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1. Alternative Presence: the Cultural Meaning of Heterodox Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Ferrer, Marta
2021
Theses
LiteratureHistoryNineteenth centuryPhrenologyAnimal magnetismSpiritualismPseudoscience

2. 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

3. Beyond the plausible: On the relationship between history, tragedy and epic poetry in Corneille, Voltaire, and Schiller

Moraes Ferreira, Caio
2021
Theses
LiteratureHistoryHistoriographyEpic poetryEpic literature, FrenchFrench drama (Tragedy)Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431HoraceCorneille, Pierre, 1606-1684Voltaire, 1694-1778

4. 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

5. Consuming the Word: Figures of Vernacular Translation in Late Medieval Christian Poetry

Saretto, Gianmarco Ennio
2021
Theses
Literature, MedievalComparative literatureChristian poetry, English (Middle)HistoryMiddle AgesDante Alighieri, 1265-1321Plowman, PiersLibro de buen amor (Ruiz, Juan)Convivio (Dante Alighieri)De vulgari eloquentia (Dante Alighieri)

6. Creole Gatherings. Race, Collecting and Canon-building in New Orleans (1830-1930)

Rogg, Aline
2021
Theses
American literature--African American authorsHistoryHaitian literature (French Creole)CreolesCanon (Literature)Comparative literatureLiterature--Historiography

7. Curating the Americas: Library Practices and Early Histories of the New World Between Spain and Venice

Mendez, Alexandra Vialla
2021
Theses
Comparative literatureHistoryLibrariesRenaissanceRamusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547Navagero, Andrea, 1483-1529Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego, 1503-1575

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

Woker, Madeline
2021
Theses
HistoryTaxationTwentieth centuryFrench coloniesEquality

9. Envisioning Lady Ise: Poetic Persona, Performance, and Multiple Authorship in Classical Japanese Poetry

Ngo-Vu, Nhat-Phuong
2021
Theses
Oriental literatureJapanese poetryHistoryPerformance poetryPoetry, Medieval

10. Exiled Envoys: Korean Students in New York City, 1907-1937

Park, Jean H.
2021
Theses
HistoryAsian AmericansJapanese Occupation of Korea (1910-1945)College students--Political activityKoreans--Education

11. “For the Prosperity of the Nation”: Education and the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924

Rodríguez, Alexa
2021
Theses
HistoryEducationPublic schoolsTwentieth centuryMilitary occupationCitizenship

12. Ghost Rations: Empire, Ecology, and Community in the Ottoman East, 1839-94

Ghazarian, Matthew
2021
Theses
HistoryFaminesNineteenth centuryImperialismCapitalismHumanitarian assistanceEthnic conflictViolence--Religious aspects

13. 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

14. How 1950s ideas about creativity in machine learning continue to inform social and political possibility today

Mendon-Plasek, Aaron
2021
Lectures
Machine learningCreative abilityArtificial intelligenceInformation technology--Social aspectsHistory

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

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

16. Ibn A‘tham's History: Transmission and Translation in Islamicate Written Culture, 290-873/902-1468

McLaren, Andrew G.
2021
Theses
ReligionHistoryPersian literatureArabic literatureHistoriographyIbn Aʻtham al-Kūfī, Aḥmad, -926?

17. In Service to the New Nation: The Life and Legacy of John Jay--Panel 2: Family, Slavery, and Abolition

Nuxoll, Elizabeth M.; Gellman, David N.; Wulf, Karin
2021
Presentations (Communicative Events)
SlaveryAntislavery movementsFounding Fathers of the United StatesHistoryJay, John, 1745-1829

18. In Service to the New Nation: The Life and Legacy of John Jay--Panel 4: Roundtable on The Future of Documentary Editing & the Founding Era

Meadows, R. Darrell; Martin, Sara; Shulman, Holly C.; Steenshorne, Jennifer E.; Stertzer, Jennifer
2021
Presentations (Communicative Events)
Founding Fathers of the United StatesArchival materials--PublishingHistoryJay, John, 1745-1829

19. “I Want to be Honest”: The Rhetoric of Sincerity in Soviet Russian Literature, 1953-1970

Gluck, Michael
2021
Theses
Slavic literatureHistoryRhetoricSincerity in literatureSoviet literatureTwentieth centuryHonesty in literatureYevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-2017

20. Labor, Race & Visuality in Argentina’s Sugar Industry 1868-1904

Allen-Mossman, Anayvelyse
2021
Theses
CreolesHistorySugarcane industryAgricultural laborersEthnologyRailroads--Design and constructionPhotography of railroadsNoncitizen labor