This dissertation evaluates how unequal power structures generate a form of structural violence that becomes embodied by people who live within them, and explores how historical narratives of the colonial experience have obfuscated the realities of the Indigenous experience of c…
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Over the last two decades, cacao has become a sacrament within increasingly popular syncretic religious ceremonies that promote the energetic healing of the sacred self. Cacao is a psychoactive substance that is regarded by members within some new religious communities as a plan…
This dissertation develops a feminist materialist interpretation of the role the neuroendocrine system plays in the development of gender/sex differences in religion. Data emerging from psychology, sociology, and cognitive science have continually indicated that women are more r…
This study of lithic artifacts from the Halaf site of Fistikli Höyük, located in Southeastern Turkey, is part of a larger body of scholarly work on Late Neolithic village cultures in the Middle East. My work expands on existing scholarship and provides new understandings of the …
In this paper I consider work in the cognitive science of religion in light of anthropological work by Saba Mahmood and Charles Hirschkind on the formation of religious subjects in contemporary Egypt to highlight how Foucault's historical constitution of the subject involves the…
This is a close textual reading of the Hebrew text of the biblical book of Esther with special attention to descriptions of the human body. Esther's narrative is rich with corporeal descriptions including feasting and fasting, beauty competitions, and body positions. The transit…
This thesis concerns a postpartum condition known as sobreparto among female Andean migrants in the lowland city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. While sobreparto is a traditionally Andean illness, its occurrence in the lowland city of Santa Cruz opens up new dimensions of a…
This interdisciplinary practice-based thesis interrogates the term ‘operatic’ with particular reference to movement. It thereby aims to extract operatic movement from the practice of opera singers and investigate ways to transfer ‘operaticness’ into the bodies of non-singing per…
This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which late medieval English drama produces and theorises emotions, in order to engage with the complex nexus of ideas about the links between sensation, emotion, and cognition in contemporary philosophical and theologial thought. It c…
I examine the two chief anatomical and physiological (embodiment) theories of voluntary animal motion from the time of Aristotle (b. 384 B.C.) to that of Mondino (d, A.D. 1326). The formal study of animal motion commenced with the Greek natural philosopher Aristotle who wrote th…
Renewed excavations in 2003–2004 at Alalakh (Tell Atchana), a regional capital of ancient Syria during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1200 BCE), exposed the burials of at least 58 people. Along with published and unpublished data from burials excavated at Alalakh by Si…
The early modern period is often associated with the emergence of the autonomous subject and the Protestant triumph of inner faith over outer forms. This dissertation complicates such a trajectory by considering how England's increased contact with Muslim “Turks” around the turn…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study that traces the production, cultivation, and maintenance of selves. Modern culture includes a growing interest in the cultivation of inner spheres, advising each and every individual to search for an experience of interiority that is in…
This dissertation explores representations of the Jewish female body in Hebrew literature at the turn of the 20th century. It serves as an intervention in the dominant discourse on the male Jewish body in recent scholarship, and its occlusion of discussions of femininity and fem…
Millions joined Turkey's 2013 Gezi Park protests, which were characterized by demonstrators' steady creation of visual materials dissenting against the government. A subsection of pregnant protesters, who in June began tagging social media posts with #DIRENHAMILE (#RESISTPREGNAN…
This study uses a 3x3x3 Latin square design to investigate the idea that understanding may be taught by means of biofunctionally embodied (BE) classroom practice. Three levels of biofunctional embodiment were manipulated as a within-subjects factor. The other two variables were …
Zahir & Batin: Rhythms of Being is a multi-faceted research project questioning the definition and teleology of the term Islamic art while positioning a contemporary practice of art and design within the historical discipline. The investigation emphasizes the need for a re-inter…
The aim of this thesis is to report on a transdisciplinary approach, regarding the complexity of thinking about human embodiment in relation to machine embodiment. A practical dimension of this thesis is to elicit some principles for the design and evaluation of virtual embodime…
Living through radical historical and social changes can be challenging for people as they go through personal transitions and developmental stages across the life course. Research has shown that living through disruptive social changes influences one generation’s health and wel…