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.
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
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
Jamie Devol:19th Century American Architecture and Design
Paul J .Edwards: 19th and 20th Century Transnational Identity Politics
Katy Evans Pritchard: late nineteenth and early twentieth century landscape, urban design, and institutional development and their representations in literature
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”
Neal Knapp: environmental history
Rachel Kopelman: Late 19th & early 20th century cultural history; Civil War memory; gender; visual & material culture
Legacy Lee: 20th century African-American film and literature; representations of interracial relationships on the screen and page
Niki Lefebvre: “Filene’s on Washington Street: Modernity, Culture, and Commercial Amusement in Cosmopolitan Boston, 1880-1940″
Sarah Leventer: Film studies, with a particular interest in New Hollywood films; American Literature and Southern Studies; Gender Studies
Catherine Martin: Early American radio and television, hardboiled detective fiction, popular culture, and consumerism.
Kristi Martin : 19th century American culture; Transcendentalism; Concord, MA; cemeteries; death/grief/mourning practices; house museums; and literary tourism
Amanda Mayo: Transnational and Korean American foodways
Channon Miller: African American studies and the intersections of race, gender, and class
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
Matthew Noferi : Film, TV, and Radio Studies; popular media of the 1960s and 1970s; Elvis Presley; 1960s counterculture
Stephen O’Neill : material culture; colonial, Atlantic and maritime history; Plymouth Colony; the golden age of piracy
Mary Potorti: “For Food, For Freedom”: The Black Freedom Struggle and the Politics of Food
Jordon Pouliot: Cultural studies, American mass/popular culture, gender, sexuality, and class
Clare Ploucha: 19th and 20th century cultural and intellectual history; historical fiction; material culture, nationalism and the politics of public history; history of American education; and American feminism, especially the second-wave women’s movement and its ongoing cultural reverberations
Robert Ribera: Documentaries and propaganda of WWII; postwar American film; suburbia, jazz and popular music of the 20th century
Casey Riley: “‘Turning Our Faces to the Work-a-Day World’: Photographic Travel Albums and the Expansion of Women’s Professional Identities in America, 1874-1904″
Karen Robbins: “Discipline and Polish: Teaching Domesticity at the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, 1868-1917″
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, Politics, and Boston’s New City Hall, 1960-2010″
Richard Spicer: music in America to the 1876 Centennial
Katheryn Viens: the cultural effects of early 19th-century railroads, including technology, capitalism, and labor
Zachary Violette: “Ornament and Identity in the Immigrant-Built Tenements of Boston and New York, 1870-1920”