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Essays in Development Economics
(Georgetown University, 2022)
In this dissertation, I study three topics in applied microeconomics and development economics. The first chapter, co-authored with Madhulika Khanna, examines how the marriage market responds to the flooding of the river ...
Repositioning the Rural: Contemporary Representations of Gender and Rurality in American Media and Memoir
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Drawing on scholarship in the burgeoning field of rural studies, this project examines contemporary representations of rurality and gender in American media and memoir. Rather than attempting to identify a single “authentic” ...
“Wait…IS MY HAIR ACTUALLY CURLY?!”: The Curly Girl Method and the Racial Significance of White Women’s Hair Care
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Our hair is loaded with racial meaning. Furthermore, the ability to drastically change the appearance of our hair with little effort makes it a “dynamic site of interpretation” (Biddle-Perry 1). This thesis explores the ...
Three Essays on Economics of Online Platforms
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This dissertation consists of three papers related to the economics of online platforms: one on e-commerce shipping, one on sports event attendance, and another on online concert ticket platforms.In the first chapter, we ...
“Are We Not Children Too?”: Race, Media, and the Formative History of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Children migrating without their parents journeyed to American shores long before the establishment of the United States—unaccompanied children traveled on the Mayflower, as well as on an untold number of slave ships. And ...
“In the Manner of the Beguines”: Regulating Beguine Life in the Low Countries, 1200-1600
(Georgetown University, 2021)
My dissertation examines normative sources for beguine communities. Beguines were participants in a female religious movement that developed through the Late Middle Ages and into the sixteenth century in the Low Countries ...
The Words That Matter: Terminology and Performance in the U.S. Army
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This dissertation explores the history and uses of U.S. military terminology, jargon, and buzzwords. Drawing on bureaucratic, sociological, and linguistic literatures, I build a theory for understanding the functional and ...
Networked Hegemonic Shocks: Hegemonic Transition and Post-Cold War Democratization
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The rise and fall of great powers produce a wave of regime changes. Why do some states take part in the wave but others do not? During the post-Cold War wave of democratization, for instance, why did some states become ...
Three Papers on Legislator Identity and the Politics of Paid Family and Medical Leave Policy in U.S. State Legislatures
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This dissertation advances research on the link between intersectional identity and legislative representation using the case of paid family and medical leave legislation, a race-gendered area of policy that has seen ...
Ciencia Y Empresa: Construyendo Aprendizajes. El Caso De Los Programas Cofinanciados Conicet-Empresas
(Georgetown University, 2021)
El objetivo general de la tesis es analizar el proceso de generación de aprendizajes que se produce a través de la incorporación de recursos humanos (RRHH) de alta calificación en empresas en el marco de los programas y ...