This thesis traces histories of caste, brahmanical patriarchy, and South Asian migration to the United States to tell a story about South Asian diasporic identity …
My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
This thesis traces the development of carceral feminist logics in the Rhode Island mainstream feminist movement, beginning in the 1970s with feminism’s second wave and …
In the late 1960s, a small group of Afro-Caribbean immigrant families from Britain’s Windrush generation came together to provide their children with academically rigorous and …
This dissertation investigates the emergent genre of 'surveillance art,' or art works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theatre, installation, and …
The dissertation makes the case that recent digital and performance art practices have compelled a reappraisal of Western feminism, which has become increasingly vulnerable to …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between pregnant and pre-gravid women and their fetuses in the Roman Empire. It examines the cultural …
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 …
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 …
This dissertation examines how practitioners of capoeira Angola develop sensory knowledge as a mode of racial politics. The ethnographic study focuses on master-teacher Mestre Cláudio’s …
This dissertation argues that the search for a usable past has been a<br/> fundamental part of women’s activism and re-examines American <br/> feminism through the lens …
Paths to Specialty Selection: A Lens on Women Physicians Abstract Background: Women now comprise more than half of medical school classes in the US. However, …
Weaving together literature, historical texts, and feminist theory, this study follows the development of the tradition of Russian women's writing and depictions of the everyday …
Reconceived: Women’s Reproduction after Roe v. Wade examines shifts in state support for pregnant women and mothers between the 1970s and 2000s. By bringing together …
Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990 explores how social and political movements redefined the meaning of citizenship …
In the wake of World War I, Germany’s ruling Social Democrats found themselves navigating a racist moral panic which had enveloped the country after the …
Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema …
This dissertation investigates the promise and peril of the concept of vulnerability in contemporary ethical and political thought. Many strands of modern Western thought castigate …
This thesis investigates contemporary queer identity in the Maghreb and in Maghrebi diaspora in France through the works of Nina Bouraoui. It forges a queer …
