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 …
Intimate relationships are important social relationships for adults, yet research on dating and sex rarely focuses on the experiences of racialized women from immigrant families. …
Background: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective biomedical HIV prevention method first introduced in the South African public sector in 2012 to MSM and sex …
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 dissertation argues that nineteenth-century Americans built the preconditions needed for a mathematical economy to emerge in the early twentieth century. When Americans debated what …
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 permanently shifted the nation’s political scene, but its success is debated. My dissertation project addresses the question of how Mexico’s …
This dissertation examines the processes that drive ethnic minority women from the Northeast Region of India to migrate to Bangalore and the transformations they undergo …
What was the secret life of concubines? Modern media defines concubines by their private sexual roles and depicts concubinage as a deeply emotional act that …
This dissertation examines how the food, advertising, and media industries have constructed masculinities through food in the twenty-first-century United States, particularly when attempting to create …
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 …
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 presents the history of the bills of mortality and women searchers of the dead from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in England. …
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 forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
In the United States, professors at research universities routinely make hiring decisions about their peers. This study asks, how do elite research professors justify hiring …
This dissertation analyzes the cultural politics of women’s care labors in America, tracing these politics through the 20th- and 21st-century United States. It devotes a …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of human milk banking at Hospital Agostinho Neto in Praia, Cabo Verde. In 2011, Cabo Verde inaugurated its first …
My doctoral dissertation focuses on representations of the family as a patriarchal institution in the works of two female writers: French author Marie NDiaye and …
This study explores the historical lack of an affirmative discourse of matrimonial sexuality in Russian Orthodoxy and religious thought. The study makes the case that …
This dissertation attends to an emergent empirical puzzle. Contrary to the overarching rollback of social welfare assistance that has characterized the U.S. public sector over …