Conference Presentations by Nathan M Moore
5th World Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022
Auburn Research: Student Research Symposium (March 28, 2022, in the Melton Student Center)
UCLA Undergraduate Research Week, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s theatrical production, Hamilton: An American Musical, portrays one of the fo... more Lin-Manuel Miranda’s theatrical production, Hamilton: An American Musical, portrays one of the founding fathers in a new light. Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton inspires Miranda to recreate his migration to the New World, for Broadway. Current literature on the topic provides an extensive inquiry into the methods Miranda employs to join hip-hop with classical theater. Where the two convene, a diverse cast is used to play historically white figures. The prominence of traditionally marginalized actors highlights an effort to reclaim the stage for people of color. This research examines the identity politics pervading Hamilton’s script. By conducting a close reading of the script, the research aims to understand how Miranda’s portrayal of colonial identities masks a propagandized performance. By acquiescing to the contradictions pervading colonial independence, Hamilton bolsters the ideals of oppression by ignoring those enduring a similar struggle against tyranny. Furthermore, Hamilton’s utilization of hip-hop to entertain white spaces gives impetus to the economic ploys of commerce by expanding profit margins. The significance of Miranda’s portrayal of colonial identities inevitably follows a capitalistic narrative, which undermines people of color in search of their independence.
Teaching Documents by Nathan M Moore
The Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) Open Access Book Series features concise, peer-reviewed boo... more The Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) Open Access Book Series features concise, peer-reviewed books (both authored books and edited collections) for a multidisciplinary , international, higher education audience interested in research-informed engaged learning practices. The CEL Open Access Book Series offers an alternate publishing option for high-quality engaged learning books that align with the Center's mission, goals, and initiatives, and that experiment with genre or medium in ways that take advantage of an online and open access format. CEL is committed to making these publications freely available to a global audience.
I was a Learning Experience Observer for Dr. Erin Jones's Introductory Biology course at the Clar... more I was a Learning Experience Observer for Dr. Erin Jones's Introductory Biology course at the Claremont Colleges' WM Keck Science Center, tasked with building pedagogical relationships to improve student and professor interactions. The WM Keck Science Department is part of natural sciences and integrated to house Pitzer, Scripps Colleges, and Claremont McKenna.
"A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of: DOCTOR O... more "A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Huey P. Newton, June 1980 (UC Santa Cruz)."
"DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ph... more "DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007."
Sprin Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024
Liberty in North Korea, 2024
We are proud to present this certificate to Nathan Matthias Moore who volunteered as an English C... more We are proud to present this certificate to Nathan Matthias Moore who volunteered as an English Conversation Partner for the LiNK English Language Program and greatly helped a resettled North Korean student improve their English ability from the 11th of March to the 1st of June, 2024. This certificate recognizes that the above person made an important contribution as a volunteer for the mission of Liberty in North Korea.
English 459: Research Methods in Technical Communication, 2022
A PowerPoint report on the findings of my research study should effectively document how recipien... more A PowerPoint report on the findings of my research study should effectively document how recipients of a survey reacted to questions about 5G. The research question I used was: in what ways has 5G service affected your perception of cell phone carriers, cable, and internet providers since its inception?
D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, 1846
Supplemental materials for UCLA Undergraduate Research Week 2018.
[Ship at right in a harbor, wi... more Supplemental materials for UCLA Undergraduate Research Week 2018.
[Ship at right in a harbor, with Native Americans tossing crates off the ship into the water. Dock full of men-raising their hats]
"On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians and who called themselves the Sons of Liberty, boarded three ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Of the many important Revolutionary events captured by Currier & Ives in their lithographs, The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor was one of the most popular. The image reflected the spirit of the people united against British authority and in support of the New Republic."
Papers by Nathan M Moore
Sprin Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024
Memorializing Queen Elizabeth's progresses and their pageantry from the middle-to-late sixteenth ... more Memorializing Queen Elizabeth's progresses and their pageantry from the middle-to-late sixteenth through the early seventeenth centuries requires that we examine how her royalty was represented in Medievalist art and prose. Ceremonial displays of Elizabeth's aristocratic nobility included prayers, sermons, tribute tracts and ballads, sonnets, verse poems, personal letters, and brilliant speeches just to name a few of the major literary mediums. As Roy Strong wrote about in The Cult of Elizabeth, images were meant to be read, and the inscriptions placed on miniatures and portraits emphasized the significance of details in paintings. It became clear through the diverse speeches given at the Queen's hosted lodgings at various English cities that evoking as much symbolism one could in writing and reading would endear Elizabeth's pleasure, but it was not the only way of getting the Queen's attention. Gift-giving was a favorite practice. As such, creative symbolism and objects of devotion needed other means of demonstration, and this had especially shown up in literary motifs and mythology. In this paper, I argue that historians must recognize the ways orations and speeches worked as publicized letters during the pageantry of Elizabeth, making her court's progresses a means of political, social, and religious negotiations with representations of empire. These verbal acts of negotiation supplanted private relationships that predominated pre-Reformation England and made Elizabeth's Tudor, imperial authority over church and state more visceral in uniting ceremonial practices and promoting England.
