During the 1960s era of decolonization, the Chinese and Tanzanian governments framed the close relationship between them in the relational language of anti-imperial “friendship.” The …
In this dissertation, I examine issues of ethnic engineering, interethnic tensions and social problems through a story of Meskhetian Turks, a group that was subjected …
According to the numbers, Peru’s economy is growing rapidly with poverty rates declining apace. Yet Peruvians themselves remain skeptical of this success. They argue that …
The patriarchal Italian father surrounded by his many bambini hardly exists anymore in today's Italy. Although stereotyped as proud of their traditions and ingrained in …
During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s nearly fifteen years in office, he was both celebrated as a revolutionary hero and vilified as an autocratic populist. The …
This dissertation is about changing perspectives on marriage, family relations, and work life among older Italian women in their mid fifties to late sixties. These …
This dissertation traces how obesity developed as an acknowledged social problem in India. Although public health officials estimate that chronic diseases such as obesity and …
This dissertation traces how "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR) traveled from corporate boardrooms, World Bank policy conferences, the U.S. State Department, and Harvard Negotiation Program to …
This dissertation explores the ways in which individuals and groups create and recreate their personal and collective histories, the membership boundaries of their group, and …
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 …