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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• MacDonald, Megan. "Indigenous American Two-Spirit Women and Urban Citizenship in the Late Twentieth Century."

• Machida, Margo. "The Poetics of Positionality: Art, Identity, and Communities of Imagination in Asian America."

• MacInerney, Dorothy McLeod. "Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Bell."

• MacKenzie, Gordene Olga. "Transsexualism in America: A Tremor in the Fault Line of Gender."

• Maclachlan, Gretchen. "Women's Work: Atlanta's Industrialization and Urbanization, 1879-1929."

• MacLean, Lisa Anne. "Henry James and James McNeill Whistler: Representing Modernity."

• Maddock-Cowart, Donna Samal. "The Word, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Professor in Sixteen Post-1950 Academic Novels."

• Madigan, Andrew J. "Countersystem Analysis & Social Criticism in the Works of Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac & J.D. Salinger."

• Maeda, Daryl J. "Forging Asian American Identity: Race, Culture, and the Asian Amerian Movement, 1968-1975."

• Maekawa, Reiko. "F.O. Matthiessen: After American Renaissance."

• Magoc, Christopher Joseph. "The Selling of Wonderland: Yellowstone National Park, The Northern Pacific Railroad, and the Culture of Consumption, 1872 to 1903."

• Majewski, Karen Marie. "Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939."

• Manoguerra, Paul. "Classic Ground: American Paintings and the Italian Encounter, 1848-1860."

• Mapel-Bloomberg, Kristin. "Tracing Arachne's Web: Modernism's Femin(ine)ist Fictions."

• March, Kathleen Davidson. "Uncommon Civility: The Narragansett Indians and Roger Williams."

• Marco Katz. "Not India, in which Alejo Carpentier and Zora Neale Hurston finally discover America."

• Marcum, Deanna Bowling. "The Rural Public Library Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920."

• Markowitz, Ruth Jacknow. "My Daughter, the Teacher: Second Generation Jewish Teachers in the New York City Public School System, 1920-1940."

• Marr, Timothy Worthington. "Imagining Ishmael Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville."

• Marshall, Courtney. "Sisters in Crime: Black Femininity, Law, and Literature in American Culture."

• Martin, Denise. "Nature, Maat and Myth in the Cosmologies of the Ancient Egyptians and the Dogon."

• Martin, Joel. "Cultural Hermeneutics on the Frontier: Colonialism and the Muscogulge Millenarian Revolt of 1813."

• Martin, Karl Edward. "The Ethical Implications of Flannery O'Connor's "Prophetic Imagination."

• Martinez, Ann Katharine. "Life and Career of John Sartain (1808-1897): A Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Printmaker."

• Martini, Edwin Anton III. "Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975 - 2000."

• Marton, Patricia. "World of Belle Dickey: A Study of Child Life and Childhood Education in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Illinois."

• Masterson, Michael Lee. "Sounds of the Frontier: Music in Buffalo Bill's Wild West."

• Masui, Shitsuyo. "Reading Hawthorne in the Context of the American Popular Religion."

• Matson, Cathy. "Fair Trade, Free Trade: Economic Ideas and Opportunities in Eighteenth-Century New York City Commerce."

• Matteson, Patricia. "'A stain on the blood': 'Indian-loving' and Nineteenth-Century Women's Literary Strategies."

• Maxson, Richard A. "Billy Sunday's 1917 New York City Revival: A Case Study in Apocalyptic Rhetoric."

• Maxwell, William J. "Dialectical Engagements: The New Negro and the Old Left, 1918-1940."

• Maynard, W. Barksdale. "The Picturesque and American Architecture: A Reappraisal."

• Mazow, Alissa. "Plantae, Animalia, Fungi: Transformations of Natural History in Contemporary American Art."

• McAlister, Elizabeth A. "'Men Moun Yo', 'Here Are The People': Rara Festivals and Transnational Popular Culture in Haiti and New York City."

• McAlister, Melani. "Staging the American Century: Race, Gender, and Nation in U.S. Representations of the Middle East, 1945-1992."

• McCarthy, Laurette E. "Walter Pach: Artist, Critic, Historian, and Agent of Modernism."

• McCleary, Ann Elizabeth. "Shaping a New Role for the Rural Woman: The Home Demonstration Club Program in Augusta County, Virginia, 1917-1940."

