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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
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Jackson, Leon. "The Two Worlds of William Wells: Ideology and Economy in the Early American Republic of Letters."
Jacobsen, Cheryl Rose. "Lifting the Curse of Eve: Textual Constructions of Gender and Identity in Women's Writings on Childbirth."
Jacobsohn, Diane. "Boston's 'Three-Decker Menace': The Buildings, The Builders and the Dwellers, 1870s-1930."
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. "Special Sorrows: Irish-, Polish-, and Yiddish-American Nationalism and the Diasporic Imagination."
James, Theresa. "Cradled in the Larger History of One's Time': Epistemological Pattern in the Work of Norman Mailer."
Jardine, Gail. "Eastwood, Shepard, and Bly: American Men Deconstruct and Recreate the Masculine Myth."
Jarvis, John C. "Mormonism in France: A Study of Cultural Exchange and Institutional Adaptation."
Jendli, Adel. "Community Leadership of African-American Ministers in a Midwestern Town."
Jenks, Hillary . "Home Is Little Tokyo: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles."
Jenks, Shepherd M. "The Phoenix has Risen from the Ashes: A Socio-Cultural Examination of the Neo-Psychedelic Movement."
Jian, Xiao-Yang. "Cross-Culture Philanthropy: Rockefeller Donors and Chinese Recipients 1911-1921."
Jirousek, Lori M. "Immigrant Ethnographers: Observing Race and Culture in America at the Turn into the Twentieth Century."
Joel Fischer. "Urban Transportation: Home Rule and the Independent Subway System in New York City, 1917-1925."
Johanningsmeier, Charles A. "Buying and Selling Words by the Thousand: Newspaper Syndicates and the American Literary Marketplace, 1860-1900."
Johansen, Bruce. "Imagined Pasts, Imagined Futures: Race, Politics, Memory, and the Revitalization of Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland."
John, Richard R., Jr. "Managing the Mails: The Postal System, Public Policy, and American Political Culture, 1823-1836."
Johnson, Colin Robert. "Columbia's Orient: Gender, Geography and the Invention of Sexuality in Rural America."
Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925."
Johnston, Christopher. "Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat."
Johnston, Jessica. "The Intimate Battle for Self Control: A Phenomenological and Cultural Analysis of Weight Consciousness in American Society."
Jones, Nancy Baker. "On Solid Ground: The Emergence of the Self Created Woman in Contemporary American Literature."
Joo, Eungie. "Crisis to Collapse: The Racialized Subject in Contemporary American Art."
Jordan, Christopher Joseph. "The Representation of the Protestant Success Ethic in Films of the Reagan Era, 1981-1989."
Jordan, Kurt. "The Archaeology Of The Iroquois Restoration: Settlement, Housing, and Economy At A Dispersed Seneca Community, ca. A.D. 1715-1754."
Jordon, John M. "Technic and Ideology: The Engineering Ideal and American Political Culture, 1892-1934."
Joseph, Miriam E. "Perceived Cultural Influences on Generativity Identified by Childless Women."
Joswick, Hubert P. "Charles Peirce and the Logic of Community."
Jumonville, Neil. "The Gray Dawn: The New York Intellectuals and the Function of Criticism."
Junkin, Sarah Caldwell. "The Europeanization of Henry Bacon (1839-1912), American Expatriate Painter."
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