Recent Dissertations
2008
Karen Inouye
Lecturer, American Studies, Indiana University
Changing History: Competing Notions of Japanese American Experience, 1942-2006
Stephanie Larrieux
Assistant Professor, Screen Studies, Clark University
Racing the Future: Hollywood Science Fiction Film Narratives of Race
2007
Elizabeth Belanger
Adjunct Lecturer, History and American Studies, Stonehill College
Women Emergent: Gender, Geography and Activism in St. Louis and Chicago
2006
Charlotte Biltekoff
Post doctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis
Hidden Hunger: Eating and Citizenship from Domestic Science to the Fat Epidemic
Jonna K. Eagle
Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in Women's Studies, Duke University
Making a Spectacle of Himself: White Masculinity, Melodrama, and Sensation in the American Cinema, 1898-1999
Christin Lee Hancock
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, University of Portland
Sovereign Bodies: Women, Health Care, and Federal Indian Policy, 1890-1980
James Owen Ross
Professor of design at the Art Institute Online - Division of the Art of Pittsburgh
The Impact of the Nineteenth-Century Public Health Movement Upon American Architecture: Theories of Disease, Ventilation, and Sunlight, 1840-1944
Carla S. Tengan
Cultivating Communities: Japanese American Gardeners in Southern California, 1910-1980
Susanne Wiedemann
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Miami University, Ohio
Transnational Encounters with 'Amerika': German Jewish Refugees' Identity Formation in Berlin and Shanghai, 1939-1949
2005
Themis Chronopoulos
Assistant Professor, History, State University New York, Stonybrook
Disorderly Space: Power Relations and the Postwar Decline of New York City
Christiana Morgan Grefe
Education Director, Rhode Island Historical Society
Museums of Order: "Truth," Politics, and the Interpretation of America's Prisons
Matthew Pursell
Assistant Professor, History, Illinois Wesleyan University
Changing Conceptions of Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1640 to 1780
2004
Eric Reyes
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, California State University, Fullerton
The Politics of Globalization in Filipino American Culture
Judith Rosenbaum
Director of Education, Jewish Women's Archive
Whose Bodies? Whose Selves? Women's Bodies and Women's Activism in the Twentieth Century
Alexander Russo
Assistant Professor, Communications, Catholic University
Roots of Radio's Rebirth: Audiences, Aesthetics, Economics, and Technologies of American Broadcasting, 1926-1951
2003
Jennifer Jang
Redressing the Pained Body: The Politics of Sentimentality in Asian American Literature
Natasha Zaretsky
Assistant Professor, History, Southern Illinois University
The End of the American Century: Narratives of National Decline and Family Decline in the 1970's
2002
Briann Greenfield
Assistant Professor, History, Central Connecticut State University
Old New England in the Twentieth-Century Imagination: Public Memory in Salem, Deerfield, Providence, and the Smithsonian Institution
Jessica Shubow
Lecturer, History and Literature, Harvard University
A Political History of the Normal Body in the United States from the Progressive Era to the Cold War
2001
Marion Coffey
Conceiving a Social Movement: Pro-Choice Organizing Post Roe v. Wade
Shahara Brookins Drew
Insiders and Outsiders: Processes of African American Canon formation, 1972 to Present
Kristen Farmelant
Trophies of Grace: Religious Conversion and Americanization in Boston's Immigrant Communities, 1890-1940
Claudia Milian
Assistant Professor, Romance Studies, Duke University
Breaking into the Borderlands: Double Consciousness, Latina and Latino Misplacements
Kirsten Ostherr
Assistant Professor, English, Rice University
Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Audiovisual Discourse of World Health
Cynthia Tolentino
Assistant Professor, English, University of Oregon
The Liberal, The Sociologist, and the Novelist: Narratives of Race and National Development in African American and Asian American fiction of the 1940s
2000
Mark Herlihy
Assistant Professor, History, Endicott College
Leisure, Space and Collective Memory in Boston 1890-1980
Kirsten Lentz
Television as Bad Object: Feminism, Race and the Politics of the Sign in 1970's Television and Film
Brian Locke
Assistant Professor, English, University of Utah
Three's a Crowd: The Racial Triangle of "White", "Black", and "Asian" Men in Post-World War Two United States Culture
Susette Min
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Creative License: Walking Through Asian American Cultural Productions
Ezra Tawil
Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
The Historical Romance in the Age of Jackson
1999
Crista DeLuzio
Assistant Professor, History, Southern Methodist University
"Sex in the Adolescent Girl": The Construction of Knowledge about Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Social Sciences, 1900-1930
Kathy Franz
Assistant Professor, History, American University
Narrating Automobility: Travelers, Tinkerers, and Technological Authority in the Twentieth Century
Sarah Leavitt
Associate Historian, Office of National Institutes of Health History and the Stetton Museum
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice