Este trabajo tiene una triple intención. Primero, revisar lo que ha sucedido en términos de diálogo interreligioso en América del Sur después de que el Concilio Vaticano II diera luz verde al diálogo entre católicos y miembros de tradiciones no cristianas. Segundo, buscamos demo…
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Researchers have found that debts are brought upon countries by corrupt public officials' mismanagement of funds, including those in Guyana. Although researchers have examined the impact of corruption on the Guyanese economy, to date, no research has examined the effects of the …
Within the last quarter of a century, we have witnessed the rapid growth of Latino cross-cultural workers serving in places far from home with a growing percentage serving within the borders of primarily Islamic countries. This research proposes to provide these workers with a m…
Contemporary Latin American cinema features a series of realist portraits and testimonies, in which young filmmakers develop their own visions of the new conditions of life on the continent. This dissertation looks at these specific cinematic visions of beings who survive on the…
The dissertation consists of an introduction, three essays, and conclusions. It focuses on the experiences of East Asian and Latin American economies (Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile). The first essay addresses real exchange rate move…
This dissertation empirically investigates the inter-related issues in the emerging markets. The first issue, we examine is portfolio optimization in emerging stock markets using Mean-Variance theorem and Extreme Value theory. We compare the optimal portfolio selected under Safe…
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…
The expansion of financial services to the poor, now widely referred to as microfinance, quickly saw tremendous success in Bangladesh beginning in the 1970's and was exported to a number of other countries. For a time microfinance was spoken of as a panacea, in part because it i…
This thesis examines relations between the United States and Great Britain in South America between 1939 and 1945. It does so in the broader context of the economic planning for the post-war world undertaken by the US and Britain during the Second World War. Traditional interpre…
This dissertation examines the questions of why and how enduring rivalries---disputes between states that involve repeated military conflict over a long period of time---through an analysis of rivalry clusters in the Middle East and Latin America. I argue that rivalries will onl…
Most studies of post-colonial political development focus on the reasons why states in the developing world typically have not generated high levels of state capacity akin to those found in Europe. This wrongly implies relative uniformity in outcomes. In fact, there is substanti…
This dissertation seeks to link monetary policy and institutional quality, specifically for the case of developing countries. In an effort to demonstrate how monetary policy and institutional quality interact, I use the theoretical framework developed by Dimakou (2006). Through …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of the recurring motif of play in post-dictatorship narratives in Argentina. I analyze play, including game-playing, along with other motifs and practices associated with childhood such as rhymes and singing games, in the constr…
The present work analyzes the return—both the physical return and anticipated physical return—to the homeland after living in exile, the act of remembering caused by this process, and the metareflective role that the genre of autofiction plays in this interaction. The dissertati…
In this dissertation, I analyze the processes of implementation and application of Collective Titling as a policy that characterized rural Afro Colombian communities’ spaces and modified their property regimes, while being equally shaped by the political and economic contexts wh…
For a few decades now, free verse has been the preferred and in most cases only form used by the vast majority of contemporary Latin American poets. It first emerged in Paris –the global “capital of the 19th century”, as Walter Benjamin famously put it– in the 1880s, at the heig…
This dissertation examines how the production of scientific knowledges has been entangled with the making of inter-generational, environmental, interspecies, and memory (in)justices in Austral Patagonia, 1920s-1940s. I have studied science and more-than-human colonialism in Tier…
This project seeks to understand the role that Indigenous languages, and specifically those of Latin America, play in mainstream United States film and television. Drawing on tools and ideas from American Indian studies, linguistic anthropology and film studies, this project con…
Maud Oakes (1903-1990) was an American painter, anthropologist, and a student of Carl Jung. This thesis offers a close reading of two of her ethnographic texts based on fieldwork conducted in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala between 1945 and 1947. It then considers Maud’s lega…