All too often, the Vietnam War is studied in terms of the past, but I take stock of this calamitous neo-imperialist moment in time as the point of departure for studying Vietnamization of the future. If the contents and arguments of this book bear too ...

This catalog was publish on the occasion of an exhibition at Art Space 1616, Sacramento California. February 8-29, 2020.

As we face a global crisis of democracy, this dissertation highlights the importance of visual culture in social justice movements, giving new dimension to the refrain: “This is what democracy looks like!” Visualizing Decolonial Democracy in the Oaxaca Commune analyzes ...

This thesis examines the political posturing and rhetoric of two major Protestant denominations in Brazil—Presbyterians and Methodists—during the Vargas Era (1930-1945). During the Vargas years, the Catholic Church saw a renewed period of expansion, consolidation, polit...

This dissertation research addresses two central questions: 1) what conditions promote warfare? 2) how do people cope with conflict? I seek to answer these questions by developing and employing osteological, stable isotope, and statistical methods, and using theoretical...

This dissertation examines the genealogy and history of the black box in architecture from the late 1940s to the late-1970s, focusing on architects, designers, and artists in the United States. Through an examination of the work of Will Burtin, Pulsa, and Doug Michels t...

Coconut shell is a material that has been used in cultural heritage across the continents and has been linked with human migration and colonization for thousands of years. Though ubiquitous, as a material coconut shell lacks the extensive conservation research done on s...

This dissertation examines the question of how the logic of capitalism became integral to U.S. citizenship. It argues that “pecuniary pedagogies”—lessons about money and its appropriate uses—were a central feature of childhood in the nineteenth-century United States. Th...

In 1937, the U.S. Congress passed the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act, authorizing federal funds for the development of public housing. Twelve years later, Congress reauthorized this legislation with the American Housing Act of 1949. In the process,Congress converted a fede...

Segregated housing became a subject for scientific inquiry between the New Deal and Civil Rights eras. In this dissertation, I trace studies of segregated housing to the planned communities that the federal government set in motion by building public housing after the D...