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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
Purdue University
Baham, Eva Semien. "Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, A Steam Cannot Rise Higher Than Its Source: The Vanguard as the Panacea for the Plight of Black Americans," American Studies Program. July 1997.
Boyd, Anne E. "From 'Scribblers' to Artists: The Emergence of Women Writers as Artists in America," American Studies. June 1999.
Braunberger, Christine C. "Stories in the Flesh: Reading Cultural Narratives of Tattooing in America," American Studies Program. April 1999.
Cole, Carole L. "The Search for Power: Drama by American Women, 1909-1929," January 1991. (22, 2, 12)
Cousins, Robert. "Citizenship and Selfhood: Negotiating Narratives of National and Personal Identity, 1900-1920," American Studies. December 1997.
Groner, Rachael E. "Melancholy Subjects: Citizenship, Affect, and Publicity in Contemporary American Culture," August 2001.
Hess, Earl J. "Liberty and Self Control: Republican Values in the Civil War North," February 1986.
Hilton, Angela. "Motherhood on Trial: Black Mothers wit Incarcerated Sons Negotiating the Criminal Justice System in African American Literature," American Studies. December 2005.
Lester, Julie. "The Agrarian Myth as Narrative in Agricultural Policymaking," American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: Leigh Raymond and Harry Targ
MacDonald, Megan. "Indigenous American Two-Spirit Women and Urban Citizenship in the Late Twentieth Century," American Studies. December 2009. Advisor: Susan Curtis, Ph.D.
Mickelson, Holly Michelle. "Replacing Memory: Comics, Survivorship, and Narrative Rupture in Art Spiegelman's Maus Project," May 2002.
Miller, Kathy. "Rural Women’s Work and Role in Community Building and Institution Building in Indiana From 1900-1980," American Studies Program. June 1997.
Morrione, Deems Daniel. "Sublime Monsters and Virtual Children," May 2002.
Pendergast, Tom. "Consuming Men: Masculinity, Race, and American Magazines, 1900-1950," American Studies. April 1998.
Turner, Stephanie S. "Imagining Cloned Americans: Post-Dolly Revisions of the Genetic Explanation," May 2002.
Wainwright, Mary Katherine. ""`Through Different Eyes': The Aesthetics of Community in the Texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker," May 1989. Advisor: Leonard Neufeldt/Cheryl Oreovicz (22, 1, 12)
Zou, Zhen. "'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes': American Writers on the Opium Issue in China: 1840-1860 ," American Studies. November 2006. Advisor: Susan Curtis
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