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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Zeros and Ones: Digital Video Aesthetics and Geopolitical Economy in Blackhat , Everett Barnett

The Boundaries of Melodramatic Film Music: Redefining Home through the Score of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows , Meredith Donovan

Slot Machine Addiction: The Untold Story of Contradictions Between Self and America's Neoliberal Risk Society , Melanie C. Falconer

From Displacement to Intersubjectivity: A Phenomenology of Sound in Classic Film Noir , Thomas Goodchild

The Rust Belt Gothic: Charting the Affective Politics of Deindustrialization and the Emergence of a Great Lakes Horror Genre in Film , Micheal B. Raines

Unveiling Estrangement: The Ambivalence of Iranian Cultural Identity in Documentary Films , Vahid Valikhani

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Dreaming to Get Out the “Sunken Place” : Fantasy, Film, and the Inner-White- I(Eye) , Jordan Battle

The 'Charm and Distinction' of Proverbs: The Duality of the Gem Analogy in Erasmus's Adagia , Blythe Broecker Creelan

Selective Framing and Narrative as Anthropocentric Agents in Yellowstone: America’s Eden , Breanna Lee Hansen

Losing the Streaming Wars: What Netflix loses in Television Narrative and Participatory Fan Cultures , Annabelle G. Naudin

Reading Rent: Interracial Relationships and Racial Hierarchies , Susanna A. Perez-Field

From Counter-Strike to Counterterrorism: How the Cheater Reconfigures Our Understanding of Asymmetric Warfare , Enya C. Silva

Motherhood in the Multiverse: Melodrama and Asian American Identity in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once , Aditya Sudhakaran

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Surviving a Broken System: Synergies between Solidarity Economies and Sustainable Development Goals , Julie Beach

Digital Realness: Queer Intimacy in ContraPoints , William S. Beaman

Complex Identities: Putting Casey Plett’s Fiction in a Trans and Religious Studies Context , Catherine Brown

Ambient Athleticism: Politicizing Akira’s Accelerationist Olympiad , Thomas G. Chaplin

Harmony of Difference: Theorizing Rashid Johnson's New Universalism in the Grids of Antoine's Organ , Mark Fredricks

_Las Vidas Negras_: Examining Identity Among Afro-Latinos in the US in the twilight of Black Lives Matter , Victor Garcia

Pronk Poppenhuis: Establishing and Destabilizing Agency Among Seventeenth-Century Burgher Wives in the Dutch Republic , Emily M. Gregoire

Conquistas and Chronicles: A Social History of the Fernando de Soto Expedition of Conquest, 1538-1543 , Morgan Norman Greig

Queering the Weeki Wachee Mermaid and Its Renewed Aesthetic Value , Jacqueline D. Merveille

Visions of Entanglement and Escape: In-Visible Voice in the Films of Terrence Malick and George Lucas , Michael Lee Taber

The Hybridization of Home: Establishing Place Between the Garrison and the Wilderness in Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative , Brooke M. Weltch

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Montage Music Videos: Racial Utopianism vs. Abstract Cowboys and the Question of Cultural Montage , Alan E. Blanchard

The Value of Sleep : Aura and Aesthetics of Cohabitation in Juha Lilja's Revision of Warhol , Christopher Costabile

Threatened by the Outback: Landscape and Ecology in the Australian New Wave , Richard T. Dyer

Restarting Plural Modernity: The Lyrical Tradition of the Hometown in Kaili Blues , Huadong Fan

Bad Bunny’s Purplewashing as Gender Violence in Reggaeton: A Feminist Analysis of SOLO DE MI and YO PERREO SOLA , Dairíne Hoban

From Mythology to Pop Culture: Myth, Representation, and the Historiography of the Amazon Warrior Woman in Ancient Art and Modern Media , James William Poorman

Four Hollywood Film Adaptations of Little Women : Identifying Female Subjectivity in Characters, Plots, and Authorship , Haiyu Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Lost Without a Connection: Analyzing Netflix's Maniac in the Digital Streaming Age , Eric Bruce

Redefining Representations of Trauma & Modes of Witnessing in Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers , Mariana Delgado

Roots in Antiquity: A Comparative Study of Two Cultures , Lara Younes Freajah

Neo-Colonial Elites’ Linguistic Violence and Monolingual Haitian Creole Speakers: Language Ideology, The Politics of Linguistic Pluralism, the Crisis of National Identity and Culture in Haiti , Frantzso Marcelin

Recurring Scream : Trauma in Wes Craven's Slasher , Ben Muntananuchat

I'm Going Digital: Potentials for Online Communities Through Internet Remix , Justin N. Nguyen

The Concept of Freedom in American Literature at the Dawn of the Nation , Mykhailo Pylynskyi

How Audiovisual Composition Reveals Gendered Limitations and Possibilities in Lady Bird in the Wake of #MeToo , Chandler Micah Reeder

Horror’s Aesthetic Exchange: Immersion, Abstraction and Annihilation , Ashley Morgan Steinbach

Roots of Coded Metaphor in John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica , Joshua Michael Zintel

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Blaxploitation’s Revolutionary Sexuality: Rethinking Images of Male Hypersexuality in Sweetback & Shaft , Austin D. Cook

Plasticity in Animated Children’s Cartoons: The Neoliberal Transforming Bodies and Static Worlds of OK KO and Gumball , Rachel E. Cox

Baltimore Mobility: The Wire , Local Documentary, and the Politics of Distance , Richard M. Farrell

Mobilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity After “I Can’t Breathe” , Aryn Kelly

