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Narrative Wayfinding: Author-izing Arab and Afghan Migration across Morphing Borderscapes
(2023)
Narrative Wayfinding: Author-izing Arab and Afghan Migration across Morphing Borderscapes takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of narrative in the context of clandestine migration from the Arab world and Afghanistan ...
Disability and the Ancient Roman Familia
(2023)
“Disability and the Ancient Roman Familia” explores how and to what extent expectations and ideals associated with roles in the Roman household worked to exclude people on the basis of bodily and mental phenomena in the ...
In Search of Self: Wandering in the British Novel, 1860 to 1910.
(2020)
In Search of Self identifies how problems of getting around in increasingly complicated and changing spaces from 1860 to 1910 in London were taken up by the English novel. Parallel epistemological questions in this period ...
The Said Construction: Usage, Change, and Social Meaning in English and Spanish
(2020)
This dissertation consists of three studies on the said construction (SC), characterized by a determiner-like use of ”said” followed by a noun (N2), typically given (in some sense) and licensed by an antecedent noun ...
Misreading Maps: Maps and the British Novel in the Age of the Ordnance Survey
(2023)
Misreading Maps: Maps and the British Novel in the Age of the Ordnance Survey contributes to a new account of what happened to the British novel in the years spanning from the inspiration of Britain’s first comprehensive ...
Speaking, Gesturing, Drawing, Building: Relational Techniques of a Kreyol Architecture
(2021)
The vernaculars and creoles—architectural and linguistic—used to produce most of the global built environment continue to be delegitimized as ways of knowing, building, and inhabiting. This dissertation recuperates these ...
The Stasi as an Architectural Producer: Surveillance versus Scientific Management in the East German Built Environment 1961 - 1989
(2023)
This dissertation examines the relationship between architecture and surveillance in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by uncovering the largely overlooked architectural history of its Ministry of State Security—commonly ...
Handmaidens of Modernity: Gender, Labor, and Media in Weimar Germany
(2021)
This dissertation examines the professions, subjectivities, and social and cultural forms associated with new media for storing, transmitting, and processing information during the Weimar Republic—Germany’s first democratic ...
An Islamic Cosmos: Artistic Engagements with Islamic Heritage in Iran and the Arab East, 1958-2018
(2020)
This dissertation offers a study of contemporary artistic experiments with popular religious images and folk traditions in the Islamic world. I explore how artists active in Iran and the Arab world dealt with global art ...
Curating a Nation in Skopje: A Tale of One City's Architecture and Politics
(2020)
Recent scholarship has put Yugoslavia at the heart of the debate over the architectural production and urbanism of the Cold War era. To contribute to the inquiry into the architecture of former Yugoslav federation, I examine ...