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.
Emie Eshmawy, 2023
North African Cities and Their Community Response to Arab Gulf Design Futures
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
Dr. Rachel Marie Brooks-Atkins, December 2019
Dissertation Title: Black Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle: Firm Entry and Outcomes During Economic Downturn and Expansion
Dr. Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, December 2019
Dissertation Title: Right of Way: Hasidim Vs. Hipsters In the Space of a Brooklyn Street
Dr. Muhammad Amir Ansari, May 2019
Dissertation Title: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Examining Decentralization and Public Service Outcomes in Pakistan
Dr. Vanessa Léon, May 2019
Dissertation Title: Decentralization and Development
in the World's First Black Republic
Dr. Mammotsa Makhene, May 2019
Dissertation Title: The Role of Curriculum Content in College Diversity Courses: A New York College Case Study
Dr. Sara Shroff, May 2019
Dissertation
Title: Valuefacturing Life: Capital Encounters and Trans/Feminist Becomings in Pakistan and Beyond