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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
New York University
Abrahamson, David. "The Rise of the Special Interest Magazine in 'the Other 1960s': An Economic and Sociocultural History," May 1992. Advisor: Paul R. Baker (9, 14)
Baldwin, Davarian L. "Chicago's New Negroes: Race, Class and Respectability in the Midwestern Black Metropolis, 1915-1935," September 2001.
Brasell, Roger Bruce. "Imag(in)ing the American South in Documentary Film and Video," Department of Cinema Studies. September 2000.
Brown, Bridget M. "The Terror is Real: The History and Politics of Alien Abduction," American Studies Program. April 2001.
Burr, Martha. "The American Cowgirl: History and Iconography 1860-Present," American Studies Program. August 1997.
Canterella, Marcia. "Industrial Self-Actualization in the Evolution of American Business," American Studies Program. December 1996.
Cherches, Peter. "Course: Popular Lectures and the Marketing of Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America," American Studies Program. December 1996.
Collins, Elliott. "Bayard Rustin: A Civil Rights Biography," January 2000.
Decena, Carlos. "Queering the Heights: Dominican Transnational Identities and Male Homosexuality in New York City," American Studies. September 2004.
Dievler, James A. "Sexual Exiles: Edith Wharton, Henry Miller, James Baldwin and the Culture of Sex and Sexuality in New York City," American Studies Program. April 1997.
Fabend, Firth. "The Yeoman Ideal: A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800," May 1988. Advisor: Patricia U. Bonomi (11,2,16)
Friedman, Sandie Ruth. "Racing With Catastrophe: Representations of the Holocaust and American Jewish Anxiety," American Studies. May 2001.
Gibson, Todd. "Racing With the Wind: Hybridity and the Construction of American Literary Modernism," Department of English. September 1996.
Hartel Jr., Herber R. "The Art and Life of Raymond Jonson (1891-1982): Concerning the Spiritual in American Abstract Art," February 2002.
Henthorn, Cynthia Lee. "Commercial Fallout: The Image of Progress, the Culture of War, and the Feminine Consumer, 1939-1959," Program in Art History. May 1, 1997.
Knight, Melinda. "Cultural Radicalism in the American Fin de Siecle: The Emergence of an Oppositional Literary Culture," April 1992. Advisor: Daniel Walkowitz (12, 11, 2)
Markowitz, Ruth Jacknow. "My Daughter, the Teacher: Second Generation Jewish Teachers in the New York City Public School System, 1920-1940," May 1990.
Miller, Stephen Paul. "Three Self-Consuming Mechanisms of the Mid-Seventies: John Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,' the Watergate Affair, and Jasper Johns's Crosshatch Paintings," April 1990.
Mindich, David T.Z. "Building the Pyramid: A Cultural History of ‘Objectivity’ in American Journalism, 1832-1894," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Miraldi, Robert. "The Journalism of David Graham Phillips," June 1985. Advisor: Paul R. Baker (4, 11)
Polchin, James R. "Why Do They Strike Us?: Representing Violence and Sexuality, 1930-1950," May 2002.
Rustin, Nichole T. "Mingus Fingers: Charles Mingus, Black Masculinity, and Postwar Jazz Culture," American Studies Program,. August 1999.
Schulz, Dorothy M. "From Social Worker to Crimefighter: A History of Women in United States Policing," Program in American Studies. May 1992. Advisor: David Reimers (8, 18, 2)
Seigel, Micol. "The Point of Comparison: Transnational Racial Construction, Brazil and the United States," American Studies Program. August 2001.
Selch, Frederick R. "Instrumental Accompaniments for Yankee Hymn Tunes: An Investigation of the Evidence," American Studies. May 2001.
Sze, Julie. "Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice," American Studies. September 2003.
Tang, Edward. "Revolutionary Legacies: History, Literature, and Memory in Nineteenth-Century America, 1820,1880," American Studies Program. January 1996.
Thompson, Mark A. "Impressionable Landscapes: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century California Literature," Department of American Studies. September 1993.
Tucher, Andrea J. "Froth and Scum': Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Axe-Murder in the First Years of the New York Penny Press," March 1990.
Tyler, Francine. "Artists Respond to the Great Depression and the Threat of Fascism: The New York Artists' Union and its Magazine Art Front," 1991. Advisor: Paul R. Baker (23, 2, 1)
Wallace, Michele. "Passing, Lynching and Jim Crow: A Genealogy of Race and Gender in U.S. Visual Culture, 1895-1929," Cinema Studies. January 1999.
Wang, Qijian. "The History of American Literature Translation in China," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Zaluda, Scott. "Between Wonder and Entanglement: Fictions of Community and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie," September 1992. Advisor: Neal Tolchin (8, 2)
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