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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
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Brown University
Alexander, Eleanor. "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore; A Social History of Love, Sex and the African-American Elite, 1870-1910," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Biltekoff, Charlotte. "Hidden Hunger: Eating and Citizenship from Domestic Science to the Fat Epidemic," American Civilization. July 2005.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. "San Francisco Was a Wide Open Town: Charting the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Communities through the Mid-Twentieth Century," Department of American Civilization. May 1995.
Briggs, Laura. "Reproducing Empire: Race and Sex, Science and Reform in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States, 1880-1960," Department of American Civilization. September 1997.
Cavicchi, Daniel Robert. "Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Chatelain, Marcia. ""The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl:" Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1899-1950," 2008. Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle
Coffey, Marion J. "Conceiving a Social Movement: Pro Choice Organizing Post-Roe v Wade," American Civilization. May 2001.
Cohen, Peter F. "Love and Anger: Literature, Activism, and the AIDS Epidemic," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Comer, Krista. "Western Landscapes and the Politics of American Space: Reading the New Female Regionalism," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Cullen, James P. "Making History: Uses of the Civil War in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture," May 1992. Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle (2,11,18)
Farmelant, Kristen Petersen. "Trophies of Grace: Religious Conversion and Americanization in Boston's Immigrant Communities, 1890-1940," American Civilization. May 2001.
Francis, Elizabeth. "Feminism and Modernism: Gender and Cultural Politics in America, 1910-1940," Department of American Civilization. May 1994.
Franz, Kathleen. "Narrating Automobility: Travelers, Tinkerers, and Technological Authority in the Twentieth Century," Department of American Civilization. May 1999.
Garceau, Dee. "'The Important Things of Life': Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929," Department of American Civilization. May 1995.
Gerhard, Jane F. "Politicizing Pleasures: Discourses on Women, Female Sexuality, and Feminism in Modern America 1920 to 1982," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Gernes, Todd Steven. "Recasting the Culture of Ephemera: Young Women's Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century America," May 1992. Advisor: Barton L. St. Armand/Mari Jo Buhle (12, 6, 18)
Greenfield, Briann G. "Old New England in the Twentieth-Century Imagination: Public Memory in Salem, Deerfield, Providence, and the Smithsonian Institution," October 2001.
Greenwood, Richard E. "'Scientific Engineering and Useful Improvements': The Manufacturing Career of Zachariah Allen, 1822-1872," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Hart, William Bryan. "For the Good of Our Souls: Mohawk Authority, Accomodation, and Resistance to Protestant Evangelism, 1700-1780," American Civilization. October 1997.
Herlihy, Mark A. "Leisure, Space and Collective Memory in the 'Athens of America': A History of Boston's Revere Beach," American Civilization. May 2000.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. "Special Sorrows: Irish-, Polish-, and Yiddish-American Nationalism and the Diasporic Imagination," May 1992. Advisor: Howard Chudacoff (11, 8, 23)
Kilgore, DeWitt Douglas. "Beyond Earth: Popular Science, Science Fiction, and the Cultural Construction of an American Future in Space," Department of American Civilization. August 1993.
Kocks, Dorothee E. "Champions of Place: Politics and Landscape in the 1930s and 1980s," American Civilization Program. January 1993. Advisor: John L. Thomas (2, 8, 9)
Lentz, Kristen Marthe. "Television as Bad Object: Feminism, Race and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television and Film," American Civilization. May 2000.
McAlister, Melani. "Staging the American Century: Race, Gender, and Nation in U.S. Representations of the Middle East, 1945-1992," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
McCleary, Ann Elizabeth. "Shaping a New Role for the Rural Woman: The Home Demonstration Club Program in Augusta County, Virginia, 1917-1940," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
McMichael, Robert K. "Consuming Jazz: Black Music and Whiteness," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Melish, Joanne Pope. "Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and the Cultural Construction of 'Race' in New England, 1780-1860," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Okoomian, Janice. "Originary Embodiments: The Female Body and Narratives of Ethnic Origin in the Contemporary United States," Department of American Civilization. May 1998.
Ostherr, Kirsten. "Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Audiovisual Discourse of World Health," American Civilization. May 2001.
Rand, Yardena Rivka. "Contested Landscape and Common Ground: American Audiences and the Movie Western," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Reumann, Miriam Grace. "American Sexual Character in the Age of Kinsey, 1946-64," Department of American Civilization. May 1998.
Ross, James. "The Impact of the Nineteenth-Century Public Health Movement Upon American Architecture: Theories of Disease, Ventilation, and Sunlight, 1840-1944," American Civilization. May 2006.
Russo, Alexander. "Roots of Radio's Rebirth: Audiences, Aesthetics, Economics, and Technologies of American Broadcasting, 1926-1951," American Civilization. May 2004.
Ryden, Kent C. "Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Geography, Narrative, and the Sense of Place," 1991. Advisor: Bruce Rosenberg (10, 12, 23)
Shubow, Jessica. ""A Political History of the Normal Body in the United States from the Progressive Era to the Cold War," May 2002.
Simpson, Jeffrey Edward. "The Walking Muse in America," 1991. Advisor: Barton St. Armand (12, 16)
Sokolow, Michael S. "'What A Miserable Life a Sea Fareing Life Is': The Life and Experiences of a Nineteenth-Century Mariner of Color," American and New England Studies Program. May 1997.
Tachi, Mikiko . "The Folk Music Revival Then and Now: Politics, Commercialism, and Authenticity in Folk Music Communities in the U.S. and Japan," American Civilization. May 2009. Advisor: Susan Smulyan
Tolentino, Cynthia. "The Liberal, The Sociologist, and the Novelist: Narratives of Race and National Development in African American and Asian American Fiction of the 1940's," American Civilization. May 2001.
Trigg, Mary Kathleen. "Four American Feminists, 1910-1940: Inez Haynes Irwin, Mary Ritter Beard, Doris Stevens, and Lorine Pruette," May 1989. Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle (22, 2, 11)
Urgo, Joseph. "William Faulkner: A Literature of the Life Experience," July 1985. (12, 23)
Wald, Sarah. "The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor," American Civilization. May 2009. Advisor: Ralph E. Rodriguez and Arlene R. Keizer
Yoshihara, Mari. "Women's Asia: American Women and the Gendering of American Orientalism, 1870s-World War II," Department of American Civilization. May 1997.
duCille, Ann. "Coupling and convention: Marriage, Sex, and Subjectivity in Novels by and about African American women, 1853-1948," January 1991. Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle (1, 22, 12)
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