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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Sachs, Andrea Jule. "The Politics of Peverty; Race, Class, Motherhood, and the National Welfare Righs Organization, 1965-1975."

• Saffin, Lori. "Bodies that (Don't) Matter: Systems of Gender Regulation and Institutions of Violence against Transgender Persons: A Queer/Critical Race Feminist Critique ."

• Samson, Miles David. "German-American Dialogues and the Modern Movement Before the `Design Migration,' 1910-1933."

• Samuel, Lawrence R. "Dreaming in Black and White: World War II Bonds and American Pluralism."

• San Buenaventura, Steffi. "Nativism and Ethnicity in a Filipino-American Experience."

• Santamarina, Xiomara A. "Belabored Professions: Writing the Work of Black Women in the Mid Nineteenth Century."

• Santiago, Janine. "Weaving Fiction, History, Memory, and Orality in Four Puerto Rican Women Writers."

• Sappol, Michael. "The Cultural Politics of Anatomy in 19th-Century America: Death, Dissection, and Embodied Social Identity."

• Saunders, Gerda. "We'll Get to Now Later."

• Sawin, Mark H. Meltzer. "Raising Kane: The Creation and Consequences of Fame in Antebellum America, or, The Thrilling and Tragic Narrative of Elisha Kent Kane and his Transformation into Dr. Kane, the Hero of the Romantic Age."

• Schafer, Patricia. "Online Versus Traditional Baccalaureate Nursing Education: A Comparison of Critical Thinking Outcomes."

• Scheese, Donald F. "Inhibitors of the Wild: Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Edward Abbey."

• Schmitz, Paul. "D'Agostino Supermarkets, From Pushcart to Product: Family and Ethnicity as Cultural Currency."

• Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast. "Painted Ladies, Virgin Lands: Women in the Myth and Image of the American Frontier, 1830-1860."

• Scholz, Anne-Marie Wilhelmina. "Domesticating Female Mastery: Reading Jane Austen in America, 1826-1926."

• Schulte, Stephanie Ricker . "State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture (1980-2000)."

• Schulte, Stephanie Ricker. "State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture (1980-2000)."

• Schultz, April R. "A Peculiar People: Celebration, Historical Memory, and the Creation of Ethnic Identity Among Norwegian Americans in the 1920s."

• Schultz, Jane E. "Women at the Front: Gender and Genre in Literature of the American Civil War."

• Schulz, Dorothy M. "From Social Worker to Crimefighter: A History of Women in United States Policing."

• Schur, Richard Lee. "Rites or Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Louis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory."

• Scott, Alison M. "'These Notions I Imbibed from Writers': The Reading Life of Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1762-1841)."

• Scott, Robert M. "St. George Tucker and the Development of American Culture in Early Federal Virginia 1790-1824."

• Seel, David John, Jr. "The Evangelical Meltdown: Modernity and the Hysteresis of Habitus."

• Seigel, Micol. "The Point of Comparison: Transnational Racial Construction, Brazil and the United States."

• Seiler, Cotton. "Anxiety and Automobility: Cold War Individualism and the Interstate Highway System."

• Selch, Frederick R. "Instrumental Accompaniments for Yankee Hymn Tunes: An Investigation of the Evidence."

• Sellen, Jeffrey J. "The Discourse of Private Property Rights in Contemporary Environmental Politics."

• Seltz, Laura. "Disappearing Women: Gender and Vision in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Photographs."

• Sendzikas, Aldona. "Due North: The American Search for a New Frontier in the Twentieth Century."

• Sentilles, Renée M. "Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey."

• Sereno, Aeko. "Images of the Hula Dancer and "Hula Girl": 1778-1960."

• Shaffer, Marguerite S. "See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1905-1930."

• Shank, Barry. "Identity, Community, Postmodernity: The Rock'n'roll Scene in Austin, Texas."

• Shapiro, Shelby. "Words to the Wives: The Jewish Press, Immigrant Women and Identity Construction, 1895-1925."

• Sharer, Jean. "Hildreth Meiere, American Muralist."

• Sharpless, Mary Rebecca. "Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Cotton Farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie, 1900-1940."

• Sharps, Ronald LaMarr. "Happy Days and Sorrow Songs: Interpretations of negro Folklore by Black Intellectuals, 1893-1928."

• Shavelson, Susanne A. "From Amerike to America: Language and Identity in the Yiddish English Autobiographies of Jewish Immigrant Women."

• Shaw, Barbara L.. "(Re)Mapping the Black Atlantic: Violence, Affect, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Migration Literature."

• Shaw, Patricia A. Friday. "Negro Digest, Pulse, and Headlines and Pictures: African American Periodicals as Informants, Morale Builders, and Articulators of Protest During World War II."

