Ph.D. Dissertations
Adams, Dickinson Ward (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1970)
Title: Jefferson's Politics of Morality: The Purpose and Meaning of His Extracts From the Evangelists "the Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth" and "the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth"
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Ahearn, Marie Lucy (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1965)
Title: The Rhetoric of Work and Vocation in Some Popular Northern Writings Before 1860
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Alexander, Eleanor Coleman (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore; A Social History of Love, Sex, and the African-American Elite, 1870-1910
Advisor: Davis, Thadious M.
Asmus, Pamela K. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1987)
Title: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-Saxon Myth in the United States, 1770-1954
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Asquino, Mark Louis (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1978)
Title: Criticism in the Balance: The Literary Anthologist As Literary Critic and Promoter in Nineteenth-Century America
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Attebery, Brian Leonard (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1979)
Title: America and the Materials of Fantasy
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Bair, Barbara (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1984)
Title: Ties of Blood and Bonds of Fortune: The Cultural Construction of Gender in American Women's Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Balakian, Peter (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Theodore Roethke: A Critical Study
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Barnett, Lewis D. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1977)
Title: Depictions of Labor-Related Violence in American Periodicals, Newspapers, and Novels, 1877-1900
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Bartlett, Irving Henry (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1952)
Title: The Romantic Theology of Horace Bushnell
Advisor: Morgan, Edmund S.
Bass, Dorothy Courtenay (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: The Best Hopes of the Sexes: The Woman Question in Garrisonian Abolitionism
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Baxter, Annette Kar (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1958)
Title: Parts of the Mosaic: Henry Miller As Expatriate
Advisor: No Advisor Listed
Blasing, Mutlu K. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1974)
Title: in Colossal Cipher: Thoreau, Whitman, James and Adams
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Bonham, Julia Carol (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1979)
Title: Cotton Textile Technology in America: Three Centuries of Evolutionary Change
Advisor: Dupree, A. Hunter
Boris, Eileen Cynthia (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1981)
Title: Art and Labor: John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America, 1876-1915
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Bottorff, William Kenneth (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1964)
Title: American Poems, Selected and Original
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1995)
Title: San Francisco Was A Wide Open Town: Charting the Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Communities Through the Mid-20th Century
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Brewer, Priscilla J. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1987)
Title: Home Fires: Cultural Responses To the Introduction of the Cookstove, 1815-1900
Advisor: Malone, Patrick M.
Bridges, William Emery (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1963)
Title: The Family Circle in American Verse: The Rise and Fall of An Image
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Brien, Dolores Elise (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: A Study of the Poetry of Robert Creeley and Rober Duncan in Relation To the Emerson-Whitman Tradition
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Briggs, Laura Jeanne (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1998)
Title: Reproducing Empire: Race and Sex, Science and Reform in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States, 1880-1960
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Camacho, Roseanne Vaile (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: Women Born of the South: Region and Gender in the Work of Lillian Smith
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Campbell, Philip Storer (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1955)
Title: Cotton Mather
Advisor: Morgan, Edmund S.
Carlebach, Michael Lloyd (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1988)
Title: The Origins of Photojournalism in America, 1839-1880
Advisor: Rosenberg, Bruce Alan
Cassedy, James Higgins (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1959)
Title: Doctor Charles V. Chapin and the Modern Public Health Movement
Advisor: Fleming, Donald H.
Cavicchi, Daniel R (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans
Advisor: Titon, Jeff T.
