Collective human knowledge about Earth as an environmental system has expanded since the Second World War in tandem with a rapid acceleration of human interventions in the natural world. Present-day environmentalists call ...

My dissertation examines the emergence of a consumer society in South Korea under the gradually authoritarian Park Chung Hee government (1961–1979). By closely examining women’s magazines, government sources, newspaper ...

The dissertation explores Ḥanafī-Māturīdī philosophical theology as it expressed itself on the vexed issue of free will and divine predestination. The project is one that historically engages the textual sources while ...

This dissertation explores the development of Japanese legal, social, and technological expertise in colonial spaces in Northeast China (historically Manchuria). This dissertation is at the intersection of three fields: ...

This dissertation is about logical pluralism, addressed through challenges to logical binarism (true/false), as well as to the binarism that logic itself holds in relation to embodied ways of knowing. The research is ...

This study examines the desegregation of Harlem Hospital between 1919 and 1935. Beginning with the appointment of Louis T. Wright, it chronicles the efforts of Harlem’s civic leaders to challenge New York City’s segregated ...

This dissertation offers a transnational legal history of peasants, merchants, and migrants in the Manchurian borderland. Drawing on previously unexamined sources from seventeen archives and numerous non-archival collections ...

The period between 1605 and 1755 witnessed major transformations in the understanding of disasters in the Atlantic world. Rather than constituting stages in a secularising process, these developments consisted of changes ...

Although organizational identity has been a vibrant and active area of study for several decades, there has been a relative lack of engagement in the higher education literature with the ways in which the contextual enactment ...

How do communities find residential stability in an unstable world? This question—central to the field of urban studies—is even more urgent in relation to groups who have experienced turmoil and displacement in their ...