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Author:

Trauger, Amy Kathryn

Title:

Social, Economic and Environmental Justice: A Network Analysis of Sustainable Agriculture in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

sustainable agriculture
social justice
networks

File:

Download final_dissertation_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Mc Carthy, Committee Member

Author:

Sabhlok, Anu

Title:

SEWA in relief: Gendered Geographies of Disaster Relief in Gujarat, India

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Disaster relief
Gujarat
seva
SEWA
Postcolonial
Gandhi
Feminist Geography
NGOs
Economic liberalization
India
Women

File:

Download dissertationsabhlok2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
James Mc Carthy, Committee Member
Mrinalini Sinha, Committee Member

Author:

Bee, Beth Anne

Title:

Women weathering the climate: Gendered knowledge and adaptive capacities in central Mexico

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

food secuirty
feminist theory
adaptive capacity
climate change
risk perception
Mexico

File:

Download Bee_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Nicklen, Challen Louise

Title:

Rhetorics of Connection in the United Nations Conferences on Women, 1975-1995

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

global feminism
transnational feminism
United Nations
social movements

File:

Download Nicklen_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nancy S Love, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Ann Banaszak, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member
Holloway Sparks, Committee Member

Author:

Visconti, John Gordon

Title:

The Secrets of Health; Views on Healing from the Everyday Level to the Printing Presses in Early Modern Venice 1500-1650

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

healing
early modern venice
health

File:

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Committee Members:

Ronnie Po Chia Hsia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tijana Krstic, Committee Member
Anthony Roeber, Committee Member
Ronnie Po Chia Hsia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Derickson, Kate Driscoll

Title:

Neoliberalism and the politics of land use in post-Katrina Mississippi

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

neoliberalism
land use
urban politics
Hurricane Katrina

File:

Download KDDDiss.pdf

Committee Members:

James Mc Carthy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Mc Carthy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Wright, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Jamie Peck, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Michelle C

Title:

AT THE INTERSECTION OF UTOPIA AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: THE SPATIAL-RHETORICAL NEGOTIATIONS OF 19TH-CENTURY WOMEN

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

intentional communities
gender
space
rhetoric
public

File:

Download Dissertation_7-20.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Rios, Michael

Title:

Scale, Governance Coalitions, and the Branding of Collective Action: The Politics of Obesity in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

scale
governance
coalitions
collective action
obesity

File:

Download Rios_diss.final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Mc Carthy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Benner, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
James David Plumb, Committee Member

Author:

Rock, Melissa Yang

Title:

Splintering Beijing: Socio-spatial Fragmentation, Commodification and Gentrification in the Hutong Neighborhoods of 'old' Beijing

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Neoliberal governmentality
urban redevelopment
dispossession
displacement
Hutong neighborhoods
geographies of care
Beijing

File:

Download MYRock_Completed_Dissertation__all_inclusive__August_2-2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
James Mc Carthy, Committee Member
Christine Lee Gorby, Committee Member

Author:

Rose-Redwood, Reuben Skye

Title:

Governmentality, the Grid, and the Beginnings of a Critical Spatial History of the Geo-coded World

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Foucault
street and house numbering
geo-coded world
grid
governmentality
critical spatial history
urban historical geography
Marxian geography
political economy
New York City

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_FINALCOPY.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Committee Member
James P Mc Carthy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Member
Jeremy S Packer, Committee Member