Simulation is a powerful technique to study complex problems and systems. This thesis explores two different problems. Part 1 (Chapters 2 and 3) focuses on the theory and practice of the problem of simulating graphs with a prescribed degree sequence. Part 2 (Chapter 4) focuses o…
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On December 28, 1969 the New York Young Lords—a group of radical Puerto Ricans calling for a socialist society and independent Puerto Rico—occupied East Harlem’s First Spanish United Methodist Church. For eleven days the Lords served breakfast to neighborhood children, tested co…
The COVID-19 pandemic brings to light surprising similarities to the 1918 influenza pandemic, one of the deadliest outbreaks in United States history. Over 100 years later, the United States is faced with a novel virus causing a worldwide pandemic although our care is hindered b…
In 1941 The New York Dress Institute was founded as a response to the Occupation of Paris, and subsequently, the loss of Parisian fashion design exports during the Second World War. With its establishment, it created a massive marketing campaign for the garment industry in New Y…
“Queer Movements and Class Politics in New York City” examines the role of political economy, class politics and financialization in shaping, constraining and enabling lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) social movements in New York City from 1978 to 2020. It a…
This thesis asserts that preservation as a field should recognize the role of the general contractor and the contribution of labor both individually and collectively. By doing this, the field will be putting forth a richer understanding of the process by which buildings were con…
Over the past few centuries, the Gowanus has transformed from natural to pastoral to industrial to post-industrial. Its history is tied to the development of Brooklyn. Once a tidal inlet with orchards and mills, it industrialized when the local population exploded in the 19th ce…
This collection of papers explores different elements of popular culture and how they reflect our world. The first is about the history of the comic medium as it relates to the development of New York in the late 19th to the 20th century. Attention is paid to the idea of moderni…
My dissertation contemplates the role that New Deal era photographs played in developing a sense of place particular to New York City’s environs. I argue that photographers used the camera as a tool to cultivate the relationship between people and the urban landscape by focusing…
This critical/theoretical history of performance art investigates the relationship between the body of the artist and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985, with specific attention to how performance art resists, renegotiates, and …
This dissertation concentrates on two related questions: first, what accounts for politicization in Chinese communities overseas? Second, does political influence stem from group mobilization? Three broad schools of thought are widely cited to explain immigrant political incorpo…
The Arab-American community lies at the nexus of intersecting lines of political power, and is subject to pervasive discursive misrecognition, that is, the limiting of members' ability to act as persons capable of taking any position in ongoing social and political discourses. E…
This dissertation compares anti-vice organizations that fought forced prostitution, or “white slavery,” during the early twentieth-century in the United States. This research uses archival methods and materials to make comparisons among anti-vice crusades in three cities: New Yo…
This dissertation, Careering Through the Village: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura Riding, and the Greenwich Village Poetry Market, investigates the professional strategies of two women who sought careers as American poetesses during the early 20th century. It analyzes their earli…
The purpose of this dissertation research project is to explore how recently-arrived immigrant adolescents who are English learners (ELs) experience New York City during an era of unprecedented globalization and neoliberal social and economic policies. It explores immigrant adol…
A historical void has been recognized by scholars such as Theodore Saloutos, Charles S. Moskos and Ioanna Laliotou regarding the immigration of Greeks to the United States between 1904 and 1924. Specifically, what portion of this immigrant group originated from the Greek state a…
Through three journalistic portraits of Arab Americans living in New York City today, this thesis adds to the academic work of documenting the post-9/11 Arab-American experience via creative non-fiction storytelling. The three portraits of different generation Arab Americans eac…
On December 8, 2009, The New York Times published an article detailing the future plans for an Islamic-related community center and mosque, called Cordoba House, to be built several blocks away from Ground Zero in Manhattan. Several months later, conservative blogger Pamela Gell…
Social controversy is a sustained, mediated debate between at least two oppositional parties which is more than just a difference of opinion; rather it is a persistent conflict over the political and cultural implications that dominant forms of communicative reasoning, practices…