{"id":25,"date":"2006-08-30T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/a-list-of-phd-dissertations-about-star-trek\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T20:35:06","slug":"a-list-of-phd-dissertations-about-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/a-list-of-phd-dissertations-about-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"A list of Ph.D. dissertations about Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/08\/28\/2058216\">Slashdot article<\/a> about a Star Trek Ph.D. thesis winning an academic prize, I wondered how many other theses involve Star Trek. According to Digital Dissertations, the answer is no less than fourteen! Here&#8217;s the list so far, from oldest to most recent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/8211478\">Video Values Education: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As Modern Myth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/8719881\">A Critical Examination of the Mythological and Symbolic Elements of Two Modern Science Fiction Series: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doctor Who\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/9019902\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As Cultural Text: Proprietary Audiences, Interpretive Grammars, and the Myth of the Resisting Reader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/9219778\">Phenomenology of Communication and Culture: Michel Foucault&#8217;s Thematics in the Televised Popular Discourse of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/MM83052\">The Final Frontier: Critical Theory and the Star Trek Phenomenon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/9502667\">Teaching Towards the Twenty-Fourth Century: The Social Curriculum of Star Trek in the Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/9610333\">Communication Contexts on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek: The Next Generation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/9604920\">The Wrath of Whiteness: The Meaning of Race in the Generation of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/3002404\">Jung and Picard: Archetypes and the Modern Myth of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek: the Next Generation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/NQ22473\">To Boldly Go: A Hypermodern Ethnography of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fans&#8217; Culture and Communities of Consumption<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/9933360\">The Best of Both Worlds? Examining Bodies, Technologies, Gender and the Borg of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/1406801\">Star Trek: Return to Paradise. The Research, Treatment and Screenplay (With Original Writing)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/3100210\">To Boldly Go Where No Other Has Gone Before: The Construction of Race and Gender in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwlib.umi.com\/dissertations\/fullcit\/MQ97124\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the Anthropological Enterprise: Cultural Relativism and Tolerance in Contemporary America<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this list includes only Ph.D. dissertations in English that have the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the title. I&#8217;m sure there are many more theses that involve Star Trek in some peripheral way, not to mention journal articles, conference papers, and non-English publications.<\/p>\n<p>As a Star Trek fan, I&#8217;m rather pleased that my favorite sci-fi franchise is considered worthy of serious academic study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading a recent Slashdot article about a Star Trek Ph.D. thesis winning an academic prize, I wondered how many other theses involve Star Trek. According to Digital Dissertations, the answer is no less than fourteen! Here&#8217;s the list so far, from oldest to most recent: Video Values Education: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Trek\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As Modern Myth A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-trivia","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}