American Studies
Thesis
Thesis work is guided and advised by the American Studies Committee.
Selected Past Theses
2006-2007
Robin Socolar Blanc Public School Choice: Institutional Change and Educational Organizationin Historical Perspective.
Dana Wiggins Logan The Greatest Churches Have Yet to Be Organized: Architecture and Religion at the Drive-In Church.
2002-03
Claire Wells Dennerlein
“Let Us All Be Kissing-Friends”: Tracing a Common Thread through the Fiction and Anthropological Writings of Zora Neale Hurston.
2000-01
Adam Harris Adler
Blues Figure and Ground: Romanticism Meets Social Realism in Analysis of Blues Musician Robert Johnson.Sarah Dorothy Wald
(Re)Imagining Nature and Humanity’s Relation to It: Nature and Identity in New Visions of the American West.
1998-99
Caitlin Baggott
Dis/Placing Poetics in Here
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1996-97
Amanda Levinson
Mujeres, Chingadas and Atravesadas: The Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and the Creation of an Alternate Chicana Aesthetic Tradition
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1995-96
Ben Harris
Ambivalence and Multivalence: Christopher Columbus in the Contested Historical Memory of 19th-Century America
» Thesis AbstractSara Padilla
To Choose is a Jailbreak : an Oral History of a Mexicana
» Thesis AbstractMichael Kim
Poetry and an Asian American Textual Coalition
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1994-95
Amy Isabel Catania
(Re)membering African American History and Literature in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
» Thesis AbstractMoloy Good
"Freedom Now" to "Black Power": The Civil Rights Movement in Consensus and Conflict from 1954 to 1968
