New York (City)

This dissertation discusses independent theatre entrepreneur Oscar Hammerstein I (1847-1919), whose accomplishments included the creation and development of New York City's new theatre district above Longacre Square. His theatrical career, from 1888-1915, was marked by a series …

This dissertation is a social history of foundlings—abandoned babies—in nineteenth-century New York City. Because foundlings were traditionally understood to be the unwanted babies of unmarried mothers, the stigma of illegitimacy contributed to the decision of private charities …

Cultural beliefs on healthcare in the 21st century by the African immigrants in the United States have contributed to the severity of illnesses in their communities. The results of this research identified the healthcare barriers experienced by members of the Bronx Ghanaian Immi…

Lesbians and queer women are often labeled “invisible” in and beyond the academy within a politics of visibility used to describe lgbtq people and their movement. This dissertation is a historical geography of contemporary lesbian and queer society, culture, and economies in the…

In the post-9/11 era, over a hundred theatric performances exploring the fallout from the “war on terror” have been staged in Cairo, London, and New York. Though never discussed in relation to one another, the works from major cultural centers on three continents provide valuabl…

The central concern of this thesis is how social problems are defined, framed, and ultimately acted upon. The social problem, in this case, is street children as defined by the institutional response of the United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef), The theoretical foundation of…

Between 1880 and 1924, 50,000 to 60,000 Levantine Jews immigrated to the United States from the Ottoman Empire/Turkey (western Anatolia and the Balkans.) Although among them were Arabic- and Greek-speaking Jews, the overwhelming majority were Sephardim, who spoke Ladino, or Jude…

This research explored how Arab American couples found the strength and resilience that empowered them to overcome the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the aftereffects that followed. Utilizing a family resiliency model grounded in systems theory and social constructionis…

Jewish migration from Romania began in mid-1900, and, owing to its particular political and temporal context, from its outset until early 1903 this migration commanded significant attention and interventions from the governments of the United States and Canada and from the organ…

Each year, nearly two million women in the U.S. are physically assaulted and approximately 1.5 million are physically assaulted or raped by an intimate partner (Tjaden and Thoennes, 1998). These new data from the National Violence Against Women Survey are important indicators th…

This study offers a new approach to understanding the role of nostalgic performances carried out by second-generation Indo-Guyanese Americans through ethnic institutions as a route into the American mainstream. The Indo-Guyanese are an Indian Diaspora group who arrived in the Ca…

As a major world figure at the time of his selection as Columbia University's president in 1947, Dwight Eisenhower had already demonstrated his considerable capacity as a leader during World War II. Given he was not an academic and had no prior experience in college administrati…

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to assess staff perceptions of four U.S.-Saudi Diplomatic Corps, the embassy in Washington, DC, and the three consulates in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles regarding the implementation of virtual teams. This study applied the adaptive st…

Early adulthood is a time when young adults struggle with accepting or rejecting their ancestral roots as they attempt to develop a positive sense of self. Nigerian-American adults, in particular, struggle with the integration of immensely different elements of Eastern and Weste…

This dissertation is a historical, comparative examination of resistance and agency by Jewish and African American activists seeking redress in the form of redistribution of resources and early multiculturalist efforts demanding recognition of group identities within New York Ci…

This master's thesis explores the roots of the 1935 Takana - which forbids marriage to those who convert for the purpose of marriage - and subsequent reaffirmations issued by Rabbi Jacob S. Kassin, the Brooklyn, NY Syrian Jewish community's Chief Rabbi, and the Rabbinical Counci…

This study addresses the self-employment experience of Nigerian immigrants in New York City. Business ownership has been shown to be both a means of individual and collective socioeconomic mobility for immigrants. In addition, it offers an alternative form of employment to those…

The aim of this research is to examine use of prenatal care by South Asian immigrant women in New York City, focusing not only on barriers to care but also women’s reliance on multi-scalar, place-based social networks and resources. Recently, public health analysts have raised c…

This dissertation describes an attempt to understand the complex process of how Indonesian Muslims in New York City negotiate their cultural identities. This dissertation gravitates around the concept of transnationalism, which perceives that contemporary immigrants form and mai…

This dissertation explores the music that Bukharian Jews in Queens performed from January 2002 to February 2006. Bukharian Jews, living for centuries in Central Asia and recently emigrating en masse to New York City, Israel, and Europe, explore their history, identity, values, a…