Attendees of the panel “Penetrating Death” were treated to four wellinformed papers investigating the manner in which female bodies have been probed and evaluated by patriarchal “experts” throughout history; while tied thematically, the papers ranged widely in historical specificity, from predynastic Egypt to late Victorian England. The first speaker, Christine Gottlieb of UCLA, examined the “epistemology of gynecology” in the late nineteenth century in her paper, “Penetrating Knowledge and Attacking Mysteries: The Cases of Dracula and Dora.” By reading the novel Dracula in tandem with Freud’s account of his hysterical patient Dora, Gottlieb demonstrated how Dracula’s obsession with actual and metaphorical penetration pertains to the dominant medical discourse of its day. Just as the physician Van Helsing is allowed intimate access to the rooms, tombs, and bodies of his female patients, Freud’s narrative...

The Natural Heritage Institute, in collaboration with Friends of Deer Creek, is preparing a stream restoration proposal for Deer Creek in Nevada County, California. The restoration plan focuses on the mainstem of Deer Creek between Scotts Flat Reservoir and Lake Wildwood. Establishing a clear picture of the hydrology of the creek and its tributaries is essential for drafting a restoration plan.

For the mainstem of Deer Creek, I developed a flood frequency curve from USGS gauge data on Deer Creek itself and on the nearby Oregon Creek. Oregon Creek’s topography, elevation, orientation, and size are similar to that of Deer Creek, so Oregon Creek is an appropriate instrument for Deer Creek. I use Oregon Creek gauge data to estimate ‘natural’ flows on Deer Creek, because Oregon Creek is a free flowing stream. I use the gauge data on Deer Creek itself to calculate current flows.

Deer Creek’s tributaries are ungauged, so there are no flow records that can be analyzed to estimate flows and to develop flood frequency curves. I collected and analyzed survey data to estimate bankfull flows on the tributaries to Deer Creek, and used two methods to calculate flows with return intervals of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years. The first method is Waananen and Crippen’s regional flood frequency relation, requiring inputs of drainage area, mean annual precipitation, and an altitude index. The second method of estimating flows, developed by Hedman and Osterkamp, relies on channel geometry and on classifying a stream according to its vegetation and climate. Comparing the total discharge from the tributaries with the discharge from the mainstem of Deer Creek for each return interval of interest shows that my estimates are reasonable: for both methods, the combined flows from the tributaries are less than the flow on Deer Creek.

NHI will use the results of this analysis, along with information on the geomorphology, riparian and stream habitats, benthic macroinvertebrates, and water quality, in formulating the Deer Creek restoration plan.

High-resolution CHIRP seismic surveys were conducted offshore San Diego to understand channel incision, erosion, and deposition throughout a glacial cycle. Eustasy controls deposition and erosion across the local coastal plain and shelf, whereas tectonic deformation controls channel orientation, sediment dispersal pathways, and preservation potential. Sub-parallel, northwest trending fault zones on and offshore San Diego create a structural horst that is bound to the west and east by extensional downdropped faults. The horst creates a bathymetric and topographic high, subaerially expressed as the Point Loma Peninsula, and is known to be uplifting at the regional rate of ~0.13-0.14 mm/yr. To the east of the bathymetric high, vertical offset along southern splays of the Rose Canyon Fault Zone form a downdropped basin in San Diego Bay and the San Diego Bight. Sediments mantling an MIS 4 erosional surface are interpreted as fluvial and estuarine deposits emplaced during MIS 3. These sediments and underlying units were subsequently truncated and incised during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM - MIS 2). The preservation of deposits and erosional surfaces is more prevalent to the east of the Southern Spanish Bight Fault. In this region, the Southern Spanish Bight Fault vertically offsets the transgressive surface by an average of ~0.9 m and the interpreted MIS 4 erosional surface by ~4.7 m. Observations of paleo-channelization across the shelf and modern deposition of Holocene sediments indicates that the erosion resistant Cretaceous lithology of the Point Loma Peninsula acts as a drainage divide during periods of low sea level and as a circulation divide during periods of high sea level. The regional tectonic structure, in conjunction with the erosion-resistant character of the local Cretaceous lithology, controls channel architecture, sediment transport and accumulation, as well as nearshore circulation in the San Diego Bight.

In this dissertation, I bring the analytical perspectives of urban and development studies to bear on a set of questions related to democratic transformation. In 2011, a revolution ended the 23-year-long authoritarian reign of Zine El Abideen Ben Ali, inaugurating Tunisia’s Second Republic. My inquiry is situated within this geography and historical conjuncture. I ask: what are the emergent forms of democratizing politics in post-revolution Tunisia? Rather than emphasizing national level dynamics or procedural dimensions of “democratic transition,” I show that the city and the intimate space of the home are privileged sites for understanding how democratic aspirations are structured. Local politics take shape as a result of claims-making and place-making. In other words, I trace a politics that emanates from the rearrangement of the material and spatial relations of urban space. I focus on the local, in its everydayness of city-making and its politics to understand the formation of both spaces in relation to democracy. This dissertation is based on over eighteen months of ethnographic research conducted in Tunisia between 2014 and 2017. My research reflects my position as an Arab citizen and participant in the regional uprisings and revolutions of the period, a development worker, and finally a scholar of the global South, committed to decentering conventional circuits of knowledge production, and producing scholarship anchored in place.

I argue that in Tunisia the citizen-participants of a new democratic order reconstitute municipalities into relational entities that I call spaces of expectation. I demonstrate that rather than bounded institutions of local governance, claims-makers constitute municipalities into porous entities situated between the street and the state, where substantive democracy is continuously put to the test. I define spaces of expectation as the gendered and financialized thresholds of democracy. In one sense, this dissertation is about democracy as it relates to making the urban and building the city. In another sense, it is about the tension between the desire for local-level solutions and the concomitant refusal of the state’s modes of rule; a struggle to redefine state-society relations. In yet another rendition, the dissertation is about municipalization as a multiscalar project of heterogeneous temporalities consolidated at the intersection of debt, participatory democracy and global development imperatives. The six substantive chapters that make up this dissertation explore different regimes of politics with their heterogeneous temporalities which manifest at different scales. Taken together, the chapters show how intimate textures, institutional configurations, and global development prerogatives coalesce to produce urban democratic time in post-revolution Tunisia. This dissertation makes three contributions. The first is to demonstrate that the local is produced in a dialectic multi-scalar fashion, from the intimate space of the home, to the development prerogatives of international financial institutions. The second is to show that women’s labor of building the city from its informal peripheries is a condition of possibility for democratizing politics. The final contribution is to indicate that the institutionalization of protest politics remakes political subjectivities and reconfigures the city. When it is cemented at the local level, it constitutes an opportunity for sustaining the revolution’s radical demands under different forms.

Chronological and biographical information as well as insight into Beethoven's compositional processes have long justified the difficult and laborious study of Beethoven's sketches; but to date such study has not included any bearing this knowledge might have on performance choices. Although the limited sketch sources for Beethoven's Piano Sonata Opus 106, the Hammerklavier, suggest that the number of missing sketches for Opus 106 is much greater than the number of sketches we actually have, closer study of them reveals the Hammerklavier to be the self-referential record of Beethoven's difficulties with its composition. This requires the performer of Opus 106 to make the same difficult decisions during his/her live performance that Beethoven made during the fifteen months of its composition, as documented on the pages of his sketches. It is from the sketches that we learn just what kind of performative act a performance of the Hammerklavier is meant to be.