Acknowledgments

This work would not have been possible without the financial support of Brown University, and the Hazeltine Fellowship. I am grateful to all of those with whom I have had the pleasure to work during this and other related projects. I would especially like to thank Dr. Meghan ­Kallman and Dr. Leslie Campbell, for reading and giving critical feedback on this project as it took shape. Nobody has been more important to me in the pursuit of this project than the members of my family—my parents, my loving and supportive husband, and our kids, who provide unending inspiration.