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. 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
Dr. Elizabeth Claire Levi, December 2018 (awarded posthumously)
Dissertation Title: Helping, Holding Steady, or Harming? A Critical Assessment of the Impact of North American Jewish Cross-Border Philanthropy on Arabs in Israel’s Ethnic Democracy
Dr. Achilles Kallergis, August 2018
Dissertation Title: Addressing the Need for Local Data: A Systematic Low-Cost Way for Monitoring Living Conditions in Informal Settlements
Dr. Rebecca Hollender, May 2018
Dissertation Title: Post-Growth in Practice: The Realities of Public Policy and Community Initiatives in Ecuador
Dr. Claude Joseph, May 2018
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Development
Dr. Calvin T. Brown, January 2018
Dissertation Title: The Neighborhood Effect of Poverty Over Time: Identifying Poverty Thresholds Where Neighborhood Conditions Change
Dr. Pooya Ghorbani, January 2018
Dissertation Title: Homeownership After the Great Recession: Essays on “Owner-Ready” Families
Dr. Zoe Hamstead, May 2016
Dissertation Title: A spatial-temporal approach for understanding vulnerability and resilience to extreme heat in New York City
Dr. Ruth Iguiniz-Romero, May 2016
Dissertation Title: Unpredictable Shifts in Maternal Morality Prevention Policy Agendas, 1990 – 2010: Governance and Civil Society’s Participation in Peru
Dr. Linda M. Silva Thompson, May 2016
Dissertation Title: Moving from Rags – to – Riches: Together or Alone? Underground Cooperative Savings: An Ethnography of Workplace Rotating Savings & Credit Associations
Dr. Johanna Taylor, May 2016
Dissertation Title: Community of Arts, Community of Justice: Understanding the Social and Political Impact of the Arts in Urban Neighborhoods
Dr. Toni Castro Cosio, May 2016
Dissertation Title: Dealing with Uncertainty: Infrastructures for Resilience in Urban Communities
Dr. Riham Moustafa Hassan Moustafa, May 2016
Dissertation Title: Evaluating the Institutional Environment for Entrepreneurship: A Cross-National Study on Arab Countries
Dr. Erwin Vincent DeLeon, May 2016
Dissertation Title: Gay and Racial/Ethnic Identities, Perceived Discrimination, and Participation in Collective Action
Dr. Lessie B. Branch, May 2015
Dissertation Title: Paradoxical Ebullience: Discordance between Changing Black Racial Attitudes and Stagnation of Black Economic Progress
Dr. Livia Yah-Sye Lam, May 2015
Dissertation Title: A Case of Racialization and Immigration Policy: Conceptualizing Interest Group Theory
Dr. Nancy Wai-Ling Lam, May 2015
Dissertation Title: Impacts of Housing Assistance on Economic Self-Sufficiency: Incomes and Earnings among Conventional Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Families in New York City
Dr. Angela Rachidi, May 2015
Dissertation Title: State-level Welfare Policy, Job Type, and Long-term Earnings of Unmarried Mothers
Dr. Megan Gavin, May 2014
Dissertation Title: The Story of Parental Participation in Honduras: Closer to understanding how and why teaching-learning happens
Dr. Milos Sugovic, May 2014
Dissertation Title: Can Soda Tax Framing Affect Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages?
Dr. Ryan Buck, May 2014
Dissertation Title: The Influences of the Post-9/11 GI Bill on Veteran Educational Attainment and Civic Engagement
Dr. Philip Plotch, May 2014
Dissertation Title: Why Does It Take More Than 30 Years to Finalize a Transportation Plan and What Are the Lost Opportunities?
Dr. Charles Swift, May 2014
Dissertation Title: What Explains Mental Health Utilization Among US-Based Afro-Caribbeans? Implications for Urban Mental Health Policy
Dr. Jamie Taylor, January 2014
Dissertation Title: Housing Assistance for Households Experiencing Homelessness
Dr. Edward Summers, May 2013
Dissertation Title: The Shifting Politics of Economic Development in the City of Beacon and Poughkeepsie: Implications for Small City Economic Development
Dr. Rachael A. Petitti, May 2013
Dissertation Title: The Integration of Primary Care in Behavioral Health Outpatient Setting: Identifying Unmet Medical Needs and Improving Access to Care
Dr. Rahsaan Harris, May 2013
Dissertation Title: Are They Really 'Our Kind of People'? Does class or race affinity better describe the philanthropy of the black community?
Dr. Adriana Gaviria Duque, May 2012
Dissertation Title: Immigrant Micro Entrepreneurship: The Colombian Case in New York and New Jersey
Dr. Nadia Mian, May 2012
Dissertation Title: The Redevelopment Activities of Historic Religious Institutions in New York
Dr. Julia Kohn, May 2012
Dissertation Title: Loosely Evidence-Based: The Role of Research in U.S. Teen Pregnancy Policy
Dr. Shoshanah B. D. Goldberg, January 2012
Dissertation Title: The Role of Arts and Culture in Modern Cities: Making Art Work in Toronto and New York
Dr. Marjorie Anne Visser, January 2011
Dissertation Title: Race, Poverty and State Intervention in the Informal Economy: Evidence from South Africa
Dr. LaChelle Bailie, May 2010*
Dissertation Title: Refugee Resettlement: The Rule of Ethnic Culture Brokers and Social Networks in Access Services
Dr. Flona Mincy, May 2009
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Housing Subsidies on Union Status and Visitation
Dr. Nicole Oretsky, May 2008
Dissertation Title: Shelter Injustice and the Endurance of Housing Poverty in South Tucson, Arizona
Dr. Alys Willman-Navaro, May 2008
Dissertation Title: What's Money Got To Do With It? The Economics of Risk in Commercial Sex Work in Managua, Nicaragua
Dr. Alan A. Aja, May 2008
Dissertation Title: Miami's Dual Stew Pot: Revisiting the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Miami Cuban Enclave and Implications for Public Policy
Dr. Chijioke Evoh, January 2008
Dissertation Title: Collaborative Partnerships and the Transformation of Secondary Education through ICTS in South Africa
Dr. Sookhee Oh, May 2007
Dissertation Title: Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Linkages: Suburban Koreans in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area
Dr. Frances Martin, May 2007
Dissertation Title: Stories of Returning Women: Lessons Learned from Deinstitutionalization
Dr. Anna Bounds, May 2006
Dissertation Title: Network Management in Cultural District Implementation. The Case of Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts
Dr. Meg Holden, May 2004
Dissertation Title: A Pragmatic Test for Sustainability Indicator Projects: The case of social learning in Seattle
Dr. Richard Hendra, May 2004
Dissertation Title: Identifying and Unbundling the Employment Impacts of a Time-limited Welfare Program
* Deceased