Work in the Social Studies, History, and Humanities spans across religious studies, linguistics, cultural studies, heritage studies, linguistics (pragmatics, semantics, dialect studies, etc.), social studies, historiography, art history, English, and comparative literature.
Social Studies, History, and Humanities
This article explores water's relational intelligence through science, anthropology, and dance, revealing how its movement reflects agency and deep connections with human experience. It proposes embodied, reciprocal relationships with water as pathways to ecological healing and climate justice.
Politics, Government, and Economics
This paper argues that in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve’s lender of last resort (LOLR) policy did discretionarily benefit certain financial institutions at the expense of others.
Social Studies, History, and Humanities
This paper explores the forced development of language in a specific geography to abide by colonial standards, as well as how the imprint of the forced language gives rise to a new language community.
UEI Papers and Reports
This urban survey provides a rough overview of sites of slavery, imprisonment, and Atlantic slave trade in Alexandria, Virginia. It touches sites in the city along the waterfront, within the urban fabric of the city, as well as on the periphery of Alexandria located in DC's periphery.
Urban Affairs and Architecture
Patronage shapes the meaning and experience of an architectural space by prescribing size, shape, and content to enforce personal values of the patrons of Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan, and St Peter’s Square, Rome.
Social Studies, History, and Humanities
When most people think of a campus in New York, they tend to think they are integrated throughout town, mixed in with the skyscrapers and business of the city. However, Barnumbia can lock all its entrancesinto campus, closing itself off from the surrounding neighborhoods and residents of Harlem.
Politics, Government, and Economics
On January 1, 1959, the world bore witness to a pivotal moment in the Cold War: the success of Fidel Castro’s communist revolution. Long considered a trinket of the US, Cuba appeared to be an inconsequential player in the ideological furor that had begun to sweep through Latin America.
UEI Papers and Reports
This study mobilizes deep mapping and GIS spatialization research to investigate how public art and open-space murals are embedded within Washington, DC’s urban landscape. Indexing these public arts allows a more compressive understanding of these vibrant enclaves of the nation’s capital.
UEI Papers and Reports
This paper will explore the nature of ephemeral urban spaces with special attention to the physical, linguistic, and political barriers that complexify the asylum and migrant experience for new arrivals in New York.
UEI Papers and Reports
The concept of spatial justice emerges as a central component of justice as a contemporary topic; in this way, the very bedrock of justice itself becomes more dynamic and flexible to the changing conditions of our social world.