Why do some citizens pursue civic engagement after exposure to violence while others retreat from civic life? Existing theories point toward the trauma of victimization. …
This thesis considers the role of contemporary Bogotanian street art in challenging notions of boundaries in urban imaginaries, expanding ideas of urban identity and citizenry, …
“Codes of Silence” studies contemporary literature and film that responds to the internal armed conflict between guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and the state in Colombia throughout …
Taking Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict (~1980-2000) and its many “struggles of voice” (Lucero 2008) as case study, the present dissertation looks to examine the literary …
Background. Ukraine has one of the highest burdens of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) in the world, and since 2014, the country has been involved in an …
From Cavalry to Calvary: Representations of St. Francis of Assisi in Twentieth-Century Italy, is an interdisciplinary study that examines constructions of Saint Francis of Assisi, …
This dissertation considers literature’s singular mode of bearing witness to – and struggle to come to terms with – historical violence by analyzing representations of …
“Of Master and State” submits Western war power to a critical treatment that identifies liberal legalism’s war in form, its social process of unnameable war. …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
How does armed conflict and its consequences impact the migration decisions of women? Existing migration theories have various focuses and flaws that make them inadequate …