Extensive work in educating funders about community organizing; strategic thinker about what new capacities community organizations need to develop. Began at Mass Fair Share; Florida …
Contrast between organizing farmers in a highly rural area versus building organizations in urban centers; working as an independent organization versus within a structured network …
The main goal of this dissertation is to explore differentiated citizenships within the urban poor in India. This research is based on the assumption that …
This dissertation explores transformations in citizenship among indigenous people in Guatemala. It investigates how and why decentralization has responded to indigenous activists’ demands for reconfiguring …
This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow …
How do the lenders and borrowers of microfinance negotiate the often-divergent ethics of financial sustainability and locally constituted obligations of social relationships? The dissertation is …
Dailey overviews challenges and successes of community organizing at the several organizations she has worked with. Her early interests around domestic civil rights, global economies, …
Abstract of Development and Evolution of Scyphomedusae, by Rebecca R. Helm, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016. Scyphozoan jellyfish are important members of marine ecosystems. Jellyfish, …
Discussions around international development generally focus on whether, and why, interventions achieve their goals of improving health, political engagement or economic opportunity in poor countries. …
Highlighted the challenge of building a base for an advocacy campaign with a small constituency; difficulty of isolation when not connected to other organizers or …