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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
Saint Louis University
Barnett, Thomas C. "A Utopian-Mythopoesis Reading of American Puritan Jeremiads: A Reclassification of Selected Seventeenth Century New England Pulpit Literature," Department of American Studies. November 1998.
Bunting, Kent. "The Koan of Seiwa En: History and Meaning in the Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden," April 2002.
Carson, Diane E. "A Feminist Reinterpretation of Screwball Comedies: 1934-1942," March 1992. Advisor: Buford Farris (2, 14, 22)
Chang, Ming. "Reforming Literati as 'the Conscience of the Society'--a Sino-U.S. Cross-Cultural Study of the Leading Reformers in the Muckraking & 'the Blooming & Contending' Movements," Program in American Studies. May 1995.
Choi, Joung-Min. "The Critics of Democracy: The Political Visions of Walker Percy and the Tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Vanderbilt Agrarians," American Studies Program. July 1995.
Cooperman, Jeannette. "Out of the Broom Closet: The Deep Hidden Meaning of Domesticity in Postfeminist Novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley and Amy Tan," American Studies Program. April 1996.
Dey, Deborah. "Pastoral Themes and Their Use in the Meramec Dam Controversy," American Studies Program. January 1993. Advisor: Lawrence Barmann (2, 16)
Dohle Jr., James P. "JROTC: A Study of Two St. Louis Schools," American Studies. May 2001.
Finkelston, Harry Theodore. "Selected Public Sculpture in St. Louis, Missouri, 1868-1914: A Study in Values and Attitudes," October 1987. Advisor: Elizabeth Kolmer (2, 13, 11)
Fritz, Joanne. "A Popular Poet Meets the Twentieth Century: Edgar A. Guest and Middle-Class Morality," May 1990.
Gregory, Christopher William. "Perpetual Purification and Developing Sense of Self: The Evolving Theology and Person of Adin Ballou," May 1990.
Gregory, Patricia L. "Women's Experience of Reading in St. Louis Book Clubs," American Studies. December 2000.
Harper, Christine Froechtenigt. "The Water Wizard: John F. Wixford and the Purification of the St. Louis Water Supply in 1904," American Studies. June 2001.
Joseph, Miriam E. "Perceived Cultural Influences on Generativity Identified by Childless Women," American Studies. May 2001.
Kaufman, Kenneth C. "The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights in a Deep South State, 1956 to 1977," American Studies Program. January 1996.
Knight, Carole L. "Survival of the Forest: The Evolution of Forest Park as a Reflection of the Social and Cultural Dynamics of St. Louis," American Studies. April 2001.
Koch, William N. "An Unexpected American Apocalypse: Eschatology in the Thought of Thomas Merton and Its Significance for the Myth of America," February 1989. Advisor: Belden C. Lane (16, 2, 12)
Kruger, Mark H. "The Influence of the 1960s Values of Individualism, Anti-Materialism, and Community on a Contemporary Intentional Community," American Studies. June 2001.
Loui, Suzanne. "Practical Transcendentalism: The Role of Nature in the Political Theories of Thomas Jefferson and Ralph Waldo Emerson," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Madigan, Andrew J. "Countersystem Analysis & Social Criticism in the Works of Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac & J.D. Salinger," American Studies Program. March 1996.
Mehrhoff, W. Arthur. "The Rainbow and the People: The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial as Symbolic Landscape," September 1986.
Mellis, John C. "Coyote People and the Black Robes: Indigenous Roots of Salish Christianity," May 1992. Advisor: Belden C. Lane (11, 16, 2)
Musgrove, Susan M. "Charles A. Lindbergh and the American Dilemma: Tension and Resolution in the Conflict Between Technology and Human Values," July 1985.
Nygard, Paul David. "Man of Maine: A Life of Robert P. Tristram Coffin," American Studies Program. May 1997.
O'Brien, Mary M. "The Female Hero in the Speculative Literature of the Twentieth Century: An Evolution of Adamic Eve," December 1986.
Ritter, Jeffrey Michael. "Local Television News: Deregulation and the New Media Landscape," American Studies Program. August 1995.
Smith, Katherine A. "Mother Earth, Woman Spirit: Women and the Feminine Character as Symbol and Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Culture," May 1992. Advisor: Elizabeth Kolmer (2, 8, 22)
Tretter, Sue Ann. "The Developing Ministry to Blacks by the Archdiocese of St. Louis: The Case of Monsignor John Shocklee," American Studies Program. March 1996.
Waldron, Mary E. "'From Cornerstone to Steeple Cross': An Urban Parish Rebuilds Itself: Saint Francis Xavier (College) Church 1884-1914," Program in American Studies. July 1993.
Warshauer, Matthew S. "In the Beginning Was New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law," American Studies Department. April 1997.
Woodiel, Loftin C.. "William C. Quantrill, Deviant or Hero?," American Studies. April 2000.
Young, Margaret Mary. "Exposing the Myth of Blues: Marriage and the Female Adam in the Fiction of Kate Chopin," December 1986.
Young, Mary. "Aunt Jemima and The Dragon lady" Ethnicity and Gender in the Selected writings of African American and Chinese American women Writers," January 1990. Advisor: Elizabeth Kolmer (8, 1, 22)
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