While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and the news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in …
Bangladesh has been globally recognized as a “development” success for its rapid improvement in maternal health, gender parity in education, and economic growth, with women's …
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 …
Sociology tends to see modern citizenship as the result of class struggle, or as a liberal ideal, highlighting the promises of civility and integration. Often …
The main goal of this dissertation is to explore differentiated citizenships within the urban poor in India. This research is based on the assumption that …
In 1988, social movement struggles for re-democratization in Brazil succeeded in enshrining a new constitution that promised universal and equal access to public health care …
Credit and creditworthiness are increasingly consequential in the global North and South alike. For over 139 million people, many of whom are excluded from mainstream …
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
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 …
For non-white South Africans, the implications of apartheid reached well beyond racial segregation. Racial disparities were also embedded in the allocation of public investment across …
Through an analysis of documents from Ottoman and American state archives, newspaper and journal publications, and non-governmental organization reports from the period 1878 to 1928, …
Policy in a number of advanced industrial states has a tendency to alternate in the long run between consistent support for price competition and consistent …
My research addresses the fundamental question of why certain socio-economic development projects take hold in a given context among competing alternatives. The dissertation investigates the …
This dissertation explores three distinct case studies of transnational networks advocating for ‘climate justice’—a vision to abate the unequal burdens created by climate change and …
This dissertation is an inquiry into the institutional shifts in the practice of development, that is, the ideational regimes that dominate development at particular moments …
Environmental hazards are ubiquitous in contemporary society, but little sociological attention has been paid to how competing stakeholders define, evaluate, and act upon the risks …
The agricultural development community shares a commitment to market-led agricultural growth, achieved through connecting the poor to markets and expanding the role of private sector …
This dissertation examines how the Mexican Executive created cohorts of bureaucrats in indigenous affairs during the 20th century, and how those bureaucrats articulated specific identities …
As climate change ravages the globe, efforts to adapt communities to climate impacts are becoming urgently needed. Bangladesh is globally recognized as a place where …
While many Indian cities have slums, the quality and access of basic services available to slum residents varies. This thesis focuses on the dynamics behind …