Parisian graffiti announces its colors as soon as any traveler arrives to the city; from the highway to the railroads—both allowing anybody to reach the city-center—all are saturated by names. The large monotonous letters that these walls hold have often faded from their initial…
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This study examines the relationship between public sexual activity and the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870) and early Third Republic (1870-1940). It argues that prostitutes and male homosexuals were central to the city's everyday life. Urban administ…
This dissertation is based on one year of anthropological field research in Paris and Tehran. It proposes an account of fashion production, commercialization, and consumption in the two cities. Starting from theories of subjectivation, this research analyzes the place of fashion…
More than 1.2 million students have left China to study abroad during the past three decades of economic reform in China. In 2007 alone, China sent around 144,000 students abroad, 167 times of the number of students in 1978. This large scale of student migration has often raised…
This thesis aims to explore an aspect of the history of vernacular speech through analysis of some eighteenth century verse texts. These satirical anti-Jesuit pamphlets by Nicolas Jouin, known as the 'Sarcelades', were collected posthumously in 'Le Vrai Recueil des Sarcelles' of…
By the 1960s, France was no longer a colonial power. It lost its holding in Indochina in 1954 and fought a protracted and futile war in Algeria, which ended in 1962 with Algerian independence. After a long process of negotiation, the colonies of French West Africa (AOF) and Fren…
From the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, France became home for many Armenian intellectuals and writers who survived the genocide. During this period, Paris served as the center of intellectual life for dispersed Armenians, producing an explosion of literary groups, journals, and a…
North African art and material culture—textiles, pottery, jewelry and other objects—have been exhibited and sold in France since the nineteenth century. Today these objects are central to both state-run museum projects and to projects of self-representation carried out by people…
This dissertation concerns the role of urban spaces and political memories in revolutionary mobilization. The theoretical framework suggests that movements will use central urban spaces like streets and plazas to connect the contemporary movement with the memory of past politica…
This dissertation builds a socio-cultural biography of Paris's Gare du Nord, Europe's largest railway station, from its transnational aims to connect Europe in the nineteenth century, to early twentieth century strikes, to twenty-first century immigration and riots. It shows how…
This dissertation examines cultural and communicative practices occurring in French cités (low-income housing projects) as part of an ethnographic inquiry into the relationship among subcultural style, social stigmatization, and expressive culture. Based upon ethnographic fieldw…
This thesis investigates the use and role of models in contemporary Parisian fine jewellery production. It embeds the apprenticeship-as-field method within a network approach to build on the literature of knowing by making to investigate Parisian fine jewellery from within the j…
All throughout the 19th century, the city of Athens manifest a distinct character that was inspired by its history. Flourishing with Neoclassical civic architecture, it remained a modest metropolis that was planned to function harmoniously around its ancient monuments. Today in …
The fight for the liberty of the press was an ongoing struggle in France since the French Revolution in 1789 and it remained a factor until July 1881, when liberal press laws were enacted by the Republican officials in charge of governing the country at the time. The press was t…
Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel is a bound book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the end of the nineteenth century. The lithographs also reflec…
My research on Victor Brauner’s work in the first two decades of his affiliation with the Surrealist group in Paris re-establishes the role played by the Romanian Jewish artist in the definition of automatic Surrealist procedures of painting and mixed-technique objects that reli…