This thesis examines the constitutional phase (1902–1923) of the reign of Alfonso XIII from a new perspective. Unlike most previous political histories of the period, it explores the efforts of cabinet ministers, Palace officials, and the monarchist press to portray an image of …
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In the aftermath of the bloody and divisive French revolution of 1848, the newly established Second Republic (1848–1851) engineered a plan to send disenfranchised urban paupers to become productive colonists in Algeria. The notion of colonial emigration as social reform offered …
The subject of my research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a f…
This thesis critiques white liberal subjectivity, primarily through the work of Claudia Rankine. In Rankine’s The White Card, she critiques white liberal subjectivity through the form of a play, a space of encounter. In the case of The White Card, the play’s primary encounter ap…
The data gathered through this study yields some insight into the psychographic and demographic of consumers who are likely to engage with visual messaging that leans toward a specific ideological view. Using perceptions of economy, religion, and culture, a series of promotions …
In liberal democracies, debates about the status of women and debates about the authority of religious legal-moral systems often converge in the area of family law. Focusing on domestic violence, I show a patriarchal bias pervades both Islamic and liberal moral discourse. In ord…