Dissertation Titles: Graduates
DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS
Cafer du Plessis, Elizabeth Meatless Days and Sleepless Nights: U.S. Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in the Progressive Era.
Christensen, Danille Constructing Value: Scrapbooks as Rhetorical Practice.
Friedman, Seth The Truth is Out There: Cultural Paranoia, New Media Technologies,and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection.
Hain, Mark Eluding Oblivion: Lost Films, Preservation, and Cultural Memory.
Keller, Amanda Sugar-Coat the Educational Pill: Using Film and Radio for Education, 1907-1930.
Maxwell, Donald Unguarded Border: The Movement of People and Ideas between the United States and Canada during the Vietnam.
Palm, Nancy Unsettling Identities: Indian Iconography in Thomas Cole's National Landscapes.
Rubens, Amy Making Medicine in America: A Literary Account 1870-1950.
Segal, Shira Representations of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Avant-garde Cinema and Home Movies.
Uechi, Naomi Frank Lloyd Wright's Transcendental Renaissance.
RECENT DISSERTATIONS
2008
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.
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.
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.
2005
Dumas, Christopher Un-American Psycho: Brian DePalma and the "Political Invisible".
Enck-Wanzer, Suzanne Site Unseen: Women's Agency in Contemporary American Constructions of Domestic Violence.
Kuebler-Wolf, Elizabeth "The Perfect Shadow of His Master": Proslavery Ideology in American Visual Culture, 1780-1920.
Nichols-Pethick, Jonathan Open Up: The American Television Police Drama, 1981-2000.
Spear, Sonja Spiritual Semites:American Liberals, Antisemitism, and Jesus the Jew, 1920-1945.
York, Karen American Portrait Cameo Cutting: An Alternate Apprenticeship in Relief Sculpture, 1830-1870.
2004
Carroll, Hamilton Narrating the Postnational: Fictions of Citizenship at the Limits of the Nation.
Cash, John Borrowed Time: Reenacting the American Civil War in Indiana.
Freeman, Damon Not So Simple Justice: Kenneth B. Clark, Civil Rights, and the Dilemma of Power, 1940-1080.
Kraemer, Peter Germany Is Whose Problem?: American Philanthropy and the German Question, 1944-1964.
Kraszewski, Jonathan Television Anthology Writers and Authorship, The Work and Identity of Rod Sterling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky in 1950s and 1960s Media Industries.
Martin, David A Study of High School Student Culture: Bloomington, IN, 1900-1940.
Meilleur, Maurice The Political Scientist As A Painkiller.
Moscowitz, David "Nice Jewish Boys:" Trope, Identity, and Politics in the Rhetorical Representation of Contemporary Tough Jews.
Simpson, II, Tyrone Under Psychic Apartheid: Ghettoes and the Making of Race in the American Metropolis.
Skulnick, Rebecca What's Your Sign?" An Ethnographic Study of Adolescent Interpretive Practices.
Thomas, Kara Music in the Mountains: Music and Community in Western North Carolina.
Wender, Stephan Between the Self and the Public: The Co-Implication of American Literary Naturalism and Modernism in the Modern Urban Narrative.
Zuber, Glenn "Onward Christian Klansmen": War, Religious Conflict, and the Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1930.
2003
Autry, Mary The Chosen: An Exploration of Teching African Americans for an Integrated Society.
Brown, Michelle Penological Crisis in America: Finding Meaning.
Bruder, Margaret Aestheticizing Violence or How To Do Things With Style.
Fisher, Bryan Creating Citizens: Public Speaking Instruction for a Diverse Democratic Society.
Gabbert, Lisa Performing Place: Folklore and Modernity in the Payette Lakes Area, Idaho.
Levy, Elinor Beyond After Freedom: A Folklorist's Foray into Participatory Action Research.
Plaut, Julie "The Citizen of His Era": John W. Gardner and Public Life in the Twentieth-Century United States.
Schadewald, Paul Remapping Race, Religion, and Community: William Markoe and the Legacy of Catholic Interracialism in St. Louis, 1900-1945.
Tidemore, Stacy The Art of Collection: Personal Creativity and Presentation in Everyday Life.
Vosmeier, Sarah The Family Album: Photography and American Family Life since 1860.
