The meaning of Confederate monuments and memorials, following the violent, high-profile events such as the Charleston church shooting in 2015, the Unite the Right rally in 2017, and the killing of George Floyd in 2020, has been at the center of the ongoing debate about how to pr…
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This dissertation contextualizes Roman sculpture within its local environment, giving particular attention to the honorific statue groups of the imperial family in the first and second centuries CE. Previous studies focus primarily on issues of style and typology, whereas this p…
Throughout history there have been numerous horrific events including war, famine and natural disaster. Two events in particular, the Irish Famine (c. 1845–1852) and the Holocaust (c. 1933–1945), had a tremendous impact not only on the victims and survivors but on the countries …
Zhaoling is one of the very few imperial mausolea that has received considerable attention in its 1,400-year history. This attention has largely been confined to general description and limited individual subjects. This dissertation launches an effort to comprehensively investig…
The subject of 'ribāts' in the field of Early Islamic Archaeology has long been connected to North Africa (modern-day Tunisia), partially because of the archaeological remains of the two 'Abbāsid ribāts ("coastal fortresses") at Munastīr and Sūsa. Recently, however, two fortress…
The thesis examines the monuments of Seti I. Various epigraphic, art historical, iconographical and historical criteria are used to analyze his art and architecture, especially monumental reliefs, to elucidate a number of chronological and historical issues, including the proble…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the central Black Sea region in Turkey (ancient Pontus) during the Hellenistic period. It examines the environmental, archaeological, literary, and numismatic data in individual chapters. The focus of this examination is the …
This dissertation pinpoints the origins of a diversity of approaches to the study of 'Islamic archaeology' in Egypt by examining attitudes of self-defined practitioners of 'Islamic archaeology' from the 1880s to the 1980s. Towards this goal, the dissertation examines how the cur…
How do different types of monuments and different monumental forms express social realities and inform larger social patterns? This dissertation research adds to this discussion from the perspective of the region best known for its ancient monuments: the Middle East. Known to it…
The history of the Civil War has been a point of contention across the nation and in academia, regarding how it is remembered as well as who controlled this memory in years past. This thesis utilizes frameworks from regionalized studies of Civil War commemoration and applies it …
The 19th Amendment in America gave women the right to vote and federally protected their enfranchisement. Tennessee played a major role in the passage of the amendment by being the 36th state to ratify. During and after the suffrage movement, scholarship has explored the work of…
This dissertation focuses on wall painting in the thirteenth-century lordship of Athens, an area roughly corresponding to modern-day Attica, Boeotia and the Argolid in southern Greece. The lordship was established as part of the Latin Principality of Morea in 1205 when, in the a…
In this study, I develop an integrative approach by which archaeologists can analyze the relationship between the built environment and human behaviour in ancient societies. I then apply it to an investigation of how elites employed monumental architecture as a means of advancin…
This dissertation represents the first thorough investigation of the innovative use of faience, a glazed material, and other substances as architectural inlays in certain royal cult monuments of the Egyptian New Kingdom dating mainly from Amenhotep III to Akhenaten. These purpos…
Since the Roman arch monument came into use some 2,200 years ago, it has been subject to an increasingly narrow range of interpretations. This dissertation aims to reveal the monument's original significance, which has become obscured by a steadfast triumphalist reading. Most an…
Today, preservationists call for a multi-disciplinary profession in which architects, planners, scientists, economists, historians, politicians should collaborate to preserve historic objects. More than a century ago, Khedive Mohammed Tawfiq of Egypt considered such a profession…
"In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now…
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now…