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AMERICAN STUDIES DISSERTATIONS (2000 - 2007)
2007

Becker, Matt The Edge of Darkness: Youth Culture Since the 1960s. Lary May, advisor

Doerfler, Jill Fictions and Fractions: Reconciling Citizenship Regulations with Cultural Values Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg Jean O'Brien-Kehoe, advisor

Gray, David Visualizing a Classless America: Motivational Campaigns in the Industrial Workplace, 1920-1955 Lary May, advisor

Hemenway, Robin "The Efforts of Their True Friends": African Americans and Child Welfare in New York, 1836-1930 Elaine Tyler May, advisor

Kinder, John Encountering Injury: Modern War and the Problem of the Wounded Soldier Lary May, advisor

Murphy, Deirdre The Look of a Citizen: Representations of Immigration in Gilded Age Painting and Popular Press Illustration David Roediger and David Noble, advisors

2006

Barkan, Joshua Evdasin A Genealogy of the Corporation Articulating Sovereign Power and Capitalism. Vinay Gidwani and Eric Sheppard, advisors.

Connolly Lane, Karen Politics and the Private Eye: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Hardboiled Tradition. Carol Miller, advisor.

Geniusz, Wendy Djinn Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Knowledge: A Biskaabiiyang Approach. John Nichols, advisor.

Todorova, Miglena S Race Travels: Whiteness and Modernity Across National Borders. Roderick A Feerguson, advisor.

Tyson, Amy Marie Living History: Producing Historical Narratives in the Service Economy. Jennifer L. Pierce and Kevin Murphy, advisors.

Vang, Chia Youyee Reconstructing Community in Diaspora: Narratives of Hmong American/Refugee Resistance and Human Agency. Jennifer L. Pierce, advisor.

2005

Aikau,Hokulani K Polynesian Pioneers: Twentieth Century Religious Racial Formations and Migration in Hawai'i. Jean O'Brien and Jennifer Pierce, advisors.

Laderman,Scott M Witnessing the Past: History, Tourism, and Memory in Vietnam, 1930-2002. Pat Albers and Elaine Tyler May, advisors.

Monteyne, David Shelter From the Elements: Architecture and Civil Defense During the Early Cold War. Kate Solomonson, advisor.

Rizzo,Mary M Consuming Class, Buying Identity: Middle-Class Youth Culture, "Lower-Class" Style and Consumer Culture, 1945-2000. Elaine Tyler May, advisor.

Tsuchiya,Yuka Moriguchi Military Occupation as Pedagogy: The U.S. Re-education and Reorientation Policy for Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. Elaine Tyler May, advisor.

2004

Amdahl,Jacquetta Elizabeth 'Perpetual Others': The Role of Culture, Race, and Nation in the Formation of a Mixed Race Identity. Lary L.May, advisor.

Erickson,Karla Anne Paid to Care: Selling Service, Smiles and Community in American Restaurants. Jennifer Pierce, advisor.

Garabedian,Steven P Reds, Whites, and the Blues: Blues Music, White Scholarship, and American Cultural Politics. David Roediger and Lary May, advisors.

Johnson,Gaye Theresa Marie A Sifting of Centuries: Political and Musical Crossroads of African- American and Chicanos in Los Angeles. David W. Noble, advisor.

Klopotek,Brian R The Long Outwaiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Brenda J Child and David E Wilkins, advisors.

Leon,Sharon M May, Beyond Birth Control: Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States, 1900-1950. Elaine Tyler May and Riv-Ellen Prell, advisors.

Spindel,Barbara R "Human Beings First, Women Second": Antifeminism and the Independent Women's Forum. Ellen Messer-Davidow, advisor

2003

Flowers,Benjamin S Constructing the Modern Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Lary L May and Mary Solomonson, advisors.

Fowler,Josephine "To Be Red and 'Oriental'": The Experiences of Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Communists in the American and International Communist Movements, 1919- 1933. Sara Evans and David Roediger,advisors.

Kane,Kathryn Lynn Reel Relations: Investigating Racial and Sexual Identity Constucts in Popular Film and Looking Towards a New Vision of Coalition. David Roediger and Lisa J Disch, advisors.

Martinez,Anne Bordering on the Sacred: Religion, Nation and U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1910-1929. David Roediger and Catherine C. Choy, advisors.

Schaeffer,Felicity Dawn Cyber-brides between the United States and Mexico: Transnational Imaginaries, Migration, and the Intimate Economy of Marriage. Jennifer Pierce and Eden E. Torres, advisors.

Strunk,Mary Elizabeth The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun: Women Outlaws, Public Memory, and the Rise and Fall of Hoover's FBI. Lary L. May and Sara M Evans, advisors.

2002

Basso,Matthew L Metal of Honor: Montana's World War II Homefront, Movies, and the Social Politics of White Male Anxiety. David Roediger, advisor.

Danforth,Pauline Brunette Night Flying Woman: Sacred Stories of the Ojibway. Gayle Graham Yates, advisor.

Gonzalez,Anita Marie Teen Voices: Television and the Self-Representation of Youth. Maria Damon, advisor.

Heikkila,Kimberly L G.I. Gender: Vietnam War-Era Women Veterans and U.S. Citizenship. Sara M. Evans, adviser.

Meland,Carter T The Trickster is History: Tribal Tricksters and American Cultural History in Contemporary Native Writing. David W. Noble, advisor.

2001

Barclay,Daniel McNair Wilderness Errands in Urban America: An Environmental History of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. David W. Noble, advisor.

Drown,Eric Miles Usable Futures, Disposable Paper: Popular Science, Pulp Science Fiction and Modernization in America, 1908-1937. Paula Rabinowitz, advisor.

Noon,David H This is (Not) a Child: Race, Gender and "Development" in the Child Sciences, 1880-1910. Richard Leppert, advisor.

Sachs,Andrea J The Politics of Poverty: Race, Class, Motherhood, and the National Welfare Rights Organization, 1965-1975. Elaine Tyler May, advisor.

Shaw,Mary Ellen The Varieties of Goddess Experience: Feminist Pragmatism in the Study of Women's Spirituality. Gayle Graham Yates, advisor.

Willard,Michael Nevin Urbanization as Culture: Youth and Race in Postwar Los Angeles. Richard Leppert and Lary L. May, advisors.

2000

Anthes, Bill Color, Line, and Color-ine: Abstraction, Identity, and the Post-War American Avant-Garde. David Noble, advisor.

Hill, Rebecca Revolutions of the Flesh: Martyrdom, Griefs, and Radical Popular History in America. Paula Rabinowitz, advisor.

Krasnow, Carolyn The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in 1970's Disco Culture. Geroge Lipsitz, advisor.

Lubin, Alex Interracial Romance and Post WW II Culture: Negotating Boundaries of Difference. David Roediger, advisor.

Mickenberg, Julia Seditious Stories: Children, Culture, and the Cold War. Jack D. Zipes and Paula Rabinowitz, advisors.

Miles, Tiya "Bone of my Bone": Stories of a Black-Cherokee Family. David Roediger and Carol Miller, advisors.

Mizelle, David "To the Curious": Exhibition Animals, Human Identity, and the Contested Boundary between Man and Beast in Colonial America and the Early Republic. David Noble and Richard Leppert, advisors.

Reis,Martha Lynn Hidden Histories: Ben Reitman and the Outcast Women Behind Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha. Sara Evans,advisor.

Wood,Meredith A Re/Sisters In Crime: Politics And Sexuality In Lesbian Detective Novels. David Roediger, advisor.