This dissertation extends the conversations surrounding human rights literature and its intersection with transnational gender studies and rhetorical theories. It does so through extended analyses of literary accounts of human rights abuses from Iran, South Africa, and Burma inc…
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A study of the Federated Shan States, 1922-1942, has been provided to gain insight into British policy and administration. In 1886, following the British defeat of Upper Burma, the Shan States were incorporated into the Province of Burma as a part of British India. The Shan Stat…
This dissertation develops a theory of culture which addresses the role cognition plays in the construction and perpetuation of ideologies and the role ideologies play in the formation of national identities and literatures. Using the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as a …
This thesis studies the reportage in the English language press, primarily in Calcutta (but also covering Burma and Britain) of the Second and Third Anglo-Burmese Wars of 1852 and 1885, respectively. The wars were overwhelmingly the result of a combination of aggressive mercanti…
The Kuki-Chin languages constitute one of the most important subgroups of the great Tibeto-Burman family. This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the sound system of the ancestor language, Proto-Kuki-Chin, by comparing the initial consonants, rhymes, and nominal tones of a lar…
Max Weber presents a typology of ideal types of power---charismatic, traditional, and legal-rational. Men historically have been the basis for Weber's and other scholar's theories. Today, there are enough women in political positions to construct a typology on the effects of gen…
The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 positions religious freedom at the center of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. seeks as part of its foreign policy to impose sanctions, including the designation of certain egregious violators of religious freedom as Countries of Parti…
This dissertation is an exploration of the similar experiences of Kuala Lumpur and Rangoon as provincial colonial capitals within the British empire. By using archival sources from England and Malaysia which concentrate on the first few years of British administration in each ci…
This dissertation examines John S. Furnivall's theory of social and economic change in plural societies, societies in which peoples of different cultures live without sharing a common culture. The theory of plural economy can be derived from Furnivall's interpretation of social …
Burma/Myanmar, a country with a long history of brutal military dictatorships, was for decades a hostile environment for mass contention. Nonetheless, large-scale protests, as part of the Burmese urban pro-democracy movement, still emerged through the years. So what accounts for…
Situated between China and India, Burma is too seldom named in histories of the global Cold War. But Burma saw one of the earliest and most complex episodes of Cold War engagements across the Global South. The United States and the People’s Republic of China were the first Cold …
This dissertation documents cultural processes of decolonization and nation-building in the mid-twentieth century between 1950 and 1970 between Southeast Asia and the West, specifically between Burma, Malaya, Thailand, and Great Britain and the United States, as they occurred th…
Many developing countries with heterogeneous tribal, ethnic, and/or linguistic populations face a unique form of violence motivated by a desire to secede from the central state and form a new state, known as separatism. Motivated by a strong cultural identity and a sense of oppr…