In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, France embarked on the conquest of its modern colonial empire with the invasion of Algeria in 1830. This dissertation analyzes the relationship between the Algerian conquest and French national identity between 1830 and 1851, thro…
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Often, interpreters of the Deuteronomistic History (DH) overlook its complex use of disability imagery. They frequently understand this imagery as having only rather transparent meanings. Through a close study of Mephibosheth's character in the David Story (1 Sam 16–1 Kgs 2), th…
This dissertation focuses on the Partition of Bengal in 1947 and its aftermath to 1965 to examine how India and Pakistan legitimized and symbolically reproduced markers of national identity. It argues that specific concepts of what constituted loyal citizens, Partition violence …
This dissertation explores how representations of the Holy Land shaped nineteenth-century Americans' conceptions of racial identity in the emerging United States. In the nineteenth century, Americans physically encountered Palestine for the first time, exploring, mapping, and es…
In this research, I explore the relationship between religion and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. My goal is to find out in what ways belonging to a particular denomination and participation in church related activities influence societal support for democracy. Favorabl…
This dissertation argues that the earliest level of the biblical book of Amos was composed after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians, not before, as traditionally assumed. This earliest layer consisted of most of the current book of Amos, with major excep…
The formation of the Spanish nation and empire reverberates in its 16 th- and 17th-century literature, as the so-called "Reconquest" of the Iberian Peninsula by the Northern, Christian kingdoms (8th-15 th centuries) served to create both new national territory and also an identi…
This dissertation project examines why peace has continued to be elusive in the India-Pakistan context using ethnomethodological procedures and a relational social constructivist perspective that locates constitutive power in ongoing social processes instead of putatively existi…
The quest for identity is becoming one of the most politically charged issues at start of the third millennium. The transformative processes that are occurring as a result of globalization, as well as the mass population migrations that took place in the twentieth century, expla…
Esta dissertação incide sobre a análise das táticas propagandísticas coloniais desenvolvidas durante o século XX português, com maior incidência no período político do regime do Estado Novo (1933-1974), em que vemos um acentuar dos ideais imperialístico-coloniais portugueses a n…
This dissertation considers the question of Jewish ethnic politics in Argentina under the Peronist regime from 1946–1955. Like other Latin American populists, Perón combined a corporatist conception of the state with ideals of popular democracy and social mobilization throughout…
The dissertation explores the consumption practices of economic elites in Amman, Jordan, with elites defined as those individuals possessing both the means and the inclination to enjoy the luxuries of a consumer lifestyle. The reciprocal influences of the purchase and use of a w…
This paper examines how the national identities that Shah of Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeini crafted influenced the outcome of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
In the midst of revolutions, overthrown governments, civil wars, and large-scale migration, sociologists need to reassess the structural components of national identity. Previous research has analyzed internal dynamics of a few countries or differences between geographical regio…
This dissertation argues that Victorian novels commonly depict newspaper reading in order to explain and critique the kind of national feeling elicited by the popular press. While Benedict Anderson considers the ways in which reading newspapers and novels fosters a sense of nati…
In this dissertation, I examine the effect of forms of historical narratives on citizenship policies, paying special attention to the degree and the terms of inclusion of ethnic minorities. I focus on two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria. I develop a framework of…
The limited body of literature addressing the livelihood of citizens in de facto states presents questions of how inhabitants of these 'sovereignty limbo' spaces live their everyday lives. While previous research on de facto states has extensively documented the political proces…
This study examined the representation of national and religious dimensions of Iranian history and identity in Iranian middle school history textbooks. Furthermore, through a qualitative case study in a school in the capital city of Tehran, teachers' use of textbooks in classroo…
This dissertation is based on data collected through informal conversations, formal interviews, and participant observation at community events over sixteen months of fieldwork with Arab Canadians living in Ottawa, Ontario. Most literature on Canadian national identity focuses o…