Master of Science, The Ohio State University, 2008, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects:

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2024, German

At its core, this thesis delves into the intricate layers of posthumous historiography surrounding Empress Elisabeth of Austria – examining not just her history, identity, and ideas of visuality, but also probing the underlying mechanisms shaping the construction of her biographical narrative. It seeks to unravel the complexities inherent in the selection process of what information is deemed pertinent for inclusion, especially considering the nuanced treatment of sensitive or disruptive pieces of information. By scrutinizing this selection criteria, the thesis aims to shed light on the underlying motivations and biases guiding such decisions as well as the implications of their inclusion – or lack, thereof. Furthermore, this study explores the experimental possibilities of adaptation within the realm of contemporary Austrian film. It posits that the burgeoning interest in Sisi within wider Habsburg scholarship has catalyzed innovative approaches to storytelling in cinema. Through a detailed analysis of select cinematic works, the thesis elucidates how the exploration of Sisi's legacy has sparked a renaissance in Austrian filmmaking, fostering a fertile ground for experimentation and reinterpretation. By intertwining insights from historiography, film studies, and cultural analysis, this thesis not only offers a comprehensive understanding of the complexities surrounding Sisi's portrayal but also serves as a catalyst for broader discussions on the intersection of history, identity, and visual representation in contemporary discourse.

Committee: Edgar Landgraf Ph.D. (Committee Member); Christina Guenther Ph.D. (Committee Chair) Subjects: Aesthetics; European History; European Studies; Film Studies; Foreign Language; Gender; Gender Studies; Germanic Literature; Literature; Mental Health; Womens Studies; World History

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2024, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational

Within cross-cultural analyses, specifically measurement invariance studies, cultures are often compared at the national level (e.g., invariance across French and German cultures). However, the presence of cultural variation within nations, on factors such as region, level of urbanization, gender, or ethnic roots, presents an added level of complexity that is often ignored in these analyses The current study used mixture model item response theory (MMIRT) to determine the adequacy of nationality as a proxy for culture in the United States, Indian, and Austrian contexts using a combined American, Indian, and Austrian sample collected from multiple data sources (N = 986). More specifically, this study asks if more granular variables such as gender or individual-level cultural beliefs are more strongly related (compared to country) to response patterns using Howard's (2017) Workplace Courage Scale. This was achieved through examining significant covariates of latent class membership within MMIRT models with a mixed American, Indian, and Austrian sample. Covariates examined include Hofstede's (2001) cultural dimensions (at the individual level of analysis), demographic variables, autonomy, employee voice, and leader-member exchange, which were also subjected to measurement invariance testing (barring demographics) specifically across the American and Indian samples. Power distance orientation and uncertainty avoidance orientation emerged as statistically significant drivers of response pattern, while no demographic variables, including nation, emerged.

Committee: Michael Zickar Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Amy French Ph.D. (Other); Meagan Docherty Ph.D. (Committee Member); Samuel McAbee Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Organizational Behavior; Psychology; Quantitative Psychology

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1949, History

Committee: Grover C. Platt (Advisor) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, History

