Mehmed the Conqueror (r. 1451–1481) built four fortresses ex nihilo in the years leading up to and immediately following the conquest of Constantinople. Two were located in the immediate vicinity of his new capital: RumeliHisarý (1452), placed opposite an existing Ottoman fortif…
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In the era of the Arab Spring, some nations have chosen to overthrow their former political regimes, while others have selected to keep the status quo. Others still, like Morocco, have opted for change through a peaceful transition. The purpose of this study was to explore the M…
In this dissertation I argue that political institutions in a plural society, through their ability to induce and constrain a wide range of interactions, can facilitate (or hinder) the prospects for cross-ethnic trust generation, and by extension cross-ethnic cooperation. More s…
Nineteenth and twentieth century migratory networks had a formative, yet unrecognized, impact in the lead-up to the 1962 establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic. Migrants from Northern Yemen to Aden built discursive spaces for contesting economic and political oppression that s…
This dissertation argues that Ethiopia had a greater role in South Arabian history in late pre-Islamic times than scholars have hitherto believed. The two states involved in the power struggle in the southern Red Sea during this period were the Christian kingdom of Aksum in nort…
The destruction of Iraq's cultural heritage gained public attention after the looting of the Iraq National Museum in 2003. However, little has been done to identify and investigate the current threats to Mesopotamian archaeological sites. Given that damage to cultural heritage e…
It is commonly presumed that significant movements in wealth can often have wider economic impacts in consumer spending. This study first investigates the impact of housing wealth on aggregate consumer spending in the context of Turkey using a Vector Error Correction Method (VEC…
This dissertation explores the representation of masculinity and the male body in the Hebrew prophets. Bringing together a close analysis of biblical prophetic texts with contemporary theoretical work on masculinity, embodiment, and prophecy, I argue that the male bodies of the …
This dissertation is about the Kaška people of the central Black Sea region and their interactions with the Hittite Empire in the empire's contested northern frontier during the Late Bronze Age. Modern scholarship views the Kaška as a distinct ethnic group and the most formidabl…
This dissertation proposes a new understanding of the composition of the Pentateuchal Priestly source (P), arguing that it contains far more poetic text than previous studies have recognized. I identify the poetic material and differentiate it from prosaic texts by observing the…
Despite its accomplishment of establishing a state and a national homeland for the Jews, Zionism, the national movement of the Jewish people, remains a debated and contested ideology. It is within this debate that my dissertation is located. This study explores the evolution of …
This study traces the progress of the contacts between Zionists/Israelis and Kurds—two non-Arab regional minorities intent on self-government and encircled by opponents—in their earliest stage of development. From the early 1930s to the early 1950s, the Political Department of t…
This dissertation examines two literary works and two rap songs by Palestinian citizens of Israel (`48 Palestinians) that challenge the Jewish state: Emile Habibi’s satirical novel Saeed The Pessoptimist (1974); DAM’s rap song “Innocent Criminals” (2000); MWR’s rap song “Ashanak…
In this study, I examine official epistolary traditions in pre-Islamic Iran, under the Achaemenids (550 – 320 BCE), the Seleucids (312 – 129 BCE), the Arsacids (129 BCE – 224 CE) and the Sasanians (224 – 650 CE). Each dynasty had a different official language; The Achaemenid Emp…
The Decalogue was a monumental text. This does not mean that the text was important, enduring, or carved on stone. Its monumentality rests not in any sense of size, permanence, or publicity, but rather in its ability to provoke communities to imagine together and make meaning. T…
Located between sub-Saharan Africa and southern Europe on the edge of the Mediterranean the country of Algeria has experienced the challenges of a transit state in attempting to prevent irregular migration through its territory. The question guiding this research aimed to explor…
Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Mustafapaşa, Turkey, and Thessaloniki, Greece, this dissertation explores the identity politics, heritage preservation efforts, and transnational homeland tourism of descendants of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. The …
Arab feminism is often undermined because of Western feminism's presupposition of a universal oppressive patriarchy which affects women globally in the exact same way. These assumptions result in the misrepresentations of Arab women as oppressed victims and negligence of Arab wo…
The ideological systems of the Persian Great King and the Egyptian Pharaoh were inherently in conflict. The Egyptian Pharaoh was responsible for defeating foreign enemies, including Achaemenid Persians, while the Persian Great King was the ruler of a universal empire. The Persia…