Dissertation Titles
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
Abnet, Dustin Robots, Automation, and the Coming of Post-Industrial America.
Barwick, Clark "That Strange Un-American World": Nation, Modernity, and Negro Renaissance Nightlife.
Beatty, James Artistic Assault: Ethnic American Literatures and Subaltern Resistance.
Clare, Callie Off the Road: American Identity and Modification of Off-Road Trucks.
Eckelmann, Susan Freedom's Little Lights: The Role of Youth during the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1965.
Hain, Mark Revamped: Theda Bara, Cultural Memory, and the Repurposing of Star Image.
Kinnally, Cara Writing America: Transnational Discourses of Empire, Race, and Community Formation in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands.
McGoey, Elizabeth Staging Modern Domesticity: Art and Constructed Interior Displays in America, 1925-1940.
Rawlins, Justin There's a Method to This Whiteness: Method Acting and Racialized Performance in the Post-War US Context.
Reichard, Ruth Sick in the City: Isolation and Policy in Times of Crisis.
Schreiber, Holly Representations of Poverty in American Literary Journalism.
Stanley, Kimberly Pulling Down the House and Tearing UP the Yard: Constructing, Policing, and Containing Black Masculinity, 1920-1960.
Tate, Lauren Cordes Pioneering Identity on the Frontier: Images of African Americans in the West, 1840-1900.
Zolkover, Adam Splitting Hares: Folklore as Literature in 19th Century African American Sources.
RECENT DISSERTATIONS
2012
Chamberlain, Ed Speaking Out to Survive: Literary Activism and Queer Domesticity in Life Writing.
Hogue, Kellie "We Are All Related": Kinship, Identity, and Pilgrimage in the Kateri Movement.
Rubens, Amy Making Medicine in America: A Literary Account, 1870-1950.
2011
Amine, Laila Algerian Paris: Place, Identity, and the War.
Blandford, Jonathan The People vs.: Criminals and Their Publics in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature.
Carter-David, Siobhan Fashioning Essence Women and Ebony Men: Sartorial Instruction and the New Politics of Racial Uplift in Print, 1970-1993.
Ford, Tanisha Soul Generation: Radical Fashion, Beauty, and the Transnational Black Liberation Movement, 1954-1980.
Keeler, Amanda Sugar-Coat the Educational Pill: The Educational Promise of Emergent Film, Radio and Television.
Lemay, Kate Forgotten Memorials: The American Cemeteries in France from World War II.
Palm, Nancy Thomas Cole's Indian Landscapes, Racial Politics, and the National Landscape.
Segal, Shira Home Movies and Home Birth - The Avant-garde Childbirth Film and Pregnancy in New Media.
Vogan, Travis NFL Films and the Pro Football Experience.
2010
Amsden, Brian Liberal Rhetorical Praxis and the Youth Rights Debates.
Berkey, James Imperial Correspondence: Soldiers, Writing, and the Imperial Quotidian during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.
Higgins, David The Inward Urge: Science Fiction After Colonialism.
Loechle, Anne Ye Intruders Beware: Fantastical Pirates in the Golden Age of Illustration.
Maxwell, Donald Unguarded Border: The Movement of People and Ideas between the United States and Canada during the Vietnam.
2009
Aldred, Benjamin The Act of History: American Folklore, Performative Structure and National Identity.
Cafer du Plessis, Elizabeth Meatless Days and Sleepless Nights: Food, Agriculture, and Environment in World War I America.
Christensen, Danille Constructing Value: Women, Scrapbooking, and the Framing of Daily Experience.
Dass-Wilen, Rhonda Native American Symbols in Tattooing.
Friedman, Seth The Truth is Out There: Cultural Paranoia, New Media Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film.
Lash, Sarah Singing the Dream: The Bardic Arts of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Rubin, Robert Establish No Religion: Faith, Law, and Public Education in Mobile, Alabama, 1981-1987.
Salahuddin, Mohammad Patterns of Intergroup Conflict and the Predicament of Justice in South Africa.
Trice, Jasmine Transnational Cinema, Transcultural Capital: Cinema Distribution and Exhibition in Metro-Manila, Philippines, 2006-2009.
Uechi, Naomi Frank Lloyd Wright's Transcendentalist Evolution.
2008
Bradley, Matthew A Journey Against the Tides: Documentary Film Production as Pedagogical Practice and Counterstory.
Castillo, Jeanette Agonistic Democracy and the Narrative of Distempered Elites: An Analysis of Citizen Discourse on Political Message Forums.
McConnell, Kathleen Inventing Pluralistic Education: Compulsory Schooling as a Technique of Democratic Deliberation.
McTaggart, Ursula Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts.
Parker, Chad Transports of Progress: The Arabian American Oil Company and American Modernization in Saudi Arabia, 1945-1973.
Smallwood, Amber Mapping Programming Decision-Making of PBS Member Stations: Negotiating along Centralized-distributed Power and Nonprofit-for Profit Orientation Continua in Program Selection and Scheduling.
Trager Bohley, Kimberly Beyond Domestic Borders and Back: an American Transnational Bookseller in Southeast Asia.
Yaudes, Cynthia Working an Image: Radical Labor Newspapers and the American Tabloid Press, 1919-1922.
2007
Cavallero, Jonathan Italian/American Filmmakers in American Motion Pictures: The Films of Capra, Scorcese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino.
Schick, Sherra Oprah Winfrey, Media, and Culture.
Yockey, Matthew The New Crusaders: Apocalypse, Utopia, and the Contemporary Superhero Film.
2006
Carroll, Nathan Public Access, Private Archives: How DVDs Disrupted Film History.
Elmwood, Victoria Playing Defense: Countercultural American Men's Autobiography Between the Atomic Bomb and the Reagan Era.
Gordon, Rebecca Between Thought & Feeling: Affect, Audience, and Critical Film History.
Kina, Alfred Ushuu Guhuukuu.
Lessing, Lauren Presiding Divinities: Ideal Sculpture in Nineteenth-Century American Domestic Interiors
Von Bothmer, Bernard Blaming "The Sixties": The Political Use of an Era, 1980-2004.
Vuic, Kara "Officer. Nurse. Woman.:" Defining Gender in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War.
