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Habitus and the reasons and intentions for residential mobility and homeownership: A mixed-method study among former refugees in Buffalo
(2010)
The purpose of this study is to analyze residential mobility and homeownership as integral elements of the early refugee settlement process and the different meanings refugees assign to residential mobility and homeownership. ...
Reconnecting Buffalo with the water
(2010)
Statement of Issue/Problem. Over the years the City of Buffalo has lost its historic connections to Lake Erie, the Buffalo River and the Erie Canal: the very sources which powered the city to its early economic prominence. ...
Senecas and their neighbors: An ethnographic and historical portrait
(2010)
In this dissertation I examine the relationship between Senecas and Euro-Americans from initial contact until the present day. The disciplines of history and anthropology necessarily inform my work; the former gives it ...
Hip hop in Buffalo: Three stories of struggle, survival and success
(2010)
This study examines three manifestations of hip hop culture in Buffalo, New York through the voices of three artists. I connect three founders in the Bronx to Buffalo artists, revealing a context of how hip hop is understood ...
Oil City: Landscapes of resistance in urban development
(2010)
Syracuse’s “Oil City” has been undergoing remarkable changes since the late 1980’s. Successive development plans spanning from large-scale spectacles, to smaller neighborhood-focused ‘sidewalk community’ visions have been ...
“No one ever asked us”: Counterstories of the Rochester, NY open enrollment process
(2010)
Currently urban school districts of of our large cities in the United States are experiencing student populations that are overwhelmingly minority. Students are more than likely to be in classrooms where there is very ...
Bringing the international in: Local spaces and international politics on the Niagara Frontier, 1927–1947
(2010)
This dissertation examines the relationship between the local arena and the international in the American-Canadian border region of Western New York, during the period, 1927-1947. Primarily, it focuses on international ...
The transition from parens patriae to due process in the New York family court: Effects on the courtroom interaction of judge and lawyers, and the disposition of juvenile cases
(2010)
Based on systematic observations of interactions between the presiding judge and lawyers appearing in 276 juvenile proceedings adjudicated in a Family Court in a large metropolitan county in New York State, this study ...
The effect of deindustrialization and globalization on the feminization of poverty in Buffalo, New York (1970–2008): A case study of transitional housing at Gerard Place
(2010)
In this era of globalization, the themes of exploitation and the marginalization of women in the U.S. can be viewed as part of, and connected to, the feminization of poverty on an international scale. Global development ...
Reconceptualizing blight: A geographical and economic analysis of urban housing code violations in Buffalo, NY
(2012)
The concept of urban blight lacks an objective identity both in theory and practice. Neither policymakers nor social scientists have settled on a definition of the phenomenon, despite the ongoing, decades-long crusade ...