Now showing items 31-40 of 65
Lost in Transplantation: Knowledge Production and Memory at U.S. Land Grant Colleges in Colonial and Cold War Japan
(2017)
The U.S. land grant college model was transplanted to the northern and southern islands of the Japanese archipelago in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, respectively. My dissertation investigates exactly ...
States of Exceptionalism: Race, Violence, and Governance.
(2015)
“States of Exceptionalism: Race, Violence, and Governance,” illuminates the role of racial ideologies in the organization and institutionalization of state power during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and shows ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
The People's Classroom: American Modernism and the Struggle for Democratic Education, 1860-1940.
(2013)
This dissertation examines the struggle for democratic education in California among public intellectuals, labor groups, and education reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that this ...
Boundaries of Freedom: An American History of the Berlin Wall.
(2013)
“Boundaries of Freedom: An American History of the Berlin Wall” is an interdisciplinary study of representations of the Berlin Wall across American literature, art, and popular culture from 1961 to the present. The Berlin ...
Labor on Display: Ford Factory Tours and the Romance of Globalized Deindustrialization.
(2014)
This dissertation examines twentieth and early twenty-first century American industry’s use of factory tours and exhibitions to construct the U.S. as a postindustrial nation, to frame labor as resistant to forward progress, ...
Decolonizing Sexualized Cultural Images of Native Peoples: "Bringing Sexy Back" to Native Studies.
(2012)
Co-Chairs: Andrea Smith and Nadine Naber
My dissertation analyzes how Native peoples are “queered” through the logics of sexuality and colonization by making Natives appear sexually aberrant from white settlers and therefore ...
Uniform Threat: Manufacturing the Ku Klux Klan's Visible Empire, 1866-1931
(2017)
This dissertation examines a symbol central to the racial consciousness of the contemporary United States: the white robe and hood worn by members of the modern Ku Klux Klan. In this cultural history of Ku Klux Klan regalia, ...
Beyond the Playing Field: The Rise of College Football and the Educated Elite in the Progressive Era United States.
(2014)
This dissertation investigates Progressive Era college football in order to examine how members of the educated elite—a class with greatest access to or affiliation with higher education—used college football as a platform ...
Animal Print: The Literary Production of Humane America.
(2013)
This dissertation considers how humane literary texts mediate animal-human relationships and how these relationships, in turn, shape the expressive modes in which they are rendered. In studies of three popular animal-protection ...