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Spring 2022

Tate, Karin S

While it is generally accepted that monumental public buildings in the ancient world communicated the power and wealth of their benefactors, whether and how this equation worked when the person funding the construction was female is a matter of current debate. Studies of this phenomenon have...

Spring 2022

Thomson, Claire

Most written Lakota histories jump from the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, briefly describe the refuge in Canada many Lakota people sought, and then resume in 1881 when Chief Sitting Bull returned to the United States. Typically, the people who stayed in the Wood Mountain Uplands, in...

Spring 2022

White, James

This work examines the late medieval (c. 1200-c. 1500) veneration of the Holy Foreskin, the relic of Jesus’s penis that resulted after his circumcision. I argue that as relics of Jesus’s prepuce proliferated throughout western Europe during the late Middle Ages, they engendered both controversy...

Spring 2022

Hajramezan, Solomon

Human space travel in the United States was the culmination of years of research, immense technological progress, and enormous collaborative projects, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. It was also, as this thesis argues, a product of imagination—that is to say, a consequence of space travel’s...

Fall 2022

Latimer, Amber L

Less than a decade after the beginning of the Diocletianic Persecution (303 CE), the emperor Constantine changed the course of religious history when, on the eve of battle in 312 CE, he perceived a symbol in the sky. He would later attribute this divine vision as a sign of support from the God of...

Fall 2022

Lightning, Inez L.

Several programs initiated during the 1960s were intended to address poverty in Canada through community development and mobilizing youth; some of these were federal, some provincial and some were private/locally designed programs. The Company of Young Canadians (CYC) was one of these. It was...

Fall 2021

Lundgren, Jason

Comedy and Tacitus are not two words that readily go together. Yet Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of the early Imperial period, used the satirical themes of laughter and mockery in certain scenes of the Annales to highlight the decline of the principate from Claudius to Nero. These...

Fall 2021

Skinner, Kaitlyn N

Is Hera, queen of the gods and supreme goddess of marriage, also a goddess of the sea? In this thesis I will argue that she is. The exceptional number of miniature ships that were dedicated in multiple Hera sanctuaries in the Archaic period, begged the question of whether Hera’s veneration served...

Fall 2021

Rolfson, Terri L.

The history of female laundry labour in eighteenth-century England, and the accompanying social and economic contributions of such women, has yet to be fully explored by social historians and material culture specialists. Laundry labour was, with very rare exceptions, universally female. This...

Fall 2021

Ellenberger, Tristan

This dissertation examines aspects of the cremation burial assemblages of graves from the published material of Bécsi Road cemetery of the canabae of Aquincum and the southern cemetery of the civilian settlement of Carnuntum in the Roman region of Pannonia as evidence of practices that reflect...