CONCEPT is an interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies sponsored by the Graduate Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University. CONCEPT accepts submissions from Villanova graduate students in all fields of the arts and sciences. Submissions from recent Villanova alumni are also accepted. Submissions are reviewed by graduate student editors, faculty editors and peer reviewers, with final decisions made by the editors.
Vol 35 (2012)
Table of Contents
Graduate Research Prize Essay
| Duns Scotus at the Intersection of Christology and Consciousness | |
| Michael N.J. Fatigati |
Communication
| When Silenced Voices Become Wall-Scale Public Discourse: A Social Constructionist Analysis of Two Philadelphia Murals | |
| Silvana Pop |
English
| The Reconstitution of Sisterhood in Augusta Webster's "A Castaway" | |
| Grace Oh |
| "Proper for a lady's brush": The Visual Arts in the Work of Louisa May Alcott* | |
| Alexandra Edwards |
| "His blood is infected": Transmission of Disease and Wealth in Dickens's Bleak House* | |
| Afton Lorraine Woodward |
History
| English Aristocratic Women's Take on Health: 1450-1630 | |
| Erika M. Grimminger |
| American Eugenics: A History of its Evolution from Public Health Initiative to Scientific Racism, Historical Memory, and Modern Genetics* | |
| Margaret Rigas |
Liberal Studies
| The Entheos Diagnosis | |
| Melissa Dugan Rachwal |
Public Administration
| The Role of Religion (or Not) in the Tea Party Movement: Current Debates & The Anti-Federalists* | |
| Julie Schumacher Cohen |
| * Exclusive on-line content | |