Are PhD Advisors Failing Their Students?
In Partial Fulfillment: Are PhD Advisors in the Humanities and Social Sciences Doing Their Job? Dissertation Reviews hosted an informal survey in Fall 2015, inviting…
Monthly Archives: November 2015
When Documents are More than Just Words
Opening the worn, soft-bound leather cover of a hefty volume of notarial documents produced in nineteenth-century Mexico City, I hoped to find a neat index…
Iranians in Sweden and Canada
A review of Producing Culture, Producing Practice: Iranians in Sweden and Canada, by Amy Malek. Amy Malek’s study investigates the role of cultural performances for…
A Partnership for Economic Justice and Human Rights
A review of Look for the Union Label: The American Federation of Labor and the Jewish Labor Committee’s Partnership for Economic Justice and International Human…
Early Japanese Poetry
A review of Uta Mokkan: a History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription, by Joshua Frydman. Joshua Frydman’s dissertation, Uta Mokkan: a History of Early…
Racial and Social Hierarchies in Late Colonial Indonesia
A review of Negotiating Modernity: Europeanness in Late Colonial Indonesia, 1910-1942, by Bart Luttikhuis. Negotiating Modernity is a conceptual and cultural study of the (self-)identification…
Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs
A review of From the Seed of the Gods: Art, Ideology, and Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs, 284-324 CE, by…
Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Services Centre
A review of Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Services Centre (香港中文大學中國研究服務中心) (Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong S.A.R., China). I spent several weeks at the…
The National Library and Archives of Bhutan
A review of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་དང་ཡིག་རིགས་གཏན་འཇོག་ཁང་།) in Thimphu, Bhutan. In Bhutan, as with many Himalayan Buddhist cultures, key texts were…
Buddhist Education, Student-Monks, and Citizenship in Modern China
A review of Praying for the Republic: Buddhist Education, Student-Monks, and Citizenship in Modern China (1911-1949), by Lei Kuan Rongdao Lai. In this dissertation, Dr….