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1. Dissecting Sight: The Eye and the Art of Medicine in Early Modern Germany, 1500–1700

Zhao, Wenrui
2022
Theses
HistoryMedicine--HistoriographyEye--PhysiologyEye--Anatomy

2. Imagining Antioch: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Migration in the Greek Orthodox Levant, 1860-1958

Donovan, Joshua
2022
Theses
HistoryImperialismNationalismSocial changeOrthodox Eastern Church

3. Information in Counterrevolution: State Torture and the Armed Left in Southern South America in the 1970s

Katz, Paul Ryan
2022
Theses
HistoryTortureSocialismCounterrevolutionsNineteen seventiesRevolutionariesHuman rights

4. Law, Power, and the Anglo-American Relationship during Reconstruction of the United States, 1863-1878

Swett, Brooks Tucker
2022
Theses
HistoryAmerican Civil War (1861-1865)SlaveryDemocracyTreasonLaw reformFederal government

5. Punishing Promise: School Discipline and Carceral Expansion during the Era of Desegregation

Erickson, Ansley T.
2022
Theses
HistorySchool children--DisciplineYouth, BlackSegregation in educationAfrican Americans--SegregationImprisonment

6. “Recasting Minority: Islamic Modernists between South Asia, the Middle East, and the World, 1856-1947”

Bar Sadeh, Roy
2022
Theses
HistoryEast IndiansMuslimsIslamic ethicsAnti-imperialist movementsHalal foodReligious minorities

7. The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures, 1495-1690

Menashe, Tamar
2022
Theses
HistoryJews--Civil rightsAshkenazimSephardimLawJewish lawJews--Legal status, laws, etc.Roman lawCitizenshipHoly Roman Empire. Reichskammergericht

8. The Iraq-Mediterranean Pipelines and Power in the Middle East, 1925-1973

Pesaran, Natasha Guiti
2022
Theses
HistoryPetroleum pipelinesPetroleum industry and tradeTwentieth centuryIraq Petroleum Company

9. The Logic of Protection: US Army Culture and Enemy Women in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, 1835-1848

Meberg, Justine
2022
Theses
Military historyHistoryGender identitySex roleWomen's studiesSeminole War (2nd) (1835-1842)Mexican War (1846-1848)United States. Army

10. War at the Exhibition: Militarism and Mass Culture in South Korea, 1946-1973

Ryan, Thomas Michael
2022
Theses
HistoryKorean literatureMilitarismKorean War, 1950-1953Vietnam War, 1961-1975Popular culturePark, Chung Hee, 1917-1979

11. A Transpacific Caribbean: Chinese Migration, US Imperialism, and the Making of Modern Colombia

Ng Tam, Yung Hua Nancy
2021
Theses
HistoryChineseImmigrantsEmigration and immigrationMigrant labor--Economic aspectsChinese restaurants

12. Bloodless Battles: Contested Sovereignty between the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in Ottoman Iraq (1831-1908)

Azarbadegan, Zeinab Alsadat
2021
Theses
HistoryQajar Dynasty (Iran)ImperialismInternational relationsScienceTechnology

13. Empire of inequality: the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire, 1900-1950s

Woker, Madeline
2021
Theses
HistoryTaxationTwentieth centuryFrench coloniesEquality

14. Geography Triumphant: Maps, Cartographic Truths, and Imperial Frontier-making in Tibet in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mukherjee, Sayantani
2021
Theses
HistoryTibetansCartographyNineteenth centuryBoundariesPolitical geographyImperialism--British colonies

15. Global Townscape: The Rediscovery of Urban Life in the Late Twentieth Century

Subramanian, Divya Sethi
2021
Theses
HistoryCity planningStreet lifeUrban renewalCommunity development, Urban--PlanningTwentieth centuryJacobs, Jane, 1916-2006

16. Hui Nation: Islam and Muslim Politics in Modern China

Glasserman, Aaron Nathan
2021
Theses
HistoryMuslimsIslamHui (Chinese people)Religious minoritiesSocial movements

17. Law, Liturgy, and Sacred Space in Medieval Catalonia and Southern France, 800-1100

Matthews, Adam Christopher
2021
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryLaw, VisigothicTrials, litigation, etc.Religion and lawChurch and stateSacred space

18. Making Falsafa in Modern Egypt: Towards a History of Islamic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Giordani, Angela Marie
2021
Theses
HistoryIslamic philosophyMuslim philosophersJāmiʻ al-Azhar. Madrasa al-GawhariyaAvicenna, 980-1037Averroës, 1126-1198

