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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Arnold-Lowrie, Christine M. "A Punishment for my Pride: The Hamiltons of Port Tobacco, Maryland, 1860-1900," American Studies. August 2003.
Battenfeld, Mary. "Writing on a Battlefield: Women and Documentary Discourse in the 1930's," American Studies. 1990. Advisor: Hasia R. Diner (22, 12, 2)
Blodgett, Anita Jan. "Keepers of the Gate: An Analysis of Protestant Evangelical Fiction," American Studies Program. December 1995.
Borish, Linda Jane. "The Lass of the Farm': Health, Domestic Roles, and the Culture of Farm Women in Hartford County, Connecticut, 1820-1870," June 1990.
Comer, Douglas C. "Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, Ideology, and the Annexation of the Southwest," Department of American Studies. May 1993. Advisor: Mary Corbin Sies (2, 10, 8)
DeVaul, Diane Louise. "Mother Work-Quilts and Art: A Material Culture Study," American Studies. April 1998.
Debo, Annette. "America in H.D.'s Palimpsest: Place, Race, and Gender in her Early Poetry and Prose," Department of English. March 1998.
Denkler, Elizabeth. "Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Rural Town.," April 2002.
Glass, Marguerite. "Vermeer in Dialogue: From Appropriation to Response," American Studies. September 2003.
Globensky, Anne Birgid. "At Home in Baltimore: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Lumbee Domestic Material Culture," American Studies. November 1999.
Guenter, Scot M. "The American Flag 1777-1924: Cultural Shifts from Creation to Codification," May 1986. Advisor: R. Gordon Kelly (11, 23)
Hanson, Susan Atherton. "Home Sweet Home: Industrialization's Impact on Rural Households, 1865-1925," December 1986.
Hare, John L. "Images of the Family in the Ante-Bellum Virginia Novel," Department of American Studies. April 1997 .
Hilbish, D. Melissa. "Relax, It's Only a Movie: Representations of War in the Vietnam Combat Film," May 1990.
Hughes, Ellen Roney. "Machines For Better Bodies: A Cultural History of Exercise Machines in America, 1839-1950," American Studies. January 2001.
Johansen, Bruce. "Imagined Pasts, Imagined Futures: Race, Politics, Memory, and the Revitalization of Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland," Ethnic Studies. December 2005.
Johnston, Jessica. "The Intimate Battle for Self Control: A Phenomenological and Cultural Analysis of Weight Consciousness in American Society," January 1991. Advisor: John Caughey (2, 3, 23)
Keating, Anne B. "'A World We Have Invented Here': Exploring Community, Identity and Art in the Construction of 'The Farm', Kate Millett's Feminist Art Colony, 1978-1994," American Studies Program. November 1995.
Kelly, Arlene Blumenthal. "How Deaf Women Construct Teaching, Language, Culture, and Gender: An Ethnographic Study of ASL Teachers," American Studies. April 2001.
Kendall, Laurie. "From the Liminal to the Land: Building Amazon Culture at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival," American Studies. April 2006.
Kerr, Andrea Moore. "Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality," American Studies Program. June 1995.
Kirwin, Elizabeth Seton. "It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s," Department of American Studies. January 1999.
Knepper, Cathy Dee. "The Gospel According to Greenbelt: Community Life in Greenbelt, Maryland, 1935-1990," Department of American Studies. May 1993. Advisor: Hasia Diner (8, 10, 2)
Korr, Jeremy L. "Washington's Main Street: Consensus and Conflict on the Capital Beltway, 1952-2001," December 2001.
Lachin, Teresa B. "'War and Remembrance': The War Memorial as Cultural Artifact," Department of American Studies. May 1993. Advisor: R. Gordon Kelly (2, 10, 8)
Latta, Judi Moore. "Wade in the Water-The Public Radio Series: The effects of the Politics of Production on Sacred Music Representations," American Studies. May 1999.
Lawson, Tamara Wilds. "Faith Without Funding, Values Without Justice: The Bush Campaign's Successful Targeting of African American Evangelical Pastors and Churches in the 2004 Presidential Election," American Studies. April 2009. Advisor: Dr. Sheri L. Parks
Lazo, Rodrigo. "Filibustering an Empire: Transamerican Writing and U.S. Expansionism," English Department. August 1998.
Marcum, Deanna Bowling. "The Rural Public Library Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920," 1991. Advisor: Hasia Diner (11, 2, 23)
Martini, Edwin Anton III. "Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975 - 2000," American Studies. May 2004.
Metcalf, Greg. "Looking for Marlowe: Paratextual Characters in American Culture," Department of American Studies. May 1993. Advisor: Lewis Larson (2, 14, 11)
Mills, Cynthia. "The Adams Memorial and American Funerary Sculpture, 1891-1927," Department of Art History and Archaeology. April 1996.
Moore, Robert L., Jr. "Interpretations of Reality: Analysis of Conflict Between Social and Personal Identity in Life Stories of Women Teachers in America, 1916-1980," Department of American Studies. May 1992.
Natanson, Barbara Orbach. "Spot the Hyphen? Representations of Immigrants and Members of Ethnic groups in Illustrated Newspaper and Magazine Stories, 1880-1925," American Studies Department. April 1999.
Patton, Sandra L. "Birth Marks: An Interdisciplinary Ethnographic Study of Transracial Adoption," American Studies Department. August 1997.
Phillips, Anne Radford. "Farm Women of Stokes county, North Carolina and the Production of Flue-Cured Tobacco, 1925 to 1955: Continuity and Change," 1990. Advisor: John Caughey (22, 23, 11)
Phillips, Mary Lou Luttrell. "The Language of Naval Performance Evaluation: Officer Promotion as Reader Response and the Ideal Officer Concept," Spring 1989. Advisor: Myron Lounsbury (12, 2, 5)
Reber, Paul C. "Retail Trade and the Consumer in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1759-1766," American Studies. July 2003.
Resnick, Harold Kalman. "The Body Electric: Computers in American Popular Culture," 1990. Advisor: Lawrence E. Mintz (18, 20, 2)
Seel, David John, Jr. "The Evangelical Meltdown: Modernity and the Hysteresis of Habitus," Department of American Studies. 1992. Advisor: George Ritzer (Religous Studies, 2)
Shapiro, Shelby. "Words to the Wives: The Jewish Press, Immigrant Women and Identity Construction, 1895-1925," American Studies. May 2009. Advisor: R. Gordon Kelly
Shaw, Patricia A. Friday. "Negro Digest, Pulse, and Headlines and Pictures: African American Periodicals as Informants, Morale Builders, and Articulators of Protest During World War II," Department of American Studies. 1994.
Thompson, Jenny Christina. "Common Soldiers: An Ethnography of Twentieth-Century War Reenactors," American Studies. October 1999.
Thompson, Wendy Marie. "Beyond the Railroad People: Race and the Color of History in Chinese America," American Studies. June 2009. Advisor: Dr. Mary Corbin-Sies
Vandell, Kathy Scales. "The Everlasting If: American National Identity in Children's Historical Fiction, 1865-1965," January 1991. Advisor: R. Gordon Kelly (2, 11, 12)
Weinstein, David. "Live From the Nation's Capital: A History of Television in Washington, D.C., 1946-1958," American Studies Department. May 1997.
Williams, Barbara White. "A Cultural Analysis of Black Women Teachers at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC: Similarities and Differences in Their Perceptions of Role and Status in the 1950s and 1990s," American Studies. November 1999.
Williams, Elsie Arrington. "Jackie Moms Mabley: African American, Woman, Performer," April 1992. Advisor: Lawrence E. Mintz (, 15, 10, 22)
Wisecup, Kelly . "Communicating Disease: Medical Knowledge and Literary Forms in Colonial British America," English. June 2009. Advisor: Ralph Bauer
Zenzen, Joan M. "Promoting National Parks: Images of the West in the American Imagination, 1864-1972," American Studies Program. May 1997.
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