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Events
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
Claremont Graduate University
Ash, Patricia B. "Quest for Harmony: Religion in the Origin of the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement," History. May 1998.
Bean, Heather Ann Ackley. "Fly Pretty Bird: An Appalachian Woman's Theodicy.," Religion Department. February 1997.
Campbell, Denise. "Quilting A Culture: Theories of Aesthetics, Representation, and Resistance in African-American Quiltmaking," Culture Studies. March 2006.
Garcia, Matt. "Colonies, Colonias, and Culture: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1960," History Department. January 1997.
Haas, John H. "Caesar Rodney: Delaware's Prudent Engineer of Revolution," Department of History. April 1994.
Ladd, Michelle R.. "Sometimes a Cigar. . . : Literature and the American Experience of Modernity," Cultural Studies. December 2006. Advisor: Cristanne Miller
Lloyd, John P. "Revising the Republic: Popular Perceptions of Constitutional Change During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era," American Studies. May 2000.
Meyer, Lee Ann. "Great Exception: Carey McWilliams’ Path to Activism," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Mitoma, Glenn Tatsuya. "Globalizing Rights: Defining, Declaring, and Denying Human Rights in the Age of American Hegemony, 1939-1955," Cultural Studies. March 2007. Advisor: Elazar Barkan
Staggers, Kermit LeMoyne, II. "Reuben A. Torrey: American Fundamentalist, 1856-1928," January 1986. Advisor: John Niven (11, 16)
Stoltzfus, Emilie S. "Citizen, Mother, Worker: Public Provision of Child Care, 1945-1965," History Department. January 1999.
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