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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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Dissertations: G

• Gaddie, Griffin. "Homophony and Paronomasia in America: On the Validity of Puns."

• Gadzekpo, Leonard Kodzo. "A Comparative Study of African American and Nigerian Art from the 1960s to the 1970s: A Cultural History Perspective."

• Gagné, Michael P. "Wall Street: Symbol of American Culture."

• Gajalla, Radhika . "Behind the Smile: Negotiating and Transforming the Tourism Imposed Identity of Bahamian Women."

• Garceau, Dee. "'The Important Things of Life': Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929."

• Garcia, Jay. "Psychology Comes to Harlem: Race, Intellectuals, and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.."

• Garcia, Maia Christina. "Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans: A History of an Immigrant Community in South Florida, 1959-1989."

• Garcia, Matt. "Colonies, Colonias, and Culture: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1960."

• Garrison, Ednie Kaeh. "The Third Wave and the Cultural Predicament of Feminist Consciousness in the U.S.."

• Gary, Brett Joseph. "American Liberalism and the Problem of Propaganda: Scholars, Lawyers, and the War on Words, 1919-1945."

• Gelber, Scott. "Academic Populism: The People's Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1800-1905."

• Gelber, Scott. "Academic Populism: The People’s Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1880-1905."

• Geldburd, Diane E. "The Patterning of Human Behavior: A Test of a Prehistoric Archeological Subsistence and Settlement Model for Delaware."

• Gemme, Paola. "Domesticating Foreign Struggles: Narratives of the Italian Risorgimento and American National Identity."

• Gennari, John Remo. "The Politics of Culture and Identity in American Jazz Criticism."

• Genser, Wallace Vincent. "'A Rigid Government Over Ourselves': Transformations in Ethnic, Gender, and Race Consciousness on the Northern Borderlands-Michigan, 1805-1865."

• Gerhard, Jane F. "Politicizing Pleasures: Discourses on Women, Female Sexuality, and Feminism in Modern America 1920 to 1982."

• Gernes, Todd Steven. "Recasting the Culture of Ephemera: Young Women's Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century America."

• Gesteland, Becky Jo. "Beyond Cultural Authenticity: The Patterned Identities of Women's Southwestern Autobiographies, 1932-1955."

• Giamo, Benedict F. "On the Bowery: Symbolic Action in American Culture and Subculture."

• Giberti, Bruno. "The Classified Landscape: Consumption, Commodity Order, and the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia."

• Gibson, Todd. "Racing With the Wind: Hybridity and the Construction of American Literary Modernism."

• Ginzburg, Lyubov. "Confronting the Cold War Legacy: The Forgotten History of the American Colony in St. Petersburg / A Case Study of Reconciliation."

• Glaim, Marilyn S. "The Failure of Androgyny in Edith Wharton's Fiction."

• Glass, Marguerite. "Vermeer in Dialogue: From Appropriation to Response."

• Glasser, Ruth. ""Que Vivio Tiene La Gente Aqui en Nueva Yok": Music and Community in Puerto Rican New York, 1915-1940."

• Gleason, William. "Playing for Keeps: Recreation and Re-Creation in American Literature, 1840-1940."

• Glisson, Susan M. "Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed: Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organization in the Struggle for Freedom."

• Globensky, Anne Birgid. "At Home in Baltimore: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Lumbee Domestic Material Culture."

• Goldner, Loren Ralph. "Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class and the Crisis of the Bourgeois Self in the Work of Herman Melville."

• Goldstein, Karin. "From Pilgrims To Poverty: Biography Of An Urban Renewal Neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts."

• Goldstein, Linda Lehmann. "Roses Bloomed in Winter: Women Medical Graduates of Western Reserve College, 1852-1856."

• Goldstein-Shirley, David. "'The Music's Secret Drive': Race and Response in the Work of Toni Morrison."

• Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi. "In the Shadow of the South: The History of Racial Integration at the University of Texas at Austin."

• Gollaher, David L. "Dorothea Lynde Dix and the Frontiers of Madness in America."

• Gong, Wei-ling. "Race, Class, and Atlanta Public School Integration, 1954-1991."

• Gonzales, Lois. "Female Millworkers and the Mechanization of Textile Production: The Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, 1813 to 1822."

• González, Gaspar. "Barnstorming American Culture: Traveling Entertainment as Work and Performance."

• Goode, Gloria Davis. "Preachers of the Word and singers of the Gospel: The Ministry of Women Among Nineteenth Century African-Americans."

