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Family Matters: Citizenship and Marriage in India, 1939-72.
(2015)
India’s system of separate Hindu, Muslim, and Christian family laws is often cast as a threat to national unity. In contrast, I argue that Indian law was structured by the emphasis of English law on preserving the marriage ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roma Integration and Institutional Practices with Roma/Gypsies in Postsocialist Hungary
(2020)
This dissertation explores the concept of Roma integration and the practices in a range of different institutions with Roma/Gypsies in the first three decades of the postsocialist period in Hungary as a framework for ...
Petitioning the Mandates: Anti-colonial and Anti-racist Publics in International Law
(2017)
This dissertation is the first systematic legal-historical study of how transnational anticolonial and antiracist solidarity movements shaped the international law of non-state activism in the Mandates System of the League ...