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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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