Material Instincts: Ruminations on Motherhood and Craft, is an MFA Thesis Project that focuses on the liminal and subjective experiences of motherhood through a direct engagement with tactile materials and forms. This project includes three distinct works that utilize various in…
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This thesis looks at the Bedouin community of the Negev region of Israel, a traditional society within a modern nation-state. The Bedouins, originally pastoral nomads, are subjected to a rapid urbanization process that is the result of government intervention policies on one han…
Home has often been understood as a stable point of origin or a location of belonging, where one understands and is understood. However, the existence of multinational and multilingual homes prompts a reimagining of home as a concept. It cannot be considered a stable location th…
The dissertation investigates household organization for the inhabitants of southern Judah during the Iron Age II (late 8th century B.C.E.). It specifically attempts to broaden our understanding of the social unit which occupies the pillared dwellings so prevalent throughout the…
This dissertation examines representations of Englishness in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing (1950), and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969), and argues that ideas of home/land are central to Englis…
How did the apartment, as a built form, as a setting for everyday domestic life, and as a concept, contribute to forming modern consciousness in Turkey? This dissertation examines the social, cultural, political, economic, and architectural aspects of urban apartments between th…