• Goode, James M. "Architecture and Politics: Thomas Ustick Walter and the Enlargement of the U.S. Capitol, 1850-1865."

• Goodwin, Lorinda B.R. "'A Stately Roof to Shelter Them': An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Turner Family of Eighteenth-Century Salem, Massachusetts."

• Goodyear, Frank H. "Constructing a National Landscape: Photography and Tourism in Nineteenth-Century America."

• Gordon, Anna Pegler. "In Sight of America: Photography and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1880-1930."

• Gordon, Laura Suzanne. "Field Notes from the Light: An Ethnographic Study of the Meaning and Significance of 'Near Death Experiences'."

• Gorgan Roodi, Sami. ""A Dark Fairy Land," America in the American Social and Political Drama of the 1930s: A Study of Plays by Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Sidney Kingsley and Clifford Odets."

• Gosin, Monika . "(Re) Framing the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Challenge to Black and Latino Struggles for American Identity."

• Gotera, Vicente F. "Radical visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans."

• Gould, Philip. "Virtuous Puritans: Early National Political Culture and the Historical Romance of New England."

• Grasso, Christopher. "Between Awakenings: Learned Men and the Transformations of Public Discourse in Connecticut, 1740-1800."

• Gray, Chris Hables. "Computers as Weapons and Metaphors: The U.S. Military 1940-1990 and Postmodern War."

• Grayson, Elizabeth Pollard. "Calling the Heart Back Home: Irish Catholic Women in America, 1845-1915."

• Grayson, Ellen. "Art, Audiences and the Aesthetics of Social Order in Antebellum America: Rembrandt Peale's Court of Death."

• Green, Amy S. "Savage Childhood: The Scientific Construction of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era."

• Green, Jennifer R. "Books and Bayonets: Class and Culture at Antebellum Military Academies."

• Green, Susan Marie. "Zoot Suiters: Past and Present."

• Greenfield, Briann G. "Old New England in the Twentieth-Century Imagination: Public Memory in Salem, Deerfield, Providence, and the Smithsonian Institution."

• Greenman, Nancy P. "American Education: Emerging Contexts for a Model of the Future."

• Greenwood, Richard E. "'Scientific Engineering and Useful Improvements': The Manufacturing Career of Zachariah Allen, 1822-1872."

• Greeson, Jennifer Rae. "The Figure of the South and the Imagination of Nation in the United States."

• Gregory, Christopher William. "Perpetual Purification and Developing Sense of Self: The Evolving Theology and Person of Adin Ballou."

• Gregory, Patricia L. "Women's Experience of Reading in St. Louis Book Clubs."

• Griff, Hanna. "'A Life of Any Worth': Life Histories of Retired Brandeis University Faculty."

• Griffin, Catherine C. "'Joined Together in History:' Politics and Place in African American and American Indian Women's Writing."

• Griffin, Connie D. "Ex-Centricities: A Geo/Graphics of Self-Re/Presentation in the Autobiographies of Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Kim Chernin."

• Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "'Who Set You Flowin'?': Migration, Urbanization, and African-American Culture."

• Griffin, John J. "Yours in His Service: H. Orton Wiley as Evangelical Theologian and Educator."

• Griggs, Catherine. "Beyond Boundaries: the Adventurous Life of Marguerite Harrison."

• Grittner, Frederick K. "White Slavery: Myth, Ideology, and American Law."

• Gronbeck-Tedesco, John . "Reading Revolution: Politics in the U.S.-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930-1970."

• Groner, Rachael E. "Melancholy Subjects: Citizenship, Affect, and Publicity in Contemporary American Culture."

• Grunder, Sarah. "The Spectacle of Citizenship: Halftones, Print Media, and Constructing Americanness, 1880-1940."

• Guelzo, Allen C. "The Unanswered Question: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will in American Religious Philosophy."

• Guenter, Scot M. "The American Flag 1777-1924: Cultural Shifts from Creation to Codification."

• Guild, Joshua. "You Can't Go Home Again: Migration, Citizenship, and Black Community in Postwar New York and London."

• Gulliford, Andrew. "Boomtown Blues: A Community History of Oil Shale Booms in the Colorado River Valley, 1885-1985."

• Gussman, Deborah. "Remembering Plymouth Rock: The Making of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Colonial New England."

• Gutjahr, Paul Charles. "Battling for the Book: The Americanization of the Bible in the Publishing Marketplace, 1777-1860."

• Gwinn, Nancy E. "The Origins and Development of International Publication Exchange Programs in Nineteenth-Century America."

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