Completed Dissertations
2016
Arthur Banton -- Running for Integration: CCNY, and the promise of interracial cooperation through basketball
Lisa M. Beringer -- The Invisible Man Paradox
Maureen L. Marsh -- Knitting Rebellion
Aubrey M. Thamann -- Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Study of Funeral Directors in Indiana
2015
Stephanie A. Allen -- Marginal and Forbidden: Black Lesbians, Contemporary American Culture, and the Politics of Representation
Heather C. Moore -- I'm the One You Need to Be Worried About: The Archetypal Representations of Black Male Students
Walter G. Moore -- This is Not a Dissertation: (Neo)Neo-Bohemian Connections
Mindy H. Tan -- Canvas Politics: Norman Lewis and the Art of Abstract Resistance
2014
Jessica E. Birch -- Blood, Tears, and Sweat: An Intersectional Excavation of the Literary Vampire in Neoliberal Discourse
Shivohn N. Garcia -- Fiddling Around: The Life and Love of Pura Teresa Belpre & Clarence Cameron White
Chelsea M. Stripe -- Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation
2012
Philanthia Bolton -- Making Dead and Barren: Black women Writers on the Civil Rights Movement and the Problem of the American Dream.
Wayne Gill -- When We Got Beat: The WWII Era Labor Camp Origin of the Beat Movement
Kendra Unruh -- Jubilant Spirits of Freedom: Representations of the Lindy Hop in Literature & Film from the Swing Era to the Swing Revival
Christopher Warren -- The Price of Post-Racialism: Educational Genocide vs. Culture-Affirming Methodology
2011
Mark Bousquet -- Driftin': Round the World in a Blubber Hunter: Nineteenth-Century American Whaling Narratives
Jamie Hickner -- "History Will One Day Have Its Say": Patrice Lumumba and the Black Freedom Movement
Heidi Lewis -- "She still missed her daddy sometimes": Black Women's Post-Civil Rights Father-Daughter Narratives
Charles Park -- Between a Myth and a Dream: The Model Minority Myth, the American Dream, and Asian Americans in Consumer Culture
Erik Wade -- Constituting Whiteness: The National Horse Thief Dectective Association and Racial Mores in Indiana, 1850-1930
2010
Jay Hopler -- Designated Hitters: The Contract Killer in Twentieth-Century American Short Fiction
2009
Megan MacDonald -- Indigenous American Two-Spirit Women and Urban Citizenship in the Late Twentieth Century
2008
Andrew Koch -- Rage Against the Machine: The University-Military-Industrial Complex and Contemporary American Democratic Culture
2007
Laura Beadling -- The Aesthetics of Translating Cultural Trauma: Traumatized Communities in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Film
Lee Bebout -- The Presence of the Past: The Mythohistorical in the Chicano/a Movement and Post-Movement Era
Paul Reich -- Race-ing West: Propaganda and Pedagogy in African American Fiction, Peotry, and Autobiography
Stephany Spaulding -- The Crisis of White Imagination: Towards the Literary Abolition of Whiteness
2006
Vanessa Hall -- Put Yourself in My Shoes: A Cultural Geography of Raymond Carver's America
Zhen Zou -- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: American Writers on the Opium Issue in China, 1840-1860
2005
Angela Hilton -- African Americans and Prison Studies
Scott Hoffman -- Haloed by the Nation: Popular Martyrdom in Contemporary America
2004
Cicely Cobb -- Crying for the Land: Modes of Representation in Mildred D. Taylor's
Lauren Davis -- The Black Masculinist Agenda: Desire and Gender Politics of Protest Era Literature Fiction
Susan Moynihan -- Asian American Women's Life Writing: Autobiographical Negotiations of Inscrutability
Kevin Scott -- Rituals of Race: Mount, Melville and Antebellum America
2003
Steven Belluscio -- To Be Suddenly White: Realism and the Problem of Agency in U.S. Passing Narritives
2002
Kim Ellis -- We Look Like Men of War: Africana Male Narrative and the Tulsa Race Riot, War, and Massacre of 1921
Diane Gruber -- Much of Their Tuition: The Historical Matrix of Youth, Consumerism, and Mass culture as Illustrated in the Pages of the Youth's Companion, 1827-1929
Deems Morrione -- Sublime Monsters and Virtual Children
Tiyi Morris -- Black Women's Civil Rights Activism in Mississippi: The Story of Womanpower Unlimited
Stephanie Turner -- Imagining Cloned Americans: Post-Dolly Revisions of the Genetic Explanation
2001
Portia Boulware-Ranson -- Black Love and the Harlem Renaissance: The Politics of Intimacy in the Novels of Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston
Rachael Groner -- Meloncholy Subjects: Citizenship, Affect, and Publicity in Contemporary American Culture
Harry Maddux -- Ramist Rationality, Covvenant Theology, and Puritan Peotics
1999
Anne Boyd -- From 'Scribblers' to Artists: The Emergence of Women Writers as Artists in America
Christine Braunberger -- Stories in the Flesh: Reading Cultural Narratives of Tattooing in America
Alyson Buckman -- The Monster Strikes Back: American Women Revising the Abject
Rebecca Saulsbury -- Strong and Brave: the Culture of Womanhood in the Novels of Maria Susanna Cummins
1998
Thomas Pendergast -- Consuming Men: Masculinity, Race, and American Magazines, 1900-1950
1997
Eva Baham -- Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, A Stream Cannot Rise Higher Than Its Source: The Vanguard as the Panacea for the Plight of Black America
Robert Cousins -- Citizenship and Selfhood: Negotiating National and Personal Identities, 1910-1920
Kathy Miller -- Rural Women's Work and Role in Community Building in Indiana from 1900 to 1980
1993
Zack Dong -- From the Postbellum Plantation to Modern Agribusiness: A History of the Delta Pine Land Company
Gina Scuteri -- Casualties of War and Research: A Case Study of U.S. Women Veterans of Vietnam
1992
Jane Rose -- Gender Politics in American Literature of Domesticity, 1830-1860
1988
Laura Day -- "The History of everyone of us": America's Antebellum Female Travel Writers
1986
Earl Hess -- Liberty and Self-Control: Republican Values in the Civil War North
Virginia Lohner -- The Contemporary Women's Movements in France and the USA: A Print Media Analysis
1978
Dorothy Leland -- The Metafictional Perspective