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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Cadaval, Olivia. "The Hispano American Festival and the Latino Community: Creating an Identity in the Nation's Capital."

• Caffrey, Margaret Mary. "Stranger in this Land: The Life of Ruth Benedict."

• Caldwell, Kimberly M. "From Africatown (Alabama) to 'Out Stickney;' Reminiscences of a Toledo, Ohio African-American Community, 1919-1960."

• Cameron, Jean. "John Cotton's Role in the Trials of Anne Hutchinson."

• Campbell, Denise. "Quilting A Culture: Theories of Aesthetics, Representation, and Resistance in African-American Quiltmaking."

• Campbell, Suzan. "In the Shadow of the Sun: The Life and Art of Rebecca Salsbury James."

• Cante, Richard C. "Narration by Numbers: Gay Male AIDS and the Form of Contemporary American Culture."

• Canterella, Marcia. "Industrial Self-Actualization in the Evolution of American Business."

• Carlin, Deborah. "Reading Willa Cather: Problems and Poetics in the Late Fiction."

• Caronan, Faye Christine. "Making History from U.S. Colonial Amnesia: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Poetic Genealogies ."

• Carr, Norma. "The Puerto Ricans in Hawaii: 1900-1958."

• Carreiro, Amy Elizabeth. "African American Writers and the Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1970."

• Carso, Kerry Dean. "Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850."

• Carson, Diane E. "A Feminist Reinterpretation of Screwball Comedies: 1934-1942."

• Carson, Jeanie Cooper. "Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) Photography."

• Carter, Greg. "America's New Racial Heroes: Mixed Race Americans and Ideas of Novelty, Progress, and Utopia."

• Casey, Brian W. "Romantic Campus: Emotion and the American College, 1880-1940."

• Casey, Michael John. "Ronald Reagan's Epideictic Rhetoric Within the Context of The State of the Union Addresses During the Cold War, 1945-1985."

• Casillas, Dolores Ines. "Sounds of Belonging: A Cultural History of Spanish-language Radio in the United States, 1922-2004."

• Casper, Scott Evan. "Constructing American Lives: The Cultural History of Biography in Nineteenth-Century America."

• Castor, Laura Virginia. "Historical Memory, Autobiography, and Art: Redefining `Identity' through the Writing and Theater of Isadora Duncan, Hallie Flanagan, and Lillian Hellman."

• Cavalier, Christine. "Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921."

• Cavicchi, Daniel Robert. "Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans."

• Chang, Chih-Ping. "The American Liberal Mind and Cultural Criticism, 1930-1950: Four 'humanistic' Liberals and Their Writings."

• Chang, Michael. "Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship: The 'Asian Donorgate' Controversy in Perspective."

• Chang, Ming. "Reforming Literati as 'the Conscience of the Society'--a Sino-U.S. Cross-Cultural Study of the Leading Reformers in the Muckraking & 'the Blooming & Contending' Movements."

• Chapman, Mary Megan. "Pictures:' Women and Tableaux Vivants In Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Culture."

• Chasin, Alexandra. "All Other Things Being Equal: Studies in U.S.-American Material Culture."

• Chatelain, Marcia. ""The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl:" Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1899-1950."

• Chen, Tung-jung. "Man in the City: A Study of Saul Bellow's Urban Novels."

• Chenault, Wesley. "An Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History, 1940-1970."

• Cheng, Wendy. "Episodes in the Life of a Place: Regional Racial Formation in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley."

• Cherches, Peter. "Course: Popular Lectures and the Marketing of Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America."

• Chess, Sonia Mary. "Daughters From Another Shore: Maternal Influences in Selected Fiction of Chinese-American Daughters of Immigrant Mothers."

• Cheung, Floyd. "Kingdoms of Manly Style': Performing Chinese American Masculinity, 1865-1941."

• Chiba, Hiromi. "From Enemy to Ally: American Public Opinion and Perceptions about Japan, 1945-1950."

• Chieffo-Reidway, Toby. "Nathaniel Jocelyn: In the Service of Art and Abolition."

• Cho, Eun Young. "Cultural Authorities in Transition and Sam Shepard's Search for Identity."

• Choi, Joung-Min. "The Critics of Democracy: The Political Visions of Walker Percy and the Tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Vanderbilt Agrarians."

• Chung, Chenchiun Peter. "Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction: A Study in Culture, Psychology, and Technique."