Cayleff, Susan E. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1983)
Title: Wash and Be Healed: The Nineteenth-Century Water-Cure Movement; 1840-1900: Simple Medicine and Women's Retreat
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Cayton, Mary Alice Kupiec (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1981)
Title: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Chambers, Robert Hunter (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: Robert Penn Warren: His Growth As A Writer
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Christian, Henry Arthur Peter (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1968)
Title: Louis Adamic: Immigrant and American Liberal
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Christy, W. Mcvay (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1970)
Title: The Shock of Recognition: A Psycho-Literary Study of Hawthorne's Influence On Melville's Short Fiction
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Clark, Charles Edwin (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1966)
Title: The Eastern Parts: Northern New England, 1690-1760
Advisor: Bridenbaugh, Carl
Coakley, John P. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: The Artistic Process As Religious Enterprise: The Vocal Texts of Charles Ives and the Poetry of E.E. Cummings
Advisor: Milhaven, J. Giles
Coale, Samuel Chase (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1970)
Title: The Role of the South in the Fiction of William Faulkner, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Cohen, Peter Franzblau (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Love and Anger: Literature, Activism, and the Aids Epidemic
Advisor: Savran, David
Comer, Krista (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Western Landscape and the Politics of American Space: Reading the New Female Regionalism
Advisor: Davis, Thadious M.
Conforti, Joseph A. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1975)
Title: Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement, 1740-1820: A Study in the Transformation of Puritan Theology and the New England Social Order
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Cooper, David D. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1977)
Title: The Paradox of Spirit and Instinct: A Comparative Examination of the Psychologies of C. G. Jung and Sigmund Freud
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Cooper, Mark Garrett (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1998)
Title: The Cinematic Order: Visual Love Stories and the Making of Managerial America
Advisor: Rosen, Philip
Couser, Griffith Thomas (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1977)
Title: American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Croce, Ann J. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1988)
Title: Phantoms From An Ancient Loom: Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard and the American Novel, 1860-1900
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Croce, Paul Jerome (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1987)
Title: The Education of William James: Religion, Science, and the Possibilities For Belief Without Certainty in the Early Intellectual Development of William James
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Crowe, Charles Robert (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1955)
Title: George Ripley, Transcendentalist and Utopian Socialist
Advisor: Fleming, Donald H.
Cullen, James Patrick (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1992)
Title: Making History: Uses of the Civil War in Twentieth Century Popular Culture
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Decker, Jeffrey Louis (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1990)
Title: The Interpretation of American Dreams: The Political Unconscious in American Literature and Culture
Advisor: Scholes, Robert
Dixon, Melvin W. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1975)
Title: Historical Vision and Personal Witness in American Slave Literature
Advisor: Harper, Michael S.
Donahue, Jane Patricia (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: Neglected Muse: Neoclassical Forms and Attitudes in American Poetry From the Connecticut Wits To James Russell Lowell
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Donaldson, Susan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1983)
Title: The Artist and His Scene: Pastoralism and Romanticism in Modern Southern Literature and Painting
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Donalson, Melvin Burke (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1981)
Title: The Representation of Afroamerican Women in the Hollywood Feature Film, 1915-1949
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Douglas, Susan Jeanne (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1979)
Title: Exploring Pathways in the Ether: The Formative Years of Radio in America, 1896-1912
Advisor: Dupree, A. Hunter
Ducille, F. Ann (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: Coupling and Convention: Marriage, Sex, and Subjectivity in Novels By and About African American Women, 1853 - 1948
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Eppard, Philip Blair (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1979)
Title: The Correspondence of Henry Adams and John Hay, 1881-1892
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Fees, Paul Rodger (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: New England's Image of the Old Northwest and Its Incorportion of Western Cultural Symbols
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Ferraro, William Michael (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: Lives of Quiet Desperation: Community and Polity in New England Over Four Centuries: The Cases of Portsmouth and Foster, Rhode Island
Advisor: Cornwell, Elmer E.
Fitzgerald, Neil King (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Wieland's Crime: A Source and Analogue Study of the Foremost Novel of the Father of American Literature
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Fox, Stephen Russell (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1971)
Title: The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Francis, Elizabeth (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1994)
Title: Feminism and Modernism: Gender and Cultural Politics in America, 1910-1940
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Frank, Stuart Marshall (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1985)
Title: Ballads and Songs of the Whale-Hunters, 1825-1895: From Manuscripts in the Kendall Whaling Museum
Advisor: Rosenberg, Bruce Alan
Freiberg, Malcolm (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1951)
Title: Prelude To Purgatory: Thomas Hutchinson in Provincial Massachusetts Politics, 1760 - 1770
Advisor: Morgan, Edmund S.
