Ph.D. Dissertations 2011 - Present
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2018 |
Kurtz, Esther |
Moving and Sounding Towards Freedom: Capoeira Angola As a Practice of Afro-Brazilian Racial Consciousness |
Music |
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2018 |
Pagliarini, Andre |
“The Theater of Formidable Battles” The Struggle for Nationalism in Modern Brazil, 1955-1985 |
History |
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2018 |
Perez Perez, Jorge Eduardo |
Minimum Wages and Labor Market Policies |
Economics |
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2017 |
Gazzinelli, Gabriela G. |
O Leque na Pasta do Ministro: Artes Amatórias na Prosa de Ficção Brasileira do Século Dezenove |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2017 |
de Carteret, Alyce Michelle |
Building Communities: The Craft of Housebuilding among the Classic Maya |
Anthropology |
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2017 |
Alves Temperan, Guillermo J. |
Slum Growth in Brazilian Cities |
Economics |
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2017 |
Castillo Bejarano, Rafael |
La Aristocracia en el Parnaso: La Militancia Poética del Conde de Villamediana |
Hispanic Studies |
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2017 |
Nate, Andrea F. |
Celestina's Daughters: Conversa, Morisca, and "Old Christian" Descendants of the Medieval Iberian Go-Between |
Hispanic Studies |
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2017 |
Lotufo, Marcelo F. |
The Possible Nation: Romanticism in Brazil and Argentina |
Comparative Literature |
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2017 |
Graizbord, Diana B. |
Democratic Accountability and Its Discontents: Social Policy Evaluation Expertise in Mexico |
Sociology |
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2017 |
Mittelman, David |
Skepticism and the Limits of Knowledge in Modern Brazilian Narrative |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2017 |
Haley, Sandra K. |
Urban Pueblo: Gender, Ethnicity, and Work in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1920-1945 |
History |
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2017 |
Savell, Stephanie |
The Right to Policing: Violence and Security Reform in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro |
Anthropology |
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2017 |
Spera, Stephanie A. |
Drivers and Consequences of Lane Use Change Across the Brazilian Cerrado, 2000-2013 |
Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences |
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2016 |
Yana Stainova |
Violence and Violins: The Social Resonance of Classical Music in Venezuela |
Anthropology |
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2016 |
Annette Rodriguez |
Recognition of Social Murder: How Lynching Invented 'The Mexican' |
American Studies |
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2016 |
Heather Randell |
Hydropower and the Dynamics of Displacement: Forced Migration and Agricultural Livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon |
Sociology |
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2016 |
Rachel Nagy |
Ecological and Biogeochemical Consequences of Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon |
Biology |
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2016 |
Magnus Hansen |
Nahuatl Nation Language Revitalization and Indigenous Resurgence in Twenty-First Century Mexico |
Anthropology |
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2016 |
Diego Diaz |
Blessing and Curse: Positive and Negative Political Effects of Oil Wealth in the Argentine Provinces |
Political Science |
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2016 |
Tatiana Andia Rey |
Bureaucrats Against the State: The Making of Pharmaceutical Policy in Latin America |
Sociology |
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2015 |
Jazmín Sierra |
Partners at Home and Abroad: How Brazil Globalized State-Led Development |
Political Science |
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2015 |
Thayse Leal Lima |
Latino-Americanizando o Brasil: Intercâmbios Intelectuais e a Transnacionalização da Literatura Brasileira |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2015 |
Peter Taylor Klein |
The Struggle for Voice in Brazil's Democratic Development State: Participation, Protest, and the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Facility |
Sociology |
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2015 |
Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann |
Constructing the Caribbean: Regional Discourse and Literary Practice on the Edge of World War II |
Comparative Literature |
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2015 |
Mary Elizabeth Peterson |
Geochemistry of the Galápagos Archipelago: Unraveling Deep Mantle Signatures from the Influence of Shallow Level Processes |
Geological Sciences |
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2015 |
Andrea Elizabeth Flores |
Succeeders: Latino Youth Learning to Belong |
Anthropology |
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2015 |
Catalina Ocampo Londoño |
Critical Fictions in Latin America |
Comparative Literature |
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2015 |
Michael D. Rodríguez-Muñiz |
Temporal Politics of the Future: National Latino Civil Rights Advocacy, Demographic Statistics, and the "Browning" of America |
Sociology |
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2014 |
Maria Angélica Bautista Duarte |
