by Staff | December 3, 2017
Michael Aguirre explores the aftermath of the guest worker Bracero Program that brought Mexican farm workers to the U.S. between 1942 and 1964. Focusing on the Eastern California borderlands of Imperial County, California, and Mexicali, Baja California Norte, he...
by Staff | December 3, 2017
Brian Callaci uses a unique, original, hand-collected data set of five hundred and thirty franchise contracts in one state to understand the relationship between big restaurant chains and their franchisees. This is important since the big restaurant chains have...
by Staff | December 3, 2017
Daanika Gordon completed her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin in 2018. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Daanika analyzes policing in a...
by Staff | December 3, 2017
Yasmeen Mekawy examines how emotion works to either mobilize people to participate in high-risk protest, or conversely, keep people in their homes. Through an in-depth examination of the use of social media in the 2011 uprising in Egypt, she shows how emotional...
by Staff | December 3, 2017
Adam Mertz completed his dissertation in 2019 at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Adam’s research seeks to understand rural/urban political polarization by examining the rise of Wisconsin teacher unions during the 1970s. He argues that Wisconsin’s previous...
