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Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Urban Politics and America's Homeless Crisis
(2019)
Chronic homelessness has severe implications for health disparities. Black Americans are four times as likely and Hispanic Americans are two times more likely to experience homelessness compared to white Americans (Fusaro, ...
Barriers to Democracy: Voter Suppression and the Mobilization of Black Voters
(2023)
The United States is a representative democracy, meaning that citizens vote to elect officials who represent them at the state level (i.e., house of representatives and senate), in the electoral college, and at the executive ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
Toward a Just Work Law: Exit Options, Relationships, and Regulation.
(2014)
My dissertation comprises three inter-related chapters, all of which explore the nature of work law and critically analyze the prevailing emphasis on matters of contract.
The Escape Plans of Mill and Jefferson: I discuss ...
Dynamic Commitment Problems and Military Effectiveness: Resolve, Adaptation, and Flexibility in the Use of Force
(2021)
This dissertation explores the causes and consequences of military commitment problems and evaluates how they impact military effectiveness. Military organizations regularly encounter dynamic, heterogenous environments in ...
Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership
(2021)
In the face of daunting environmental challenges, leadership in the development of environmental policy may be more important now than ever. While some countries are willing to devote substantial time and resources to ...
Spatializing the Knowledge Economy: The Campus as a Discursive Project, Parallel Project, and More-than-Institutional Project
(2023)
In contrast to the normative scholarly and professional expectation that the university’s spatialization be tightly coupled with its institutional purposes and prerogatives, this dissertation posits that the institution ...
The Identity of Evidence: Documentary Evidence in the Federal Acknowledgement Process.
(2014)
In the Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) indigenous groups submit 1000s of documents as evidence to prove they satisfy seven mandatory acknowledgment criteria established at 25 C.F.R. § 83.7. Despite a broad consensus ...
Young Families in the Community: An Exploratory Analysis of Child Welfare Contact Among Young Mothers and their Children
(2020)
The dominant frame in the literature regarding pregnancy and parenting among women with a history of child welfare contact is that of teen pregnancy as social crisis. This project reconsiders the issue of pregnancy and ...
Guiding the Hand of God: The Influence of State Involvement in Religion on Religionational Identity
(2019)
Religion remains a core component of political identity in many countries despite predictions that religious identity would decrease in importance as part of political identity in the modern era. The degree to which religious ...