Adaptations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain , Morgan J. Macey

The Peruvian minstrel: an analysis of the representations of blackness in the performance of El Negro Mama from 1995 to 2016 , Ana Lucía Mosquera Rosado

An Ecology of Care: Training in Dependence and Caretaking in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , Elizabeth Rossbach

Anti-Fascist Aesthetics from Weimar to MoMA: Siegfried Kracauer & the Promise of Abstraction for Critical Theory , Maxximilian Seijo

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Poetics of Sixteenth-Century Widowhood: Vittoria Colonna’s Use of Gender and Grief as a Means of Social and Spiritual Transcendence , Sarah Conner

Performing "Hurt" : Aging, Disability, and Popular Music as Mediated Product and Lived-Experience in Johnny Cash's Final Recordings , Adam Davidson

The Promised Body: Diet Culture, the Fat Subject, and Ambivalence as Resistance , Jennifer Dolan

The Revival Western and , Kevin Thomas McKenna

Concerning Virtual Reality and Corporealized Media: Exploring Video Game Aesthetics and Phenomenology , Matthew Morales

"He Didn't Mean It": What Kubrick's , Kelley O'Brien

Failing to Move Forward: Journalism, Media, and Affect in David Fincher's , Nicholas Orlando

Eliminating the Uncertainty of Hong Kong in 1990s: Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China (1, 2, 3) , Zhanwen Peng

A Woman's Place in Jazz in the 21st Century , Valerie T. Simuro

Cool Moms & Cool Media: Returning to , Morgan Wallace

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Get Ye A Copper Kettle: Appalachia, Moonshine, and a Postcolonial World , Christopher David Adkins

The Dislocated Spectator's Relationship to Enchanted Objects in Early Film and Modernist Poetry , Rachel Christine Ekblad

Playing-With the World: Toy Story's Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play , Jonathan Hendricks

Distinguishing Patterns of Utopia and Dystopia, East and West , Huai-Hsuan Huang

"There's a real hole here": Female Masochism and Spectatorship in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste , Morgan J. Jennings

"You want it all to happen now!": The Jinx, The Imposter, and Re-enacting the Digital Thriller in True Crime Documentaries , Brett Michael Phillips

The Palazzo Medici and its Polyvalent Message: Cosimo de Medici Navigates the Shifting Meaning of Pride , Lisa Morgan Thieryung

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Family Life in Carver City- Lincoln Gardens , Lisa K. Armstrong

The Apocalypse Narrative and the Internet: Divided Relationships in New Natures , Brooks Scott Benadum

Digital Integration , Jacob C. Boccio

A Tourist Performance: Redefining the Tourist Attraction , Brandy Lee Kinkade

To Utopianize the Mundane: Sound and Image in Country Musicals , Siyuan Ma

Heavy South: Identity, Performance, and Heavy Music in the Southern Metal Scene , Michael A. Mcdowell

The Apatow Aesthetic: Exploring New Temporalities of Human Development in 21st Century Network Society , Michael D. Rosen

Constructing the West: The Hired Hand and McCabe & Mrs. Miller and the Challenge of Public Space , Eric Ward Ross

Negotiating the Delta: Dr. T.R.M. Howard in Mound Bayou, Mississippi , William Jackson Southerland

Longshoremen's Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Culture , Tomaro I. Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Genre, Justice & Quentin Tarantino , Eric Michael Blake

A Gramscian Analysis of Roman Bathing in the Provinces , Diana Danielle Davis

Muckraking and C.O.B.Y (Cry of Black Youth): Uncovering a History of Organizing in Belle Glade , Raymond A. Hamilton

Abjection, Telesthesia, and Transnationalism: Incest in Park Chan-wook's Oldboy , Daniel L. Holland

"Tell Me, Where am I From?": A Study of the Performance of Geek Identity at Comic Book Conventions , Eric Kahler

Tell Sir Thomas More We've Got Another Failed Attempt: Utopia and the Burning Man Project , Gracen Lila Kovacik

Finding a Home: Latino Residential Influx into Progress Village, 1990-2010 , Christopher Julius Pineda

Auteurs at an Urban Crossroads: A Certain Tendency in New York Cinema , Rene Thomas Rodriguez

The US Response to Genocide in Rwanda: A Reassessment , Camara Silver

From White City to Green Acres: Bertha Palmer and the Gendering of Space in the Gilded Age , Barbara Peters Smith

He_rtland: The Violence of Neoliberalism , Hector Sotomayor

Let's Go to the Carnival: Hybridization of Heterotopian Spaces in the Films of Kevin Smith , Anthony L. Sylvester

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Sobering Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Intoxicated Social Body in Dutch Painting During the True Freedom, 1650-1672 , David Beeler

Four Women: An Analysis of the Artistry of Black Women in the Black Arts Movement, 1960s-1980s , Abney Louis Henderson

The Black Experience in the United States: An Examination of Lynching and Segregation as Instruments of Genocide , Brandy Marie Langley

The Problems and Potentials in Haunted Maternal Horror Narratives , Sarah Laura Novak

"Die Mauer im Kopf": Aesthetic Resistance against West-German Take-Over , Arwen Puteri

Masculinity, After the Apocalypse: Gendered Heroics in Modern Survivalist Cinema , Sean Michael Swenson

Caribbean Traditions in Modern Choreographies: Articulation and Construction of Black Diaspora Identity in L'Ag'Ya by Katherine Dunham , Viktoria Tafferner-Gulyas

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Spectatorial Shock and Carnal Consumption: (Re)envisaging Historical Trauma in New French Extremity , Christopher Butler

Collecting Stardust: Matter, Memory, and Trauma in Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light , Nora Szegvari

Refiguring Indexicality: Remediation, Film, & Memory in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media , Janine Marie Villot

The Sopranos Experience , Eli Benjamin Weidinger

The Black Freedom Struggle and Civil Rights Labor Organizing in the Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina Tobacco Industry , Jennifer Wells

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MA Cultural Studies

Content navigation menu, why study ma cultural studies at goldsmiths.