The Political and Social Consequences of State-Led Repression: The Chilean Case |
Political Science |
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2014 |
Nicholas Poole Carter |
Kingship and Collapse: Inequality and Identity in the Terminal Classic Southern Maya |
Anthropology |
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2014 |
Iluminada Esther Hernández Medina |
Urban Regime Change and Citizen Participation in Urban Policies: Conflict, Collaboration, and Corporatism in Mexico City |
Sociology |
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2014 |
Kristin Joy Skrabut |
Extreme Lives: The Unruly Domestication of Peruvian Poverty |
Anthropology |
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2014 |
Kendra Christen Fehrer |
Generation Chavez: Participation and Citizenship in Post-Neoliberal Venezuela |
Anthropology |
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2014 |
Aleysia Kristine Whitmore |
Performing Pleasure: Africa and its Diaspora on the World Music Stage |
Ethnomusicology |
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2014 |
Emily M. Farris |
Latino Leadership in City Hall |
Political Science |
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2014 |
Domingo Morel |
The (Dis)Empowering State: State Intervention and Its Effect on Black and Latino Political Empowerment |
Political Science |
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2013 |
Polina Krylova Decker |
Borges and the Avant-garde: A Transatlantic Foundational Exchange, 1919-1923 |
Hispanic Studies |
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2013 |
Susan Helen Ellison |
Mediating Democracy in El Alto: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia |
Anthropology |
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2013 |
Shelby Hayhoe Riskin |
The Hydrological and Biogeochemcial Consequences of Conversion to Soybean Cultivation on the Amazonian Agricultural Frontier |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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2013 |
Isadora Grevan de Carvalho |
Fetishism as Structure, Image, and Performance in the Theater of Nelson Rodrigues |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2013 |
Arturo Alejandro Márquez Gómez |
Desastre y Desvío: Narrativas de la Catástrofe en Chile Contemporáneo |
Hispanic Studies |
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2013 |
Angelica Duran Martinez |
Criminals, Cops, and Politicians: The Dynamics of Drug Violence in Colombia and Mexico |
Political Science |
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2013 |
Sarah Jane Seidman |
Venceros Means We Shall Overcome: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1979 |
American Civilization/Studies |
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2013 |
Stephen M. Chambers |
The American State of Cuba: The Business of Cuba and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1797-1825 |
History |
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2013 |
James Alan Doyle |
The First Maya “Collapse”: The End of the Preclassic Period at El Palmar, Pretén, Guatemala |
Anthropology |
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2013 |
Jennifer Noel Costanza |
Constructing Indigenous Citizenship: Identity, Authority, and Rights in Decentralized Guatemala |
Sociology |
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2013 |
Kyle James Matthews |
Bodies of Evidence: The Grotesque Body and the Reconfiguration of Nation in Mexican Historiographic Metafiction |
Hispanic Studies |
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2013 |
Tiago Alexandre Miguel De Abreu Freire |
Essays in Applied Economics |
Economics |
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2013 |
Ezio Neyra Magagna |
Tres Dandis Ejemplares en Tiempos de Cambio: José Silva, Abraham Valdelomar, y Roberto de las Carreras |
Hispanic Studies |
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2013 |
María Pizarro Prada |
La Novela Policial Trasatlántica, una Pregunta por la Verdad (1975-2010) |
Hispanic Studies |
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2013 |
Daniel F. Silva |
Empire’s Individuals and the Reproduction of Imperial Meaning in Colonialism and Postcoloniality |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2013 |
Omar Pereyra |
Residencial San Felipe: Contemporary Latin American Middle-Class Groups Meet |
Sociology |
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2012 |
Geoffrey Amadeus Schullenberger |
Uncanny Influences: Freud, Argentina, and the Literary Uses of Paranoia |
Comparative Literature |
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2012 |
Azevedo Alves |
Coordinating Care: State Politics and Intergovernmental Relations in the Brazilian Healthcare Sector |
Political Science |
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2012 |
Lamonte Aido |
Dissident Desires: Race, Sex, and Abolition in Nineteenth Century Brazilian Literature |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2012 |
Stephan Anthony Bocskay |
Voices of Samba: Music and Brazilian Racial Imaginary, 1955-1988 |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2012 |
María D. Villanúa |
O Escritor no Palco: Representação e Performance em Três Romances Brasileiros Contemporâneos |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2012 |
Christopher Laurence Gibson |
Civilizing the State: Civil Society and the Politics of Primary Public Health Care Provision in Urban Brazil |
Sociology |
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2012 |
Daniella Witten Bush |
Words that Speak, Literature that Acts: Diamela Eltit’s Narrative Performances |
