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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