The MA Cultural Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary to culture, politics and society.

• Explore Cultural Studies’ impact and influence on a wide range of research interests, not only in the English-speaking world but also internationally. The programme teaches you a range of methodologies that you can then apply in your own writing and research. It gives you a background in the tradition/s of Cultural Studies.
• Examine the effect of media technologies, racialisation and gendering on the production, circulation and consumption of popular culture. Topics include music scenes, the prison industrial complex, national boarders, and neoliberalism, for example. Approaches include representation, embodiment and decolonisation.
• Discover your own path through the fields of Cultural Studies, and apply what you have learned to your own research in the form of your chosen dissertation topic on which you will receive appropriate guidance and support from your supervisor.
• Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS) is an extremely broad and open-minded department – even by Goldsmiths' standards – and we are committed to making your interests as welcome as possible. We are a large and highly interdisciplinary department, and the themes of cultural studies run through the research interests of many academics within it. These span the fields of music, film, digital media, aesthetics, cultural industries, gender and queer studies, postcolonialism, journalism, political economy, critical race studies, and critical theory.
• Immerse yourself in a postgraduate environment shared by numerous creative practice-based MA programmes, such as MA Filmmaking , MA Journalism , and MA Script Writing . You will also share interests and activities with students from several sister programmes, such as MA Race, Media and Social Justice , MA Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy , and MA Culture Industry .
• Participate in extra-curricular activities with field trips to the Stuart Hall archive for instance and  Sound System Outernational (SSO) events. These offer opportunities to meet up with students on other programmes, and become involved in Lewisham’s local music scene.
• Our department has been ranked second in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings for communication and media studies.
• Study in one of London’s liveliest and most diverse communities. You will study in a stimulating critical and creative research-led environment, which will prepare you for employment in a range of culture-related professions.

Contact the department

If you have specific questions about the degree, contact Professor Julian Henriques .

1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Entry requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least 2:1 standard in a relevant/related subject. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but you have relevant experience and can show you can work at postgraduate level.

Home - full-time: £9630 Home - part-time: £4815 International - full-time: £18560

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

As a postgraduate Cultural Studies student, you have the opportunity to develop the theoretical skills and methodological tools to engage with the critical contemporary issues as they are expressed in popular culture. You engage with some of the key theorists and the significant debates in the Cultural Studies tradition, from its inception in Britain dating from the 1970s to its current concerns in the USA and internationally.

The programme enables you to apply a Cultural Studies approach to particular examples, case studies, events and consumer technologies and to larger-scale institutions or economic and political systems. Cultural Studies permits close analysis of topics such as race, youth, music, fashion, and creative economies, as well as embracing the history of sexuality, emotions and affect, national identities and popularism and the cultural dynamics of precarity and austerity, art, and cultural expression for the new feminist activism. The analysis the Cultural Studies approach offers is geared towards intervention in current debates.

Course structure

This is a programme which in the first compulsory course offers a different topic each week permitting the exploration of various methodologies and approaches. The first five weeks will present you with work from the Birmingham tradition and beyond to the present day, including neo-nationalism, race and ethnicity, policing and the prison system, gender and popular feelings, and the rise of queer theory.

The second five weeks turn to media technologies, sonic cultures, gender and social media and more broadly issues of cultural production and consumption. The second compulsory course provides an intense engagement with questions of cultural theory, capitalist society, new activisms, and the politics of protest and assembly.

The programme’s modules can include the different ways in which culture itself is to be understood in terms of technologies, practices, subjectivities and capitalist social formations. Options modules are available within the department at either 15 or 30 credit levels. Further option modules can also be taken in the Anthropology, English and Creative Writing, History, Politics and Sociology departments. As if not enough, students are also encouraged to ‘audit’ modules – attend lectures (but not seminars), without enrolling for assessment.

What you'll study

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Module title	Credits
Cultural Studies and Capitalism We will consider the evolution of cultural studies from its early focus on capitalism and class relations, to its integration of such critiques into a still-expanding range of areas of concern, e.g. in terms of gender, race, sexuality, postcolonialism and posthumanism. We will engage with key concepts and paradigms from cultural theory that have sought to understand the cultural dimension and functioning of capital, such as commodity fetishism, gift exchange, debt, neoliberalism, information capitalism, and post-natural ecology. We will ask how contemporary global phenomena such as the rise of digital networking, climate change and financial crisis transform the relationship between capitalism and culture. In exploring these themes and phenomena, the module considers some of the ways modern critical approaches such as Marxism, feminism, decolonial thought/praxis and critical posthumanism have addressed capitalism, and pays particular attention to the roles of fiction and imagination in both the functioning and critique of capitalism.   -->	30 credits
Doing Cultural Studies One of the key features that marks out a Cultural Studies methodology against other approaches is it proclivity for starting from particular instances and a specific conjuncture, rather than a grand theory. This is not to say that theory is unimportant, on the contrary, concepts of hegemony, representation and identity have been central to the approach. The approach of this core course taking particular topics in the Cultural Studies field is designed to lay the foundations for the second core course, Cultural Studies and Capitalism, that takes a broader more systemic approach. -->	30 credits
MA Cultural Studies Dissertation (Methodology and Research) The module is taught by a lecture series that runs across all three terms, and by one-to-one supervision from January onwards. The lecture series begins by introducing you to the varying ideas about, and definitions of, research as they are found across the social sciences, arts and humanities. You'll learn about different approaches to knowledge creation, including questions of objectivity and standpoint, the idea of `action' research, and more practical questions of reliability, validity and sampling. You'll also learn about different ways of thinking about research ethics, and about decolonial approaches to research design. You'll then be helped to apply these ideas and devise your own research question and topic, which forms the substance of Milestone 1. This formatively assessed piece of work is submitted at the end of the Autumn term and enables the allocation of a personal supervisor for the rest of the academic year. -->	60 credits

