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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Ackermann, Marsha E. "Cold Comfort: The Air Conditioning of America," American Culture Program. June 1996.
Bass, Christine. "'It did not seem like a hospital it seemed like a home': Women's Experiences as Patients at Peterson's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1902-1933," Program in American Culture. August 1999.
Bernard, Paul R. "The Making of the Marginal Mind: Academic Economic Thought int he United States, 1860-1910," January 1990. Advisor: David Hollinger (11,5,6)
Buick, Kirsten Pai. "The Sentimental Education of Mary Edmonia Lewis: Identity, Culture, and Ideal Works," History of Art. January 2000.
Casillas, Dolores Ines. "Sounds of Belonging: A Cultural History of Spanish-language Radio in the United States, 1922-2004," American Culture. June 2006.
De la Vega-Hurtado, Margarita. "A Foreigner's Gaze: The American Films of Louis Malle," American Culture Program. May 1993. Advisor: Herbert J. Eagle (11, 2, 14)
Dolgon, Corey. "Innovators and Gravediggers: Capital Restructuring and Class Transformation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994," Program in American Culture. September 1994.
DuPuis, Reshela P. "Documenting Community: Activist Videography in Hawai'i," Program in American Culture. April 1997.
Elstein, Rochelle Berger. "Synagogue Architecture in Michican and the Midwest: Material Culture and the Dynamics of Jewish Accommodation, 1865-1945," December 1986.
Foley, Neil F. "The New South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930," January 1990. Advisor: Rebecca Scott (11, 8, 2)
Genser, Wallace Vincent. "'A Rigid Government Over Ourselves': Transformations in Ethnic, Gender, and Race Consciousness on the Northern Borderlands-Michigan, 1805-1865," Program in American Culture. May 1998.
Harris, Lisa. "Challenging Conception: A Clinical and Cultural History of In Vitro Fertilization in the United States," American Culture. May 2006.
Hass, Kristin Ann. "Remaking the Nation with Purple Hearts and Fishing Lures: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and American Memory," Program in American Culture. January 1995.
Hill, Robert. "As a Man I Exist; As a Woman I Live: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America," December 2007. Advisor: Kevin Gaines and Esther Newton
Ho, Wen-Ching. "Miscegenation in William Faulkner: A Synecdoche for Slavery/Caste System," March 1989. Advisor: Lyall H. Powers (12, 2, 3)
Johnson, Colin Robert. "Columbia's Orient: Gender, Geography and the Invention of Sexuality in Rural America," Program in American Culture. December 2003.
Jordon, John M. "Technic and Ideology: The Engineering Ideal and American Political Culture, 1892-1934," February 1989. Advisor: David A. Hollinger (11, 2, 20)
Kilar, Jeremy W. "The Lumber Towns: A Socioeconomic History of Michigan's Leading Lumber Centers: Bay City, Saginaw, and Muskegon, 1870-1905," May 1987.
Kimmel, Shawn. "Freedom's Police: The Constitution of the Liberal Police State in the Early Republic's Theater of Civil Society ," American Culture. February 2007. Advisor: Carroll Smith Rosenberg
Kline, Michael. "The Politics of Knowledge in a 'Post-Industrial' City: Intellectual Work and Political Struggle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 to 1992," American Culture Program. July 1995.
Kosiba-Vargas, Zaneta. "Harry Gamoa and ASCO: The Emergence and Development of a Chicano Art Group, 1971-1987," August 1988. Advisor: William Alexander (23, 8, 2)
Kusnerz, Peggy Ann. "Picturing the Past: Photographs at the Library of Congress, 1865-1954," Department of Communications. December 1992. Advisor: Marion Marzolf (History of Photography, History of Public Institutions, 2)
Liebermann, Robbie. "'My Song Is My Weapon': People's Songs and the Politics of Culture, 1946-1949," January 1984.
Lieu, Nhi T. "Private Pleasures on Public Display: Vietnamese Identities in Multi-Mediated Leisure and Niche Entertainment," Private Pleasures on Public Display: Vietnamese Identities in Multi-Mediated Leisure and Niche Entertainment. June 2004.
