Humanities Dissertations

Dissertations Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities

Dissertation titles appear in the convocation programs.

Knowledge@UChicago Access

Most (86% since Summer 2021) of our recent humanities dissertations may be viewed in Knowledge@UChicago, the University's open access repository. Please note that authors may choose to delay access to their work for a limited time.

ProQuest's dissertation databases, PQDT Global and their subset, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses @ University of Chicago, provide comprehensive access.

  • 2023-2024 Winter Humanities 18% ProQuest-Only (57 Total, 10 IR: No)
  • 2022-2023 Humanities 13% ProQuest-Only (72 Total, 9 IR: No)
  • 2021-2022 Humanities 12% ProQuest-Only (69 Total, 8 IR: No)

ProQuest-Only Access

Dissertations by authors who did not choose the University's open access repository may be viewed in ProQuest's dissertation databases or requested via interlibrary loan. Please note that authors may choose to delay access to their work for a limited time.

2023-2024 Winter

Comparative Literature (1 Total, 1 IR: No)

N.A. Peters
Aesthetics of Acknowledgment: Suffering and Fellow Feeling in Human Rights Literature

East Asian Languages and Civilizations (4 Total, 1 IR: No)

Susan Dan Su
Infrastructural Promises: Developmentalism and the Rewriting of Tibetan Culture in China

English Language and Literature (11 Total, 1 IR: No)

Zoe Bassin Hughes
Feline Modernism

Linguistics (6 Total, 1 IR: No)

Diane Rak
Polysemy and Homonymy in the L2: Non-native Processing of Lexical Semantic Ambiguity

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (8 Total, 2 IR: No)

Alexandra Hoffmann
Strong Warriors, Liminal Lovers, and Beardless Men: Masculinities and Embodiment in Pre-modern Persian Poetry

Stephanie Lisa Kraver
(Un)Believers in Times of War: Darwish and Ravikovitch’s Poetics of Possibility in Palestine/Israel

Philosophy (5 Total, 2 IR: No)

Melina Garibovic
The Reality of Persons

Aaron Marshall Graham
Theoretical Disagreements, Hard Cases, and the Positivist Theory of Legal Validity

South Asian Languages and Civilizations (4 Total, 2 IR: No)

Muhammad Taimoor Shahid Khan
Saif al-Mulūk, the Quest For Love: Islam, Travel, and the Ethics of Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean World

Ayelet Kotler
Persian Literary Translation in the Early Mughal Period

2022-2023

Art History (6 Total, 1 IR: No)

Hanne Graversen
Interchanges: Construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System and Artistic Practice, 1956-1984

Cinema and Media Studies (3 Total, 2 IR: No)

Ritika Kaushik
Files Beget Films: State Sponsored Documentary in India, 1960s-1970s

Aurore Spiers
Digging for Film History: Women, French Cinema, and Film Historiography, 1927–1978

East Asian Languages and Civilizations (3 Total, 1 IR: No)

Emily Jungmin Yoon
Enclosed Reading: A Feminist Method for Korean and Korean American Women’s Poetry, 1987-2019

English Language and Literature (7 Total, 1 IR: No)
Jacqueline Dragu
"All Is Alike Good": Melancholia and Desire in Medieval Literature

Philosophy (7 Total, 1 IR: No)

Molly S. Brown
On Starting Points

Romance Languages and Literatures (8 Total, 1 IR: No)

Filippo Petricca
Money and the Literary Imagination. Medieval Paris and Florence (1200-1321)

South Asian Languages and Civilizations (8 Total, 2 IR: No)

Abhishek Bhattacharyya
Practical-Critical Selves: Leftist Organising in South Asia

Andrew Dowdle Halladay
A Distant Throne: The British Sovereign in the Mirror of Indian Nationalism, 1919–36

2021-2022

East Asian Languages and Civilizations (4 Total, 1 IR: No)

Philomena Mazza-Hilway
Writ(h)ing Subjecthood: Toward a Feminine Grotesque in Modern Japanese Literature

English Language and Literature (7 Total, 2 IR: No)

Upasana Dutta
Kashmir in/as Crisis: Theorizing the Crisis-Imaginary and an Ethics of Reading

Emily Joanna Nixon
Patience, Exemplarity, and the Affective Didactics of Middle English Literature

Germanic Studies (2 Total, 1 IR: No)

Noah Jeffrey Zeldin
The Learning-Piece, from the Weimar Republic to the Postwar Era: A Critical-Historical Reassessment

Music (7 Total, 2 IR: No)

Yun Fei Jiang
River Memory

Ailsa Joyce Clement Lipscombe
Precarious Bodies: Viral Listening to Sound, Silence, and Trauma

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (15 Total, 2 IR: No)

Ekin Enacar
We Laugh at Our Misery: Political Satire, Censorship, and Opposition in the Ottoman Empire (1908-1911)

Akiva Sanders
Confrontation and Innovation between Lowland and Highland: The Upper Euphrates in the Early Third Millennium