Register
Register here for the annual meeting and to begin or renew an ASA membership
Register here to submit a proposal through the ASA's 2012 submission site.
Register here for JHU Press and ASA membership services, including online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online.Register here to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.
Click here for membership FAQ's
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
For submission guidelines, click here
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
George Washington University
Allen, Gloria Seaman. "Threads of Bondage: Chesapeake Slave Women and Plantation Cloth Production, 1750-1850," American Studies. June 2000.
Barker, E. Shannon. "Los Tejanos de San Antonio: Mexican Immigrant Family Acculturation, 1880-1929," American Studies. March 1996.
Bowles-Reyer, Amy. "Our Secret Garden: American Popular Young Adult Literature in the 1970s and the Transmission of Sexual and Gender Ideology to Adolescent Girls," Department of American Studies. January 1998.
Brown, Margaret Ann. "Not Your Usual Boardinghouse Types: Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony, 1906-1907," Department of American Studies. May 1993. Advisor: Robert H. Walker (19,2)
Brown, Sarah. "American Tourists' Narratives of the Caribbean, 1839-1939: A Study of the Experience of Tourism and of Cultural Encounter," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Cadaval, Olivia. "The Hispano American Festival and the Latino Community: Creating an Identity in the Nation's Capital," September 1989.
Clark, Laurel A.. "Taming the Territory: Women and Gender on the Florida Frontier," Seotember 2007. Advisor: Teresa Murphy
Cook, Laura. "Dangerous Men, Dangerous Media: Constructing Ethnicity, Race, and Media's Impact through the Gangster Image, 1959-2007," November 2007. Advisor: Melani McAlister and Thomas A. Guglielmo
Cothern, Lynn. "Becoming Western: Gender and Generation in Mary Hallock Foote's Dual Career," American Civilization. September 1996.
Davis, Nancy E. "The American China Trade, 1784-1844: Products for the Middle Class," February 1987.
Deutsch, James I. "Coming Home from "The Good War": World War II Veterans as Depicted in American Film and Fiction,," January 1991. Advisor: Marcus Cunliffe/Bernard Mergen (2, 18, 23)
Donaldson, John K. "The Themes of Reciprocity and Renewal in Traditional Cherokee Culture," American Studies Program. January 1995.
Erradi, Saida. "Two American Women's Perceptions of Moroccan Women: Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Fernea," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Fertig, Barbara. "Belonging to the Crown: Ethnicity and Gender Roles in a Portuguese-American Feast," American Civilization Program. May 1993. Advisor: John Michael Vlach (2, 7, 18)
Foster, Andrea Kim. "'They're Turning the Town All Upside Down': The Community Identity of Williamsburg, Virginia Before and After the Reconstruction," American Civilization Program. December 1992. Advisor: Richard Longstreth (2, 1, 10)
Goode, James M. "Architecture and Politics: Thomas Ustick Walter and the Enlargement of the U.S. Capitol, 1850-1865," American Studies Program. January 1995.
Grayson, Ellen. "Art, Audiences and the Aesthetics of Social Order in Antebellum America: Rembrandt Peale's Court of Death," American Studies Program. June 1995.
Griggs, Catherine. "Beyond Boundaries: the Adventurous Life of Marguerite Harrison," American Civilization. April 1996.
Gwinn, Nancy E. "The Origins and Development of International Publication Exchange Programs in Nineteenth-Century America," American Studies Program. January 1996.
Heard, Sandra . "The "Bad" Black Consumer: A Study of African-American Consumer Culture in Washington, D.C., 1910s-1930s," Aug 2010.
Heckscher, Jurretta Jordan. "'All the Mazes of the Dance': Black Dancing, Culture, and Identity in the Greater Chesapeake World from the Early Eighteenth Century to the Civil War," American Studies. March 2000.
Hibler, Anita. "The Publication of the Wilkes Reports, 1842-1877," June 1989. Advisor: Bernard Mergen (2, 20, 23)
Hodson, Joel. "T. E. Lawrence: Transatlantic Legends and American Culture," April 1992. Advisor: Marcus Cunliffe/Bernard Mergen (11, 18, 12)
Ishii, Noriko Kawamura. "American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909," American Civilization. September 1997.
Keller, Craig Lee. "The Intellectuals and Eisenhower: Civil Religion, Religious Publicity, and the Search for Moral and Religious Communities," May 2002.
