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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
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Anderson, Robert L. "Voices of Steel: New Left and Worker Resistance to Steel Industry Restructuring, Western Pennsylvania, 1979-1986," American Studies. December 2000.
Avery, Anthony P. "Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene," American Studies. July 2004.
Campbell, Suzan. "In the Shadow of the Sun: The Life and Art of Rebecca Salsbury James," May 2002.
Chenault, Wesley. "An Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History, 1940-1970," American Studies. April 2008. Advisor: Alex Lubin
Coates, Julia M. "None of Us Are Supposed to Be Here: Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Production of Cherokee Histories," May 2002.
Cockerill, Kristan. "Words and Deeds: Assessing Print Media Language Influences on Public Perception and Water Management Policy Decisions," American Studies. March 2000.
Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar. "Transforming Words/Revolutionizing Verses: Four Poets of the American Civil Rights Movement," American Studies Program. April 1997.
Dailey, Martha LaCroix. "Dr. Michael Steck: A Prototype of Nineteenth Century American Individualism," May 1989. (2, 11, 23)
Dickinson, Jennifer Alvarez. "Pocho Humor: Contemporary Chicano Humor and the Critique of American Culture," May 2008. Advisor: A. Gabriel Melendez
Dodge, William A. "The Meaning of Place at Blackrock: Change and Identity on the Zuni Indian Reservation," American Studies. December 2003.
Doyle, Susan Badger. "Intercultural Dynamics of the Bozeman Trail Era: Red, White, and Army Blue on the Northern Plains, 1863-1868," January 1991. Advisor: Paul Hutton (3,2,23)
Erben, Rudolph. "Western American Drama and the Myth of the Changing West, 1890-1990," May 1990.
Estelle, Amy Darden. "Who Touches the Earth? A Feminist-Ecological and Semiotic Analysis of Selected Earth Images in Contemporary United States' Culture," American Studies Department. April 1997.
Fox, Stephen Danforth. "Toxic Chemicals and Stress: Anatomy of an Out-of-Court Settlement for Women Workers at GTE-Lenkurt Electronics Plant," May 1988. Advisor: Vera Norwood (2,22,20)
Gonzales, Lois. "Female Millworkers and the Mechanization of Textile Production: The Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, 1813 to 1822," Department of American Studies. May 1995.
Greenman, Nancy P. "American Education: Emerging Contexts for a Model of the Future," December 1987. Advisor: Gladys Levis-Pilz/Anne Taylor (6, 2, 3)
Griffin, John J. "Yours in His Service: H. Orton Wiley as Evangelical Theologian and Educator," American Studies. December 22, 1997.
Hanson, Todd. "Quantum Entanglements: Collaboration and Communication in a Scientific Community of Practice," American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: M. Jane Young
Hernandez, Rebecca Sarah. "Past is Perfect in the Present Tense: Exhibiting Native America in Museums and Culture Centers," American Studies. July 2004.
Hockett, Jeremy. "Reckoning Ritual and Counterculture in the Burning Man Community: Communication, Ethnography, and the Self in Reflexive Modernism," American Studies. May 2004.
Jenks, Shepherd M. "The Phoenix has Risen from the Ashes: A Socio-Cultural Examination of the Neo-Psychedelic Movement," Department in American Studies. December 1997.
Jordan, Christopher Joseph. "The Representation of the Protestant Success Ethic in Films of the Reagan Era, 1981-1989," American Studies Program. June 1995.
Kabat, Sally G. "Home Away From Home: The Architectural Geography of Hotels in the American Southwest, 1880-1920," Department of American Studies. December 1994.
Kotchian, Sarah B. "Converting to Spiritual Profits: CEO Faith and Corporate Environmental Performance," American Studies. May 2000.
Lazzell, Carleen C. "Civic Architecture in Transition: The Rise of Nineteenth Century Victorian Era County Courthouses in New Mexico," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Lee, Lloyd L. "21st Century Diné Cultural Identity: defining and Practicing Sa'ah Naagháí Bik'eh Hózhóón," American Studies. July 2004.
Lehman, Katherine. "Whose Girl?: Representations of Single Women, Sexual Politics and The Workplace in 1960s-70s Television and Film," American Studies. April 2007. Advisor: Beth Bailey
Lujn, Roy. "Dennis Chavez and the Roosevelt Era, 1933-1945," December 1987. Advisor: Gerald D. Nash (11, 2, 8)
MacKenzie, Gordene Olga. "Transsexualism in America: A Tremor in the Fault Line of Gender," January 1991. Advisor: Jane Caputo (2, 21, 18)
Magoc, Christopher Joseph. "The Selling of Wonderland: Yellowstone National Park, The Northern Pacific Railroad, and the Culture of Consumption, 1872 to 1903," Department of American Studies. December 1992. Advisor: Vera Norwood (2, Environmental Studies, 10)
Masterson, Michael Lee. "Sounds of the Frontier: Music in Buffalo Bill's Wild West," May 1990.
McNary, Lisa D. "The Deming Management Theory: A Managerial Leadership Profile for the New Economic Age," Department of American Studies. May 1993. Advisor: M. Jane Young (4, 2)
McQuade, Lena. "Troubling Reproduction: Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism in New Mexico, 1919-1945," July 2008. Advisor: Alex Lubin
Moore, Patricia Elaine. "Santo De Santa Fe: Mediators of Family and Faith, Culture and Place," American Studies. February 2000.
Morris-Shortlidge, Constance Elaine. "Enfolding Bodies: A New Visual Space," American Studies Program. December 1995.
O'Sullivan, T. Seamus. "Wasted and Wounded: Men's Stories of Homelessness in Albuquerque, NM, 1998-2002," American Studies. April 2004.
Peake, Nancy. "Trading Post Tales: Biography of an Indian Trader on the Navajo Reservation, 1930-1980," May 1992.
Pynes, Patrick Gordon. "Erosion, Extraction, Reciprocation: An Ethno/Environmental History of the Navajo Nation's Ponderosa Pine Forests," American Studies. March 2000.
Sharer, Jean. "Hildreth Meiere, American Muralist," August 2001.
Singer, Beverly R. "Film and Video Made by Native Americans: A Cultural Examination of Native American Participation in Film and Video Production," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Stephenson, Denise R. "Blurred Distinctions: Emerging Forms of Academic Writing," American Studies Program. March 1996.
Swift, Elizabeth A.. "Class, Taste and Empire in Reagan's America ," Department of American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: Alex Lubin
Torres, Monica F. "Injurious Hails and the Making and Remaking of Cultural Identity in the Documentary Films of Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Lourdes Portillo, and Marlon Riggs," July 2002.
Villa, Judith Hagan. "'To Soar Like the Eagle': An Empowering Freshman Composition Class for American Indian Students," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Westphal, D'Val. "From the Mai Lai Massacre to the Slaughter of Sarajevo: A Deconstruction of Media Coverage of Contemporary U.S. Military Involvements," American Studies Program. July 1995.
Wheelock, Richard Martin. "Indian Self-Determination: Implications for Tribal Communications Policies," American Studies Program. October 1995.
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