[Iran] Haleh Emrani, Marriage Customs of the Religious Communities of the Late Sasanian Empire: An Indicator of Cultural Sharing (University of California, Los Angeles, 2011), reviewed by Lev Weitz (Princeton University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2491 [Chinese Lit] Esther Klein, The History of a Historian: Perspectives on the Authorial Roles of Sima Qian (Princeton University, 2010), reviewed by Vincent Leung (University of Pittsburgh)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2279 [Archives Review, Japan] Jolyon Thomas (Princeton University), review of the Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, USA
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2012 [Archives Review, Inner Asia, China] Rian Thum (Loyola University, New Orleans), review of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin, Germany, and the Bibliothek der Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen – Anhalt, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle, Germany
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2007 [South Asia, Med Anthro] Holly Donahue Singh, Aulad: Infertility and the Meanings of Children in North India (University of Virginia, 2011), reviewed by Anindita Majumdar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2393 [Southeast Asia] Marjaana Jauhola, Becoming Better “Men” and “Women:” Negotiating Normativity through Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Initiatives in Aceh, Indonesia (Aberystwyth University, 2010), reviewed by Kristina Gorssmann (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1916 [Inner Asia] Sunmin Yoon, Chasing the Singers: The Transition of Long-Song (Urtyn Duu) in Post-Socialist Mongolia (University of Maryland, College Park, 2011), reviewed by Andrew Colwell (Wesleyan University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2197 [Science Studies] Sarah Bridger, Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (Columbia University, 2011), reviewed by Perrin Selcer (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2297 [Med Anthro] Erica van der Sijpt, Ambiguous Ambitions: On Pathways, Projects, and Pregnancy Interruptions in Cameroon (University of Amsterdam, 2011), reviewed by Anita Hannig (Brandeis University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2572 [Bioethics] Kathleen Shannon Dorcy, Hope as a Discursive Practice in Cancer Research Decision-Making (University of Utah, 2011), reviewed by Jaklin Elliott (University of Adelaide)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2495 [Korea] Amy Levine, The Hope and Crisis of Pragmatic Transition: Politics, Law, Anthropology and South Korea (Cornell University, 2011), reviewed by Robert Oppenheim (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2227 [Archives Review, China, Asian Art] April Hughes (Princeton University), review of the Oriental Manuscripts Reading Room of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2344 [Japan, Print Media] Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Gaijin: Cultural Representations through Manga, 1930s-1950s (Hitotsubashi University, 2010), reviewed by Seth Jacobowitz (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2488 [Iran, South Asia, Islamic Studies] Mana Kia, Contours of Persianate Community, 1722–1835 (Harvard University, 2011), reviewed by Jasmin Khosravie (University of Bonn)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2680 [Iran] Hossein Khosrowjah, Unthinking the National Imaginary: The Singular Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami (University of Rochester, 2011), reviewed by Golbarg Rekabtalaei (University of Toronto)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2588 [Russia, Islamic Studies] Eren Tasar, Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991 (Harvard University, 2010), reviewed by Alfrid Bustanov (Amsterdam University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2185 [Korea, Chinese Lit] Jeongsoo Shin, From Bewitching Beauty to Effete King: Transgendering of King Peony in Medieval Chinese and Korean Literature (University of Washington, 2011), reviewed by Sixiang Wang (Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2281 [Japan, Print Media] Robert Dale Goree, Fantasies of the Real: Illustrated Gazetteers in Early Modern Japan (Yale University, 2010), reviewed by William Fleming (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2710 [China] Gerald Roche, Nadun: Ritual and the Dynamics of Cultural Diversity in Northwest China’s Hehuang Region (Griffith University, 2010), reviewed by Timothy Thurston (The Ohio State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2216 [Archives Review, South Asia] Derek Elliott (University of Cambridge), review of the Tamil Nadu Archives, Chennai, India
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2405 [Tibetan Himalayan, Med Anthro] Stephan Kloos, Tibetan Medicine in Exile: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Cultural Survival (University of California, Berkeley, 2010), reviewed by Theresia Hofer (University of Oslo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2282 [Archives Review, Korea] Erik Mobrand (National University of Singapore), review of the National Assembly Library, Seoul, Republic of Korea
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2342 [China, Science Studies] Nicole Barnes, Protecting the National Body: Gender and Public Health in Southwest China during the War with Japan, 1937-1945 (University of California, Irvine, 2012), reviewed by M. Colette Plum (Johns Hopkins University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2415 [Med Anthro] Anita Hannig, The Gift of Cure: Childbirth Injuries, Clinical Structures, and Religious Subjects in Ethiopia (University of Chicago, 2012), reviewed by Erica van der Sijpt (University of Amsterdam)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2650 [Russia] Nicole Holland, Worlds on View: Visual Art Exhibitions and State Identity in the Late Cold War (University of California, San Diego, 2010), reviewed by Joshua First (University of Mississippi)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2453 [South Asia, Southeast Asia, Asian Art] Soumya James, The Symbiosis of Image, Monument and Landscape: A Study of Select Goddess Images at Prasat Kravan, Kbal Spean and Banteay Srei in Cambodia (Cornell University, 2011), reviewed by Paul Lavy (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2432 [Iran, Islamic Studies] Aaron Sealy, “In Their Place”: Marking and Unmarking Shi’ism in Pahlavi Iran (University of Michigan, 2011), reviewed by Mikiya Koyagi (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2700 [Archives Review, Islamic Studies] Christopher Markiewicz (University of Chicago), brief update on the Ottoman Achives of the Office of the Prime Minister (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivleri), Istanbul, Turkey
