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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, ...
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 ...
Ethnographies of Legal Inclusion: Protection, Punishment, and Legal Fictions of Asian Immigrant Woman.
(2012)
In the San Francisco Bay Area, non-profit organizations make up one of the largest networks of legal services providers working specifically with Asian immigrant communities. Their work is the product of multiple political ...
The Inevitable and the Invisible: Stories of Race and Class in Two New York Museums.
(2013)
The Invisible and the Inevitable: Stories of Race and Class in Two New York House Museums examines the direct and indirect forces that shape two historic sites, and by extension, narratives of American racial and class ...
Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.
(2012)
“Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions” examines the relationship between popular black and white Cuban entertainers and the Cuban communities and broader Latino/a publics of New York City and Miami in the 1940s and ...
Welcoming Strangers: Hospitality In American Literature and Culture.
(2012)
“Welcoming Strangers” explores the question of hospitality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary studies. It deploys the concept of hospitality as an analytical category to critique discourses of empire, ...
Gardens in the Machine: Cultural and Environmental Change in Detroit, 1879 - 2010.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that parks, gardens, yards, and other landscapes created by residents and city leaders are crucially important to understanding the history of metropolitan Detroit, Michigan between 1879 and 2010. ...