My dissertation demonstrates that this cosmological shift has been profoundly reductionist. In modern chemical research on nutrition, the scientific methods have been reductionistic in that a nutritional scientist can only ...

Coaching women's sport is becoming resegregated from "women's work" to "men's work." This study examined how and why men are entering jobs in women's intercollegiate athletics to a greater extent than women. I compared two ...

Using Colombia as a case study, the study empirically examines major theoretical debates about the Latin American middle class' politics. Theoretical debates about the middle class' politics have focussed on the controversial ...

Using survey data from Illinois, this study examines the factors which contribute to small-scale farmers' economic and lifestyle motives for farming. A conceptual definition of "lifestyle" is translated into ...

This study utilizes the idea of embodiment to examine the social processes that “undocumented” Latin American migrants undergo and how these social processes affect their health. Embodiment refers to how our bodies and ...

I find that from 1850 to modern times, ethnomedicine has thrived amidst a confluence of factors that give cohort members robust incentives to pursue herbal and magical healing and equally compelling disincentives to pursue ...