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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
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Cante, Richard C. "Narration by Numbers: Gay Male AIDS and the Form of Contemporary American Culture," School of Cinema-Television Program in Critical Studies. January 1999.
Cheng, Wendy. "Episodes in the Life of a Place: Regional Racial Formation in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley," American Studies & Ethnicity. August 2009. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Fields, Jill. "The Production of Glamour: A Social History of Intimate Apparel, 1909-1952," Department of History. December 1997.
HoSang, Daniel. "Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California ," American Studies and Ethnicity. July 2007. Advisor: Laura Pulido
Hobson, Emily. "Imagining Alliance: Queer Anti-Imperialism and Race in California, 1966-1990," American Studies & Ethnicity. June 2009. Advisor: George Sanchez
Jenks, Hillary . "Home Is Little Tokyo: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles," American Studies & Ethnicity. August 2008. Advisor: George Sanchez
Murti, Lata. "With and Without the White Coat: The Racialization of Southern California’s Indian Physicians," American Studies and Ethnicity. May 2010. Advisor: Jane N. Iwamura & Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Potamianos, George. "Hollywood in the Hinterlands: Mass Culture in Two California Communities, 1896-1936," History Department. August 1998.
Raab, Josef. "Elizabeth Bishop’s Hemisphere," Department of English. 1993.
Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer Lynn. "The Contours of the Sonic Color-line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening," Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. August 2007. Advisor: Carla Kaplan
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