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Dissertation: Reducing Abortion Rates Without Restricting Legal Access to Abortion: Evidence from Comparative Analysis of Relevant Policies and Demographic Indicators in 15 Post-Soviet Countries and Adaptive Agent-Based Modeling of Unintended Pregnancies

Abortion is a controversial topic internationally. Most current debates about abortion concern when, if at all, it should be legal. However,…

Thesis: Changes in American Judicial Behavior in Disability Discrimination Cases in Response to Anti-Discrimination Legislation

Disabled people have historically lacked legal protection and often faced discrimination in healthcare, reproductive rights, education, and more…

Thesis: Vasectomy: Goals, Practices, and Effects

Vasectomy is one of few widely available methods of contraception for people with male reproductive systems aside from condoms, abstinence, and…

Thesis: The Impacts of Simplifying Science and How to Achieve Understanding

Simplifying science means more than just making science understandable for people of lower chronological age, it also encompasses making science…

Dissertation: Editing Engagement: Visions of Science, Democracy, and Responsibility in Gene Editing Discourse

Thesis: Overcoming a Cycle of Shame Through Menstrual Education: How Sources of Information Prepare Girls to Detect and Treat Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding

Developing a codebook of definitions and exemplars of significant text segments and applying it to the collected data revealed several themes. For…

Thesis: Reviving the Dead, Ignoring the Living: Emotions, Ethics, and the Dream of De-Extinction

The goal of this research project was to examine how different messaging techniques, and especially expressions of emotionality surrounding the loss…

Thesis: From Monsters to Medicine: A Historical Analysis of Changes in the Field of Teratology Over the Twentieth Century

This project focuses on the history of how teratogens, or agents which have the potential to cause birth defects, have been understood and tested for…

Dissertation: A Fetus By Any Other Name: How Words Shaped the Fetal Personhood Movement in US Courts and Society (1884-1973)

The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a significant event in the story of fetal personhood—the story of whether embryos and fetuses are legal…

Thesis: Surviving Cervical Cancer: A History of Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment

This thesis answers the following question: How does the history of cervical cancer show that prevention helps reduce rates of cancer-related deaths…