Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Ame…
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This paper examines the history of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre during the 1980s and 1990s as a forum for the expression of a pan-Latinx identity. The paper draws on two different strands of evidence: plays that were produced and/or written during the period in question an…
Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation, explores how choreographers and theater artists in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City used time and space to involve their audiences experientially in the project of grieving and rebuilding in th…
As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, wildlife species will have to adjust to living in heterogenous landscapes altered by human development, or risk becoming extirpated from them. For carnivores, public attitudes towards them can influence where they can live and how big…
Studies have suggested that religiously oriented individuals are most disposed to seeking help for their mental health conditions from religious leaders such as the clergy rather than mental health professionals. As a result, the clergy play very significant roles in mental heal…
Indebted to Growth explores how local public finance decisions made between the Gilded Age and the Great Depression laid the foundation for white suburbanization, spatial inequality, and urban fiscal strains in the postwar era and beyond. It makes this case by investigating conf…
When he was named New York City schools Chancellor in 2018, Richard Carranza promised to advance equity for the city’s 1.1M students. Shortly thereafter, despite substantial budget cuts at City Hall, his First Deputy Chancellor, Cheryl Watson-Harris, secured 10M to launch Academ…
Between 1930 and 1960, the 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association in New York developed an extensive adult education program with the arts, and especially modern dance, at its core. The Y ran an active Dance Center with classes in technique, choreography an…