The organizational placement of the risk management function in California municipalities is typically within the city manager, city attorney, human resources, or finance departments. This study examined the effectiveness of that organizational placement within a sample size of …
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Statement of Problem: The current educational structure in the state of California continues to be outdated and in need of a modification to conform to classroom demographics. According to the California Department of Education, recommendations have been presented to the State B…
This study addresses how hunter-gatherers provision themselves when they have a large, dense population and are faced with constraints like small territories and reduced mobility. These conditions were present in the Sacramento Valley, California at the end of the Late Period (1…
Previous research studies regarding acculturation of Iranian immigrants include adaptations and revisions of scales and inventories designed for other ethnic populations. This study was designed to investigate the acculturation of first-generation Iranian-Americans residing in L…
Southern California's urbanization was accomplished through the technologically-aided harvesting of faraway water sources. Today this is too expensive, environmentally damaging, and politically unpopular. Southern California utilities have begun shifting to a strategy of conserv…
Undocumented students are a growing population in America's colleges and universities, particularly in California. The needs, aspirations, and experiences of these students often go unnoticed by policymakers and leaders in higher education. This narrative study examined the live…
The thriving of immigrant ethics and diaspora communities in contemporary urban environments is emblematic of cultural and socio-political navigation. In Southern California, numerous micro-communities identify their inferential beliefs in the way they engage, negotiate, and emb…
This dissertation traces the financial meaning and effect of religious organization on the emerging hospital industry in Los Angeles in the 20th century. For centuries, religious groups opened and maintained hospitals as charitable institutions. However, in the early the 20th ce…
On November 7, 1973, President Nixon asked Americans to lower their home thermostats to a national average temperature of 68 degrees. On February 2, 1974, over half of the gas stations in the New York City area closed after selling out of fuel. These and other restrictions resul…
Generational conflict has been a significant and persistent theme in various immigration studies and scholarship. Yet, few qualitative works have been conducted throughout the literature of Iranian scholars in the United States to assess the quality and complexity of the subject…
Rapid and radical socioeconomic transformations have accompanied the development of the hydrocarbon-exporting economies of the Arab Gulf states. The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are some of the largest recipients of labor migrants in the world, and the region has th…
This dissertation examines how women, as a group, and domesticity, as a system of gender relations, shaped the Cold War conservative ascendancy. After World War II, when California reached new heights of electoral importance as the most populous state in the nation, the greater …
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…
Quercus wislizenii and Q. parvula are evergreen oaks of California. The latter was recognized as a species distinct from Q. wislizenii only recently, but has not received full acceptance. In an attempt to study differentiation between these two taxa and the genetic architecture …
Since the early twentieth century, Mexican migrants and immigrants have been an integral segment of the agricultural laborer force. As part of the traditional agrarian class model, Mexican farm laborers were physically, socially, and politically apart from rural communities. Mor…
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 study is a form of professional explanation about language and the political dimensions of education reform, examined through sociocognitive orientations to individual and collective identity. Common signifiers among modes and content of literacy explanations were distilled…
The heavily populated coast of Southern California has been affected by tsunamis several times in the historical past. The hazard associated with nearshore tsunamis has received much less attention than that associated with trans-oceanic events. A review of the offshore geology …
In this dissertation, I use linearized and nonlinear travel time tomographic methods to estimate upper crustal velocity structure in the western Great Basin. The northern and southern fringes of this region have seen quite extensive seismic profiling and 2-dimensional velocity m…