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California’s Cross: A Cultural History of Pentecostalism, Race, and Agriculture.
(2016)
California’s Cross explains how Okie and Mexican Pentecostalism came to be in the Central Valley, a site marked by ethnic labor flows into the fields of industrialized agriculture. I argue that the simultaneous processes ...
Crip Native Woman: The Hispanic American Philippines and the Postcolonial Disability Cultures of US Empire.
(2016)
This dissertation examines how Filipino intellectual cultures, “ilustrados”, and postcolonial enlightenment discourses assert political sovereignty through self-fashioning as able-minded subjects. I argue that Spanish and ...
Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City, 1976-Present.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the cultural activism, or artivism, of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village ...
Authentic Arabs, Authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the Mobilization of Cultural Identity.
(2010)
My dissertation agues that Arab American Christians construct and market a specific Arab cultural identity within the space of the church. I focus on the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the U.S., which is an ancient Christian ...
The Samoan Cause: Colonialism, Culture, and the Rule of Law.
(2014)
Most scholars of U.S. empire are confounded by American Samoa and often conceptualize the territory as an exceptional and benevolent site of colonial practice. This dissertation is an examination of the many Samoan causes ...
The Chicana/o Countryside: A Visual History of California's Central Valley, 1965-1985
(2017)
Rural Chicana/o art, a style of politicized Mexican heritage visual culture produced in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, has yet to receive substantial critical attention despite the prominence of agrarian ...
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 ...