• Chung, Youn-Son. "War and Morality: The Search for Meaning in American Novels of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War."

• Cicala, John Allan. "The Folk Artist as Producer: A Behavioral Study of a Sicilian Immigrant Woman's Ceremonial Cooking Style."

• Clark, David Anthony Tyeeme. "Representing Indians: Indigenous Fugitives and the Society of American Indians in the Making of Common Culture."

• Clark, Gregory. "Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York and the Rhetoric of Puritan Public Discourse."

• Clark, Laurel A.. "Taming the Territory: Women and Gender on the Florida Frontier."

• Clark, William Joseph. "Naturalism, Revitalization an the Fiction of Frank Norris."

• Cleghorn, Cassandra. "Bartleby's Benefactors: Toward a Literary History of Charity in Antebellum America."

• Clohessy, Ronald. "The Ship of State: American Identity and Maritime Nationalism in the Sea Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper."

• Coates, Julia M. "None of Us Are Supposed to Be Here: Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Production of Cherokee Histories."

• Cockerill, Kristan. "Words and Deeds: Assessing Print Media Language Influences on Public Perception and Water Management Policy Decisions."

• Coffey, Marion J. "Conceiving a Social Movement: Pro Choice Organizing Post-Roe v Wade."

• Cohen, Michael. "'The Conspiracy of Capital': American Popular Radicalism and the Politics of Conspiracy from Haymarket to the Red Scare."

• Cohen, Peter F. "Love and Anger: Literature, Activism, and the AIDS Epidemic."

• Coiner, Constance. "'Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will': Literature of Resistance."

• Cole, Carole L. "The Search for Power: Drama by American Women, 1909-1929."

• Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar. "Transforming Words/Revolutionizing Verses: Four Poets of the American Civil Rights Movement."

• Collins, Elliott. "Bayard Rustin: A Civil Rights Biography."

• Collins, John. "The Ghanaian Concert Party: African Popular Entertainment at the Crossroads."

• Collins, Lisa Gail. "Revolutions in Vision': African-American Women, Aesthetics, and Visual Politics."

• Collins, Mark Leonard. "Wolfish Festivity: The Humor of American Frontier Literature."

• Collins, Samuel. "'Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance': Power, [keyword] and ideas of 'Information Society' at the Library of Congress."

• Comer, Douglas C. "Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, Ideology, and the Annexation of the Southwest."

• Comer, Krista. "Western Landscapes and the Politics of American Space: Reading the New Female Regionalism."

• Connor, Celeste. "Visions and Revisions of the American Landscape: Paintings and Photographs of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924-1934."

• Conolly-Smith, Peter. "The Translated Community: New York City's German-Language Press as an Agent of Cultural Resistance and Integration."

• Cook, Laura. "Dangerous Men, Dangerous Media: Constructing Ethnicity, Race, and Media's Impact through the Gangster Image, 1959-2007."

• Cooperman, Jeannette. "Out of the Broom Closet: The Deep Hidden Meaning of Domesticity in Postfeminist Novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley and Amy Tan."

• Coppola, Marie S. "Toward a Missing Link in the Identity of Italian American Women: Oral Histories of Sicilian and Sicilian American Women."

• Cornell, Daniel T. "Practicing Resurrection: Wendell Berry's Georgic Poetry, an Ecological Critique of American Culture."

• Cosco, Joseph P. "Eyeing Italians: Race, Romance, and Reality in American Perception, 1880-1910."

• Coser, Stelamaris. "Bridging the Americas: The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones."

• Cothern, Lynn. "Becoming Western: Gender and Generation in Mary Hallock Foote's Dual Career."

• Cousins, Robert. "Citizenship and Selfhood: Negotiating Narratives of National and Personal Identity, 1900-1920."

• Cowan, William Tynes. "The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative."

• Crockett, Rosemary F. "The Garies and Their Friends: A Study of Frank J. Webb and his Novel."

• Crook, Nathan. "Foods That Matter: Constructing Place and Community at Food Festivals in Northwest Ohio."

• Crosby, Emilye. "Common Courtesy: The Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi."

• Cullen, James P. "Making History: Uses of the Civil War in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture."

• Cummins, Eric E. "Gag: A Chronicle of San Quentin Prison, 1950-1980 Book Suppression, Inmate Resistance, and the rise and Fall of the Prison Movement Left."

• Curry, Lynne Elizabeth. "Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Maternal and Child Health Reform in Illinois, 1900-1930."

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