Dylan Ruediger Successfully Defends Ph.D. Dissertation

2017 Apr 24

Dylan Ruediger of Decatur, a Georgia State University doctoral student and Provost Dissertation Fellow at the College of Arts and Sciences, successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation this spring on Tributary Subjects: Affective Colonialism, Power, and The Process of Subjugation in Colonial Virginia, C. 1600 - C. 1740.

His dissertation explores tributary relationships between Algonquin, Siouan, and Iroquoian Indians and English settlers in Virginia, placing the process of political subjection into the heart of narratives of dispossession.