The following is a registry of completed doctoral dissertations in American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies programs as reported by United States Ph.D. degree-granting institutions. This list is based on requests to American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies programs for lists of doctoral dissertations completed between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. The survey was sent to forty-nine universities and/or departments. Twenty-nine were American Studies programs, twelve were American Ethnic Studies programs, and eight were Women’s Studies programs.

The following programs either did not respond or had no completed dissertations to report: University at Buffalo-The State University of New York; University of California, Davis; University of California, Berkeley; Claremont Graduate University; Emory University; Florida State University; Georgetown University; University of Hawaii, Manoa; Indiana University; Kent State University; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; New York University; Purdue University; Temple University; University of Utah; College of William and Mary.

The report contains entries whose titles suggest the broad range of topics and diverse methodologies that American Studies scholars are exploring. A complete alphabetical listing of American Studies Dissertation Abstracts from 1986-2008 and past surveys are available from the online ASA Archive at http://www.theasa.net under the “Resources” section.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY (1)

Laura D’Amore. “American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine Since 1962.”

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (5)

Radhika Gajalla, “Behind the Smile:  Negotiating and Transforming the Tourism Imposed Identity of Bahamian Women.” Alissa Burger, “Trajectory of American Myth: Race, Gender, Home, and Magic from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to ‘Wicked.’” Christopher Johnston, “Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.” Dellareese Higgs.  “Behind the Smile:  Negotiating and Transforming the Tourism Imposed Identity of Bahamian Women.” Nathan Crook,  “Foods That Matter: Constructing Place and Community at Food Festivals in Northwest Ohio.”

BROWN UNIVERSITY (3)

Marcia Chatelain, ““The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl:” Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1899-1950,“Sarah Wald, “The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor.” Mikiko Tachi, “The Folk Music Revival Then and Now: Politics, Commercialism, and Authenticity in Folk Music Communities in the U.S. and Japan.”

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO (2)

Monika Gosin. “(Re) Framing the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Challenge to Black and Latino Struggles for American Identity.”  Theresa Cenidoza Suarez. “The Language of Militarism: Engendering Filipino Masculinity.”

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (1)

Brooks Hefner. ““‘You’ve Got to Be Modernistic’: American Vernacular Modernism, 1910-1937.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (5)

Stephanie Ricker Schulte, “State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture (1980-2000).” Julie Passanante Elman, “Medicalizing Edutainment: Enforcing Disability in the Teen Body, 1970-2000.” Laura J. Feller, “Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia.” David Kieran, “‘Sundered by a Memory’: The Legacy of the Vietnam War and the Cultural Memory of Trauma in American Culture, 1975 to Present.” Keith Richotte. ““We the Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation”: Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism Beyond the Colonialist/Revolutionary Dialectic.”

HARVARD UNIVERSITY (2)

Jennifer Nash, “The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography.”

Michael Alvar de Baca. “Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s.”

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON (7) [updated, 8/2012]

Benjamin Aldred. “The Act of History: American Folklore, Performative Structure and National Identity.”

Jeanette Castillo. “Agonistic Democracy and the Narrative of Distempered Elites: An Analysis of Citizen Discourse on Political Message Forums.”

Sarah Lash. “Singing the Dream: The Bardic Arts of the Society for Creative Anachronism.”

Kathleen McConnell. “Inventing Pluralistic Education: Compulsory Schooling as a Technique of Democratic Deliberation.”

Mohammad Salahuddin. “Patterns of Intergroup Conflict and the Predicament of Justice in South Africa.”

Naomi Uechi. “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Transcendental Renaissance.”

Cynthia Yaudes. “Working an Image: Radical Labor Newspapers and the American Tabloid Press, 1919-1922.”

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (1)

Anne Dotter. “Transnational Cultural Transactions:Distributing American Teen-Girl-Films in France, 1986-2006.”

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVESITY (1)

Yuya Kiuchi, “The Black Image in the Black Mind: The History of African Americans’ Access to Cable Television in Boston and Detroit, 1963-1989.”

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (1)

Rebecca Adelman, “The Shadow Rules of Engagement: Visual Practices, Citizen-Subjectivity, and America’s Global War on Terror.”

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, HARRISBURG (1)

Alissa Mazow, “Plantae, Animalia, Fungi: Transformations of Natural History in Contemporary American Art.”

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (2)

Patrick Naick, “Representations of the Black Metropolis: Place and African American Identity on Chicago’s South Side.” Erica Hannickel, “An Imperial Vineland: The Culture of the Grape in 19th Century America.”

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (4)

Tamara Wilds Lawson, “Faith Without Funding, Values Without Justice: The Bush Campaign’s Successful Targeting of African American Evangelical Pastors and Churches in the 2004 Presidential Election.” Shelby Shapiro. “Words to the Wives: The Jewish Press, Immigrant Women and Identity Construction, 1895-1925.” Wendy Marie Thompson. “Beyond the Railroad People: Race and the Color of History in Chinese America.” Kelly Wisecup, “Communicating Disease: Medical Knowledge and Literary Forms in Colonial British America.”

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR (1)

LaKisha Michelle Simmons. “Black Girls Coming of Age: Sexuality and Segregation in New Orleans, 1930-1954.”

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (3)

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. “Stealing Fire, Scattering Ashes: Anishinaabe Expressions of Sovereignty, Nationhood, and Land Tenure in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada, 1785-1923.” Joseph Bauerkemper, “Narrating Nationhood: Radical Histories in Native Fiction.” Keith Richotte Jr., “We the Indians of the Turtle Mountain Reservation: Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism Beyond the Colonialist/Revolutionary Dialectic.”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO (1)

Lena McQuade, “Troubling Reproduction: Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism in New Mexico, 1919-1945.”

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (1)

Lisa Uddin. “Breeding Grounds: Race, Space and Species in the New American Zoo.”

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CALIFORNIA (2)

Hillary Jenks, “Home Is Little Tokyo: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.” Emily Hobson, “Imagining Alliance: Queer Anti-Imperialism and Race in California, 1966-1990,”

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN (4)

Jessica Grogran. “A Cultural History of the Humanistic Psychology Movement in America.” John Gronbeck-Tedesco, “Reading Revolution: Politics in the U.S.-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930-1970.”  Jason Dean Mellard, “Cosmic Cowboys, Armadillos, and Outlaws:  The Cultural Politics of Texas Identity in the 1970s.” Amy Ware, “The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers and the Tribal Genealogies of American Indian Celebrity.”

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (2)

Keith Feldman, “Racing the Question: Israel/Palestine and U.S. Imperial Culture.” Hala Abu Taleb, “Gender, Media, Culture and the Middle East.”

YALE UNIVERSITY (1)

Daniel Gilbert, “Expanding the Strike Zone: Baseball in the Age of Free Agency.”