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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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THE HAUNTING AESTHETICS OF EMPIRE: FILIPINX AMERICA, US EMPIRE, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION, Alana J. Bock

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"I Know the Dream Mine is True": Mormons, Mining, and the Making of "Bad Religion" in Early Twentieth-Century Utah, Christine V. Shell

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Technologies of Territoriality: Indigeneity, Surveillance, and the State, Elspeth Iralu

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Subject Disintegration: Identity and Alterity in the Age of the Hyperreal, Sophie Ell

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Health and Revolution: Anarchist Biopolitics in the Borderlands, Benjamin H. Abbott

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Danzantes Aztecas Y Promotoras Tradicionales: The Ritual Performances And Identity Politics Of A Mexican American Danzantes Aztecas Y Promotoras Tradicionales: The Ritual Performances And Identity Politics Of A Mexican American Ceremonial Community, Dina K. Barajas

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“Pre-Packaged Sovereignty”: The Fallacy Of Indian Self-Determination In The Bureau Of Indian Affairs (Bia) Tribal Social Services Programs, April K. Chavez

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Remixing The Archives: Indigenous Interpretations Of History And The Future, Marcella Ernest

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#AbolishICE: An Anti-Capitalist And Anti-Colonial Approach To Black, Indigenous, And Migrant Solidarity Building, Cecilia Frescas-Ortiz

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Nubians Of Plutonia: Black Women In Modern Post-Apocalyptic And Dystopian Graphic Literature, Marthia D. Fuller

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No Longer Fenced Out: Outlaw Media Discourse and Resistance to Gentrification in Greenwich Village, Joseph Francis Gallegos

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(Sīˈtĭng) Detroit: Vision and Dispossession in a Midwest Bordertown, Matthew J. Irwin

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Contesting Historical Enchantment: Militarized Settler Colonialism and Refugee Resettlement in New Mexico, Christina Juhasz-Wood

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Imperial Myths, Abject Devotion: Mapping Affect in New Mexican Visual Culture and Discourse, N. C. Lira-Pérez

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Undocumented Youth Challenging Borders: Detentions, Deportations, and Family Separations in the 21st Century, Rafael A. Martinez

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Exploration, Disruption, Diaspora: Movement of Nuevomexicanos to Utah, 1776-1850, Linda C. Eleshuk Roybal

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Unsettling Indian Health Services: Secularism, Modern Medicine, & The Reproduction Of The U.S. Settler State Through The 1954 Transfer Act, Jillian Elizabeth Grisel

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Cartographies of Precarity: The Cultural Politics of Filipina and Mexican Migrant Domestic Workers, Maria Eugenia Lopez-Garcia

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Immigration/Migration and Settler Colonialism: Doing Critical Ethnic Studies on the U.S. - Mexico Border, Raquel A. Madrigal

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Gifts of Sovereignty: Settler Colonial Capitalism and the Kanaka ʻŌiwi Politics of Ea, David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile

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Living the Manito Trail: Maintaining Self, Community, and Culture, Trisha Venisa Martinez

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(Re)Insurgent Ecologies: Dwelling Together Between Queasy Worlds, Kirsten E. Mundt

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More Than A Fiesta: Cinco De Mayo Celebrations And The Transboundary Link In Ambos Nogales, Kristen S. Valencia

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Tangibility And Symbolism Along Historic Highway 66 In Albuquerque, Donatella Davanzo

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Little Red Riding Hood In The Dialogic Tension Of Wolf Politics In The U.S. West, Kaisa T. Lappalainen

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Transgender Murder Memorials: A Call for Intersectionality and Trans Livability, Lazarus Nance Letcher

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The Territorial Politics of the New York Botanical Garden, 1891-1912, Carolyn McSherry

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The Heart of K'e: Transforming Dine Special Education and Unsettling the Colonial Logics of Disability, Sandra Yellowhorse

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Arresting Narratives: Incommensurability, Policing, and Settler Security, Darcy H. Brazen

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Keres Language Loss In The Santo Domingo Pueblo Community, Christopher Chavez

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Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation, Nick Estes

