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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
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Alcocer-Berriozabal, Mary. "The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City Since World War II," American Studies. July 2000.
Ambler, Cathy. "The Look of the Fair: Kansas County Fairscapes, 1854-1994," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Birney, Ann. "Her Father's Son: Girls Doing Boys Work on Great Plains Family Farms and Ranches, 1915-1980," May 2002.
Black, Brian C. "Petrolia: The Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom, 1859-1873," American Studies Program. April 1996.
Burgess, Barbara. "Migrant Women to Oregon 1836-1860 - Hail the Columbia," October 1989.
Clark, David Anthony Tyeeme. "Representing Indians: Indigenous Fugitives and the Society of American Indians in the Making of Common Culture," American Studies. February 2004.
De Santis, Christopher C. "Reconstruction and the American Literary Imagination," Department of English. August 1997.
Dobak, William A. "Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: The Federal Government and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century American West," American Studies Program. December 1995.
Dykstra, Natalie A. "Working it Out: Domesticity, Space, and Self-Representation in Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1868-1914," American Studies. May 2000.
Eick, Gretchen Cassel. "'Lift Every Voice': The Civil Rights Movement and America's Heartland, Wichita, Kansas, 1954-1972," American Studies Program. November 1997.
Ezra, Michael. "Muhammad Ali's Main Bout: Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1967," December 2001.
Fleming, Walter C. "American Indians and Federal Land Leasing Policies, 1884-1917: 'That Beauty of Cultivation and Thrift Which Always Grows Out of American Energy'," American Studies Program. January 1996.
Fraga, Maria I. Isabel. "Make It Fast and Keep It Moving: Post-Cold War Action Films and Globalization," American Studies. December 2000.
Ginzburg, Lyubov. "Confronting the Cold War Legacy: The Forgotten History of the American Colony in St. Petersburg / A Case Study of Reconciliation," American Studies Program. April 2010. Advisor: David Katzman/Norman Saul
Heller, Jennifer. "The Search for Something More: Evangelical Women, Middle-Class Marriage, and the "Problem That Has No Name" in Popular Advice Books of the 1970s ," American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: Sherrie Tucker
Herbison, C.C. "B(l)ack to the World: Explorations of Race, Trauma, Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films," American Studies. June 2006.
Jendli, Adel. "Community Leadership of African-American Ministers in a Midwestern Town," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Kang, Jo Ma. "The Image of the Grandparent as Depicted in Selected Twentieth-Century American Novels," October 1991. Advisor: Elizabeth Schultz (2, 12, 23)
Kim, Sam Gon. "Black Americans' Commitment to Communism: A Case Study Based on Fiction and Autobiographies by Black Americans," July 1986.
Kimmel, Sheryl Adelman. "The Changing of the Guard: A Case Study of Maynard I. Wishner as an American Jewish Communal Leader," American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: David M. Katzman
Lawler, W. Stewart. "The Power of Performance and the Performance of Power: A Master/Mistress Trope for Black Cultural Difference in the African Diaspora," American Studies. May 2001.
Lowe, Hillary. "Literary destinations: Mark Twain’s Houses and Literary Tourism," American Studies. 2010. Advisor: Cheryl Lester
Mellinger, Gwyneth. "Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Diversity Initiative," American Studies. April 2006.
Morton, Joel. "Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men’s Movement," American Studies. May 2000.
Ormsbee, Todd. "Sexuality and Experience: Gay Male Counter-Publicity, Community, and Meaning in 1960s San Francisco," American Studies. April 2004.
Pacor, Andrea. "Natural Life, Manufactured Feelings: Natural Life, Bio-Political Power and the Japanese American Internment," American Studies. July 2007. Advisor: Cheryl Lester
Pence, Ray. "First and Foremost a Scientist?: Lee Meyerson and Changing Definitions of Disability, 1948-1988," American Studies. December 2005.
Place, Linna Funk. "Priestly People: Aging and Continuity in an Ethnic Community," May 1989.
Rees, Amanda. "Envisioning the Great Plains: Contemporary Narratives of the Landscape," American Studies Program. December 1998.
Rose, Janet S. "‘And Ears Don’t Count:’ Body Piercing in America and Other Variations on the Theme of Belonging," American Studies. May 2001.
Schur, Richard Lee. "Rites or Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Louis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory," American Studies. May 2000.
Seiler, Cotton. "Anxiety and Automobility: Cold War Individualism and the Interstate Highway System," May 2002.
Sheley, Nancy Strow. "Bringing Light to Life: The Art of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)," December 2000.
Shie, Paul Chau-Jiunn. "Why the Robertson Campaign Failed: A Study of Political Mobilization of Evangelical Ministers in the 1988 Republican Presidential Primary," 1990. Advisor: Allan Cigler (17, 2, 16)
Sissoko, Moussa. "The Impact of the Peace Corps Experience on Returned Volunteers: A Case Study of Peace Corps Mali Returned Volunteers," American Studies. May 2001.
Thielmann, Pia. "Hot Beds: Black-White Love and its Representations in Selected Contemporary Novels from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean," American Studies. October 2000.
Thomas, Floyd R., Jr. "Cultural Conservation Through the Preservation of Material Culture-The Representation of Black American Artists in 'Mainstream' Museums," Aug. 1989.
Thuriyanonda, Chalermsri. "The Americanization of 'The King and I': The Transformation of the English Governess into an American Legend," American Studies. August 1999.
Vlahos, Clare D. . "A History of Early RLDS Spirituality, 1860-1885," February 1992. Advisor: Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz (16, 11, 21)
Vuckovic, Marie. "Onward Ever, Backward Never: Student Life and Students' Lives at Haskell Institute, 1884-1920s," August 2001.
Whaley, Deborah. "The Cultural and Counterpublic Sphere Work of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority," May 2002.
Wheeler, Norton. "Invited Influence: American Private Associations in the Modernization of China, 1985-2005," American Studies. April 2007. Advisor: Norman Yetman
Yakes, Daniel J. "Common Men and Uncommon Wealth," January 1990. Advisor: David Katzman (2, 11, 21)
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