This dissertation is a global microhistory of 15,000 Jewish refugees who found refuge in Shanghai from Nazi persecution. The Jewish refugees had chosen Shanghai out of necessity and convenience: It was one of the few places in the world in the late 1930s that did not require an entry visa owing to its “open port” status as established by Western Powers in the nineteenth century. Not until after the Second World War and Second Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945 did China reclaim full sovereignty over Shanghai. As part of national reunification efforts, the Chinese demonstrated anti-foreign sentiments to the point of compelling Jewish refugees to seek outside assistance, but not without difficulties beyond Jewish refugees' control. This dissertation explores the dynamics that hampered the Jewish refugees' ability to receive timely humanitarian aid and emigration assistance in the aftermath of Nazism. Specifically, it aims to show how Jews in Shanghai faced the multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination and the ways in which these forms compounded their sense of being unwanted. Told through memoirs, diaries, oral history interviews, correspondences found in organizational and states archives around the world, this story illustrates larger processes associated with the end of a war: the experience of liberation, the development of relief and rehabilitation policies, and the functioning of migration within the modern nation-state system. The dissertation applies insights from the vast scholarship on post-Second World War Europe's humanitarian and refugee crises to Shanghai. In doing so, it uses comparative and transnational approaches to suggest that the history of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai should be understood as a global history of the aftermath of the Second World War. From Europe to the China theater, the dissertation sheds light on the deep effects of Western imperialism and persistent Eurocentrism and antisemitism on humanitarian aid and immigration poli (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Robin E. Judd (Advisor); Marion Kaplan (Committee Member); Theodora Dragostinova (Committee Member); Christopher A. Reed (Committee Member) Subjects: American History; Asian Studies; Ethnic Studies; European History; European Studies; Gender; History; History of Oceania; Holocaust Studies; International Relations; Judaic Studies; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern History; Pacific Rim Studies; Social Work

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2020, German

Should German teachers incorporate Austrian dialects in the German-as-a-foreign-language classroom? In the past, the answer to this has been a widely resounding no, as the language variety known as 'high German' or 'standard German' and spoken predominately in Germany dominates the German language textbooks. Thus, L2 learners of German face a multitude of comprehension difficulties when confronted with Austrian dialects. This master's thesis explores a new didactical approach designed to improve the receptive competencies of L2 German learners in regards to Austrian dialects. After a thorough explanation of pluricentric languages, standard Austrian German and Bavarian dialects, this thesis will examine three German language textbooks published explicitly for German learners in Austria: Linie 1 Oesterreich, Pluspunkt Deutsch Oesterreich and Schritte Plus Oesterreich, all of which are situated at the beginning intermediate Level (B1). This thesis examines questions pertaining to these works' exercise repertoire, audio authenticity and treatment of non-standard dialects in regard to their lexical as well as phonetic properties. Lastly, drawing upon the theory of intercomprehension, an adaptation of this method will be provided so as to promote the acquisition of receptive competencies of Bavarian dialects. Furthermore, the application and implementation of these didactics in German as a foreign language curricula will be presented in the form of a textbook exemplar dealing primarily with the promotion of receptive competency in non-standard dialects.

Committee: Christina Guenther Ph.D. (Advisor); Geoffrey Howes Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Education; Foreign Language; Language; Linguistics

MS, Kent State University, 2019, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Earth Sciences

A relatively small, wooded hill near Neunkirchen, Austria, constitutes the type locality of the Kambuehel Formation. Preserved as an erosional remnant in the northeastern-most part of the Northern Calcareous Alps, this Paleocene limestone formation represents a shallow-water coralgal environment that teemed with life around 60 million year ago. It is from this formation that a novel decapod assemblage, including the anomurans described herein, was collected. The fossils have been described and classified in order to evaluate the relative diversity of the anomuran assemblage. Although the size of the collection is small, the diversity is high, with six new taxa: Hispanigalathea nov. spec. A, Eomunidopsis nov. spec. A, Protomunida nov. spec. A, Protomunida nov. spec. B, Disipia nov. spec. A, and Annuntidiogenes nov. spec. A. The new species are arrayed into Catillogalatheidae, Galatheidae, Munididae, Porcellanidae, Annuntidiogenidae, Galatheoidea family indeterminate, and Paguroidea family indeterminate. Comparison of the Kambuhel decapod fauna to various decapod collections across similar environments of Cretaceous to Eocene age show that it consists of genera known from both before and after the K/T extinction and closely resembles decapod faunas from the mid-to-Late Cretaceous and early Eocene. With the new taxa described, two genera are now known to have crossed the K/T boundary: Hispanigalathea and Annuntidiogenes.

