This research describes the manner in which surgeons in nonmetropolitan practice deviate from the specialty code, and seeks to understand this deviation in light of ecological theory. The hypothesis is that the low density ...

This dissertation is an investigation of the relationship between sanitation, power, and poverty in the United States. It draws from two broad theoretical lenses, political economies of race and political economies of the ...

Resuscitation techniques are heralded as life-saving but they rarely fulfill this promise: the survival ratio for out-of-hospital resuscitative efforts rarely rises above 10 percent. I investigate this paradox of resuscitation ...

In this project, I attempt to illustrate how history is reconstructed by the power/knowledge discourse. Within the concrete study of the Boxers' movements (abbreviated as BsMs hereafter) in China between 1898 and 1901, I ...

This dissertation is primarily concerned with how sharia is practiced by Muslims from a variety of backgrounds in Chicago's Devon Avenue and how they co-construct physical and moral spaces. More specifically, I am interested ...

This dissertation examines how the implementation of the European Union's (EU) agricultural reforms map onto the rural landscape of post-socialist Lithuania. In it, I focus on how attempts to Europeanize the countryside ...