This analysis examines the life and actions of the seventeenth-century Irish man, William Lamport, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Guillen de Lampart. In this thesis, William Lamport, influenced by the literary and intellectual trends of his time, stylized himself as an i…
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Why do some village communities within the same municipality have better access to development projects aiming at improving basic services, such as potable water and sewerage, while neighboring communities do not? Through which channels do communities access development resource…
This thesis investigates the changing roles of elite women in late nineteenth centuryMexico and the way these evolutions of empowerment were perceived by them against thebackdrop of class divisions. During the Porfiriato , the period of over thirty years from 1876to 1910 in whic…
The purpose of this thesis is to understand the impact of urbanization on the domestic lives of people at the site of Río Viejo in coastal Oaxaca, Mexico during the Terminal Formative period (150 BCE–CE 250). This thesis will present the data generated from excavations directed …
This dissertation investigates how discourses and practices of political spirituality contributed to forming an idea of México as a national entity in the early nineteenth century. During the struggles for Novohispanic Independence from 1810 to 1821, there was little consensus o…
Because Spanish American apocalyptic novels are a neglected sub-genre, this dissertation contends that this neglect is unjustified, and makes a contribution to the field. The project considers in particular modern Mexican apocalyptic novels written in the late 1980s and 1990s: C…
The cultural productions of Katherine Anne Porter, Anita Brenner, Tina Modotti, Maria Izquierdo, and Juanita Guccione represent a distinctive interweaving of gender and class consciousness, national identification and political resistance, as represented in their artistic work. …
Throughout history, walls and fences have served to secure and defend populations by reconfiguring the political-economic sphere. The objective of this thesis is to identify and examine the various functions of border security walls in the contemporary solidification of capitali…
This work attempts to determine the exchange rate policy objectives of monetary authorities in emerging markets and analyze the instruments used to achieve them. The introductory chapter discusses a wide range of issues related to exchange rate policy, exchange rate regimes, and…
This dissertation examines the deportation of Mexican “vagrants” and other convicts to the Philippines between 1765 and 1821 to demonstrate that the Spanish Pacific world, traditionally neglected by the historiography of Latin America, was an important part of the history of the…
The presence of drug cartels within Mexico impacts U.S. national security, foreign policy, U.S. crime rates, and public health policy. Due to the direct and indirect effects that the cartels have on the United States, this paper examines the Mérida Initiative, the current U.S. a…
In this paper I explore social entrepreneurship as an alternative approach to solving social problems. I examine how those labeled as social entrepreneurs (SE) define and use the term as well as how large organizations utilize the concept to advance their respective agendas. I c…
This dissertation asks why authoritarian regimes are institutionalized in different ways and why they experience different outcomes. I have developed an elite conflict theory of authoritarianism and argue that how the distribution of power is institutionalized within a ruling co…
The use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media in the Arab Spring, #Occupy Wall Street, and Mexico's #YoSoy132 student movement have all generated excitement about the new uses of digital technology in organized social movements. This dissertation concerns itself …
This thesis provides the first empirical explanatory theory for community authorization for Genetically Modified Mosquito (GMM) trials. Although this theory was developed in the context of GMM trials, it can apply to other endeavors, research or not, where whole communities migh…
This dissertation explores the way in which La guerra de Galio , by Héctor Aguilar Camín and Guerra en el paraíso, by Carlos Montemayor, depict non-fictional events, mainly the Mexican guerrilla movement during the Seventies. I discuss the events that are part of the historical …
Why do states vary in their responses to the multifaceted competitive pressures of globalization? Why, in particular, do some states accept a measure of economic loss in exchange for cultural gain? How much autonomous control do they retain in the cultural domain? This dissertat…
L'objectif principal de cette recherche exploratoire est de mieux saisir les représentations sociales des rapports sociaux de sexe que vivent trois sociétés soient le Sénégal, le Mexique et le Québec, à travers les revendications pour atteindre l'égalité. La recherche se situe s…
Curanderismo is an ancient multicultural art and science of holistic healthcare. In today's climate of globalization and concern for affordable medical care, we can look to effective approaches from in tact traditional cultures for many answers to health dilemmas. The unique ble…