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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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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
Bowling Green State University
Alexander, Lisa. "Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality up to Bat: Intersectionality and Power in Major League Baseball, 1995 - 2005 ," American Studies. December 2006. Advisor: Philip Terrie
Barksdale, J. Allen. "A Construction of Community Among Miners During the California Gold Rush," April 2002.
Beeby, James M. "Revolt of the Tar Heelers: A Socio-Political History of the North Carolina Populist Party, 1892-1901," American Culture Studies. August 1999.
Bielen, Kenneth G. "Lyrics of Civility: The Language of Popular Music and the Secularization of American Culture," American Culture Studies. December 1994.
Burger, Alissa . "Trajectory of American Myth: Race, Gender, Home, and Magic from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to ‘Wicked’," American Culture Studies. February 2008. Advisor: Dr. Ellen Berry
Caldwell, Kimberly M. "From Africatown (Alabama) to 'Out Stickney;' Reminiscences of a Toledo, Ohio African-American Community, 1919-1960," December 2001.
Crook, Nathan. "Foods That Matter: Constructing Place and Community at Food Festivals in Northwest Ohio," American Culture Studies. July 2009. Advisor: Lucy M. Long
Dacey-Groth, Camilla. "Slaves of Fiction: Coming to Terms with the American Holocaust through Representation of Slavery in Post-Civil-Rights Fiction and Film," August 2001.
Davidoff, Solomon. "Of Their Own Accord: (Mis)Readings of Geotheistic Allusions to Popular Fiath in C. S. Lewis' ," May 2001.
Dawson, Deborah Lynn. "Laboring in My Savior's Vineyard: The Mission of Eliza Hart Spalding," August 1988.
Dick, Lesley. "'I Just Want To Be Wonderful': The Cultural Legacy of Marilyn Monroe," August 1985. Advisor: Michael T. Marsden (9, 18, 22)
Donahue, Matthew A. "The Message Behind the Beat: Social and Political Attitudes Expressed in American Rap and Punk Rock Music of the 1980's and Early 1990's," May 2001.
Donath, Jackie R. "Design as Mass Communication: An Iconological Case Study of the Work of Charles and Ray Eames," August 1986.
Doyle, Robert C. "In the Public Domain: Musical Performance as Social Communication in a Folkloric Context," December 1987. Advisor: William E. Grant (10, 2, 15)
Dvorak, Kenneth R. "Terror in Detroit: The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Black Legion," American Culture Studies Program. August 2001.
Edwards, Thomas S. "The Pursuit of the Ideal: Mass Culture and Mass Politics in the Works of Dwight MacDonald (1906-1983)," August 1989.
Fischer, Paul D. "Radical Pedagogy and the Interdisciplinary Revolution: Teaching 'Youth Culture' for the 21st Century," American Culture Studies . May 1995.
Flagg, Jeffery B. "The Road Toward Wisdom: The Evolution of Land Ethics in the Adirondack State Park," American Culture Studies. May 1999.
Gaddie, Griffin. "Homophony and Paronomasia in America: On the Validity of Puns," May 1989. Advisor: Ray Browne (12, 18, 16)
Gadzekpo, Leonard Kodzo. "A Comparative Study of African American and Nigerian Art from the 1960s to the 1970s: A Cultural History Perspective," American Culture Studies. December 20, 1997.
Gajalla, Radhika . "Behind the Smile: Negotiating and Transforming the Tourism Imposed Identity of Bahamian Women," American Culture Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Radhika Gajalla
Gulliford, Andrew. "Boomtown Blues: A Community History of Oil Shale Booms in the Colorado River Valley, 1885-1985," July 1986.
Hackleman, Leah Diane. "The First Year? Gendering 1968," American Culture Studies. August 1995.
Haynes, Robin A.S. "Landscape as Palimpsest: The fugutive Images of Southeastern Colorado," August 1989.
Hunt, Imelda. "An Oral History of Art Tatum During His Years in Toledo, Ohio, 1909-1932," American Culture Program. August 1995.
Jian, Xiao-Yang. "Cross-Culture Philanthropy: Rockefeller Donors and Chinese Recipients 1911-1921," American Culture Studies. May 1994.
Johnston, Christopher. "Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat," American Culture Studies. August 2008. Advisor: Dr. Andrew Hershberger
Kaser, James Allen. "The Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Chickamauga: An Exercise in Perspectivist Historical Research," December 1991. Advisor: William Grant (11, 2)
Kishimoto, Kyoko. "Race and History Wars in the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japanese Media," American Culture Studies Program. May 2001.
