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In this dissertation, I explore the texts of several writers from Haiti and Algeria to better understand how people live out their revolutions. I argue that in these two countries, revolution has been a cultural raison d'être since the fight for independence. This research perta…

The thesis project Remnants of a Dream originated within a childhood memory of my father's voice, “Perhaps we should go to Israel to live on a kibbutz.” The resulting portfolio of photographs was inspired by both a longing to experience an important part of modern Jewish history…

Chapter one provides a multifaceted panorama of the Genoese community in medieval Seville that helps to link Francisco Imperial, an early 15th century poet, to a group of foreigners and naturalized Castilian subjects who, despite their marginality, contributed greatly to the kin…

This dissertation examined the relationship between dream content and post traumatic stress symptoms in veterans who have served after September 11, 2001. Ten subjects were drawn from a pool of male veterans age 18-30. Subjects had a Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, …

Like modern people, sixteenth-century individuals were extremely concerned about their image and self-representation. Unlike modern people, they often employed accounts of their dreams and visions to project the image they wished others to see. The subject of this dissertation i…