This dissertation interrogates the evolution of the most ambitious phase of rights-based welfare expansion in post-colonial India and its effects on local governance and civic …
Abstract of “The Anatomy of Suspense: Rethinking the Victorian Bildungsroman” by Suzy Soomin Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2023 This dissertation argues that the British …
This dissertation reconceives what is known as “the environmentalism of the poor” for the purpose of cultivating a non-dualistic approach to nature and promoting environmental …
What can the inner processes and infrastructures of media-making reveal and defy about dominant understandings of how media is political? And if this media is …
This thesis investigates the intricate relationship between aerial predation, locomotion, and the unintended ecological consequences of human-made structures. Chapter one explores the predatory pursuit behavior …
Abstract of “Contributions to the Relationship Between Circadian Rhythm Protein Dysfunction and Epilepsy—CLOCK and the PAR bZIP Transcription Factors” by Luis Antonio Goicouria, Ph.D., Brown …
This dissertation draws attention to the religious lives of Ming eunuchs, who, despite their active engagement in religious activities during the late Ming era, have …
The Online Processing of Dynamics Model (OPoD) offers a compelling alternative explanation for the perception of mass and the motor object bias. In contrast to …
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexual- and gender-expansive (LGBTQIA+) people experience numerous, multilevel barriers to sexual and reproductive health care access. …
Alcohol is the most used and abused psychoactive substance globally, yet our understanding of how it alters brain function and behavior is incomplete. For centuries …
This dissertation examines the discourses and silences around blackness in the ever-shifting frontier territory of the United States, arguing against narratives that figure the West …
Introduction: Hookah smoking is considered by many Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian individuals to be a cultural tradition. However, research on the cultural …
The adoption of cloud services is on the rise, with both personal and corporate data being stored on third-party server databases. In order to protect …
Black Studies Beyond the Knowledge of Man constructs a critical genealogy of the U.S. scholastic formation of Black Studies, toward a new account of its …
Macrophages have garnered much attention in recent years for their vast array of non-canonical functions, beyond being sentinel immuno-modulatory cells. These functions can be broadly …
How do humans learn to adaptively function in a fundamentally uncertain social world? Since we cannot directly observe the contents of other people’s minds, the …
Studying events that are rare on chemically-relevant timescales is critical for understanding how physical systems evolve. At the level of many-particle systems, collective non-reactive interactions …
In this dissertation, I untangle how racialization affects the imagination. I ask, "How are visions of the future constructed, reconfigured, and implemented?" Contemporary debates in …
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are a crucial tool for watershed analysis, offering valuable insights into landscape-scale hydrology. Traditional watershed delineations are derived by filling a …
Molecular data storage offers the intriguing possibility of higher theoretical density and longer lifetimes than today’s electronic memory devices. Despite incredible technological progress, worldwide electronic …
