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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 ...
Implementing Obamacare: Intergovernmental Battles Over the Creation of Health Insurance Exchanges.
(2014)
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) implementation has been marked by deep political division. Health insurance exchanges were a provision expected to elude controversy given their history of Republican support and since states ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...