Department of History

Short Skirts, Strong Boots, and Revolvers: Unveiling the Hidden History of Paramilitary Women in Northern Ireland during the Troubles

Marion, Nicole (2022-05-10)
_Edat Hispania Sententiam Suam_: Orosius' Hispanic History

Bartlett, William (2022-05-10)
Damascus in the Time of Cholera: The Impact of Communicable Diseases on the Transformation of an Ottoman Provincial Capital 1840-1920

Grams, Benan (Georgetown University, 2022)

There are very few obvious signs of Damascus’s history with cholera even though the disease struck the city several times in modern history. After the first outbreak in 1848, cholera recurred in 1865, 1875, 1891, 1903, and ...
Ecology, the Accumulation of Capital, and Dispossession in Late Ottoman Western Anatolia

Akgül, Önder Eren (Georgetown University, 2022)

This dissertation is an entangled history of capitalism, environment, and labor in Western Anatolia—the rural hinterland of the Ottoman Empire’s major commercial port city of Izmir—between the 1850s and 1910s. Focusing on ...
Land, Informality, and Security: A Material History of West Africa’s Futa Jallon Massif (1650-2019)

La Lime, Matthew Christian Meagher (Georgetown University, 2022)

This dissertation is a material history of the Futa Jallon massif: a 60,000 km2 assemblage of plateaus situated almost entirely within the present-day Republic of Guinea. Known today as “West Africa’s water tower,” the ...