Contemporary conflicts often produce vast territories outside the control of the recognized political sovereign. Instead of sinking into anarchy, rebel organizations may establish forms of political and social order within these territories. While many rebel groups remain predat…
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In this dissertation I examine the faunal remains of the Middle Kingdom Egyptian fortress of Askut, a stronghold on the Egyptian-Nubian border at the height of political tensions between ancient Egypt and Kush (1850 to 1550 BC). The aims of this investigations are: 1) to examine…
Culture contact between past populations has traditionally been investigated by using a paradigm of unidirectional change forced on a subordinate group by a dominant power. However, recent studies have suggested that such power relations are often more dynamic and bi-directional…
Forceful military humanitarian intervention in complex humanitarian emergencies has become a more frequent activity of states in the post-Cold War era. New notions that intervening militarily to alleviate human suffering is legitimate have challenged traditional views of state s…
Relief agents and armies at war view humanitarian aid very differently. For providers of assistance, donations are seen as life-sustaining relief for civilians. For fighting factions, however, basic necessities such as food, water and milk may be seen as aid and comfort to the e…
This dissertation focuses on a history of the Nilotic Dinka of the Southern Sudan and integrates their experience into the wider literature of ancient, medieval and modern Sudanese historiography. Working from approximately three hundred oral interviews, published sources and th…
The Katwe salt industry was a key factor in the pre-colonial centrality of the western lakes region in the regional economy of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa that includes present-day Uganda, Rwanda, eastern Congo, southern Sudan, and northern Tanzania. Western Uganda,…
Conflicts in Africa are destabilizing the continent, thus hampering any efforts to achieve sustainable development. Post-Cold War conflicts are mainly internal and result in mass migrations of refugees into neighboring states that are underdeveloped and politically unstable. In …
The aim of this thesis was to document the development of the Christian Nubian house and its variations in form between different geographic and political regions, within the kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria and Alwa. Chronologies describing the evolution of Nubian church architectu…
By examining three postcolonial novels in a comparative context, the aim of this dissertation is to study the social, political, and philosophical significance of the ways in which the sexual adventures of three young black men with the white women of their former colonizers are…
The Gumuz language is spoken by roughly 160,000 people across the Blue Nile region of Ethiopia and Sudan (Grimes 2004). Gumuz is the sole member of the Gumuz family which is part of the larger Nilo-Saharan super-family (Bender 1996a) and is considered to be a single language who…
This thesis revolves around two armatures. The first argues that the nature of state power in the Middle Niger Valley and the broader Mandé world was in large part determined by ligatures of power to association. One significant confluence of forces was located in the Komo power…
This research is an attempt to provide a foundation for tackling the problems which hinder the development of technical and vocational education (TVE) in the Sudan from achieving its objectives. Questionnaires and interviews were used for collecting data relating to these issues…
This dissertation examines the United Nations’ efforts to clear landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) in Sudan. Based primarily upon seven months of fieldwork with the UN Mine Action Office in Sudan in addition to interviews in the United States and Europe, this re…
The first missionaries arrived in southern Sudan around the middle of the nineteenth century, bringing with them a Western model of church. That same model of church is evident all across southern Sudan today. While contextualization has occurred in parts, there is no fully cont…
This dissertation presents and evaluates the use of geographic techniques for understanding the role of environmental variables as they relate to the odds of settlements being targeted for attack within a civil conflict. Geospatial technologies are demonstrated for their utility…
Ancient Nubia, located in Sudan from the First to Sixth Cataracts of the Nile River, was at the heart of contact between indigenous African societies and the Egyptian Empire (Edwards 2007). This dissertation focuses on a small farming community on the fringes of the medieval Nub…
The focus of this research was to provide a better understanding of the issues facing African telecommunications regulators and policy makers. The problem addressed in this study was the relationship between development in the telecommunications industry in Africa and the factor…
By employing a bioarchaeological perspective, this dissertation addresses how quotidian acts are altered during and as a consequence of sociopolitical change. Specifically, variation in day-to-day activities associated with the transition from the New Kingdom to the Napatan Peri…