Kemp, Louis Ward. "Highway Diplomacy: The United States and the Inter-American Highway, 1923-1955," April 1989. Advisor: William H. Becker/Bernard Mergen (11, 2, 20)
Kirkham, David M. "'Inflamed With Study': Eighteenth Century Higher Education and the Formation of the American Constitutional Mind," September 1989. Advisor: Marcus Cunliffe (11, 2, 6)
Kondo, Mitsuo. "Assimilation and Acculturation of Long-Term American Residents in Japan, 1930-1955," February 1986. Advisor: Marlene Mayo/Robert Walker (11, 21, 19)
Leonard, Angela Michele. "Reading Political Poetry: A Discourse Analysis of the Antislavery Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier and the Corn Law Rhymes of Ebenezer Elliott," Department of American Studies. January 1994.
Loeffler, Jane Canter. "Architecture of Diplomacy: The United States Builds Embassies Abroad, 1926-1964," American Studies Program. January 1996.
Martinez, Ann Katharine. "Life and Career of John Sartain (1808-1897): A Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Printmaker," May 1986. Advisor: Lillian B. Miller (18m 22, 1)
McComb, Mary C. "Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology," American Studies. January 2004.
McLoud, Melissa. "Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs: Builders in Late Nineteenth-Century Washington, D. C.," March 1988. Advisor: Richard Longstreth (20, 13, 5)
Millikan, Frank Rives. "Wards of the Nation: The Making of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 1852-1920," October 1989.
Okude, Naohito. "Applications of Linguistic Concepts to the Study of Vernacular Buildings: Architectural Design Among New Orleans Free Persons of Color, 1820-1880," March 1986. Advisor: John Michael Vlach (10, 3, 13)
Parrott, Sara Foose. "Expatriates and Professionals: The Careers in Italy of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Artists," June 1987.
Pennino, Dorothy. "Engendering the Text: Self-Reliant Women in American Self-Help Literature," 1990. Advisor: Phyllis Palmer (2, 22, 11)
Reed, Paula S. "Building with Stone in the Cumberland Valley: A Study of Regional Environmental, Technical and Cultural Factors in Stone Construction," December 1987. Advisor: Howard Frank Gillette (23, 13, 2)
Ripley, Wendy. "Women Working at Writing: Achieving Professional Status in Nineteenth-Century America, 1850-1875," American Studies Program. March 1996.
Roberts, Paige W. "The Politics of Preservation: Historical Consciousness and Community Identity in Portsmouth, New Hampshire," American Studies. May 2000.
Ruffner, Kevin Conley. "Border State Warriors: Maryland’s Junior Officers in the Union and Confederate Armies," 1991. Advisor: Michael Musick/James O. Horton (2, 11, 23)
Schulte, Stephanie Ricker . "State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture (1980-2000)," August 2008. Advisor: Melani McAlister
Schulte, Stephanie Ricker. "State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture (1980-2000)," August 2008. Advisor: Melani McAlister
Scott, Robert M. "St. George Tucker and the Development of American Culture in Early Federal Virginia 1790-1824," 1990. Advisor: Marcus Cunliffe/Doris Green Schwoerer (2, 11, 23)
Sharps, Ronald LaMarr. "Happy Days and Sorrow Songs: Interpretations of negro Folklore by Black Intellectuals, 1893-1928," 1991. Advisor: John Vlach (10, 2, 1)
Speicher, Anna M. "Faith Which Worketh by Love’: The Religious World of Female Antislavery Lecturers," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Stapp, Carol Buchalter. "Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records," Feb. 1990.
Suter, Scott Hamilton. "The Importance of Making Progress: The Potteries of Emanuel Suter, 1851-1897," American Studies Program. August 1994.
Tangires, Helen. "Meeting on Common Ground: Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America," American Studies. May 1999.
Tappert, Tara L. "Choices-The Life and Career of Cecilia Beaux: A Professional Biography," May 1990.
Troyano, Joan Fragaszy. "Visualizing a Nation: Photographs, European Immigration, and American Identity, 1880-1980," August 2011.
Tucker, Richard. "Brushstroke: Commerical Icon and Cultural Image," American Studies. April 2001.
Van Buren, Deborah E. "The Cornish Colony: Expressions of Attachments to Place, 1885-1915," May 1987.
Wiley, Amber . "Concrete Solutions: Architecture of Public High Schools During the “Urban Crisis”," March 2011, .
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]