• McClusky, Laura J. "'Here, Our Culture is Hard': Narrative Ethnography, Domestic Violence and 'The Young Women's Revolt' in San Antonio, Belize."

• McComb, Mary C. "Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology."

• McComb, Veronica. "The Bonds of Faith: Religion and Community among Nigerian Immigrants to the U.S., 1965-present."

• McCracken, Allison. "Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning and American Culture, 1928-1933."

• McCrossen, Alexis Macon. "Holy Day, Holiday: The Rejuvenation of the American Sunday, 1860-1930."

• McEuen, Melissa A. "Changing Eyes: American Culture and the Photographic Image, 1918-1941."

• McFarlane, Lisa Watt. "The Mild Apocalypse: Domestic Millennialism in the Novels of Harriet Beecher-Stowe."

• McGehee, Margaret. "On Margaret Mitchell's Grave: Women Writers Imagining Modern Atlanta."

• McKiernan, John. "Fevered Measures: Race, Communicable Disease and Community Formation on the Texas-Mexico Border, 1880-1923."

• McLoud, Melissa. "Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs: Builders in Late Nineteenth-Century Washington, D. C.."

• McMenomy, E. Regina . "Game on Girl: Identity and Representation in Digital RPGs."

• McMichael, Robert K. "Consuming Jazz: Black Music and Whiteness."

• McMickle, Marvin. "Film Portrayals of the Black Preacher."

• McNamara, Martha J. "Disciplining Justice: Massachusetts Courthouses and the Legal Profession, 1750-1850."

• McNary, Lisa D. "The Deming Management Theory: A Managerial Leadership Profile for the New Economic Age."

• McPherson, Dolly A. "Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou."

• McQuade, Lena. "Troubling Reproduction: Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism in New Mexico, 1919-1945."

• McTaggart, Ursula . "Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts."

• Mehrhoff, W. Arthur. "The Rainbow and the People: The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial as Symbolic Landscape."

• Meland, Carter. "The Trickster is History: Tribal Tricksters and American Cultural History in Contemporary Native Writing."

• Melish, Joanne Pope. "Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and the Cultural Construction of 'Race' in New England, 1780-1860."

• Mellard, Jason Dean. "Cosmic Cowboys, Armadillos, and Outlaws: The Cultural Politics of Texas Identity in the 1970s."

• Mellinger, Gwyneth. "Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Diversity Initiative."

• Mellis, John C. "Coyote People and the Black Robes: Indigenous Roots of Salish Christianity."

• Melnick, Jeffrey. "Ancestors and Relatives: The Uncanny Relationship of African Americans and Jews."

• Mendiola, Kelly. "The Hand of Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840-1930."

• Menon, Srdevi. "Discursive Realms and Colonial Practice: Contrapuntal Studies of Race in Colonial India and the United States."

• Metcalf, Greg. "Looking for Marlowe: Paratextual Characters in American Culture."

• Meyer, Lee Ann. "Great Exception: Carey McWilliams' Path to Activism."

• Meyer, Michael. "Darkness Visible: The Moral Dilemma of Americans as Portrayed in the Early Short Fiction and The Later Novels of John Steinbeck."

• Mickelson, Holly Michelle. "Replacing Memory: Comics, Survivorship, and Narrative Rupture in Art Spiegelman's Maus Project."

• Mickenberg, Julia L. "Educating Dissent: Children's Literature and the Left, 1935-1965."

• Middlebrook, Geoffrey C. "The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and American Public Diplomacy During the Reagan Years: Purpose, Policy, Program, and Performance."

• Mieras, Emily. "A ‘More Perfect Sympathy’: College Students and Social Service 1889-1914."

• Miller, Andrew T. "Looking at African American Families: Recognition and Reaction."

• Miller, Jeffrey S. "Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture, 1960-1980."

• Miller, Kathy. "Rural Women's Work and Role in Community Building and Institution Building in Indiana From 1900-1980."

• Miller, Orloff. "Archaeological Investigations at Salterstown, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland."

• Miller, Rhoda. "The Conceptual Background to the U.S. Institute of Peace."

• Miller, Ronald J. "The Free School Movement, 1967-1972: A Study of Countercultural Ideology."

