Welcome to Millersville University’s Spring 2022 edition of MUsings: The Graduate Journal. We are emerging from our second year of[…]
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#InoculateColonists: Colonial Perspectives on Smallpox Inoculation
by Meagan Schulman* *Author’s Note: The title is a play on words based on one of New York’s slogans during[…]
Read moreThe New Woman: Death and Resurrection in Victorian and Twentieth Century Literature
By Hayley Billet In today’s literary canon, it is not uncommon for the unconventional female characters to be the heroes[…]
Read moreA History of Child Welfare in the United States
By Rachel E. Preibisch A History of Child Welfare in the United States The United States child welfare system varies[…]
Read moreDistortive Economic Impacts of Humanitarian Aid
By Kristina Diefenderfer I. Introduction Humanitarian aid is a major source of support to jumpstart recovery processes in a post-disaster[…]
Read moreAging Out of Foster Care through a Symbolic Interactionist Lens
By A. L. Gabner American foster care youth (FCY) that are not adopted or reunited with their birth families before[…]
Read moreAlways Grateful
By Michael “Artemis” Harris Is it really that weird, that I still think about you a lot? It is,[…]
Read moreDouble-Consciousness in Dutchman
By Hayley Billet In Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones’s influential one-act play Dutchman, Clay, a twenty-year-old black man, meets Lula, a thirty-year-old[…]
Read moreSymbolic Interactionism and Disability Analysis
By Danielle Hornung Symbolic Interactionism and Disability Analysis Utilizing symbolic interactionism when explicating the development of disability as a social[…]
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