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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 ...
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 ...
Legal Rules, Legal Reasoning, and Nonmonotonic Logic
(2014)
This dissertation develops, justifies, and examines the jurisprudential implications of a non-monotonic theory of common law legal reasoning. Legal rules seem to have exceptions but identifying all of them is difficult. ...
Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-Variables Regressions.
(2016)
This dissertation addresses two problems. First, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability ...
Corporate Impersonation: The Possibilities of Personhood in American Literature, 1886-1917.
(2015)
This dissertation analyzes the ways in which certain U.S. novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century engaged with the problem of the corporation, a form of business organization that had become ascendant ...
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 ...
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 ...