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Events
Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
January, 2002
- Forbes, Camille F. "Performed Fictions: The Onstage and Offstage Lives of Bert Williams."
- Joo, Eungie. "Crisis to Collapse: The Racialized Subject in Contemporary American Art."
February, 2002
- Hartel Jr., Herber R. "The Art and Life of Raymond Jonson (1891-1982): Concerning the Spiritual in American Abstract Art."
- Faggins, Barbara. "Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and Indians in Colonial Virginia."
March, 2002
- Lee, Calinda. "Creating the Pleasant View: The Impact of Gender, Race, and Class on African American Suburbanization, 1837-1999."
April, 2002
- Barksdale, J. Allen. "A Construction of Community Among Miners During the California Gold Rush."
- Bunting, Kent. "The Koan of Seiwa En: History and Meaning in the Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden."
- Denkler, Elizabeth. "Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town.."
- Kalaldeh, Murad. "Impact of Industrial Parks on Urban and Regional Development."
- McKiernan, John. "Fevered Measures: Race, Communicable Disease and Community Formation on the Texas-Mexico Border, 1880-1923."
May, 2002
- Birney, Ann. "Her Father's Son: Girls Doing Boys Work on Great Plains Family Farms and Ranches, 1915-1980."
- Blake, Eliot Martin. "The Magical Armchair: Private Power and the Commodification of Expressive Freedom."
- Brun, Danielle. "Sweet Daddy Grace: The Life and Times of a Modern Day Prophet."
- Campbell, Suzan. "In the Shadow of the Sun: The Life and Art of Rebecca Salsbury James."
- Coates, Julia M. "None of Us Are Supposed to Be Here: Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Production of Cherokee Histories."
- Hayashi, Robert Terry. "Haunted by Waters: Race and Place in the American West."
- Heikkila, Kimberly L. "G.I. Gender: Vietnam War-Era Women Veterans and U.S. Citizenship."
- Jordan, Kurt. "The Archaeology Of The Iroquois Restoration: Settlement, Housing, and Economy At A Dispersed Seneca Community, ca. A.D. 1715-1754."
- Keller, Craig Lee. "The Intellectuals and Eisenhower: Civil Religion, Religious Publicity, and the Search for Moral and Religious Communities."
- Lucas, Patrick Lee. "Realized Ideals: Grecian Style Buildings as Metaphors for Democracy on the Trans-Appalacian Frontier."
- Manoguerra, Paul. "Classic Ground: American Paintings and the Italian Encounter, 1848-1860."
- Meland, Carter. "The Trickster is History: Tribal Tricksters and American Cultural History in Contemporary Native Writing."
- Mendiola, Kelly. "The Hand of Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840-1930."
- Mickelson, Holly Michelle. "Replacing Memory: Comics, Survivorship, and Narrative Rupture in Art Spiegelman's Maus Project."
- Morrione, Deems Daniel. "Sublime Monsters and Virtual Children."
- Nadis, Fred Robert. "Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage, 1845-2001."
- Polchin, James R. "Why Do They Strike Us?: Representing Violence and Sexuality, 1930-1950."
- Rael-Gálvez, Estévan. "Identifying Captivity and Capturing Identity: Narratives of American Indian Slavery, Colorado and New Mexico, 1776-1934."
- Seiler, Cotton. "Anxiety and Automobility: Cold War Individualism and the Interstate Highway System."
- Sendzikas, Aldona. "Due North: The American Search for a New Frontier in the Twentieth Century."
- Shubow, Jessica. ""A Political History of the Normal Body in the United States from the Progressive Era to the Cold War."
- Spencer, Suzette. "Stealing A Way: African Diaspora Maroon Poetics."
- Turner, Stephanie S. "Imagining Cloned Americans: Post-Dolly Revisions of the Genetic Explanation."
- Whaley, Deborah. "The Cultural and Counterpublic Sphere Work of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority."
- Williams, Heather Andrea. "Self-Taught: The Role of African Americans in Educating Freedpeople, 1861-1871."
- Lake, Taylor S. "American Delsartism and the Bodily Discourse of Respectable Womanliness."
June, 2002
- Gordon, Anna Pegler. "In Sight of America: Photography and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1880-1930."
- Lopez, Cesar. "El Descanso: A Comparative History of the Los Angeles Plaza Area and the Shared Racialized Space of the Mexican and Chinese Communities, 1853-1933."
- Machida, Margo. "The Poetics of Positionality: Art, Identity, and Communities of Imagination in Asian America."
- Nelson, Megan Kate. "Peculiar Ecology: Swamps and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1732-1940."
- Tapia, Ruby C. "Conceiving Images: Racialized Visions of the Maternal."
- Tucker, Penny. "The Culture of Promises: Literary Ethics and American Cultural Politics, 1820-1870."
July, 2002
- Torres, Monica F. "Injurious Hails and the Making and Remaking of Cultural Identity in the Documentary Films of Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Lourdes Portillo, and Marlon Riggs."
August, 2002
December, 2002
- Arjet, Robert. "Gunplay: Men, Guns, and Action Films in the United States."
- Nash, Ilana. "'America's Kid Sister': Teenage Girls in Popular Culture, 1930-1965."
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