Kunkle, Barbara Lynn. "Appalachia and the Imagination of Empire," American Culture Studies. December 1997.
Kuwahara, Yasue. "The Promised Land: Images of America in Rock," December 1987. Advisor: Michael T. Marsden (18, 2, 14)
Lees, Victoria. "Heresy, hearsay and historiography: tracing the voice of Anne Hutchinson," August 2000.
Ligibel, Theodore J. "The Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor as a Model of the Cultural Morphology of the Historic Preservation Movement," American Culture Studies Program. May 1995.
Louden-Hanes, Marie. "Winslow Homer and the Demimonde," American Culture Studies Program. December 1994.
Luck, Therese L. "Woman's Page as Women's Medicated Discourse at the Time of the Enactment of the 19th Amendment," August 1989.
Montague, Diana M. "Empowering the Sense of Place: Regional Detection Fiction Elevates Non-Urban American Culture," American Culture Studies. May 2000.
Myers, Sally A. "Northwest Ohio Women’s Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture: 1880-1918," American Culture Studies. August 1995.
Nash, Ilana. "'America's Kid Sister': Teenage Girls in Popular Culture, 1930-1965," December 2002.
Nelson, Angela M. S. "A Theomusicological Approach to Rap: A Model for the Study of African American Popular and Folk Musics," American Culture Studies Program. August 1992. Advisor: Jon Michael Spencer (1, 2, 14)
Perry, D. LaRouth S. "The 1957 Desegregation Crisis of Little Rock, Arkansas: A Meeting of Histories," American Culture Studies. August 1997.
Peterson, William D. "Storm Warriors: The United States Life Saving Service in American Culture, 1870-1915," American Studies Department. May 1998.
Prescott, Renate W. "Vietnam War Literature: The Movement from War to Home," 1991. Advisor: Charles Crow
Pryzdia, Michael R. "The Wake of Imagination and the Postmodern Meaning of ‘Meaning.’," American Culture Studies Program. May 1994.
Raub, Patricia. "Popularizing the City: Urban Imagery in the National Geographic Magazine, 1950-1984," May 1986.
Robinson, Michael G. "Genre From the Audience Perspective: Science Fiction," American Cultural Studies. August 2000.
Rodriguez, Julio. "Whiting Up: Negotiating Color and Masculinity in the Black Athlete," American Culture. August 2001.
Romanowski, William D. "Rock’n'Religion: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Contemporary Christian Music Industry," 1990. Advisor: William E. Grant (18, 2, 11)
Sims, Yvonne. "From Mammies to Action Heroines: Female Empowerment in Black Popular Cinema," American Cultural Studies Program. July 2000.
Steel, Steven C. "Subvert the Dominant Paradigm!: Environmentalism, Earth First!, and Oppositional Theory," American Culture Studies. August 1996.
Streamas, John. "Japanese Americans and Cultures of Relocation," American Culture Studies. June 2001.
Swiger, Molly J. "Consuming ‘Third World’ Children: Constructing an American Self," American Cultural Studies. December 2000.
Thursby, Jacqueline S. "Basque Women of the American West," American Culture Studies Program. May 1994.
Urish, Benjamin K. "America Through its Comedians: Comedy and Culture on Film," American Culture Studies Program. January 1994.
Vriend, Sharon R. "'My Life in the White World': The European-American Representation of Marian Anderson, 1939-1957," American Culture Studies. December 1999.
Walter, Scott. "White Is and White Ain't: Representations and Analyses of Whiteness in the Novels of Chester Himes," American Culture Studies. November 2005.
Wells, Edward R. "Growing Green: Changing Paradigms in America's Pesticide Use," August 1991. Advisor: Philip G. Terrie (23, 11)
Wherry, Maryan. "The Military Officer's Wife: Creating and Locating a Social Identity," American Culture Studies. May 2000.
Xia, Yanwen. "The Sojourner Myth and Chinese Immigrants in the United States," American Culture Program. June 1993. Advisor: Arthur Neal
Yap, Gloria. "USIA Periodicals: Instruments of American Culture Diffusion in the Philippines," December 1985. (17, 11)
Yu, Li-hua. "Chinese Immigrants in Idaho," January 1991. Advisor: William E. Grant
Zitt, Thomas J. "Reinventing Nature in America's First National Parks: Struggles over Management Policies in Yellowstone," American Culture Studies Program. December 1992. Advisor: Philip G. Terrie (2, Environmental Studies, 3)
Zrzavy, Helfried C. "Erik H. Erikson's Epiphanies: An Interpretive-Interactionist Study of Select Aspects of His Life and Work," American Culture Studies Program. May 1995.
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