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This dissertation presents three papers addressing the intersection of income inequality and religion, focusing on beliefs, disagreements, and politics. The first paper addresses how religion influences beliefs about income inequality around the world. The literature on stratifi…

Working at the intersection of comparative literature and novel theory, my dissertation is a comparative study of how the formal and spatial coordinates of the contemporary novel have changed in the last decades in relation to transnational migrations and to the acceleration of …

To improve the understanding of carbonaceous aerosol sources, methods for source apportionment were developed, applied, and assessed in diverse atmospheres worldwide. Locations of study ranged from polluted megacities to rural locations in South Asia, central Mexico, and the Uni…

This qualitative case study adopts a phenomenological approach to describe the socialization and learning experiences of three Turkish graduate students of International Relations. It employs ethnographic tools of inquiry such as interviews, observations, and document analysis. …