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Title: "A New Era for Museums": Professionalism and Ideology in the American Association of Museums, 1906-1935
Creator: Freece, Hannah Lynn (Hannah Lynn Freece) (Author), (Swinehart, Kirk) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2009-04-15
Description: 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/279, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "But You Don't Seem American!" Identities, Representations, and Influences of American Women in the English Aristocracy
Creator: Tanner, Sarah Anne (Sarah Anne Tanner) (Author), (Ronald Schatz) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2012-04-15
Description: 2012, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/951, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "I Dance; Therefore, I Am": Dance in a Developing American Culture
Creator: Bloom, Daniel Jordan (Daniel Jordan Bloom) (Author), (Courtney Fullilove) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2010-04-15
Description: 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/532, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "The Ardent Voyage": The Struggle of the French Communist Opposition
Creator: Boyce-Jacino, Katherine Sara (Katherine Sara Boyce-Jacino) (Author), (Ethan Kleinberg) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2010-04-15
Description: 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/510, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "The Body is as an Instrument to the Soul": Christian Asceticism in Early Modern Medicine, 1550-1800
Creator: Tretter, Rachel Sara (Rachel Sara Tretter) (Author), (Magda Teter) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2012-04-15
Description: 2012, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/937, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "The World's Lost Dream": The Mythical Geography of the Eighteenth-Century American Northwest
Creator: Singer, Jacob Henry Havemeyer (Jacob Henry Havemeyer Singer) (Author), (Jeffers Lennox) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2017-04-15
Description: 2017, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1871, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: "We Would Sit and Build Castles in the Air," Great Plains Settlers, American Visions of Personal Redemption, and the Ascendancy of Capitalism in the West
Creator: Forbath, Aaron Sandor (Aaron Sandor Forbath) (Author), (Courtney Fullilove) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2012-04-15
Description: This project examines the motivating beliefs of three settlers of the Great Plains at the end of the nineteenth century and relates their lives to the history of capitalism in the American West. Specifically, I show how their visions of personal redemption encompassed aspects of Protestant, Republican agrarian, and capitalist beliefs. While the industrial reality of West challenged Jeffersons vision of a utopian garden, these settlers show how these three systems of belief became intertwined during the nineteenth century. However, by the end of the nineteenth century, the potential for balance between systems of belief became untenable, and capitalist individualism rose to the fore as the defining feature of the American West., 2012, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/792, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: 'Their Own Guardians and Protectors': African American Community in Middletown, Connecticut, 1822-1860
Creator: Nasta, Jesse (Jesse Nasta) (Author), (Renee Romano) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2007-01-01T05:00Z
Description: 2007, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/218, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: A Fragile Home in the Waiting Room: The Ambivalent Postwar Relationship between Americans and Jewish Displaced Persons in U.S.- Occupied Bavaria
Creator: Lipp, Carolyn Meredith (Carolyn Meredith Lipp) (Author), (Erik Grimmer-Solem) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: The thesis will contribute to the burgeoning scholarship that has attempted to recover the lived experiences of the Jewish displaced persons (DPs) in Germany by focusing on the three largest Jewish displaced persons camps in U.S.-Occupied Bavaria?Föhrenwald, Feldafing, and Landsberg?in the fall of 1945. The transient space of the displaced persons camps will be approached through a new lens: evaluating the complex and poorly understood relationships and interactions between the Jewish DPs and the Americans working in the DP camps. Through the synthesis of various micro and macro-level perspectives, the interactions between Jewish DPs and Americans will be reinterpreted to yield fresh historical insights about the DP camp experience in all of its complexity and ambiguity., 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1199, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: A Misunderstood Legacy: V.D. Savarkar and the Creation of Hindutva
Creator: Kelley-Swift, Julia Johnston (Julia Johnston Kelley-Swift) (Author), (William Pinch) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2015-04-15
Description: In 2014 a Hindu Nationalist political party was elected to head the Indian government for the first time in over two decades. This victory signals a wider resurgence within India of Hindu nationalist ideas – foremost among them, the idea of “Hindutva,” originally set out by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 tract, Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? As an ideology, Hindutva refers to a conception of Indian national identity that is tied inextricably to the Hindu people. Although Savarkar is clear in his differentiation between Hindutva and religious Hinduism, many critics have argued that the ideology is inherently exclusionary towards India’s religious minorities – primarily Muslims. This thesis is an attempt to shed light on this complex issue, and most importantly on the character of V.D. Savarkar – a man who has been both under-studied and over-simplified in the decades since his death. Through a close textual analysis of Hindutva as well as an investigation into the social, political, and intellectual influences which Savarkar encountered up to 1923, I provide a new and more complete picture of the complicated ideological evolution which led him to the development of the idea of “Hindutva.” I argue that Savarkar’s intentions in writing his seminal tract have largely been misinterpreted and his text misread, leading to a disconnect between the definition of “Hindutva” as it is understood today and the definition originally crafted by Savarkar. Furthermore, I suggest that attempts to see Savarkar in black and white terms as either heroic or monstrous depend on an ideological reading of his life from a vantage point within or, conversely, in opposition to Hindu nationalism – neither of which provide an accurate depiction of Savarkar as he truly was. This thesis is not an attempt either to redeem or vilify this highly controversial figure, but rather an attempt to draw a fair and accurate representation of Savarkar and his now infamous text., 2015, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1362, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: A Question of Fulbe Power: Social Change, the State and Ethnic Relations in Northern Cameroon
Creator: Golaszewski, Devon Cheney (Devon Cheney Golaszewski) (Author), (Lorelle Semley) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2008-05-01
