This thesis is concerned with the intentional destruction of landscapes of identity during warfare and their post-war reconstruction. The concepts in this project are situated within the context of the geography of place and within the constructs of the notion of landscape as a …
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Identicide is the conscious intent to destroy the physical manifestations of a society in order to destroy cultural identity and to erase any signs of previous existence. When a community is affected by identicide, and significant cultural places and symbols are destroyed, there…
Employing a combination of extensive personal experience in Africa, former Soviet Union, Asia and Europe, and field research, interviews, and in-depth literature review, this study offers a multi-level analysis of complex emergencies. The unprecedented number of civilians expose…
Following the Civil War, a number of terrorist organizations were founded in the states of the former Confederacy with the express aim of reversing the progressive gains of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Among the methods employed by these groups, of which the Ku Klux Klan was…
This dissertation is a historical study of a nineteenth-century teacher of mathematics of African descent, Edgar Joseph Edmunds (“E. J. Edmunds”). The study traces the life and career of Edmunds, which spanned a period of social upheaval in the South–from the pre-Civil War era, …
1990's Beirut was a space marked by gaping holes where buildings once used to be, mountains of rubble and debris that ended as landfill in the sea, and towering cranes, massive bulldozers, and innumerable construction workers, trying to rebuild what the 1975–1990 Civil War—local…
This work is an ethnography of place and memory in post war Beirut. It examines the rebuilding project of downtown Beirut in terms of the competing discourses surrounding and driving the process. After the end of a long civil war, Beirut is rebuilding its decimated downtown, onc…
For over two hundred years the U.S. military has conducted operations other than "major war." Rarely, however, has the institution translated the experience to doctrine, education, or training, leaving each generation with only personal experience, ingenuity, and initiative to a…
In the early 1980s Bulgarian archaeologists of the newly established Centre for Underwater Archaeology at Sozopol discovered the remains of a post-medieval ship in the southern Bay of Kitten, in the lee of Cape Urdoviza. Between 2000 and 2003, the Institute of Nautical Archaeolo…
In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique …
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratifi…