Current Students and Dissertation Prospectus or Area of Interest
Texts in bold type are approved dissertation prospectus titles; those in normal type are areas of student research interests.
Evan Barros: 20th century American popular music
Rebekah Beaulieu: architectural history; transnational preservation; collective memory and nostalgia performance
Jacob Begin: “Gone But Not Forgotten: The Temporality and Technique of Portraiture on Gravestones in Rhode Island
George Born: American architectural history and historic preservation
Jared Champion: Realizing Hispanic Masculinity: Gender Fictions and Cultural Transformation from the Civil War to 9-11.
Michael Civille: “Illusions of Prestige: Hemingway, Hollywood, and the American Self-Image, 1920-1958″
Tessa Croker: twentieth century American cultural history, the Cold War, the 1950s, Disney, Anglo-American relations and Alistair Cooke
Michael D’Alessandro: “Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theatre, 1835-1870″
Kathleen Daly: 19th & 20th century cultural history and material culture
Netta Davis: food history and ethnography and the pedagogy of food studies
Jamie Devol:19th Century American Architecture and Design
Katherine Evans: Memory, Identity and Landscape in the 20th century.
John S. Gordon: “Lurelle Guild’s Historical Modernism: The Legacy of the Colonial Revival in American Modernist Design”
Adrea Hernandez: Latino culture and society and the U.S. criminal justice system.
Kate Howe: “Witchcraft in North America through Primary Sources”
Paul Hutchinson: outdoor education and environmental thought in the 19th and 20th centuries
Eric Jarvis: “The Valley of Democracy: Race, Class and Liberalism in Progressive Era Chicago”
Amanda Johnson-Lufburrow: history of American metaphysical religion; disenchantment and unbelief within 19th-century Protestantism
Neal Knapp: Environmental history
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 and literature; representations of interracial relationships on the screen and page
Niki Lefebvre: late 19th and early 20th century cultural & consumer history; material & visual culture
Sarah Leventer:20th century film and media studies and new Hollywood films
Kristi Martin: 19th century American culture; American Transcendentalism
Amanda Mayo: Transnational and Korean American foodways
Channon Miller: African and African American studies, race, gender and the history of black immigrants.
Olivia Morgan: Documentary photography
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″
Emma Newcombe: 19th century literature, culture and environmentalism
Stephen O’Neill : material culture; colonial, Atlantic and maritime history; Plymouth Colony; the golden age of piracy
Mary Potorti: cultural implications of the Vietnam War, specifically regarding race, gender, and community in the Vietnamese diaspora
Clare Ploucha: 19th century literature and history
Robert Ribera: Documentaries and propaganda of WWII; postwar American film; suburbia, jazz and popular music of the 20th century
Casey Riley: 19th and 20th century visual and material culture; documentary and ethnographic photography; cultural borderlands; social history related to race, gender, and ethnicity
Karen Robbins: vernacular architecture, urbanism, urban living, women’s studies.
Colin Root: “’Living on the Level’: The Significance of Horizontality in Shaping Cold-War America”
Jessica Roscio: “Photographic Domesticity: The Professionalization of Women Photographers from Home Studio to the Metropolis, 1880-1930″
Elizabeth Schaldenbrand: 20th century African American urban history and literature
Rachel Schneider: “Selling Local to the ‘Locals’: Narratives of Community in the Local Food Movement”
George Schwartz: Material culture, museum studies and maritime history
Sam Shupe: 19th and 20th century American material and visual culture
Brian Sirman: “Concrete Dreams: Architecture, Postwar Politics and Boston’s New City Hall”
Richard Spicer: music in America to the 1876 Centennial
Patricia Stuelke: “Freedom to Want: U.S. Culture and Imperialism in the 1980′s”
Katheryn Viens: 19th century Railroads, turnpikes and canals.
Zachary Violette: American architecture, housing and urbanism in the 19th and 20th centuries
Logen Zimmerman: vernacular photography; film studies; visual representations in print media of the 19th & 20th centuries