This thesis utilizes Nazi women’s propaganda to explore the relationship between Nazi gender and racial ideology, particularly in relation to the Nazi Germanization program in the Warthegau during World War II. At the heart of this study is an examination of a paradox inherent i…
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Government sponsored propaganda and privately funded magazine advertisements contributed to and helped shape the decisions made by Americans throughout the twentieth century. This thesis analyzes the historical overlap of various forms of mass communication produced for American…
For as long as there has been war, there have been prisoners of war. Throughout history, prisoners of war have typically been enslaved, mistreated, or put to death. Only in the last few centuries have nations attempted to establish rules and protocols for the better treatment an…
Countless narratives within the field of Comparative Literature express the wounds of trauma. Analyzing these texts, and unearthing their pain and message, captured my interest with a primary focus on women. The chronicler Svetlana Alexievich posits in the polyphonic book, The U…
Scholarship has recognized that a shared passion for baseball between the United States and Japan helped facilitate reconciliation between the two states after World War II, but not enough focus has been put on the role the long history of U.S.-Japan baseball cooperation played …
CHELSEA LOVELY NEESE: Stepping into the Open: Women’s Experience in the Military During World War II
Through the lens of a Jewish family in the early 20th century, histories of resilience, rescue, and resistance are shown. The Loewys were a Jewish family who migrated from Poland to Germany then France and ending up in the United States following World War II. In their travels t…
This project examines the life of my grandfather, John Robert McGowan, fondly known to me as Pop Pop. His stories follow him through a childhood growing up in the Great Depression in a working class family, to serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and to working three jobs i…
From 1910 to 1945, while the Korean peninsula was a protectorate- and eventual colony- of the Empire of Japan, Koreans in the United States began an arduous process to maintain their sense of identity in a new land, and struggled to have a voice in a society that rejected their …
This dissertation explores the perspective and performance of U.S. intelligence professionals and the intelligence organizations in which they served concerning Japan during the interwar period, the timespan ranging approximately from the conclusion of World War I in November 19…
Conventional interpretations regarding the role of the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War have concentrated almost exclusively on the propaganda output of the organisation. The role of the intelligence sections working for and within the organisation have be…
For millennia battles were essentially affairs of linear encounter. From the 10th Century to the 20th Century, artillery generally fired directly in the two dimensional plane,limiting potential effects. The development of indirect fire changed this , two-dimensional model. Warfa…
The subject of this dissertation is the Lun Bawang language (also called Lundayeh, and formerly also Murut), and in particular the Kemaloh dialect thereof, spoken principally in highland Borneo in the area near, and on all sides of, the borders dividing Malaysia’s Sarawak and Sa…
The Starsplitters, a historical and literary fiction, highlights cultural prejudice, gender inequality, and a struggle for autonomy, absolution, and forgiveness in northern New England. A mysterious letter summons Helen Starbird and her granddaughter Laramie to a dying mill town…
In the digital age, art has become readily reproducible and widely accessible due to creativity-based advancements such as big-budget filmmaking and quick-sharing methods of dispersing information through social media platforms. As the current generation relies more heavily on d…
Celebrating Chinese American Veterans explores the intricate relationship between America’s collective memory of war, the absence and/or presence of Chinese American veterans within these historical narratives, and how this collective memory of war has, in recent decades, adapte…
After the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, and the Soviet forces invading from the east, Polish forces were ordered to make their way to either the Hungarian or Romanian borders. These soldiers regrouped and fought for Poland’s freedom outside of its borders. The …
While most scholars focus on analyzing the content of photographs taken under Nazi rule, this dissertation examines photographic practices as social acts aimed at building the Nazi racial community (Volksgemeinschaft). Nazi officials envisioned photography as both an action and …
This project investigates the carceral connections between two groups—Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps during World War II and Vietnamese refugees following the end of the Vietnam War. By looking at the wartime logic of these U.S. racialized wars in As…