Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animate…
Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York's built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues tha…
ABSTRACT There is a current and ongoing influence of hypebeast culture (fashionable streetwear) on luxury and contemporary fashion. I am defining this movement as the dissemination of street fashion (skater culture and ’90s references) into mass media and popular ideals of what …
This dual case study of Marseille and Tel Aviv utilizes practice-based methods, digital ethnography and archival research to interrogate contemporary institutional, material, architectural and atmospheric/embodied conditions in the Belle de Mai and Joliette (Marseille) and Neve …
“Black Urban Revolution” traces a cultural history of the MOVE Organization, a mostly Black naturalist collective established in 1970s West Philadelphia. This project examine how MOVE members confronted conditions of racialized and gendered state violence and displacement throug…
My research focuses on how feelings and thoughts about ethics are created or constructed with imagistic materials such as painting, photography, or film. While the matter of ethics has been deeply examined from the metaphysic point of view, relatively few have studied the subjec…
Throughout World War II, American photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977) served as a war correspondent for Condé Nast. As she followed the 273rd infantry regiment of the 45th division of the United States Army, Miller published photo essays in American, British, and French Vogue. O…
In their attempts to explain the dysfunctions of modernity in Latin America, theorists see it as a failed project (Néstor García-Canclini), a chronic deferral of the modern (Aníbal Quijano), or blame residual colonial practices (Walter Mignolo). Rather than continuing this obses…
This dissertation examines the explosion of the cultural field in Venezuela during the 1970s oil boom through the lens of nature-society relations. I argue that cultural production was an agent of state-led ecological transformation and, at the same time, a space where artists a…
My research investigates the transnational significance of civil war through its representations in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, visual culture, and mass media. I employ a comparative approach to the study of civil war by working across national borders in thr…
My dissertation examines visual and aural marketing practices used by merchants in the suqs (marketplaces) of Damascus, Syria. In the busy and cramped spaces of the city's large marketplaces, where a range of factors makes for intense economic competition, merchants must enact a…
My dissertation addresses the concept of publicity as it is produced through 24/7 Hindi television news channels and the new modes of public and political action that it makes possible in Delhi, India. Since 2000, news channels have become highly visible forms of television cult…
The ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav Partisans since the break-up. This edition in contrast looks into the (hybrid) n…