Recent Dissertations
2009
Gill Frank
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colby College
"Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990"
Mikiko Tachi
Assisant Professor, American Studies and English, Chiba University, Japan
"The Folk Music Revival Then and Now: Politics, Commercialism and Authenticity in Folk Music Communities in the U.S. and Japan"
Sarah Wald
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Studies and English Literature, Drew University
"The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of California Agricultural Labor"
2008
Marcia Chatelain
Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies, University of Oklahoma
“The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl”: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago
Matthew Delmont
Assistant Professor, American Studies, Scripps College
"American Bandstand and School Segregation in Postwar Philadelphia"
Caroline Frank
Visiting Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, Rhode Island School of Design
"China as Object and Imaginary in the Making of an American Nation, 1680-1780"
James Gatewood
Part-time Faculty, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles
"City Lights Books: The History of a Community"
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"
Sarah Petrides
Visiting Instructor, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"The Postregional Turn in Contemporary American Literature"
Matthew Quest
Adjunct Lecturer, Program of African New World Studies, Florida International University
"C.L.R. James, Direct Democracy, and National Liberation"
Susanna Rankin-Bohme
Deputy Editor, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
"DBCP in the United States and Central America: Body, Nation and Transnationalism in the History of a Toxic Produc"t
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 Centur"y
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 Advic"e