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1. A War of Proper Names: The Politics of Naming, Indigenous Insurrection, and Genocidal Violence During Guatemala’s Civil War.

Mazariegos, Juan Carlos
2020
Theses
EthnologyHistoryLatin AmericansCivil War (Guatemala : 1960-1996)Ixil IndiansGenocide

2. Between hope and hopelessness. Citizenship education and student mobilization in a Chilean public high school.

Mayorga Camus, Luis Rodrigo
2020
Theses
EducationHistoryEducation, SecondaryCitizenship--Study and teaching (Secondary)Social movementsHigh school students

3. Broadcasting Faith: Regulating Radio from the New Era to the American Century

Noell, David
2020
Theses
HistoryCommunicationReligionRadio broadcasting

4. Dante and Boccaccio: A Poetics of Textiles

Visco, Julianna Van
2020
Theses
HistoryTextile industry in literatureWeaving in literatureDante Alighieri, 1265-1321Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni)Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)

5. Edgar Joseph Edmunds (1851 – 1887), Mathematics Teacher at the Center of New Orleans’ Post-Civil War Fight Over School Integration

Zelbo, Sian
2020
Theses
African AmericansHistoryRace relationsMathematics--Study and teaching

6. Empire-Building and Market-Making at the Qin Frontier: Imperial Expansion and Economic Change, 221–207 BCE

Korolkov, Maxim
2020
Theses
HistoryImperialismQin Dynasty (China)Economic history--HistoriographyForced laborImperialism--Economic aspects

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

Igra, Alma
2020
Theses
HistoryNutritionFoodAnimal healthVitamins in human nutrition

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

Serby, Benjamin
2020
Theses
HistoryGay liberation movementNew LeftFeminism

9. Imprinted Identity: A History of Literature and Communal Selfhood in the Nath Sampradāy

Marrewa Karwoski, Christine
2020
Theses
South AsiansReligionHistoryHindu philosophyIslamic philosophy

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

Somotan, Titilola
2020
Theses
HistoryCity planningHousingSlumsAnti-imperialist movements

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

Katz, Jordan Rebekah
2020
Theses
HistoryJewsJewish womenMidwivesMedicine

12. Malfunctioning Machinery: The Global Making of Chinese Cotton Mills, 1877-1937

Yi, Yuan
2020
Theses
HistoryCotton textile industryEconomic historyTextile factoriesIndustrialization

13. Materials, Labor, and Apprehension: Building for the Threat of Fire across the Nineteenth-Century British Atlantic

Rowen, Jonah
2020
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryArchitecture and societyBuilding, FireproofBuildings--EvacuationNineteenth century

14. Medieval Culture and Modern Exile: The Middle Ages in the Russian Religious Émigré Imagination

Pheiffer, Brittany Paige
2020
Theses
HistoryReligionExpatriate philosophersEthnologyIntellectualsBerdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ, 1874-1948Florovsky, Georges, 1893-1979Fedotov, G. P. (Georgiĭ Petrovich), 1886-1951

15. On the Origin and End of Sex: Language, science and social construction in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Monique Wittig

Burton, William Michael
2020
Theses
HistoryGender identitySex roleSex differencesLesbiansRousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778Wittig, Monique

16. Pythagoras in Baghdad: Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī and the Science of Music in the Medieval Islamic World

Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh
2020
Theses
HistoryMiddle AgesIslamic musicIslam and science

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

Sarwate, Rahul Shirish
2020
Theses
HistorySouth AsiansHinduismHindusCasteDalits

18. Spaces of Servitude: Servant, Master, and the Negotiation of Spatial Economies in the Nineteenth-century Russian novel

Kapilevich, Inna
2020
Theses
Slavic literatureRussian literatureHistoryEconomic historyMaster and servant in literatureHousehold employees in literature

19. The Battles of Algiers: Popular Politics of the Algerian Revolution

Sariahmed-Belhadj, Nadia
2020
Theses
North AfricansHistoryAlgerians--Political activityRevolutionsAnti-imperialist movements

20. The Cantonments of Northern India: Colonialism and the Counter Urban, 1765–1889

Cowell, Christopher
2020
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryArtImperialism and architectureMilitary basesEast India Company

21. 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

22. The “Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons”: French Intellectuals and Activism Post May ’68

Courtois, Kalinka
2020
Theses
HistoryPolitical activistsSocial movementsNineteen seventiesIntellectuals

23. The Levantine Maqāma Before the Nahḍa and Beyond the Novel

Shmookler, Max
2020
Theses
Middle Eastern literatureHistoryArabic literature

24. The Point of Destruction: Sabotage, Speech, and Progressive-Era Politics

Lossin, Rebecca Hawthorne
2020
Theses
HistoryIndustrial relationsIndustrializationLabor policyStrikes and lockoutsNineteenth century

25. 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

26. The Professional is Political: The Women’s Movement in American Architecture, 1971–1985

Merrett, Andrea Jeanne
2020
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryGender identitySex roleFeminism and architecture

27. The Stories We Tell: Novellas, News, and the Uses of Casuistry in Early Modern Europe

Burns, Raphaelle J.
2020
Theses
Romance literatureHistoryComparative literatureCurrent eventsStorytellingCasuistry in literatureBoccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616

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

Koeth, Stephen M.
2020
Theses
HistoryReligionCatholic ChurchSuburban churchesSuburban life

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

Cho, Eunsung
2020
Theses
Synthetic fabricsNationalismHistory

30. To Pray without Ceasing: A Diachronic History of Cistercian Chant in the Beaupré Antiphoner (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W. 759-762)

Glasenapp, Brian
2020
Theses
Middle AgesHistoryCistercian artChantsCisterciansCistercian monasteriesCistercian nuns

31. Transformed Within, Transformed Without: The Enactment of Religious Conversion in Medieval and Early Modern European Saint Plays

Kuntz, Emily Ciavarella
2020
Theses
TheaterHistoryReligionConversionMysteries and miracle-playsChristianity

32. Trial and Error: The Invention of Cancer Chemotherapy 1950-1980

Levy, Moran
2020
Theses
Social sciences--ResearchHistoryOncologyChemotherapyLeukemia--Treatment

33. 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

34. Work and Worship: Inari Shrines in Japan’s Commercial and Industrial Landscape, 1673-1864

Tsuneishi, Norihiko
2020
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryFolkloreShinto shrinesInariReligion--Economic aspects

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

Neubauer, Jack Maren
2019
Theses
HistoryWorld historyIntercountry adoptionHumanitarianismInternational relations

36. 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

37. Beneath the Concrete: Camp, Colony, Palestine

Abourahme, Nasser
2019
Theses
HistoryGeographyPolitical scienceRefugee campsColoniesHumanitarianism

38. 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

39. Between Protest, Compromise, and Education for Radical Change: Black Power Schools in Harlem in the Late 1960s

Huang, Viola Hsiang-Dsin
2019
Theses
Blacks--EducationHistoryEducationBlack powerAfrican Americans--EducationUrban schools

40. Building Narratives: Ireland and the “Colonial Period” in American Architectural History

Herman, Leslie
2019
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryArchitecture, ColonialCivilization--Irish influencesHistoriographyCity planning

41. “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

42. 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)

43. Cultural Consumption and Political Thought in the Age of the American Revolution

Hoffman, Mark Anthony
2019
Theses
SociologyHistorySociolinguisticsPolitical cultureBooks and reading--Sociological aspectsFounding Fathers of the United States--Books and reading

44. Dharma Possession: Daishi Myōjin and the Roles of Gods and Past Masters in the Preservation of Teachings at Premodern Kōyasan

Tinsley, Elizabeth Noelle
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryBuddhism--Study and teachingBuddhism--Doctrines

45. 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

46. Essays in History and Spatial Economics with Big Data

Lee, Sun Kyoung
2019
Theses
EconomicsCity planningHistoryBig dataSpace in economicsEmigration and immigration--Economic aspects

47. 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

48. Fictions of Authorship: Literary Modernity and the Cultural Politics of the Author in Late Qing and Republican China

Sun, Myra
2019
Theses
LiteratureHistoryAuthorshipChinese literature

49. From Tin to Pewter: Craft and Statecraft in China, 1700-1844

Wang, Yijun
2019
Theses
HistoryCommerceTinTechnological innovationsInternational trade

