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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
Michigan State University
Barillas, William David. "Place and Landscape in Midwestern American Literature," Department of English. May 1994.
Barney, Deborah Verdice Smith. "The Gospel Announcer and the Black Gospel Music Tradition," Department of English. May 1994.
Barry, Teresa Trupiano. "Rhetorics of Representation: Race, Gender, and Intermarriage in the Frontier Fiction of Ann S. Stephens, 1838-1865," American Studies Program. June 2001.
Bauer, Ralph R. "Transculturations in Colonial Space: Creole Identities and the Ethnographic Imagination in Early British and Spanish American Writing," American Studies Program. June 1997.
Chen, Tung-jung. "Man in the City: A Study of Saul Bellow's Urban Novels," February 1987.
Darowski, Joseph . "Reading The Uncanny X-Men: Gender, Race, and the Mutant Metaphor in a Popular Narrative," April 2011.
Fretz, Eric J. "Performing Selves and the Theatrical Imagination in Antebellum America: The Examples of Anna Cora Mowatt, P.T. Barnum, and Nathaniel Hawthorne," Department of English. December 1994.
Kinch, John A. "The Biodiversity Mission in American Environmentalism," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Kiuchi, Yuya. "THE BLACK IMAGE IN THE BLACK MIND: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS' ACCESS TO CABLE TELEVISION IN BOSTON AND DETROIT, 1963-1989," May 2009. Advisor: Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Lucas, Patrick Lee. "Realized Ideals: Grecian Style Buildings as Metaphors for Democracy on the Trans-Appalacian Frontier," May 2002.
Manoguerra, Paul. "Classic Ground: American Paintings and the Italian Encounter, 1848-1860," May 2002.
McFarlane, Lisa Watt. "The Mild Apocalypse: Domestic Millennialism in the Novels of Harriet Beecher-Stowe," August 1987. Advisor: Robert Weisbuch (22, 12, 2)
McKiernan, John. "Fevered Measures: Race, Communicable Disease and Community Formation on the Texas-Mexico Border, 1880-1923," April 2002.
Miller, Jeffrey S. "Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture, 1960-1980," American Studies Program. February 1997.
Osburn, Debra Pozega. "Women in Transitional Times: The Untold Stories of Working Women in the 1950s," November 2001.
Paino, Troy D. "The End of Nostalgia: A Cultural History of Indiana High School Basketball During the Progressive Era," American Studies Program. February 1997.
Phillips, Rod. "‘Forest Beatniks’ and ‘Urban Thoreaus’: Beat Literature and Nature," Program in American Studies. May 1995.
Pilato, Denise E. "The Retrieval of a Legacy: Perspectives on Presence and Progress of Nineteenth Century Women Inventors in American Culture," American Studies. May 1998.
Rishoi, Christy. "Girl Power: The American Woman’s Coming of Age Narrative," American Studies Program. May 2000.
Van Dyke, Michael. "Poetry's Revival: Kenneth Rexroth and the San Francisco Renaissance," American Studies Department. May 1999.
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