Recent Dissertation Titles

2010

Eliza Young Barstow, “‘These Teenagers are Not Delinquent’: The Rhetoric of Maturity for Evangelical Young Adults, 1945-1965.”

George Blaustein, “To the Heart of Europe: Americanism, the Salzburg Seminar, and Cultural Diplomacy.”

Sarah Carter, “Object Lessons in American Culture.”

Sara Gebhardt, “Like Me: Identity Immersion Journalism and the Dilemmas of Self-Making.”

Hillary Kaell, “Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Post-War Period.”

Noam Maggor, “Politics of Property: Urban Democracy in the Age of Capital, Boston 1965-1900.”

2009

Lauren Brandt, "'Social Intercession'": The Religious Nature of Public Activism among American Women Reformers in Boston, 1892 to 1930."

Michael Alvar DeBaca, "Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s."

Katherine Rieder, “‘The Remainder of our Effects we Must Leave Beyind’: American Loyalists and the Meaning of Things, 1765-1800.”

Zoe Trodd, "The Reusable Past: Abolitionist Aesthetics in the Protest Literature of theLong Civil Rights Movement."

2008

Erin Royston Battat,"' Ain't Got No Home' : Race and American Narratives in the Depression Era."

Marti Jaye Frank, "Carrying the Mill: Steam, Waterpower and New England Textile Mills in the 19th Century."

Scott Gelber, "Academic Populism: The People's Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1880-1905."

Hua Hsu, "Pacific Crossings: China, the United States, and the Transpacific Imagination."

2007

Peter Becker, "The Perpetrators'  Past: Consciousness and Conscience in the Historical Novel."

Talaya Adrienne Delaney, "Performing History: History and Politics in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Naomi Wallace, and Charles Mee."

Salamishah Margaret Tillet, "Peculiar Memories: Slavery and the American Cultural Imagination."

Diana Irene Williams, "'They call it marriage': The Interracial Louisiana Family and the Making of American Legitimacy."

Dagmawi Woubshet, "Figurations of Catastrophe: The Poetics and Politics of AIDS Loss."

2006

Mark Gillies Hanna, "The Pirate Nest: The Impact of Piracy on New Port, Rhode Island and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1670-1730."

Laura Isabel Serna, "'We're going Yankee': American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917-1935."