International Journal of Culture and History, 2024
Finalizing a report on the findings of my Twitter research study effectively documented how recip... more Finalizing a report on the findings of my Twitter research study effectively documented how recipients of a poll survey reacted to questions about 5G. Reactions in the form of emoji likes and comments are only a minutia of social media's reach. The research question I used was: in what ways has 5G service affected your perception of cell phone carriers, cable, and internet providers since its inception? To answer that question accurate data had to be found utilizing a methodology known as sentiment analysis. As in any good academic research proposal, technical communication research methods must evolve to incorporate both machine learning and organic approaches. I hypothesized that by conducting manual Twitter polls to elicit responses it would provide enough organic information to rival the most robust AI-based sentiment analysis on how 5G was being branded in the marketplace for social media users. To fulfill my goal, I wanted to find out several important changes that had occurred since 2017; cell phone manufacturers' production; cell phone buyers' habits toward the same products; and the behaviors of customers who bought 5G concerning the older 4Glte band of phones or internet. Triangulation of Twitter data and sampling a general community, including using mixed research methods, would give enough empirical data. Between the strong opinions and lesser ones, seeing where there was parity in the research results codified a ubiquitous classification system needing modification.
ISRG Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2024
American intervention abroad took on varied forms of creative representation during the Cold War.... more American intervention abroad took on varied forms of creative representation during the Cold War. In the period from the 1950s through to the fall of the Soviet Union, a host of new and inventive platforms emerged promoting free expression in things like exhibitions, world fairs, literary works, and radio broadcasting. These are some of the focal points historians have studied in detail. They were wielded by the United States government as a tactic to shape the hearts and minds of international spectators. This historiographical essay addresses the set of arguments that historians have posited explaining how various elements of popular culture were employed as a psychological weapon. Furthermore, this paper argues that examples of psychological warfare in Europe like radio broadcasting and film in Asia created distinct interregional networks where the U.S. proliferated its Americanization agenda through corporate military partnerships. In many ways, historians of the Cultural Cold War make a case for these regional networks being the backbone of intelligence efforts in the U.S. and highlight how consumerism was intertwined with new archetypes of both business culture and military fanaticism. “Cultural Transfer” is a term that Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht defines along a spectrum of meanings, mostly as a way of depicting the diplomatic, cultural transmission of U.S. policy and products. Other historians like Christina Klein and Sangjoon Lee provide specific examples of American consumerism and modernity being deployed in art and technology throughout Asia. This overlap is underemphasized.
Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (GASJAHSS), 2024
Mutable and shifting, the changing nature of water management during the Middle Ages and Early Mo... more Mutable and shifting, the changing nature of water management during the Middle Ages and Early Modern period have sustained intervals of change that were both technological and, as often, social. The distinctions between public and private estates, or varied local groups versus centralized systems of governance highlighted the diffuse power of water as a spiritual metaphor. It also led to an obsession with circumnavigating Earth's waters enroute to the New World. The metaphysical embodiment of a Christian spirit can be juxtaposed with the physical human body as a position that enacts miracles to occur. Equally important is the paleoenvironmental impact that water played in developing ecological and agricultural patterns of development in Europe that began to implicate water management literature as a primary mode of economic development. From AD 400 onward, rapid transformations in social capital allowed groups in wet, marshy areas to form communities that had their hydrological structures away from the central authority. Social Baptism, as I here have defined, spread throughout Medieval Europe. However, as historians have demonstrated, it took time to develop unique social and technological traits that did not incorporate some standard or blueprint of governance that was infantile. In accordance, this paper will uncover and do more to prove that medieval water management, akin to Anabaptists, was a means of preserving evolving traditions that ultimately gave people a way of demonstrating a maturity of identity. They made new boundaries out of old practices, ousting with it paternalistic ritualism.
EON Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
Here is an examination of Chinese institutional change and why the debate necessitates a new appr... more Here is an examination of Chinese institutional change and why the debate necessitates a new approach toward studying global economic divergence, one which focuses on a separation of mathematical evaluations rather than technological advancement. Great Divergence discussions and debate are historiographical disciplines that examine state formation in East Asia and its cultural evolution in juxtaposition with parts of Western Europe. The advent of steam power and other technologies in production and transport allowed Britain and other parts of Europe to extend their momentum past Malthusian restraints and separate themselves from "poorer" countries, or so it was largely held in academic circles. But recently, the "California School" of historians like R. Bin Wong, Kenneth Pomeranz, and Andre Gunder Frank contend that China shared several surprising similarities in proto-industrial development with their Western counterparts throughout Eurasia as late as 1750. Dynamics of political, economic, and cultural change that have been taken up by historians of Early Modern industrialization favored a Eurocentric approach to history. So, who is right? My article will add impetus to a new argument by focusing on separate commentary from historians studying Europe's transition to an Arabic numeral system and China's insistence on traditional numeric methods. Modernity originated from a new abacus based on a ten-place system calculating numbers as large as 1027, the year some purport it to have first been taught in Europe. Contemporary literacy materials are built on similar education standards. Before 1815, state formation in Europe and China resembled each other because of this and in the years after, Big History settled what had been lost when Chinese labor migration and diaspora to the New World made a hybrid world economy unmistakable.
