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This dissertation explores the overlapping histories over the past century of state violence against both Armenian and Kurdish communities in the province of Van in southeastern Anatolia, with attention to the politics of memory as well as the material environment. It addresses …

As a strange and alluring artifact of abandoned industry, the Satsop Nuclear Plant has been represented and re-represented by many. This never finished industrial ruin is irreversibly tied to the optimism of 20th century nuclear technology and the project’s subsequent failure, t…

This dissertation is about people living with the ruins of an old city. It demonstrates that ruined cities can provide sources of cultural identity and community life, conditions that contribute to social revitalization in times of crisis. The case study for this dissertation ex…

In this project, I advocate for an historical orientation toward the underlying processes and contingent circumstances by which a material culture of cinema enters various stages of decline. From this orientation, I present four case studies as evidence that cinema can be unders…