Committee: Rodney Feldmann Dr. (Advisor); Carrie Schweitzer Dr. (Committee Member); Neil Wells Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Geology; Paleontology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1973, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1972, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2016, EDU Teaching and Learning

This qualitative study addresses the research problem of understanding and theorizing the construction of social identity among adolescents in the current context of globalization and transnationalism. To address the question, the study focused on five young men in Innsbruck, Austria, who were self-described “hip hoppers.” Hip hop is more than a musical style; it is a complex, diverse, and sometimes contradictory social and cultural movement and ideology that is both global and local. It lies at the nexus of globalization and transnationalism, playing itself out in diverse ways in local settings globally. The theoretical perspective of the study emphasized the variability and contextual embeddedness of social identities as part of the performativity of identity (a theory espoused by Butler). This theoretical perspective argues that social identity is multiple and iterative, meaning that participants are continually enacting and modifying their social identities as their contexts change over time and space. Social identity is, according to this study, socially constructed and governed by the relationships and environments in which the participants function. The sociolinguistic principles guiding this study are analyzed derived from microethnographic discourse analysis. The spoken linguistic codes performed by the participants and the literacy practices these codes enable the subject to not only their own social constructions, but those given to their practical cultural environments. Language is viewed as a code through which the participants can communicate their hip hop affinities and an inclusion in a hip hop community. The methodologies and research methods employed in this study are compatible with the principles and practices of ethnographic and sociolinguistic research as are the values placed on individual's experience and agency in various contexts and how they are revealed to the researcher. The logic of inquiry for the study was informed overall by (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: David Bloome PhD (Committee Chair); Sarah Gallo PhD (Committee Member); Alan Hirvela PhD (Committee Member); Jan Nespor PhD (Committee Member); Cynthia Selfe PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Education

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2015, History

This thesis explores nationalist narratives and public memory of Francis Joseph and the Habsburg era in Hungary. In this work, Budapest's Liberty Bridge serves as a lens and reference point of sorts in my examination of nationalist historical narratives and public memory of Francis Joseph and the era of the Dual Monarchy in Hungary. In particular, this paper will trace the way in which ruling governments have attempted to impose their own versions of history onto the public spaces of Budapest and into the minds of their citizens. Beginning with the years following the 1848 revolution, this thesis looks at changes in the memory of Francis Joseph during the Dual Monarchy, the Horthy era, and the Socialist era, ending with a discussion of Francis Joseph in modern Hungarian society. In Budapest, the reason that the Liberty Bridge never regained its pre-Socialist era name is due to a lack of popular positive memory of Francis Joseph, in contrast to several other important Hungarian historical figures. In the contested field of Hungarian national narrative the memory of Francis Joseph never truly found its place; for while he did gain a significant degree of popularity in the later decades of his reign, Hungary's longest-ruling monarch never gained a place in the country's imagination. By turns marginalized, vilified and ignored over the course of the twentieth century, the king who oversaw the creation of modern Budapest is today largely absent from public space and from public discourse.

Committee: Steven Conn PhD (Advisor); Jessie Labov PhD (Committee Member); David Hoffman PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: History

BA, Oberlin College, 2014, Hispanic Studies

Desde su publicacion en 1605 y 1615, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha por Miguel Cervantes ha sido una fuente de inspiracion importantisima para la musica clasica europea fuera de Espana. En esta tesis explorare esta inspiracion usando tres preguntas: ¿Por que hay tantas obras musicales sobre Don Quijote? ¿Cual aspecto de la novela le hace bien para poner a musica? ¿Que ha sido la importancia de estas obras en la historia de la musica clasica europea? Quisiera explorar estas preguntas desde una perspectiva historica y social dividida por pais.Aunque hay muchas obras musicales inspiradas por Don Quijote que vienen de Espana, solamente explorare las obras inspiradas por la novela que vienen fuera de su pais de origen. La historia de las obras musicales espanoles inspiradas por la novela (y la musica clasica espanola en general) es muy distinta a la de las otras paises y regiones europeos y merece su propia analisis. La mayoria de las obras escritas sobre la novela vienen de Francia, Inglaterra, Italia, y la region que ahora incluye Alemania y Austria. La musica de cada region europea tiene su propio sonido y lenguaje musical. Dividir la tesis por region me permitira investigar las semejanzas y diferencias entre obras escritas por compositores de la misma nacionalidad. Entonces podra encontrar tendencias musicales dentro de y entre diferentes paises. Investigarlas me dara pistas sobre la importancia de Don Quijote para cada compositor y su auditorio.Donde es posible (porque la mayoria de las obras nunca fueron grabadas o han sido perdidas), analizare mitodos de composicion de diferentes compositores, tropos que usaron para contar la historia, y temas comunes en las operas y composiciones instrumentales de cada pais y region. La mayoria de los libretos de las operas inspiradas por la novela hubieran requerido un viaje Europa y un buen entendimiento de italiano, aleman, y frances para leer. Entonces, use el libro Don Quixote's Sally into the World (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Patrick O'Connor (Advisor) Subjects: Literature; Modern Language; Music

Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, 2006, International and Comparative Politics

In the decades following WWII, countries across the globe witnessed the rise of anti-system parties. Political scientists have attributed their success to economic conditions, electoral systems, party systems and the electorate's disaffection with mainstream parties. The analysis also suggests the influence of global factors. While the causes for success have been examined, effective policy choices for democracies have not been equally explored. This study makes the argument that by including anti-system parties in government, states are able to lessen the threat they pose to democracy. The analysis of India's Bharatiya Janata Party and Austria's Freedom party suggest that anti-system parties loose their allure when they come to power. Also, democracies by adopting the contrary policy of exclusion, in fact create conditions that foster support for anti-system parties. Lastly, this study suggests that the international community in response to anti-system parties in power should adopt a policy of cautious engagement.

Committee: Liam Anderson (Advisor) Subjects: Political Science, General

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2001, Arts and Sciences : Germanic Languages and Literature

The quintessentially modern human being, Marlen Haushofer (1920-1970) spent her fifty years on earth torn between an innate spirituality, and the cynicism and nihilism provoked by the modern age. The dualism of her fundamental world-view permeated every facet of her reality and resulted in a body of literary work that is defined by division and contradiction. This study examines these elements present in the Haushofer novels, and in the masterful novella, Wir Toten Stella. The investigation seeks to elucidate Haushofer's dualistic and contradictory perceptions through analysis of two major themes: nature, and the relationship between men and women. Nature plays a vital role in the Haushofer oeuvre and represents the chief means through which the author conveys her ontological struggles. Depiction of the male and female has been of great interest to feminist critics. Many see in Haushofer an early feminist and an ardent critic of male culture, and of patriarchy. Scrutiny of the works leads to a rather complex conclusion. Haushofer's views on the subject are dualistic, and also extraordinarily replete with contradiction. Traditionallly "male" and "female" characteristics are liberally apportioned to both sexes. While overt criticism of men abounds, male figures are at times portrayed quite positively. The presentation of female characters is surprisingly negative. Ultimately, it is difficult to determine Haushofer's position regarding not only the sexes, but nearly every other aspect of life. Only one pronouncement can be made with true conviction: with few exceptions, Marlen Haushofer was unable to commit to a given position on any given subject. The tension between opposites is the defining quality of her work.

Committee: Jerry Glenn (Advisor) Subjects: Literature, Germanic

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2012, History

The geopolitical situation in the Mediterranean before the First World War has been generally ignored by historians. However, in the years before the War, the fact that the Mediterranean was shifting from British control to a wide open, anarchic state occupied the minds of many leaders in Austria-Hungary, Italy, France and Great Britain. This change was driven by three largely understudied events: the weakening of the British Mediterranean Fleet to provide more ships for the North Sea, Austria-Hungary's decision to build a navy capable of operating in the Mediterranean, and Italy's decision to seek naval security in the Triple Alliance after the Italo-Turkish War. These three factors radically altered the Mediterranean situation in the years leading up to the First World War, forcing Britain and France to seek accommodation with each other and France to begin rapidly building ships to defend both British and French interests. However, all of this activity has been largely obscured by the July Crisis of 1914 and the ensuing World War. Traditional history has looked backward from these events, and, in so doing, ignored the turbulent seas building in the Mediterranean. Conversely, this dissertation seeks to understand these events as they unfolded, to understand how policymakers understood the changing Mediterranean world. Ultimately, this dissertation seeks to redress the imbalance between historians, who have viewed the history of the Mediterranean in the early 20th century as a largely stable one, and policymakers in the Great Powers, who viewed the Mediterranean as a highly unstable region, and struggled to come to terms with that instability.

