Policy analysts frequently portray the Taliban resistance as an exclusively Islamic movement. Culturally deterministic notions regarding Islamic societies have negatively influenced western governments' policies towards Muslim states. The research here advances the hypothesis th…
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Civil war and military incompetence were a mainstay in England for nearly two decades by the start of Edward III’s majority reign in 1330. Moreover, money contracts were beginning to replace the feudal oath, and the gentry and merchants were gaining more economic power. England …
This public history capstone is a research paper that also examines the use of research within the public history field. Within the project, Shannon LeRoy argues that cultural and social factors such as gender and social standing contributed to Roman literary censorship to the p…
The mutually constitutive relationship between constructions of social identity and collective memory is mediated by cultural tools. Across four studies, I explored the relationship between ethnic and national identity and engagement with the final report of the Commission for H…
In the 1920s and early 1930s, elites in the public and private sectors in Mexico and the United States who had diverse political and economic interests circulated constructs of national identity by way of writings, photographs, fine art, and popular arts. However, there were inc…
This dissertation presents a multifaceted examination of the complex sociopolitical contexts of contemporary popular and classical music in Russia. By attending to the competing expectations of Russian creators, government officials, impresarios, critics, and listeners, it exami…
Because migration has played a considerable role in shaping Puerto Rican national identity, recent Puerto Rican writers on the island and the mainland produce texts that exhibit narrative and poetic movement between cultures, languages, and social classes. These migrant texts re…
This dissertation is concerned with the political culture of Palestinian Israelis--Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. Through ethnographic and literary analysis, it explores the interlocking of local, state and global processes and the ways in which Palestinians move betwe…
This work traces the transformation of a small Turkic-Muslim group in Eastern Europe, the Crimean Tatars, from a tribal-religious ethnie into a politicized secular nation. Taking as a starting point the Mongol conquest of the Crimea, the process of ethno-genesis of the Crimean T…
Investigating how national identities are formed, how they change, and what the political repercussions of this are, is a critical task for those who wish to the understand the continued political importance of national identities. This importance is not restricted to domestic p…
Based on 21 months of research on Ethiopian tourism, this dissertation is about Ethiopian relations of dominance and subordination as expressed through claims of (1) cultural history, (2) phenotypical differences, and (3) relative economic position. It examines how policies of t…
This dissertation examines the Fascist use of the medieval and Renaissance past in Italy. Resourcing this past, in terms of architectural patronage, urban planning and civic spectacle, proved important for the national agenda of constructing a shared identity of Italianità. This…
Historical narratives played an important role in the undermining of Soviet rule in Armenia during the final years of the Soviet Union. Competing, non-Communist interpretations of history influenced large segments of the population, which in turn led to a “divorce from Sovietism…
This study examines the way in which the ideas and perceptions of foreign visitors shape the identity of a place. It takes as its subject travel accounts written by European visitors to the Corinthia in Greece in the period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. These…
My dissertation addresses the problems of national identity embedded in the musical world of the culturally diversified, developing country of Indonesia. The problems of national identity in this former Dutch colony arose when the idea of forming Indonesia as an independent nati…
Even in the seventeenth century, the English anticipated becoming an imperial power. Without specific geographic intentions, they attempted to mold themselves into potent conquerors. These ambitions led them to regard other societies according to whether they were an imperial po…
This dissertation explores Soviet efforts to transform the social and physical landscape of the USSR. It looks at the process of building socialism through the prism of urban development in Tashkent, the multi-ethnic capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. It shows how S…
This dissertation analyzes processes of construction of modern Greek-Cypriot identity through the struggle for dominance of two opposing national ideologies: Cypriocentrism and hellenocentrism. Cypriocentrism asserts that all inhabitants of the island of Cyprus, regardless of th…
This dissertation takes as its object of study the concept of national cinema. In order to explore (the limitations of) this concept, it engages in a close reading of the existing literature along the three axes of national-popular, national-identity, and national-global. After …