This dissertation is about the reimagining of Argentine identity as racially and culturally diverse and distinctly Latin American as it is performed and experienced by …
This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
This is a biographical work and has as its focus Gaetano Salvemini, one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation. Salvemini (1873 - …
In this dissertation, I examine issues of ethnic engineering, interethnic tensions and social problems through a story of Meskhetian Turks, a group that was subjected …
This dissertation intends to retrace and critically reconstruct the multiple and divergin trajectories followed by the memory of the anti-Jewish persecution in postwar Italian literature. …
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 investigates how modern architecture—particularly maritime infrastructure and technologies of mobility—was deployed under fascism to articulate the modern Italian state’s sovereign claims to its …
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, …
In my dissertation, I investigate the relationship between death and power in Italian political cinema of the 1960s. Taking up Pasolini’s contention that Marxism fails …
Abstract of “Narrative and Myth: Cesare Pavese's Late Works” by Lianca Carlesi, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017 In this dissertation, I analyze and trace the …
Pedagogy of Catastrophe traces a new attitude towards childhood that developed in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. Focusing on moments of natural …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the humanitarian workers who resettle them in Italy. Between 2015 and 2020, Italy …
This dissertation recovers the experiences of women in arms by investigating their representations during the Italian Risorgimento. An analysis of their experience can illuminate the …
