While accounting for less than 5 percent of the Canadian population, Indigenous peoplesrepresent more than 30 percent of the federal prison population of Canada. In a prairie province like Manitoba the numbers are even more extreme, with over three-quarters of the prison populat…
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This thesis seeks to establish how deeply anti-Black racism has become ingrained in Polish culture through the everyday example of murzynek, a chocolate cake that became popular with home cooks in twentieth century Poland. Its name in literal translation is the diminutive form o…
This dissertation attends to overlapping, entangled histories of US militarism, speculation, and extraction in Asia and the Pacific to rethink the relationship between race, labor, and war in our current moment of predatory capitalism. It seeks to theorize disposability and raci…
This dissertation focuses on the sustainability of the South African Government’s privatisation policy, and to which extent it is able to facilitate access to water and sanitation for all the citizens. After the demise of apartheid in 1994, the new African National Congress-led …
This research is a multi-layered examination of existing policy frameworks and curricula surrounding Indigenous education in Ontario public elementary schools: how these documents have evolved and been adapted within the Ontario public elementary school system, focusing on the y…
Ecojustice and ecotheology call us to take care for creation as a serious responsibility that God has entrusted us towards nature and humans. The intent of this project is to explore the different ways in which some specific churches in Puerto Rico face environmental challenges.…
This dissertation explores the German colonization of northeastern Europe between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, taking the Baltic region of Prussia as a case study. It focuses primarily on the Teutonic Order, a state-like crusading institution that extended its lordshi…
Criminal lunacy has received significant attention in literature on punishment, law, psychiatry and public health, yet limited research has examined institutions for this group since the nineteenth century. Scholarship has noted the troubling representation of 'criminal lunatics…
This thesis is a study of the processes involved in the making, unmaking and potential remaking of a Pacific phosphate island. It is a history of Makatea, an uplifted coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), mined by a French private company from 1908 to 1966 a…
The Hahn’s Field Site is a multicomponent habitation deposit located in the Central Ohio Valley that is composed of material from the Middle Woodland through the Late Fort Ancient period. Trash-filled storage pits or TFSPs are one of the most common features found in this deposi…
The rapid development of technologies for air travel since the Second World War has contributed to significant changes in how space is perceived, conceived and imagined in Canada. From the extensive mapping conducted by Canadian air survey companies across the world between the …
The following text contextualizes the cultural imagery used in my artwork. As a Puyallup tribal member and a mixed race individual, my art practice employs traditions of drag, Coast Salish design, and satire to explore the complexities of my identities via printmaking, performan…
The French presence on the Upper Ohio during the Seven Years’ War was secured by their alliances with local Indigenous nations and bolstered by a resilient logistics network. With Lenape, Shawnee, and Mingo combatants leading offensives against the Middle Colonies and the Illino…
This dissertation asks how Muslims in north India today understand four paradoxical aspects of Sufi saint shrine traditions. The shrines of Sufi saints are sometimes regarded as apolitical, sacred, all-inclusive, and anti-elite religious spaces. At the same time, they are sites …
Every Sunday morning, whether for an hour or more--depending on your community—our sacred gathering time is the most common and can be the most consistent public witness Christians do. It is in this space, amid celebration and ritual that we grapple with the pathos and ethos of …
Vilcabamba was the site of the final stronghold of the Inca resistance for nearly forty years from 1537 until 1572. Though it has often been thought of as an isolated region during this period, interactions between the Inca and Spanish play an important part in its history. This…
While there is no shortage of scholarship on the downstream effects of colonialism, colonial authoritarianism itself remains seriously understudied. This dissertation develops mid-range insights about the “colonial situation” through a three-part exploration of the roles played …
This dissertation examines conquering creole consciousness through the voluminous pastoral and ethnographic writings of Mota y Escobar (1546-1625), a first-generation elite criollo of Hispanic descent, who served as Bishop of Guadalajara-Nueva Galicia (1598-1607) and Tlaxcala-Pu…
The controversial subject of blackness resides at the center of discussions of race in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, scholars have painted the Dominican Republic as a society ignorant of its own history of blackness and devoid of a black consciousness. They argue that D…