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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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Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Adelt, Ulrich . "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s," December 2007.
Adelt, Ulrich. "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s," December 2007. Advisor: Jane Desmond
Alexander, Ilene. "Learning in Other Ways: A History of Feminist Pedagogy in the U.S," American Studies. May 1998.
Augspurger, Michael. "An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune and the Culture of Corporate Liberalism," American Studies. January 2001.
Baker, Laura. "Capitalism Beautiful and Consumer Democracy: Civic Ideals, Mass Culture, and the Public in Chicago, 1900-1925," December 2001.
Beecher, Mary Anne. "A Place for Everything: The Influence of Storage Innovations on Modern American Domesticity (1900-1955)," American Studies. December 2003.
Beemyn, Brett. "A Queer Capital: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Life in Washington, D.C., 1890-1955," American Studies. August 1997.
Blake, Eliot Martin. "The Magical Armchair: Private Power and the Commodification of Expressive Freedom," May 2002.
Bryant, William. "Whole System, Whole Earth: The Convergence of Ecology and Technology in Twentieth Century American Culture," American Studies. May 2006.
Burk, Rev. Michael. "Difficult Belonging: An Ethnographic Look at How the Church Excludes," American Studies. December 1998.
Eiselein, Gregory. "Humanitarian Works: Writing, Reform, and Eccentric Benevolence in the Civil War Era," Department of English. May 1993. Advisor: Ed Folsom (8, 9, 2)
Fields, Sarah K. "Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America," American Studies. December 2000.
Franklin, Nan Wolverton. "Century Farm: The Shaping of an Iowa Landscape, 1851-1951," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Gutjahr, Paul Charles. "Battling for the Book: The Americanization of the Bible in the Publishing Marketplace, 1777-1860," American Studies Program. October 1995.
Hall, James C. "'There Is No Deed But Memory': African-American Anti-Modernism and the American Sixties," June 1992. Advisor: Albert Stone (1, 2, 11)
Hallstoos, Brian. "Windy City, Holy Land: Willa Saunders Jones and Black Sacred Music and Drama," American Studies. December 2009. Advisor: Kim Marra and Corey Creekmur
Hannickel, Erica. "An Imperial Vineland: The Culture of the Grape in 19th Century America," American Studies. December 2008. Advisor: Dr. Laura Rigal
Herbert, Frank John. "American Nervousness," December 1990. Advisor: Richard P. Horwitz (15, 2, 18)
Horowitz, Steven Paul. "The Poetry of Paul Goodman," December 1986.
Jacobsen, Cheryl Rose. "Lifting the Curse of Eve: Textual Constructions of Gender and Identity in Women's Writings on Childbirth," December 1991. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (2, 12, 22)
Kibler, M. Alison. "Female Varieties: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, 1890-1925," American Studies Program. August 1994.
Knupfer, Walter Richard. "Running in Place: An Excursion into Self and Community," December 1989.
Lake, Taylor S. "American Delsartism and the Bodily Discourse of Respectable Womanliness," May 2002.
Lensink, Judy Nolte. "'My Only Confident': The Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888," December 1987. Advisor: Linda K. Kerber (22, 2, 12)
March, Kathleen Davidson. "Uncommon Civility: The Narragansett Indians and Roger Williams," December 1985. Advisor: Wayne Franklin (11, 9)
McCracken, Allison. "Real Men Don’t Sing: Crooning and American Culture, 1928-1933," American Studies. September 2000.
McPherson, Dolly A. "Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou," May 1986.
Moss, Jean Russel. "Walking the Tightrope: The Story of Nursing as Told by Nineteenth-Century Nursing Journals," December 1987. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (11, 22, 14)
Naick, Patrick. "Representations of the Black Metropolis: Place and African American Identity on Chicago’s South Side," American Studies. December 2008. Advisor: Barbara Eckstein
Nelson, Megan Kate. "Peculiar Ecology: Swamps and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1732-1940," June 2002.
Pustz, Matthew. "Fanboys and True Believers: Comic Book Reading Communities and the Creation of Culture," American Studies Department. May 1998.
Reid, Mark A. "Black Oriented Films (1961-1977): Film Form, Black Culture, Ideological Content," February 1988. Advisor: Darwin T. Turner (1, 14, 21)
Rich, Danielle. "Global Fandom: The Circulation of Japanese Popular Culture in the U.S.," July 2011.
Rife, Gladys Talcott. "Iowa's Rural Women Columnists, Especially of the Fifties: Their Cultural and Historical Import in a Comparative Context," May 1988. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (2, 22, 4)
Rooks, Noliwe M. "Hair-Raising: African American Women, Beauty Culture and Madame C.J. Walker," American Studies Program. August 1994.
Roraback, Eileen Mary. "The Defense of the Self: Autobiographical Responses of American Intellectuals to the McCarthy Era," American Studies Program. May 1999.
Scheese, Donald F. "Inhibitors of the Wild: Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Edward Abbey," 1991. Advisor: Robert F. Sayre (2, 12, 11)
Simonsen, Jane. "Making Home Work: Race, Gender, and the Uses of American Domestic Space, 1850-1920," American Studies. May 2001.
Snyder, Terri L. "'Rich Widows Are the Best Commodity This Country Affords': Gender Relations and the Rehabilitation of Patriarchy in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," May 1992. Advisor: Linda K. Kerber (11, 23, 22)
Sohn, Hongeal. "Literature and Society: African-American Drama and American Race Relations," November 1992. Advisor: Frederick Woodard (9, 1, 2)
Spring, Alan Richard. "Public Intellectuals in the Culture of Personality: Democratic Discourse, Moral Authority, and Intellectual Vocation," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Su, Hongjun. "Strangers Within Our Grates: A Study of Four First-Generation Chinese Immigrant Men's Autobiographies: 1930s-1940s," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Suh, Suk Bong. "Literature, Society, and Culture: Upton Sinclair and The Jungle," May 1986.
Sutherland, Gretchen Rolufs. "Of Winter Branches: The Literary Career of Anne Morrow Lindbergh," December 1986.
Taylor, Leslie A. "Veritable Hotheads: Lesbian Scandals in the United States, 1926-36," American Studies. May 1998.
Vermaas, Lori. "The National Trees: Celebrating the Sequoias-Their Trunks, Roots, Stumps, Bark-and Their Depiction as Big Trees in America, 1852-1944," American Studies. December 2000.
Walters, Kirsten. "Ultimate Spin: Contesting the Rhetoric, Countercultural Ethos and Commodification of the "Ultimate" Frisbee Sport, 1968-2008," May 2008. Advisor: Catriona M. Parratt
Watkins, Patsy Guenzel. "An Analysis of the Impact of 'Desktop Publishing' on the Production and Design of Magazines," August 1991. Advisor: Albert Stone (23, 12, 14)
Williams, Lawrence H.. "A Peculiar People: Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky, 1879-1930," December 1985. Advisor: Jonathan W. Walton (11, 8, 6)
Wiseman, Michael. "Rising on the Levee: Stories After The Flood and The Construction Of Place," American Studies Program. July 2001.
Wood, Sharon E.. "Wandering Girls and Leading Women: Sexuality and Urban Public Life in Davenport, Iowa, 1880-1910," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Yanney, Linda J. "The Practical Revolution: An Oral History of the Iowa City Feminist Community, 1965-1975," January 1991. Advisor: Susan J. Birrell (2, 11, 22)
Yu, Ningping. "Manufactured Images: Four Chinese Travelers and Their Writing about American Women," American Studies. May 1999.
Zalenski, John W. "The Practice of Resistance: Eugene V. Debs, Alexander Berkman, and the Cultural Psychology of the Prisoner of Conscience," May 1992. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (12, 2, 19)
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