Frost, Carol J. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: The Valley of Cross-Purposes: Charles Nordhoff and American Journalism, 1860-1890
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Gaines, Kevin Kelly (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: Uplifting the Race: Black Middle-Class Ideology in the Era of the "New Negro," 1890-1935
Advisor: Moses, Wilson J.
Garceau, Dorothy Claire (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1995)
Title: The Important Things of Life: Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Geary, Susan Elizabeth (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1976)
Title: Scribbling Women: Essays On Literary History and Popular Literature in the 1850's
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Gerhard, Jane Fell (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Politicizing Pleasure: Discourses On Womanhood, Female Sexuality, and Feminism in Modern America, 1920-1982
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Gernes, Todd S. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1992)
Title: Recasting the Culture of Ephermera: Young Women's Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Gillon, Steven Michael (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1985)
Title: Liberal Dilemmas: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1968
Advisor: Patterson, James T.
Grasso, Linda Maria (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: Behind A Mask: The Politics of Anger in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Green, David Leslie (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: The Modernist American Landscape
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Greenspan, Ezra (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1981)
Title: The Schlemiel Comes To America: A Reading of Jewish-American Fiction
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Greenwald, Maurine Weiner (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1977)
Title: Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I On Women Workers in the United States
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Greenwood, Richard Eric (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Scientific Engineering and Useful Improvements: The Manufacturing Career of Zachariah Allen, 1822-1872
Advisor: Malone, Patrick M.
Griffith, Lucille Blanche (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1957)
Title: The Virginia House of Burgesses, 1750-1774
Advisor: Morgan, Edmund S.
Gross, Lawrence Frederic (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1976)
Title: Stephen Crane: Social Critic
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Habicht, Louise Ann (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1971)
Title: Henry James and Joseph Conrad: A Study in Relationship
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Hansen, Woodrow James (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1958)
Title: The Search For Authority in California, 1822-1849
Advisor: Fleming, Donald H.
Harding, Brian Reginald (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1971)
Title: Transcendental Symbolism in the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Harris, Christopher Peter (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1985)
Title: Character Portraits of American Military Heroes of the Revolution, 1782-1832
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Hart, William Bryan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1998)
Title: For the Good of Our Souls: Mohawk Authority, Accommodation, and Resistance To Protestant Evangelism, 1700-1780
Advisor: Krech, Shepard
Heath, Kingston W. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1985)
Title: Striving For Permanence On the Western Frontier: Vernacular Architecture As Cultural Informant in Southwestern Montana
Advisor: Jordy, William H.
Hedrick, Joan D. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1974)
Title: The True Americans: Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, "Prufrock", and Others
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Hedrick, Travis K. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1974)
Title: Julian Monson Sturtevant and the Moral Machinery of Society: The New England Struggle Against Pluralism in the Old Northwest, 1829-1877
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Herlihy, Mark Allan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 2000)
Title: Leisure, Space, and Collective Memory in the "Athens of America": A History of Boston's Revere Beach
Advisor: Smulyan, Susan
Jacobson, Matthew F. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1992)
Title: Special Sorrows: Irish-, Polish-, and Yiddish- American Nationalism and the Diasporic Imagination
Advisor: Chudacoff, Howard P.
