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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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TitlePalimpsest
AuthorTryba, Kimberly A.
Date Created2018
Degree Date2018-05
DescriptionFor more than two hundred years, land management has often entailed using a tabla rasa approach, through which the landscape has been successively manipulated to prepare it for reuse. Alternately...
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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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Title"To capture a vision fair:" Black sorority women and the shift from respectability politics to public policy, 1935-1975
AuthorThomas, Brooke Alexis
Date Created2023
Degree Date2023-05
Description"'To Capture a Vision Fair:' Black Sorority Women and the Shift from Respectability Politics to Public Policy, 1935-1975," illuminates the ways in which Black women reworked existing traditions and...
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TitleAdversaire, adversaires: mise en scène du diable et diabolisation dans les tragédies protestantes du XVIe siècle (1550-1572)
AuthorN'zué-Agbadou, Séraphine A.
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionSixteenth-century French religious theater inherited the character of the devil from the Middle Ages; more specifically, from “Medieval” mystery plays whose popularity was still strong, if...
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TitleTo count and be counted: quantification in the age of American slavery
AuthorWierda, Meagan
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...
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TitleCuerpos incómodos: tecnologías del género y la raza en La Habana colonial (1790-1850)
AuthorRojo Posada, Roseli
Date Created2022
Degree Date2021-05
DescriptionCuerpos Incómodos: Tecnologías del género y la raza en La Habana Colonial (1790-1850) explores how women, slaves, and freed Afro-descendants challenged the segregationist politics of the Creole...
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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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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...