Description: A study of the oral history of ethnic relations in Ngaoundere, Cameroon, focusing on the place of the Fulbe in a multi-ethnic community., 2008, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/76, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: A Transformation of the First Ladyship: Jacqueline Kennedy and the Refashioning of American Cultural Visuality in the Early 1960s
Creator: Massad, Maria Nicole (Maria Nicole Massad) (Author), (Patricia Hill) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2016-04-15
Description: Since the term “First Lady” was initially used in the mid-nineteenth century to describe the role of women accompanying the president in the White House, each of the women who have served as First Lady has maneuvered the role in her own way. This thesis argues that Jacqueline Kennedy was particularly notable in her use of and influence on reconfiguring the position during her First Ladyship from 1961 to 1963. Despite the short length of time in the role, she, drawing from Eleanor Roosevelt’s example, went beyond the role of social hostess that was traditionally a First Lady’s primary public responsibility and molded the First Lady into an American symbol that began to parallel presidential importance. As First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy was simultaneously able to blend both traditionally feminine roles with the progressively independent roles of the new woman of the 1960s in ways that simultaneously influenced the construction of her own ephemeral media image and transformed the position of First Lady forever. Her self- presentation changed the way the national media and the American people viewed the First Lady and shaped their subsequent expectations of the women who would fulfill the position in future years. As a result of this analysis, I hope to shed light on the function of a First Lady and the role new media plays in communicating ideas to a public audience by analyzing her impact on the White House restoration, cultural taste, fashion, and American pomp and circumstance., 2016, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1634, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Absent Memory: A Study of the Historiography of the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990
Creator: Burns, Rebecca Helen (Rebecca Helen Burns) (Author), (Bruce Masters) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2012-04-15
Description: 2012, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/883, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: American Imperialism and the Philippine War
Creator: Wertz, Daniel Jacob Panitch (Daniel Jacob Panitch Wertz) (Author), (Kirk Swinehart) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2008-05-01
Description: In this study, I try to answer the question of why the United States, at the end of the nineteenth century, suddenly embraced a policy of formal imperialism in the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Samoa, then reversed course and implemented more informal imperial policies elsewhere in the world. I trace the evolution of expansionist thought in the United States from the Reconstruction era, focusing on writers and politicians such as Alfred Mahan, Josiah Strong, and Theodore Roosevelt, and argue that American actions in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war represented a culmination of this ideology. I then examine the assumptions underlying the drawn-out colonial war in the Philippines, and analyze why the United States subsequently backed the Open Door policy in China rather than seek territorial concessions, and implemented a system of indirect political domination in Latin America exemplified by actions in Cuba, Panama, and the Dominican Republic., 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/123, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: At the Fascist Table: Cooking in Italy 1922-1943
Creator: Dash, Sarah Alexandra (Sarah Alexandra Dash) (Author), (Nathanael Greene) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2014-04-15
Description: Cooking sheds much light on how fascism in Italy surmounted the many challenges to putting their ideology into practice., 2014, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1241, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Attitudes Toward Blacks and Immigrants at Wesleyan University, 1831-1920
Creator: Liss, Jeffrey H. (Jeffrey H. Liss) (Author), (Clarence Walker) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 1986-06-01
Description: 1986, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/596, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: BeatleBoomers: The Beatles in their Generation
Creator: Charness, Daniel Nathan (Daniel Nathan Charness) (Author), (Ronald Schatz, Eric Charry) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2010-04-15
Description: 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/558, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: Bricolage Nationalism: An Intellectual History of the Front de Libération du Québec
Creator: Marvin, Nathan Elliot (Nathan Elliot Marvin) (Author), (Richard Elphick) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2010-04-15
Description: 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/491, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: British Borobudur Buddha: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Orientalist Antiquarianism, and a Material Historiography of Java (1811-1816)
Creator: Danaparamita, Aria (Aria Danaparamita) (Author), (Jennifer Tucker) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2013-08-31
Description: This paper traces a fragmented Buddha head sculpture's travels from Borobudur, Java, Indonesia to the British Museum during East India Company rule in Java (1811-1816) through the life of its collector, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Through an approach informed by historical, archaeological, and anthropological inquiries, I examine how objects can serve as tools for imperial historiography, namely the silencing of subaltern narratives and the legitimization for colonial rule and imperial expansion. Using the Borobudur as a case study, I analyze: 1) British Orientalism in Java, 2) field antiquarianism in colonial contexts, and 3) the role of collections and collectors in representing subaltern identities, placing Java into a Western cartography and evolutionary paradigm of civilizations as collected territory and people of the imaginary construct of the British Empire., 2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1136, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

Title: British Tax Reform in Mandate Palestine and the Uncertainties of Colonial Knowledge
Creator: Mitchell, Justine Jaffa (Justine Jaffa Mitchell) (Author), (Bruce Masters) (Thesis advisor)
Date: 2015-04-15
Description: This thesis examines the history of British tax reform in mandate Palestine. Despite justifying its colonial presence through a rhetoric of replacing “backward’ Palestinian systems of land holding and taxation with modern imported ones, the British administration actually reinforced the principles of Ottoman land law and taxation that they found in place. The history of tax reform complicates existing theories about colonial control and the role of representing the native as ’backward” as part of a mechanism of control over the colonized. This thesis seeks to show that it was not a smooth process; the binaries of modern/backward did not work in practice; and there was a constant negotiation of both representations and practices in the colonial process of mandate rule., 2015, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1507, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)

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