ETD--Doctoral Dissertations: Recent submissions
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ACQUISITION OF HIV AND GENITAL TRACT INFECTION AMONG INJECTABLE PROGESTIN CONTRACEPTION USERS IN SOUTH AFRICA: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-11-07)Background Effective contraception contributes substantially to reduced risk for maternal mortality. Some observational studies have noted increased HIV acquisition among women using injectable progestin contraceptives ... -
Unsettling State: Non-Citizens, Citizenship and State Power in the United Arab Emirates
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-26)This dissertation examines the development and enforcement of citizenship and immigration policies in the United Arab Emirates in order to revisit an enduring puzzle in comparative politics: why are resource-rich states ... -
War and What Remains: Everyday Life In Contemporary Kabul, Afghanistan
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-28)This dissertation explores everyday life amidst war and occupation in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is based on more than three years of anthropological fieldwork conducted between 2006 to 2008; and 2009 to 2011. The lives of ... -
Inebriety and Indigeneity: the Moral Governance of Adivasis and Alcohol in Jharkhand, India
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-25)This dissertation is an investigation of alcohol and indigeneity in India. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the state of Jharkhand, I aim to describe the complex and contradictory roles that alcohol plays ... -
Humanism at the Limits: Alienation, Difference, Critique
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-25)This dissertation emerges from an analysis of the recent focus on the vulnerability and finitude of human life as an ethical foundation for politics. I argue that this humanist turn reinforces the experience of vulnerability ... -
FINANCIAL EXPANSIONS, HEGEMONIC TRANSITIONS AND NATIONALISM: A LONGUE DURÉE ANALYSIS OF STATE-SEEKING NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-25)This dissertation provides a constructive criticism of theories that predict a decline in state-seeking nationalist movements in the 21st century, including the many theories that claim that the trajectory of nationalist ... -
The Levant Comes of Age: The Ninth Century BCE through Script Traditions
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-25)It has long been recognized that the alphabetic scripts present within the Northwest Semitic inscriptions of the first half of the first millennium BCE belong to three separate script traditions — Phoenician, Aramaic, and ... -
Buddhist Nationalism and Christian Evangelism: Rearticulations of Enmity and Belonging in Postwar Sri Lanka
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-25)Abstract: Based on two years of fieldwork in Sri Lanka, this dissertation systematically examines the mutual skepticism that Buddhist nationalists and Christian evangelists express towards one another in the context of ... -
Apse Mosaics of the Virgin Mary in Early Byzantine Cyprus
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-23)The dissertation examines three early Christian apse mosaics preserved in medieval churches on the island of Cyprus. The mosaics of the Panagia Kanakariá at Lythrankomi, the Panagia Angeloktistos at Kiti, and the Panagia ... -
Sex, Politics, and National Identity: The Petit-maître in Eighteenth-Century France
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-23)Abstract Sex, Politics, and National Identity: The Petit-Maître in Eighteenth-Century France The petit-maître, a popular social and literary type in eighteenth-century France, emblematizes the negative image of the old ... -
THE CREATION OF SLAVE CHRISTIANITY IN VIRGINIA, 1770-1850
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-24)This dissertation is a broad examination of black Baptist cultures within biracial churches in Virginia from the American Revolution until 1850, a time of intense growth in slave Christianity. When slaves converted in ... -
MECHANISTIC AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF THE THIOESTERASE DOMAIN IN THE TERMINATION MODULE OF THE NOCARDICIN NRPS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-24)The nocardicins are monocyclic β-lactam antibiotics produced by the actinomycete Nocardia uniformis subsp., tsuyamanensis ATCC 21806. In 2004 the gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of the flagship antibiotic, ... -
THE CITY IN TIME AND SPACE: POLITICAL POWER, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS, 1400-2010
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-25)This dissertation analyzes the world’s largest cities from 1400 to 2010, using a database of historical estimates of urban population that was compiled and developed by the author. Using this database, I identify a recurrent ... -
Saving the South: Agricultural Reform in the Southern United States, 1819-1861
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-21)This dissertation re-assesses how the popular national agricultural reform movement operated in the southern states and how it interacted with the economy of slavery and short-staple cotton. The central question that my ... -
ESTABLISHING THE FIDELITY OF START CODON RECOGNITION: ROLE OF EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR 2
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-20)In eukaryotes, start codon selection is governed by base pairing between the start codon and the anticodon of the initiator tRNA (Met-tRNAi) and is achieved via a complex machinery involving at least twelve initiation ... -
Surrealism's America
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-21)“Surrealism’s America” is an intellectual history of an important but largely unknown political and artistic underground active in the United States from the mid-1960s until the present day: The Chicago Surrealist Group. ... -
Nightwatching: Male Migrant Networks and the Sustenance of Brotherhood in Cape Town
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-18)This dissertation provides an ethnographic account of companionship, enterprise, and urban survival among four transnational networks of young male African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. It is based on anthropological ... -
Robust Inference via Lq-Likelihood
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-23)Robust inference is of great importance in modern statistics. In this dissertation, we introduce a series of robust statistical procedures based on the concept of Lq-likelihood. The Lq-likelihood function partially ... -
A Dynamic Role for Bcl-xL in Cellular Metabolism and Apoptosis: Calcium Regulation at the ER-Mitochondria Interface
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-10)Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are used to produce nearly 70% of all recombinant protein products. High levels of apoptosis; however, are typical during production processes. As such, overexpression of Bcl-2 family ... -
Last Acts: The Arts of Dying, the Good Deathbed and the Early Modern Stage
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2013-10-10)“Last Acts” examines the intersection between early modern understandings of proper deathbed behavior and dramatic representations of death. Dying is understood in homiletic texts as a set of postures and actions that can ...