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Empire of Tomorrow: Seattle and the Making of Global Capitalism in the 1970s
This dissertation recounts the history of Seattle as an imperial city, and in doing so chronicles a larger story about the fate of American global supremacy in the late twentieth century. Whereas the city began the 1970s ... -
Resistance Nationalisms: Vietnamese Political Identities and Refugee Narratives in the United States, 1945-1995
This project explores how Vietnamese Americans across the political spectrum manipulated and subverted narratives surrounding displaced people before, during, and after the Vietnam War. In doing so, I argue, they advanced ... -
The Archive Performs: Malay Performance Traditions as Vessels for Islamic Histories and Identities in Sumatra
This dissertation explores the history of Islam in maritime Southeast Asia, focusing on the transmission of Islamic knowledge to Indonesia’s island of Sumatra through pathways mobilized by the arts – journeys made possible ... -
"Don't We All Have a Responsibility?”: Authority, Agency, and the Reframing of Jewish Life in East Berlin before and after the Fall of the Wall
This dissertation examines the ways in which individuals, particularly women, identifying as Jewish in East Berlin between 1945 and 2016 articulated their Jewish identity and sense of community in the aftermath of the ... -
Mosul's Hinterland: Village and Monastery in Early Islamic Iraq
This dissertation offers a social history of monasteries and villages in the hinterland of Mosul during the early Islamic period. Modern historians of the medieval Islamic world often mention the large Christian populations ... -
Conquest of Amity: Affective Politics and Cultures of Friendship in the Spanish Colonization of the Philippines, 1521-1762
This dissertation presents a political history of friendship in cross-cultural relations between Philippine natives and Spaniards from the early sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. It examines the ways in which various ... -
Gateway Cities: Seattle and Vancouver on the Pacific, 1896-1939
“Gateway Cities” explores the cultural and material production of settler colonialism in the urban waterfronts of Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, between the 1890s and 1930s. It charts the making of ... -
Diagnosing Minorities: Anti-Syphilis Campaigns and Nation-state Building on the Inner Asian Frontiers of China, 1949-1964
This dissertation examines how and why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) launched a massive-scale STD control program, officially termed “Ethnic Health” (Minzu weisheng), among the ethnic minority peoples in Inner ... -
At War Again: Soldiers, Civilians, and Multi-War Experiences in the British Empire, 1885-1918
In the decades on either side of the turn of the twentieth century, Britain was at war in its empire. At War Again: Soldiers, Civilians, and Multi-War Experiences in the British Empire, 1885-1918 is the first academic ... -
England’s Worldly King: The Foreign, the Global, and the Rise of Cultural Cosmopolitanism at the Court of Henry VIII
It is the premise of this study that in the Tudor period there developed a new sense ofbeing/feeling ‘cosmopolitan’ – i.e. a citizen of the world - that was distinct from the original, political, meaning of this term and ... -
Contesting dismemberment: rumor, revolt, and empire in Peru and the Philippines (1920-1930)
In an effort to disrupt traditional borders of Area Studies, this dissertation studies two regions rarely put into conversation with each other—Southeast Asia and Latin America—in comparative perspective to study the ... -
Modern Antiquities: Arthur Evans, the Balkans, and the Discovery of a Lost European Civilization
This dissertation employs the career of British archaeologist Arthur Evans as the fulcrum to examine the concept of “modern antiquities,” which Evans defined as the study of ancient customs and societies best represented ... -
Politics, Protest and Revolution: The Origins and Evolution of the Urban Networks of the NLF and the Communist Party in Central Vietnam, 1930-1975
This project combines political history, social history and memory to convey a perspective of the war through the eyes of the people of Central Vietnam who participated in the urban movement of the Vietnamese Revolution. ... -
The Countercultural Back-to-the-Land Movement
The countercultural back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s was the third wave of an antimodern tradition that stretched back to the late nineteenth century. This study places the hippie back-to-the-land movement ... -
"We Can't Be Ignored Anymore': A History of the Latinx Voting Rights Movement, 1960-1975"
“‘We Can’t Be Ignored Anymore’: A History of the Latina/o/x Voting Rights Movement, 1960-1975,” and explores how Puerto Ricans and later Chicanas/os mobilized through distinct organizational and political tactics to claim ... -
The Myth of Elizabeth: History, Memory, and Race in Alaska, 1867–2020
This dissertation examines a pivotal moment in the history of Alaska Native civil rights, the enactment of an anti-discrimination law in 1945 that guaranteed equal access to public facilities without regard to color or ... -
Building Socialist Shanghai: Workers’ New Villages and the Socialist Right to the City
This dissertation uses changes in Shanghai’s urban geography as a lens to study the processes and meanings of urban revolution for the daily lives of workers in the 1950s. Using a large body of archival documents, I focus ... -
The Wages of Borders: Political Economy, Labor Activism, and Racial Formation in the Imperial-Mexicali Borderlands, 1937-1979
(2019-06-12)The Wages of Borders: Political Economy, Labor Activism, and Racial Formation in the Imperial-Mexicali Borderlands, 1937-1979, is a historical investigation of the paradoxical formation of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands that ... -
Mobilizing Empire: Race, Sugar, and U.S. Colonialism across the Pacific, 1898-1934
This dissertation brings together histories of the colonization of the American West, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines to explore the historical development of race and capitalism in the formation of the U.S. empire. Focusing ... -
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915 - 1959
This dissertation explores the relationship between Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and Indonesia from the publication of the first vernacular communist periodical in 1915 to the end of parliamentary ...