You will take option modules to the value of 60 credits chosen from across Goldsmiths' departments. There are several  Media modules  available to you on this programme.

You may also be able to take modules from across many other departments, such as:

• Anthropology  
• English and Creative Writing
• Visual Cultures

Please note that module availability can change from year to year, and not all modules listed may be open to you. Your final selection will depend on the spaces available and timetable compatibility.

How you'll be assessed

Depending on the options chosen assessment consists of coursework, extended essays, presentations, practice-based projects or essays/logs, group projects and/or reflective essays. 

All assessed work is accompanied by some form of feedback to ensure that your work is on the right track. It may come in a variety of forms ranging from written comments on a marked essay to oral and written feedback on developing projects and practice as you attend workshops.

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject. 

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

International qualifications

We accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the  qualifications we accept from around the world .

If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or  equivalent English language qualification ) of  6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0  to study this programme. If you need assistance with your English language, we offer a range of  courses that can help prepare you for postgraduate-level study .

How to apply

Apply directly to Goldsmiths using our online application system

You apply directly to Goldsmiths using our online application system. 

Before submitting your application you’ll need to have:

• Details of  your academic qualifications
• The  email address of your referee  who we can request a reference from, or alternatively a copy of your academic reference
• Copies of  your educational transcripts   or certificates
• A  personal statement  – this can either be uploaded as a Word Document or PDF, or completed online. As well as telling us about your own interests and ambitions, please include in your personal statement why you want to study this particular MA Cultural Studies programme at Goldsmiths in the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies department. What are the particular parts of the programme that interest you? Which staff research area are you most interested in?  Please also see our guidance on writing a postgraduate statement

You'll be able to save your progress at any point and return to your application by logging in using your username/email and password.

When to apply

We encourage you to complete your application as early as possible, even if you haven't finished your current programme of study. It's very common to be offered a place that is conditional on you achieving a particular qualification. Late applications will only be considered if there are spaces available.

Find out  more about applying .

Fees and funding

Annual tuition fees.

These are the PG fees for students starting their programme in the 2024/2025 academic year.

• Home - full-time: £9630
• Home - part-time: £4815
• International - full-time: £18560

If your fees are not listed here, please check our postgraduate fees guidance or contact the Fees Office , who can also advise you about how to pay your fees.

It’s not currently possible for international students to study part-time under a student visa. If you think you might be eligible to study part-time while being on another visa type, please contact our Admissions Team for more information.

If you are looking to pay your fees please see our guide to making a payment .

Funding opportunities

Explore the Goldsmiths scholarships finder to find out what funding you may be eligible for.

Paying your fees

Find out about  paying your tuition fees .

If you are a UK student you may be eligible for a  postgraduate loan .

Meanwhile our  Visit the scholarships finder  can also offer advice on finding work during your studies.

Additional costs

In addition to your tuition fees, you'll be responsible for any additional costs associated with your course, such as buying stationery and paying for photocopying. You can find out more about what you need to budget for on our study costs page .

There may also be specific additional costs associated with your programme. This can include things like paying for field trips or specialist materials for your assignments. Please check the programme specification for more information.

Where this degree can take you

Around half of students completing this programme progress to PhD level, and others go into practical work – in the creative industries and in NGOs in a great number of countries.

Find out more about  employability at Goldsmiths . 

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Cultural Studies in Education Doctoral Program

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The Cultural Studies in Education Doctor of Philosophy Degree prepares students to address current issues and theory in multicultural education. This is achieved by preparing students through specialized coursework and research in the form of a dissertation. Students will be prepared to become teacher educators, professors and advocates for equality in curriculum and education for a diverse group of learners.

Focuses on historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.

Creates scholarship based around teacher education, especially relating to race and culture.

Racialization, Language Ideology, Educational Carcerality, Place, Coloniality, Abolitionism, Youthwork, Latinx Communities, Ethnography, Journey Mapping, and Narrative Inquiry

Examines effects of race, class and capital in schools and society; investigates and extends traditions of critical pedagogy and philosophy.

Biliteracy practices in classroom and curriculum, translanguaging pedagogy, bilingual programs, and dual language programming. Family advocacy and partnerships.

Follows trends around cultural and racial identities, agency, migration, and social movements in education.

General Requirements (Minimum 21 hours)

Foundation Requirements (9 hours required)

• EDC 380F  Sociocultural Foundations
• EDC 381F  Introduction to Teaching and Teacher Education
• EDC 383F  Curriculum Theory

Research Methodology Requirements (Minimum 12 hours)

To be taken in sequence:

• EDC 381R  Introduction to Systems of Human Inquiry
• EDC 385R  Introduction to Quantitative Research
• EDC 386R  Introduction to Qualitative Research
• EDC 387R  Advanced Quantitative Research
• EDC 388R  Advanced Qualitative Research

Directed Research (Minimum 12 hours)

• EDC 396T  Directed Research in Curriculum & Instruction (6 hours minimum) Please Note: EDC 396T can be taken more than once for credit
• Two additional courses (6 hours) that include a substantial research component approved by academic adviser.

