Social Sciences Dissertations
Dissertations Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Social Sciences
Dissertation titles appear in the convocation programs.
Knowledge@UChicago Access
Most (86% since Summer 2021) of our recent social sciences dissertations may be viewed in Knowledge@UChicago, the University's open access repository. Please note that authors may choose to delay access to their work for a limited time.
- Anthropology
- Comparative Human Development
- Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
- Economics
- History
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Social Thought
- Sociology
ProQuest's dissertation databases, PQDT Global and their subset, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses @ University of Chicago, provide comprehensive access.
- 2023-2024 Winter Social Sciences 14% ProQuest-Only (58 Total, 8 IR: No)
- 2022-2023 Social Sciences 17% ProQuest-Only (116 Total, 20 IR: No)
- 2021-2022 Social Sciences 12% ProQuest-Only (113 Total, 14 IR: No)
ProQuest-Only Access
Dissertations by authors who did not choose the University's open access repository may be viewed in ProQuest's dissertation databases or requested via interlibrary loan. Please note that authors may choose to delay access to their work for a limited time.
2023-2024 Winter
Anthropology (7 Total, 1 IR: No)
LaShaya Shari Howie
Death Work and the Body: Contemporary Black Funeral Practices in the United States
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (2 Total, 2 IR: No)
Eamon Kenneth Duede
Epistemology of AI-Infused Science
Jillian Elaine Foley
Cryptography and Speculative Technopolitics in the 20th Century United States
History (11 Total, 1 IR: No)
Timothy Crimmins
From Rehabilitation to Incapacitation: Social Scientists, Crime, and Incarceration in the 1960s and 1970s
Political Science (12 Total, 2 IR: No)
Christy Monet Brandly
Political Imagination and Liberal Reform: Figuring the Family in 19th-Century Russian Literature
Ji Xue
Price and Perils of Pivotality
Social Thought (3 Total, 2 IR: No)
Andrea Elizabeth Ray
Reasoning Over Time: Hegel’s Critique of Spinoza and the Possibilities of History
Joshua Boone Trubowitz
Spontaneous Activity and Truthfulness in Aristotle's Theory of Perception
2022-2023
Anthropology (16 Total, 2 IR: No)
Briel Kobak
Heaven on Earth in America
Economics (26 Total, 9 IR: No)
Syed Muhammad Faraz Hayat
Essays in Public Economics
Yusheng Fei
The Year-End Effect in the Foreign Exchange Market
Eyo Alexander Ildahl Herstad
Essays on Applied Econometrics
Sota Ichiba
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Jiarui Liu
Demand Estimation and Policy Design under Network Effects in the Electric Vehicles Market
Harshil Kumar Sahai
Essays in Development Economics
Mateusz Stalinski
Essays in Behavioral Political Economy
Mehrdad Tavhilian
Bargaining in Matching Markets
Antonios Tsiflis
Financial Frictions and Variable Markups
History (27 Total, 4 IR: No)
Benny Bar-Lavi
Politics against God: Judaism and Islam in the Political-Theological Discourse of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
Jacob Michael Betz
For the Souls of Children: Making the American Catholic Case for State Support of Religion, 1870-1970
Spencer Dean Stewart
Seeds of Construction: Cotton, Science, and Society in Republican China
Political Science (11 Total, 2 IR: No)
David Knight
Mobilizations from Within: Black Political Life and Organizing in Prison America
Marcus Alexander Lee
Visibility Pursuits: Black Gay and Lesbian Politics, 1984 – 1997
Social Thought (5 Total, 1 IR: No)
Elga Johanna Mick Clausen
Is War a World Apart? ‘Necessity’ In Walzer, Thucydides and Hobbes
Sociology (13 Total, 2 IR: No)
Austin Carty Kozlowski
The Structure and Organization of American Political Belief Systems
Allison Schuyler Reed
Surviving Social Movements: Repertoires of Care in US Social Justice Activism
2021-2022
Anthropology (17 Total, 1 IR: No)
Cameron Hu
Knowing Destroying: The Geopolitics of Fracking and the Metaphysics of Imperialism
Comparative Human Development (9 Total, 1 IR: No)
Emily Elizabeth Wilson
Friendly Welfare: Care After Austerity in Northern England
Economics (22 Total, 2 IR: No)
Ricardo Quineche Uribe
Long Memory in Excess Stock Returns: The cay Model, the cday Model, Fractional Cointegration, and Return Predictability
Juhana Siljander
Essays in Labor and Macroeconomics
History (18 Total, 4 IR: No)
Alexander William Hofmann
Southern Sublime: Legacies of Civil War Violence in the New South
Charlotte Robertson
Empire of Finance: The Political Economy of Capital Markets in Second Empire France
Allison Robinson
A New Deal Craft Revival: Race, Gender, and Cultural Nationalism in the Work Projects Administration
Lael Daniel Weinberger
American Lawyers and International Law from Arbitration to Human Rights, 1900–1954
Political Science (15 Total, 3 IR: No)
Margaret Teresa Brower
How She Reconfigures the State: Intersectional Advocacy and the Movement Against Violence
Alejandro Flores
The Electoral Impacts and Limits of Multilingual Campaigns
Isaac Walton Hock
Ring of Fire: Informal Urbanization, Violence and Distributive Politics in South Africa
Social Thought (8 Total, 1 IR: No)
Danielle Charette
David Hume's Imperfect Commonwealth
Sociology (10 Total, 2 IR: No)
Wan-Zi Lu
Body Politics: Morals, Markets and the Mobilization of Organ Donation for Transplantation
Moira O'Shea
Amidst Horse Games and Monuments: Nation-Making, Material Culture, and Belonging in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan