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 ...
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” ...
In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the term “empowerment” (empoderamiento) is conceptualized and utilized by various actors in the HIV/AIDS community in Guatemala City. My desire to explore this theme stems from ...
Shanghai’s International Settlements are commonly seen as a integral part of both China’s and the West’s combined history, a unique point of contact that has most famously been viewed as one of the main stages on which the ...
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 ...