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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
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Applegate, Deborah Mari. "The Culture of the Novel and the Consolidation of Middle-Class Consciousness: Henry Ward Beecher and the Uses of Sympathy, 1830-1880," American Studies Program. September 15, 1997.
Arenson, Adam . "City of Manifest Destiny: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War, 1848-1877," December 2008 .
Beavers, Herman. "Wrestling Angels into Song: Coherence and Disclosure in the Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson," March 1990.
Belgrad, Daniel. "The Social Meanings of Spontaneity in American Arts and Literature, 1940-1960," American Studies Program. September 1994.
Berger, Martin A. "Determining Manhood: Constructions of Sexuality in the Art of Thomas Eakins," American Studies Program. July 1995.
Birt, Rodger C. "Envisioning the City: Photography in the History of San Francisco, 1850-1906," December 1985.
Brown, Elspeth H. "The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Culture, 1884-1929," American Studies. May 2000.
Casper, Scott Evan. "Constructing American Lives: The Cultural History of Biography in Nineteenth-Century America," May 1992. Advisor: Richard H. Brodhead (2, 11, 12)
Cleghorn, Cassandra. "Bartleby's Benefactors: Toward a Literary History of Charity in Antebellum America," American Studies Program. March 1995..
Cohen, Michael. "'The Conspiracy of Capital': American Popular Radicalism and the Politics of Conspiracy from Haymarket to the Red Scare," American Studies. March 2004.
Conolly-Smith, Peter. "The Translated Community: New York City's German-Language Press as an Agent of Cultural Resistance and Integration," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Deloria, Philip J. "Playing Indian: Otherness and Authenticity in the Assumption of American Indian Identity," American Studies Program. March 1994.
Dilworth, Leah. "Imagining the Primitive: Representations of Native Americans in the Southwest, 1880-1930," American Studies Program. December 1992. Advisor: Bryan Jay Wolf (2, 9, 8)
Dirks, Jacqueline K. "Righteous Goods: Women's Production, Reform Publicity, and the National Consumers' League, 1891-1919," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Drew, Bettina. "Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery," December 2001.
Dudziak, Mary L. "Cold War Civil Rights: The Relationship Between Civil Rights and Foreign Relations in the Truman Administration," American Studies Program. December 1992. Advisor: David Brion Davis (1, 8, 19)
Edwards, Brian. "Morocco Bound: U.S. Representations of North Africa, 1920-1998," American Studies. September 1998.
Ehrhardt, Julia. "'A taper in the imagination that never goes out': Women, Regionalism, and the Profession of Authorship in America, 1900-1956," American Studies. August 1998.
Entin, Joseph Bruce. "Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic Astonishment," October 2001.
Filene, Benjamin. "Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Vernacular Music in the Twentieth Century," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Fujita Rony, Dorothy B. "'You Got to Move Like Hell': Trans-Pacific Colonialism and Filipina/o Seattle, 1919-1941," American Studies Program. May 1996.
Garcia, Jay. "Psychology Comes to Harlem: Race, Intellectuals, and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.," American Studies. August 2003.
Glasser, Ruth. ""Que Vivio Tiene La Gente Aqui en Nueva Yok": Music and Community in Puerto Rican New York, 1915-1940," January 1991. Advisor: David Montgomery (11,8,2)
González, Gaspar. "Barnstorming American Culture: Traveling Entertainment as Work and Performance," American Studies Program. May 1999.
Grasso, Christopher. "Between Awakenings: Learned Men and the Transformations of Public Discourse in Connecticut, 1740-1800," May 1992. Advisor: Harry S. Stout (11, 16, 2)
Green, Amy S. "Savage Childhood: The Scientific Construction of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Greeson, Jennifer Rae. "The Figure of the South and the Imagination of Nation in the United States," American Studies. May 2001.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "'Who Set You Flowin'?': Migration, Urbanization, and African-American Culture," May 1992.
Guild, Joshua. "You Can't Go Home Again: Migration, Citizenship, and Black Community in Postwar New York and London," Department of History. March 2007. Advisor: Glenda E. Gilmore
Haltman, Kenneth. "Figures in a Western Landscape: Reading the Art of Titian Ramsay Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820," May 1992. Advisor: Howard Lamar/Jules Prown (1, 23, 11)
Joswick, Hubert P. "Charles Peirce and the Logic of Community," March 1987.
Kane, Paula Marie. "Boston Catholics and Modern American Culture, 1900-1920," December 1987. Advisor: David Montgomery (16, 2, 11)
Klein, Christina. "Cold War Orientalism: Musicals, Travel Narratives, and Middlebrow Culture in Postwar America," Department of American Studies. September 1997.
Ladd-Taylor, Molly M. "Mother-Work: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Mothers' Movement, 1890-1930," December 1986.
Lassonde, Stephen A. "Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940," American Studies Program. December 1994.
