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Hands on the Green Leaf Labor, Resistance, and Bittersweet Dwelling in Argentina's Yerba Mate Country.
(2015)
Hands on the Green Leaf is an ethnographic homage to the men, women, and children called tareferos (tarefer@s) who labor to produce yerba mate, the naturally bitter, green tea that is both symbolic drink and staple food ...
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 ...
Towards Energy Justice: A Multidimensional Analysis of Energy Poverty Recognition and Responses in the United States
(2021)
Energy justice frameworks and approaches build upon the foundation developed by environmental justice scholarship and activism to combat energy-related disparities. Disparities in access to modern energy services and ...
Global Media and Cultural Policy: The European Union and Audiovisual Industries in the Global South
(2019)
Recent initiatives by international organizations, NGOs, and national governments in the Global North have attempted to mitigate inequities in North-South media flows by funding film, TV, and new media production in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Race, Property, and Population Health: Examining Policy-Driven Patterns of Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Health Inequity in Metropolitan Detroit
(2021)
Trenchant health inequities between Black and White Americans persist in metropolitan areas in the Midwest and Northeast characterized by high levels of residential segregation and municipal fragmentation. The recalcitrance ...