Specialization Requirements (Minimum 18 hours) 

Students with an emphasis on Cultural Studies in Education will take additional related courses, selected with the assistance and approval of the area program adviser. To help meet their personal career goals, students are encouraged to select courses from other clusters in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

CSE doctoral students are required to take EDC 385G Cultural Theory in Education, preferably within the first year in the program.

Among the courses that might be selected to fulfill the specialization requirement are the following:

• EDC 385G  Advanced Multicultural Education
• EDC 380G  Anthropology of Education
• EDC 385G  Chicana Feminist Theorists
• EDC 385G  Critical Pedagogy
• EDC 385G  Cultural Knowledge of Teachers and Teaching
• EDC 385G  Education in Contemporary Black America
• EDC 385G  Explorations in the Education of the Mexican American Child
• EDC 385G  Foundations of Curriculum
• EDC 385G  Identity, Agency, and Education
• EDC 385G  Immigration Theory in Education
• EDC 385G  Race and Ethnic Relations in Schools
• EDC 392L  Philosophical Foundations of Education

Courses Outside the Department (Minimum 6 hours)

Coursework from sections General Requirements, Directed Research, and Special Requirements may fulfill this requirement (thus hours in this section may already be counted as credit towards total hours).

CSE students are highly encouraged to take courses outside the College of Education to fulfill this requirement. Suggested areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Mexican American Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies.

Dissertation (Minimum 6 hours)

Students are required to continuously register for at least three credits of dissertation once they have  advanced to candidacy . 

You must register in X99W (399, 699 or 999W) in each semester of candidacy until you graduate.

Please Note:  Students receiving fellowships, assistantships, or other financial aid, may be required to take 9 hours of dissertation credit each semester.

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All theses or projects completed by Cultural Studies students are listed below by date. Click on the title of a thesis or project to see its abstract, and to view or request to see the whole work. 

PhD Graduates

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Hiba Ali
Dian Day
Christina Fabiani
Sanita Fejzic
Izabeau Legendre
Jill Price
Melanie Proulx
Angela Silver
Sarah Stanley
Camille Usher

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Daphne Brouwer
Sean Callaghan
Teresa Carlesimo
Sebastian De Line
Simge Erdogan O'Connor
Rena Karanouh
Sunny Kerr
Michael Lukaszuk
Tanya Lukin-Linklater
Prerna Subramanian

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Bronwyn Jaques
James Kwatang-Yeboah
Robin McDonald
Lorinda Peterson
Laura Phillips
Samia Saad
Colin Simonds
Tanzina Tahereen

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Daniel Asante
Rawaa Bakhsh	
Andre Basheir
Yasmine Djerbal
Sydney Hart
El Jones
Miles Howe
Golam Rabbani
Natasha Stirrett
Ellyn Walker

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Julia Chan
Kaziwa Dylan
Stefy McKnight
Morgan Oddie
Lindsay Rodgers
Lib Spry
Maya Stitski
Galen Watts

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Mohamed Abdou
Taylor Currie
Sarindar Dhaliwal
Milad Dokhanchi
Mimi Gellman
Jamie Jelinski
Lois Klassen
Jennifer Lemche
Spencer Revoy
Adam Saifer
Daniel Vena
Amanda White

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Pia Banzhaf
Leah Decter
Elizabeth Diggon
Ian Fanning
Steven Maynard
Freddy Monasterio-Barso
Shawn Newman

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Tabasum Akseer
Michael  Gauthier
Reena Kukreja
Nicholas Montgomery
Erin Sutherland
Ayca Tomac
Deniz Zorlu

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Ian Alexander Cuthbertson
Lisa Figge
Meaghan Frauts
Lara Fullenwieder

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Shelley Aylesworth-Spink
Jaspreet Bal
Jessica Marion Barr
Mansoor Behnam
Zaira Zarza Blanco
May Chew
Karl Hardy
Jessica Jacobson-Konefall
A.W Lee
Noel K. McDermott
Barbara Meneley
Sharday Mosurinjohn
Joanne Rotermundt-de la Parra

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Jobb Arnold

MA Graduates

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Paul Clifford
Tianna Edwards
Em Harmsen
Christopher Hemer
Melissa Morris
Evalyn Parry
Xavier Philippe-Beauchamp

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Dylan Chenier
Darrell Christie
Antoine Devroede
Angela Shi
Maite Simard

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Lubna Alarda
Chloée Godin-Jacques
Paul Hanlon
Shoni Nerenberg	Brief Exploration of American State Militarism and White Supremacy and its Relationship to Contemporary Non-State-Sanctioned White Supremacist Organizing in the US Military
Isabelle Semmelhack
Isaac White
Rebecca Wissink
Roy Zheng

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Usman Ahmed	Chinese-Canadian relations: Highlighting the Unifying Past, Tense Present, and Uncertain Yet Hopeful Future (From an Insider’s Perspective)
Danae Elon
Megan LaPierre
Rebecca Marquez
Barbara Constance Matthews Wiedmaier
Lea Mauas
Lauren Paparousis
Isabel Whitehead	Siding with the Bad Guys: Villainous Protagonists in Crime Media

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Alejandro Bascope Alipaz
Emma Bass
Joshua Hawley
Lisa Ravensbergen
Xenia Reloba de la Cruz
Dana Sidebottom
Daniel Simpson
Rachel Wyatt

