Recent Honors Theses
2008
Stephen John Babish
"Lions or Lambs?"; Hollywood Cinema in the Post-9/11 era"
Thesis Advisor: Professor James T. Campbell, American Civilization
Hannah Furst
"Loud Voices: Three Second-Generation Jewish Immigrant Women Writers and the Quest to be Heard"
Thesis Advisor: Professor Richard Meckel, American Civilization
Monica Raquel Pelayo
"Cultural Intersections: The Development of Olvera Street and China City"
Thesis Advisor: Professor Ralph Rodriguez, American Civilization
Robin Marie Perenchio
"Connecting and Expanding Communities: Contemporary Native Radio"
Thesis Advisor: Professor Susan Smulyan, American Civilization
Rebecca Michelle Silverman
"'Bubbie's Secrets' Unwrapped: Cooking up Culture in an American Jewish Sisterhood."
Thesis Advisor: Professor Marcy Brink-Danan, Judaic Studies
2007
John Sydney Butler
“YouDiplomacy: New Strategies for American Public Diplomacy”
Thesis Advisor:
Arminda Elizabeth Smith (History)
“Round and Round They Go: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Point Park”
Thesis Advisor:
2006
Kate Maxwell
Constructing a Creative Urban Space: The Development of AC220 in Providence, RI.
Thesis Advisor: Paul Buhle
Amita Manghnani
Rhythm Nation: South Asian America Performs Race Onstage.
Thesis Advisor: Susan Smulyan
Julia Wolfson
My Experiences with Oral History and Industrial Evolutions: Voices of Pawtucket's Workers.
Thesis Advisor: Paul Buhle
2005
Ashley Elizabeth Harness
Liberation Incarnate: A Study of the Metropolitan Community Church of New York 1972 - 1990.
Thesis Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle
Reader: Jane Gerhard
Heather Velez
Lurkers at the Threshold: Fans of H.P. Lovecraft.
Thesis Advisor: Susan Smulyan
Reader: Paul Buhle
2004
Elizabeth J. Ault
Why Would A Fellow Want a Girl Like Her?”: Cinderella Stories on Film and the Reinscription of the Status Quo, 1950-2003
Thesis Advisor: Lewis Seifert
Reader: Susan Smulyan
Alina Engelman
Winner, American Civilization Prize
Revolutionary Signs: Sandinistas and the Deaf Nicaraguan Experience
Thesis Advisor: David Lewis
Reader: Carol Poore
Ilana Friedman
Tom Levin and Polly Greenberg's Reflections on the Rise and Demise of the Child Development Group of Mississippi
Thesis Advisor: Paul Buhle
Reader: Luther Spoehr
Caroline Staudt
Elbowing into a Man's World: the Effect of Athletics on the Women's Movement at Brown University and in America in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century
Thesis Advisor: Brian Casey
Reader: Howard Chudacoff
2003
Jennifer Hahn
Feminist Magazines of the Third Wave
Thesis Advisor: Jane Gerhard
Reader: Susan Smulyan
Moye Ishimoto
Anime in America and The American Otaku
Thesis Advisor: Susan Smulyan
Reader: Robert Lee
Anna Purinton
Sí, se puede (yes, it can be done): The Movement for Living Wages and Accountable Development
Thesis Advisor: Paul Buhle
Reader: Julia Sass Rubin
Daniel Weber
Rock and Roll Reconnections: Mobilizing the Organic Intellectual Voice
Thesis Advisor: Jane Gerhard
Reader: Robert Arellano
2002
Katherine Chavez
Powerful Places: The Santuario de Chimayó and Loretto Chapel of Santa Fe
Thesis Advisor: Susan Smulyan
Reader: Alberto Pulido
César Cuauhtémoc García H.
In the Shadow of the River: McAllen, Edinburg, and Mission in the Post-NAFTA Economy
Thesis Advisor: Suzanne Oboler
Reader: Jose Itzigsohn
Benjamin David Healy
Visitor with a Deadline in Mind: Privacy, Publicity, and the Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Thesis Advisor: James Cullen
Reader: John L. Thomas
Jason Michael McGill
Power, Race, Culture: Postwar Jazz as Fruit and Seed
Thesis Advisor: Paul Buhle
Reader: Paul Austerlitz
Katharine Malinowski
Standards-Based Reform: The Chicago Experience and its Implications for the New Federal Role in Education Reform
Thesis Advisor: Luther Spoehr
Reader: Nancy Hoffman
Elizabeth Singer More
Bodies of Writing: Changing Feminist Ideas of the Body and Expertise in Our Bodies, Ourselves 1971-1976
Thesis Advisor: Richard Meckel
Reader: Mari Jo Buhle
Hannah Ruth Thompson
Immigrant Life in Large Town New England: The Ways in which Church, Jobs, and Leisure Shape the Brazilian Community in Framingham, Massachusetts
Thesis Advisor: Richard Meckel
Reader: Jane Gerhard