This study examines how relations with – and discourses of – the “Turk” within England shaped the contours of critical political and religious debates from …
The unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity is the holy grail of fundamental theoretical physics. This thesis represents a small part of that effort, …
This dissertation is largely a project of redescription and taxonomy. In it, I redescribe, reclassify, and recontextualize the divinatory practices of the apostle Paul. Throughout …
By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
Organized opposition to immigration, globalization, and minority groups in Sweden exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, energized in large part by the spread of skinhead …
This dissertation studies the philosophical implications and formal repercussions of melancholy in Spanish poetry at the turn of the seventeenth century, along with the constructions …
Perhaps no single biblical verse has been more quoted in the history of Black religious thought than Psalm 68:31. Known widely as “the Ethiopian prophecy,” …
The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
Abstract of: “I just feel no matter what you lack, nobody should be treated differently”: Understanding Discrimination in Food Assistance Programs, by Sarah Blau, MPH, …
Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
"'Inflamed by Daily Practices': John Cassian and Ethical Formation" is the first inter-disciplinary treatment of the ethical program fostered by the fifth-century Christian ascetic John …
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. …
In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …
Abstract of “MELODRAMMA,” MARKET AND MODERNITY: OPERA IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY by MICHELA RONZANI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. My dissertation “Melodramma,” Market, and Modernity: …
Affective valence influences both our cognition and our perception of the world. For example, the speed and quality with which we recognize objects in a …
During King Philip's War (1675-1676) in New England, English colonists and a small number of enslaved Africans and "friendly" Indians used dwelling houses as places …