19. Minds and Margins: Notarial Culture in Bologna, ca. 1250-1350

Kuersteiner, Sarina
2021
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryItalian literatureItalian poetryCivilization, MedievalNotariesMusical instrumentsArchives

20. Parsing Truth in Merovingian Gaul: Evidence and the Early Medieval Critic

Purcell, James
2021
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryTruthfulness and falsehoodMerovingiansChristian saintsLettersDeception

21. Power Failures: Engineers and the Litani River, 1918–1978

Lawson, Owain
2021
Theses
HistoryHydroelectric power plantsRiver engineeringDecolonization--French coloniesImperialismCapitalism

22. Slavery Is Slavery: Early American Mythmaking and the Invention of the Free State

Heniford, Kellen
2021
Theses
HistorySlaverySlavery--Legal status of slaves in free statesAntislavery movementsLabor economics

23. Slavery, Pollution, and Politics on Texas' Trinity River

McFarlane, Wallace Scot
2021
Theses
HistoryEnvironmental justiceRacismSlaveryWater--Pollution

24. Stripped: Ruination, Liminality, and the Making of the Gaza Strip

Halevy, Dotan
2021
Theses
HistoryImperialismArab-Israeli conflictWorld War (1914-1918)Barley industryBrewing industryRuined buildingsRuins, Modern

25. The Discovery of the “Free World”: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy

Slezkine, Peter
2021
Theses
HistoryCold War (1945-1989)International relationsFreedomTwentieth centuryTruman, Harry S., 1884-1972Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

26. The Disruption of Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area

McElroy, Micah David
2021
Theses
HistoryPhilanthropistsCorporations--Charitable contributionsSocial serviceBenefactors

27. The Life of Pictures: Charles Dana Gibson, John Sloan, and the Making of the Middle-Class Imagination, 1883-1913

Schwartz, Joshua Simon
2021
Theses
HistoryIllustration of booksMiddle class--Social life and customsSocial changeArt, AmericanGibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944Sloan, John, 1871-1951

28. The National Security State That Wasn’t: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Fight to Define the Government’s Responsibilities in the 1930s and 1940s

Roady, Peter
2021
Theses
HistoryPolitical scienceNational securityWelfare stateNineteen thirtiesNineteen fortiesRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

29. The 'Silver Sea' and the Nation-State: The Multifaceted Geopolitics of the Early Modern English Channel

Marris, Caroline Foster
2021
Theses
HistoryMapsGeographyInternational tradeCartographyCartographers

30. The Small Universe of Social Protection: Labor, Underemployment and Assistance in Mexico’s Welfare State, 1917-1970

Hidalgo Garza, Sara Daniela
2021
Theses
HistoryPublic healthPublic welfareInstituto Mexicano del Seguro SocialMexico. Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia

31. The Trials of Pope Formosus

Monroe, William S.
2021
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryTrialsPopesCouncils and synods (Canon law)Formosus, Pope, approximately 816-896Stephen V, Pope, -891

32. Undocumented Youth: The Labor, Education, and Rights of Migrant Children in Twentieth Century America

Padilla-Rodriguez, Ivon
2021
Theses
HistoryNoncitizen childrenNoncitizensNoncitizens--Civil rightsEmigration and immigration--Government policy

33. Crucibles of Virtue and Vice: The Acculturation of Transatlantic Army Officers, 1815-1945

Morris, John F.
2020
Theses
HistoryArmed Forces--OfficersSociologyNineteenth centuryMilitary educationStudents--Social life and customs

34. Farm to Pharmacy: Nutrition, Animals, and Governance in Britain 1870-1945

Igra, Alma
2020
Theses
HistoryNutritionFoodAnimal healthVitamins in human nutrition

35. Gay Liberation and the Politics of the Self in Postwar America

Serby, Benjamin
2020
Theses
HistoryGay liberation movementNew LeftFeminism

36. High in the City: A History of Drug Use in Mexico City, 1960-1980

Beckhart Coppinger, Sarah Elizabeth
2020
Theses
HistoryDrug abuseTwentieth centuryDrugs--Government policySocial statusSocial classesMarijuana

37. “In the Wider Interests of Nigeria”: Lagos and the Making of Federal Nigeria, 1941-76

Somotan, Titilola
2020
Theses
HistoryCity planningHousingSlumsAnti-imperialist movements

