Follow the Damage, not the People This is the genealogy of trauma, child of ancestors Joaquin was the father of Eusebio. Eusebio the father of Marcela, whose husband was Max Ferraro. Max was the father of Matias, whose husband was Eusebio Fetizanan, who was a soldier in World Wa…
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My study begins by outlining the historical significance of medieval studies in African-American colleges and scholarly writing in the decades after the Civil War. Scholars have studied this period with respect to the myth of racial purity that pervaded white racial discourse at…
Pin-up images have played an important role in American culture, in both their illustrated and photographic configurations. The pin-up is viewed as a significant representational cultural artifact of idealistic and aspirational femininity and of consumerism and material wealth, …
This thesis makes a historically grounded theoretical contribution to an emerging “critical” approach to refugee studies. Utilising the insights of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, it seeks to reconceptualise academic and policy understandings of what has come to be known as “…
This thesis investigates the present reality of an anti-homeless public space and its construction of the street homeless subject, with normative conclusions. The recent history of various tactics of dispersal and their interconnection are revealed. I argue that it is not just a…
This study examines the surface structure of the Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible. Using a combination of form-critical and linguistic methods the dissertation seeks to understand the role of the toledot formula, often translated "These are the generations of Name," in shaping the…
African music and its musicians from the Pharaonic periods to Mali to the Mississippi Delta to the South Bronx have contributed some of the most lasting and influential cultural creations known. The music and musicians of Africa have been studied as early as the early 18 th cent…
This dissertation examines how and why Saudis have documented their genealogies over the past three centuries. Despite the erosion of kinship ties resulting from three centuries of religious conditioning, and despite the unprecedented material transformation of Saudi society in …
Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality have been declining in the U.S. over the last several decades; however, this disease still ranks as the third most common and second most lethal cancer in the United States (US). In contrast to these overall trends, the incidence o…
The transition into adulthood is a time of deeply consequential identity construction, during which young people imagine and begin to pursue independent lives. I drew on identity theory, social identity theory, ideologies of racial essentialism and genetic determinism, and cultu…
This thesis examines the construction of African-American identity in Toni Morrison’s trilogy, published in the decade between 1987 and 1997, Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1997) and Alice Walker’s 1982 to 1992 trilogy, The Color Purple (1982), The Temple of my Famili…
Designers today are part of a global network that aims to radically transform how public policies are formulated and implemented. They take up technopolitical questions in avowedly democratic regimes that have evolved a large bureaucracy of unelected civil servants, many of them…
Narratives of Genealogy: Return, Race, and the Body in the Black Imagination explores how African-American writers and thinkers in the 20th and 21st centuries narrativize genealogy and its relationship to race as a socially constructed vs. biological framework. I pay particular …
Research on current methods of ancestral estimation must reflect on biological heritage to aid in human identification. Using modern craniometrics methods, how do individuals with a varied biological history affect ancestral estimation? Today, the most used and reliable methods …
This dissertation explores the intersection of American imperialism, commerce, and families in 19th century Hawai‘i. By the end of the nineteenth century, private commercial interests helped bring an end to the Hawaiian monarchy. After several decades of intervention into the is…
James Patrick Brady (1908-1967) helped conceptualize Métis political self-determination through his photography and activism, and his work made their identity something to be proud of rather than suppressed. This thesis considers examples from his photographic collection as an e…
The doctoral dissertation titled The Genealogy of the Herberstein Family with Special Emphasis on Its Lower-Styrian Branches discusses the genealogy of the old Eastern Styrian noble family Herberstein. The family can be traced in sources from the end of the 13th century. Its fou…
This dissertation addresses the relationship between history, culture, technology, and urban governance in South Korea. It focuses on the technologies and techniques of making and governing a smart city and argues that they have been shaped by the long-term concerns for security…