This article argues that we should examine Chicana/os in relation to other racialized groups in order to develop a fuller understanding of how racial categories form and operate. The article highlights different models of relational work by examining key works in Chicana/o history that have employed such a relational methodology. In addition, the article demonstrates how we can use organizing principles besides race to find links between racialized groups. Lastly, the author revisits key events in Chicana/o history, examining them through a relational lens, to demonstrate what may be gained through this methodology. © 2013 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. All rights reserved.

This dissertation is composed by three chapters. In Chapter 1 I use detailed information on labor composition of Brazilian firms to show that even though exporting firms are similar in the workforce composition, it is non- observable worker characteristics that matter the most to determine whether an exporting firm will become a future successful exporter. I find that the prior working experience of workers is a key component in determining a firm's future export success. Results show that hiring away workers with previous experience in other exporting companies has a significant effect on a firm's future probability of becoming a successful exporter. Furthermore, hiring these key workers increases a firm's market penetration and a firm's number of exporting destinations. In Chapter 2 I use detailed firm level data on a firm's external sources of financing and I show that firms with higher debt balances export less and grow at lower rates, especially during periods of economic distress. I use this data to provide evidence that financing constraints affect firms' extensive and intensive margins of exports. However, only a subset of financing constraints are related to exports. I show that short-term debt with domestic banking institutions is negatively related to a firm's extensive and intensive margins of trade, while supplier trade debt has a positive effect on a firm's intensive margin of exports. I show that firms located in sectors with higher dependence on external financing exhibit higher growth in their intensive margins of exports. In Chapter 3 I focus my attention a transport costs. In this chapter, I focus my attention on air cargo shipping and I extend the Melitz (2003) firm heterogenous model of trade by including a cargo shipping sector characterized by a oligopolistic competition structure with fixed entry costs. The market competition in air cargo shipping enables me to derive endogenous pricing rules that vary with the number of cargo carriers per route. Empirical results with US cargo data confirm the importance of competition in air cargo shipping prices

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As teacher educators (TEs), we have a unique and remarkable opportunity to mentor the next generation of teachers. Over the years, our teacher candidates (TCs) have reported a sense of cognitive and affective dissonance while engaging in their culminating master's research requirement as part of a research seminar course. Cognitively, this research study requires knowledge-generation quite different from research they engaged in throughout the program, where they would synthesize and analyze published work in response to a prompt. This knowledge-generation process would often result in challenging previously held assumptions regarding the topic of inquiry through an analysis of authentic data gathered in the field. Many also experience affective dissonance when beliefs about their sense of self as emerging practitioner-researchers are questioned. Some research has examined ways in which to provide deliberate feedback thatattunes not only to the TCs' cognitive and affective dimensions but also to where they can be moved in terms of the outer limits of their learning potential. This study examines how the lenses of socio-cultural and constructive-developmental theories can complement TEs in supporting their TCs in navigating the complex task of teacher research and proposes a framework for feedback practice grounded in a person-centered approach that accounts for TC developmental potentialities.

This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.