As a once-colonized people now living primarily in transnational family groups, Marshall Islanders have gone through rapid cultural changes. To better understand these changes, I present three ethnographic perspectives. The first is an analysis of Majuro’s transformation from a …
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Extant literature on the Palestinian-Israeli separation wall privileges the wall's function in border-making, while ignoring other discursive and spacial functions it fulfills. My thesis reaches beyond the border-making function of the wall, resituating it as a node among differ…
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…
This study examines how Political Entrepreneurs in the United States Congress responded to human rights abuses in six countries during the 1970s and 1980s: Cambodia, El Salvador, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Uganda. It presents a four-point model for approaching t…
Academics have extensively studied the life trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Various research studies have explored their identity-negotiation processes by looking at their degree of assimilation and acculturation into their host countries and their transnational co…
This dissertation consists of a multi-sited ethnographic examination of Western-owned and managed transnational office spaces in Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore. I describe the kinds of social spaces that are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives due to global economic p…
This dissertation examines why states in some water scarce regions of the world are able to cooperate over shared fresh water resources while states in other such regions are continually entangled in political tension and violent conflict. My analysis is based on empirical mater…
Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, millions of East European Jews made the decision to abandon their places of birth and migrate to larger cities throughout the world. This dissertation examines how mass migration prompted the development of new forms of …
By the 1950s, big dams had become the leading technology for water resources development in the world. Today, opposition erupts against virtually every big darn project proposed or under construction. And since the 1970s—despite being promoted by a range of transnationally allie…
This study investigated diversification activities of media firms and their impacts on financial performance. It adopted a pooled cross-sectional and time-series methodology. Data came from the top 26 media firms over a 12-year time period (1991 to 2002). Although most media stu…
This dissertation examines why there is variation in Environmental Transnational Coalitions' (ETCs') ability to influence foreign policy. It explains when and how ETCs are more likely to pressure states to make policy decisions favorable to their interests. This study reveals at…
The main goal of this study is to explore the dilemmas encountered by female Balinese dance performers as they negotiate their role and position in regards to the major influences that define Bali at the close of the 20 th century: the local Hindu-Balinese tradition; the discour…
This dissertation is a study of the formation of ethnicities among the Toba Batak Christians in a transnational community in a process of modernization. Immigrant Toba Bataks from Sumatra established this community in Singapore after World War II. The center of the community is …
How is the middle-class Tehran home, as a site of satellite television and Internet consumption, implicated within the processes of Iranian state formation and transformation? The new media technologies of satellite television and the Internet have far-reaching societal effects.…
The transformational leadership style of management that has been adopted by the transnational oil companies in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria, to implement corporate social responsibility and sustainable development after almost a decade is yet to be effective. It is believe…
This dissertation examines the dynamic between the global movement for human rights and the logic of the state in Israel/Palestine. The dissertation has a two-fold aim: (1) to consider, in sufficient cultural and historical specificity, what makes violations of human rights poss…
Living a life "on the hyphen" -- as the Cuban-American critic Gustavo Perez Firma calls it -- or in a "third space" -- as the Indian literary theorist Homi Bhabha defines it -- has become the most common way to describe the condition of those identities in-between, to define the…
This dissertation focuses on the burgeoning field of contemporary Arab-American literature as an important site for negotiating the complexities of Arab-American identity. Arguing against the US Census Bureau's current racial categorization of Arab-Americans as white, my current…
This dissertation examines the consolidation of elite networks as global experts in three cities of the Middle East. Based upon fieldwork in Cairo, Beirut, and Istanbul, it addresses the question of how processes of globalization are made natural through the creation of particul…