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1. Beneath the Concrete: Camp, Colony, Palestine

Abourahme, Nasser
2019
Theses
HistoryGeographyPolitical scienceRefugee campsColoniesHumanitarianism

2. 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

3. “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

4. 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

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

Sun, Myra
2019
Theses
LiteratureHistoryAuthorshipChinese literature

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

Wang, Yijun
2019
Theses
HistoryCommerceTinTechnological innovationsInternational trade

7. 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

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

Barnes, Rex Delno
2019
Theses
ReligionHistoryDemonologyTheologyFolklore

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

Menon, Arathi
2019
Theses
ArtSouth AsiansHistoryCanonizationReligious architectureArt and religion

10. 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)

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

Marcus, David
2019
Theses
HistorySocialismPolitical scienceWalzer, Michael

12. “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

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

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

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

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

15. 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)

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

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

17. 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

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

Kressel, Daniel Gunnar
2019
Theses
HistoryTechnocracyAuthoritarianism

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

Yee, Ethan Leong
2019
Theses
HistoryMiddle AgesReligionForgivenessPenanceFranciscans

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

Luo, Weiwei
2019
Theses
HistoryEconomic historyPolitical scienceProperty

21. The Cultural Contradictions of Cryptography

Berret, Charles
2019
Theses
Mass mediaPolitical scienceCryptographyHistory

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

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

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

Ferguson, Susanna
2019
Theses
HistoryGender identitySex roleEducationFeminismWomen--Education

24. 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

25. Understanding Patrimonial Resilience: Lessons from the Ottoman Empire

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

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

Hattori, Masako
2018
Theses
HistoryHistory, ModernDraftYouth

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

Salevan, Alison
2018
Theses
NursingHistoryReligionAltruismMissionaries, MedicalWomen in missionary work

28. 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

29. “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)

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

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

31. 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

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

Ispahani, Merve
2018
Theses
HistoryLawSovereignty

33. 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)

34. Communist Miscellany: The Paperwork of Revolution

Chang, Jian Ming Chris
2018
Theses
HistoryAsiansCommunismGovernment paperworkArchival materials

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

Rhee, Chae-Young
2018
Theses
ArtHistoryEnvironmentalism

36. 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

37. 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

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

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

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

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

40. Governing Shōnan: The Japanese Administration of Wartime Singapore

Eaton, Clay
2018
Theses
HistoryHistory, ModernWorld War (1939-1945)ImperialismMilitary participation--Japanese

41. Inventing Chinese Buddhas: Identity, Authority, and Liberation in Song-Dynasty Chan Buddhism

Buckelew, Kevin
2018
Theses
ReligionSong Dynasty (China)HistoryMahayana BuddhismZen BuddhismBuddhasChinese--Religion

42. 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

43. Licentious Topographies: Space and the Traumas of Colonial Subjectivity in Modern Egypt

Dardir, Ahmed Diaa
2018
Theses
HistoryCounterrevolutionsImperialism

44. 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

45. Natural Law and the Origins of Political Secularism in Early Modern Europe

Mull, Nathaniel
2018
Theses
Political scienceHistoryReligionSecularism--Political aspectsNatural law

46. Nourishing Life: Diet, Body, and Society in Early Modern Japan

Schlachet, Joshua Evan
2018
Theses
HistoryAsiansFood--AnalysisDietLifestyles--Health aspectsSociology

47. Of Poetry, Patronage, and Politics: From Saga to Michizane, Sinitic Poetry in the Early Heian Court

Reeves, Kristopher Lee
2018
Theses
LiteratureHistoryKanshi (Japanese poetry)Authors and patronsSaga, Emperor of Japan, 786-842

48. Origin Narratives: Reading and Reverence in Late Ming China

Ganany, Noga
2018
Theses
Hagiography in literatureReligionHistoryLegends in literatureChinese literature

49. Playing the Judge: Law and Imperial Messaging in Severan Rome

Herz, Zach Robert
2018
Theses
Civilization, ClassicalClassical antiquitiesLawHistoryImperialismSeverus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, 146-211

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

Vendell, Dominic
2018
Theses
HistorySouth AsiansMaratha (Indic people)--Politics and governmentScribesDiplomacy

51. Searching for Shakuntala: Sanskrit drama and theatrical modernity in Europe and India, 1789-Present

Culp, Amanda Louise
2018
Theses
TheaterHistorySanskrit dramaSanskrit literatureŚakuntalā (Kālidāsa)

52. Small Words, Weighty Matters: Gossip, Knowledge and Libel in Early Republican China, 1916-1928

Zhang, Jing
2018
Theses
HistoryCommunicationLawGossip in mass mediaPolitical participationPolitical scienceLibel and slander

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

Lasdow, Kathryn
2018
Theses
HistoryArchaeologyArchitecturePort citiesUrban renewal

54. Standpoints on Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization

Rule, Alix
2018
Theses
SociologyHistoryMentally ill--DeinstitutionalizationPsychiatric hospitalsPsychiatry

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

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

56. 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

57. Structural Avenues for Mobilization - The Case of British Abolition

Makovi, Kinga Reka
2018
Theses
SociologySocial structureSlaveryHistory

58. Temporary Ruins: Miyamoto Ryūji's Architectural Photography in Postmodern Japan

Cushman, Carrie
2018
Theses
ArtHistoryArchitectural photographyRuins in artMiyamoto, Ryūji, 1947-

59. 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

60. 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

61. The Mirror of Glory: Sense and Subjectivity in Near Eastern Mysticism

Ugolnik, Zachary
2018
Theses
ReligionHistoryLiteratureMirrors in literatureMysticism

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

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

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

Freeman, Mary Tibbetts
2018
Theses
HistoryLetter writingAntislavery movementsPolitical participation

64. 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

65. 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

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

Petrov, Victor
2017
Theses
HistoryEast EuropeansNational socialism and technologyCybernetics

67. Building Blocks of Power: The Architectural Commissions and Decorative Projects of the Pucci Family in the Renaissance

D'Arista, Carla Adella
2017
Theses
Art, ItalianArchitecture, ItalianArchitecture, Renaissance--Italian influencesPainting, Renaissance--Italian influencesArt, RenaissanceRenaissanceArchitectureArtHistoryPuccini family

68. Buying Time: Literary Philanthropy and 20th Century American Literature

Rocca, Alexander Gordon
2017
Theses
American literatureLiteratureHistoryAuthors and patronsEndowments

69. Circling The Waters: The Keichō Embassy and Japanese-Spanish Relations in the Early Seventeenth Century

Batts, Joshua Paul
2017
Theses
HistoryWorld historyTokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868International relations

70. Contending Visions of Iran: Battle for the Sacred Nation-State, 1941-1983

Bolourchi, Neda
2017
Theses
IslamRevolution (Iran : 1979)Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)HistoryReligionSociology

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

Morris, Melissa Nicole
2017
Theses
HistoryTobaccoColoniesTrade routes

72. Culture Change and Imperial Incorporation in Early China: An Archaeological Study of the Middle Han River Valley (ca. 8th century BCE - 1st century CE)

Chao, Glenda E.
2017
Theses
HistoryHistoriographyCultureImperialismArchaeology

73. Dilemmas of Empire: 
Movement, Communication, and Information Management in Ming China, 1368-1644

Wang, Chelsea Zi
2017
Theses
HistorySouthern Ming Dynasty (China)TransportationCommunication

74. 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.)

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

Ismail, Shehab
2017
Theses
HistoryImperialismCities and towns--Growth

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

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

77. 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

78. From Wagner to Taft-Hartley, Revisited

Daniel, Anthony Michael
2017
Theses
Political scienceHistoryIndustrial relations

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

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

80. Hicksville: How Silence and Storytelling Re-Shape a Migration Gateway

McGunnigle-Gonzales, Rosemary
2017
Theses
SociologyAssimilation (Sociology)Immigrants--Social conditionsHistoryStorytelling

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

Arena, Carolyn Marie
2017
Theses
Indian slavesSlave tradeSlaveryHistoryIndigenous peoples

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

Jones, Colin Philip Charles
2017
Theses
HistoryLawJurisprudence

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

Keilson, Ana Isabel
2017
Theses
HistoryHistoryDance

84. Marking Blackness: Embodied Techniques of Racialization in Early Modern European Theatre

Ndiaye, Noémie
2017
Theses
Race in the theaterHistoryComparative literatureBlacks in literatureAfrican diaspora

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

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

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

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

87. Monody and Dramatic Form in Late Euripides

Catenaccio, Claire
2017
Theses
Classical literatureTheaterHistoryGreek drama (Tragedy)EuripidesIon (Euripides)Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides)Phoenician women (Euripides)Orestes (Euripides)

88. Printing, Hebrew Book Culture and Sefer Ḥasidim

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

89. Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History

Thompson, Luke Noel
2017
Theses
Buddhist literature, JapaneseBuddhismMahayana BuddhismJapanese--ReligionReligionHistoryAsiansGautama Buddha

90. Rewriting the Past: Reception and Commentary of Nihon shoki, Japan's First Official History

Felt, Matthieu Anthony James
2017
Theses
Japanese literatureHistoryMythology, JapaneseNihon shoki

91. Salus Patriae: Public Health and the Roman State

Wazer, Caroline
2017
Theses
History, AncientRomansPublic healthHistory

92. 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

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

Powers, Allison
2017
Theses
HistoryInternational lawImperialismReparations for historical injustices

94. 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

95. Stages of History: New World Spectacles and the Theater of the World in the Sixteenth Century

Hughes, Nicole T.
2017
Theses
Latin AmericansComparative literatureTheaterHistory

96. The Aesthetics of Precision: Environmental Management and Technique in the Architecture of Enclosure, 1946-1986

Quantrill, Alexandra Louise
2017
Theses
ArchitectureHistoryArchitecture, ModernArchitecture--AestheticsEnvironmental management

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

Meaney, Thomas Mallory
2017
Theses
HistoryInternational relationsDecolonization

98. The Bleaching Carceral: Police, Native and Location in Nairobi, 1844-1906

Marshall, Yannick
2017
Theses
HistoryAfrican AmericansColonizationWhite supremacy movements

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
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