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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

By University | By Year

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• Anderson, Elizabeth S. "Pirating Feminisms: Film and the Production of Post-War Canadian National Identity," American Studies Program. September 1996.

• Austin, Joe. "Taking the Train: Youth Culture, Urban Crisis, and the "Graffiti Problem" in New York City, 1970-1990," Program in American Studies. October 1996.

• Barbre, Joy Webster. "`Goodwives' to Menoboomers; Reinventing Menopause in American History," Program in American Studies. May 1994.

• Basso, Matthew. "Metal of Honor: Montana's World War II Homefront, Movies, and the Social Politics of White Male Anxiety," November 2001.

• Bauerkemper, Joseph. "Narrating Nationhood: Radical Histories in Native Fiction," American Studies. August 2008. Advisor: David Noble and Carol Miller

• Bergland, Betty. "Reconstructing the 'Self' in America: Patterns in Immigrant Women's Autobiographies," January 1990. Advisor: George Lipsitz (2,8,22)

• Bernstein, Lee. "The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in U.S. Culture and Politics, 1946-1961," The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in U.S. Culture and Politics, 1946-1961. July 1997.

• Bloom, John Douglas. "Cardboard Images of the Past: Baseball Card Collection and the Politics of Sports," January 1990. Advisor: Gary Alan Fine (18,22,14)

• Borowicz, C. Joshua. "Henry Adams: University Education and the Republican Tradition," Program in American Studies. November 1994.

• Buff, Rachel J. "Calling Home: Race, Migration and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and Native American Minneapolis, 1945-1992," American Studies Program. August 1995.

• Cameron, Jean. "John Cotton's Role in the Trials of Anne Hutchinson," October 1991. Advisor: Roland Delattre (16,11,22)

• Castor, Laura Virginia. "Historical Memory, Autobiography, and Art: Redefining `Identity' through the Writing and Theater of Isadora Duncan, Hallie Flanagan, and Lillian Hellman," Program in American Studies. June 1994.

• Clark, William Joseph. "Naturalism, Revitalization an the Fiction of Frank Norris," January 1991. Advisor: David W. Noble (2, 12, 11)

• Collins, Lisa Gail. "Revolutions in Vision': African-American Women, Aesthetics, and Visual Politics," Program in American Studies. October 1998.

• Coser, Stelamaris. "Bridging the Americas: The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones," October 1991. Advisor: George Lipsitz (2,1,22)

• Darling, Patricia A. "Turning East: Converts and Movements in the Twin Cities in the 1970s," December 1987. Advisor: Roland A. Delattre (16, 2, 3, 22)

• Dietzel, Susanne B. "Reconfiguring the Garden: Representation of Landscape in Narratives by Southern Women," Program in American Studies. October 1996.

• Drown, Eric M. "Usable Futures, Disposable Paper: Popular Science, Science Fiction and Modernization in America, 1908-1937," January 2001.

• Erickson, Karla. "Paid to Care: Selling Service, Smiles and Community in American Restaurants," American Studies and Feminist Studies. July 2004.

• Evertz, Kathy. "Selling the Lady: Commercialization and the 1986 Statue of Liberty Centennial," May 1992. Advisor: Rob Silverman (23, 2, 18)

• Farrell, Amy Erdman. "Feminism in the Mass Media: Ms. Magazine, 1972-1989," January 1991. Advisor: Sara Evans (14, 18, 22)

• Flowers, Benjamin. "Constructing the Modern Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York from the Great Depression through the Cold War," American Studies. December 2003.

• Fulton-Maybin, DoVeanna S. "'When Oral and Written Traditions Meet and Mingle:' Black Feminist Orality in African-American Women's Narratives of Slavery," American Studies. March 1999.

• Green, Susan Marie. "Zoot Suiters: Past and Present," Program in American Studies. June 1997.

• Griffin, Catherine C. "'Joined Together in History:' Politics and Place in African American and American Indian Women's Writing," American Studies. April 2000.

• Grittner, Frederick K. "White Slavery: Myth, Ideology, and American Law," November 1986.

• Harris, Duchess. "From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism From 1960 to 1980," American Studies Program. May 1997.

