Since the turn of the millennium the United States has waged war on two eastern fronts. The US’s relationship with Iraq has been rocky since the Ba’ath Party assumed power in the 1960s. The US supplied Saddam Hussein ...

This dissertation sets out to understand how the effectiveness of foreign aid in promoting economic growth in low-and middle-income countries could be improved. It does this by merging the political economy/public choice ...

Scholars, activists, and observers rely on a violent/nonviolent dichotomy to make ethical judgments about protest. This categorical distinction raises difficult analytical questions. Are tactics like hunger strikes violent ...

“Prodigy House” is a book-length poem engaging with the legacy and practice of the “country house poem,” which examines the constructed nature of our awareness of and experience in space. Created as a pastiche or “remix” ...

This dissertation examines a Vietnam Era defense manpower program where the Department of Defense lowered the minimum score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test from 31 percent to 10 percent. The Defense Department called ...

This dissertation contributes to the recent debate over the appropriateness of the metaphor that describes property as a ‘bundle of rights,’ prevalent in legal and economic scholarship. Critics of the bundle formulation ...

Prospect Street (working title) tells the story of a girl named Mabel. At seven years old, she is abandoned by her mother on her grandparents’ doorstep. Failing to adjust to her new living situation, Mabel runs away into ...

Since the beginning of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, well over 2 million military service members (SMs) have deployed to combat zones. For SMs and romantic partners, deployments represent one of the most ...

Recent evidence suggests mothers with infants are leaving the workforce (Cohany & Sok, 2007; Johnson, 2008), but research has not yet identified why mothers make such a decision. I propose that mothers form psychological ...

Veterans of the recent military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have been the subject of multiple studies, with the majority focusing on elevated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other related negative ...