As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
This dissertation explores the political, cultural and social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I period - their greatest moment of class …
My dissertation entitled, "Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program," focuses on the historically largest guest worker program …
This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
This dissertation provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
"The Wages of Empire" asserts that white union workers found the material, cultural and psychological “compensation” of racist privilege through their support of U.S. imperialism …
This dissertation uses original data from Ghana to show evidence of three barriers to the productivity, growth and success of small firms. Chapter 1 explores …