How do perceivers stereotype people who are at the margins of multiple, interlocking social identities? The present dissertation proposes and tests a model of intersectional stereotyping called intersectional categorization theory (ICT). This model advocates the following core ideas: (a) that perceivers use one lens at a time for making sense...
Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana Verónica Dávila Ellis What meanings are ascribed to the voices and sonic compositions of Caribbean and Latinx women and queer performers? What do their sounds tell us about Caribbean identity, gender, sexuality, and race? This dissertation centers the work of...
With the global rise of surveillance technology, contentious episodes may be captured on video from multiple perspectives. These perspectives include the third-person visual perspective such as red-light cameras and dashboard cameras, the first-person visual perspective such as body-worn cameras, and perspectives from written descriptions such as police reports and witness...
Reading informs our understandings of the world. Information we encounter in both academic and everyday reading situations can be integrated into our general knowledge, influencing our perceptions and decisions. When the information we read is valid, these influences are desirable. However, we are also routinely exposed to inaccurate information which,...
This dissertation studies the sense most neglected in literary studies, philosophy, and the history of the senses: olfaction. It argues that modernity has been marked by a tendency towards deodorization that attempts to establish a monosensorial and odorless civilization shaped by ocularcentrism. Against this tendency, the authors studied here (Friedrich...
There is a rich history on the study of the interplay between symmetry and synchronization in networks. At the most fundamental level, many synchronization patterns are induced by underlying network symmetries. However, when stability is taken into account, the relation between symmetry and synchronization is far from monotonic. In this...
Current genetic studies are largely biased towards European populations, leaving the discovery of genomics biomarkers and causative genetic variants unexplored in minority populations, such as African Americans. Meanwhile, African Americans are disproportionately affected by a variety of complex diseases and respond differently to many drug treatments. The disparity is due...
Mobile internet has brought a disruptive innovation to the ride-hail industry. The technology introduced by Uber, referred to as e-hail, matches passengers with drivers through their smart phones, while integrating transaction and feedback in a single app. In comparison to taxis hailed off street, or street-hail (s-hail hereafter), e-hail has...
In everyday conversations, listeners need to rapidly perceive and parse speech input as they receive it. While listeners with normal hearing may do this with relative ease, this is a multi-step process that requires listeners to recognize individual speech sounds as meaningful then integrate them to understand and respond almost...
Scholars of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires—an international theatre hub— disproportionately emphasize Spanish-language performances. This tendency erases the histories of immigrant performing artists, such as Yiddish-speaking Jews who fled en masse to Argentina in order to escape rising antisemitism in Europe and Russia. By focusing on Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires, this...