In this dissertation I examine the missionary experiences of Franciscan friars in the lands of Islam--including a number that resulted in martyrdom--and the ways that Franciscans remembered, elaborated and transformed these encounters through the construction of a martyrology de…
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My dissertation is an investigation of the Egyptian Delta city of Tanta during its period of rapid urbanization, modernization and development (1856-1907). It determines that in an effort to modernize Tanta-along with Cairo and Alexandria-the Cairo-based state authorities expone…
This dissertation examines the memory of Ras Beirut and the various claims to its exceptionalism. I frame its history as a landscape of memory born of the convergence of narratives of exceptionalism. On the one hand, Ras Beirut's landscape inspired Anglo-American missionary futu…
At nightfall on June 22, 1965, a soldier walked in from the outskirts of a small town in the Dominican Republic and reported that he had just shot and killed two policemen and an outspoken Canadian Catholic priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery that, forty years later, c…
Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, colonial projects in southern New England sponsored dozens of communities commonly called “praying towns.” Missionaries and colonial authorities envisioned these as bounded settlements where Indigenous people would learn to adopt Christi…
9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents America’s present-day policies in the Middle East as prod…
The historiography of Ottoman state actions towards migrant tribes depends more on the official documents of the government. The case of Fırka-i Islâhiye (Reform Division) in 1865 was no exception. It has been researched heavily depending on official sources and Ahmed Cevdet Efe…
Osmanlı'nın Avrupa'ya yaklaşması ve başarısız olan haçlı seferi ile rahipler ve misyonerler, ilahi kılıçla Osmanlı'ya, diğer ve Müslüman kafirlere karşı "ilahi kılıcı" kalplerine saplayarak onları yenmeye karar verdiler. İslam'a, Kuran'a ve geleneklerine karşı bir polemik eseri …
HongKar Experiences argues for the distinctiveness of the encounters of Teochew Catholic communities in Singapore. It outlines the development of the communities that eventually referred to themselves as HongKar-Nang in Singapore, spanning the period of 1820 to 1980. This disser…
My dissertation, entitled “Examining the Life of Oyabe Zen'ichirō: The New Formation of Modern Japanese Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” reconstructs the life history of Oyabe Zen'ichirō (1867-1941) and examines the formation of his Japanese identity within interna…
The dissertation is a study of William E. Blackstone's contributions to the emerging evangelical fundamentalist movement in America. Though virtually unrecognized by the scholarly community, Blackstone wrote the most popular book on premillennialism during his day, and his commi…
This dissertation explores the early nineteenth century missions to the Cherokee nation, which lasted from 1801 until Cherokee Removal in 1838-39, and reveals that the almost forty-year-long encounter proved remarkably transformative for both evangelists and Indians. Missionary …
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern Orthodoxy's largest expansion to date as Byzantine Christian…