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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture.
(2012)
Departing from the current literature on cosmetic surgery, which largely asks why Korean women undergo procedures at the highest rates per capita globally and pathologizes them for doing so, The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: ...
(Play)Grounds for Dismissal: Ninas Raras in Transborder Children's Cultural Studies.
(2013)
This study instates the child as a unique, and often evaded, category of analysis. I investigate children's literature, television, and short films produced across México, the United States, and Canada that challenge ...
Liberal Imperialism: The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism in U.S. - China Relations and the Origins of the Cold War, 1898-1945.
(2010)
This dissertation is a study of the rise and fall of liberal internationalism in U.S.-China relations from the late-nineteenth century until the end of WWII. I argue that framing the history of U.S.-China relations in this ...
Rituals of Return in African American Women's Twentieth Century Literature and Performance.
(2012)
A substantial body of African American Studies scholarship has demonstrated how the unresolved pain, suffering, and violence of the past impacts the present, and,furthermore, how African American women writers and performers ...
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, ...