This dissertation is a study of the shifting definitions and political currency of nationalism in Brazil from 1955 through the end of the dictatorship (1964-1985). …
How do American presidents of the past two-and-a-half decades conceptualize the American nation and its direction? Through a close reading of landmark speeches given by …
Istanbul and Alexandria, two of the most important port cities of the Ottoman Empire, experienced a gradual transition from religious diversity to homogenization during the …
This thesis argues for a critical return to and update of Critical Whiteness Studies' operative frameworks. I begin from the observation that the last sustained …
Nationalism and Localism are often paired in anthropology as opposite or dialectic categories. In this work my aim is to demonstrate through the example of …
In my dissertation, I examine how pre- and post-colonial Tanzania has co-opted “local religious leaders” as an integral feature in broader biopolitical efforts to introduce …
This thesis examines the interconnections of eugenics, domesticity, and the fortification of the American way of life in mass-market women’s magazines of the 1930s. Eugenic …
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
This study of over twenty years of Black Cuban history is meant to complicate the historical understanding of Cuba’s earliest years as an independent nation. …
This dissertation undertakes an examination of the role of monolithic national ‘ordinariness’ in the fin de siècle Bildungsroman. It offers a new reading of the …
More than 17,000 Catholic priests and seminarians were conscripted into the German armed forces during World War II. 500 of them served as chaplains, the …
As the development of nationalism, modern historiography and the professionalization of the discipline of history happened in tandem and needed to be seen as inseparable, …
Much of the literature surrounding the ascendance of majoritarian Hindu nationalist politics in India stresses the fundamentally masculine ethos of the outfits committed to realizing …
This dissertation investigates Estonian hip-hop artists’ engagement with concepts of national suffering, character, and anxieties by examining the play of collective social norms and individuality …
In African American and black diasporic literary studies, prominent critical conversations hail love as the foundation for racial cohesion. Without adequately attending to love as …
Inspired by a desire to foreground under-researched women Romantics of the German tradition, I perform careful close readings of a constellation of authors (Bettine von …
As a black feminist project, this dissertation contends that late twentieth-century black diasporic literature intervenes in debates about shifts in black communal formation in the …
This dissertation is a social history of war that examines the origins, wartime experience, and the social, political, and cultural legacies of soldiers in Latvian …