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AuthorMcGrath, Patrick T.

Date Created2017

Degree Date2017-10

DescriptionThis project takes as its subject the integration of Catholicism into nineteenth-century American society, politics, and culture. Adopting a cross-regional approach, the dissertation argues that by...

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TitleThe long shadow of fascism: German resistance through the Spanish Civil War and its legacy in West Germany, 1933-1989

AuthorStalnaker, Dustin E.

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-01

DescriptionThis dissertation employs what I call “living conceptual history” to examine central political dramas of twentieth-century German history through attention to the lives of the Spanienkämpfer...

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TitleEmergency poetics: postwar American poetry and the shape of public crisis

AuthorParrish, Melissa Nohelani

Date Created2020

Degree Date2020-10

DescriptionFrom the formalization of Cold War civil defense to the rise of homeland security, emergency management in the United States has always been structured by power and privilege. “Emergency Poetics and...

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TitleReading regions

AuthorLeslie, Alex

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-05

DescriptionReading Regions combines literary, historical, and computational analysis to argue that the emergence of a nationally-incorporated cultural field after the Civil War galvanized regional differences...

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Title"Everyone must think we really need freedom"

AuthorWalker, Pamela

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-05

DescriptionThis dissertation illuminates the participation of ordinary Black and white women in the Civil Rights Movement by examining an antipoverty program called The Mississippi Box Project. Founded in 1962...

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TitleControlling rape

AuthorWiesner, Caitlin

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-05

DescriptionThis dissertation examines African American women’s anti-rape activism and advocacy from 1974 to 1994, as the feminist movement against sexual violence grew increasingly intertwined with the U.S....

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TitleConfronting the rebel yell: how African Americans created and contested Civil War memory, 1865-1965

AuthorLawrence-Sanders, Ashleigh

Date Created2019

Degree Date2019-10

DescriptionConfronting the Rebel Yell: How African Americans Created and Contested Civil War Memory, 1865-1965 centers Black American memory creation and counter-memory of the Civil War through the mid-20th...

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TitleEnvironment under the gun: literature and environmentalism in Cold War Central America

AuthorPrice, Jacob Goaslind

Date Created2019

Degree Date2019-10

DescriptionThis dissertation explores how Central American poets reinterpret both the political, historical, and cultural value of landscapes that were devastated by new political, economic, and international...

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TitleDoes provocation work? Lessons learned from the success and failure of counterterrorism in democracies

AuthorSchlesinger, Jayme R.

Date Created2023

Degree Date2023-05

DescriptionDoes provocation work? This project studies the proposed effectiveness of provocation against democracies. The logic of provocation suggests that terrorists might achieve political gains by committing...

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TitlePaternalism and resistance: the impact of global intervention on teacher training in Liberia

AuthorSmith, Daniel Henry

Date Created2024

Degree Date2024-05

DescriptionEducational development in Liberia has been reliant on the funding and technical support of international organizations. Liberia, like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, suffers the consequences of...