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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
Pennsylvania, University of
Achode, Codje. "The Negro Renaissance from America Back to Africa: A Study of the Harlem Renaissance as a Black African Movement," August 1986.
Andrews, Doris Elisabett. "Popular Religion and the Revolution in the Middle Atlantic Ports: The Rise of the Methodists," May 1986.
Benoit, John F. "Reflections of Vietnam Veterans," December 1986.
Bentley, Amy L. "Eating for Victory: U.S. Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity During World War Two," Department of American Civilization. August 1992.
Berger, Daniel . "“We are the Revolutionaries”: Visibility, Protest and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism," Annenberg School for Communication . December 2010 . Advisor: Barbie Zelizer
Cummins, Eric E. "Gag: A Chronicle of San Quentin Prison, 1950-1980 Book Suppression, Inmate Resistance, and the rise and Fall of the Prison Movement Left," January 1990. (2,11,18)
DeLombard, Jeannine. "'Eye-witness to the Cruelty': Literary Abolitionism and the Antebellum Culture of Testimony," Department of English. August 1998.
Gary, Brett Joseph. "American Liberalism and the Problem of Propaganda: Scholars, Lawyers, and the War on Words, 1919-1945," Department of American Civilization. August 1992. Advisor: Bruce Kuklick (8, 11, 19)
Gennari, John Remo. "The Politics of Culture and Identity in American Jazz Criticism," Department of American Civilization. August 1993.
Goode, Gloria Davis. "Preachers of the Word and singers of the Gospel: The Ministry of Women Among Nineteenth Century African-Americans," January 1991. Advisor: Don Yoder (1, 22, 10)
Goodwin, Lorinda B.R. "'A Stately Roof to Shelter Them': An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Turner Family of Eighteenth-Century Salem, Massachusetts," Department of American Civilization. April 1993. Advisor: Robert L. Schuyler (Historical Archaeology, 2, 10)
Guelzo, Allen C. "The Unanswered Question: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will in American Religious Philosophy," May 1986. Advisor: Bruce Kuklick (16, 11)
Hoffman, Nancy Everill. "The Construction of William Bartram's Narrative Natural History: A Genetic Text of the Draft Manuscripts for Travels," American Civilization Program. August 1996.
Holt, Sharon Ann. "A Time to Plant: The Economic Lives of Freedpeople in Granville County, North Carolina, 1865-1900," August 1991. Advisor: Drew G. Faust (1, 22, 5)
King, Julia A. "An Intrasite Spatial Analysis of the Van Swevingen Site, St Mary's City, MD.," January 1990. Advisor: Robert L. Schuyler (3, 2, 13)
Klemek, Christopher. "Urbanism as Reform: Modernist Planning and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism in Europe and North America, 1945-1975," 2004.
Koch, Cynthia M. "The Virtuous Curriculum: Schoolbooks and American Culture, 1785-1830," May 1991. Advisor: Murray G. Murphey (2, 11, 6)
Kunkelman, Gary. "The Religion of Ethnicity: Belief and Belonging in a Greek-American Community," May 1986. Advisor: Murray Murphey (8, 16, 23)
Lee-Whitman, Leanna. "Silks and Simplicity: A Study of Quaker Dress as Depicted in Portraits, 1718-1855," May 1987. Advisor: Don Yoder (2, 13, 16)
Liechtenstein, Ale. "The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South," 1990. Advisor: Drew G. Faust (11, 1, 5)
Morand, Lynn Louise. "Craft Industries at Fort Michilimackinac, An Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade Outpost," American Civilization Program. May 1993. Advisor: Robert L. Schuyler (Archaeology, 10, 8)
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. "Domesticating Drink: Women and Alcohol in Prohibition America, 1870-1940," American Civilization Program. May 1995.
Musello, Christopher. "Family Houses and Social Identity: Communicational Perspectives on the Homes of Ridge County," April 1986. Advisor: Larry Gross (4, 13)
Richie, Margaret Bye. "Architectural Patterns in an Early River Town," August 1987. Advisor: Anthony N.B. Garvan (13, 23, 2)
Ruwell, Mary Elizabeth. "Eighteenth Century Capitalism: The Formation of American Marine Insurance Companies," December 1989.
Shank, Barry. "Identity, Community, Postmodernity: The Rock’n'roll Scene in Austin, Texas," October 1991. Advisor: Janice Radway (18, 2, 14)
Sheppard, Carroll Anne. "Sailing Parties: An Ethnochronicle of Beach Haven's Charterboat Captains and their Families, 1876-1976," 1991. Advisor: Murray G. Murphey (2, 11, 3)
Smaby, Beverly Prior. "From Communal Pilgrims to Family Householders: The Moravians in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1742-1844," July 1986.
Spooner, Denise Suzanne. "The Political Consequences of Experiences of Community: Iowa Migrants and Republican Conservatism in Southern California, 1946-1964," American Civilization Program. December 1992. Advisor: Murray G. Murphey (8, Political Science, 3)
Welch, Margaret. "John James Audubon and His American Audience: Art, Science, and Nature, 1830-1860," March 1988. Advisor: Karin Calvert (13,2)
Yount, Sylvia L. "'Give the People What They Want': The American Aesthetic Movement, Art Worlds, and Consumer Culture, 1876-1890," American Studies Program. August 1995.
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