This study examines the music videos of two prominent musicians of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Cairokee and Ramy Essam. Furthermore, it charts the career trajectories of these two musicians and the changes in their artistic output as they go through the aftermath of that revol…
How do journalists cover those outside of their own experience? As researchers study newsroom diversity, this has been one of the most pressing issues on editors and publishers as they try to improve trust with marginalized communities and diversity in their own newsroom. This l…
This portfolio is a synopsis of the counter event that took place on the 60th Anniversary of the Independence of Tanzania on 9 December 2021 in Dar-es Salaam.
Using autoethnography, this study examines my experiences as a teen in Youngstown, Ohio, from 1974-1979, as I discover punk rock. In 1977, my newfound obsession with punk collides with the closing of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Campbell Works on Monday, September 19, 1977. My expe…
Friday, October 18, 2019, six days after Chilean President Sebastián Piñera proclaimed that “In the midst of this turbulent Latin America, our country is a true oasis,” high-school students in Santiago protested the rising cost of public transit through mass fare evasions. Suppo…
This project explains the conditions under which American social movements that begin their mobilization through peaceful, lawful acts of protest become politically violent. To do so, I propose and develop a new, unifying framework called the state legitimacy framework. The stat…
From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, the social movements of the past decade have, without being in explicit dialogue with one another, resembled the same march into the public street. Despite the breadth of the cultural, political, and t…
This dissertation investigates the protest cultures of social revolutionary groups during and after the events of 1968 in France and West Germany before inquiring into how political officials and police responded to the difficulties of maintaining public order. The events of 196…
The use of protest has consistently risen in the last several years; citizens across the world are using protest not only more often but are also using this form of political engagement to make more and varied demands to governments. Why are protest demands widespread across man…
The 19th century is seen by many as a crucial turning point in the history of protest in Britain and across the global north. In Charles Tilly's famous history of the period, the first few decades of the 19th century mark the transition from the violent, direct action of the pre…
