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Current Students and Dissertation Prospectus or Area of InterestBeth Bennett: “The Victim in Richard Wright's Work” Anthony Buccitelli: “’Southie is My Hometown’: The Translocal and Transnational Production of Space and the Folklore of Ethnic Neighborhoods” Michael Civille: Visual literacy in 1960s America; Baseball and American culture. Jane Cormuss: American religion and cultural authority Hope Cushing: “The Life and Work of Arthur Ashel Shurcliff, Landscape Architect 1870-1957” Michael D'Alessandro: Melodrama, sensation fiction, and city vice in antebellum America Kathleen Daly: 19th & 20th century cultural history; Material culture Molly Geidel: "The Point of the Lance: Gender, Development and the 1960s Peace Corps" John S. Gordon: “Lurelle Guild’s Historical Modernism: The Legacy of the Colonial Revival in American Modernist Design” David Goss: 17th and 18th century political and intellectual history, and early American architecture. Kerri Greenidge: African American political consciousness in New England in the early 20th century. Diane Hotten-Somers: “Democratic Theatre: Realism and Nationalism in Irish and American Drama, 1900-1939” Kate Howe: “Witchcraft in North America through Primary Sources” Paul Hutchinson: Outdoor education and environmental thought in the 19th and 20th century. Eric Jarvis: Twentieth-century
intellectual, political, and cultural history; democratic Dean Lampros: "The Other Preservation: The American Funeral Industry, Mansions, and the Critique of Modern Housing Ideals, 1920-2005" Legacy Lee: 20th century African American film & literature; Representations of interracial relationships on the screen and page. Carney Maley: "Flying the 'Un-Friendly Skies': American Flight Attendants in the 1970s-90s" Gillian Mason: "Censorship, Obscenity, and American Culture: 1970-1986" John Metz: "'Room for Improvement, but No Room for Progress': The Material Basis of the Economic and Social Transformation of Middle Georgia, 1880-1910" Sayaka Moue: 19th century American literature; women's and African American history. Virginia Myhaver: "The 'New American Revolution': Cultural Politics and the American Bicentennial of 1976" Stephen O'Neill : Material culture; Colonial, atlantic and maritime history; Plymouth Colony; The golden age of piracy. Karen Oakes: Vernacular architecture, 19th century (especially Greek Revival); American history; minor fields: domestic vernacular architecture and material culture of the home. Timothy Orwig: "'Material Things Worth While': Joseph Everett Chandler, The Colonial Revival, and the Preservation Movement" Sarah Penley: Architecture, landscape, and gender. Mary Potorti: Race, masculinity, and the Vietnam War. Karen Robbins: Vernacular architecture, urbanism, urban living, women's studies. Michelle Robinson: "Detection, Race, Labor and Liberalism in American Literature" Colin Root: Visual culture, film, and art history. Jessica Roscio: 19th century American art and photography, the material culture of domestic interiors, gender studies. Veronica Savory McComb: "The Bonds of Faith: Religion and Community among Nigerian Immigrants to the U.S., 1965-present" Rachel Schneider: Immigration history, race and ethnicity. Brian Sirman: 20th century architecture, urbanism, and literature. Richard Spicer: Music in America to the 1876 Centennial. Zachary Violette: American architecture, housing and urbanism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Francine Weiss: "Visual Verses: Modernist Collaborations of American Artists and Poets, 1921-1946 - Charles Demuth and William Carlos Williams, Walker Evans and Hart Crane, Edward Weston and Walt Whitman, Andrew Wyeth and Robert Frost" |
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