The first chapter constructs the monthly current account factor that is a good proxy for quarterly current accounts, and it examines the effect of the current account factor on the US term structure. Using the Generalized Method of Moments, I estimate the term structure with inf…
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This dissertation examines the 1916 US occupation of the Dominican Republic to analyze how US and Dominican stakeholders used public schools to disseminate their notions of Dominican citizenship. Drawing on correspondence and memos from the Department of Public Instruction in th…
This dissertation, “Indebted Pasts, Alternative Futures: Caribbean Digital Imaginations in Twenty-First Century Literature”, argues that Caribbean transmedia writers converge in their integration of new media in literary objects to engage, read, and bring our attention to the er…
With a history of recurring occupations and dictatorships, the development of the Dominican national infrastructure has been heavily interrupted by continuous transfers of power. As a result, the lack of a lean government structure is evident when studying the national healthcar…
Studies show that, in general, schools fall short when it comes to serving LGBTQ+ students, sometimes even ignoring the situations regarding bullying, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism that arise. The detrimental effects of repressive, homophobic, biphobic, tra…
There is a significant gender disparity in the highest leadership levels in Dominican universities. Research argues that in traditionalist societies and in some developing countries particularly, it is increasingly challenging for women to make it to top leadership. To achieve a…
This work examines the history of US-Dominican relations from 1898-1967, highlighting the 1965 intervention and the Dominican election of 1966. It analyses the connections between the Wilsonian occupation, the US invasion of 1965, and the social theory of modernization and the A…
This dissertation examines the literary and cinematic constructions of Dominican bodies in the context of different geographical locations: the Dominican Republic, the United States, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. I argue that the artistic representations of these bodies are marked by …
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Truman administration officials were presented with a unique “window of opportunity” in that the absence of an external geopolitical threat to U.S. interests in Latin America allowed the State Department to pursue policies aimed at pro…