The Orient in Proust's Recherche appears as a pervasive and dynamic network of images and references. It operates not so much as the static topos, the figure demonstrated by Said to predominate in the Orientalism of nineteenth-century European literature, but as the more dynamic…
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The following research is a case study of the creation, structure and maintenance of dominant and subordinate identities in Ethiopian imperial and post-imperial society. The study identifies: (1) how dominant and subordinate identities occur, (2) their impact upon sustainable go…
This study proposes a method to utilize remotely sensed pre- and post-disaster imagery data in order to detect the change specifically associated with structural and major regional damage caused by natural disasters such as a strong earthquake. The input is a pair of coregistere…
In this dissertation I examine the ways in which people living in Dakar, Senegal use, display, collect and encounter photographs and media derived images in the course of their daily activities. In particular, I suggest how this expressive behavior reflects and responds to both …
This dissertation proposes techniques to triage document images based on the mode or type of each mark in the image so that specialized downstream processes can be selected based on the type of content in each image. The following contributions are presented: (1) A new robust re…
This study presents a qualitative, interpretive analysis of audiotaped conversations (both one-to-one and focus-group settings) involving six middle-class European-American evangelical Christians' reactions to four contemporary American films (Michael Tolkin's The Rapture 1991; …
Over the last century, the United States has engaged itself in numerous conflicts--some of which have been large-scale world wars; others have been smaller in scope. But, this trend of U.S. involvement in other country's issues isn't a trend that will seem to subside. As Lippman…
The inclusion of representational imagery in a sacred context is extremely rare in the history of Islamic art. This dissertation examines the evolution of the Ottoman En'am-i Serif , a group of manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in which sacred te…
The story of Abraham, as understood by Christians and Muslims, has always had a formative influence on the central theological dicta of Christianity and Islam. In theologies that perceive class struggle and oppression of the poor as issues distinctly within the purview of religi…
