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Chicago's First Urban Indians - the Potawatomi.
(2011)
For the last several decades, scholars have been intrigued with the ways that some American Indians resisted assimilation into the mainstream of the dominant culture of the United States. “Chicago’s First Urban Indians – ...
A River Imaginary: Nature and Narrative in the Columbia River Gorge.
(2010)
The Columbia River, one of the most dominant geographic features of the Pacific Northwest, drains nearly 259,000 square miles of territory as it traverses local, state, and national boundaries. From its headwaters in ...
Exploring Fractures within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance.
(2010)
Why, despite all of the inspiring rhetoric in support of human rights, do flagrant violations endure? Enforcement, treaty ratification, geopolitics, and economic concerns are all very important pieces of this puzzle that ...
Taken Lands: Territory and Sovereignty on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, 1934-1960.
(2011)
This dissertation covers the years 1934 to 1960 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in northwestern North Dakota, home to the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara. During this time, the federal government built a massive ...
The Company that Taught the World to Sing: Coca-Cola, Globalization, and the Cultural Politics of Branding in the Twentieth Century.
(2011)
Straddling the conventionally separate spheres of business history and cultural history, policy making, advertising, and mass entertainment, my dissertation traces Coca-Cola’s trajectory from a local business in Atlanta, ...
All Czechs, but Particularly Women: The Positionality of Women in the Construction of the Modern Czech Nation, 1820s - 1850s.
(2011)
My dissertation examines a complex set of the social, physical, physiological, and moral requirements through which nationalists strove to create the ideal woman who would guarantee the construction of the modern Czech ...
Printed, Painted, and Illuminated: Venetian Visual Culture at the Dawn of Print (1469-1517)
(2023)
After movable type arrived in Venice in 1469, the Venetian print industry quickly established itself as the preeminent European center for the production of books. This was due to Venice’s position as a nexus of essential ...
Practicing the Prophet's Medicine: Health, Illness, and Islamic Therapeutics in Indonesia
(2023)
This dissertation examines emergent practices of “Islamic therapeutics” (pengobatan Islam) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. As everyday and embodied manifestations of Islamic revival movements, “Prophetic” and “Islamic” approaches ...
Arms of the State: A History of the Industrial Robot in Postwar America
(2023)
“Arms of the State: A History of the Industrial Robot in Postwar America” shows how the pursuit of ‘security’ via the socialization of technoscientific development produced highly advanced and expensive forms of capital ...
Women, Crime, and Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century London
(2021)
My dissertation, “Women, Crime, and Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century London,” provides a detailed look at women’s criminality between 1674 and 1815. It shows how social capital, the intersecting system of economic and ...