This project analyzes the John Birch Society's opposition to the Black freedom movement from its founding in 1958 to the early 1970s, treating the Society's …
This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
This dissertation provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
An investigation into theories and practices of realism, documentary aesthetics and anticapitalist political critique in contemporary Russian cinema via a historical overview and close readings …
The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
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 …
"The Anticolonial Imagination" is an examination of race, migration, politics, and the history of ideas in the interwar period (1919-1939). Based on archival material collected …
My dissertation explores the ethical, political, and historical significance of Dante's conceptualization of an illustrious vernacular language. By focusing on Antonio Gramsci's writings on Italian …
Little historical research has examined the conceptions of students regarding the international during the Mexico City popular-student movement of 1968, a year that has been …
In the years between the First and Second World Wars, a series of interconnected political and labor organizations concerned with the socio-economic struggles of Black …
This dissertation argues that much of the critical imagination of mid-twentieth century liberal thinkers in the United States is best understood as a worldview shaped …
