Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
The HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is both invisible and ubiquitous: seemingly indiscernible on one's face and undetectable within a population, and pervasive in its …
This dissertation connects two seemingly contradictory trends that emerged across the twentieth century: the gradual liberalization of sexual prohibitions and the mounting force of a …
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 …
Black women experience discrimination through their intersecting identities of race, class, and gender (Crenshaw 1993). Despite previous studies utilizing an intersectional frame they still present …
Interwar family magazines formed a novel category of consumption, moreover, one that transformed social practices around reading. The seeds of Japan's postwar love affair with …
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 employs contemporary dress theory to reappraise narratives concerning the construction of normative gender roles that appear in Homeric, Classical, and Hellenistic sources. My …
Démasquer la femme au XVIIème siècle: remise en cause de la personne féminine dans les nouvelles historiques examines the unexpected reconceptualization of personhood in feminine …
This dissertation tackles gender-based price discrimination, education, and child well-being. Chapter 1 conducts a field experiment to identify gender-based discrimination and how it varies with …
This dissertation evaluates disparities in economic outcomes by gender and ethnicity, with a focus on the underlying causes and the policies that can be used …
Abstract of "Expanding the Realm of the Possible: Gender and Crypto-Judaism in Seventeenth-Century New Spain" by Michele J. Mericle, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. This …
This dissertation is a study of structures, images and performance of fetishism as cultural and literary strategies in the theater of Nelson Rodrigues. It explores …
This dissertation uses a life course perspective to investigate migration and marriage as separate and inter-related life events. It explores the gendered nature of migration …
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease which impacts 8.4% of children in the United States. Group differences in asthma prevalence and severity are pervasive, including …
This dissertation takes up the question, who is Halakhic Woman? Joseph Soloveitchik’s elegant and influential work Halakhic Man describes what it is like to be …
