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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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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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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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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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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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TitleEmbodied Lorquian archives: Spanish historical memory activism and the artistic regeneration of Federico García Lorca’s corpus
AuthorMoe, Elizabeth Ayn
Date Created2020
Degree Date2020-10
DescriptionIn the twentieth century, Spain’s Fascist uprising, ensuing civil war and thirty-six-year Franco dictatorship jettisoned an estimated 114,226 citizens to mass graves and roadside ditches, and...