This dissertation develops and applies the theoretical framework of Colorist StereotypeEndorsement (CSE) to examine how racialized and gendered stereotypes are differenti[...]

Research has found that experiencing victimization significantly increases the risk of subsequent victimization, which is consistent with state dependence theory. This th[...]

While adverse childhood experience is a strong social determinant of health for multiple later life outcomes, its effect on the risk of dementia remains unclear. Using 20[...]

Policing brutality has emerged as a significant component of structural racism, potentially impacting the health of African American young adults. This study utilizes dat[...]

This dissertation investigates how identity and status processes shape perceptions of fair wages among employees and employers in the United States. The first study exami[...]

This thesis explores how the bodies of urban middle-class Bangladeshi Muslim women function as sites of agency and resistance amid pervasive patriarchal controls. Grounde[...]

Ce rapport final s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une étude pluriannuelle visant à estimer la prévalence de la traite des personnes à des fins d’exploitation sexuelle parmi les [...]

This is the endline report from a multi-year study that aimed to estimate prevalence of sex trafficking among women engaged in commercial sex (WECS) and implement support[...]

In 2021, the African Programming & Research Initiative to End Slavery (APRIES) at the University of Georgia’s Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach (Cen[...]

Research on sex trafficking in Senegal is lacking but crucial to developing evidence-based policies. The Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach (CenHTRO) in [...]

CenHTRO [through its former APRIES initiative] in partnership with its Africa-based research partners, RAN and CMDA, conducted this baseline study in Sierra Leone between[...]

Asians and Latinés are two racial groups found to be part of a growing gray space in the racial hierarchy and order of the US. When accounting for the widespread and infl[...]

Extensive research stresses the detrimental health effects of exposure to the criminal legal system (CLS). One emerging topic is the connection between CLS exposure and m[...]

Prior research provides evidence that Black women in the Nursing profession experience a significant amount of racism in the workplace. These acts of racism are both over[...]

To receive help for intimate partner violence, one must be first seen as a victim. Previous research indicates that LGBTQ+ victims of intimate partner violence are not al[...]

Amid ongoing political and gender-based violence, it is essential to understand how perceived threats to masculinity influences men’s behavior. What part does social sett[...]

In this dissertation, I develop an ethnographic case study of volunteering at an American zoological park, to address the more general issue of how status ambiguity and m[...]

Based on a four month long ethnographic study among followers of Rajneesh in Kathmandu, Nepal, this study explains why Nepals Rajneesh movement stagnated for about two de[...]

Redeemer Presbyterian Church is significant because the tensions and struggles between church and culture are more visible and exaggerated expressions of similar tensions[...]

This dissertation addresses conflicting representations of the import of marriage in the lives of African Americans during the transition to adulthood. Larger demographic[...]

Using a sample of African American adolescents and young adults, the present study assesses the relationship between pregnancy history and risky sexual behavior, particul[...]

In an effort to respond to fluctuations in demand, increase their flexibility, and lower payroll costs, many organizations increasingly hire nonstandard workers. Although[...]

The character of civil society activism in Nepalits discourses, its identities, and its practiceshas changed several times over the course of two decades. In the 1990s, n[...]

While we do know that some groups of students are more likely to drop out than others, dropout is a complex process, and currently no single model of dropout captures the[...]

The pervasiveness of violence against women and increasing diagnosis of mental illness are two of the most pressing issues in higher education. This dissertation examines[...]