This dissertation examines the transnational efforts to abolish slavery in Saudi Arabia after 1945. The British Anti-Slavery Society spearheaded this global campaign and sought allies from Cairo to Cleveland. The Society’s major platform for publicity was the United Nations, and…
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This dissertation argues that surveillance and social control in North Korea was always more complex than often depicted, even in the decades preceding the famine of the 1990s and early 2000s. At the same time, disobedience and resistance among the grassroots population did not …
The presentation of Black femininity in Blaxploitation spy and detective films like Cleopatra Jones (1973), Foxy Brown (1974), and Get Christie Love! (1974) – depicting powerful, independent, and multidimensional characters – was a sharp departure from the derogatory images of A…
The aim of this dissertation is to locate and give a comparative analysis of the historical processes of cooperative agency that engendered a decolonised Africa under the aegis of the Pan-African diplomacy and agency. More specifically, it conducts a comparative analytical study…
The rural and urban divide in the United States has attracted limited attention from historians researching the Vietnam War and its impact on American society. By analyzing the rich contents of Grit and related primary source documents including the New York Times (Times), this …
This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of h…
The purpose of this study was to explore how skills gained through study abroad at the Pennsylvania State University influence individuals’ employability as they enter the workforce. Potential participants were invited to complete a qualification survey that gathered initial dem…
Stalin’s repression of Ukrainian Yiddish writers and intellectuals is the least studied dimension of the anti-Semitic campaigns of his final years. This dissertation explores the activity of Ukrainian Jewish intellectuals, the process of their repression and fabrication of cases…
Around 1960, the Republican Party began moving from viewing politics as the art of compromise and negotiation to a position which frames politics as war without violence. This investigation follows the right-wing trajectory of the G.O.P. by examining seven movements from Goldwat…
The Chinese government enacted the one-child policy during the late 1970s and early 1980s to curb the growth of the country’s swelling population. This extreme form of family planning marked the beginning of a radical social experiment that profoundly affected Canada’s social an…
“Caring for Korea” examines American relief work during and following the Korean War (1950-1953), and the way that humanitarianism shaped American Cold War approaches to empire. Centering aid workers, I highlight the lives and experiences of Americans who expressed concern for K…
In contemporary South Korea, the concept of "unification preparation" (t'ongil chunbi) has spawned a diffuse web of South Korean institutions - from government agencies, think tanks, media groups, NGOs, churches, to corporations - that are united by the shared mission of prepari…
The evolution of United States military doctrine was heavily influenced by the Wehrmacht and their early Blitzkrieg campaigns during World War II. This thesis traces the origins of this development and shows how the context of the Cold War led to a heavy influence by the Wehrmac…
Do investors correctly price extreme events that they have never seen occur? To shed light on this question, I examine market responses to the risk of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I find evidence that investors indeed priced firms’ exposures to nuclear destructio…
This thesis traces the growth of the National Ballet of Canada (NBC) and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) through international ballet exchanges and reveals how foundational they were to the companies’ current reputations. In the mid-twentieth century, the development of Canadian…
This thesis investigates the numerous installments of the Godzilla film franchise, created by Toho Studios from 1954 through the present day, that contributes to the overall historiography and understanding on a post-World War II Japan. This study complicates previous scholarshi…
The Vietnam War has largely been discussed in public history through the means of monuments. A war that was greatly detested by many Americans caused many of the historical monuments to serve as sites of healing. While this thesis acknowledges that these monuments serve as power…
Meltwater from a receding glacier created the Des Moines River in central Iowa 12,000-14,000 years ago. Over the ensuing centuries the river overflowed its banks, flooding the plains then receding, meandering across the landscape. During the first century of statehood Iowa river…
“All Eyes on the Streets” examines the ways in which West German activists, mobilized into large protest movements, were able to shift the international image of their country during the years of the Cold War. Focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States of America, the …