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Spring 2015
Abstract: The present study is a comparison and analysis of five temple structures located within three different military colonies of the Seleukid Empire in an effort to identify potential locations of cultural interaction and communication. The comparison is temporally restricted to the first...
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Remaking the Slave Past in the Present: Representations of Afro-Peruvian Men in the Church of Cristo Kyrios
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This thesis explores the representations of Blackness constructed and embraced by Saadakeem Papa Kyriakos, the prophet and leader of the Church of Cristo Kyrios, a marginal organization located in Lima, Peru. Saadakeem proudly claims to adhere to the religion practiced by plantation slaves in...
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Fall 2017
Nakita S. Valerio, 2017 “Remembering the Departure of Moroccan Jews” Before the end of the Second World War, Morocco’s Jewish community numbered approximately 240,000 people and was one of the largest and oldest populations of Jews in the Arab-Muslim world. Between 1948 and 1968, the vast...
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Spring 2012
This dissertation targets the topic of rescue of Jews in the Holocaust in World War II. It offers a thorough examination of the defiance mechanics of rescue and looks at how precisely rescuers undermine the pillars of totalitarian regimes. The locus for the empirical part is the Slovak State, a...
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Fall 2018
This dissertation advances the study of late Stalinism, which has until recently been regarded as a bizarre appendage to Stalin’s rule, and aims to answer the question of whether late Stalinism was a rupture with or continuation of its prewar precursor. I analyze the reintegration of Ukrainian...
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Spring 2010
The following thesis explores the development of oil and gas resources in the province of Alberta between 1971 and 1985. At its broadest, this thesis uses the interaction of government, capital, and citizenry surrounding the exploitation of a non-renewable energy resource to examine the social...
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Spring 2022
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...