• Healey, Jane Frances. "Painting Pollock: The Creation of a Cultural hero in Post-World War II America," January 1991. Advisor: David W. Noble (2, 23, 11)

• Healy, David James. "The Cultural Diffusion of the Concept of Calling and Its Impact on Protestant Clergy," November 1986.

• Heikkila, Kimberly L. "G.I. Gender: Vietnam War-Era Women Veterans and U.S. Citizenship," May 2002.

• Hulsether, Mark D. "Liberals, Radicals, and the Contested Social Thought of Postwar Protestantism: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941 to 1976," American Studies Program. December 1992. Advisor: David W. Noble (13, 8, 6)

• Jardine, Gail. "Eastwood, Shepard, and Bly: American Men Deconstruct and Recreate the Masculine Myth," American Studies Program. March 1996.

• Kassner, Scott Gerald. "William Smith and the Empire of Liberty: Adventures and Misadventures on the Civil Religious Landscape of Eighteenth-Century British America," American Studies Program. December 1995.

• Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. "Spiritual Armories: A Social and Architectural History of neo-Medieval Auditorium Churches in the U.S., 1869-1910," 1991. Advisor: Roland A. Delattre (2, 23, 16)

• Klopotek, Brian. "The Long Outwaiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities," American Studies. May 2004.

• Koistinen, Janice H. "'The Good is not Always the Beautiful': Social Reform, Good Taste, and Social Identity in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature," English Department. June 1998.

• Kozol, Wendy. "Documenting the Public and Private in Life: Political Culture in Postwar Photojournalism," June 1990.

• Laderman, Scott. "Witnessing the Past: History, Tourism, and Memory in Vietnam, 1930-2002," American Studies. July 2005.

• Lainsbury, Andrew. "Once Upon an American Dream: The Story Of Euro Disneyland," American Studies Program. June 1996.

• Law, Andrew D. "Chance and Necessity: Reengaging John A. Kouwenhoven and Tradition-oriented Criticism," Program in American Studies. December 1997.

• Levenduski, Christine. "Elizabeth Ashbridge's 'Remarkable Experiences': Creating the Self in a Quaker Personal Narrative," July 1989.

• Lewis, Chris H. "Progress and Apocalypse: Science and the End of the Modern World," January 1991. Advisor: David W. Noble (20, 2, 18)

• Linkon, Sherry Lee. "Rose Terry Cooke and The Woman Question: A Study in Fiction and Ideology," May 1990.

• Lubin, Alex. "Race-ing Romance: Interracialism and the Limits of Freedom in Post-WWII American, 1945-1954," American Studies. January 2000.

• Martin, Karl Edward. "The Ethical Implications of Flannery O'Connor's "Prophetic Imagination," January 1991. Advisor: David W. Noble (2, 12, 16)

• Meland, Carter. "The Trickster is History: Tribal Tricksters and American Cultural History in Contemporary Native Writing," American Studies. May 2002.

• Mickenberg, Julia L. "Educating Dissent: Children’s Literature and the Left, 1935-1965," July 2000.

• Minnick, Ann. "`Came to Believe:' An Examination of the Context, Meaning, and Significance of Al-Anon, a Contemporary American Site of Spiritual and Moral Renewal," Program in American Studies. May 1994.

• Mizelle, Brett. "To the Curious: The Cultural Work of Exhibitions of Exotic and Performing Animals in the Early American Republic," October 2000.

• Morris, Gwenyth Elsie. "Gifted Woman Light Around You: Ojibwa Women and Their Stories," American Studies Program. December 1992. Advisor: John Howe (American Indian Studies, 18, 6)

• Morton, Keith. "Community as Metaphor: Anarchy and Structure in American Culture, 1830-1920," March 1986. (11, 16)

• Moss, Rosalind Urbach. "Reinventing Spinsterhood: Competing Images of ‘Womanhood’ in American Culture, 1880-1960," December 1988. Advisor: Sara M. Evans (2, 14, 22)

• Nemanic, Mary Lou. "The Fourth of July on the Minnesota Iron Range: Small Town America and Working-Class Nationalism, 1892-1992," American Studies Program. June 1996.

