This thesis examines the interactions between Latin and Eastern Christians in the period between the calling of the First Crusade in 1095 and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 through Latin chronicles and letters. ...
In 2013, the number of charter schools in the United States topped 6,000, with enrollment exceeding more than 2.3 million students. Charters, which are privately run but publicly funded schools of choice, were founded with ...
This paper uses an econometric model to quantify the relationship between appearing on The Colbert Report and increases in political campaign donations. Using a fixed effects approach on a data set of 64 political candidates ...
In this paper I examine the political songs of Chilean poet and ethnomusicologist Violeta Parra. I propose that, throughout her career, Parra develops a mode of narration that is explicitly feminine. Over time, this narration ...
In my thesis, I examine how Birdie’s existence, action, and environment all make the case that any kind of racial utopia will not erase race but embrace it. Specifically, it will embrace blackness, the essential “mixed” ...
The 1692 biography of the Indian slave and religious figure Catarina de San Juan by her confessor Juan Castillo Grajeda constructs a vision of Catarina, and by proxy Asians in New Spain, as inherently servile and humble, ...
In this paper, we seek to confirm whether or not changes in growth of research and development (R&D) subsidies to the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) industry cause increases in growth of patents in that industry. Using ...
This paper examines the role that racial bias plays in The War on Drugs. Today, more African American men are under correctional control than were enslaved in the year 1850 largely due to the highly racialized police ...
Major League Umpires make several hundred calls per game and have significant effects on the performance of players. This research investigates whether Major League Baseball umpires make calls based on racial preferences. ...
This paper investigates whether salary discrimination on the basis of race exists in Major League Baseball. To answer this question, free agent contracts from 2012-2015 are analyzed. The dependent variable, which is the ...
This project examines the early years (1824-1833) of the American free produce movement in northern cities. Free produce supporters utilized boycotts of slave goods and the substituted consumption of goods made with free ...
In my thesis, I consider common critical readings of The Sun Also Rises, which attribute a sense of resolution and catharsis to the novel's ending and, in the process, propound a reductive reading of Lady Brett Ashley as ...