• Miller, Stephen Paul. "Three Self-Consuming Mechanisms of the Mid-Seventies: John Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,' the Watergate Affair, and Jasper Johns's Crosshatch Paintings."

• Millikan, Frank Rives. "Wards of the Nation: The Making of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 1852-1920."

• Mills, Cynthia. "The Adams Memorial and American Funerary Sculpture, 1891-1927."

• Mindich, David T.Z. "Building the Pyramid: A Cultural History of 'Objectivity' in American Journalism, 1832-1894."

• Miner, Claudia Ann. "But What About the Children?: Americans' Attitudes Toward Children and Childhood During the 1950s."

• Minnick, Ann. "`Came to Believe:' An Examination of the Context, Meaning, and Significance of Al-Anon, a Contemporary American Site of Spiritual and Moral Renewal."

• Miraldi, Robert. "The Journalism of David Graham Phillips."

• Mitoma, Glenn Tatsuya. "Globalizing Rights: Defining, Declaring, and Denying Human Rights in the Age of American Hegemony, 1939-1955."

• Mizelle, Brett. "To the Curious: The Cultural Work of Exhibitions of Exotic and Performing Animals in the Early American Republic."

• Moncure, Amber Bennett. "The Life and Times of Sisley Jordan: European Women in Virginia, 1607-1640."

• Montague, Diana M. "Empowering the Sense of Place: Regional Detection Fiction Elevates Non-Urban American Culture."

• Montgomery, Susan J. "Spirit of the New in Artistic Handicraft: The Ceramics of William H. Grueby."

• Moon, Jennifer. "Cruising and Queer Counterpublics: Theories and Fictions."

• Moore, Patricia Elaine. "Santo De Santa Fe: Mediators of Family and Faith, Culture and Place."

• Moore, Robert L., Jr. "Interpretations of Reality: Analysis of Conflict Between Social and Personal Identity in Life Stories of Women Teachers in America, 1916-1980."

• Moore, William D. "Structures of Masculinity: Masonic Temples, Material Culture, and Ritual Gender Archetypes in New York State, 1870-1930."

• Morand, Lynn Louise. "Craft Industries at Fort Michilimackinac, An Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade Outpost."

• Moreau, Joseph. "Schoolbook Nation: Imagining the American Community in United States History Texts for Grammar and Secondary Schools, 1865-1930."

• Morrione, Deems Daniel. "Sublime Monsters and Virtual Children."

• Morris, Gwenyth Elsie. "Gifted Woman Light Around You: Ojibwa Women and Their Stories."

• Morris-Knower, James P. "No Place Like Home: Discourses of Adolescent Identity and the Politics of Space in Contemporary American Coming-of-Age Narratives."

• Morris-Shortlidge, Constance Elaine. "Enfolding Bodies: A New Visual Space."

• Morse, Susan I. "The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Urban Landscape, 1827-1927."

• Morton, Joel. "Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men's Movement."

• Morton, Keith. "Community as Metaphor: Anarchy and Structure in American Culture, 1830-1920."

• Moskowitz, Marina. "Standard Bearers: Material Culture and Middle-Class Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."

• Moss, Jean Russel. "Walking the Tightrope: The Story of Nursing as Told by Nineteenth-Century Nursing Journals."

• Moss, Rosalind Urbach. "Reinventing Spinsterhood: Competing Images of 'Womanhood' in American Culture, 1880-1960."

• Mulrooney, Margaret M. "Labor at Home: The Domestic World of Workers at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902."

• Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. "Domesticating Drink: Women and Alcohol in Prohibition America, 1870-1940."

• Murphy, Geraldine A. "The Ideology of American Romance Theory."

• Murphy, Paul V. "The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought."

• Murti, Lata. "With and Without the White Coat: The Racialization of Southern California's Indian Physicians."

• Musello, Christopher. "Family Houses and Social Identity: Communicational Perspectives on the Homes of Ridge County."

• Musgrove, Susan M. "Charles A. Lindbergh and the American Dilemma: Tension and Resolution in the Conflict Between Technology and Human Values."

• Myers, Kenneth John. "Selling the Sublime: The Catskills and the Social Construction of Landscape Experience in the United States, 1776-1876."

• Myers, Sally A. "Northwest Ohio Women's Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture: 1880-1918."

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