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A New Liberation: Reviving the Piano Literature of Classical-Era Women Composers through Online Teaching Resources
(2022)
Throughout recent decades, there has been a surge in work to create a diverse classical music canon by finding and promoting works written by composers of underrepresented identities. Despite these efforts, one area that ...
Militarizing the Mexican Border: A Study of U.S. Army Forts as Contact Zones
(2020)
In the twenty-first century, the United States-Mexico Borderlands is a militarized zone. Although this appears to be a recent phenomenon, the region has a long history of militarization dating back to the aftermath of the ...
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 ...
"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, ...
Precarious Exceptions: Representations of Visibly Muslim Women in Western Media
(2023)
The trope of the oppressed Muslim woman has been preeminent in Western visual and literary representations of Muslims. Its ubiquity made the proliferation of Muslim women boasted in media headlines as “empowered” and ...
Urban Planning and its Feminist Histories
(2020)
Urban Planning and its Feminist Histories identifies and amplifies women’s roles in shaping the institutions, ideas, and educational practices that comprised the field of planning in North America throughout the twentieth ...
Beyond Retribution: Re-theorizing Justice Through Greek Tragedy
(2021)
Can retribution be just? Through a close reading of eight Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, this dissertation argues that it is both possible and necessary to theorize justice in other than retributive ...
Spatializing the Knowledge Economy: The Campus as a Discursive Project, Parallel Project, and More-than-Institutional Project
(2023)
In contrast to the normative scholarly and professional expectation that the university’s spatialization be tightly coupled with its institutional purposes and prerogatives, this dissertation posits that the institution ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Armies in the Sexual Imaginary of France and the Holy Roman Empire, 1500-1650
(2022)
Armies in the Sexual Imaginary of France and the Holy Roman Empire explores how early moderns assessed the impact of sexuality on the social order through depictions of military life in an age of social upheaval and religious ...