Lepore, Jill. "The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Levy, Anne Shullenberger. "America Discovered a Second Time: French Perceptions of American Notions of Time from Tocqueville to Laboulaye," American Studies. September 1995.
Marr, Timothy Worthington. "Imagining Ishmael Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville," American Studies. Fall 1997.
McAlister, Elizabeth A. "'Men Moun Yo', 'Here Are The People': Rara Festivals and Transnational Popular Culture in Haiti and New York City," American Studies Program. December 1995.
Moskowitz, Marina. "Standard Bearers: Material Culture and Middle-Class Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," American Studies. March 1999.
Myers, Kenneth John. "Selling the Sublime: The Catskills and the Social Construction of Landscape Experience in the United States, 1776-1876," May 1990.
Newman, Kathy M. "Critical Mass: Advertising and Consumer Activism in the Age of Radio," Department of American Studies. September 1997.
Perkinson, Robert. "The Birth of the Texas Prison Empire, 1865-1915," December 2001.
Phillips, David Clayton. "Art for Industry's Sake: Halftone Technology, Mass Photography, and the Social Transformation of American Print Culture, 1880-1920," American Studies Program. March 1996.
Rice, Stephen P. "Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, 1820-1860," American Studies Program. September 1996.
Richards, Yevette. "‘My Passionate Feeling about Africa’: Maida Springer-Kemp and the American Labor Movement," American Studies Program. May 1994.
Rotella, Carlo. "October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature," American Studies Program. September 1994.
Rubin, Rachel Lee. "Reading, Writing and the Rackets: Jewish Gangsters in Interwar Narrative," American Studies Program. September 1995.
Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast. "Painted Ladies, Virgin Lands: Women in the Myth and Image of the American Frontier, 1830-1860," American Studies Program. March 1994.
Seltz, Laura. "Disappearing Women: Gender and Vision in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Photographs," American Studies Program. September 1997.
Shen, Xiao Hong. "Yale’s China and China’s Yale: Americanizing Higher Education in China, 1900-1927," American Studies Program. November 1993.
Shukla, Sandhya. "India Abroad: Transnational Ethnic Cultures in the United States and Britain, 1947-1997," Program in American Studies. September 1997.
Silverman, Joel. "Pursuing Celebrity, Ensuing Masculinity: Morris Ernst, Obscenity, and the Search For Recognition," American Studies. October 2006. Advisor: Mark C. Smith
Singh, Nikhil Pal. "‘Race’ and Nation in the American Century: A Genealogy of Color and Democracy," American Studies Program. December 1995.
Smith, Jessica Todd. "Is Polite Society Polite?: The Genteel Tradition in the Figure Paintings of William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941)," 2001.
Stephens, Michelle Ann. "Black Empire: The Making of Black Transnationalism by West Indians in the United States, 1914-1962," American Studies Program. March 1999.
Stineman, Esther Lanigan. "Mary Hunter Austin: An American Woman of Letters," March 1987.
Swinth, Kirsten N. "Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of a Professional Ideal in American Art, 1870-1920," American Studies Program. May 1995.
Tal, Kali Jo. "Bearing Witness: The Literature of Trauma," 1991. Advisor: Robert Stepto (2, 12, 22)
Thomas, Karin. "Traveling Eyes: African American Travelers Create a World, 1789-1930," American Studies. May 2001.
Thurner, Manuela Andrea. "Girlkultur and Kulturfeminismus: Gender and Americanism in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933," American Studies. December 1999.
Travis, Trish. "Reading Matters: Book Men, ‘Serious’ Readers, and the Rise of Mass Culture, 1930-1960," Program in American Studies. December 1998.
Utz, John Fredric. "The Ugly Truth: Mystery, Fear and Manhood in the Age of Realism," American Studies. May 2000.
Valentino, Erin. "Delivering Their Grandmothers: Contemporary Native American Women's Art," Department of the History of Art. June 1994.
Viehmann, Martha Lynn. "Writing Across the Cultural Divide: Images of Indians in the Lives and Works of Native and European Americans, 1890-1935," American Studies Program. March 1994.
Wallach, Glenn. "Obedient Sons: Youth and Generational Consciousness in American Culture, 1630-1850s," December 1991. Advisor: David Brion Davis (23, 11, 12)
Williams, Heather Andrea. "Self-Taught: The Role of African Americans in Educating Freedpeople, 1861-1871," May 2002.
Young, Cynthia. "Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Formation of a U.S. Third World Left," American Studies. March 1999.
Zonderman, David A. "Aspirations and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System, 1815-1850," December 1986.
de Uriarte, Mercedes Lynn. "Crossed Wires: U.S. Newspaper Constructions of Outside 'Others'--The Case of Latinos (with Implications for the 21st Century Newsroom)," American Studies Program. March 1996.
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