This dissertation investigates the trajectory of state-sponsored official Turkish national identity, identifying and examining environmental factors that are influential in engendering change in order to highlight how the interplay between state, society, and international force…
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This project examines the process of return from the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium for British colonial officials and their families. Through an analysis of their correspondence with family and friends in Britain, the symbolic process of returning to their ‘home’ country is apparen…
This dissertation, titled “La représentation de 1'identité mandingue dans le roman africain francophone subsaharien,” examines the historical, socio-cultural, political and linguistic representations of Mandingo identity in three novels; namely, L'Étrange destin de Wangrin by Am…
Based on fieldwork with nongovernmental organizations, women in nontraditional professions, and informants among different social classes, this dissertation demonstrates how changing gender roles are linked with struggles to determine local and national identity. As discourses s…
This is a study of identity, community, and the process of state formation in the Roman period at Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian desert, from the first to third centuries C.E. I address the key issue of cultural transmission and the development of an indigenous Palmyrene i…
Since the late 1960s, Eritreans in the United States have been active participants in ongoing efforts to define the Eritrean nation. They have also contributed extensively to the political-economic viability of the emergent state. During the nationalist revolution war of indepen…
This is a descriptive study on pulaaku discourse and Fulbe identity in the area of northern Cameroon, Africa. The Fulbe have been a major vehicle for the spread of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and Fulbe identity has been largely equated with Islamic identity. As some Fulbe become…
This dissertation is both a theoretical proposal about exile and identity and an engaged reading of novels by Assia Djebar and Nabile Farès. The gist of my argument is that Djebar and Farès bring together the specificities of the Algerian—and more generally the francophone—write…
This is a qualitative study examining complex micro and macro social processes of negotiating drastic shifts in identity, cohesion, and belonging in the context of refugee displacement. A community-based small sample of 18 self-identified research participants is selected from a…
Protean and irrepressible as its own protagonists, the picaresque genre re-surfaces periodically throughout literary history, always reflecting its cultural, temporal and geo-political surroundings. In this dissertation, I demonstrate how three contemporary German and Austrian a…
The primary focus of this dissertation is an exegetical analysis of the temple imagery in the epistle of 1 Peter (1:18–19; 2:4–10; 3:19–20; 4:14–17; 5:10) in light of the Second Temple Jewish framework of the “lingering exile” as an interpretive matrix. The focus will be on 1 Pe…
The development and spread of Internet technology has been implicated in a variety of economic, political and social transformations. The most important of these include the rise of the global economy, the decline of the welfare state, and the proliferation of identity-based, as…
I. Research issue. Filipinos come from different linguistic and cultural traditions. They assert ethnolinguistic origins over national identity. This research attempts to identify causes that discourage development of a strong Filipino national identity. It also searches for app…
This dissertation explores the emergence of an Argentine Jewish identity through the study of the Sephardic minorities that settled in that country. Home to one of the largest Jewish communities outside Israel, Argentina received large numbers of both Ashkenazim and Sephardim st…
By the late sixth century B.C., the monumental tombs of Asia Minor regularly contained couches, or klinai, for the placement of the dead. These furnishings served both as eternal beds for the deceased and as symbolic banquet couches, often accompanied by tables and vessels for e…
Research concerning the Penitentes of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado holds out many unique gifts to scholarship. Unfortunately, because of the difficulties inherent in the study of this population, the information available is incomplete. One of the largest gaps in cu…
Religiosity and psychosocial maturity have long been thought of as protective factors during adolescent development. However, little is known about the impact of religious minority status on adolescent's religiosity and psychosocial maturity. Furthermore, it is unclear if these …
As early as the first Muslim dynasties, rulers commissioned mosques to establish their authority and create a visual manifestation of Islam. The mosque also became an integral aspect of the community's identity, serving as its physical and spiritual center. During the late 20th …
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, this study examined how American identity, levels of anxiety, and community cohesion were experienced for Muslim Americans and Americans who self-reported to be perceived as Muslims in the United States. One hundred thirty-t…