Using official reports, academic studies, journalistic and literary sources, and original maps from census data, this study investigates Chicago's "riot zone" where most of the …
Since its inception and establishment as a field, research of gender in American politics has primarily focused on women that run for office, and subsequently, …
The studies presented in this dissertation describe and apply methods for using biplanar videoradiography to study dynamic in vivo knee motion. The techniques presented in …
“The Melodramatics of Queer Race” is an investigation of media and performance forms dismissed as “minor”—melodramatic, trashy, or kitschy—and their re-valuations by queerly racialized subjects. …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the recent emergence of the phenomenon of women’s drumming in postcolonial West Africa through the lens of Ewe …
Developmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) constitute a growing part of the associational landscape in the Global South, sparking debates about their contributions to development and democracy. …
This thesis examines the corpus of stories about the first empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Heureuse Dessalines, who reigned from 1804 to 1806. Existing narratives about …
This dissertation is a regionally centered study of black popular religion and music in the Dominican Republic. Salves and palos performance are described and interpreted …
This thesis will focus on the experiences of Mexican American migrant working children throughout the U.S. from the 1940s to the 1980s. The central argument …
This senior thesis project explores the complicated intersection of food and culture, diabetes, biopower, and identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an endocrinology clinic …