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2895 [Chinese Lit, Science Studies] Nathaniel Isaacson, Colonial Modernities and Chinese Science Fiction (University of California, Los Angeles, 2011), reviewed by Paola Iovene (University of Chicago)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2458 [Japan, Chinese Lit] Fumiko Jōo, “The Peony Lantern” and Fantastic Tales in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan: Local History, Religion, and Gender (University of Chicago, 2011), reviewed by Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2757 [China, Science Studies] Daniel Asen, Dead Bodies and Forensic Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949 (Columbia University, 2012), reviewed by Fabien Simonis (Independent scholar)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2239 [Talking Shop, Korea] Amy Levine (Changwon National University), “Online Resources for Koreanists 2.0”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2470 [South Asia, Islamic Studies] Sadia Saeed, Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan (University of Michigan, 2010), reviewed by Sadaf Ahmad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2469 [Inner Asia] Daniel Murphy, Going on Otor: Disaster, Mobility, and the Political Ecology of Vulnerability in Uguumur (University of Kentucky, 2011), reviewed by Jonathan Schlesinger (Indiana University, Bloomington)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2242 [Archives Review, Science Studies] Stanislava Kolková (Herder-Institut in Marburg), review of the Slovak National Archive, the Archive of the Comenius University, and the Central Archive of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2345 [Bioethics, Science Studies] Nicholas Anderson, Creatures of Artifice: Rodney Brooks and the Bioethics of Animated Machines (Ryerson University, 2011), reviewed by Keith Abney (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2742 [Archives Review, Science Studies] Bill Rankin (Yale University), review of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Archives, Montreal, Canada
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2047 [Med Anthro] Mohammed Rashed, Subjectivity, Society and the Experts: Discourses of Madness in the Western Desert of Egypt (University College London, 2012), reviewed by Sherine Hamdy (Brown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2842 [Archives Review, China, Asian Art] Vivian Li (University of Michigan), review of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Library, Beijing, China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2430 [Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Ertuğrul Ökten (University of Oxford), review of the al-Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2944 [Iran, Islamic Studies, Science Studies] Alireza Doostdar, Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran (Harvard University, 2012), reviewed by Emilio Spadola (Colgate University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2908
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2491 [Chinese Lit] Esther Klein, The History of a Historian: Perspectives on the Authorial Roles of Sima Qian (Princeton University, 2010), reviewed by Vincent Leung (University of Pittsburgh)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2279 [Archives Review, Japan] Jolyon Thomas (Princeton University), review of the Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, USA
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2012 [Archives Review, Inner Asia, China] Rian Thum (Loyola University, New Orleans), review of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin, Germany, and the Bibliothek der Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen – Anhalt, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Halle, Germany
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2007 [South Asia, Med Anthro] Holly Donahue Singh, Aulad: Infertility and the Meanings of Children in North India (University of Virginia, 2011), reviewed by Anindita Majumdar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2393 [Southeast Asia] Marjaana Jauhola, Becoming Better “Men” and “Women:” Negotiating Normativity through Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Tsunami Reconstruction Initiatives in Aceh, Indonesia (Aberystwyth University, 2010), reviewed by Kristina Gorssmann (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1916 [Inner Asia] Sunmin Yoon, Chasing the Singers: The Transition of Long-Song (Urtyn Duu) in Post-Socialist Mongolia (University of Maryland, College Park, 2011), reviewed by Andrew Colwell (Wesleyan University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2197 [Science Studies] Sarah Bridger, Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (Columbia University, 2011), reviewed by Perrin Selcer (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2297 [Med Anthro] Erica van der Sijpt, Ambiguous Ambitions: On Pathways, Projects, and Pregnancy Interruptions in Cameroon (University of Amsterdam, 2011), reviewed by Anita Hannig (Brandeis University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2572 [Bioethics] Kathleen Shannon Dorcy, Hope as a Discursive Practice in Cancer Research Decision-Making (University of Utah, 2011), reviewed by Jaklin Elliott (University of Adelaide)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2495 [Korea] Amy Levine, The Hope and Crisis of Pragmatic Transition: Politics, Law, Anthropology and South Korea (Cornell University, 2011), reviewed by Robert Oppenheim (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2227 [Archives Review, China, Asian Art] April Hughes (Princeton University), review of the Oriental Manuscripts Reading Room of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2344 [Japan, Print Media] Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Gaijin: Cultural Representations through Manga, 1930s-1950s (Hitotsubashi University, 2010), reviewed by Seth Jacobowitz (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2488 [Iran, South Asia, Islamic Studies] Mana Kia, Contours of Persianate Community, 1722–1835 (Harvard University, 2011), reviewed by Jasmin Khosravie (University of Bonn)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2680 [Iran] Hossein Khosrowjah, Unthinking the National Imaginary: The Singular Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami (University of Rochester, 2011), reviewed by Golbarg Rekabtalaei (University of Toronto)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2588 [Russia, Islamic Studies] Eren Tasar, Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991 (Harvard University, 2010), reviewed by Alfrid Bustanov (Amsterdam University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2185 [Korea, Chinese Lit] Jeongsoo Shin, From Bewitching Beauty to Effete King: Transgendering of King Peony in Medieval Chinese and Korean Literature (University of Washington, 2011), reviewed by Sixiang Wang (Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2281 [Japan, Print Media] Robert Dale Goree, Fantasies of the Real: Illustrated Gazetteers in Early Modern Japan (Yale University, 2010), reviewed by William Fleming (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2710 [China] Gerald Roche, Nadun: Ritual and the Dynamics of Cultural Diversity in Northwest China’s Hehuang Region (Griffith University, 2010), reviewed by Timothy Thurston (The Ohio State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2216 [Archives Review, South Asia] Derek Elliott (University of Cambridge), review of the Tamil Nadu Archives, Chennai, India
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2405 [Tibetan Himalayan, Med Anthro] Stephan Kloos, Tibetan Medicine in Exile: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Cultural Survival (University of California, Berkeley, 2010), reviewed by Theresia Hofer (University of Oslo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2282 [Archives Review, Korea] Erik Mobrand (National University of Singapore), review of the National Assembly Library, Seoul, Republic of Korea
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2342 [China, Science Studies] Nicole Barnes, Protecting the National Body: Gender and Public Health in Southwest China during the War with Japan, 1937-1945 (University of California, Irvine, 2012), reviewed by M. Colette Plum (Johns Hopkins University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2415 [Med Anthro] Anita Hannig, The Gift of Cure: Childbirth Injuries, Clinical Structures, and Religious Subjects in Ethiopia (University of Chicago, 2012), reviewed by Erica van der Sijpt (University of Amsterdam)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2650 [Russia] Nicole Holland, Worlds on View: Visual Art Exhibitions and State Identity in the Late Cold War (University of California, San Diego, 2010), reviewed by Joshua First (University of Mississippi)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2453 [South Asia, Southeast Asia, Asian Art] Soumya James, The Symbiosis of Image, Monument and Landscape: A Study of Select Goddess Images at Prasat Kravan, Kbal Spean and Banteay Srei in Cambodia (Cornell University, 2011), reviewed by Paul Lavy (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2432 [Iran, Islamic Studies] Aaron Sealy, “In Their Place”: Marking and Unmarking Shi’ism in Pahlavi Iran (University of Michigan, 2011), reviewed by Mikiya Koyagi (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2700 [Archives Review, Islamic Studies] Christopher Markiewicz (University of Chicago), brief update on the Ottoman Achives of the Office of the Prime Minister (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivleri), Istanbul, Turkey
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2895 [Chinese Lit, Science Studies] Nathaniel Isaacson, Colonial Modernities and Chinese Science Fiction (University of California, Los Angeles, 2011), reviewed by Paola Iovene (University of Chicago)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2458 [Japan, Chinese Lit] Fumiko Jōo, “The Peony Lantern” and Fantastic Tales in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan: Local History, Religion, and Gender (University of Chicago, 2011), reviewed by Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2757 [China, Science Studies] Daniel Asen, Dead Bodies and Forensic Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949 (Columbia University, 2012), reviewed by Fabien Simonis (Independent scholar)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2239 [Talking Shop, Korea] Amy Levine (Changwon National University), “Online Resources for Koreanists 2.0”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2470 [South Asia, Islamic Studies] Sadia Saeed, Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan (University of Michigan, 2010), reviewed by Sadaf Ahmad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2469 [Inner Asia] Daniel Murphy, Going on Otor: Disaster, Mobility, and the Political Ecology of Vulnerability in Uguumur (University of Kentucky, 2011), reviewed by Jonathan Schlesinger (Indiana University, Bloomington)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2242 [Archives Review, Science Studies] Stanislava Kolková (Herder-Institut in Marburg), review of the Slovak National Archive, the Archive of the Comenius University, and the Central Archive of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2345 [Bioethics, Science Studies] Nicholas Anderson, Creatures of Artifice: Rodney Brooks and the Bioethics of Animated Machines (Ryerson University, 2011), reviewed by Keith Abney (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2742 [Archives Review, Science Studies] Bill Rankin (Yale University), review of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Archives, Montreal, Canada
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2047 [Med Anthro] Mohammed Rashed, Subjectivity, Society and the Experts: Discourses of Madness in the Western Desert of Egypt (University College London, 2012), reviewed by Sherine Hamdy (Brown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2842 [Archives Review, China, Asian Art] Vivian Li (University of Michigan), review of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Library, Beijing, China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2430 [Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Ertuğrul Ökten (University of Oxford), review of the al-Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2944 [Iran, Islamic Studies, Science Studies] Alireza Doostdar, Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran (Harvard University, 2012), reviewed by Emilio Spadola (Colgate University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2908
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