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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
Harvard University
Augst, Thomas. "Making Society Out of Books: Character, Self-Fashioning, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century America," History of American Civilization Program. October 1996.
Baumgarten, Nikola. "Immigrants as Democrats: Education in St. Louis Before the Civil War," History of American Civilization. October 1993.
Bilder, Mary Sarah. "Salamanders and Sons of God: Transatlantic Legal Cultural and Colonial Rhode Island," History of American Civilization. November 2000.
Bouricius, Clara Maria. "'A Happier Ending than is Warranted by the Facts'; Or, How E.D.E.N. Southworth Created Sentimental Capitalism, 1849-1886," History of American Civilization Program. May 1997.
Brophy, Alfred L. "The Intersection of Property and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought: From Missouri Compromise Through Civil War," History of American Civilization. June 2001.
Carlin, Deborah. "Reading Willa Cather: Problems and Poetics in the Late Fiction," June 1987.
Casey, Brian W. "Romantic Campus: Emotion and the American College, 1880-1940," History of American Civilization. May 2000.
Crockett, Rosemary F. "The Garies and Their Friends: A Study of Frank J. Webb and his Novel," History of American Civilization. May 1998.
Dorman, Jessica. "'Deliver Me from This Muck-Rake': The Literary Impulse behind Progressive Era Muckraking," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Fisher, William West, III. "The Law of the Land: An Intellectual History of American Property Doctrine, 1776-1880," September 1991.
Flood, Karen P. "Contemplating Corpses: The Dead Body in American Culture, 1870-1920," History of American Civilization. May 2001.
Forbes, Camille F. "Performed Fictions: The Onstage and Offstage Lives of Bert Williams," January 2002.
Gelber, Scott. "Academic Populism: The People’s Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1800-1905," June 2008. Advisor: Julie Reuben
Gelber, Scott. "Academic Populism: The People’s Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1880-1905," June 2008. Advisor: Julie Reuben
Gollaher, David L. "Dorothea Lynde Dix and the Frontiers of Madness in America," December 1990. (11, 20, 22)
Hathaway, Heather. "Cultural Crossings: Migration, Generation, and Gender in Writings by Claude McKay and Paule Marshall," History of American Civilization. November 1993.
Holmes, Steve. "'Blessed Home': Nature, Religion, Science, and Human Relationship in the Early Life of John Muir," American Civilization Program. June 1996.
Ignatiev, Noel. "How the Irish Became White," History of American Civilization Program. October 1994.
John, Richard R., Jr. "Managing the Mails: The Postal System, Public Policy, and American Political Culture, 1823-1836," June 1989.
Jumonville, Neil. "The Gray Dawn: The New York Intellectuals and the Function of Criticism," March 1987.
Larson, Rebecca Darlene. "'Public Friends': Quaker Women Travelling Ministers, 1700-1775," Department of the History of American Civilization. June 1993. Advisor: Bernard Bailyn
McCrossen, Alexis Macon. "Holy Day, Holiday: The Rejuvenation of the American Sunday, 1860-1930," History of American Civilization Program. May 1995.
Melnick, Jeffrey. "Ancestors and Relatives: The Uncanny Relationship of African Americans and Jews," History of American Civilization Program. September 1994.
Nadell, Martha. ""Nor Can I Reduce This Experience to a Medium": Race, Art, and Literature in America, 1920s-1940s," History of American Civilization. January 2001.
Nash, Jennifer. "The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography," African and African American Studies. March 2009. Advisor: Werner Sollors
O'Keefe, John T. "Family of God, Family of Man: Liberal Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England," History of American Civilization. August 1999.
Pannapacker, William A. "Revised Lives: Studies in the Changing Constructions of Authorial Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture," History of American Civilization. April 1999.
Pasley, Jeffrey L. "`Artful and Designing Men’: Political Professionalism in the Early American Republic, 1775-1820," History of American Civilization. October 1993.
Phillips, Catherine Hale. "Helen (Hunt) Jackson and Her Literary Career," History of American Civilization. May 1997.
Qian, Mansu. "Emerson and China -- Reflections on Individualism," May 1992. Advisor: Sacvan Bercovitch (23, 2, 16)
Richardson, Heather Cox. "Constructing 'The Greatest Nation on Earth': Economic Policies of the Republican Party During the American Civil War," May 1992.
Richardson, Judith. "Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley," History of American Civilization. February 2001.
Rosengarten, Dale. "Social Origins of the African-American Lowcountry Basket," American Civilization Program. May 1997.
Samson, Miles David. "German-American Dialogues and the Modern Movement Before the `Design Migration,’ 1910-1933," November 1988. Advisor: Donald Fleming (23, 11, 13)
Shaffer, Marguerite S. "See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1905-1930," History of American Civilization. June 1994.
Smith, Dale Edwyna. "The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820 to 1868," History of American Civilization Program. May 1993. Advisor: Stephan Thernstrom/Catherine Clinton (Old South History, 1, 2 )
Soto, Michael. "Literary History and the Age of Jazz: Generation, Renaissance, and American Literary Modernism," Department of English and American Literature and Language. August 1999.
Speziale, Marcia Jean. "The Puritan Pariah, or A Citizen of Somewhere Else: Defamation in Massachusetts, 1642 to 1850," March 1992. Advisor: Morton J. Horwitz/Stephan Thernstrom (23, 11, 12)
Thompson, Shirley E. "The Passing of a People: Creoles of Color in Mid-Nineteenth Century New Orleans," History of American Civilization. May 2001.
Tucker, Penny. "The Culture of Promises: Literary Ethics and American Cultural Politics, 1820-1870," June 2002.
Veitch, Jonathan. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Nathanael West in an Age of 'Mass Culture.'," May 1992. Advisor: Sacvan Bercovitch (2, 12, 14)
Wachtell, Cynthia J. "War No More: The Emergence of Anti-War Literature for the Civil War Through World War I," History of American Civilization. June 1998.
Woubshet, Dagwami. "Figurations of Catastrophe: the Poetics and Politics of AIDS Loss," History of American Civilization. June 2007. Advisor: Marc Shell
Zafar, Rafia. "White Call, Black Response: Adoption, Subversion, and Transformation in American Literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Abolition," May 1989. Advisor: Werner Sollors/Sacvan Bercovitch (12, 1, 2)
de Baca, Michael Alvar. "Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s," History of American Civilization. June 2009. Advisor: Jennifer L. Roberts
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