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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
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
Boston University
Aamodt, Terrie Dopp. "Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptical Imagery and the Civil War," 1986.
Atwood, Paul L. "The United States and Costa Rica, 1945-1960: The Containment of Liberal Nationalism," 1990. Advisor: Arnold A. Offner (11,2)
Becker, Jane S. "Selling Tradition: The Domestication of Southern Appalachian Culture in 1930s America," Program in American and New England Studies. December 1992. Advisor: Robert Blair St. George (2,7,10)
Bissiri, Amadou. "The Artist-Figure in Tennessee Williams' Later Plays: A Contextual Approach," American Studies Program. December 1995.
Boots, Cheryl Charline. "Earthly Strains: The Cultural Work of Protestant Sacred Music in Three Nineteenth-Century American Popular Novels," American and New England Studies. May 2000.
Brody, David. "Fantasy Realized: The Philippines, Orientalism, and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century American Visual Culture," American and New England Studies Program. January 1997.
Burgess, Rebekah E. M.. "Collecting Agency: Reversing The Camera’s Gaze In Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts," May 2008. Advisor: Kim Sichel
Carso, Kerry Dean. "Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850," American Studies. May 2001.
Carson, Jeanie Cooper. "Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) Photography," American and New England Studies Program. January 1995.
D'Ambrosio, Paul S. "Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997): The Making of a Working Class Artist," American and New England Studies. May 2001.
D'Amore, Laura. "American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962," American and New England Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Jessica Sewell
D'Amore, Laura. "American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962," American and New England Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Jessica Sewell
D'Amore, Laura. "American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962," American and New England Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Jessica Sewell
DeWolfe, Elizabeth A. "'Erroneous Principles, Base Deceptions, and Pious Frauds': Anti-Shaker Writing, Mary Marshall Dyer, and the Public Theater of Apostasy," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Denenberg, Thomas. "Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America," American and New England Studies. May 2001.
Doezema, Marianne. "George Bellows and Urban America, 1905-1913," January 1990.
Driemeyer, Laura. "Rising From the Ashes: The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Building Culture in Charlestown, Massachusetts," American and New England Studies. January 2006.
Goldstein, Karin. "From Pilgrims To Poverty: Biography Of An Urban Renewal Neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts," American and New England Studies. June 2006.
Green, Jennifer R. "Books and Bayonets: Class and Culture at Antebellum Military Academies," American and New England Studies. January 2001.
Halprin, Jeffrey A. "Getting Back to Work: The Revaluation of Work in American Literature and Social Theory, 1950-1985," April 1987.
Halter, Marilyn. "Cape Verdean-American Immigration and Patterns of Settlement, 1860-1940," January 1986. Advisor: Sam Bass Warner, Jr. (8, 1, 11)
Hirayama, Hina. "'A True Japanese Taste': Construction of Knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900," American and New England Studies Program. December 1998.
Hodin, Stephen B.. "Jefferson's Ghost: Slavery, Machinery, and the Haunting of the Literary Imagination in Antebellum America," January 2008. Advisor: Susan Mizruchi
Hoy, Joan McElroy. "The Publication and Distribution of Books among New England Quakers, 1775-1836," April 1989.
Hurth, Elizabeth. "In His Name: Comparative Studies in the Quest for the Historical Jesus," December 1988.
Izard, Holly V. . "Another Place in Time: The Material and Social Worlds of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, From Settlement to 1850," American Studies Program. April 1996.
Jacobsohn, Diane. "Boston's 'Three-Decker Menace': The Buildings, The Builders and the Dwellers, 1870s-1930," American and New England Studies. May 2004.
Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925," American and New England Studies. June 2001.
Junkin, Sarah Caldwell. "The Europeanization of Henry Bacon (1839-1912), American Expatriate Painter," January 1986. Advisor: Patricia Hills (1,11)
Kenschaft, Lori. "Marriage, Gender, and Higher Education: The Personal and Public Partnership of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer, 1886-1902," American and New England Studies Program. January 1999.
Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle. "'Haunting Echoes': Histories and Exhibition Strategies for Collecting Nineteenth-Century African American Crafts," American and New England Studies. January 1999.
Masui, Shitsuyo. "Reading Hawthorne in the Context of the American Popular Religion," American Studies Program. January 1996.
McComb, Veronica. "The Bonds of Faith: Religion and Community among Nigerian Immigrants to the U.S., 1965-present," American and New England Studies Program. May 16, 2010. Advisor: Marilyn Halter
McNamara, Martha J. "Disciplining Justice: Massachusetts Courthouses and the Legal Profession, 1750-1850," American and New England Studies Program. September 1994.
Miller, Ronald J. "The Free School Movement, 1967-1972: A Study of Countercultural Ideology," American and New England Studies,. May 2000.
Montgomery, Susan J. "Spirit of the New in Artistic Handicraft: The Ceramics of William H. Grueby," January 1990.
Moore, William D. "Structures of Masculinity: Masonic Temples, Material Culture, and Ritual Gender Archetypes in New York State, 1870-1930," American and New England Studies Program. February 1999.
Nix, Elizabeth Morrow. "An Exuberant Flow of Spirits: Antebellum Adolescent Girls in the Writing of Southern Women," American Studies Program. April 1996.
Paxson, Peyton. "Charles William Post: The Mass Marketing of Health and Welfare," American and New England Studies Program. April 1993. Advisor: Saul Engelbourg (2, 4, 14)
Queen, Bradley. "Conservatism and the Logic of American Consumer Democracy, 1938-1976," American and New England Studies. July 2004.
Ramdya, Kavita. "Bollywood Weddings: Accruing Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Second-Generation Indian-American Hindu Matrimonials," American and New England Studies. May 2007. Advisor: Stephen Prothero
Schmitz, Paul. "D’Agostino Supermarkets, From Pushcart to Product: Family and Ethnicity as Cultural Currency," American and New England Studies. April 2006.
Scott, Alison M. "‘These Notions I Imbibed from Writers’: The Reading Life of Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1762-1841)," American and New England Studies Program. May 1995.
Shawn, David Warren. "The Transformation of Oratory in Antebellum America: Democrats, Demagogues, and the Quest for Citizenship," American Studies Program. May 1998.
Travers, Len. "The Brightest Day in Our Calendar: Independence Day in Boston and Philadelphia, 1777-1826," April 1992. Advisor: Alan Taylor (2, 11, 18)
Trump, Erik Krenzen. "The Indian Industries League and Its Support of American Indian Arts, 1893-1922: A Study of Changing Attitudes Toward Indian Women and Assimilationist Policy," American Studies Program. April 1996.
Venable, Charles L. "A Craft in Industry: Silversmithing in America, 1840-1940," Program in American and New England Studies. April 1993. Advisor: Keith N. Morgan (10, 4, 2)
Vogels, Jonathan B. "'Outrageous Acts of Faith': The Films of Albert and David Maysles, 1962-1986," American and New England Studies. May 2000.
Walsh, Christopher Robert. "Craven Images: Cowardice in American Literature, From the Revolutionary to the Nuclear Era," American and New England Studies. May 2000.
Waterman, Bryan Elliot. "Friendly Club of New York City: Industries of Knowledge in the Early Republic," American and New England Studies. May 2000.
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