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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
Emory University
Alvarez, Sally M. "Reclaiming the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Access Cable Television Programming by the U.S. Labor Movement," American Studies Program. December 1995.
Ambrose, Andrew M. "Redrawing the Color Line: The History and Patterns of Black Housing in Atlanta, 1940-1973," April 1992. Advisor: Dana F. White (23, 1, 2)
Arjet, Robert. "Gunplay: Men, Guns, and Action Films in the United States," December 2002.
Chung, Youn-Son. "War and Morality: The Search for Meaning in American Novels of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War," August 1985. Advisor: Peter W. Dowell (12,11)
Denard, Carolyn Coleman. "Return to the Briar Patch: Ethnic Cultural Consciousness in the Fiction of Toni Morrison," May 1986.
Giamo, Benedict F. "On the Bowery: Symbolic Action in American Culture and Subculture," December 1987. Advisor: Peter W. Dowell (2, 12, 3)
Gong, Wei-ling. "Race, Class, and Atlanta Public School Integration, 1954-1991," November 1991. Advisor: Dan T. Carter (2, 11, 6)
Harper, Donna/Akiba Sullivan. "The Complex Process of Crafting Langston Hughes's 'Simple,' 1942-1949," April 1988. Advisor: Peter W. Dowell (1, 2, 12)
Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Patterns: Interweaving Women Had Baskets in History," January 1991. Advisor: Allen Tullos (11, 13, 3)
Howard, John. "Men Like That: Male Homosexualities in Mississippi, 1945-1985," Program in American Studies. December 1997.
Kessler, Donna J. "Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend," Institute of Liberal Arts. March 1993. Advisor: Robert Deitweiler (6, 2, 18)
Kim, Ju-Hwan. "Relocating the Alliance: The U.S.-South Korea Military Alliance in Cultural Representations," July 2011.
Koppelman, Nancy. "One for the Road: Mobility in American Life, 1787-1985," Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. August 1999.
Lee, Calinda. "Creating the Pleasant View: The Impact of Gender, Race, and Class on African American Suburbanization, 1837-1999," March 2002.
Maclachlan, Gretchen. "Women's Work: Atlanta's Industrialization and Urbanization, 1879-1929," May 1992. Advisor: Dana F. White (2, 22, 23)
McGehee, Margaret. "On Margaret Mitchell's Grave: Women Writers Imagining Modern Atlanta," American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: Allen Tullos
Pickens, Ernestine Williams. "Charles W. Chesnutt and the Progressive Movement," May 1986.
Raimondo, Meredith. "The Next Wave: Media Maps of the ‘Spread of AIDS’," Women's Studies. December 1999.
Reitt, Barbara Black. "Modernization and the Emergence of the Book Editor 1876-1895: William Dean Howells as Bench Mark in a World of Change," December 1985. Advisor: Elizabeth Stevenson (4, 12)
Ricketts, Elizabeth Cocke. "'Our Battle for Industrial Freedom': Radical Politics in the Coal Fields of Central Pennsylvania, 1916-1926," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Sharpless, Mary Rebecca. "Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Cotton Farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie, 1900-1940," Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts. May 1993. Advisor: Allen Tullos (8, 18, 2)
Simons, Kent S. "Taming the Powers of the Air: Science, Pseudoscience, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American Literature," December 1985. Advisor: David H. Hesla (12, 16)
Soper, Kerry D. "Seriously Funny: A History of Satirical Newspaper Comic Strips in the Twentieth Century United States," The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (Program in American Studies). May 1998.
Spears, Ellen Griffith. "Toxic Knowledge: A Social History of Environmental Health in the New South's Model City, Anniston, Alabama, 1872-Present," August 2006. Advisor: Allen Tullos
Stanley, Talmage A. "The Poco Field: Politics, Culture and Place in Contemporary Appalachia," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt. "Travel Writing and Resistance: Travel Narratives by African American and Euro-American Women, 1820-1860," May 2000.
Wehner, Patrick T. "Living in Style: Marketing, Media, and the Discovery of Lifestyles," Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. August 2000.
Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. "In the Tradition of Revolution: The Socio-Aesthetics of Black and Puerto Rican Arts Movements, 1962-1982," August 2001.
Willis, Alliene Horne. "An Analysis of the Controversy Surrounding `The Selling of the Pentagon.'," December 1987. Advisor: Elizabeth Stevenson (2, 11, 14)
Zhao, Jianli. "Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, their Community, and Stories of their Lives," American Studies Program. April 1996.
Zhou, Haipeng. "Expressions of the Life That is within Us: Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China," April, 2011.
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