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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
Oct. 1 | Travel Grants for Graduate Students
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
California, Los Angeles, University of
Bauer, Dale M. "The Failure of Community: Women and Resistance in Hawthorne's, James's and Wharton's Fictions," November 1985.
Boler, Megan. "Feeling Power: The Discourses of Emotion in United States Higher Education," History of Consciousness Board. July 1993.
Bravmann, Scott. "Queer Fictions of the Past," Board of Studies in History of Consciousness. June 1995.
Butler, Kathleen. "Tradition and Discovery: The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent," History of Art Department. May 1994.
Chang, Michael. "Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship: The 'Asian Donorgate' Controversy in Perspective," December 2001.
Coiner, Constance. "'Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will': Literature of Resistance," December 1986.
Connor, Celeste. "Visions and Revisions of the American Landscape: Paintings and Photographs of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924-1934," April 1989. (2, 11, 23)
Ferreira, Jason. "All Power to the People: A Comparative History of Third World Radicalism in San Francisco, 1968-1974," Ethnic Studies. January 2003.
Giberti, Bruno. "The Classified Landscape: Consumption, Commodity Order, and the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia," Department of Architecture. May 1994.
Gleason, William. "Playing for Keeps: Recreation and Re-Creation in American Literature, 1840-1940," Department of English. August 1993.
Gray, Chris Hables. "Computers as Weapons and Metaphors: The U.S. Military 1940-1990 and Postmodern War," June 1991. Advisor: Donna Haraway (20, 2, 11)
Hardack, Richard. "'The Seductive God': Pan and Transcendental Individualism in American Literature from Melville to Morrison," Department of English. April 1994.
Hise, Greg G. "The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region: Mass-Housing and Community Planning in California, 1920 to 1950," Department of Architecture. December 1992. Advisor: Dell Upton (10, 8, Urban History)
Hood, Adrienne Dora. "Organization and Extent of Textile Manufacture in Eighteenth Century, Rural Pennsylvania: A Case Study of Chester County," June 1988. Advisor: Robert C. Ritchie (11, 13, 2)
Joo, Eungie. "Crisis to Collapse: The Racialized Subject in Contemporary American Art," January 2002.
Lara, Irene. "Decolonizing Latina Spiritualities and Sexualities: Healing Practices in las Américas," Ethnic Studies. May 2003.
Lopez, Cesar. "El Descanso: A Comparative History of the Los Angeles Plaza Area and the Shared Racialized Space of the Mexican and Chinese Communities, 1853-1933," June 2002.
Lucas, Ashley. "Performing the (Un)Imagined Nation: The Emergence of Ethnographic Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century," Ethnic Studies and Theatre and Drama. June 2006.
Marshall, Courtney. "Sisters in Crime: Black Femininity, Law, and Literature in American Culture," English. July 2009. Advisor: Arthur Little
Ochoa, María. "Creative Collectives: A Study of Chicana Artistic Expressiveness," History of Consciousness. September 1996.
Smith, Liberty. "Something Sinister in this Affair: Femme/Butch Collaborations and American Politics," Literature. December 2003.
Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and the Transformation of American Culture, 1886-1917," December 1989.
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