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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Baham, Eva Semien. "Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, A Steam Cannot Rise Higher Than Its Source: The Vanguard as the Panacea for the Plight of Black Americans."

• Baker, Bernard. "Responsibly at Home: Wendell Berry's Quest for the Simple Life."

• Baker, Laura. "Capitalism Beautiful and Consumer Democracy: Civic Ideals, Mass Culture, and the Public in Chicago, 1900-1925."

• Baldwin, Davarian L. "Chicago's New Negroes: Race, Class and Respectability in the Midwestern Black Metropolis, 1915-1935."

• Barber, Alicia. "Living It Up, Living It Down: Civic Reputation, Tourism, and Urban Development in Reno, Nevada."

• Barber, Katrine. "Celilo Falls: The Dalles Dam, Indian Fishing Rights, and Federal Energy Policy on the Mid-Columbia River."

• Barbre, Joy Webster. "`Goodwives' to Menoboomers; Reinventing Menopause in American History."

• Barillas, William David. "Place and Landscape in Midwestern American Literature."

• Barker, E. Shannon. "Los Tejanos de San Antonio: Mexican Immigrant Family Acculturation, 1880-1929."

• Barksdale, J. Allen. "A Construction of Community Among Miners During the California Gold Rush."

• Barnes, Nathan. "Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women."

• Barnett, Thomas C. "A Utopian-Mythopoesis Reading of American Puritan Jeremiads: A Reclassification of Selected Seventeenth Century New England Pulpit Literature."

• Barney, Deborah Verdice Smith. "The Gospel Announcer and the Black Gospel Music Tradition."

• Barrera, Aida. "Multiculturalism Before its Time: The Making of Carrascolendas."

• Barry, Teresa Trupiano. "Rhetorics of Representation: Race, Gender, and Intermarriage in the Frontier Fiction of Ann S. Stephens, 1838-1865."

• Bass, Christine. "'It did not seem like a hospital it seemed like a home': Women's Experiences as Patients at Peterson's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1902-1933."

• Basso, Matthew. "Metal of Honor: Montana's World War II Homefront, Movies, and the Social Politics of White Male Anxiety."

• Battenfeld, Mary. "Writing on a Battlefield: Women and Documentary Discourse in the 1930's."

• Bauer, Dale M. "The Failure of Community: Women and Resistance in Hawthorne's, James's and Wharton's Fictions."

• Bauer, Ralph R. "Transculturations in Colonial Space: Creole Identities and the Ethnographic Imagination in Early British and Spanish American Writing."

• Bauer, Susan Wise. "The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal and the Rise of Public Confession."

• Bauerkemper, Joseph. "Narrating Nationhood: Radical Histories in Native Fiction."

• Baumgarten, Nikola. "Immigrants as Democrats: Education in St. Louis Before the Civil War."

• Bauza, Yadmilla. "'Yo lo que sé de Catalina Loango . . .': Orality and Gender in the Caribbean."

• Bealle, John. "American Folklore Revival: A Study of an Old-Time Music and Dance Community."

• Bean, Heather Ann Ackley. "Fly Pretty Bird: An Appalachian Woman's Theodicy.."

• Beattie, Keith. "Healing, Voices, Home: Strategies of Unity in Representations of the Impact of the War in Vietnam upon U.S. Culture."

• Beavers, Herman. "Wrestling Angels into Song: Coherence and Disclosure in the Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson."

• Becker, Jane S. "Selling Tradition: The Domestication of Southern Appalachian Culture in 1930s America."

• Bednar, Robert Matej. "Postmodern Vistas: Landscape, Photography, and Tourism in the Contemporary American West."

• Beeby, James M. "Revolt of the Tar Heelers: A Socio-Political History of the North Carolina Populist Party, 1892-1901."

• Beecher, Mary Anne. "A Place for Everything: The Influence of Storage Innovations on Modern American Domesticity (1900-1955)."

