In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …
Dementia is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative condition characterized by deterioration in cognition and memory, progressive impairment in the ability to carry out activities of daily …
The first part of the thesis presents the surface respresentation of blood vessel walls extracted from medical images, sensitivity to the inlet/outlet boundary conditions, and …
My dissertation investigates the role of aesthetic experimentation in the creation of a Caribbean idiom. This comparative study draws on contemporary narrative texts from Martinique, …
This dissertation adopts a transatlantic frame of reference to argue that literary representations of local community shaped cultural identity in colonial British America and the …
This study concentrates on the court practices of circulation and exchange of objects between Portugal and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as between Portugal and other …
Recent development of biomarker-based paleoclimate proxies provides new analytical capabilities through which paleoenvironmental change can be inferred. Here, I explore the utility of these organic …
This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
Conventional narratives of the Republican Party's relationship to the welfare state emphasize the themes of retrenchment and devolution. My research reveals, on the contrary, the …
This dissertation analyzes literary representations of Brazilian public works to explore questions about power and narrative. It explores how, from the 1900s through the 1970s, …
Making decisions often requires quick and intuitive assessments of the likelihood of unobserved events. People make such judgments with little effort, quickly and systematically. The …
A colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dot (QD), representing a solid state "artificial atom", is an attractive test bed for light-material interaction, as well as for …
Working at the intersection of queer studies and public history, Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics focuses on queer archives in …
This dissertation asks how structured, local communication among consumers affects markets where those consumers interact with firms who would like to sell to them, when …
This thesis is a mathematical and statistical study of conditional modeling and conditional inference. Two applications are covered: (1) Stock Prices and the Statistics of …
The dissertation focuses on nonviolent action in global politics and responds to the following puzzle: how can we confront wrongs--such as violence and injustice--powerfully and …
This dissertation investigates the conditions under which communities influence land development. To do so, I examined surprising apparent triumphs of local "community power" over controversial …