Indiana University
History
Paper presented at Australian and New Zealand Association of North America's annual conference in Austin, TX.
A transnational analysis on commemorative practices in Chile and El Salvador. (Undergraduate thesis)
This is a history of how the Corfiote Jews created a regional commercial and cultural network in the Adriatic during the nineteenth century. The protagonists are merchants, publishers and rabbis who lived in Corfu and had created intimate... more
This Master's dissertation examines the rise of violence and hate-speech against Germans in British Boys' literature published from 1914-1918. It notes that as the totalization of the First World War increased, the creative output by... more
Diplomacy, Diversity, and Dollars: How the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement Shaped International Student Policy at Indiana University, 1950-1970. During these decades, Indiana University transformed itself into a cosmopolitan hub:... more
The Herero and the Nama Seek Reparations: What Do Historians Have to Say about the Genocide? Since the 1990s there has been a virtual academic consensus that a genocide was perpetuated by Germany during the Herero and Nama War. But the... more
German settlers colonizing South West Africa developed specific attitudes towards violence as a result of experiencing the Herero and Nama War (1904–1907). Through analyzing settler discourse at that time period, this article suggests... more
On March 17th, 2017 at the Auctoritas conference (The University of Pennsylvania) I will present my paper “Fashioning Dominican auctoritas: Rewriting Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica in a mid-thirteenth century exempla collection”
The Muslim conquest of Constantinople was seen in various apocalyptic traditions as one of the portents of the end. An Ottoman mystic, Ahmed Bî-cân, gave voice to these apocalyptic fears and expectations soon after the Ottoman conquest in... more