• Beemyn, Brett. "A Queer Capital: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Life in Washington, D.C., 1890-1955."

• Belgrad, Daniel. "The Social Meanings of Spontaneity in American Arts and Literature, 1940-1960."

• Bengiveno, Teri Ann. "Campus Based Women's Centers: An Analysis of the Development and Survival of a Student-Run Center in the Struggle for Gender Equity in Higher Education."

• Benita, Heiskanen . "Fighting Identities: The Body in Space and Place."

• Benjamin Lisle . ""You've Got to Have Tangibles to Sell Intangibles": Ideologies of the Modern American Stadium, 1948-1982."

• Benoit, John F. "Reflections of Vietnam Veterans."

• Bentley, Amy L. "Eating for Victory: U.S. Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity During World War Two."

• Berger, Daniel . ""We are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism."

• Berger, Martin A. "Determining Manhood: Constructions of Sexuality in the Art of Thomas Eakins."

• Bergland, Betty. "Reconstructing the 'Self' in America: Patterns in Immigrant Women's Autobiographies."

• Berman, Aaron. "Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948."

• Bernard, Paul R. "The Making of the Marginal Mind: Academic Economic Thought int he United States, 1860-1910."

• Bernstein, Lee. "The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in U.S. Culture and Politics, 1946-1961."

• Berrettini, Mark L. "Signs of Noir: Contemporary Film Noir and Social Difference in the United States."

• Bielen, Kenneth G. "Lyrics of Civility: The Language of Popular Music and the Secularization of American Culture."

• Bilder, Mary Sarah. "Salamanders and Sons of God: Transatlantic Legal Cultural and Colonial Rhode Island."

• Biltekoff, Charlotte. "Hidden Hunger: Eating and Citizenship from Domestic Science to the Fat Epidemic."

• Birney, Ann. "Her Father's Son: Girls Doing Boys Work on Great Plains Family Farms and Ranches, 1915-1980."

• Birt, Rodger C. "Envisioning the City: Photography in the History of San Francisco, 1850-1906."

• Bissiri, Amadou. "The Artist-Figure in Tennessee Williams' Later Plays: A Contextual Approach."

• Black, Brian C. "Petrolia: The Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom, 1859-1873."

• Blair, Chad. "Democracy in Hawaii: Class, Race, and Gender in Local Politics."

• Blair, Michael Tracy. "Ancestral Signs: Representations of Prehistoric People in American Culture."

• Blake, Casey Nelson. "Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford."

• Blake, Eliot Martin. "The Magical Armchair: Private Power and the Commodification of Expressive Freedom."

• Blanchard, Jennifer Peary. "More of Less than Kind: Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature ."

• Blatnica, Dorothy Ann. "`In Those Days': African-American Catholics in Cleveland, 1922-1961."

• Blodgett, Anita Jan. "Keepers of the Gate: An Analysis of Protestant Evangelical Fiction."

• Blomberg, Belinda. "Free Black Adaptive Responses to the Antebellum Urban Environment: Neighborhood Formation and Socioeconomic Stratification in Alexandria, Virginia, 1790-1850."

• Bloom, John Douglas. "Cardboard Images of the Past: Baseball Card Collection and the Politics of Sports."

• Boisseau, Tracey Jean. "The African Adventures of May French-Sheldon: A Critical Cultural Study of an Imperial Feminist."

• Boler, Megan. "Feeling Power: The Discourses of Emotion in United States Higher Education."

• Boots, Cheryl Charline. "Earthly Strains: The Cultural Work of Protestant Sacred Music in Three Nineteenth-Century American Popular Novels."

• Borish, Linda Jane. "The Lass of the Farm': Health, Domestic Roles, and the Culture of Farm Women in Hartford County, Connecticut, 1820-1870."

• Borowicz, C. Joshua. "Henry Adams: University Education and the Republican Tradition."