Jones, Carter (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: Hope For the Race of Man: Indians, Intellectuals and the Regeneration of Modern America, 1917-1934
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Joyrich, Lynne Robin (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1990)
Title: Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and American Culture
Advisor: Doane, Mary Ann
Kelly, John Ellison (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1976)
Title: Information Theory and the Ethnography of Television News
Advisor: Dupree, A. Hunter
Kilgore, De Witt Douglas (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1994)
Title: Beyond Earth: Popular Science, Science Fiction, and the Cultural Construction of An American Future in Space
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Kocks, Dorothee Etheridge (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: Champions of Place: Politics and Landscape in the 1930's and 1950's
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Kuhlman, Thomas Ashford (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1967)
Title: The Humane Social Criticism of John P. Marquand
Advisor: Kapstein, Israel J.
Kulik, Gary B. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1672-1829
Advisor: Dupree, A. Hunter
Lamster, Frederick Bernard (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Souls Made Great Through Love and Adversity: A Thematic and Stylistic Study of the Film Work of Director Frank Borzage
Advisor: Silverman, Michael
Leary, Thomas Edward (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1985)
Title: The Labor Process in An Early Textile Machinery Shop: Workers At the Davis & Furber Company of North Andover, Massachusetts, 1830-1860
Advisor: Malone, Patrick M.
Levine, Stuart George (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1958)
Title: The Proper Spirit, A Study of the Prose Fiction of Edgar Poe
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Levy, Bruce Evan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: From Here To Modernity: Nation Building, the Writing of Place and the Provincial Ideal in Hugh Miller and Edward Eggleston
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Locke, Brian Keith (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 2000)
Title: Three's A Crowd: The Racial Triangle of "White," "Black,"And "Asian" Men in Post-World War Two United States Culture
Advisor: Rooney, Ellen Frances
Locke, David Stratton (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1972)
Title: The Village Vision: Goals and Limits in Urban Reform, 1890-1914
Advisor: Karl, Barry D.
Lovejoy, David Sherman (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1954)
Title: The Licentious Republic: Rhode Island, 1760-1776
Advisor: Morgan, Edmund S.
Luedtke, Luther Stephen (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1971)
Title: German Criticism and Reception of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Malloy, Mary D. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1994)
Title: Boston Men On the Northwest Coast: Commerce, Collecting, and Cultural Perceptions in the American Maritime Fur Trade 1788-1844
Advisor: Krech, Shepard
Martin, Robert Kessler (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1978)
Title: The "Half-Hid Warp": Whitman, Crane, and the Tradition of "Adhesiveness" in American Poetry
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
McAlister, Melani L (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Staging the American Century Race, Gender, and Nation in U.S. Representations of the Middle East, 1945-1992
Advisor: Rosen, Philip
McCleary, Ann Elizabeth (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Shaping A New Role For the Rural Woman: Home Demonstration Work in Augusta County, Virginia, 1917-1940
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
McLaren, Joseph (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington and Langston Hughes: Perspectives On Their Contributions To American Culture, 1920 - 1966
Advisor: Nichols, Charles H.
McMichael, Robert Kenneth (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Consuming Jazz: Black Music and Whiteness
Advisor: Titon, Jeff T.
Melish, Joanne Pope (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and the Cultural Construction of "Race" in New England, 1780-1860
Advisor: Jones, Rhett S.
Melosh, Barbara (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1979)
Title: Skilled Hands, Cool Heads, and Warm Hearts: Nurses and Nursing, 1920-1960
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Michel, Sonya Alice (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1986)
Title: Children's Interests, Mother's Rights: Women, Professions, and the American Family 1920-1945
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Miller, David Cameron (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: Desert Places": The Meaning of Swamp, Jungle and Marsh Images in Nineteenth Century America
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Min, Susette S (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 2000)
Title: Creative License: Walking Through Asian American Cultural Productions
Advisor: Lee, Robert George
Moore, David Ryan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1992)
Title: Exiled America: Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Hart Benton, Benjamin A. Botkin, Constance Rourke, Arthur Raper and the Great Depression
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1975)
Title: Black Nationalism, 1895-1915 - Afro-American Bourgeois Culture Before the Great War
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Murdock, Mary-Elizabeth (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1962)
Title: Charles William Eliot, Crusader For "New Education"
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Nelson, Rudolph Lorens (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1971)
Title: The Search For Transcendence in Contemporary American Poetry
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Norman, Sandra Lee (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1988)
Title: Guncotton To Smokeless Powder: The Development of Nitrocellulose As A Military Explosive, 1845-1929
Advisor: Malone, Patrick M.