38. Jewish Midwives, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800

Katz, Jordan Rebekah
2020
Theses
HistoryJewsJewish womenMidwivesMedicine

39. Reimagining the Modern Hindu Self: Caste, Untouchability and Hindu Theology in Colonial South Asia, 1899-1948

Sarwate, Rahul Shirish
2020
Theses
HistorySouth AsiansHinduismHindusCasteDalits

40. Reproductive Labors: Women’s Expertise and Biomedical Authority in Mali, 1935-1999

Golaszewski, Devon
2020
Theses
HistoryPublic healthGender identitySex roleMidwiferyHeterosexuality--Social aspectsTwentieth centuryReproductive health--Social aspects

41. The Crisis of Spirit: Pan-Balkan Idealism, Transnational Cultural-Diplomatic Networks and Intellectual Cooperation in Interwar Southeast Europe, 1930-1941

Vuljevic, Suzana
2020
Theses
HistoryHistory, ModernEast EuropeansPolitics and cultureInternational relations and culture

42. The Politics and Culture of Gender in British Universities, 1860–1935

Rutherford, Emily Margaret
2020
Theses
HistoryGender studiesWomen--Education (Higher)--Social aspectsNineteenth centuryTwentieth centuryDiscrimination in higher educationUniversities and colleges

43. The Suburban Church: Catholic Parishes and Politics in Metropolitan New York, 1945-1985

Koeth, Stephen M.
2020
Theses
HistoryReligionCatholic ChurchSuburban churchesSuburban life

44. The Thread of Juche: Vinalon and Materially-Embodied Interdependencies in North Korea, 1930-2018

Cho, Eunsung
2020
Theses
Synthetic fabricsNationalismHistory

45. Under the Paving Stones: Militant Protest and Practices of the State in France and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968-1977

Provenzano, Luca
2020
Theses
HistoryFrenchGermansProtest movementsMarxism and cultureAnti-imperialist movementsPolice

46. Adopted by the World: China and the Rise of Global Intimacy

Neubauer, Jack Maren
2019
Theses
HistoryWorld historyIntercountry adoptionHumanitarianismInternational relations

47. Alive Enough? A Conflict over Divine Presence and Natural Power in the Reanimation of Dead Infants, 1400-1545

Elmer, Hannah
2019
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryResuscitationBaptism for the deadChristianity

48. Between Empire and Nation: Taiwan Sekimin and the Making of Japanese Empire in South China, 1895–1937

Gerien-Chen, James
2019
Theses
HistoryNation-buildingImperialism--Government policy

49. “Children of Africa, Shall Be Haytians”: Prince Saunders, Revolutionary Transnationalism, and the Foundations of Black Emigration

Alcenat, Westenley
2019
Theses
African AmericansEmigration and immigrationHistoryTransnationalismRevolution (Haiti : 1791-1804)Saunders, Prince, -1839

50. Corporatizing Defense: Management Expertise and the Transformation of the Cold War U.S. Military

Murphy, A.J.
2019
Theses
HistoryMilitary historyWar, Cost ofManagementCold War (1945-1989)

51. Empire, Nation, and the Islamic World: Bosnian Muslim Reformists between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1901-1914

Buljina, Harun
2019
Theses
HistoryPanislamismReligionIslamic modernismČaušević, Džemaluddin, 1870-1938

52. Every Citizen a Statesman: Building a Democracy for Foreign Policy in the American Century

Allen, David John
2019
Theses
HistoryInternational relationsCivics--Study and teachingDemocracyTwentieth centuryForeign Policy Association

53. In Socialism's Twilight: Michael Walzer and the politics of the long New Left

Marcus, David
2019
Theses
HistorySocialismPolitical scienceWalzer, Michael

54. Ocean Bombay: Space, Itinerancy and Community in an Imperial Port City, 1839-1937

Bhattacharyya, Tania
2019
Theses
HistoryHistoriographyCross-cultural studiesBritish Occupation of India (1765-1947)

55. Technicians of the Spirit: Post-Fascist Technocratic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 1945-1988

Kressel, Daniel Gunnar
2019
Theses
HistoryTechnocracyAuthoritarianism

56. The Art of Signs: Symbolic Notation and Visual Thinking in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1800

O'Neil, Sean Thomas
2019
Theses
HistorySigns and symbolsVisualizationKnowledge representation (Information theory)

57. “The Best of Doctors Go to Hell”: Rabbinic Medical Culture in Late Antiquity (200-600 CE)

Shinnar, Shulamit
2019
Theses
HistoryJewsReligionMedicine in rabbinical literatureMedicine, AncientRabbinical literature

58. The Burden of Forgiveness: Franciscans’ Impact on Penitential Practices in the Thirteenth Century

Yee, Ethan Leong
2019
Theses
HistoryMiddle AgesReligionForgivenessPenanceFranciscans