• Shawn, David Warren. "The Transformation of Oratory in Antebellum America: Democrats, Demagogues, and the Quest for Citizenship."

• Shea, William F. "The Role and Function of Technology in American Popular Music: 1945-64."

• Sheehy, Colleen J. "The Flamingo in the Garden: Artifice, Aesthetics, and Popular Taste in American Yard Art."

• Sheila Williams. "The Effects of Self-Regulated Training on the Academic Achievement & Behavior of At-Risk High School."

• Sheley, Nancy Strow. "Bringing Light to Life: The Art of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)."

• Shen, Xiao Hong. "Yale's China and China's Yale: Americanizing Higher Education in China, 1900-1927."

• Sheppard, Carroll Anne. "Sailing Parties: An Ethnochronicle of Beach Haven's Charterboat Captains and their Families, 1876-1976."

• Shie, Paul Chau-Jiunn. "Why the Robertson Campaign Failed: A Study of Political Mobilization of Evangelical Ministers in the 1988 Republican Presidential Primary."

• Shubow, Jessica. ""A Political History of the Normal Body in the United States from the Progressive Era to the Cold War."

• Shukla, Sandhya. "India Abroad: Transnational Ethnic Cultures in the United States and Britain, 1947-1997."

• Silverman, Joel. "Pursuing Celebrity, Ensuing Masculinity: Morris Ernst, Obscenity, and the Search For Recognition."

• Silverman, Jonathan. "Success in the Margins: How African-Americans, Women, and Immigrant Jews Used Cultural Production to Negotiate Prejudice and the American Dream Between World War I and the Great Depression."

• Simmons, LaKisha Michelle . "Black Girls Coming of Age: Sexuality and Segregation in New Orleans, 1930-1954."

• Simmons, LaKisha Michelle. "Black Girls Coming of Age: Sexuality and Segregation in New Orleans, 1930-1954."

• Simon, Janice. "The Crayon 1855-1861: The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry, and the Fine Arts."

• Simons, Kent S. "Taming the Powers of the Air: Science, Pseudoscience, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American Literature."

• Simonsen, Jane. "Making Home Work: Race, Gender, and the Uses of American Domestic Space, 1850-1920."

• Simpson, Jeffrey Edward. "The Walking Muse in America."

• Simpson, Kim. "Hit Radio and the Formatting of America in the Early 1970s."

• Simpson, Michael W. "The Kusan People: A Systemic cultural History."

• Sims, Yvonne. "From Mammies to Action Heroines: Female Empowerment in Black Popular Cinema."

• Singer, Beverly R. "Film and Video Made by Native Americans: A Cultural Examination of Native American Participation in Film and Video Production."

• Singh, Nikhil Pal. "'Race' and Nation in the American Century: A Genealogy of Color and Democracy."

• Sissoko, Moussa. "The Impact of the Peace Corps Experience on Returned Volunteers: A Case Study of Peace Corps Mali Returned Volunteers."

• Smaby, Beverly Prior. "From Communal Pilgrims to Family Householders: The Moravians in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1742-1844."

• Smart, Karl L. "A Man for All Ages: The Changing Image of Benjamin Franklin in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Literature."

• Smith, Anthony Burke. "American Catholicism and the Construction of a Public Tradition, 1932-1962."

• Smith, Dale Edwyna. "The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820 to 1868."

• Smith, Erin Ann. "Hardboiled Readers; Workers, Consumer Culture, and Pulp Magazines, 1923-1951."

• Smith, Jeff. "Imagining Presidents: Fictions of American Leadership in Popular Literature, Film, Drama, and Electronic Media ."

• Smith, Jennifer B. "An International History of the Black Panther Party."

• Smith, Jessica Todd. "Is Polite Society Polite?: The Genteel Tradition in the Figure Paintings of William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941)."

• Smith, Katherine A. "Mother Earth, Woman Spirit: Women and the Feminine Character as Symbol and Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Culture."

• Smith, Liberty. "Something Sinister in this Affair: Femme/Butch Collaborations and American Politics."

• Smoak, Gregory. "Ghost Dances and Identity: Ethnogensis and Racial Identity Among Shoshones and Bannocks in the Nineteenth Century."

• Snell, Theron P. "Orphans in the Storm: A Collective Experience of War. The 978th Engineer Maintenance Company in World War II."

• Snyder, Terri L. "'Rich Widows Are the Best Commodity This Country Affords': Gender Relations and the Rehabilitation of Patriarchy in Seventeenth-Century Virginia."

• Sohn, Hongeal. "Literature and Society: African-American Drama and American Race Relations."

• Sokolow, Michael S. "'What A Miserable Life a Sea Fareing Life Is': The Life and Experiences of a Nineteenth-Century Mariner of Color."