O'Brien, Charles Francis (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1968)
Title: The Word and the Work: A Study of Sir William Dawson and Nineteenth Century Controversies Between Religion and Science
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Okoomian, Janice L (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1998)
Title: Originary Embodiments: The Female Body and Narratives of Ethnic Origin in the Contemporary United States
Advisor: Bow, Leslie A.
Osterud, Nancy Grey (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1984)
Title: Strategies of Mutuality: Relations Among Women and Men in An Agricultural Community
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Patterson, John Seymour (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: The Structure of Commitment and the Survival of Fear: White Antislavery and Late-Nineteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Black Americans
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Peiss, Kathy Lee (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: Cheap Amusements: Gender Relations and the Use of Leisure Time in New York City, 1880 To 1920
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Pfeifer, Edward Justin (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1957)
Title: The Reception of Darwinism in the United States, 1859-1880
Advisor: Fleming, Donald H.
Powers, Richard Gid (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: Towards A New Literature: Novelistic Experimentation in America During the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Rand, Yardena Rivka (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1996)
Title: Contested Landscape and Common Ground: American Audiences and the Movie Western
Advisor: Rosenberg, Bruce Alan
Rasmusson, Ethel Elise (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1962)
Title: Capital On the Delaware: The Philadelphia Upper Class in Transition, 1789-1801
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Reumann, Miriam Grace (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1998)
Title: American Sexual Character in the Age of Kinsey, 1946-64
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Rose, Patricia L. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Cultural Resistance in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Rothberg, Morey (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: Servant To History: A Study of John Franklin Jameson, 1859-1937
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Rudnick, Lois (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1977)
Title: The Unexpurgated Self: A Critical Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Ryden, Kent Clinton (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Geography, Narrative, and the Sense of Place
Advisor: Rosenberg, Bruce Alan
Scribine, Christine Brendel (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1973)
Title: Upton Sinclair and the Literature of Protest, 1900 To 1940
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Shapiro, Michael Steven (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Froebel in America: A Social and Intellectual History of the Kindergarten Movement, 1848-1918
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Simmons, Christina Clare (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: Marriage in the Modern Manner Sexual Radicalism and Reform in America, 1914-1941
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Simpson, Jeffrey Edward (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1991)
Title: The Walking Muse in America
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Sippel, Erich William (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1975)
Title: Degeneration and Virtue in American Literature and Culture 1871-1915
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Slotkin, Richard Sidney (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1967)
Title: Emergence of A Myth: John Filson's "Daniel Boon Narrative" and the Literature of the Indian Wars, 1638-1848
Advisor: Van Nostrand, Albert D.
Smith, Judith Ellen (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Remaking Their Lives: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Family, Work, and Community in Providence, Rhode Island, 1900-1940
Advisor: Chudacoff, Howard P.
Smith, Steven (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1990)
Title: Honest Retailers of Truth: Popular Thinkers and the American Response To Modernity, 1912-1939
Advisor: Thomas, John L.
Snedcof, Harold Robert (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1970)
Title: The Achievement of Frank O'Hara
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
St. Armand, Barton Levi (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1968)
Title: in the American Manner: An Inquiry Into the Aesthetics of Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Stanton, William Ragan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1956)
Title: The Leopard's Spots, Science and the American Idea of Equality: 1815-1860
Advisor: Fleming, Donald H.
Staub, Michael Eric (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1987)
Title: From Speech To Text: The 1930s Narratives of John Neihardt, Tillie Olsen, and James Agee
Advisor: Henkle, Roger B.
