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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
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Fabend, Firth. "The Yeoman Ideal: A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800."
Fagelson, William. "Nervous Out of the Service: 1940s American Cinema, World War II Veteran Readjustment, and Postwar Masculinity."
Faggins, Barbara. "Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and Indians in Colonial Virginia."
Fairchild, Charles. "Community Radio and Public Culture, Being an Examination of Media Access and Equity in the Nations of North America."
Fairman, Deborah. "'Unhampered Child of Liberty': Modernity, Representation and American Jewish Women, 1890-1930."
Falkoff, Marc D. "Heads and Tales: American Letters in the Age of Phrenology."
Fallon, Ann Marie. "World is Full of Islands: Literary Revision and the Production of a Transnational Robinson Crusoe."
Farmelant, Kristen Petersen. "Trophies of Grace: Religious Conversion and Americanization in Boston's Immigrant Communities, 1890-1940."
Farrell, Amy Erdman. "Feminism in the Mass Media: Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989."
Feeney, Paulette. "Aloha and Allegiance: Imagining America's Paradise."
Feldman, Keith. "Racing the Question: Israel/Palestine and U.S. Imperial Culture."
Ferguson, Thomas J. "American Perceptions of the Vietnam War in Popular Literature: An Interpretation by a Professional Soldier."
Ferreira, Jason. "All Power to the People: A Comparative History of Third World Radicalism in San Francisco, 1968-1974."
Fertig, Barbara. "Belonging to the Crown: Ethnicity and Gender Roles in a Portuguese-American Feast."
Fields, Jill. "The Production of Glamour: A Social History of Intimate Apparel, 1909-1952."
Fields, Sarah K. "Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America."
Filene, Benjamin. "Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Vernacular Music in the Twentieth Century."
Finkelston, Harry Theodore. "Selected Public Sculpture in St. Louis, Missouri, 1868-1914: A Study in Values and Attitudes."
Fischer, Paul D. "Radical Pedagogy and the Interdisciplinary Revolution: Teaching 'Youth Culture' for the 21st Century."
Fisher, William West, III. "The Law of the Land: An Intellectual History of American Property Doctrine, 1776-1880."
Flack, Chris. "Public Interest: The Myth of the Vanishing Public in Antebellum Letters, 1830-1860."
Flagg, Jeffery B. "The Road Toward Wisdom: The Evolution of Land Ethics in the Adirondack State Park."
Fleming, James Rodger. "Meteorology in America, 1814-1874: Theoretical, Observational, and Institutional Horizons."
Fleming, Walter C. "American Indians and Federal Land Leasing Policies, 1884-1917: 'That Beauty of Cultivation and Thrift Which Always Grows Out of American Energy'."
Flood, Karen P. "Contemplating Corpses: The Dead Body in American Culture, 1870-1920."
Flowers, Benjamin. "Constructing the Modern Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York from the Great Depression through the Cold War."
Foley, Hugh W., Jr. "Jazz from Muskogee, Oklahoma: Eastern Oklahoma as a Hearth of Musical Culture."
Foley, Neil F. "The New South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930."
Forbes, Camille F. "Performed Fictions: The Onstage and Offstage Lives of Bert Williams."
Foster, Andrea Kim. "'They're Turning the Town All Upside Down': The Community Identity of Williamsburg, Virginia Before and After the Reconstruction."
Foulkes, Julia L. "Dancing America: Modern Dance and Cultural Nationalism, 1925-1950."
Fox, Evarts C., Jr. "A Study of Historic Preservation in Hawaii."
Fox, Stephen Danforth. "Toxic Chemicals and Stress: Anatomy of an Out-of-Court Settlement for Women Workers at GTE-Lenkurt Electronics Plant."
Fraga, Maria I. Isabel. "Make It Fast and Keep It Moving: Post-Cold War Action Films and Globalization."
Francis, Elizabeth. "Feminism and Modernism: Gender and Cultural Politics in America, 1910-1940."
Franklin, Nan Wolverton. "Century Farm: The Shaping of an Iowa Landscape, 1851-1951."
Frankwitz, Andrea K. "Speaking Spaces: Tropes of Distance in Nineteenth-Century American Slave Narratives."
Franz, Kathleen. "Narrating Automobility: Travelers, Tinkerers, and Technological Authority in the Twentieth Century."
Frederick, Charles R., Jr. "A Good Day to be Here: Tailgating in the Grove at Ole Miss."
Freese, Alison R. "Send in the Clowns: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Sacred Clowns' role in Cultural Boundary Maintenance among the Pueblo Indians."
Fretz, Eric J. "Performing Selves and the Theatrical Imagination in Antebellum America: The Examples of Anna Cora Mowatt, P.T. Barnum, and Nathaniel Hawthorne."
Friedman, Sandie Ruth. "Racing With Catastrophe: Representations of the Holocaust and American Jewish Anxiety."
Fritz, Joanne. "A Popular Poet Meets the Twentieth Century: Edgar A. Guest and Middle-Class Morality."
Fritze, Tamara. "A View if Her Own: A Cultural Study of the Dooryards of Rural Western Women."
Fujita Rony, Dorothy B. "'You Got to Move Like Hell': Trans-Pacific Colonialism and Filipina/o Seattle, 1919-1941."
Fuller, Todd. "60 Feet 6 inches and Other Distances from Home: A Creative Biography about Mose YellowHorse, Baseball, Cartoons, and the Pawnee."
Fulton-Maybin, DoVeanna S. "'When Oral and Written Traditions Meet and Mingle:' Black Feminist Orality in African-American Women's Narratives of Slavery."
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