• Soper, Kerry D. "Seriously Funny: A History of Satirical Newspaper Comic Strips in the Twentieth Century United States."

• Sorensen, Leni. "Absconded: Fugitive Slaves in the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834-1844."

• Soto, Michael. "Literary History and the Age of Jazz: Generation, Renaissance, and American Literary Modernism."

• Spaeth, Catherine Therese Christians. "Purgatory or Promised Land?: French Emigres in Philadelphia and their Perceptions of America during the 1790s."

• Spear, Bruce. "American Political Morality in the Literature of the Vietnam Era."

• Spears, Ellen Griffith. "Toxic Knowledge: A Social History of Environmental Health in the New South's Model City, Anniston, Alabama, 1872-Present."

• Speicher, Anna M. "Faith Which Worketh by Love': The Religious World of Female Antislavery Lecturers."

• Spencer, Stacy L. "Women Writers and the Literary Journey, 1832-1844."

• Spencer, Suzette. "Stealing A Way: African Diaspora Maroon Poetics."

• Speziale, Marcia Jean. "The Puritan Pariah, or A Citizen of Somewhere Else: Defamation in Massachusetts, 1642 to 1850."

• Spooner, Denise Suzanne. "The Political Consequences of Experiences of Community: Iowa Migrants and Republican Conservatism in Southern California, 1946-1964."

• Spring, Alan Richard. "Public Intellectuals in the Culture of Personality: Democratic Discourse, Moral Authority, and Intellectual Vocation."

• Staggers, Kermit LeMoyne, II. "Reuben A. Torrey: American Fundamentalist, 1856-1928."

• Stanley, Talmage A. "The Poco Field: Politics, Culture and Place in Contemporary Appalachia."

• Stapp, Carol Buchalter. "Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records."

• Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. "Stealing Fire, Scattering Ashes: Anishinaabe Expressions of Sovereignty, Nationhood, and Land Tenure in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada, 1785-1923."

• Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt. "Travel Writing and Resistance: Travel Narratives by African American and Euro-American Women, 1820-1860."

• Steel, Steven C. "Subvert the Dominant Paradigm!: Environmentalism, Earth First!, and Oppositional Theory."

• Stephanides, Adam Louis. "Tomorrow’s Women and Yesterday’s Men: Junior Novels and Change, 1946-64."

• Stephens, Michelle Ann. "Black Empire: The Making of Black Transnationalism by West Indians in the United States, 1914-1962."

• Stephenson, Denise R. "Blurred Distinctions: Emerging Forms of Academic Writing."

• Stineman, Esther Lanigan. "Mary Hunter Austin: An American Woman of Letters."

• Stith, Bari Oyler. "Visions of Community: Rural Culture in 19th-Century Geauga and Lake Counties."

• Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer Lynn. "The Contours of the Sonic Color-line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening."

• Stoltzfus, Emilie S. "Citizen, Mother, Worker: Public Provision of Child Care, 1945-1965."

• Stone, Brian Edward. "West of Center: Jews on the Real and Imagined Frontiers of Texas."

• Streamas, John. "Japanese Americans and Cultures of Relocation."

• Streeter, Caroline Anne. "Ambiguous Bodies, Ambivalent Desires: The Morphing Mulatta Body in U.S. Culture, 1965-1999."

• Stripes, James D. "Spring Wind Rising: The American Indian Novel and the Problem of History."

• Strunk, Mary. "The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun": Woman Outlaws, Public Memory, and the Rise and Fall of Hoover's FBI."

• Stuart, Kevin. "Idiots, Barbarians, Blue Spots and Tiffin in the Deep Dark Heart of Asia: Mongols in Western Consciousness."

• Su, Christine M. "Tradition and Change: Khmer Identity and Democracy in the 20th Century and Beyond."

• Su, Hongjun. "Strangers Within Our Grates: A Study of Four First-Generation Chinese Immigrant Men's Autobiographies: 1930s-1940s."

• Suh, Suk Bong. "Literature, Society, and Culture: Upton Sinclair and The Jungle."

• Suter, Scott Hamilton. "The Importance of Making Progress: The Potteries of Emanuel Suter, 1851-1897."

• Sutherland, Gretchen Rolufs. "Of Winter Branches: The Literary Career of Anne Morrow Lindbergh."

• Swartzbaugh, Laura K. "Public and Private Geographies: Constructing Order in Chicago’s City Streets, 1893-1922."

• Swift, Elizabeth A.. "Class, Taste and Empire in Reagan's America ."

• Swiger, Molly J. "Consuming 'Third World' Children: Constructing an American Self."

• Swinth, Kirsten N. "Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of a Professional Ideal in American Art, 1870-1920."

• Sze, Julie. "Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice."

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