59. The Common Good: Property and State-Making in Late Imperial China

Luo, Weiwei
2019
Theses
HistoryEconomic historyPolitical scienceProperty

60. The Economic Weapon: Interwar Internationalism and the Rise of Sanctions, 1914-1945

Mulder, Nicholas
2019
Theses
HistoryEconomic historyInternational lawEconomic sanctionsSanctions (International law)International relations

61. The Misanthropic Sublime: Automation and the Meaning of Work in the Postwar United States

Resnikoff, Jason Zachary
2019
Theses
HistoryAutomationWar and societyWork

62. Tracing Tarbiya: Women, Education, and Childrearing in Lebanon and Egypt, 1860-1939

Ferguson, Susanna
2019
Theses
HistoryGender identitySex roleEducationFeminismWomen--Education

63. Transnational Ambitions: Student Migrants and the Making of a National Future in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Newman, Rachel Grace
2019
Theses
HistoryLatin AmericansCollege student mobilityForeign studyForeign study--Scholarships, fellowships, etc.International relations

64. Across War and Peace: Youth, Higher Education, and National Security in the United States, 1917-1945

Hattori, Masako
2018
Theses
HistoryHistory, ModernAmericansDraftYouth

65. Building Sovereignty in the Late Ottoman World: Imperial Subjects, Consular Networks and Documentation of Individual Identities

Ispahani, Merve
2018
Theses
HistoryLawSovereignty

66. Codes of Modernity: Infrastructures of Language and Chinese Scripts in an Age of Global Information Revolution

Kuzuoglu, Ulug
2018
Theses
HistoryChinese charactersChinese character sets (Data processing)

67. Education or Welfare? American and British Child Care Policy, 1965-2004

Danziger Halperin, Anna Klein
2018
Theses
HistoryEarly childhood educationPublic policy (Law)Child care--Government policyPolitical science

68. Fresh from the Factory: Breakfast Cereal, Natural Food, and the Marketing of Reform, 1890–1920

Kideckel, Michael Solomon
2018
Theses
HistoryEcologyNatural foods industryCapitalismFood--Marketing

69. Islamic Modernism in China: Chinese Muslim Elites, Guomindang Nation-Building, and the Limits of the Global Umma, 1900-1960

Chen, John
2018
Theses
HistoryIslamic modernismElite (Social sciences)Chinese--ReligionZhongguo guo min dang

70. Nationalist China in the Postcolonial Philippines: Diasporic Anticommunism, Shared Sovereignty, and Ideological Chineseness, 1945-1970s

Kung, Chien Wen
2018
Theses
HistoryChinese diasporaAnti-communist movementsNation-building

71. Scribes and the Vocation of Politics in the Maratha Empire, 1708-1818

Vendell, Dominic
2018
Theses
HistoryEast IndiansBrahmansMaratha (Indic people)--Politics and governmentScribesDiplomacyEast India Company

72. Spirit of Improvement: Construction, Conflict, and Community in Early National Port Cities

Lasdow, Kathryn
2018
Theses
HistoryArchaeologyArchitecturePort citiesUrban renewal

73. Statecraft and Insect Oeconomies in the Global French Enlightenment (1670-1815)

Stockland, Pierre-Etienne
2018
Theses
HistoryBeneficial insectsInsect pests--ControlInsects--Economic aspectsEnlightenment

74. Strange Bedfellows: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965—2000

Aumoithe, George
2018
Theses
HistoryPublic healthPublic policy (Law)Public welfare--Political aspectsHIV infections--Government policyMedicaidEpidemics

75. The Disembodied Eye: Technologies of Surveillance and the Logistics of Perception in the Ottoman Empire and Syria, 1900-1930

Zakar, Adrien Paul
2018
Theses
Military historyHistoryElectronic surveillanceMilitarism

76. The Making of a Muslim Reformer: Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1917-1996) and Islam in Postcolonial Egypt, 1947-1967

Zárate, Arthur Shiwa
2018
Theses
HistoryEthicsReligionIslamic renewalIslamReformersGhazālī, Muḥammad, 1917-1996

77. The Myth of Greek Algebra: Progress and Community in Early-Modern Mathematics

Kaplan, Abram Daniel
2018
Theses
HistoryMathematics--HistoriographyMathematics, GreekMathematicians

78. The Politics of Correspondence: Letter Writing in the Campaign Against Slavery in the United States

Freeman, Mary Tibbetts
2018
Theses
HistoryLetter writingAntislavery movementsPolitical participation

