As discussions about the hijab circulate in twenty-first century Western Europe, it seems as though few lawmakers are looking to the narratives and experiences of Muslim and South Asian women to give voice to the practice. This thesis looks at the poets Kamala Das, Imtiaz Dharke…
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By looking carefully at one Supreme Court case and the historical context surrounding it, I argue that between ca. 1910 and 1941—when the Court decided United States, as Guardian of the Hualpi Indians of Arizona, v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co. (314 U.S. 339)—an intellectual an…
The puzzle that drives my project is: how do the politics of gender violence matter in remaking democratic meanings and practices? I understand the politics of gender violence to include the way gender violence attacks democracy as a concept and targets marginalized communities …
The strategy process literature studies how strategies are formed in firms, but underemphasizes the role of firms' internal capabilities. Conversely, the resource-based view (RBV), and the dynamic capabilities view (DCV) emphasizes the role of firms' internal capabilities but un…
Administrators at Sherman Institute, an off-reservation Indian boarding school in Riverside California, used Indian children as marketing pawns in order to bolster the school's credibility when it opened in 1902. Enlarging the school's credibility was meant to garner political s…
This dissertation examines the ways in which the missionary tract, the captivity narrative, and the texts of literate Native Americans all participate in the highly contested process that defines the cultural position of the "Christian Indian." Focusing on New England missionary…
The main purpose of this study is to prove that the view on the American Indians, as it is presented in the plays, is determined by two dissimilar sets of values: those related to Christianity and those associated with democracy. The Christian ideals of mercy and benevolence are…
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