This thesis provides a moral analysis of micro-regional forces in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, using the framework of the New Regionalism Approach (NRA). It presents an original contribution to the field through the addition of the Ghanaian-Ivoirian case study, as well as a unique a…
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This thesis explores EU borders and bordering in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the context of the 2004 EU enlargement, the 2007 extension of the Schengen zone and the 2004 Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) that, in 2009, was upgraded to the Easte…
In 1974, after forty years of negotiations over the disputed sovereignty of the Al-Ain/Buraimi region, Zararah/Shaybah, and Khor al-Udaid, the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE signed the Treaty of Jeddah, apparently ending the dispute. But the dispute was not settled as f…
The fullest and most comprehensive unpacking of the term finis has yet to be achieved. Studies have narrowly focussed on the idea of border, boundary or frontier, without even entertaining the prospect of interpreting the study from the ancient point of view. This investigation …
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe were a period of heightened European anxiety over the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire. The successful incursion of the Ottomans into the West posed a viable threat to the borders of Europe. Previous scholarship on early modern images…
This dissertation argues for a reconceptualization of the 1947 Partition of India as the occurrence of a historical trauma. In contrast to the story of the Partition as an epiphenomenal event of independence, I suggest that the division of British India into the new nations of I…
Rather than starting with physical form as "state"-centered theories do, a more useful theoretical model should begin with the content of political units. Specifically, this model should examine a crucial element of the content of a political unit, the "source of transcendent cr…
This dissertation examines pre-colonial and colonial political upheaval and transformation in a West African region that today extends across Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea. It demonstrates how a corridor of small, independent communities repeatedly resisted incu…
This project focuses on educational and life trajectories of Central American youth in St. Louis, Missouri, who have immigrated unaccompanied from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. By tracking and telling their stories, I hope to amplify these young immigrants’ vo…
While religious borders separate communities and contribute to inter-religious violence, the definitions of those borders frequently arouse intense debate. In South Asia, religious borders led to the Partition of India and Pakistan, which pressured Sindhi Hindus, like other comm…
This dissertation investigates the process through which identity categories are created, institutionalized, and contested by analyzing boundary making narratives and practices in the borderlands of India and Bangladesh. Although the border has been in place since the 1947 parti…
The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in American Postwar Literature and Film explores the historical re-articulations of paranoia around the problems of borders and terrorism. The introduction discusses the first English definition of "paranoia" in 1811—"alienat…
This dissertation examines the role of Euro-American women in the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. I argue that American prostitutes and reformers figured centrally in the establishment of a fortified international boundary and in the making of…
This dissertation focuses on overlapping religious, legal, and spatial-political mechanisms through which the Italian state, the European Union (EU), and the Catholic Church manage undocumented migration and legal and cultural identities of citizens and non-citizens. It analyzes…
