experiences of “young at heart” seniors are relatively absent ... -
“The Case of Catherine Dammartin: Friends, Fellows, and the Survival of Celibacy in England’s Protestant Universities"
(University of Toronto Press, 2021)
