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 …
This dissertation argues that many instances of nineteenth-century British fiction rely on exoticism to narrate the collective experience of mass media as an unfamiliar dynamic …
Interwar family magazines formed a novel category of consumption, moreover, one that transformed social practices around reading. The seeds of Japan's postwar love affair with …
Carly Rae Jepsen isn’t your average pop star, and "EMOTION" (written here on out as “Emotion” for simplicity’s sake) isn’t your average pop album. In …
This dissertation examines the role of entertainment films in negotiating the meaning of national identity in interwar Hungary. Fragmented and traumatized by WWI and its …
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 investigates Estonian hip-hop artists’ engagement with concepts of national suffering, character, and anxieties by examining the play of collective social norms and individuality …
Phrenology, the nineteenth-century practice of reading a person’s character from the shape of their skull, exemplifies “participatory knowledge,” a democratized mode of scientific exchange. As …
This dissertation project takes as its focus the cultural discourses surrounding what has been called the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism, in which “the political” has …
This dissertation analyzes the emergence of an Afro-Brazilian racial consciousness from 1955 to 1988 vis-� -vis the lyrics and other writings by four composers of …
