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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Raab, Josef. "Elizabeth Bishop's Hemisphere."

• Rabinowitz, Paula. "Female Subjectivity in Women's Revolutionary Novels of the 1930s."

• Rael-Gálvez, Estévan. "Identifying Captivity and Capturing Identity: Narratives of American Indian Slavery, Colorado and New Mexico, 1776-1934."

• Raimondo, Meredith. "The Next Wave: Media Maps of the 'Spread of AIDS'."

• Ramdya, Kavita. "Bollywood Weddings: Accruing Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Second-Generation Indian-American Hindu Matrimonials."

• Ramirez, Horacio Nelson Roque. "Communities of Desire: Queer Latina/Latino History and Memory, San Francisco Bay Area, 1960s-1990s."

• Rand, Yardena Rivka. "Contested Landscape and Common Ground: American Audiences and the Movie Western."

• Ratcliffe, Sam. "Texas History Painting."

• Raub, Patricia. "Popularizing the City: Urban Imagery in the National Geographic Magazine, 1950-1984."

• Reber, Paul C. "Retail Trade and the Consumer in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1759-1766."

• Rebherger, Dean. "The Mystic Chords of Memory: Nationalism, Historical Novels, and the American Civil War."

• Reed, Maureen. "Homesickness: Untold Stories of New Mexican Women and Multiculturalism, 1930-1965."

• Reed, Paula S. "Building with Stone in the Cumberland Valley: A Study of Regional Environmental, Technical and Cultural Factors in Stone Construction."

• Rees, Amanda. "Envisioning the Great Plains: Contemporary Narratives of the Landscape."

• Reid, Mark A. "Black Oriented Films (1961-1977): Film Form, Black Culture, Ideological Content."

• Reitt, Barbara Black. "Modernization and the Emergence of the Book Editor 1876-1895: William Dean Howells as Bench Mark in a World of Change."

• Rellahan, J. Connelly. "At Home Among the Puritans: Sigmund Freud and the Calvinist Tradition in America."

• Ren, Michele D. "Imperial Designs: The Victorian Home and the (Re)Vision of Empire in American Culture."

• Resnick, Harold Kalman. "The Body Electric: Computers in American Popular Culture."

• Restad, Penne L. "O Holy Night: The Creation of an American Christmas."

• Reumann, Miriam Grace. "American Sexual Character in the Age of Kinsey, 1946-64."

• Rhodes, Lisa Louise. "Groupies, Girls, and Chicks: Articles On Women Musicians and Fans in Rolling Stone and Selected Other Mainstream Magazines, 1967-1972."

• Rice, Mark. "Reading the Pictured City: History, Nostalgia and the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys, 1976-1981."

• Rice, Stephen P. "Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, 1820-1860."

• Rich, Danielle. "Global Fandom: The Circulation of Japanese Popular Culture in the U.S.."

• Richards, Yevette. "'My Passionate Feeling about Africa': Maida Springer-Kemp and the American Labor Movement."

• Richards-Slaughter, Shannon. "The Blossoms of Jazz: A Novel of Black Female Jazz Musicians in the 1930s."

• Richardson, Heather Cox. "Constructing 'The Greatest Nation on Earth': Economic Policies of the Republican Party During the American Civil War."

• Richardson, Judith. "Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley."

• Richie, Margaret Bye. "Architectural Patterns in an Early River Town."

• Richotte, Keith. ""We the Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation": Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism Beyond the Colonialist/Revolutionary Dialectic."

• Ricketts, Elizabeth Cocke. "'Our Battle for Industrial Freedom': Radical Politics in the Coal Fields of Central Pennsylvania, 1916-1926."

• Ridlen, Susanne S. "Tree-Stump Tombstones: The Influence of Traditional Cultural Values on Rustic Funerary Art in Indiana in the 1890s."

• Rife, Gladys Talcott. "Iowa's Rural Women Columnists, Especially of the Fifties: Their Cultural and Historical Import in a Comparative Context."

• Ripley, Wendy. "Women Working at Writing: Achieving Professional Status in Nineteenth-Century America, 1850-1875."

• Rishoi, Christy. "Girl Power: The American Woman's Coming of Age Narrative."

• Ritter, Jeffrey Michael. "Local Television News: Deregulation and the New Media Landscape."

• Roberts, Nora Ruth. "Three Radical Women Writers: Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst--A Marxist-Feminist Discussion."

• Roberts, Paige W. "The Politics of Preservation: Historical Consciousness and Community Identity in Portsmouth, New Hampshire."

• Roberts, Shari. "Seeing Stars: Feminine Spectacle, Female Spectators, and World War II Hollywood Musicals."

• Robinson, Angelo D. "I'm Not the Boy for You: Images of African American Male Homosexuality."

• Robinson, Linda Leyden. "Re-Embodied Vision: The Cultural Shift from Discursive to Figural."

• Robinson, Michael G. "Genre From the Audience Perspective: Science Fiction."

• Rodriguez, Julio. "Whiting Up: Negotiating Color and Masculinity in the Black Athlete."

• Romanowski, William D. "Rock'n'Religion: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Contemporary Christian Music Industry."

• Rony, Thomas Y. Fujita. "'They Did Me A Great Wrong': History and Meanings of the Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration."

• Rooks, Noliwe M. "Hair-Raising: African American Women, Beauty Culture and Madame C.J. Walker."

• Roraback, Eileen Mary. "The Defense of the Self: Autobiographical Responses of American Intellectuals to the McCarthy Era."

• Rose, Janet S. "'And Ears Don't Count:' Body Piercing in America and Other Variations on the Theme of Belonging."

• Rosengarten, Dale. "Social Origins of the African-American Lowcountry Basket."

• Ross, James. "The Impact of the Nineteenth-Century Public Health Movement Upon American Architecture: Theories of Disease, Ventilation, and Sunlight, 1840-1944."

• Rossi, Jennifer. "Souls Across Spaces: Ambiguity as Resistance and a New Generation of Black Women Writers."

• Rostagno, Irene. "Fifty Years of Looking South: The Promotion and Reception of Latin American Literature in the United States."

• Rotella, Carlo. "October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature."

• Roure, Jodie Genine. "International Human Rights Law as a Resource in Combating Domestic Violence: Transcending Legal, Social and Cultural Obstacles in Brazil and the United States."

• Rowe, Joyce A. "The Equivocal Ending and its Relation to Narrative Structure in Some Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Ambassadors, The Great Gatsby."

• Rúa, Mérida. "Claims to 'The City': Puerto Rican Latinidad Amid Labors of Identity, Community, and Belonging."

• Rubin, Rachel Lee. "Reading, Writing and the Rackets: Jewish Gangsters in Interwar Narrative."

• Ruffner, Kevin Conley. "Border State Warriors: Maryland's Junior Officers in the Union and Confederate Armies."

• Russo, Alexander. "Roots of Radio's Rebirth: Audiences, Aesthetics, Economics, and Technologies of American Broadcasting, 1926-1951."

• Rustin, Nichole T. "Mingus Fingers: Charles Mingus, Black Masculinity, and Postwar Jazz Culture."

• Ruwell, Mary Elizabeth. "Eighteenth Century Capitalism: The Formation of American Marine Insurance Companies."

• Ryan, Barbara. "'Uneasy Relation': Servants' Place in the Nineteenth-Century American Home."

• Ryan, Carol Crawford. "Summering: Everyday Life in a Vacation Community, 1909-1985."

• Ryan, Susan M. "The Grammar of Good Intentions: Benevolence and Racial Identity in Antebellum American Literature."

• Ryden, Kent C. "Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Geography, Narrative, and the Sense of Place."

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