The thesis questions how the new ideals and beliefs introduced with Christianity altered the emotional landscape of Norse people in Iceland and Norway . I …
This thesis studies the gendered history of AA’s first twenty-five years, with a particular interest in how women have been sidelined within both AA’s historical …
This thesis studies the rise of “play streets” across early-mid 20th century New York City: whereby the city closed certain street-blocks to traffic to serve …
This thesis foregrounds several groups across the Italian peninsula—namely, a migrant band of families, a Lombard community, and a group of wealthy Christians—to highlight the …
France is the most nuclearized country in the world, the product of decades of state-led nuclearization initiated in the mid-1970s and nicknamed the “Messmer Plan.” …
Nineteenth-century seamen, in the eyes of the missionaries who from the beginning of that century onward made it their project to improve the spiritual conditions …
By the middle of the twentieth century, youth featured prominently in the global lexicon of modernity, embodying rupture from the old and embrace of the …
New Bedford, Massachusetts of Moby-Dick fame is remembered as the center of the nineteenth-century American whale fishery. In addition to being a bustling whaling port, …
This dissertation examines Muslim reform movements, colonial modernity, and literary cultures in Kashmir in the long twentieth century. While centered on the hitherto unexamined lives …
“Reimagining Political Futures” is a history of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and its centrality to the Dominican Republic’s national politics during the …
Situated between Castile and Spanish America in the long-sixteenth-century, this dissertation explores the development of the concept of calidad (quality) into a multivalent means for …
Ted Sizer (1932-2008) was a leading school reformer in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, known for founding and leading the Coalition of Essential …
Abstract of “In Search of Equiano’s Sister: Girlhood and Slavery in the Early Modern British Atlantic, 1600-1807,” by Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D., Brown University, May …
Abstract of Living with the City of the Dead: Garden Cemeteries and Community Formation in Nineteenth Century America, by Emily Pierson, Ph.D., Brown University, May …
This project traces the development of television in Brazil, highlighting the transnational dimension of Cold War-era discourse on technology and morality, and their impact on …
“Military Medicine, Morale, and the Affective Management of Men in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” argues that the US Army was a critical social-scientific laboratory …