This dissertation questions the making of the Israeli distinction between Arabs and Jews through the eyes of 3-6 year old children in a bilingual preschool program in the city of Be'er Sheva. The primary method used is a year-long ethnography of the school, consisting of partici…
"6" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation studies the development of relations between Kazakhs and Siberian Cossacks in the period between the inclusion of the Kazakh Middle and Younger Hordes in the Russian Empire in the 1730s and the beginning of the twentieth century. The research is based on primar…
The "rebordering of the Mediterranean" refers to the extension of European frontiers to include southern European countries in the mid-eighties, and to the construction of new social boundaries in the innerland. This dissertation explores the construction of social difference in…
According to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), an estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States (U.S.) of which 53 percent are Mexican (Gelatt & Zong, 2018). Many of these immigrants have not been able to see their families in Mexico for numerous…
This thesis will address slavery in Nebraska Territory through the lens of the 1858 escape of two young women—Celia and Eliza Grayson—enslaved by Virginia native Stephen Friel Nuckolls, Nebraska City’s founder. Historians have described Nebraska Territory as a place where popula…
In very broad terms my dissertation examines two things. Firstly it explores the creation of the Iranian-Ottoman border extending from the Persian Gulf to Armenia, in the period from 1843 to 1881. Secondly, it examines how peoples who lived in this border zone, adapted and resis…