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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Bengiveno, Teri Ann. "Campus Based Women's Centers: An Analysis of the Development and Survival of a Student-Run Center in the Struggle for Gender Equity in Higher Education," American Studies Program. August 1996.
Blair, Chad. "Democracy in Hawaii: Class, Race, and Gender in Local Politics," American Studies Department. December 1996.
Carr, Norma. "The Puerto Ricans in Hawaii: 1900-1958," December 1989.
Chess, Sonia Mary. "Daughters From Another Shore: Maternal Influences in Selected Fiction of Chinese-American Daughters of Immigrant Mothers," Department of American Studies. December 1996.
Chiba, Hiromi. "From Enemy to Ally: American Public Opinion and Perceptions about Japan, 1945-1950," January 1990. Advisor: James McCutcheon (2,11,14)
Cho, Eun Young. "Cultural Authorities in Transition and Sam Shepard's Search for Identity," December 1991. Advisor: Mark Helbling (2,12,15)
Chung, Chenchiun Peter. "Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction: A Study in Culture, Psychology, and Technique," Department of American Studies. December 1992. Advisor: Floyd Matson (2, 9, 15)
De Ste Croix, James B. "The Republic of Talk Radio," American Studies. December 1998.
Ejiri, Masakazu. "The Development of Waikiki, 1900-1949: The Formative Period of an American Resort Paradise," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Ferguson, Thomas J. "American Perceptions of the Vietnam War in Popular Literature: An Interpretation by a Professional Soldier," May 1988. Advisor: Floyd W. Matson (12, 11, 23)
Fox, Evarts C., Jr. "A Study of Historic Preservation in Hawaii," August 1985. Advisor: James M. McCutcheon (13, 11, 5)
Gagné, Michael P. "Wall Street: Symbol of American Culture," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Hodges, Anita Poluga. "Collective Visions of Women: Representations of Gender and Race in the Writings of Women of Color, 1900-1940," American Studies. May 1998.
Kay, Dianne Fife. "Contemporary Hawaiian Carving, Sculpture, and bowl-turning: An Analysis of Post-Contact and Cultural Influences," 1990. Advisor: Floyd Matson (2, 23, 3)
Kirk-Kuwaye, Christine. "Exceptional Moments: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Images of the Photographic Work of Anne Noggle," American Studies. August 1999.
Kirkendall, Judith M. "Hawaiian Ethnogastronomy: The Development of a Pidgin Cuisine," August 1985.
Liu, Xin. "The Founding and Development of the Palolo Chinese Home - 1917-1988: A Care Study of Chinese Integration in Hawaii," January 1990. Advisor: David Bertelson (8, 2, 21)
Long, Yi. "The American Response to the Development of Chinese Nuclear Weapons: A Study in the Evolution of Perception and Policy," Department of American Studies. May 1994.
Lovaas, Karen Elizabeth. "Waging Hormones," American Studies Program. August 1993. Advisor: David Stannard (2, 18)
Menon, Srdevi. "Discursive Realms and Colonial Practice: Contrapuntal Studies of Race in Colonial India and the United States," American Studies. December 2001.
Middlebrook, Geoffrey C. "The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and American Public Diplomacy During the Reagan Years: Purpose, Policy, Program, and Performance," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Miller, Rhoda. "The Conceptual Background to the U.S. Institute of Peace," 1990. Advisor: Floyd Matson (2, 11, 23)
O'Brien, Patrick Gerald. "Imagery and Symbol of the Airplane in American Film," American Studies. May 2004.
Osumare, Halifu. "African aesthetics, American Culture: Hip Hop in the Global Era," American Studies. December 1999.
Pierce, Lori. "Constructing American Buddhisms: Discourses of Race and Religion in Territorial Hawaii," American Studies. August 2000.
Puette, William J. "Media Portrayals of Organized Labor: The Limits of American Liberalism," December 1989.
Rellahan, J. Connelly. "At Home Among the Puritans: Sigmund Freud and the Calvinist Tradition in America," December 1988. Advisor: David Bertelson (2, 11, 16)
Rice, Mark. "Reading the Pictured City: History, Nostalgia and the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys, 1976-1981," American Studies. December 1999.
Robinson, Linda Leyden. "Re-Embodied Vision: The Cultural Shift from Discursive to Figural," American Studies. August 1998.
San Buenaventura, Steffi. "Nativism and Ethnicity in a Filipino-American Experience," 1990. Advisor: Judith Hughes
Sendzikas, Aldona. "Due North: The American Search for a New Frontier in the Twentieth Century," May 2002.
Sereno, Aeko. "Images of the Hula Dancer and “Hula Girl”: 1778-1960," 1990. Advisor: James McCutcheon (2, 23, 3)
Simpson, Michael W. "The Kusan People: A Systemic cultural History," 1990. Advisor: Floyd Matson (2, 8, 11)
Stuart, Kevin. "Idiots, Barbarians, Blue Spots and Tiffin in the Deep Dark Heart of Asia: Mongols in Western Consciousness," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Su, Christine M. "Tradition and Change: Khmer Identity and Democracy in the 20th Century and Beyond," December 2003.
Tamashiro, John G. "The Evolution of Konkokyo, a Japanese Religion in Hawaii," December 1985. Advisor: Seymour Lutzsky (16)
Tehranian, Katherine. "The City as Discourse: The Origins of American City Planning," May 1990.
Vaughan, Rob. "The Worker's Paradise: Edward Bellamy and the 'Labor Question,' 1888-1898," American Studies Department. May 2007. Advisor: David Stannard
Zmijewski, David. "Huck Finn and Hawaii: A Study of Hawaiian Influence on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," American Studies Department. December 1998.
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