Dissertations

Recent Dissertation Titles

Anthropology

Derivative States: Property Rights and Claims-making in a Non-self-governing Territory

Discerning Value: Taste as an Economic Fact

Gender Structures and Stratification in Prehistoric Northwest and Central-West Europe: 1500 BCE-800 CE

Inhabiting One’s Skin: An Ethnography of Body and Color in a North Indian City

No Refuge in Return: Interruptions of Home and Care for Veterans on Pine Ridge

The Eighth Continent: An Ethnography of 21st Century Euro-American Plans to Settle the Moon

Economics

Distribution & Growth in PoliticallyContested Economies: Measurement and Applications in Palestine

Does Gentrification Contribute to Homelessness? A Study of Family Shelter Entry Across New York City, 2005-2015

Essays on Labor Mobility and Segmentation

Identity Conflict and Functional Income Distribution: Essays on Gender, Class Solidarity and the Wage-Profit Frontier

Prebisch and Singer in a Global Value Chains World: Essays on Manufacturing and Commodities Terms of Trade

Retirement Wealth Inequality: A Critical and Institutional Review

Philosophy

Automatism is a Humanism: Cavell, Medium, and Modernism

Family Portraits: Political Theology of Kinship

A Genealogical Reading of Wittgenstein

The Revolution Must Be Funny: The Liberatory and Revolutionary Power of Comedy

Pregnancy Beyond the Natural

Passivity: Essays in Ontology and Ethics

Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: Theory and Critique in the Marxist and Post-Marxist Traditions

Politics

The Dynamics of Whiteness: Race and the Science of Energy from the Plantation to Cybernetics

The Boundary Problem of The People: A Democratic Theory of Constituent Power

From Mental Disorder to Emotional Data: The Changing Terrain of Sexual Politics

Humanity and Its Others: Antislavery, Islam and Humanitarianism in the Nineteenth Century

A Study of Dramatization in the Critical Thought of Machiavelli and Marx

Politics of Dualism: A Study of Active Labor Market Policies in South Korea

Social Movements and Earthbound People: Towards a New Politics of the Earth in the Anthropocene

Psychology—Clinical

The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

Boredom is Polarizing: The Effects of Boredom on Ideological Extremes

Envisioning Others: A Study of Fetal Sex Determination and Compulsory Cisnormativity in the United States

The Interplay of Sociocultural Context, Parenting, and Intergenerational Maltreatment in a Sample of Latina Mothers

Master of Your Domain? On the Relationship Between Trauma, the Body, and the Sense of Agency

Out of Ivory Towers and into Refugee Camps: Providing Refugees with Accessible Resources on the Biological and Psychological Effects of Forced Migration

The REARING Coding System (RCS): Development of a Competence Coding System for the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI)

Taoist Cognitive Group Therapy

Psychology—Cognitive, Social, and Developmental

Assessment of Victim Vulnerability from Voice

Social Identity and Public Event Memory: The Role of Event-centrality in Event Memory Formation and Maintenance Preverbal Infants’ Expectations about Group Membership and Valenced Social Behaviors

Speech Production and the Language Neural Network: The Critical Role of White Matter as Evidenced by the Study of Early-Onset Multiple Sclerosis

Virtual Reality: A Computer- Generated Empathy Pill?

Sociology

Adjoining Glass Castles: Privacy and Publicity in Corporate Social Media

Almost Sovereign: Independence and Indeterminacy in the New Republic of Kosovo

On the Cusp of Legitimacy: Professionalization in the Field of Astrology

Digital Dissidence and Internet Law: Mapping the Political Process of the Gezi Resistance and its Legal Aftermath

Internationalization Alive: International Student Experiences, Higher Education Policy and the Imagination of Brazil in the Global Knowledge Economy

“I Don’t Look the Way Those People Look”: Women, Social Class and Prescription Opioid Misuse

Shattering the Everyday, Rearranging the Ordinary: The Categories, Temporalities, and Spatial Dimensions of the Villas de Salvarcar Massacre