Masculinity and Racial Exclusion in Cuba, 1895-1902
A review of Engendering Inequality: Masculinity and Racial Exclusion in Cuba, 1895-1902, by Bonnie Lucero. In her dissertation, Lucero tackles what has been a central…
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The Non-Western Origins of Human Rights in East Germany
A review of Between dictatorship and dissent: Ideology, legitimacy, and human rights in East Germany, 1945-1990, by Ned Richardson-Little. Ned Richardson-Little’s well-argued and well-researched dissertation…
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean 1807-34
A review of Surviving Slavery: Politics, Power, and Authority in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834, by Randy Browne. Randy Browne’s dissertation complicates an overly simplistic and…
Colonial Scientific Literature of the Americas
A review of Mining Empire, Planting Empire: The Colonial Scientific Literatures of the Americas, by Allison Margaret Bigelow. Mining Empire, Planting Empire is at once…
Stalinist Masculinity in Soviet Film & Society, 1953-68
A review of Rescripting Stalinist Masculinity: Contesting the Male Ideal in Soviet Film and Society, 1953-1968, by Marko Dumančić. Marko Dumančić’s dissertation examines models of…
Moscow Olympics & Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, 1952-80
A review of Red Sport, Red Tape: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, 1952-1980, by Jenifer Parks. Last year, at…
South Korea Virtuous Citizens & Sentimental Society
A review of Virtuous Citizens and Sentimental Society: Ethics and Politics in Neoliberal South Korea, by EuyRyung Jun. This concise dissertation focuses on the activities…
South Korean Cinema, 1998-2008
A review of Screening the Past: Historiography of Contemporary South Korean Cinema, 1998-2008 by Young Eun Chae. The dissertation focused on Korean cinema from 1998-2008…
Soviet Youth Culture during the Cold War
A review of Pleasure, Power, and the Pursuit of Communism: Soviet Youth and State-Sponsored Popular Culture during the Early Cold War, 1945-1968, by Gleb Tsipursky….