After the death of Stalin in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev breathed new life into the socialist internationalist project. This renewed internationalism put the Global South at its center; the Soviet Union would once again become ...

The premise of this dissertation is that gradual abolition legislation did not abolish slavery in Pennsylvania. In the broadest terms, it argues that there is a history of chattel slavery in Pennsylvania that begins rather ...

How can small states reorder power relations to survive in the international system? Using a model inspired by the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau, this thesis argues that through the formation and maintenance of ...

This dissertation theorizes the concept of the tableau effect in order to investigate the performativity of gendered notions of selfhood in novels as well as short stories, ranging from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Die ...

The Australian eucalyptus has become one of the two most commonly planted tree genera in the world in the last two centuries. This dissertation follows the eucalyptus as it became ubiquitous across mediterranean landscapes ...

What did Russian people know about 1789 in 1905? What did French people know about 1917 in 1936? Historians of France and Russia have long argued that the French-Russian revolutionary connection is central to both French ...

The central argument in this thesis is that religion, and in particular the Christian religion, has an essential cultural function to play in the first half of the twenty-first century as a cultural educator par excellence ...

Malaria continues to be a global issue, with many deaths arising from severe malaria anemia. Rodent malaria models are a well-known tool for studying malaria disease pathology. Initial microarray data revealed changes to ...

The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the targets of vowels in speech production. Three experiments investigate vowel production in non-native speech, probing how new vowel categories, and thus targets, are ...

Sociolinguistic variation in children is well-documented (e.g., Fischer, 1958; Roberts, 1997; Nardy et al., 2014). However, this work has largely centered on segmental variables alone. Creaky voice, a nonsegmental variable, ...