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Natalia Equihua Bracho
Daphne Brouwer
Priscila de Oliveira Falcao
Lauren Jaques
Nichol Kaiser
Emma Konst
Michelle O'Halloran
Gözde Öncil
Ky Pearce
Sylvie St-Jacques	Protesting after the Fall: An analysis of how Qualitative and Participatory Action Research methods can support a deeper understanding of the student protest movement at UKZN

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Adil Ahmed
Maria Kyres
Chengcheng Ma	Deadpool Playing Myth: An Analysis of the "Secondary Narrative" in Deadpool's Promotional Images
Julia Blakey
Andrea Ried
Victoria Sicilia
Kristen Cochrane

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Kala Bechard
Jessica Davey-Quantick
Bronwyn Jaques
Junyu Ke
Katherine Kopiak
Nicole MacDougall
Carina Magazzeni
Stéfy McKnight
Dalia Thamin
Andrew Rabyniuk
Galen Watts
Shalon Webber-Heffernan

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Pansee H. Abou El Atta
Jessica Burgess
Elena Cecchetto	Visual Entrapment in Colonial Discourse: Perpetuation of New Racism through Forms of Stereotyped Bodies in Food Products Logos
Filza Naveed
Lorinda Peterson
Lisa Pietersma	“A Shimmer in Depth”: Farming, Memory, and the Domestic Rural Aerial
Karen Raddon

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Craig Berggold
Paul Ebbs
Adam Lewis
Smita Mitra	Can the Baul Speak? Development Hegemony and Baul cultural production in West Bengal
Christine Shu	Wooing the Domestic Audience: Recent Trends in Contemporary Taiwan Cinema
Emily Tamfo	AIDS, Citizenship & Multiculturalism: An Analysis of Canadian HIV/AIDS Media Discourses and Representations
Jennifer Turner	From Swimming to Singing: Life after High Performance Sport – Exploring the Embodied Experience of a Female in Sport and Music

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Nicole Bedford
Julie Bourassa	Radio, What’s New? Exploring the Meaning of Web-Based Radio in Canada
Mohammad Dokhanchi	Islamic Governmentality –Was Foucault wrong about Iran?
Alia Elmasry	The why now question: Egyptian revolution and the role of visual media (Aperture)
Amy Freier
Colin Hastings
Raissa Killoran
Nafisa Murji	Multiplicity in Cinema: Filmic Representations of South Asian Canadian Experiences
Sarah Stanley

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Gianna Aldrovandi	Screened Latinas: The Changing Stereotypes of Latinas in Modern American Television
Sara Aly	“Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention”: Re-Thinking Muslim Religious Diasporic Identity
Zhi Lei	The Portrayal of Vancouver's Chinatown as a Porous and Transgressive Contact Zone in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction
Cynthia Mykytyshyn	“Where the Wild Things…Aren’t?”
Aida-Sofia Rivera-Sotelo
Fumi Sakata
Erin Sutherland
Victoria Millious	Babes, Booby Traps and Milk Banks: Healthism and the ontology of breastfeeding

Name	Title of Final Project or Thesis
Ellyn Clost
Meredith Dault
Carissa Di Gangi
Claire Grady-Smith
Nadia Franceschetti
Ciara Murphy
Sharday Mosurinjohn
Jessica Parker	Exhibiting Nationalism: Representations of Israel in the Permanent Exhibition of the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora

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60 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

The preparation for the media and cultural studies dissertation consists of dissertation workshops, individual tutorials, participation in a 1-day research in progress conference and independent research and study. The dissertation builds on the taught modules to enable the development of a research agenda identified by you in consultation with the programme convenor and a faculty supervisor.

The process entails the development of a research proposal and development of a bibliography in the first two teaching blocks leading to the execution of original and independent research using appropriate methodologies and conceptual approaches during the final teaching block and summer vacation.

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Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines how cultural practices relate to everyday life and its historical foundations. Researchers typically look at how these practices influence people’s behaviours and opinions, ideologies, and class structures.

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Pathways to Resilience in the Context of Somali Culture and Forced Displacement

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This study employed a participatory, sequential, mixed-method (qualitative-quantitative) research design to explore resilience in the context of Somali culture and forced displacement....

Last modified: 28th Feb 2022

The Impact of Cultural Diversity on the Workforce Performance in a London-based NHS Hospital

This study aimed to identify whether the recruitment of more culturally diverse employees to a central London based NHS Trust has had an impact on workforce performance....

Last modified: 23rd Feb 2022

A Revitalizing Function of Culture and Cultural Heritage

Due to the large number of revitalization investments undertaken at the beginning of the 21st century in the area of post-industrial heritage, it will be the leitmotif of this dissertation....

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A Cross-cultural Comparison of Privacy and Communication on Social Networking Sites

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My research will try to examine the cross cultural differences in the context of sharing personal information on ‘Social Networking Sites’ (SNSs) and the various aspects of online privacy between the college students in India and the United Kingdom....

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The Impact of Witchcraft and Magic Culture On the Growth of Christianity in Malawi

The questions this study aims to answer are: 'Why do Malawians believe and practice witchcraft and magic?' and 'Is there anything that the missionaries did that contributed to their resistance in abandoning witchcraft and magic culture?'...

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Concepts and Definitions of Culture

The term 'culture' refers to sophistication or social refinement, and particularly, the results of such refinement including art, literature, and education. This paper review various definitions of culture and cultural influence in organisations....

