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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
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Angie, Maxwell . "Why Do They Live There? How the White Southern Inferiority Complex Shaped Modern America," May 2008.
Barber, Alicia. "Living It Up, Living It Down: Civic Reputation, Tourism, and Urban Development in Reno, Nevada," May 2003.
Barrera, Aida. "Multiculturalism Before its Time: The Making of Carrascolendas," American Civilization Program. August 1992. Advisor: William H. Goetzmann (6,8,11)
Bednar, Robert Matej. "Postmodern Vistas: Landscape, Photography, and Tourism in the Contemporary American West," American Civilization Program. April 1997.
Benita, Heiskanen . "Fighting Identities: The Body in Space and Place," August 2004, .
Benjamin Lisle . ""You've Got to Have Tangibles to Sell Intangibles": Ideologies of the Modern American Stadium, 1948-1982," June 2010, . Advisor: Jeff Meikle
Boyd, Elizabeth B. "Southern Beauty: Performing Femininity in an American Region," American Studies. July 2001.
Brun, Danielle. "Sweet Daddy Grace: The Life and Times of a Modern Day Prophet," May 2002.
Caffrey, Margaret Mary. "Stranger in this Land: The Life of Ruth Benedict," May 1986. Advisor: William Goetzmann (22, 10, 3)
Carter, Greg. "America's New Racial Heroes: Mixed Race Americans and Ideas of Novelty, Progress, and Utopia," American Studies. May 2007. Advisor: Neil Foley
Chang, Chih-Ping. "The American Liberal Mind and Cultural Criticism, 1930-1950: Four 'humanistic' Liberals and Their Writings," January 1991. Advisor: Robert M. Crunden (2, 12, 11)
Davies, Shannon. "American Physicists Abroad: Copenhagen, 1920-1940," December 1985. Advisor: William Goetzmann (20, 11)
Davis, Timothy Mark. "Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway," American Studies Program. December 1997.
De Vierville, Jonathan Paul. "American Healing Waters: A Chronology and Historical Survey (1513 to 1946) of America's Major Springs, Spas, and Health Resorts Including a Review of their Medicinal Virtues, Therapeutic Methods, and Health Care Practices," American Civilization Program. August 1992. Advisor: William Stott (8, 2, 19)
Dinerstein, Joel. "Swinging the Machine: White Technology and Black Culture Between the World Wars," American Studies. May 2000.
Eliason, Eric A. "Celebrating Zion: Pioneers in Mormon Popular Historical Expression," Department of American Studies. February 1998.
Fagelson, William. "Nervous Out of the Service: 1940s American Cinema, World War II Veteran Readjustment, and Postwar Masculinity," American Studies. May 2004.
Garcia, Maia Christina. "Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans: A History of an Immigrant Community in South Florida, 1959-1989," January 1990. Advisor: Robert M. Crunden (8, 2, 11)
Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi. "In the Shadow of the South: The History of Racial Integration at the University of Texas at Austin," American Studies. May 2001.
Goodyear, Frank H. "Constructing a National Landscape: Photography and Tourism in Nineteenth-Century America," American Studies Department. May 1998.
Grayson, Elizabeth Pollard. "Calling the Heart Back Home: Irish Catholic Women in America, 1845-1915," American Studies. May 2001.
Gronbeck-Tedesco, John . "Reading Revolution: Politics in the U.S.-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930-1970," American Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Dr. Janet Davis
Hafertepe, Kenneth. "The Enlightened Sensibility: Scottish Philosophy in American Art and Architecture," May 1986. Advisor: William Goetzmann (23, 16)
Hamlin, Kimberly A.. "Beyond Adam’s Rib: How Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Redefined Gender and Influenced American Femini," August 2007. Advisor: Robert H. Abzug
Hauck, Gerald G. "Reluctant Immigrants: Klaus and Erika Mann in American Exile, 1936-1945," American Studies Program. August 1997.
Hedstrom, Matthew . "Seeking a Spiritual Center: Mass-Market Books and Liberal Religion in America, 1921-1948," Dec 2006.
Hewitt, Kim. "Psychedelics and Psychosis: LSD and Changing Ideas of Mental Illness 1943-1966," August 2002.
