Master of Science (MS), Bowling Green State University, 1965, MBA

Committee: Maurice I. Mandell (Advisor) Subjects: Marketing

Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, 1964, Educational Administration and Supervision

Committee: Charles W. Young (Advisor) Subjects: Elementary Education

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1963, Communication Studies

Committee: Raymond Yeager (Advisor) Subjects: Communication; Education

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1951, History

Committee: Robert W. Twyman (Advisor) Subjects: Business Administration; History

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1950, History

Committee: Robert W. Twyman (Advisor) Subjects: History

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1941, Educational Administration and Supervision

Committee: Walter A. Zaugg (Advisor) Subjects: Education

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2019, Anthropology

In this dissertation, I explore the social and economic life of Findlay Market. The public market represents a space where a welcoming and civil atmosphere is the background for social interactions (Anderson 2004; Shepherd 2008; Mintz 1989; Bestor 2004; Cook 1976). These social interactions are performed in a space created for economics. In this dissertation, I examine the changing role of the public market using Cincinnati's foodscape and Findlay Market as a backdrop. I go beyond Polanyi's (1957) theoretical notion of “the market” to understand how public markets in general, and Findlay Market in particular, serve as a framework for social action and establish personalized economic and social relationships between customers and vendors. My research contributes to anthropological literature by moving beyond Plattner (1982; 1989A, 1989B), Mintz (1989), and Miller (1998) to observe the market outside of its economic function and to view it as a process, not just a place. The market is a cosmopolitan canopy which is part of the social infrastructure of Cincinnati where visitors and vendors build community, and where social actors use it differently depending on their status and priorities.

Committee: Jeffrey Cohen (Advisor); Douglas Crews (Committee Member); Dorothy Noyes (Committee Member); Anna Willow (Committee Member) Subjects: Cultural Anthropology

Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing​, University of Findlay, 2019, English

Findlay, Ohio's nineteenth-century newspapers published crime reports, legislative actions, and opinion pieces about prostitution within the city. Victorian ideology was inherently rigid and imbalanced between men and women, which is why nonconforming sexual activity, specifically sex for sale, represents a rhetorically significant phenomenon. When considering Findlay's historical and contemporary reputation as a politically conservative and traditional family-focused municipality, the newspaper articles show that some residents resisted gendered behavioral standards that city leaders sought to uphold during its most socioeconomically formative years. This thesis critically looks at previously unstudied, male-authored Victorian prostitution articles to determine how journalists ideologically situated and represented the female-centric trade within the community. The project also identifies new information that reflects the women's rhetorical presence. This paper argues that, despite the phallocentric nature of the newspaper articles, prostitutes' voices can still be “heard” and recognized for their rhetorical contributions, thereby encouraging historical revisioning.

Committee: Christine Denecker (Committee Chair); Sarah Fedirka (Committee Member); Diana Montague (Committee Member); Christine Tulley (Advisor) Subjects: American History; Communication; Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies; Journalism; Rhetoric; Womens Studies

MARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2010, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of)

“The task of architecture is to make visible how the world touches us” - Merleau Ponty Architecture is an intimate experience that has to be appreciated and comprehended as images of body and skin. However, modernist ideas and the technological culture have separated the senses distinctly allowing the human body to become a mere spectator of built objects. In today's virtual world, a sensorial exploration of space has the potential to evoke a transparency of time, space and feeling; thereby reinforcing human existence. The thesis explores man's perception of the built environment and the language of materials to create a rich sensual journey. That is, in shifting our attention from the object to the experience of the object, the project strives to reconnect to humanity, relating to the human body and culture. The design project involves the creation of a series of architectural interventions along a pedestrian street in Over the Rhine neighborhood, Cincinnati. The sensual journey with nodes of episodic moments shall address the thesis agenda of enhancing architectural experiences.

Committee: George Bible MCiv.Eng (Committee Chair); Patricia Kucker MARCH (Committee Chair) Subjects: Architecture

MARCH, University of Cincinnati, 2010, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of)

Triple top line development is a methodology for developing buildings that are not only economic assets, but environmental and social assets,with the understanding that in doing so, there will be a spillover effect among concentrations, resulting in added benefits for each. Architects are trained and educated to design buildings in this manner, but lack the necessary interests and influence to bring triple top line developments to fruition. Architects, in their traditional roles, do not produce buildings; rather they provide a service for developers and owners who do. The developers controlling project financing are legally and ethically entitled to the ultimate design authority, and their interests are often in direct conflict with those of the architects they hire. Developers are strictly concerned with a building's economic performance and will strike down design proposals which do not provide an immediate financial return. This is unfortunate, because ecological and social equity considerations have the potential to not only enhance the economic viability of projects, but create more pleasing environments in the process. These oversights open doors for Architect-Developers to develop their own triple top line projects, regain the ultimate design authority, and profit from the added value their designs bring to buildings and communities.

Committee: Elizabeth Riorden MARCH (Committee Chair); Michael McInturf MARCH (Committee Chair) Subjects: Architecture

Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 2012, Geological Sciences

In 2011, Ohio State University began drilling wells for a geothermal heating and cooling system to upgrade several dormitories. The drillers encountered problems with collapsing boreholes and very high permeabilities at multiple depths within the Columbus Limestone, Salina Undifferentiated, and the Tymochtee and Greenfield dolomites. The driller reported two high permeability zones underlying the campus: one at 140-150 feet deep, and another at depths of 280 to 360 feet. The shallow zone corresponds to the depth of the Columbus Limestone and the deeper zone corresponds to the Salina Undifferentiated and the underlying dolomite units. The upper permeability zone coincides with the known cave zone within the Delaware and Columbus limestones, which house the Ohio Caverns and the Olentangy Indian Caverns. More in-depth study of this zone's characteristics through quarry visits and core description reveals traditional continental or epigenetic karst features such as flow channels, dissolution along bedding planes, and missing core. This paleokarst zone was created by groundwater flow at or just below the water table and is a form of epigenic karst. The depth of the lower permeable zone coincides with that of the Newburg Zone. Further study of the lower permeable zone based on core descriptions, quarry visits, geophysical logs, borehole video, and thin sections reveals evidence for extensive karstification in the form of vugs, dissolution chambers, enlarged fractures, spongerock, and missing core. The dissolution chambers are caves that have no evidence of flow passages leading in or out of them, suggesting that they are mixing chambers. These appear to be Silurian analogues to modern flank-margin caves that form on the flanks of carbonate islands where the fresh-water lens meets seawater. These flank-margin caves have been extensively described in tropical regions around the world. Based on the equatorial location of Ohio during the Late Silurian Period, the environmen (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: E. Scott Bair PhD (Advisor); W. Berry Lyons PhD (Committee Member); William I. Ausich PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Environmental Geology; Geology