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An Anthropological Study of Eating Perspectives, Meal Composition, and Food Choices among Diverse Student Populations

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ASEAN Decision Making Mechanisms Towards Economic and Socio-Cultural Community

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Cultural Identity and Entrepreneur Role of Chefs in Managing a Commercial Restaurant

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Analysis of the Demographics in Europe

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Buddhist and Hindu Influence on Thai Culture

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Symbolic Importance of Geometrical Shapes in Roman Thermae

The symbolic importance of geometrical shapes and the use of symmetry in the Imperial Thermae of Ancient Rome. Spaces of the Roman baths were designed to be appealing to the eye and to the mind to fulfil their functions both functionally and symbolically, and the use of symmetry together with elemental geometrical forms is essential in these spaces to aid the fulfilment of these functions....

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Perceptions of Anime in the West

To evaluate how anime or Japanese animations were perceived by the west specifically America we look at the Anime Robotech which in 1984 was called Macross....

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Honour Killings: Causes and Strategies for Intervention

Every year, hundreds of women are killed in the name of honour by their family members because they have brought shame to the family and the community....

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Organizational Culture and Managerial Characteristics Effects on Work Performance

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Cultural Challenges in Stakeholder Management Processes

This research document summarises and discusses cultural challenges in stakeholder management processes....

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Chinese Culture and Business Relations with the USA

This paper focuses on the most diverse elements that moulded Chinese culture and compares it with USA culture and the approach of conducting business between the nations....

Singapore Airlines: Intensifying Workforce Diversity

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Post Roman European Cultural and Economic Development

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This paper aims to provide an archaeological overview of the socio-cultural and economic developments of the first post-Roman North-West European Union's communities under the 'Frankish' rulers between 700-950 AD....

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A Discourse of the Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Anglicanism in Ikwerre Land, 1895-2009

The Translation Principle in Christian History: A Discourse of the Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Anglicanism in Ikwerre land, 1895-2009 Abstract Undoubtedly, the demography of Christianity as a globa...

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Effect of Technology on Nightlife Culture

INTRODUCTION The aim of my study is to explore how nightlife culture has changed since the 1990’s. My research will be to investigate how technology has become a major platform which has influenced...

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Cultural Studies

Welcome to the Cultural Studies Department

Cultural Studies situates culture as a site of power struggles between competing systems of representations and the ways of life that they support. Our methods of study are critical: not only exposing the ideological dimension of culture but also exploring its radical political potential.

Our faculty members specialize in feminist and queer studies, critical race theory, film and media studies, museum studies, Latino/a studies, Africana studies, Asian Pacific Islander studies, and more. The CGU Cultural Studies Department is distinguished by offering both an MA and PhD in Cultural Studies. The department offers several concentrations, including Media Studies and Museum Studies, which are unique for their combination of a strong emphasis on cultural theory and hands-on practical experience. Students in the program can also choose to specialize in such transdisciplinary concentrations as American Studies, Early Modern Studies, or Hemispheric & Transnational Studies.

Instruction in Cultural Studies is carried on in seminars. Classes are small and each student’s program individually designed. Students have considerable input in the design of their courses of study, including choice of concentrations and minor fields.

Because many students enter the program from other disciplines, the department offers a variety of introductory courses in addition to advanced-level courses. Students are required to take courses in research methodologies appropriate to their interests in Cultural Studies: possibilities include ethnographic field research methods, visual research methods, oral history, archival studies, digital humanities, and film or literary theory and analysis.

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Joshua Goode

Professor of Cultural Studies and History Chair, Cultural Studies Department

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Futurity and Future Publics – A Quarter Century of Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University

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MA in Cultural Studies

PhD in Cultural Studies

Core Faculty

Lucia Cantero

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies

Research Interests

Consumer culture, social media, algorithms and data science, infrastructures and urban public space

Deshonay Dozier

Black studies, urban geography, policing and carceral studies, abolition studies, cultural studies, indigenous studies, racial capitalism.

Modern Spain, 19th- and 20th-century Europe, Genocide and racial thought, Museums and commemoration, Memory

David Luis-Brown

Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English

Hemispheric Americas studies, Latino/a/x studies, Black diaspora studies, American literature and culture

Darrell Moore

Visiting Associate Professor of Cultural Studies Philosophy Teachout Coordinator

Aesthetics, Africana Intellectual Thought, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy

Associate Professor of Cultural Studies

Cultural studies, Media studies, Feminist and queer theory, Asian American studies

Linda Perkins

University Professor Director, Applied Gender Studies

Women and African-American higher education, history and contemporary issues on women in higher education, especially Black women, global gender issues.

Elizabeth Affuso

Pitzer College

Spectatorship, Fandom, Branding, Technology, Architecture, Moving image media art, Reality television

Aimee Bahng

Pomona College

Gender and women’s studies

Myriam Chancy

Scripps College

African diaspora with specialization in its literature

Jih-Fei Cheng

Feminist and queer of color approaches to media representations of public health issues

Ciara Ennis

The appropriation of Wunderkammer tactics in contemporary curatorial practice

Paul Faulstich

Cultural ecology, Ecological design, Ecology of expressive culture, Aboriginal Australias

Jennifer Friedlander

Cultural studies, Contemporary art controversies, Film theory, Psychoanalytic theory

Martha Gonzalez

Chicanx-Latinx studies

Jesse Lerner

Media studies

Susan Phillips

Community, gangs, and environment

Erin Runions

The intersections of biblical interpretation and political philosophies, with their multiple impacts on political subjectivity, gender, sexuality, U.S. national sovereignty, and biopolitics

David Seitz

Harvey Mudd College

Cultural geography

Current Graduate Students

Dissertations in progress.