50. Good Evidence, Bad Evidence: Science, Ethics, and the Politics of Making and Unmaking Public Health Policies

Johns, David Merritt
2019
Theses
Public healthHistoryScience--Moral and ethical aspectsEvidence

51. Haunting Matters: Demonic Infestation in Northern Europe, 1400-1600

Barnes, Rex Delno
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryDemonologyTheologyFolklore

52. Hipped and Gabled: Similitude and Vicissitude in Kerala's Sacred Art and Architecture

Menon, Arathi
2019
Theses
ArtSouth AsiansHistoryCanonizationReligious architectureArt and religion

53. History as Meta-Theater: Kong Shangren’s (1648-1718) The Peach Blossom Fan

Bernard, Allison Elizabeth
2019
Theses
Oriental literatureTheaterHistoryHistorical dramaChinese dramaHistoriographyTao hua shan (Kong, Shangren)

54. “I Can’t Breathe”: The Rise of Asthma in Black Urban America

Kola, Ijeoma Beatrice
2019
Theses
HistoryPublic healthUrban blacksAsthmaDiscrimination in medical careEnvironmental justice

55. Imitating Matter: Ontologies of Reform in the Literature of the Long Reconstruction

Tsygankova, Valeria
2019
Theses
American literatureHistoryReformersReconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)

56. In Pursuit of a Softer Path: Countercultural Vision, Energy Politics, and the American Appropriate Technology Movement

Gaglio, Meredith J.
2019
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryCity planningAppropriate technologyCountercultureEnergy policy

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

Marcus, David
2019
Theses
HistorySocialismPolitical scienceWalzer, Michael

58. “It’s Like a Puzzle With a Million Pieces”: The Productive Possibilities of Conflict in a Teacher Inquiry Group

Gustafson, Carmela
2019
Theses
Teachers--Training ofEducation, SecondaryHistoryLiteracyLiteracy--Study and teaching

59. Liberation, Learning, and Love: The Story of Harlem Preparatory School, 1967-1974

Goldenberg, Barry M.
2019
Theses
HistoryBlacks--EducationMulticultural educationEducational equalizationPreparatory schoolsEducationHarlem Preparatory School

60. Local Power in Dante's Inferno

Chida, Nassime Jehan
2019
Theses
HistoryHistoriographyPower (Philosophy)Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

61. Mary Beard: Member of the Nursing Vanguard, 1903 to 1944

Boddice, Sandra Dawn
2019
Theses
HistoryNursingPublic healthNursesBeard, Mary, 1876-1946

62. Mimetic Sensations: Sensation Genres, Victorian Realism, and the Transmission of Feeling

Simon, Jessica
2019
Theses
English literatureTheaterHistoryRealism in literatureEmotions in literature

63. Modernism and Mass Press from Mallarmé to Proust

McGuinness, Max
2019
Theses
HistoryJournalismPress and journalism in literatureModernism (Literature)

64. Modernism’s Politics of Land: Settlement Colonialism and Migrant Mobility In the German Empire, from Prussian Poland to German Namibia, 1884-1918

Kennedy, Hollyamber
2019
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryColonizationLand use--PlanningArchitecture, Modern

65. 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)

66. Of Poets and Physicians: Medical and Scientific Thought from the Sicilian School to Dante, 1230-1300

Pace, Matteo
2019
Theses
HistoryComparative literatureLiterature and scienceLiterature and medicineThirteenth century

67. Pushkin for President: Russian Literary Cults in the Transition from Communism

Pinkham, Sophie Charlotte
2019
Theses
LiteratureHistoryRussian literatureCultsMemorialsPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837Dovlatov, Sergeĭ

68. Race and Performative Historiography in the American Theatre, 1991-2014

Schneider, Rosa Elizabeth
2019
Theses
TheaterHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoriographyHistorical dramaRace in the theater

69. Socialist Medicine and Maoist Humanitarianism: Chinese Medical Missions to Algeria, 1963-1984

Zou, Dongxin
2019
Theses
HistoryMissions, MedicalGlobalization--Political aspectsCommunism and medicineHumanitarian assistance

70. São Paulo as Migrant-Colony: Pre-World War II Japanese State-Sponsored Agricultural Migration to Brazil

Deckrow, Andre Kobayashi
2019
Theses
HistoryMigrant agricultural laborersEmigration and immigrationJapanese

