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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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Nadell, Martha. ""Nor Can I Reduce This Experience to a Medium": Race, Art, and Literature in America, 1920s-1940s."
Nadis, Fred Robert. "Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage, 1845-2001."
Naick, Patrick. "Representations of the Black Metropolis: Place and African American Identity on Chicago's South Side."
Nash, Ilana. "'America's Kid Sister': Teenage Girls in Popular Culture, 1930-1965."
Nash, Jennifer. "The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography."
Natanson, Barbara Orbach. "Spot the Hyphen? Representations of Immigrants and Members of Ethnic groups in Illustrated Newspaper and Magazine Stories, 1880-1925."
Nation, Richard Franklin. "Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870."
Neal, Mark Anthony. "Discursive Soul: Black Popular Music Communal Critique and the Black Public Sphere of the Urban North."
Neel, Hildy Michelle. "Let us Now Praise Service Men: A History of the American World War II Personal Narrative, 1942-1945."
Negrón, Marisol. "Hecho in Nuyorican: An Analysis of the Creation, Circulation, and Consumption of Salsa in 1970s New York."
Nelson, Angela M. S. "A Theomusicological Approach to Rap: A Model for the Study of African American Popular and Folk Musics."
Nelson, Megan Kate. "Peculiar Ecology: Swamps and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1732-1940."
Nemanic, Mary Lou. "The Fourth of July on the Minnesota Iron Range: Small Town America and Working-Class Nationalism, 1892-1992."
Newcomb, John Timberman. "Canonization of Wallace Stevens: A Study of Modernist Evaluative Practice."
Newlyn, Andrea Kelsey. "Righting the Racial Code: Narrative and Race."
Newman, Kathy M. "Critical Mass: Advertising and Consumer Activism in the Age of Radio."
Newman, Megan Haley. "The Vermin Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake."
Nguyen, Xuan Truong . "Vietnamese American Identities: How Race, Gender, and Class are Reflected in Cultural, Language and Technological Barriers."
Niatum, Duane. "Shamanism, Sacred Narratives, The Sea, and The Cedar in the Art of John Hoover, Aleut Sculptor."
Nichols, Caroline Carpenter. "Celebrity and the National Body: Encounters with the Exotic in Late Nineteenth-Century America."
Niman, Michael I. "The Rainbow Family: An Ethnography from Within."
Nimura, Tamiko. "In a Coalitional Mode: African American Literature, Asian American Literature, and the Politics of Comparison."
Nix, Elizabeth Morrow. "An Exuberant Flow of Spirits: Antebellum Adolescent Girls in the Writing of Southern Women."
Noon, David. "This is (Not) a Child: Race, Gender and 'Development' in the Child Sciences, 1880-1910."
Norman, Brian. "Addressing Division: The American Protest Mode in the Twentieth Century."
Nygard, Paul David. "Man of Maine: A Life of Robert P. Tristram Coffin."
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