Committee: Jennifer Siegel Ph.D (Advisor); John Guilmartin Ph.D (Committee Member); Alan Beyerchen Ph.D (Committee Member) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2003, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Examining three postwar Austrian works that reflect on the impacts of the tourism industry, this project argues that the texts employ a concept of authenticity to censure the industry, to address questions of national identity, and to pursue aesthetic or thematic concerns. The authors construct authenticity as threatened by tourism through its negative effects on people and place. While theorists of tourism recognize shortcomings of this concept, such as its assumption of a culture's previous stability, this project contends that authenticity is a rhetorical construction that remains integral for an understanding of the three texts. Charged by tensions between an idealized and an actual condition, authenticity serves the artists' critique by dramatizing what tourism erodes and by functioning as a vehicle with which they foreground figures experiencing an instability of meaning, which thus raises questions regarding personal or collective identities. Hans Lebert's Der Feuerkreis (1971) envisions an industry that creates false representations of Austria, which camouflages Nazi complicity, and that places Austrian hosts in a servile relationship, which Lebert constructs as an impediment to a national consciousness. Portraying an individual's tragic life in a resort, Norbert Gstrein's Einer (1988) employs authenticity as a contrast indicating the central character's alienation as he struggles with the frayed social conditions in the village. By replicating structures of touristic display on a narrative level, Gstrein then reinforces his critique of both the host's predicament and biographical representation. Robert Menasse's novel Schubumkehr (1995) juxtaposes its protagonist's identity crisis with the events surrounding the conversion of a destitute village into a resort, presenting the result of both processes as a state of inauthenticity. These radical deviations allow Menasse's indictment of the negative consequences of tourism and his criticism of traditional conce (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: John Davidson (Advisor) Subjects: Literature, Germanic

MS, Kent State University, 2008, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Earth Sciences

Jurassic galatheoids have long been underrepresented in the literature, so theirexplosive diversification during the Late Jurassic has only recently become apparent. However, critical early stages of this explosive radiation are well represented in the extensive mid-20th century collections made by Friedrich Bachmayer, from from five quarries in the Ernstbrunn Limestone, from around Ernstbrunn, Austria. The Naturhistorische Museum of Vienna, Austria, recently made the Friedrich Bachmayer decapod collection available for study. During the summers of 2006 and 2007, over 250 galatheoids from the superfamily Galatheiodea Samouelle, 1819, were borrowed from the extensive collection, of which more than 170 were studied for this thesis. The remaining galatheoids, as well as additional ones borrowed during the summer of 2008, will be studied in a future work. Galatheoids that were either never studied before or previously had been assigned solely to the genus Gastrosacus von Meyer, 1851, were found to be diverse enough to form a new family, with 8 new genera, and 22 new species. In addition to the new species, three previously identified species were studied: Gastrosacus eminens (Blaschke, 1911), Gastrosacus ernstbrunnensis Bachmayer, 1947, and previously synonymized Galathea acutirostris Moericke, 1889, now placed within a new genus. The galatheoids that belong to this new family have a distinctive groove structure with extensive regional definition and strong ornamentation. A standard terminology for these galatheoids is enumerated within this work in order to simplify the diagnoses and descriptions.

