Thesis

Thesis work is guided and advised by the American Studies Committee.

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

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

Jamison Wyatt Loos
Integration or Revolution? Robert F. Kennedy, The Black Panther Party, and the Economics of Race, 1965, 1968.

Devin Thomas McGeehan Muchmore
American Citizens of the Sea: Maritime Labor, The Seamen’s Act and the Languages of Citizenship, 1890-15.

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.

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.

Claire Wells Dennerlein
"Let Us All Be Kissing-Friends": Tracing a Common Thread through the Fiction and Anthropological Writings of Zora Neale Hurston.

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.

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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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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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