My dissertation uses the lens of migration to examine the relationship between mobility and migrant social networks for the black population of South Africa. It …
This dissertation investigates the way constructions of Americanism enforced heterosexuality in America. Starting in the Red Scare of 1919, and persisting through the 1920s, American …
Sexual reproduction of eukaryotic species provides an adaptive advantage over organisms that replicate asexually. Many genes essential for sex have been identified in the model …
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 …
This dissertation enriches our understanding of gender and religion in the African Muslim world. I illuminate this intertwining of gender and religion by investigating how …
This dissertation examines the claim that a so-called "explosion of gay visibility" occurred during the 1990s. I question the assertion that the increasing inclusion of …
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, …
There is a general consensus that rising unauthorized migration is a significant policy concern for governments across the globe. Yet, and despite increasing migration within …
This dissertation examines the constitutive relation of gender and performance to knowledge production in the genetic sciences in twentieth and twenty-first century US. In recent …
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 …
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 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 dissertation recovers the experiences of women in arms by investigating their representations during the Italian Risorgimento. An analysis of their experience can illuminate the …
This project offers a revision to the social historiography of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. Due to the increase in gendered and sexualized rhetoric …