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This work focuses on Detroit from 1805 to 1812, with a focus on the changes brought about by the advent of the Michigan Territory and the reaction to those changes by the predominantly French-speaking citizens of the town. This work relies on previously underutilized petitions a…

In what is increasingly considered a post-secular age, the role of religion in immigrants’ negotiations of transnational identities and search for national belonging is once again thought to be a significant one. The growing presence of Islamic diaspora communities in Europe and…

This dissertation explains the whys and hows of Americanization of management education at the Iranian Industrial Management Institute (IMI), which is the largest management institute that offers an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in Iran. The Iranian context …

This dissertation looks at the Americanization process of various immigrant groups who settled in Michigan City, Indiana, an ethnically diverse, midsize urban area outside of Chicago, between 1880 and 1940. Specifically, I look at how those groups—which included Scandinavians, G…

This project documents otherwise neglected dimensions entailed in the assemblage and implementations of political theories, namely their fabrication through encounters with their material, local, and affective constituents. Rather than emanating from the West and migrating to th…

This investigation sought to examine the role of acculturation and generational theory and influenced social and cultural practices among Saudi Arabian students who were currently residing in the United States. Theoretically, it sought to answers questions that help determine ho…

The histories of African Americans, Native Americans, and colonial populations during the United States’ national consolidation and imperial expansion after the Civil War have frequently been treated as distinct and separate experiences, a historiographic practice that minimizes…

In this dissertation, I address the question on whether, how and the extent to which present day globalization is persistently American. I do so through a comparative case study: examining the history of Coca Cola and McDonald’s – the most popular conveyors of a global America –…

Italian Americans were a key constituency of the white-ethnic voting bloc that formed one of the main pillars of the New Deal coalition. However, few historians have looked at motives for the group’s allegiance beyond economic necessity and machine politics. This approach has fa…