79. The Rule of Lawyers: The Politics of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid in Chile, 1915 to 1964

Gonzalez Le Saux, Marianne
2018
Theses
HistoryLaw--Political aspectsLawyersBar associationsLegal aid

80. A Bond that will Permanently Endure: The Eisenhower administration, the Bolivian revolution and Latin American leftist nationalism

Murphey, Oliver Rhoads
2017
Theses
Revolution (Bolivia : 1952)NationalismDiplomacyCold War (1945-1989)History

81. A Cyber-Socialism at Home and Abroad: Bulgarian Modernisation, Computers, and the World, 1967-1989

Petrov, Victor
2017
Theses
HistoryEast EuropeansNational socialism and technologyCybernetics

82. Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Upstart Empires, 1580-1640

Morris, Melissa Nicole
2017
Theses
HistoryTobaccoColoniesTrade routes

83. Education in Action: The Work of Bennett College for Women, 1930 - 1960

Flowers, Deidre Bennett
2017
Theses
Education, HigherAfrican American universities and collegesAfrican American women--Education (Higher)HistoryBennett College (Greensboro, N.C.)

84. Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922

Ismail, Shehab
2017
Theses
HistoryImperialismCities and towns--Growth

85. Expanding Educational Empires: The USA, Great Britain, and British Africa, circa 1902-1944

Dunitz, Sarah Claire
2017
Theses
HistoryReligionEducation, ColonialEducation--British coloniesEducation--American influences

86. Forging the Biafran State: Law and Crime in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1976

Daly, Samuel Fury Childs
2017
Theses
PostcolonialismWar crimesCivil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970)HistoryBiafran Army

87. Heresy, Money, and Society in Southern France, 1175-1325

Shulevitz, Deborah Gail
2017
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryAlbigensesChristian heresies--Middle Ages

88. Indian Slaves from Caribana: Trade and Labor in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

Arena, Carolyn Marie
2017
Theses
Indian slavesSlave tradeSlaveryHistoryIndigenous peoples

89. Living Law in Japan: Social Jurisprudence in the Interwar Period

Jones, Colin Philip Charles
2017
Theses
HistoryLawJurisprudence

90. Making Dance Modern: Knowledge, Politics, and German Modern Dance, 1890 – 1927

Keilson, Ana Isabel
2017
Theses
HistoryHistoryDance

91. Migrant Parents, Mexican-Americans, and Transnational Citizenship, 1920s to 1940s

Guzman, Romeo
2017
Theses
CitizenshipMexican AmericansMexican Americans--Politics and governmentEmigration and immigrationHistory

92. Mobile Health Teams, Decolonization, and the Eradication Era in Cameroon, 1945-1970

Runcie, Sarah Cook
2017
Theses
HistoryDecolonizationPublic healthWireless communication systems in medical care

93. Printing, Hebrew Book Culture and Sefer Ḥasidim

Skloot, Joseph Aaron
2017
Theses
HistoryJewsReligionSefer ḥasidim (Judah ben Samuel)

94. Salus Patriae: Public Health and the Roman State

Wazer, Caroline
2017
Theses
History, AncientRomansPublic healthHistory

95. Seeking the True Contrary: The Politics of Form and Experience in American Modernism, 1913-1950

Webre, Jude Patrick
2017
Theses
Modernism (Art)Art, AmericanUnited StatesModernism (Literature)HistoryAmerican literature

96. Settlement Colonialism: Compensatory Justice in United States Expansion, 1903-1941

Powers, Allison
2017
Theses
HistoryInternational lawImperialismReparations for historical injustices

97. Sovereign Bodies: Urban Indigenous Health and the Politics of Self-determination in Seattle and Sydney, 1950-1980

John, Maria Katherine
2017
Theses
Indigenous peoples--Health and hygieneUrban healthCommunity health servicesHistoryIndiansIndians of North AmericaAboriginal Medical Service (Sydney, N.S.W.)Seattle Indian Health Board

98. The American Hour: US Thinkers and the Problem of Decolonization, 1948-1983

Meaney, Thomas Mallory
2017
Theses
HistoryInternational relationsDecolonization

99. The Currents of Restless Toil: Colonial Rule and Indian Indentured Labor in Trinidad and Fiji

Batsha, Nishant
2017
Theses
HistorySouth AsiansIndentured servants--British coloniesEast IndiansImperialism

100. The Future of the Jews: Planning for the Postwar Jewish World, 1939-1946

Rubin, Gil S.
2017
Theses
HistoryJewsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Postwar reconstruction