The Unwavering Movement: Integrating Reason into British Penal Code 1730-1823
Between the early 16th and 18th centuries, English attitude towards crime and correction were based on the strong held belief that faith and religion were the only cure to immorality. Lawmakers began...
View ArticleA Failure of Laïcité: Analyzing the Ongoing Discrimination of French-Muslims...
The question of how to deal with the “Muslim problem” has once again arisen in France, opening old wounds of colonization and cultural racism. France’s rich Christian past and the historical context...
View ArticleI am Fascinated by What is Beautiful, Strong, Healthy” Leni Riefenstahl,...
Public discourse around the Nazi regime is typically surrounded by its doctrine of hatred and violence; traditional gender roles and these traits have rendered fascism a decidedly masculine...
View ArticleThe British Smuggling Dilemma: 1698-1784
By the late 17th century, Great Britain had a major smuggling problem, initially in illegally exported wool but later imported teas and French brandies. The problem grew to its peak in the mid 18th...
View ArticleNo Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural...
While medieval concepts are frequently used as a means for the general public to understand emerging global political institutions around the world, they also have immense capability to be purposely...
View ArticleThe Chinese Communist Party and the Uyghurs: Securitization and How Ethnic...
Since the beginning of the War on Terror in 2001, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has convinced its own populace as well as foreign countries that increasing security measures in the Xinjiang region...
View Article“The Torture of Colonization and the Holocaust: Multidirectional Memory in...
In this paper, I read Caryl Phillips’s 1997 post-colonial The Nature of Blood as a novel that exemplifies Michael Rothberg’s theory of “multidirectional memory.” Rothberg’s theory, which argues...
View ArticlePublic Opinion in the United States and Hungary: How Trump and Orbán have...
This research paper is inspired by the author’s recent experience interning with US Together – Cleveland, a non-profit refugee resettlement agency that provides services before, during, and...
View ArticleVeterinary Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International,...
Building on field research in Costa Rica and Belize, this study analyzes environmental and endangered animal protection policies, rights, and practices in Central America, and assesses impacts of...
View ArticleEmpathy and Unity in Exit West
Mohsin Hamid’s contemporary novel, Exit West (2017), proposes a world that allows all people to migrate with relative ease across the globe through instantaneous transportation via magical doors. This...
View Article"Communication from Afar": The Role of Subversive Mail Art During the...
This paper analyzes the role of mail art by Argentine mail artists Edgardo Antonio Vigo and Graciela Gutiérrez Marx in subverting Argentine fascism and censorship during the Argentine Dirty War from...
View ArticleNeoliberalism’s Zombies: Ling Ma’s Severance, COVID,and Anti-Asian Racism
In this paper, I argue that Ling Ma’s 2018 novel, Severance, weaves together Asian American identity, capitalism, and neoliberal ideals into a zombie apocalypse novel that works to critique the...
View ArticleThe Mexican Revolution: An Uneven Path
This study analyzes the peasant and anarchist movement as foundational to La Revolución [the Mexican Revolution] and the revolutionary processes that lead to and followed La Revolución. The study...
View ArticleDolor y Angustia: Creative Practice and Arts-Based Advocacy and Activism
This practice to press article discusses how arts-based advocacy and activism can be used to raise awareness about human rights violations. Inspired by the work of my mother, Dr. Morella Davilla, a...
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