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(Dis)Appearing Subjects: Managing Violence Through the Discourse of Bullying, Rachel E. Levitt

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From Sand Creek To Somalia: Black Bodies In Denver’s Post-Industrial Urban Cultural Re-Imagination, Webster Matjaka

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Texas-Mexico Border Cultural Production: Ethnographic Aesthetics and Modernity in Folklore, Literature, and Film, Margie Montanez

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"Revealing Reality": Four Asian Filmmakers Visualize the Transnational Imaginary, Stephen Edward Spence

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Place, Imaginary, Identity: Place Ethnography in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Tita Berger

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Settler Social Order: The Violence of Policing in New Mexico, Elisabeth R. Ehlert Perkal

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The Scientific Conquest of New Mexico: Local Legacies of the Manhattan Project 1942-2015, Lucie Anne Genay

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Reclaiming the Land: Indigenous Articulations of Environmentalism at Bears Ears, Caroline Goodman

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Complicating Transgender: White Privilege and the Politics of Rurality, Jordon Johnson

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Decolonizing The Body: Breast Cancer And The Environment In Toxic Times, Cynthia L. Martin

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African Dreams of America: Diaspora experience in the Writing of Aidoo, Adichie and Cole, Gbenga Olorunsiwa

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Femmage And The DIY Movement: Feminism, Crafty Women, And The Politics Of Gender Performance, Rosemary L. Sallee

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Contesting Liberalism, Refusing Death: A Biopolitical Critique Of Navajo History, Melanie Yazzie

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Obama as Visual Icon: Blackness, Post-Raciality, and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Age, Jadira Gurule

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The Critical Traveler At Palestine/Israel International Border Crossings: Settler Colonialism, Postcolonial Critique, And The United States As A Third State, Farah Nousheen

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Reproducing Prevention: Teen Pregnancy and Intimate Citizenship in the Post-Welfare Era, Clare Daniel

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Transnational Perspectives on Authenticity, Representation, and Expressions of Visual Memory in Jewish Women and Childrens Holocaust Narratives, Tania Garcia

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Intimate Gestures: Race, Photography, and Spectatorship in Tijuanas Dumps and Irregular Settlements, George Luna-Peña

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Material Embodiments, Queer Visualities: Presenting Disability in American Public History, Andrew B. Marcum

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Unsettling Accounts: Life, Debt, and Development in the Middle Rio Grande, Samuel Karrigan Robison Markwell

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Counter Culture Youth: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Undocumented Youth Vanguard, Rafael A. Martinez

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Eva'lution in Fandangos, Fiestas, and Flamenco: Adding to the Repertoire of Chicano Expressive Arts, Trisha Martinez

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Revisioning Reality: Normative Resistance In The Cultural Works Of The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Nella Larsen, And Allan Rohan Crite, 1915-1945, Andrea L. Mays

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The Un-Exceptional Bomb: Settler Nuclearism, Feminism, and Atomic Tourism in New Mexico, Eileen Clare Shaughnessy

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No Admission Required: Sovereignty, Slots and Native American Art, Jane Sinclair

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Write Of The Valkyries: An Analysis Of Selected Life Narratives Of Women In The Heavy Metal Music Subculture, Aurore Diehl

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The Power of Voice: The Indian Arts Research Centers Identity Shift, Laura Elliff

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Sovereign Conflicts And Divided Loyalties: Native American Survivance In The Era Of Nuclear Modernity Story Of The Western Shoshone And Their response To The Yucca Mountain High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository, Amy Sue Goodin

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When is a Convento Kiva? : A Postcolonial-Critical Indigenous Critique of the Convento Kiva at Pecos National Historical Park, David Holtkamp

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Carnales: Transnational Affiliation in Chicano Vietnam War Protest, Kirsten Lustgarten

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Imagining "the Town too Tough to Die": Tourism, Preservation, and History in Tombstone, Arizona, Kara McCormack

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Microbes, Individuals, and Medical Charity: Tuberculosis and the Remaking of Liberal Individualism in Late 19th-Century Philadelphia, Carson Metzger

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The Borderpsychosocial Development Project: Is There a Specific Psychosocial Consciousness that Frames Development for Border Women?, Maria Gloria Munguia Wellman

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Savage Fakes: Misdirection, Fraudulence, And Autobiography In The 1920S0s, Whitney Purvis Rakich

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New Mexico's Nuclear Enchantment: Local Politics, National Imperatives, and Radioactive Waste Disposal in the Desert, Jennifer Richter

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong

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Risky Subjects, Subjects at Risk: HPV Vaccination and the Neoliberal Turn in Public Health, Anzia Bennett

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Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest, Berenika Byszewski

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Recordando Nuestra Gente: Ritual Memorialization Along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Theresa Córdova

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Panhe at the Crossroads: Toward an Indigenized Environmental Justice Theory, Dina Gilio

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The Becoming of Age: How discourses of aging and old age in contemporary, popular film both reinforce and reimagine the narrative of aging as decline, Pamela H. Gravagne

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Whose "Shared Humanity"?: The Tribal Law And Order Act (2010), Barack Obama, And The Politics Of Multiculturalism In Settler Colonial States, Liza Drake Minno

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The Transformation of Albuquerque, 1945-1972, Robert Turner Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Cashing In On Indian Casinos: The Impacts Of "Off-Reservation" Casinos On Sovereignty, The Gaming Industry, Surrounding Communities, Reservations, And Tribal Identities, Adam Bubb

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Expressions of Another Center: Borderlands Visual Theory & the Art of Luis Jimenez, Eric Castillo

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Gendered Crimes, Gendered Fans: Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Fandom in the Contemporary American Crime Drama, Melanie Cattrell

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Occam's Beard: Belief, Disbelief, and Contested Meanings in American Ufology, William J. Dewan

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Assembling the Poor People's Campaign (1968) Queer Activism and Economic Justice, Christina Juhasz-Wood

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Ghostly I(s)/Eyes: The Formation of Subjectivity in Mexican American Life Narratives, Patricia Marie Perea

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Imagining the Saints: Representations of Mormonism in American Culture, Jeremy R. Ricketts

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Land, Gender, and the Politics of Identity Formation: Uncovering Hispana/Mexicana Voices in the Southwest, Karen R. Roybal

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Los Tres Grandes - Herman Gallegos, Ernesto Galarza, Julian Samora: Rooted in Community, Guided by Friendship, Cultivating Leadership., Carmen Samora

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Miniature Nation Building: Model Railroading and the Dialectics of Scale in Post-WWII America, Ivan Weber

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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To Prevent the Breakup of the Indian Family: The Development of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978., Evelyn Lance Blanchard

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Triptych Cultural Critique: Fray Angelico Chavez and Southwestern Critical Regionalism, 1939-2004, Melina Vizcaino-Aleman

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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The Noose That Builds the Nation: Mexican Lynching in the Southwest, Annette M. Rodriguez

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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"Mis Derechos, Mi Matriz": An Evaluation of the Women's Organization "Casa Materna", Ocotal, Nicaragua, Maruja Alice Clensay

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene, Anthony P. Avery

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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"None Of Us Are Supposed To Be Here": Ethnicity, Nationality, And The Production Of Cherokee Histories, Julia M. Coates

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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On the Side of Angels: Lesbian Activism in Los Angeles, 1970-1990, Yolanda G. Retter

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Female Millworkers and the Mechanization of Textile Production: The Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, 1813 to 1822, Lois Bayer Gonzales

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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Remembering Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1990, Sally Hyer

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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Trading Post Tales: Biography of an Indian Trader on the Navajo Reservation, Nancy Peake

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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Through Thick and Thin: Evolutionary Transitions of Las Vegas Grandes and its Pobladores, Anselmo F. Arellano

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Sounds Of The Frontier: Music In Buffalo Bill'S Wild West, Michael Lee Masterson

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Beaux Gestes: The Indian and the European in Pre-Colonial North America, Philip Drover Burnham

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The Early Life of Ann Nolan Clark: A Contextual Biography, Jeanne Carolyn Whitehouse

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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We Come as Friends: Violent Social Conflict in New Mexico, 1810-1910, Tobias Duran

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Samuel B. Watrous: New Mexico Pioneer, Alexia M. Kosmider