This dissertation takes an organological, historical, and ethnographic approach to the study of innovative violin making in the twenty-first century. The violin is a long-established icon as well as a tool for the production of sound, and consequently, attempts to alter its trad…
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This thesis analyzed the Kabul Times archive to assess what modernization meant to the elite in Kabul. By examining the period of modernization this paper highlights why Afghans did accept modernization efforts, but shows why Afghan leaders failed to bring forward any meaningful…
Meiji era (1868-1912) politics cast a legacy which extended beyond the Far Eastern nation. This thesis explores the relationship between Japan and Britain during this period, in relation to the cultural exchange of ideas around garden and park design. In contrast to previous stu…
The subject of my research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a f…
We are currently seeing an unprecedented growth in the number of nonreligious people in the United States. However, our sociological understandings of this growing demographic have been limited by dominant cultural and social science narratives that presume the loss of religion …
The “modernization” of higher education, 1945–1970, was a transitional period in American higher education. It was marked by a number of challenges that prompted rapid change in institutions around the United States. These changes were accompanied by expedient expansion in curri…
Comprises 13 papers which explore the concept of nationalism and national identity in 12 countries with different types of 'nation-state'. Investigates the roles of ethnicity, race and religion in the origins of each nation and considers the presence or absence of national indic…
Since the early 1970s, when the third major historical wave of democratization began, the Muslim world has seen little evidence of improvements in reaching for this new wave of political reform. As more and more countries around the world are embracing openness, transparency and…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of Ottoman economic thought within the context of modernization during the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). Drawing on a broad array of primary sources ranging from textbooks and manuals of economics to …
The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Kirman, Iran were marked by significant social, political and economic change associated with globalization. This dissertation is a study of the role of the elite households of Kirman in mediating these transformations at the provincial …
This dissertation is an analysis of the modernization of Muslim societies in Russia during the 18th and 19th centuries in the context of events leading up to and influencing this process. It is also an explication of how history can be understood as an ongoing battle among epist…
The reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876-1909) is one of the most controversial in today's historiography. Historians often depict him as a tyrant who instrumentalised Islam as a means of enhancing and expanding his personal authority. In this dissertation, I argue that such v…
The contemporary religious revival in Turkey suggests the emergence of a new Islamic identity, which I term as "Muslimism". Neither a liberal adaptation nor a fundamentalist rejection, Muslimism is a hybrid identity embracing modern life while submitting that life to a sacred, m…
Each of the three papers comprising this dissertation deals with a different research question. The first paper explores the role of religion in the making of Turkish modernization and secularization, and critiques idealist accounts that treat Turkish secularism as an ideology t…
"In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a better understanding of how changes in these aspects of life…
In the wake of a generation that wishes to lead a life devoid of being subservient to their profession and location; the concept of wanderlust and living in motion is gaining currency. The urban nomad stands at the pinnacle of this movement to whom the border between escape and …