Committee: Rodney Feldmann PhD (Advisor); Carrie Schweitzer PhD (Committee Member); Neil Wells PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Geology; Paleontology

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2011, German

As Austria shares both a language and a border with Germany, a distinct relationship has developed between the two countries. Germany, with a population of over eighty million, is often viewed as the more dominant nation of the pair, resulting in foreigners tending to group Austria with their northern neighbor. Because Austria is often associated with Germany, Austrians have endeavored to forge a separate identity for themselves, particularly through language. It can be said that Austrian Standard German, as well as Austrian dialects, have provided Austrians with the opportunity to contrast themselves against speakers of German Standard German, resulting in the formation of a unique Austrian sense of linguistic identity. This thesis explores how and why Austrians identify with the language they speak, examining how the various comparisons with Germany, as well as the influx of German Standard German into different aspects of Austrian life, provide a foil against which Austrians can contrast themselves and their language. The paper examines this topic through the analysis of the linguistic situation in Austria, Austrian reactions to perceptions of Austrian Standard German abroad, and the portrayal of Austrian Standard German and Austrian dialect in the country's media. Through the analysis of such topics, it is concluded that while the frequent contrasts against speakers of German Standard German significantly strengthen an Austrian sense of identity, this identity cannot fully reach its potential until Austrians are better educated about the norms and characteristics of their language.

Committee: Geoffrey Howes Dr. (Advisor); Edgar Landgraf Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Language; Linguistics

Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, 2010, Music History

Modern salons began as gatherings for conversation among the French aristocracy in the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century it had become a bourgeois tradition, with its importance cumulating in the French Revolution. The French salon moved to Germany and Austria in the late eighteenth century, however, its heyday in those lands was in the nineteenth century. The salon became a place where women in both France and the Germanic lands could gain an education and power. What has yet to be discussed in scholarship is the extent to which the salon in the Germanic lands moved away from its French roots and became its own unique tradition. First, purely musical salons began during the Biedermeier period, as will be seen when examining the German salons of Sara Levy, Amalie Beer, Lea Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, and Clara Wieck-Schumann. Second, Germany and Austria saw the first salons hosted by Jewish women. This thesis highlights those of Henriette Herz, Rahel Levin-Varnhagen, Fanny von Arnstein, Sara Levy, Amalie Beer, Lea Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Berta Zuckerkandl, and Salka Viertel. Finally, to demonstrate the benefits of Germanic salon culture, the last chapter focuses on Johanna Kinkel's involvement with the Berlin salon tradition. Kinkel was a composer, writer, and political activist. Her time in Berlin represents the most musically active period of her life. By examining the influence of the Germanic salon on her life, the importance of the tradition as a whole is apparent.

Committee: Mary Natvig PhD (Advisor); Eftychia Papanikolaou PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Music

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2007, German

Participation in study-abroad programs has become more and more prevalent in the last fifty years. This increase has created a greater need for research on the effects of study abroad. The objective of this study was to determine participant-perceived learning outcomes of study-abroad programs in Germany or Austria. These outcomes were centered on the social and cultural domain, language acquisition, and career influences. I also analyzed the objectives of the study-abroad programs to determine whether those aims were met. Seven established university programs with similar designs were used for this research. A total of 203 study-abroad alumni completed a carefully designed, online survey instrument. Survey questions asked participants to gauge the impact of the study-abroad experience on their language learning, cultural awareness, and career paths. Program literature from each university was analyzed, and interviews with program administration were conducted to designate the objectives of the programs. Results of the study showed that alumni reported increases in all three learning outcome domains. This perception, however, was strongest within the realm of personal and cultural development. While subjects recognized a degree of language acquisition, a feeling of missed language-learning opportunities emerged. Interestingly, participants did not indicate that gaining job marketability was a main goal for going abroad, and they, consequently, perceived a lower level of job marketability. The three main objectives of the university programs were language acquisition, personal development, and academic immersion. Over 80% of alumni felt a significant increase in their personal development, while 80.3% perceived a great deal of academic immersion, and 72% a significant increase in language acquisition. This study was a first step in objectively verifying the learning outcomes of study abroad. Recommendations for practice and improvement of programs were included as we (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Christina Guenther (Advisor) Subjects: