As archaeologists integrate digital media into all stages of archaeological methodology it is necessary to understand the implications of using this media to interpret the past. Using digital media is not a neutral or transparent act; to critically engage with digital media it i…
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This dissertation examines the prospects of laïcité (secularism) in France today by exploring transformations in perceptions of symbols and practices associated with the Roman Catholic faith. My research works counter to many social scientific studies of religion and secularism …
This thesis addresses relationships between art, aesthetics and men’s association football, and seeks to frame the latter as a source and locus of aesthetic variation and dissensus, in opposition to its typical presentation as a source of fleeting and purely physical pleasures. …
In this dissertation I examine the ways in which people living in Dakar, Senegal use, display, collect and encounter photographs and media derived images in the course of their daily activities. In particular, I suggest how this expressive behavior reflects and responds to both …
The following dissertation, Alternative Abstractions: Art and Science in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles investigates how the histories of astronomy and modern physics impacted the production of abstract artwork in Southern California. In the artistic practices of Helen Lundeberg,…
Trans Self-Representations: Non-Binary Visual Theory in Contemporary Photography, is an interdisciplinary trans visual studies approach to contemporary lens-based self-representations produced by trans and non-binary people. This project is committed to rigorous interdisciplinar…
In the nineteenth century the circulation of printed images expanded through photography and the illustrated press, which offered a tremendous amount of new visual knowledge to the wide audience that consumed such media. This diffusion of visual media created a “Republic of Imag…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study into Vietnam War photography as a site of relational struggles that exceed the vision of violence, freedom, and humanity currently normalized by liberal humanist imaginaries of war. It forwards what I am calling a “queer transpacif…
Although the term hybrid has gained much traction in literary analyses of contemporary experimental poetry, there is a notable divide within scholarly discourse wherein its uses pertain to either form or content. The term has been used by literary critics and anthologists to cat…