This study explored the lived identity experiences of Muslim immigrant students in a small college town in the Midwest. The research considers the perceptions of Muslim students as they negotiate their multiple identities, namely their Muslim and/or ethnic identities, within the…
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The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were tak…
The aim of this study is to examine key texts in the discourse on Arab male homosexuality--works that have helped shape contemporary Arab thoughts and attitudes towards male "homosexuality." The exploration of an Arab "homosexual identity" will not only be examined through the a…
It is customary for postcolonial biblical critics to dismiss the book of Exodus as the tale of a tyrannical and genocidal deity. The following dissertation attempts to correct this impulse by redeploying the postcolonial approach in a way that seeks to more authentically realize…
This dissertation responds to a growing body of literature that points to a crisis in post-conflict aid interventions. These complex, costly and risky international undertakings have not only failed to produce desirable results, but have left efforts to effectively and successfu…
The increase of cultural and political tensions in contemporary Algeria has caused francophone Algerian novelists to focus their writings on the notion of history. This approach has led them to redefine and interrogate their own positioning as intellectuals who are still using t…
This dissertation is a study of imperial epistemology—the Russian Empire's attempts to produce useful knowledge about the Kazakh steppe, and the complex interrelationships between geographic, ethnographic, and statistical accounts of the region and imperial power. The dissertati…
Orientalist cultural translation remains immanent to the creation and reception of Maghrebi women's fiction. However, recent literary and cinematic texts from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia problematize and critique this dynamic. Reappropriating both the process of translation an…
Postcolonial studies have increasingly drawn upon the spatial imaginaries of tropical islands and archipelagoes to develop border-crossing theories of the colonial encounter. Such theories aim to transcend the colonizing epistemologies of northern empires still hegemonic in the …
Counselling psychology has experienced international growth in recent years. Because of this growth, universities in non-Western countries are seeking out collaborations with established Western graduate programs for assistance in developing their own programs. This dissertation…
Since September 11, 2001, Western readers have been turning to bestselling texts written by or about Muslims in their need to learn more about Muslims. These texts promise an insider's view of predominantly Muslim countries and peoples and are informally influencing and educatin…
Nasreddin Hodja, Turkey’s most beloved folklore character, features in many hundreds of tales popular for their hum or and wisdom across large regions of the world. A growing body of scholarship has emerged in countries where the Hodja tales are well known. Relatively obscure in…
This dissertation focuses on post-colonial subjects who contest the idea of a coherent, unitary national identity in order to affirm their own multicultural identities. The study is theoretically based in postcolonial theories that illustrate the ways in which the narratives of …
This dissertation explores the musical and personal experiences of three Sudanese women performers and understanding the textual meanings of a particular type of women's songs labeled as “aghani al-banat” that is usually performed at women's gatherings in Central Sudan, specific…
Folk tales about tricksters (such as Ananse the spider in Africa and the Caribbean or Brer Rabbit in African American communities) play a dual cultural role analogous to the double role of medieval carnival. As safety valves for proscribed attitudes and impulses, both trickster …
This dissertation examines disputing and dispute resolution primarily among married couples in the small city of Saint-Louis, in the northwest comer of Senegal, West Africa. The goal of this project is two-fold: first, to locate “couples disputing” in the context of the culture …
Through three written texts, L'amour, la fantasia, Vaste est la prison, and Le blanc de l'Algerie by Assia Djebar, and two films, Afrique, je te plumerai by Jean-Marie Teno and Lumumba: la mort du prophete by Raoul Peck, I examine a "post-colonial" pre-occupation with history. I…
I. Research issue. Filipinos come from different linguistic and cultural traditions. They assert ethnolinguistic origins over national identity. This research attempts to identify causes that discourage development of a strong Filipino national identity. It also searches for app…
This dissertation is a historian of religion's approach to the repeated appearance of possessed women across time and cultures, informed by post-colonial and feminist perspectives on the study of the religious other. Beginning with a critique of the major comparative studies of …