Dissertation Haiku

Offshore gradient
transitions to vertical
over shelves in spring.

Oceanography
The Florida State University
Research Scientist

Subject: Philosophy

A red tomato –
Your visual perception
Is direct and thick.

Kelly Trogdon

UMass Amherst

Dissertation Title: Phenomenal Acquaintance

My dissertation is about our special cognitive relation to our current experiences. Two features of this relation: it is direct and thick (i.e. substantive and determinate).

Bush admin minions
use language tricks to defend
No Child Left Behind

Julie Ellison Justice
Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University

Title: Reading at or above grade level: The construction of “grade level” in reading policy and political discourse.

My dissertation reported my analysis the speeches, press releases, congressional testimony and policy documents of 8 years of Bush Administration rhetoric to understand how it came to be naturalized that kids should “read at grade level” when previous policies required kids to read “proficiently” or “well and independently.”

Blossoms of the mind
grow from a thousand Spring blooms;
authors, books designed.

Kenneth Price
University of Virginia, English

I’m looking at how one’s idea of an author being read is partly built upon the physical books the reader is working from and how authors and publishers engage with that phenomenon.

I completed my PhD in 2004. It was a cellular neurophysiology study. I studied a class of interneuron in the retina called displaced amacrine cells. My main goal was to understand the physiological and anatomical properties of displaced amacrine cells as a way to understand their contribution to retinal and visual processing.

Here’s my Haiku:

Cells in between cells,
make the retina’s magic
and keep its secrets.

Hello, do you speak French? No, I’m Italian-Australian. It’s politically correct!

English and Culture: a sociolinguistic approach to plurilingual and multicultural situation in Canada, Australia and the United States (original title in French: L’anglais et les Cultures, analyse sociolinguistique des situation plurilingues et multiculturelles au Canada, en Australie et aux Etats-Unis) Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1998

Knowledge that is tacit
Still needs capture and sharing
How do we do that?

Title:
e-Learning 2.0: Emergence, social networks and the creation of shared knowledge

As learners in the workplace turn toward just-in-time answers, knowledge and support networks, it becomes more pressing to understand how knowledge can be harnessed in a new, anytime digital environment. This dissertation explored knowledge design via new emerging technologies that allow for better finding, creating and sharing of information.

A person’s past actions.
Predicts future actions,
If they are verifiable.

Biographical information (biodata) obtained from job applicant forms has been in use since
the turn of this century to predict future job success. It has been only relatively recently
that there has been a concerted effort to improve biodata’s reliability and validity. Two of
the major concerns are how to minimize the incidence of faking and how to reduce
inaccurate responses due to social desirability.

Soldiers went shopping
during the Vietnam War.
What were we thinking?

“Beauty, Bullets, and Ice Cream: Re-Imagining Daily Life in the ‘Nam”, Penn State University, 2004

the study of the
obvious is what was taught
to wit, in theory.

dept. of sociology
wayne state university
detroit, mi
2007 alum

rose or violet
approaching or receding
red or blue unknown

Proposed dissertation on the cosmological effects of micro-regional variations in dark matter density and local expansion/contraction rates.

The story of rules:
The Internet’s nothing new.
Fear stalks; money talks.

Title: Launching the DNS War: Dot-Com Privatization and the Rise of Global Internet Governance

Craig Simon University of Miami, School of International Studies.

A mid 1990s effort to create a new overseer for the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) sought to create a formal administrative apparatus operating at a world-wide level, independent of the sovereign state system. Institutional membership within the new structure was intended to confer participation rights and normative obligations, thereby establishing status relationships that resonated with the kinship, ingroup, and citizenship relationships of legacy social orders.

http://www.rkey.com/essays/diss.pdf

Discipline: political science

Welfare for elders
But nothing for our children.
Who are we kidding?

Dissertation title: The Age of Welfare: Citizens, Clients and Generations in the Development of the Modern Welfare State (UC Berkeley, 2001)

Book title: Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers and Children (Cambridge UP, 2006)

My dissertation examined why some countries allocate the lion’s share of their social welfare resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced profile of spending on working-aged adults and children. Italy, Japan, and the United States are examples of the former; Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden are examples of the latter.

Markets in Free Fall
Progressive Thoughts Promoted
Wealth Does not Protect

University of Vita Vera

Political Economy and Influence of Wealth