Transnational adoption has largely been understood in anthropological and interdisciplinary literature as a life-long experience that impacts an adoptee at each stage of their life. …
This project foregrounds the connections between American, European, and Latin American influences in American art history as signaled by the use of “transnational” in my …
“Beyond Belonging: Asian American Internationalism and Cold War Empire” traces how Asian Americans’ overlapping concerns for ethnic and international politics shaped community politics during the …
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 …
During the 1960s era of decolonization, the Chinese and Tanzanian governments framed the close relationship between them in the relational language of anti-imperial “friendship.” The …
“Classrooms Abroad” examines the distinctive role of education in shaping relationships between Americans and the peoples of the (post-)Ottoman Middle East in the early part …
This dissertation traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people who carved their own social spaces in urban and rural …
This study charts the affective and performative dimensions of intergenerational rupture between members of Eritrea’s diaspora in Bologna, Italy. This study locates political struggles around …
This dissertation is a twentieth century cultural history of American cultural productions that romanticized the Old South and circulated inside and outside the U.S. within …
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. …
This dissertation investigates Italian national identity through the cultures produced by twentieth-century migrations to English-speaking North America. It addresses questions of human mobility and related …
This dissertation explores the process of democratic deepening in the global South and illuminates the complex mechanisms underlying diverse state-civil society relations and the distinct …
Drawing on fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, this dissertation examines how sound mediates (anti)social and translocal relations in the soccer culture of Latin America’s …
My dissertation, "Venceremos Means We Shall Overcome: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1979," explores the transnational convergences between the African American …