Hispanic Studies |
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2012 |
Daniel Clifford Piper |
Urbanization, Gender, and the Culture Emergence in the Music of Dominican Popular Religion: Palos and Salves in San Cristóbal |
Ethnomusicology |
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2012 |
Ligia Margarita Brandt Sanchez |
Functional Roles of Biodiversity in the Galápagos Marine Reserve |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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2012 |
Cassandra L. Mesick |
The Culture of Construction: Architectural Technology and Building Practices among the Classic Period Maya |
Anthropology |
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2012 |
Erin Elizabeth Beck |
Transformation Through Participation? The Micropolitics of Microcredit in Rural Guatemala |
Political Science |
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2012 |
Julia Hilary Garner |
After the Earthquake: Literary Responses to Catastrophe in Mexico City, 1985-2000 |
Hispanic Studies |
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2012 |
José Ramón Ortiz Castillo |
El Cancionero Hagiográfico de Jesús Malverde. Corridos de un Culto Paracatólico |
Hispanic Studies |
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2012 |
Jorge Luis Terukina Yamauchi |
Retórica, Ciencia e Imperialismo en Grandeza Mexicanna (1604) de Bernardo de Balbuena |
Hispanic Studies |
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2012 |
Sara Christina Fingal |
Turning the Tide: The Politics of Land and Leisure on the California and Mexican Coastlines in the Age of Environmentalism |
History |
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2012 |
Carmen Patricia Saucedo Segami |
La Literatura de la Violencia Política en el Perú (1980-2000): Planteamientos Narrativos y Opciones Éticas |
Hispanic Studies |
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2012 |
Cecilia Perla |
Extracting from the Extractors: The Politics of Private Welfare in the Peruvian Mining Industry |
Political Science |
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2012 |
Celso Miguel Luis Moreto Villegas |
Revolution “from the Middle”: Class Power, Democracy, and Middle-Class Narratives in the Philippines, Venezuela, and Ecuador |
Sociology |
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2012 |
Mongoljin Batsaikhan |
Essays on Small and Micro Enterprises |
Economics |
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2011 |
Fulya Apaydin |
Partisan Choices and Post-Fordist Transformations: The Politics of Human Capital Formation in Turkey and Argentina, 1990-2000 |
Political Science |
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2011 |
Kathleen Marie Millar |
Reclaiming the Discarded: The Politics of Labor and Everyday Life on Rio's Garbage Dump |
Anthropology |
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2011 |
Oscar C. Pérez |
Travel, Consciousness, and Self-Narrative in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Triangle |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2011 |
Guilherme Trielli Ribeiro |
Circo Trancendental: O Circo Místico na Poesia de Jorge de Lima, nas Canções de Edu Lobo e Chico Buarque e na Cultura Brasileira |
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies |
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2011 |
Ana Margarida Fernandes Esteves |
Grassroots Mobilization, Co-Production of Public Policy, and the Promotion of Participatory Democracy by the Brazilian Solidarity Economy Movement |
Sociology |
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2011 |
Jennifer Lynne Ashley |
Televising Exclusion: Democracy, Activism, and Urban Politics in Chile |
Anthropology |
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2011 |
Eduardo Moncada |
Politics, Business and Violence: Urban Security in Colombia (1988-2008) |
Political Science |
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2011 |
Stella Aslibekyan |
Genetic and Lifestyle Predictors of Nonfatal Myocardial Infarction in the Costa Rica Study |
Epidemiology |
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2011 |
Loza Mireya |
Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program |
American Civilization/Studies |
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2011 |
Eric David Larson |
Anxieties of Empire: Class, Race, Nation, and the Roots of the Anti-Neoliberal Globalization Movement in the U.S. and Mexico, 1987-2003 |
American Civilization/Studies |
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2011 |
Gabriela Sánchez Soto |
The Effects of International Migration on the Educational Attainment and Educational Mobility of Youth in Mexico |
Sociology |
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2011 |
Kelly Elizabeth Bay |
Does Participatory Governance Deliver? Citizen Participation and Social Service Delivery in Nicaragua |
Political Science |
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2011 |
Caitlin R. Chazen |
Holocene climate evolution of the eastern tropical Pacific told from high resolution climate records from the Peru margin and equatorial upwelling regions |
Geological Sciences |
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2011 |
Natalia Matta Jara |
Historia y Modernidad en El Perú: Mestizaje y Utopía Andina en La Narrativa Histórica Contemporánea |
Hispanic Studies |
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2011 |
Silvia Goldman |
Después de la Interdicción: La Poesía y la Recuperación de la Palabra en la Postdictadura Sudamericana (1980-2005) |
Hispanic Studies |
Last updated on 02/23/2018.