• Boukari, Safoura. "Retrouvailles: A Comparative Meditation on the Experiences of African Descended Women & the Quest for Sisterhood- Toward a New Syncretic Paradigm."

• Bouricius, Clara Maria. "'A Happier Ending than is Warranted by the Facts'; Or, How E.D.E.N. Southworth Created Sentimental Capitalism, 1849-1886."

• Bowles-Reyer, Amy. "Our Secret Garden: American Popular Young Adult Literature in the 1970s and the Transmission of Sexual and Gender Ideology to Adolescent Girls."

• Boyd, Anne E. "From 'Scribblers' to Artists: The Emergence of Women Writers as Artists in America."

• Boyd, Elizabeth B. "Southern Beauty: Performing Femininity in an American Region."

• Boyd, Jane Jennifer. "Frank Norris: Spatial Form and Narrative Time."

• Boyd, Nan Alamilla. "San Francisco Was a Wide Open Town: Charting the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Communities through the Mid-Twentieth Century."

• Branigan, Michelle Marie. "A Biography of Frances Brand, An American Painter and Social Activist."

• Brasell, Roger Bruce. "Imag(in)ing the American South in Documentary Film and Video."

• Braunberger, Christine C. "Stories in the Flesh: Reading Cultural Narratives of Tattooing in America."

• Bravmann, Scott. "Queer Fictions of the Past."

• Brennan, Raymond J. "Posttraumatic Stress in Vietnam Veterans: Cultural Representations and Therapeutic Models."

• Briggs, Laura. "Reproducing Empire: Race and Sex, Science and Reform in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States, 1880-1960."

• Brody, David. "Fantasy Realized: The Philippines, Orientalism, and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century American Visual Culture."

• Brophy, Alfred L. "The Intersection of Property and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought: From Missouri Compromise Through Civil War."

• Broughton, Candace. "Gendered Justice: Emma Wimple and the Story of Murder Hill."

• Brown, Bridget M. "The Terror is Real: The History and Politics of Alien Abduction."

• Brown, Elspeth H. "The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Culture, 1884-1929."

• Brown, Margaret Ann. "Not Your Usual Boardinghouse Types: Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony, 1906-1907."

• Brown, Sarah. "American Tourists' Narratives of the Caribbean, 1839-1939: A Study of the Experience of Tourism and of Cultural Encounter."

• Bruggeman, Seth C.. "Birthing Washington: Objects, Memory, and the Creation of a National Monument."

• Brun, Danielle. "Sweet Daddy Grace: The Life and Times of a Modern Day Prophet."

• Bryant, William. "Whole System, Whole Earth: The Convergence of Ecology and Technology in Twentieth Century American Culture."

• Buff, Rachel J. "Calling Home: Race, Migration and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and Native American Minneapolis, 1945-1992."

• Buffington, Nancy. "From Freedom to Slavery: Robert Montgomery Bird and the Natural Law Tradition."

• Buick, Kirsten Pai. "The Sentimental Education of Mary Edmonia Lewis: Identity, Culture, and Ideal Works."

• Bunting, Kent. "The Koan of Seiwa En: History and Meaning in the Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden."

• Burger, Alissa . "Trajectory of American Myth: Race, Gender, Home, and Magic from 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'Wicked'."

• Burgess, Barbara. "Migrant Women to Oregon 1836-1860 - Hail the Columbia."

• Burgess, Rebekah E. M.. "Collecting Agency: Reversing The Camera's Gaze In Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts."

• Burk, Rev. Michael. "Difficult Belonging: An Ethnographic Look at How the Church Excludes."

• Burr, Martha. "The American Cowgirl: History and Iconography 1860-Present."

• Burstein, Barbara Stern. "From Poland to Pittsburgh: The Experience of Polish Christians and Polish Jews who Migrated to Pittsburgh After World War II."

• Butler, Kathleen. "Tradition and Discovery: The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent."

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