Lloyd, Brian. "A Miserable Fit of the Blues: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Failure of American Marxism, 1900-1922," August 1991. Advisor: David Hollinger (11, 2, 16)
Maeda, Daryl J. "Forging Asian American Identity: Race, Culture, and the Asian Amerian Movement, 1968-1975," American Culture Program. January 2001.
Majewski, Karen Marie. "Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939," American Culture Program. August 1998.
Moon, Jennifer. "Cruising and Queer Counterpublics: Theories and Fictions," American Culture. December 2005.
Moreau, Joseph. "Schoolbook Nation: Imagining the American Community in United States History Texts for Grammar and Secondary Schools, 1865-1930," Program in American Culture. August 1999.
Morris-Knower, James P. "No Place Like Home: Discourses of Adolescent Identity and the Politics of Space in Contemporary American Coming-of-Age Narratives," American Culture Program. June 1996.
Nation, Richard Franklin. "Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870," February 1995.
Niatum, Duane. "Shamanism, Sacred Narratives, The Sea, and The Cedar in the Art of John Hoover, Aleut Sculptor," Program in American Culture. November 1996.
O'Connell, Catharine Elizabeth. "Chastening the Rod: Sentimental Strategies in Three Antebellum Novels by Women," July 1991. Advisor: June Howard (12, 2, 22)
Pagni, Charlotte. "Hollywood Does Kinsey: Cinema, Sexology, and Cultural Regulation, 1948-1968," American Culture. August 2003.
Porter, Eric. "‘Out of the Blue’: Black Creative Musicians and the Challenge of Jazz, 1940-1995," Program in American Culture. June 1997.
Rabinowitz, Paula. "Female Subjectivity in Women’s Revolutionary Novels of the 1930s," October 1986.
Rael-Gálvez, Estévan. "Identifying Captivity and Capturing Identity: Narratives of American Indian Slavery, Colorado and New Mexico, 1776-1934," May 2002. Advisor: Ann Arbor
Richards-Slaughter, Shannon. "The Blossoms of Jazz: A Novel of Black Female Jazz Musicians in the 1930s," 1990. Advisor: Lemuel Johnson (1, 22, 15)
Rony, Thomas Y. Fujita. "'They Did Me A Great Wrong': History and Meanings of the Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration," Program in American Culture. April 1995.
Rúa, Mérida. "Claims to ‘The City’: Puerto Rican Latinidad Amid Labors of Identity, Community, and Belonging," Program in American Culture. May 2004.
Schultz, Jane E. "Women at the Front: Gender and Genre in Literature of the American Civil War," American Studies Program. June 1988. Advisor: Cecil Eby (22, 2, 11)
Shavelson, Susanne A. "From Amerike to America: Language and Identity in the Yiddish English Autobiographies of Jewish Immigrant Women," American Culture Program. May 1996.
Shea, William F. "The Role and Function of Technology in American Popular Music: 1945-64," May 1990.
Simmons, LaKisha Michelle . "Black Girls Coming of Age: Sexuality and Segregation in New Orleans, 1930-1954," Joint Program in History and Women's Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Michele Mitchell and Hannah Rosen
Simon, Janice. "The Crayon 1855-1861: The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry, and the Fine Arts," January 1990. Advisor: David C. Huntington
Spencer, Stacy L. "Women Writers and the Literary Journey, 1832-1844," 1991. Advisor: Julie Ellison (12, 2, 22)
Vaughn, Edward Jeffrey. "America's Pop Collector: Robert C. Scull-Contemporary Art At Auction," May 1990.
Wendorff, Laura C. "Race, Ethnicity, and the Voice of the 'Poetess' in the Lives and Works of Four Late-Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: Frances E. W. Harper, Emma Lazarus, Louise Guiney, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox," May 1992. Advisor: June Howard (2, 12, 22)
Wilke, Wayne William. "Changing Understanding of the Church-State Relationship: The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, 1914-1969," March 1990.
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