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Technologies of Resistance: Media, Anarchy, and Radical Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico
(2020)
All history is media history, and all politics are media politics. This dissertation provides an analytical frame for seeing and studying the people, ideas, political movements, and social arrangements that populate history ...
"Tell it again, but different": Gender, Race, and Adaptation in The Taming of the Shrew and Othello
(2023)
“Tell it again, but different”: Gender, Race, and Adaptation in The Taming of the Shrew and Othello analyzes contemporary adaptations of two of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays: The Taming of the Shrew and Othello, ...
American Patriot: The Social and Political Networks of Banal Fascism in the United States
(2023)
The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol exposed the rising white nationalism and fascism that had long existed in the nation’s cultural and political infrastructure. This dissertation explores this ...
Social Media at the Margins: Crafting Community Media Before the Web
(2021)
“Social Media at the Margins: Crafting Community Media Before the Web” traces the emergence of four community media projects that provide a history of social media before social media. Queer and subcultural communities at ...
The London Bridge House, c.1209-1554: A Case of Civic Growth and Religious Transition in Late Medieval London
(2022)
Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, the London Bridge House institution, which managed the constant upkeep of the sole stone bridge in the City of London, underwent extensive internal changes. It gradually ...
Seneca and the History of Roman Eating
(2022)
This dissertation argues that the younger Seneca uses food and eating throughout his corpus as a way of teaching Stoicism in the Latin language within his first-century Imperial Roman environment. Eating, a popular theme ...
Camera Beauty: Makeup and the Art of Image Making in Studio Era Hollywood
(2022)
“Camera Beauty: Makeup and the Art of Image Making in Studio Era Hollywood” explores how screen makeup developed in the American motion picture industry, and how these developments subsequently shaped normative beauty ...
Staging Neighborhood: Making Queens in the Construction of New York's Last Great Park
(2022)
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park was central to urban planning in 20th century Queens, New York. Numerous projects in the park, including two World’s Fairs in 1939 and 1964, entertainment venues, professional sport facilities ...
Political Battlefields in French Musical Education: Provincial Conservatories under the Nazi Occupation and Vichy Regime
(2020)
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 terminated hostilities between German and French forces, but inaugurated four years of government by the newly formed Vichy Regime and German Occupation. These forces swiftly reshaped nearly ...
The Making of an Aesthetic Domain: An Archive of Lived Relations after Postwar Turkish-German Media Initiatives
(2023)
After the phenomenon of post-WWII labor migration to West Germany (1955-1973), the 1970s and 1980s saw a prevailing portrayal of immigrant life, often depicted in popular culture and critical literature as being socially ...