Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2017, English

In Decolonizing Forms: Linguistic Practice, Experimentation, and U.S. Empire in Contemporary Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature, I examine Asian American and Pacific Islander experimental writings that address the United States' histories of militarization and neo/colonialism in Asia and Oceania. I argue that the authors' deployment and representation of linguistic practices form the crux of their experimentations, enact specific critiques of the U.S. imperium in its many permutations, and attend to ongoing decolonial efforts. The experimentations in the texts combat what I term American solipsism, or the inability of the American public discourse to recognize any nations, occupied spaces, or U.S. actions that cannot be absorbed into American exceptionalist reasoning; the works I analyze demand readers to re/acknowledge or re-conceptualize the United States' relationships with the Philippines, Korea, Guam, and Hawai`i. I argue that these authors are attending to the structures of imperialism that have shaped life and history for Asian/American and Pacific Islander populations and further that the shape of their experimentations reflect the shape of empire and the texts' and characters' decolonial practices. Specifically, I argue that linguistic experimentation is the tool by which the authors deploy a decolonial aesthetics precisely because the authors are highlighting the linguistic practices and policies of imperialism. I contribute to scholarship by addressing experimentation in genres beyond poetry; each chapter focuses on one main text with a different experimental narrative form: novel, novel with narrative poetry, lyrical poetry, and multi-genre composition. In Chapter 2, I argue that the neocolonial martial law state in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (1990) uses gossip as a tool of terror, reflecting Governor-General William Howard Taft's (1901-1904) documented uses of gossip to govern the Philippines, influencing Philippines leadership through (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Martin Ponce (Advisor) Subjects: American History; American Literature; American Studies; Asian American Studies; Bilingual Education; Comparative Literature; Ethnic Studies; History of Oceania; Literature; Literature of Oceania; Pacific Rim Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2012, EDU Physical Activity and Educational Services

Over 250 sport management degree programs and over 25 academic journals are in existence currently. Despite the dramatic growth of academic programs and publications, as a relatively young academic field, there are ongoing debates on diverse issues such as definition, boundary, and methodology in the field of sport management (Chalip, 2006; Costa, 2005; Pitts, 2001, Quatman & Chelladurai, 2008; Slack, 1998). Reflecting the notions of Kuhn (1970), the field of sociology of science has contributed to provide insights on these ongoing issues in academic fields. Based on the ontological and epistemological foundations of the social construction of knowledge in sociology of science, this study identified critical concepts and paradigms and explored the structural patterns of those concepts in knowledge structure of sport management. For this, the study employed bibliometric analysis and social network analysis on keywords and citations data retrieved from the articles of the Journal of Sport Management between 1997 and 2010. Embracing the advantages of the multilevel design, this study conducted two different levels of analyses with keywords and citations data – keyword analysis (KA) and citation analysis (CA) for individual attributes and keyword co-occurrence network analysis (KCNA) and co-citation network analysis (CCNA) for relational attributes. The findings of the study indicated that there has been a shift on trends and themes in sport management in both levels – analytical and structural levels. The results of KA and CA revealed the shift on the popularity of certain individual keywords and publications whereas the results of KCNA and CCNA disclosed the shift on the popularity of structures of groups of keywords and publications.

Committee: Packianathan Chelladurai Ph.D. (Advisor); Brian Turner Ph.D. (Other); Donna Pastore Ph.D. (Other) Subjects: Sports Management

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2008, Economics

This dissertation has two chapters. Chapter 2 provides a first step to a formal economic model of science. We model science as a set of fields that draw on one another. Knowledge flows from upstream fields that tend to be theoretical to downstream fields that tend to be applied. Scientists seek to maximize their scientific influence on other scientists and, in a competitive equilibrium, locate heavily in upstream fields, that command a greater number of downstream researchers to cite them. In contrast, a social planner cares about the relative impact of fields on final output. The planner allocates more scientists to applied downstream fields with more immediate returns to increase current consumption. Using Econlit classification codes of papers in economics we show that there is a tendency for applied fields to draw on theoretical fields. Chapter 3 estimates the effect of universities and colleges on their local economies using panel data on cities from 1980 to 2000. The panel structure of the data allows me to include fixed effects for metropolitan areas. To further investigate causality I use two sets of instrumental variables (1) historic values of university variables and (2) a shift share index of R and D. In contrast to the literature, the estimates show a statistically significant and empirically important relationship between universities and the incomes and employment of individuals in a metropolitan area. A one standard deviation increase in academic R and D, (per capita) Bachelors degrees, and the share of S and E degrees in total Bachelors degrees and the stock of Bachelors degree holders in a city each increase individual income by 2%-7% and all of them together increases probability of individual employment by 2.2%.

Committee: Bruce Weinberg Professor (Committee Chair); Richard Steckel Professor (Committee Member); Mark Partridge Professor (Committee Member) Subjects: Labor Economics

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2004, Environmental Science

This dissertation focuses on the use of citation data to evaluate the impactfulness of research in hydrogeology. This study not only explores research impact, but also applies one of the most useful information technologies: data mining techniques on textual data and a practical hydrogeological problem. Following the Schwartz, Fang and Ibaraki (2002) paper in Ground Water, I examined the citation data from ISI in order to check the stability of the bibliometric data and validation of use of this information. I looked at the citation growth patterns of highly-cited papers from the 80s and used that pattern to predict the citation growth for the highly-cited papers in the next decade. This exercise ensures me the use of citation data and gives us an overview of evolution of science in hydrogeology. “Innovation” of the research is another important key to create its impact besides research topics. Water Resources Research papers from 1991 are selected to compare with papers before and follow-on. The most highly cited papers in 1991 appear to be unique in that there are relatively few papers like them that were published previously. Moreover, these papers were sufficiently influential to produce a relatively large number of similar follow-on papers. However, the citation pattern of some classic papers shows that the activities and impact of follow-on papers gradually decline with time. The results of this study reinforce the importance of being a pioneer in a research strand, strategically shifting research strands, adopting strategies that can facilitate really major research shifts. Applications of data mining techniques on two types of data show the advantage of information technology. I evaluated two general strategies and several variants thereof on the one type of database: textual data. The first strategy is based on Naive Bayes, a popular text classification algorithm. The second strategy is based on Principle Direction Divisive Partitioning, an unsupervised doc (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Franklin Schwartz (Advisor) Subjects: Environmental Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies and Public Affairs, Cleveland State University, 2007, Levin College of Urban Affairs

The environmental movement relies on scientific claims to justify its calls for protectionist policies. These claims can be followed in the scientific literature using bibliometric methods such as citation analysis. Citation analysis was used to deconstruct the literature of endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) sciences as it emerged and developed time from 1980 through 2004. This study explored how the attributes of scientific papers such as topic, journal, experimental model, document type, and support or negation of hypotheses impacted their influence (quantified as times cited) within the field over time. To accomplish this, unique bibliographic data were acquired for each attribute of the more than 3,400 studies identified by keyword searches. Content-specific data (non-bibliographic) were generated for the nearly 500 articles cited ≥45 times. The influence of individual articles on the field of EDC science, and their citation relationships was also visually represented using the bibliometric mapping. Results demonstrated that a confluence of scientific claims propelled the EDC issue into a prominent position within overall environmental literature. The EDC term appeared nowhere before 1993, but its use rapidly gained traction thereafter until by 2004 it was found in over 3,400 published papers. The results of this study suggest that the influence of individual scientific claims within the literature of EDC science were not random, but were impacted by both bibliographic and non-bibliographic attributes. Temporal variations in the influence of each attribute were also demonstrated.

Committee: William Bowen (Advisor) Subjects: