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Events
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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Devlin, Athena. "Between Profits and Primitivism: Rehabilitating White Middle-Class Manhood in America, 1880-1917," English. September 2001.
Dunson, Stephanie. "The Minstrel in the Parlor: Nineteenth-Century Sheet Music and the Domestication of Blackface Minstrelsy," English and American Studies. November 2003.
Fairman, Deborah. "'Unhampered Child of Liberty': Modernity, Representation and American Jewish Women, 1890-1930," English Department. November 1998.
Foulkes, Julia L. "Dancing America: Modern Dance and Cultural Nationalism, 1925-1950," History Department. February 1997.
Griffin, Connie D. "Ex-Centricities: A Geo/Graphics of Self-Re/Presentation in the Autobiographies of Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Kim Chernin," American Studies. May 23, 1998.
Hayashi, Robert Terry. "Haunted by Waters: Race and Place in the American West," May 2002.
Hoberman, Michael. "Back Up on Brushy: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920," Program in English and American Studies. September 1993.
Liang, Iping J. "The Lure of the Land: Ethnicity and Gender in Imagining America," American Studies Program. September 1995.
Lucander, David . "“It is a New Kind of Miltancy”: March On Washington Movement, 1941-1946," Afro-American Studies . July 2010 . Advisor: John H. Bracey
Robinson, Angelo D. "I’m Not the Boy for You: Images of African American Male Homosexuality," September 2001.
Wallach, Jennifer Jensen. "Remembering Jim Crow: The Literary Memoir as Historical Source Material," Afro-American Studies. April 2004.
Weinbaum, Batya S. "Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities," American Studies Program. March 1996.
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