Recent Dissertations
Previous dissertation titles provide a sense of the diversity of the projects completed by doctoral students in Public and Urban Policy PhD program.
Dr. Bhumika Muchhala, 2024
Dissertation Title: A Political Economy Rationality of Austerity in the Global South: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Fiscal Austerity in Ecuador and Fiscal Discipline in Indonesia Through the Structural, Gendered, and Epistemic Power of Global Finance
Dr. Bobbette Ronnander, 2024
Dissertation Title: Hospital Readmissions and the Transitional Care Process
Dr. Quan H. Tran, 2023
Dissertation Title: Space for Opportunity or a Cause of Poverty? The Effect of Ethnic Enclaves on Immigrants’ Labor Market Outcomes and Poverty
Dr. Tanishia Williams-Minor, 2023
Dissertation Title: Lessons and Losses: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Implementation of Culturally Responsive Curriculum in New York City's Segregated Schools
Dr. Rajeev Yerneni, 2023
Dissertation Title: Assimilating Chinese American Smoking Behavior: Comparing Effects of Immigration, Tobacco Policies and Cultural Interventions
Dr. Fabiola Berdiel, 2022
Dissertation Title: From Socialism to Sociolismo: Urban Citizenship and the Production of the Public Sphere in Post-Fidel Cuba
Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein, 2022
Dissertation Title: Children in the Storm: US Disaster Policy for Children from Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Sandy
Dr. Katherine Dillard Gonzalez, 2022
Dissertation Title: Systemic Strategies
to Address Homelessness: A Situation Analysis of the Response in San Antonio, Texas
Dr. Violet Fredericks, 2022
Dissertation Title: The Gun Economy: Private Markets, Public Policy, and Gun Violence. A Situation Analysis of New
York City, July Fourth weekend, 2020.
Dr. Talib Hudson, 2022
Dissertation Title: Interrogating the Notion of Evidence-Based Policy in Community-Based Violence Prevention
Dr. Yimin Li, 2022
Dissertation Title:
Between Scientific Authoritarianism and Democracy: Science, science framing, scientific policymaking, and the search of depoliticized policies in contemporary China
Dr. Helidah Ogude, 2022
Dissertation Title: Migrant Representation,
Discourses and Determination: The case of the UK at the height of the European "Refugee Crisis"
Dr. Jennifer Santos Ramirez, 2022
Dissertation Title: CHOOSING PARTICIPATION IN RESPONSE TO A CRISIS: A Situation Analysis of Collaborative
Grantmaking in Post-disaster Recovery Efforts
Dr. Noah Allison, May 2021
Dissertation Title: Immigrant Foodways: Restaurants, Street Food, and Ethnic Diversity in Queens, New York
Dr. David Bashevkin, 2021
Dissertation
Title: When God is at Stake: Crisis Communications following Religious Leadership Crises
Dr. Ofronama Biu, May 2021
Dissertation Title: Black Women, Black Men, and Occupational Crowding: An Analysis of Vulnerable Arrangements
and Employer-sponsored Benefits
Dr. Maria Carrizosa, May 2021
Dissertation Title: Working Homes: Space-use intensity and urban informality in Bogota
Dr. Tracey Freiberg, 2021
Dissertation Title: Work-Life Balance Disrupted: A Comparative Study
of Firm Responses to Paid Care Leave Programs in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. David Lopez Garcia, May 2021
Dissertation Title: Interactions Between Economic Development, Housing, and Transport Policies and the Mobility Experience
of Workers in Greater Mexico City
Dr. Cristina Handal Gonzalez, May 2021
Dissertation Title: Barrios mas Seguros and the Intersections of Design and Policy: The Case of Collective Urban Gating in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Dr. Kier Hanratty, 2021
Dissertation
Title: Do Property Tax Limitations Affect the Ability of Local Governments to Deliver Public Services
Dr. Jacquelin Katenekzsa, 2021
Dissertation Title: The Provisional As Political: An Ethnography of Digitally Mediated Cross-Border
Informality and (Im)mobilities
Dr. Xia Li, 2021
Dissertation Title: Political Choices and Persistent Inequality: Understanding the Educational Disadvantage that Confronts Rural Migrant Children in China's Large Cities
Dr. Saran Nurse, 2021
Dissertation
Title: Still Standing: An Analytic Autoethnographic Case Study Examining Resilience, Business Survival and Other Entrepreneurial Outcomes of Black Small Business
Dr. Beryl Adongo Oranga, May 2021
Dissertation Title: The Role of
Urbanization in African Human Development — A Cautionary Tale
Dr. Conrad Walker, May 2021
Dissertation Title: Rendering Housing Justice: How a Community Land Trust Facilitates Positive Decision-Making in a Pro-Growth City
Dr. Lena Anna Margarete Simet, May 2020
Dissertation Title: Intra-Urban Inequality in Argentina: Trends, Drivers, and Manifestation of Inequality in Argentinian Cities (1996-2018)
Dr. Anze Zadel, May 2020
Dissertation Title: The Design of Community Participation: Decision-making and Control over Resource Provision in New York City and Lagos