Thesis
Thesis work is guided and advised by the American Studies Committee.
Selected Past Theses
2015-16
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Simon Gonzalez
Cycles of Colonial Control: Language, Representation, and the Transnational Subject in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -
Laura Klinkner
Unspeakable Things (Un)spoken: Interpretations of America’s Slave History from Margaret Garner to Beloved -
Ben Steele
The Rise of Walkability: Assessing the Socioeconomic Impact of the New Urbanist Paradigm -
Katharina Schwaiger
Of Homes and Homelessness: De-domestications in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Rose Ausländer
2014-15
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Ben Steele
The Rise of Walkability: Assessing the Socioeconomic Impact of the New Urbanist Paradigm -
Katharina Schwaiger
Of Homes and Homelessness: De-domestications in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Rose Ausländer
2010-11
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Jamison Wyatt Loos
Integration or Revolution? Robert F. Kennedy, The Black Panther Party, and the Economics of Race, 1965, 1968.
2008-09
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Devin Thomas McGeehan Muchmore
American Citizens of the Sea: Maritime Labor, The Seamen’s Act and the Languages of Citizenship, 1890-15.
2007-08
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Amy Elizabeth Lawrence
Romare Bearden, August Wilson, and the Blues: A Tradition of Aesthetics and on Aesthetics of Tradition in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson.
2006-07
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Robin Socolar Blanc Public School Choice: Institutional Change and Educational Organizationin Historical Perspective.
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Dana Wiggins Logan The Greatest Churches Have Yet to Be Organized: Architecture and Religion at the Drive-In Church.
2002-03
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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
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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
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Caitlin Baggott
Dis/Placing Poetics in Here
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1996-97
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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
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Ben Harris
Ambivalence and Multivalence: Christopher Columbus in the Contested Historical Memory of 19th-Century America
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Sara Padilla
To Choose is a Jailbreak : an Oral History of a Mexicana
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Michael Kim
Poetry and an Asian American Textual Coalition
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1994-95
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Amy Isabel Catania
(Re)membering African American History and Literature in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
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Moloy Good
"Freedom Now" to "Black Power": The Civil Rights Movement in Consensus and Conflict from 1954 to 1968