On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) is enacting contested approaches of reclaiming tribal histories threatened by persistent 19th century settler colonial narratives of ethnic erasure. Legally exiled from their capital village in 1871 as a resu…
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In 1697 Massachusetts settler Hannah Duston was taken captive by a group of Abenaki Indians. Duston and her companions escaped captivity by using a tomahawk to kill ten of her captors. Within her captivity narrative, Duston inhabits the role of captor rather than captive, provid…
There are few archaeological studies of the architecture of 17th-century New Mexican ranches (estancias) due to the paucity of surviving examples. Even fewer archaeological treatments of architecture from 17th-century New Mexico consider the cost of constructing estancias in ter…
The vision of New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:1-22:5 communicates hope for all peoples, especially the oppressed and the marginalized. The vision stands in direct contrast to imperial-colonial claims of supremacy, and to imperial-colonial self-satisfaction with wealth, democracy,…
This work examines the interface between adaptation and acculturation to the experience of colonialism and the etiology of maladaptive parenting skills in a subjugated population, specifically the Latinx diaspora. It explores intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Dark…
The relationship between metropolitan cities around the world and tales of murder has encompassed the complicated nature of modern life, and such is also the case of Shanghai in the Republican era. The prosperity of the print industry in Shanghai, in the first few decades of the…
This MA thesis is a bundle that weaves time, space, and form. It includes personal narrative, considerations and reflections on creation and research as well as the production/performance script, stage directions, and processes used for the ceremony-performance "Wani'/Lost." Sup…
The Enlightenment era in the West is traditionally referred to as the “Age of Reason” and the cradle of liberalism, which has been perhaps the dominant political ideology in the West since the eighteenth century. Philosophers such as John Locke and John Stuart Mill are credited …
Peyote is a subject which renders the mechanisms, forces, and assemblages of colonialism clear. It is in the very inability of the colonial world to categorize, locate, understand and react to peyote that reveals so much about how colonialism operates. A primary goal of this pro…
Belgian Surrealist Raoul Ubac’s Penthésilée photomontages (1937-39) depict imagined scenes of graphic violence that fragment the female body to the point of rendering it illegible. This representational violence occurs not only on the iconographic level, but is also embedded in …
This dissertation examines the historical and contemporary lives of transcultural decorative arts produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Kerala, India, arguing for their sensorial and political efficacy in colonial and courtly sociopolitical encounters in India a…
We are largely unaware of the invisible forces at work that shape both the space we inhabit and our experience of that space. Therefore, it is necessary to interrogate the physical markers that shape that experience. This thesis poses the question: what is the purpose of a site …
This thesis examines the evolution of signaletic space in early 20th century China by looking at it through two major transformations. First, through the development of radio infrastructures as actualized in the emergence of heterogeneous institutions tied to various global proc…
Applying Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands Theory to Leslie Marmon Silko’s novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes shows how Silko’s inclusion of borders and border crossings in her writing highlights the history of oppression in the United States, and the lingering effe…
In this thesis, I have delved more deeply into a research paper I wrote for Dr. Seodial Frank H. Deena’s graduate course in Caribbean Literature. I have extended my research by providing deeper historical background of the West Indies and the people who were subjugated and bruta…
Using several case studies, this dissertation examines objects from the western coast of Congo that were made for European audiences during the colonial era, with a focus on the decades from 1880 to 1940. This period was characterized by the intense upheaval and violence in the …
Historians have long segregated Russian colonialism from the European practice because of the dichotomy between Russia’s contiguous continental expansion and Western European nations’ noncontiguous maritime expansion, as well as Russia’s ostensibly less liberal society during th…
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century women’s writing provides vital perspectives on early modern cultures of travel. Though recent scholarship has begun attending to both the historical cases of women who traveled abroad in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an…
The imperial actions of the United States toward the Marshallese following WWII created an environmental, biological, and sociological disaster with a legacy that has reached into the 21st century. This thesis aims to provide an overview of the detrimental impacts affecting the …