Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "American Studies"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Tin Lizzie Dreams: Henry Ford and Antimodern American Culture, 1919-1942
(2015-05-06)“Tin Lizzie Dreams: Henry Ford and Antimodern American Culture, 1919-1942” is an interdisciplinary cultural history combining close analyses of print and broadcast media, music and dance, technology, and built environments ...