Outlaw motorcycle gangs are known to reject societal norms, participate in criminal behavior, and act as the icon for the American rebel. Now they have joined the World Wide Web. This study examines the construction of identity on the web by conducting a rhetorical analysis of t…
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One way of approaching the study of Tsarist and Soviet nationality practices is to investigate official treatment of non-Russian languages. "Buriat Language Policy, 19thc.-1928" examines Tsarist and Soviet policies towards the language of the Buriats--a Mongol-speaking people nu…
Using freshwater springs (Rashaan in Mongolian, Arshan in Buryat language) as multi-faceted models of cultural and natural diversity, this study broadly questions how biophysical, cultural and social interactions at different spatial and temporal scales can be reconciled into in…
This dissertation begins by exploring the literary background of the Mongols in the Western imagination, especially the complex of stories developed around the apocalyptic writings of Pseudo-Methodius. Originally a response to the Islamic expansion of the 7th century, these prop…
The Jāmi` al-tawārīkh (Collected histories) of Rashīd al-Dīn Tabib (d. 1318) has long been considered the single richest witness to the history of the early Mongol Empire in general and its Middle Eastern branch, the Ilkhanate, in particular. This has created a persistent depend…