This dissertation consists of three studies that evaluate how women form partnerships, leave partnerships, and the economic outcomes of those partnerships. These demographic transitions and outcomes are evaluated in three country contexts with differing political, welfare regime…
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This dissertation project examines the lived experiences of immigrant and second-generation Iranian immigrants to uncover the factors that shape their perceptions of belonging in two differ western nations. It is a qualitative methods study that utilized in-depth interviews. I a…
This dissertation is a study of ethics in motion for German-Turkish return migrants. I argue that migration and return prompt ethical reflection, ethical change, and ethical work. Drawing from 25 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the ethical dilemmas migrants confront …
Germany stands as a pivotal country within the NATO alliance: it is an economic superpower and occupies a central geographic and political position in Europe. Germany's defense policy and its approach to alliance commitments will have a significant impact on the success or failu…
In my dissertation, I focus on the concept of the migrant flâneuse in the works of immigrant women writers in Germany to add to an understanding of transnational relations and globalization. I argue that in spite of a wide variety of theoretical practice, the discourse of flaner…
The Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War in October 1914 represents a break in over a century of diplomacy in the Middle East. Previous study of late Ottoman politics has focused more upon the European states with imperial interests in the Middle East and has not adeq…
In contemporary debates concerning immigration, nationhood, and religion in Germany, immigrants from Turkey are frequently portrayed as the most problematic of immigrant groups in Germany, with their religious identities as Muslims often cited as a barrier to integration. In my …
The Hildik, Klausner and Tyrnau liturgical minhagim books, produced in the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, demonstrate that medieval Ashkenaz was moving toward a greater reliance on written texts. During this period, there was a proliferation of ritual guides, including wor…
This is a translation of two radio plays by Günter Eich, the most celebrated author in this genre. They have been translated from the original German into English. These two radio plays illustrate Eich's examination of the limits of language in negotiating the chasm between the …
Paul Fussell has remarked that our understanding of modernity throughout the last century; “is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.” What this dissertation demonstrates is that World War I, while…
In this dissertation, I examine the process through which Turkish immigrants and their children made themselves at home in West Germany from 1961 to reunification in 1990. Originally coming to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) through a temporary foreign worker program in th…
This study explores varying outcomes of energy cooperation, defined as diplomatic relations, bilateral trade, and investment in oil and natural gas. Tests of theories pertinent to energy security - broadly speaking, realism, liberalism, and domestic politics—reveal that they alo…
A decade after World War II, the Federal Republic of Germany created a new military meant only to defend the nation's borders. The new force, called the Bundeswehr, prepared young men to fight against a possible invasion by the Soviet Union. But when the Soviet Union crumbled at…
Historically, Muslim women in Germany have been externalized from participating in European identity, despite possessing European citizenship. FEMEN's Topless Jihad Day protest places Muslim women inside of a German landscape, though through deeply problematic means. FEMEN deman…
Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy can be seen at work in the texts of canonical modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Rainer Maria Rilke, William B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and it is in the balance of these two …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project that marries cultural geography and literary criticism to reevaluate traditional notions of what has been described as displacement or diaspora by shifting focus onto emplacement and locality. Responding to the thematic preoccupa…
This study is committed to a critical analysis of the ways in which constructions of masculinity and national identity intersect in contemporary German cinema. The fundamental premise behind it is that masculinity, or rather male subjectivity, functions as the nodal point for ne…
Whether associated with assimilation into the dominant culture or rebellion against it, the German Jew is often portrayed as the paragon of Weimar culture. Yet accounts of Weimar Jewish culture tend to overlook the heterogeneity of Germany's Jewish population, paying short shrif…
The first chapter of this dissertation is using data from the German SOEP panel, and I analyze the assimilation of immigrants in terms of initial wage gap and assimilation rate. The analysis consists of a basic assimilation model, a cohort model, and a source country specific mo…