In my dissertation I address a gap in scholarship on contemporary Iranian women by using a selection of artworks as the lens through which to explore the gendered experience of exile and diaspora. More specifically, I examine the embodiment of personal and political space since …
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This dissertation examines struggles over land and community on the island of Ranongga, in Western Province of Solomon Islands (a small independent Pacific nation that was a British Protectorate from 1893 until it gained independence in 1978). In order to understand late twentie…
This dissertation presents an ethnographic account of memory, place, race and gender among Iranian exiles living in Berlin as they negotiate a sense of community, family and identity despite the shifting context of terror and deterritorialization they have faced in the wake of t…
This dissertation is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of "place," especially with respect to comparative modes of listening. I orient my work around a 1923 meeting in San Francisco of the Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, Nyogen Senzaki, and the Indian Sufi mystic and…
Despite the many decades that divide Nikolai Gogol's and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's writings, a number of their works are related by striking stylistic and thematic resemblance and a similarity of generic configuration. Their narratives are characterized by a common preoccupation…
This dissertation explores how place and space can interrogate globalized organizations to understand power relations and the (re)production of identity within the placelessness of globalization through the study of offshore call center organizations in Fez, Morocco. This work e…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Malaysian state's attempt to transform the physical space and demographic character of a predominantly Malaysian Tamil neighborhood and the effects of large-scale development projects on local communities in urban Kuala Lumpur. F…