This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…
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Once an essential part of selecting presidential nominees, national presidential conventions have dramatically changed in recent decades. In part due to the shifts in media and the rise of personalized politics, conventions now represent a form of political theater. While previo…
This dissertation analyzes racially motivated mutinies by black military servicemen from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. Resistance against white supremacy in the armed forces illustrates the commitment of generations of African Americans to a vision of freedom centered on bod…
This dissertation connects the aesthetic commitment to the ordinary world in twentieth-century women’s literature to the invention and consolidation of modern sexuality. Owing largely to a political antipathy between “the ordinary” and “the queer,” scholars have not addressed th…
Analyzing Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and linking trends of the Byronic hero that have merged into a variety of genres reveal that the hero is a mode of subversive gender expression, which has evolved within the Gothic through feminine desire. Delving into Bram Stoker’s Dra…
The countercultural back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s was the third wave of an antimodern tradition that stretched back to the late nineteenth century. This study places the hippie back-to-the-land movement within this larger context and follows the intergeneratio…
This thesis explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of dwelling in the city using rhythm as a tool to critique politically and socially imposed patterns and the built environments they produce, as well as to propose more equitable and emancipatory possibilities. A ho…
I argue that modern European philosophy served Simón Bolívar as a theoretical science positing a set of general principles for politics and the human soul. These principles were in turn translated into practical projects of two kinds. One sought the liberal ends of vanquishing d…
This dissertation examines the scholarship and political writings of Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015), who taught for many years at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University.