Through a study of the 1973 collapse of the world’s largest fishery, the Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens), my dissertation provides demonstrates that marginalized groups win …
Political sociologists have spent more time investigating how charismatic leaders gain support than how they lose it. How do charismatic leaders espousing decolonization and a …
This dissertation is an "extended case study" of the Solidarity Economy movement in Brazil and its attempt to promote the empowerment of the bottom layers …
As cities across the Global South continue to urbanize, developing the state capacity necessary to provide basic services and infrastructure to growing urban populations has …
Abstract of “Empire, Democracy, State, and Nation: Sociological Occlusions of the German and Russian Empires” by Juho Korhonen, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2019 Contrary to …
When asked to picture a Peace Corps volunteer, most of us summon to mind earnest young people—inexperienced, perhaps, but passionate and energetic. We imagine them …
Citizenship is a pertinent issue in our time, when questions of statelessness, rightlessness, and the deprivation of humanity have once again resurfaced in face of …
Why does the quality of public childcare services, even when they are ostensibly standardized, vary significantly across neighborhoods? I examine this using the case of …
Despite the increasing presence of formerly excluded ethnoracial populations in state spaces across the Americas, research seldom investigates how race shapes their experiences within the …