Ellen Greenblum

"This thesis is an autoethnographic study, which found evidence that when a leader in a non-profit setting actively engages in creative practice for 30 days, there is a direct positive effect on work and, by extension, life. Key research findings included that the subject experienced a daily feeling of success, achievement, and accomplishment; the creative practice generated a mindset of discovery, curiosity and open-mindedness; the subject experienced...

"The research presented within this thesis is a preliminary test of the effectiveness of mapping ethnographic information in the form of a life history interview to the recovered historic assemblage at Twenty-Nine Palms Inn, California. The onset of COV-SARS-2 (COVID-19) greatly impacted portions of this study. I was limited in my access to locational data and to the historic assemblage, and special arrangements finally made the artifacts available....

"This thesis explores the difference between listening to a traditional oral story on a podcast versus experiencing the story in real-time with a live teller, and how to maximize the listener's podcast experience. The results of listener surveys were analyzed, and the results reflected in a new storytelling course and accompanying syllabus."--leaf ii.

"For the purposes of this thesis, I begin with an overview of theatre for social change in the introduction and then focus on the literature review as a way to introduce authors, ideas, theory and knowledge as background for the reader. This includes anecdotal accounts, reasoning for research and methodologies for carrying out research. I look at feminist theory, community-based theatre, education for liberation and decolonizing knowledge as a basis...