This study of David's Jerusalem is animated by a historical interest in how meaningful places shaped human experience in antiquity. In part, this focus on place will lead to a reconstruction of the landscape and lifeways of that early 10th century BCE Jerusalem connected to the …
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This dissertation explores the differences in constructions of memory and of authorship in diasporic and national literature through a close reading of "A Guest for the Night" by S.Y. Agnon and the Yash novels by Jacob Glatstein. The reading is premised on a diasporic conception…
This study seeks to assess the impact of architecture on identity and experience in pre- exilic Israel and argues that crucial to this assessment is an interdisciplinary treatment of the iconographic system of the Temple of Solomon. It begins with a look to theoretical approache…
This dissertation examines the corpus of illustrated manuscripts of the panegyric Shahnama-i Isma`il , a work commissioned by Shah Isma`il himself from the poet Qasimi. While the existence of this poem has been known for some time, the manuscripts have languished largely unappre…
This work presents that the God of the Old Testament, who enacted great deeds through the people of Israel to bring fame to the name of JHVH, underwent a name transformation in the salvific events of the New Testament. In Old Testament times, JHVH's name was "called"over or asso…
This project engages the UNESCO World Heritage program's international place-making and heritage preservation campaign, and the processes that are carried out to transform an everyday cultural place into a World Heritage site. I consider what effects these preservation projects …
The following thesis seeks to read the history as presented by the biblical text as the cultural memory of ancient Israel. Scholars widely regard the historical books (Joshua-2 Kings) as having been influenced by the ideology of Deuteronomy and therefore find a significant compo…
In recent decades, significant bodies of research have emerged with regard to understanding (a) Indigenous identities as “glocal” expressions (e.g., Minde 2008; Niezen 2003; Bigenho 2007), (b) Christian Zionism (e.g., Ariel 1991; Spector 2009), and (c) how ideology and power rel…
This thesis explores the relationship of music and cultural memory in a migrant community, namely the Turkish diaspora in Berlin, Germany, and the changing patterns of music consumption within generations. Music is a significant agent that helps communities bridge the past and p…
Any approach to the past tailors our perception of the present, which is in turn inevitably elusive and unstable. The present is a site of contestation between memory and history, as well as a site for recounting the distant past by reflecting it through the prism of the present…
This dissertation examines postwar state recognition of resistance during the Second World War in France from below and the margins. It focuses on the postwar commemorative politics regarding the resistance and liberation of the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, a place with…
This project examines the interplay between memory, history, and politics relating to Spanish Republican memories of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the following authoritarian dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). In my analysis of this relationship, I focus on th…
This dissertation will explore the nostalgic fantasy worlds created by rock musicians at the start of the seventies. While popular culture of the entire decade saw a huge explosion of interest in the past, these early years of the decade are particularly interesting because they…
This dissertation examines a wide array of performance and media practices in the Iranian diasporas. It argues that any understanding of diasporic imagination and material culture demands an in-depth engagement with cultural histories, including genealogies of media and technolo…
Utilizing the three-article format, this dissertation examines the severe inequalities related to race, class, and gender in North Texas from 1880 to 1940. The unifying theme of all three articles is the ways in which inequality was enforced in Black-White relations, including t…
Palestinian accounts of life before they became refugees in 1948 have made significant contributions to what we know about village and urban life at that time. This dissertation discusses how we can understand village memorial books, autobiographies, oral history collections, an…