The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …
My dissertation entitled, "Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program," focuses on the historically largest guest worker program …
This dissertation examines how South Asian racial identity in the United States and England is entwined with the sartorial. It demonstrates the ways in which …
The U.S.-Philippines War of 1898-1910s is strangely placed and displaced in the history of twentieth-century colonial wars, and in U.S./Philippine historiographies and area studies. Foundational …
This dissertation explores the multifarious experiences of the migration and resettlement of Koreans from Latin America now residing in the New York metropolitan area. By …
This dissertation examines the role of monstrosity in the construction of Japanese identity within the American cultural imagination. It asserts that a discursive formation founded …
Abstract of Museums working for Social Justice: Resonance and Wonder by Elena Gonzales, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015 Museums can and do work for social …
Long before the popularity of postbellum “Yellow Peril” narratives, Asian figures associated with trade occupied central positions in the American literary imaginary. My dissertation, “Pacific …
This dissertation examines the prevalence of illness in postnationalist Afro- and Native American novels, and the ways in which such sickly identities offer alternatives to …
Abstract of The Re-Construction of Beauty: Photography, Whiteness, and US Masculinity, 1865-1900, By Horace D. Ballard, Jr., Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017. The magnitude of …
From rising sea levels and acidifying oceans to overflowing landfills, plastic particulates, and mass extinctions, the environmental crises of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries often …