Howard, Vicki. "American Weddings: Gender, Consumption, and the Business of Brides," American Studies. May 2000.
Howze, William Clell. "The Influence of Western Painting and Genre Painting on the Films of John Ford," May 1986. Advisor: Thomas Schatz (9, 18)
Jones, Nancy Baker. "On Solid Ground: The Emergence of the Self Created Woman in Contemporary American Literature," May 1986. (12,22)
Kleiner, Diana Jean. "The Invisible Managers: Corporate Expansion and American Culture, 1870-1940," American Civilization Program. December 1992. Advisor: Timothy Ruefli/Robert Adzug (4, 2, 8)
Lee, Sang-Dawn. "Big Brother, Little Brother: The Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years," American Studies. May 2001.
Lewis, Randolph. "'America is Hard to See': Emile de Antonio and the Art of Political Filmmaking," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream in Five Major Novels," Department of English. March 1993. Advisor: James T.F. Tanner (9, 2)
MacInerney, Dorothy McLeod. "Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Bell," American Civilization Program. May 1996.
Mellard, Jason Dean. "Cosmic Cowboys, Armadillos, and Outlaws: The Cultural Politics of Texas Identity in the 1970s," American Studies. May 2009. Advisor: Janet Davis
Mendiola, Kelly. "The Hand of Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840-1930," May 2002.
Nadis, Fred Robert. "Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage, 1845-2001," May 2002.
O'Connor, Mike. "Democratic Capitalism in the United States," American Studies. December 2006. Advisor: Mark C. Smith
O'Sullivan, Robin . "Compost and Consumption: Organic Farming, Food, and Fashion in American Culture," May 2011 .
Ratcliffe, Sam. "Texas History Painting," June 1985. Advisor: William H. Goetzmann (11, 1)
Reed, Maureen. "Homesickness: Untold Stories of New Mexican Women and Multiculturalism, 1930-1965," American Studies. May 2001.
Restad, Penne L. "O Holy Night: The Creation of an American Christmas," American Civilization Program. April 1993. Advisor: G. Howard Miller (8, 14)
Rhodes, Lisa Louise. "Groupies, Girls, and Chicks: Articles On Women Musicians and Fans in Rolling Stone and Selected Other Mainstream Magazines, 1967-1972," December 2001.
Rostagno, Irene. "Fifty Years of Looking South: The Promotion and Reception of Latin American Literature in the United States," October 1984. Advisor: William M. Stott (12, 11)
Sawin, Mark H. Meltzer. "Raising Kane: The Creation and Consequences of Fame in Antebellum America, or, The Thrilling and Tragic Narrative of Elisha Kent Kane and his Transformation into Dr. Kane, the Hero of the Romantic Age," American Studies. April 2001.
Silverman, Jonathan. "Success in the Margins: How African-Americans, Women, and Immigrant Jews Used Cultural Production to Negotiate Prejudice and the American Dream Between World War I and the Great Depression," American Studies Program. May 1998.
Simpson, Kim. "Hit Radio and the Formatting of America in the Early 1970s," American Studies. April 2006.
Stone, Brian Edward. "West of Center: Jews on the Real and Imagined Frontiers of Texas," May 2003.
Tracy Wuster. "“The Most Popular Humorist Who Ever Lived”: Mark Twain and the Transformation of American Culture," April 2011.
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Unoriginal Sins: Copyright and American Culture," American Studies. March 1999.
Vogel, Todd. "Staging Race and Sabotaging Whiteness," American Studies. April 1999.
Ware, Amy. "The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers and the Tribal Genealogies of American Indian Celebrity," May 2009. Advisor: Steven Hoelscher
Weisblat, Tinky. "Will the Real George and Gracie and Ozzie and Harriet and Desi and Lucy Please Stand Up? - The Functions of Popular Biography in 1950s Television," January 1991. Advisor: Tom Schatz (2, 14, 11)
Wright, Amy Nathan. "Civil Rights’ “Unfinished Business”: Poverty, Race, and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign," July 2007. Advisor: Janet M. Davis
de la Pena, Carolyn Thomas. "Powering the Modern Body: Theories of Energy Transfer in American Medicine, Science and Popular Culture, 1875-1945," American Studies. April 2001.
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