Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "American Studies"
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A Global Vision: Dr. Ana Livia Cordero and the Puerto Rican Liberation Struggle, 1931-1992
(2017-09-08)“A Global Vision: Dr. Ana Livia Cordero and the Puerto Rican Liberation Struggle, 1931-1992,” is the first, in-depth study of Ana Livia Cordero, a twentieth century Puerto Rican female physician and transnational ... -
Child Writers’ Collaborations across Age and Race in Circa-1970 America
(2019-05-14)This project recovers a little-studied United States literary phenomenon: the surge of adult attention to writings authored by African American, Latinx, Asian American and Native American children in the wake of the civil ... -
Cold War Bohemia: Literary Exchange between the United States and Czechoslovakia, 1947-1989
(2016-05-13)After the onset of the Cold War, literature and culture continued to circulate across the so-called Iron Curtain between the United States and the countries of the Eastern bloc, often with surprising consequences. This ... -
Consumable City: Race, Ethnicity, and Food in Modern New Orleans
(2017-05-12)This dissertation is an interdisciplinary history of race and ethnicity in 19th- and 20th-century New Orleans, told through the lens of food. It explores the diverse ways in which food functioned as a uniquely powerful, ... -
Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History, 1700–1820
(2019-05-03)This dissertation is an animal-driven history of knowledge and colonialism in early America and the British imperial world. It focuses on the long eighteenth century, the moment when animals were being ordered into theoretical ... -
Encountering and Collecting the Sacred Body Through Relics in Early American Protestant Culture, 1750-1870
(2017-05-12)This dissertation is about the emergence of relics in early American Protestant culture from the middle of the eighteenth century to after the American Civil War. It demonstrates that early Americans immersed in a thoroughly ... -
Equality by Degrees: Abolitionist Colleges and the Throes of Integration, 1833-1895
(2017-05-10)This dissertation examines how college communities shaped the progress of racial and gender equality in the nineteenth-century United States. It focuses on some of the first American institutions of higher learning to ... -
Everybody Is a Star!: Uplift, Citizenship, and the Cross-Racial Politics of 1970s U.S. Popular Culture
(2016-05-16)“Everybody is a Star: Uplift, Citizenship and the Cross-Racial Politics of 1970s U.S. Popular Culture,” examines the ways in which popular culture in the mid-1970s operated as a site of citizenship formation for marginalized ... -
Exceptions to Exclusion: A Prehistory of Asylum in the United States, 1880-1980
(2016-01-28)This dissertation focuses on migrants mostly left out of scholarship on American refugee policy and resettlement programs and disrupts the scholarly dichotomy that analyzes the restrictionist handling of immigrants and the ... -
Feast, Fast, and Flesh: Hunger and Conflict in New England and New France, 1637-1763
(2017-04-26)This dissertation is a history of hunger in the borderlands between New England and New France from 1637, the end of the Pequot War, to 1763, the end of the Seven Years’ War. Trapped in cycles of conflict throughout the ... -
Future Monumentality
(2019-05-17)Future monuments are monuments built with the express purpose of remembering the future. They are most easily understood by example. This dissertation focuses on three: Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, Stewart Brand’s “Clock ... -
Hawthorne’s Magnalia: Retelling Cotton Mather in the Provincial Tales
(2016-10-19)This dissertation is a study of Hawthorne’s early development as a historical writer. The introduction attempts to reconstruct Hawthorne’s lost “Provincial Tales” sequence using letters and borrowing records. I argue ... -
Islands of Labor: Community, Conflict, and Resistance in Colonial Samoa, 1889-1919
(2015-05-16)My dissertation follows the lives and struggles of the workers of Samoa from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the end of the Great War. Drawing on a wide range of sources—from travel reports and court ... -
"Onward, Christian Soldiers:" American Populism and the Religious Imagination in the Wake of World War I
(2018-05-15)“‘Onward, Christian Soldiers:’ American Populism and the Religious Imagination in the Wake of World War I” examines the relationship between the religious and political imaginations of populists in the early twentieth-century ... -
Purifying the World: Americans and International Sexual Reform, 1865-1933
(2017-05-12)This dissertation shows how and why many American reformers came to see sexual issues as the central humanitarian, political, and ethical problems of their day. It tracks the movement for sexual reform from its origins, ... -
Queer Expertise: Urban Policing and the Construction of Public Knowledge About Homosexuality, 1920–1970
(2015-05-17)This dissertation tracks how urban police tactics against homosexuality participated in the construction, ratification, and dissemination of authoritative public knowledge about gay men in the United States in the twentieth ... -
Riding Bareback: Rodeo Communities and the Construction of American Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Twentieth Century
(2015-09-23)“Riding Bareback” uses rodeo as a site of analysis to investigate the continual expansion and contraction of the supposedly authentic West in the twentieth century. For over a century, rodeo has been a vibrant and multifaceted ... -
The Illumined Wastes: America's Forgotten Aesthetics
(2018-05-10)What are today’s wastelands? The barrens of Ghana? The mega slums in Mumbai? The trash heaps of Rio de Janeiro? The frozen wilderness of Siberia? These are classic types of wasteland, featuring desolation on a large scale. ... -
The Right to Tell: Listening Practices, Race, and Recordings, 1947-1974
(2020-05-12)“The Right to Tell: Listening Practices, Race and Recordings, 1959-1978,” is a multidisciplinary examination of LP recordings and their role in the formation of racial and national listening practices. In order to do so, ... -
The State in the Station: The Nineteenth–Century American Train Station and State Power
(2018-05-11)My dissertation, “The State in the Station: The Nineteenth-Century American Train Station and State Power,” investigates stations as emblematic of negotiations over the nature of public space in the second half of the ...