Actively writing from the mid-1800s until his death in 1881, Dostoevsky produced critically introspective works such as Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, …
Advances in Urban Science, particularly Urban Scaling Theory, have begun to uncover and explain urban dynamics shared by cities across time and place. This thesis …
My dissertation places rural-urban migrants at the center of an exploration of urban inequality by examining their success as urban residents in India. Along with …
This dissertation aims to understand the interplay between the rapid and simultaneous rise of urbanization and non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries, paying particular …
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 study examines an extraordinary citizenship project that helped transform the meanings of rights and democracy in twentieth-century São Paulo. It tells the story of …
One of the key contributions of environmental sociology is to decenter the anthropocentric view of the world and expand the analytical scope of sociology to …
This dissertation explores three topics related to urban growth and economic development. The first chapter asks how transport costs to a port affect the level …
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 …