Recent Dissertations
Elif S. Armbruster: Reading in Three Dimensions:
Domestic Architecture and American Authorship from Harriet Beecher
Stowe to Edith Wharton [2005]
Rebekah Burgess: Collecting
Agency: Reversing
the Camera's Gaze in Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts [2008]
Hannah Carlson: Pockets, Possessions, and the Ordering of Things [2009; First Reader: Susan Mizruchi]
Abigail Carroll: "Colonial Custard" and "Pilgrim Soup" : Culinary Nationalism and the Colonial Revival [2007]
Brian Carso: “Whom Can We Trust Now?”: The
Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through
the Civil War [2004]
Kerry Dean Carso:
Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of
Romantic Literature, 1800-1850 [2001]
Paul S. D'Ambrosio: Ralph Fasanella
(1914-1917) The Making of a Working Class Artist [2001]
Laura D'Amore: Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine [2009; First Reader: Jessica Sewell]
Thomas Andrew Denenberg: Consumed by the Past:
Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America [2002]
Laura Driemeyer: Rising from the Ashes: The Transformation of 19th Century Building Culture in Charlestown, MA [2006]
Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello:
Bonds of Fellowship: Imagining, Building, and Negotiating Community
in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900-1920 [2003]
Elysa Engelman: The Face that Haunts Me Ever:
Consumers, Retailers, Critics, and the Branded Personality of Lydia
E. Pinkham [2003]
Desiree Garcia: "There's
No Place Like Home": Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood
Musical, 1900-1950 [2008]
Karin Goldstein: From Pilgrims to Poverty: Biography of an Urban Renewal Neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts [2007]
Jennifer R. Green: Books and Bayonets: Class and
Culture at Antebellum Military Academies [2002]
Stephen Hodin: Jefferson's Ghost: Slavery, Machinery, and the Haunting of the Literary Imagination in Antebellum America [2008]
Ella Howard: Skid
Row: Homelessness on the Bowery in the Twentieth Century [2007]
Diane Jacobsohn:
Boston's “Three-Decker Menace”: The Buildings, the Builders, and
the Dwellers, 1870-1930 [2004]
Laura Johnson: Courting Justice: Marriage, Law,
and the American Novel, 1890-1925 [2002]
Kathleen Lawrence: Aesthetic
Transcendentalism and its Legacy: Margaret Fuller, William Wetmore
Story, and Henry James [2003]
Aaron Lecklider: Brainpower: Intelligence in American Culture from Einstein to the Egghead [2007]
Johnny Lew: Travels in a World-Economy: Varieties of Subjectivity in Travel Writing, 1492-1666 [2006]
Charlotte Emans Moore: Art as Text, War as Context: The Art Gallery of the Metropolitan Fair, New York City's Artistic Community, and the Civil War [2009; First Reader: Patricia Hills]
Emily Murphy: "To Keep Our Trading For Our Livelihood:" The Derby Family of Salem, Massachusetts, and Their Rise to Power in the British Atlantic World [2008]
Bradley Queen: Conservatism and the Logic of American
Consumer Democracy, 1938-1976 [2004]
Kavita Ramdya: Bollywood Weddings: Accruing Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Second-Generation Indian-American Hindu Matrimonials [2007]
Paul Schmitz: D’Agostino Supermarkets, from Pushcart to Product: Family and Ethnicity as Cultural Currency [2006]
Janine Skerry: Silver
at Harvard College from its Founding to the Revolution [2004]
Katherine Stebbins-McCaffrey: Reading Glasses: American Spectacles in the Age of Franklin [2007]
John Tessitore: Whitmania: The Poetics of Free Religion [2006]
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