Sociology

In the 1980s, "A Nation at Risk" kicked off forty years of education policy directed at providing excellent education to all students. Since that time and despite substan [...]

A large body of literature documents the increasing adoption of fee-for-service models, competitive marketing strategies, corporate governance structures, and business rh [...]

This research examines strategies for social change in an authoritarian context that precludes avenues for direct political engagement, such as protests and public conten [...]

My dissertation investigates public opinion and the nature of the public sphere in China by studying online discourse between 2009 and 2017. I ask what consensuses and cl [...]

Despite a highly centralized government, why do conflicts between the state religious and federal civil courts become politicized and even turn violent in some states mor [...]

This dissertation explores the production and maintenance of place reputation using three Chicago neighborhoods with different reputations: Wicker Park and reputational h [...]

First-generation and low-income students in the U.S. are attending four-year colleges and universities at unprecedented rates. This demographic shift comes, in some part, [...]

While qualitative research provides many insights into how gendered interactions operate at the level of interpersonal interactions and institutions, gender regimes, or p [...]

Our chances of living a long and healthy life are influenced by our position in intersecting social hierarchies, but also by our exposure to social policies. My research [...]

My dissertation offers a dynamic, relational explanation of the emergence of mid-19th century rebellions in the Qing Empire of China—the bloodiest insurgent civil war i [...]