This dissertation analyzes literary representations of Brazilian public works to explore questions about power and narrative. It explores how, from the 1900s through the 1970s, …
Making decisions often requires quick and intuitive assessments of the likelihood of unobserved events. People make such judgments with little effort, quickly and systematically. The …
A colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dot (QD), representing a solid state "artificial atom", is an attractive test bed for light-material interaction, as well as for …
Working at the intersection of queer studies and public history, Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics focuses on queer archives in …
This dissertation asks how structured, local communication among consumers affects markets where those consumers interact with firms who would like to sell to them, when …
This thesis is a mathematical and statistical study of conditional modeling and conditional inference. Two applications are covered: (1) Stock Prices and the Statistics of …
The dissertation focuses on nonviolent action in global politics and responds to the following puzzle: how can we confront wrongs--such as violence and injustice--powerfully and …
This dissertation investigates the conditions under which communities influence land development. To do so, I examined surprising apparent triumphs of local "community power" over controversial …