• Noon, David. "This is (Not) a Child: Race, Gender and 'Development' in the Child Sciences, 1880-1910," October 2001.

• Oxendine, Linda Ellen. "Tribally Oriented Museums: A Reinterpretation of Indigenous Collections," American Studies Program. November 1993. Advisor: Gayle Graham Yates (American Indian Studies, 10, 2)

• Patterson, Caitlin Anne. "Redecorating the Nation: Creating Democratic Arts from the Settlement House to the New Deal," Program in American Studies. June 1997.

• Peterson, Kevin T. "From Self to Subject: American Pragmatists' Response to the Cartesian Implications of Postmodernist Subjectivity (A Cultural-Historical Retrieval)," Program in American Studies. June 1998.

• Pruitt, Mary C. "‘Women Unite!’: The Modern Women’s Movement in Minnesota," December 1986.

• Qi, Xiaoxin. "A Matter of Cultural Discourse: Religion, Nation, Gender," American Studies Program. June 1997.

• Richotte, Keith. ""We the Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation": Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism Beyond the Colonialist/Revolutionary Dialectic," American Studies. June 2009. Advisor: Jean M. O'Brien

• Ryan, Carol Crawford. "Summering: Everyday Life in a Vacation Community, 1909-1985," April 1987.

• Sachs, Andrea Jule. "The Politics of Peverty; Race, Class, Motherhood, and the National Welfare Righs Organization, 1965-1975," May 2001.

• Samuel, Lawrence R. "Dreaming in Black and White: World War II Bonds and American Pluralism," Program in American Studies. June 1995.

• Schultz, April R. "A Peculiar People: Celebration, Historical Memory, and the Creation of Ethnic Identity Among Norwegian Americans in the 1920s," 1991. Advisor: George Lipsitz/David W. Noble (8, 2, 11)

• Sheehy, Colleen J. "The Flamingo in the Garden: Artifice, Aesthetics, and Popular Taste in American Yard Art," December 1991. Advisor: Karal Ann Marling (13, 2, 10, 18)

• Smith, Anthony Burke. "American Catholicism and the Construction of a Public Tradition, 1932-1962," American Studies Program. July 1995.

• Snell, Theron P. "Orphans in the Storm: A Collective Experience of War. The 978th Engineer Maintenance Company in World War II," Program in American Studies. March 1997.

• Spaeth, Catherine Therese Christians. "Purgatory or Promised Land?: French Emigres in Philadelphia and their Perceptions of America during the 1790s," March 1992. Advisor: Edward M. Griffin (2, 11, 8)

• Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. "Stealing Fire, Scattering Ashes: Anishinaabe Expressions of Sovereignty, Nationhood, and Land Tenure in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada, 1785-1923," American Studies. August 2008. Advisor: David E. Wilkins

• Strunk, Mary. "The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun": Woman Outlaws, Public Memory, and the Rise and Fall of Hoover's FBI," American Studies. May 2003.

• Swartzbaugh, Laura K. "Public and Private Geographies: Constructing Order in Chicago’s City Streets, 1893-1922," Program in American Studies. September 1997.

• Toth, Csaba. "The Transatlantic Dialogue: 19th-Century American Utopianism and Europe," 1991. Advisor: David W. Noble (2, 11)

• Van Dyke, Annette. "Feminist Curing Ceremonies: The Goddess in Contemporary Spiritual Traditions," June 1987.

• Wagner, David J. "Material Culture of SLEWAPs: Signed Limited Edition Wildlife Art Photolithographs," April 1992. Advisor: Kent Bales (2, 13, 18)

• Waksman, Steve. "Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience," Program in American Studies. June 1998.

• Walzer, Andrew. "Nationalism and Masculinity: 20th Century Cultural Criticism," American Studies. July 1997.

• Weibel, Friedrich Viktor. "The Anatomy of United States Imperialism: Cultural Perspectives on American Interventionism in the Western Hemisphere, 1895-1907," May 1989. Advisor: Kinley J. Brauer (2, 11, 12)

• Wood, Meredith. "ReSisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels," American Studies. January 2000.

• Zimmerman, Scott. "Representative Stages: American Theatre and National Identity," Program in American Studies. December 1997.

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