International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
Recognized by the National Park Service, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park area of N... more Recognized by the National Park Service, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park area of Natchitoches, Louisiana serves as a main intercultural backdrop of history as American, French, Spanish, and Native American traditions once occupied its banks. Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal Writers' Project, a byproduct of the New Deal documented new oral histories from the region. Nineteenth-century folklore from the Natchitoches Cane River area reveals that French, Cajun, and more importantly African influences cast allegories for the spiritual journey they interpreted. My paper uses African oral origin traditions in places like Natchitoches and elsewhere in colonial America to argue on behalf of a "Time Capsule Hypothesis" where forgetting history happens when the past is obscured and the future is apocalyptic. Preservation of landmark heritage sites through the Cane River's origin folklore, architecture, and ecological history become a new esoteric medium. Reminiscent structures, such as the famous Magnolia and Melrose plantations on the Cane River have preserved a different history that focuses on conservation and cooperation. For us to understand the history of Natchitoches, Louisiana requires a new perspective on historical memory and technological sublime topics merging oral history and esotericism into an ecological time machine of Natchitoches. Creole Catholics emerged from Louisiana archdioceses and Black Christians became free by transforming mythic identities in their present moment to embrace creativity, literature, and technological acumen over their environment.
Diamond Scientific Publishing, 2023
In 1960 Frank Drake began Project Ozma to collect deep-space radio transmissions and ignited deca... more In 1960 Frank Drake began Project Ozma to collect deep-space radio transmissions and ignited decades of advanced research in the years following within a new field, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. This paper's research question addresses a similar topic: what was the origin of the idea of CETI, or "communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence," and what is its relationship to some motifs of the cultural Cold War? The history of CETI and the SETI Institute organization, have been intertwined almost exclusively with the practice of radio astronomy. This thesis delves into both the scientific and social implications of the emergence of the concept of CETI and explores new methodologies of communicating with hypothetical extraterrestrial intelligence through international collaboration on issues such as disaster, social law, economics, and predictive modeling. My findings pointed to a Diplomatic Revolution and revealed parallels between the SETI Institute's search for ET and popular science fiction social systems, where depictions of the search for extraterrestrials by late pulp-fiction era writers by the 1990s made communicating with ETs part of global diplomatic goals between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc of nations. It was the carrying forward of the literary theme of "Future History" narratives that influenced the cultural Cold War by popularizing how authors, scientists, and the public could coordinate new diplomatic policies in anticipation of first contact.
Books by Nathan M Moore
Mill City Press/Xulon Press, 2021
At the start of 2086, tech-conglomerate Delphi Corp. slips into an alternate reality where an anc... more At the start of 2086, tech-conglomerate Delphi Corp. slips into an alternate reality where an ancient war between Reptilians & Greys threatens to destroy Earth. The firm’s supercomputer software is malfunctioning and when business tycoon & CEO Ellis Bartram realizes their blunder people around the country are already dead. The battle brewing on the other side pits Reptilians named Yhemlen – and Greys – against each other for survival. As the economic crisis worsens, a classified project arises in Washington, D.C. to fix the automated failures and put an end to the radioactive outbreak Delphi Corp. caused. Scientists delve into the Cloud source code using a Neural-Link, though what they discover is an alternate timeline on prehistoric Earth that forever alters their vision of the past. Once humans enter the fray, they are forced to solve an ancient mystery before their world is devoured.
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[Ship at right in a harbor, with Native Americans tossing crates off the ship into the water. Dock full of men-raising their hats]
"On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians and who called themselves the Sons of Liberty, boarded three ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Of the many important Revolutionary events captured by Currier & Ives in their lithographs, The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor was one of the most popular. The image reflected the spirit of the people united against British authority and in support of the New Republic."
Papers by Nathan M Moore
Books by Nathan M Moore
[Ship at right in a harbor, with Native Americans tossing crates off the ship into the water. Dock full of men-raising their hats]
"On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians and who called themselves the Sons of Liberty, boarded three ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Of the many important Revolutionary events captured by Currier & Ives in their lithographs, The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor was one of the most popular. The image reflected the spirit of the people united against British authority and in support of the New Republic."