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Geography, Partisanship, and the Politics of Group Threat.
(2015)
This dissertation project engages three broad themes in the political behavior literature. First, it addresses the question of political geography, and how the physical arrangement of individuals affects their political ...
Pathways to Sustainability: The Greening of US Faith Communities.
(2016)
Awareness of climate change and concerns about impacts on human communities have inspired activity within religious organizations as leaders call on people of faith to conserve resources, build more resilient communities, ...
"Making a Difference": Residential Learning Community Students' Trajectories Toward Promoting Social Justice.
(2016)
Preparing students to create a more just society is an increasingly important challenge in higher education. The beginning of students’ undergraduate years is often a pivotal time of transition because they may encounter ...
Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Changing the Core: Redefining Gaming Culture from a Female-Centered Perspective.
(2016)
In the mid-2000s, the spread of casual, social, and mobile games led researchers, journalists, and players to believe that video gaming was opening up to previously marginalized audiences, especially women. At the same ...
Institutional Support, Mentor Sponsorship, Department Climate, and Social Identities: Factors in Developing Academic Confidence of Doctoral Students.
(2016)
This dissertation examined the extent to which aspects of socialization in graduate school (i.e., institutional support, mentor sponsorship, and department climate), as well as individual factors (i.e., perceived importance ...
Exploring the Neural and Genetic Substrates of Reading Ability.
(2014)
The primary research goal of this dissertation was to combine multimodal neuroimaging data to investigate the neural and genetic substrates of reading ability. We evaluated structural and functional neural measures for ...
Attempting to Realize the Coordination and Continuous Improvement of Instruction.
(2015)
While the coordination and continuous improvement of instruction is the central goal of many US reforms, we know little about how to leverage the inevitable dynamics amongst formal guidance (e.g. standards, frameworks, ...
Beyond the Centerfold: Masculinity, Technology, and Culture in Playboy's Multimedia Empire, 1953-1972.
(2016)
This project utilizes Playboy as a case study for understanding changes in the configurations of white, middle class masculinity in the United States after World War II and draws attention to the role of media and entertainment ...
Accounting for Complex Sample Designs in Multiple Imputation Using the Finite Population Bayesian Bootstrap.
(2014)
Multiple imputation (MI) is a well-established method to handle item-nonresponse in sample surveys. Survey data obtained from complex sampling designs often involve features that include unequal probability of selection, ...