Stephenson, Edward Roger (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1972)
Title: Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway: A Study in Literary Continuity
Advisor: Hirsch, David H.
Stevens, Elizabeth Cooke (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: From Generation To Generation: The Mother and Daughter Activism of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Stock, Ely (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1966)
Title: Studies in Hawthorne's Use of the Bible
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Sumner, David Nathan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1972)
Title: American Industrial Labor Novels 1870-1945. A Preliminary Socio-Critical Study
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Sumner, Nancy Ann McCowan (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: Orison Swett Marden: The American Samuel Smiles
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Tashjian, Dickran Levon (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: The Influence of European Dada On American Visual Arts and Letters: 1913-1925
Advisor: Jordy, William H.
Tawil, Ezra Fred (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 2000)
Title: The Frontier Romance, the Problem of Slavery, and the Making of Race
Advisor: Armstrong, Nancy
Taylor, Robert Joseph (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1952)
Title: Western Massachusetts in the Revolution
Advisor: Morgan, Edmund S.
Taylor-Guthrie, Danille K. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1984)
Title: and She Was Loved!: The Novels of Toni Morrison, A Black Woman's Worldview
Advisor: No Advisor Listed
Tetlow, Joseph Allen, Jr. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: The Intellectual and Spiritual Odyssey of Edgar Lee Masters, 1868-1950
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Thomas, Deborah Gisele (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1998)
Title: Workers and Organizers: African-American Women in the Work Force and Club Movement, 1890-1930
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Topp, Michael Arthur (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1993)
Title: Immigrant Culture and the Politics of Identity: Italian-American Syndicalists in the U.S., 1911-1927
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Trigg, Mary Kathleen (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1989)
Title: Four American Feminists,1910-1940: Inez Haynes Irwin, Mary Ritter Beard, Doris Stevens, and Lorine Pruette
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Umansky, Laurie Karen (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1994)
Title: Reconceiving Motherhood: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Legacies of the 1960's
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Upton, Dell (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1980)
Title: Early Vernacular Architecture in Southeastern Virginia
Advisor: Deetz, James F.
Urgo, Joseph R. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1986)
Title: William Faulkner: A Literature of the Life Experience
Advisor: Monteiro, George
Uroff, Margaret Dickie (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1965)
Title: Hart Crane's White Buildings
Advisor: Waggoner, Hyatt H.
Warren, Frank Algernon III (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1962)
Title: American Liberalism in the 1930's: Its Relation To Communism
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Weaver, Earl James (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1963)
Title: John Dewey: A Spokesman For Progressive Liberalism
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Weiss, Julie H. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1990)
Title: Womanhood and Psychoanalysis: A Study of Mutual Construction in Popular Culture, 1920-1963
Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo
Williams, David Ross (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1982)
Title: Wilderness Lost: New England in the Jaws of An Angry God
Advisor: St. Armand, Barton L.
Williams, Harry McKinley (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1988)
Title: When Black Is Right: The Life and Writings of George S. Schuyler
Advisor: Moses, Wilson J.
Williams, Vernon J. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1977)
Title: The Afro-American in American Sociological Literature, 1890-1945
Advisor: McLoughlin, William G.
Wood, Jerome Herman, Jr. (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1969)
Title: Conestoga Crossroads: The Rise of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1789
Advisor: Bridenbaugh, Carl
Wreszin, Michael (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1961)
Title: Oswald Garrison Villard: Pacifist At War
Advisor: Fleming, Donald H.
Yoshihara, Mari (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1997)
Title: Women's Asia: American Women and the Gendering of American Orientalism, 1870s-WWII
Advisor: Lee, Robert George
Zee, Nancy Scholar (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1973)
Title: Anias Nin: Beyond the Mask
Advisor: Waldrop, Bernard K.
Zwarg, Christina Lynne (Ph.D.: American Civilization, 1981)
Title: The Individual Made Real: Emerson, Fuller, and the Language of Experience
Advisor: Monteiro, George