Samine Joudat PhD Candidate

Dissertation Title

The Specter of Representation: Computational Images and Algorithmic Capitalism

Graduate Students

Anaïs Alvarado MA Student

I am interested in the Chicane/x field. My interest lie in the “third space” that Anzaldua discusses in “Borderlands: La Frontera” specifically within literature.

Laura Black PhD Student

Museum Architecture and Exhibition Design, Curatorial Theory, Aesthetics, Museological Ethics, Contemporary Art

Kaite Breen MA Student

20th Century to Present American History & Culture, Feminist Movements, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies

Natalia Brazao-Cartas PhD Student

Cultural Tourism, Heritage and Memory, the Sociology of Leisure, Latino/a/x Studies, Hemispheric Americas Studies, Comparative Public History

Gina Caliboso PhD Student

Filipino-American history, Ethnic Studies, Intersectional Studies, Higher Education, Women’s Studies, Social Media Impact Studies

Julissa Contreras Castanon MA Student

Gender and sexuality, Latine studies, Black studies, Race in America, Community Health, Decolonization and Anti-Imperialism in the US

Gongju Cha PhD Student

Critical Theory, Cinema and Media Studies, Asian American Studies, and Human Rights

Lorise Diamond PhD Student

Radical Black Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Queer Belonging, Transnational Partnerships, Multimodal Rhetoric, and Social Evolution applied as Digital Humanities

Adrienne Domasin PhD Student

Game Studies, ransmedia Storytelling, Television Studies, Narrative Theory, All Things Post-Apocalyptic, Curation of Popular Culture Artifacts

Mackenzie Eastman MA Student

Digital media, new media preservation, curatorial theory, arts activism, STEAM, education, equity & accessibility in the arts

Hannah Fradkin MA Student

Lesbian visibility in archives, queer lived experience, inclusive history, repatriation

Kimani Francois PhD Student (Interfield with Religion)

Christian Ethics, Womanist Theology & Ethics, Social Movements, Black Feminist Theory, Civil and Human Rights, and Clergy Leadership

Joe Garcia MA Student

Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Holistic Education, Ecological Literacy & Design

Anne Geismann-Alene PhD Student (Concentration in Museum Studies)

Japanese art history; Japan Fulbright PhD Dissertation Research Grant Fellow 2023-2024; Contemporary site-specific art & architecture, biennials & triennials: their role in community revitalization and impact on artistic, curatorial, museological and visual practice

Oscar Guerrero Alvarado MA Student

Equity and Inclusion in the Museum Field

Daniela Gutiérrez PhD Student

Empire building, colonial legacies in Mexico, postcolonial discourse, visual culture and media studies

Kiandra Jimenez PhD Student

Africana Studies, Womanist/Black Feminist Theory, Black Women’s Rhetoric Tradition, Latinx and Indigenous Studies, Transnational Feminism

Denise Johnson PhD Student

Race, psychoanalysis, and photo history

Abstract Kouadio MA Student

My research implies multiple reads and is informed by an interest in how “things” come to shape our experiences and worldview. I reinterpret the connections we build our personal myths on through the objects we observe, words that we read and hold on to. In addition, I seek to explore social identity paradigms through lyrical content in contemporary Hip-Hop songs.

Gene Luzala PhD Student

Queer and Transgender people of color, Oral History, Queer and BIPOC History, Feminist and Queer theory, Critical Race Theory, and gender identity development

Moina Maaz PhD Student

Researching the role of Muslim women as mothers, educators, students, influential social agents, and ambassadors of Islam in North America.

Shante Morgan PhD Student

Intersection of race/ gender/ communication

Lee Painter-Kim MA Student

Mixed race theory, trans politics, arts organizing

Juan Carlos Parrilla PhD Student

Latinx Theater, Latinx and African American literature, The Theory of the Duende, Afrofuturism, Poetics of Space, Ancient Mesoamerican culture, Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems

Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez PhD Student, Concentration in American Studies

Global Indigenous Studies, Asian American Studies, Indigenous diasporas, posthumanism, Igorot and Igorot American identities

Dennis Sandoval PhD Student

Afro-Latinx/Latino

Annamae Sax PhD Student

LGBTQIA+ studies, Disability and Mad Studies, feminism and intersectionality, anti-racism, abolition and anarchy, performance, and body politics

Kelsie Shawver PhD Student

Daniel Talamantes PhD Student

Environmental Anthropology, Animal-Human Relations, Environmental History, Queer Theory, Diaspora, Ethnic Studies, California

Eric Thomas PhD Student

Latin American and Latinx studies; Indigenous Studies; colonization and comparative race in the Americas; immigration studies; hemispheric cultural studies.

Ayoub Touti PhD Student

Race, Sexuality, Gender and Socioeconomic dynamics in the Arts specifically Cinema, Television, Literature and Theater

Arline Votruba PhD Student

Reproductive justice, feminist movement, gender

Katie Ward MA Student

Postcolonialism, disability studies, critical race theory, and prison abolition.

Alicia Wyneken MA Student

Critical study of creative expressions, thoughts, practices, and products in relation to social, political, historical, rhetorical, and economic contexts.

Tiara Yahnian-Murta PhD Student

Aesthetics, Conflict Studies, Contemporary Art, Continental Philosophy, Critical Historiography, Critical Narratology, Critical Security Studies, Critical Theory, Genocide Studies, History of Philosophy, Intellectual History, Memory Studies, Museum Studies, Philosophy of History

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