71. Storming Heaven With Memories

Mohaiemen, Naeem
2019
Theses
EthnologyHistorySouth AsiansCommunismHistoriography

72. Taming Teotl: the Making of an Aztec Pantheon in Colonial Mexico

Colmenares Gonzalez, David Horacio
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryAztec godsColonizationIndians of Mexico

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

Kressel, Daniel Gunnar
2019
Theses
HistoryTechnocracyAuthoritarianism

74. 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)

75. “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

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

Yee, Ethan Leong
2019
Theses
HistoryMiddle AgesReligionForgivenessPenanceFranciscans

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

Luo, Weiwei
2019
Theses
HistoryEconomic historyPolitical scienceProperty

78. The Cultural Contradictions of Cryptography

Berret, Charles
2019
Theses
Mass mediaPolitical scienceCryptographyHistory

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

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

80. The Merchant, the Prince, and the Law of the Land: Reframing Brazil's Transnational Land Deals

Debucquois, Claire
2019
Theses
LawEconomicsHistoryLand tenureMonopolies

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

Resnikoff, Jason Zachary
2019
Theses
HistoryAutomationWar and societyWork

82. The Poetry of Interpretation: Exegetical Lyric after the English Reformation

Bloomfield, Gabriel
2019
Theses
English literatureReligionHistoryHermeneuticsDevotional poetryCriticism and interpretation

83. The Scepter and the Cilice: the Politics of Repentance in Sixteenth-Century France (1572-1610)

Gardner, Rose Esther
2019
Theses
HistoryTheologyRepentance--ChristianityReligion and politicsPhilology

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

Ferguson, Susanna
2019
Theses
HistoryGender identitySex roleEducationFeminismWomen--Education

85. 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

86. Understanding Patrimonial Resilience: Lessons from the Ottoman Empire

Kobas, Tolga
2019
Theses
SociologyHistoryPolitics and governmentDespotismEnderun Mektebi (Istanbul, Turkey)

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

Hattori, Masako
2018
Theses
HistoryHistory, ModernDraftYouth

88. Altruism in Action: The Southern Baptist Nurse Missionary in Nigeria, Mid-twentieth Century

Salevan, Alison
2018
Theses
NursingHistoryReligionAltruismMissionaries, MedicalWomen in missionary work

89. Architectural Citation of Notre-Dame of Paris in the Land of the Paris Cathedral Chapter

Cook, Lindsay Shepherd
2018
Theses
ArtArchitecture, GothicMiddle AgesHistoryChurch architectureRural churches

90. “A whole chapel cast and engraved with images”: New Perspectives on the Tomb of Saint Sebald in Nuremberg

Gans, Sofia
2018
Theses
ArtHistoryTombsSebalduskirche (Nuremberg, Germany)

91. Beyond Discourse: Computational Text Analysis and Material Historical Processes

Atria, Jose Tomas
2018
Theses
SociologyHistorySociolinguisticsSemantic networks (Information theory)

92. Beyond the Negro Problem: The Engagement between Literature and Sociology in the Age of the New Negro

Richardson, Erica Nicole
2018
Theses
African AmericansAmerican literature--African American authorsHistoryAfrican Americans--Social conditionsLiterature and societySociology

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

Ispahani, Merve
2018
Theses
HistoryLawSovereignty

94. 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)

95. Communist Miscellany: The Paperwork of Revolution

Chang, Jian Ming Chris
2018
Theses
HistoryAsiansCommunismGovernment paperworkArchival materials

96. Designing Natural Advantages: Environmental Visions, Civic Ideals, and Architecture for Community, 1920 – 1970

Rhee, Chae-Young
2018
Theses
ArtHistoryEnvironmentalism

97. Disclosing the Far East: Transpacific Encounters and the Beginnings of Global History in the Early Modern Iberian World (1565-1670)

Ibanez Aristondo, Miguel
2018
Theses
HistoryHispanic AmericansHistory in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Missionaries

98. 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

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

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

100. From Minimalism to Performance Art: Chris Burden, 1967–1971

Teti, Matthew
2018
Theses
ArtistsHistoryPerforming artsPerformance artBurden, Chris, 1946-2015