Recent Dissertations
2012
Anthony Buccitelli: “’Southie is My Hometown’: The Translocal and Transnational Production of Space and the Folklore of Ethnic Neighborhoods” (Marilyn Halter)
Kerri Greenidge: “Bulwark of the Nation: The Northern Black Press, Political Radicalism, and Northern Civil Rights, 1859-1919″ (Nina Silber)
Gillian Mason: “Censorship, Obscenity, and American Culture: 1970-1986″ (Susan Mizruchi)
Ruth Ann Murray: “Through their Stomachs: Serving Up Shaker to the World’s People” (Mary Beaudry)
Colin Root: “‘Living on the Level”: The Significance of Horizontality in Shaping Cold-War America” (Keith Morgan)
Francine Weiss“Visual Verses: Edward Weston’s Photographs for Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, 1941-1942” (Patricia Hills)
2011
Beth Bennett: “A Picture of Moral Agency: Subduing the Victim in Richard Wright’s Prose, Film, and Photography.” (Gene Jarrett)
Molly Geidel: “The Point of the Lance: Gender, Development, and the 1960s Peace Corps.” (Nina Silber)
Diane Hotton-Somers: “Re-Envisioning Identities: Ethnicity and Cultural Nationalism in Irish and American Drama 1899-1939.” (Susan Mizruchi)
Christine Hult-Lewis: “The Mining Photographs of Carleton Watkins, 1858-1891 and the Origins of Corporate Photography.” (Kim Sichel)
John Metz: “‘Room for Improvement, but No Room for Progress’: The Material Basis of the Economic and Social Transformation of Middle Georgia, 1880-1910″ (Lou Ferleger)
2010
Elizabeth Hope Cushing: “The Road to Williamsburg: Crafting the Career of Arthur A. Shurcliff.” (Keith Morgan)
Carney Maley: “Flying the ‘Un-friendly Skies’: American Flight Attendant Activism in the 1960′s-1980′s.” (Bruce Schulman)
Veronica Savory McComb: “The Bonds of Faith: Religion and Community amoun Nigerian Immigrants to the U.S., 1965-present.” (Marilyn Halter)
Timothy Orwig: “‘Material Things Worth While’: Joseph Everett Chandler, The Colonial Revival, and the Preservation Movement.” (Keith Morgan)
Miriam Michelle Robinson: “Places for Dead Bodies: Race Labor and Detection in American Literature.” (John Matthews)
2009
Laura D’Amore: “Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine.” (Jessica Sewell)
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.” (Patricia Hills)
2008
Rebekah Burgess: “Collecting Agency: Reversing the Camera’s Gaze in Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts.” (Kim Sichel)
Hannah Carlson: “Pockets, Possessions, and the Ordering of Things.” (Susan Mizruchi)
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.” (Jon Roberts)
2007
Abigail Carroll: “‘Colonial Custard’ and ‘Pilgrim Soup’: Culinary Nationalism and the Colonial Revival.” (Jessica Sewell)
Desiree Garcia: “‘There’s No Place Like Home’: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900-1950.” (Marilyn Halter)
Stephen Hodin: “Jefferson’s Ghost: Slavery, Machinery, and the Haunting of the Literary Imagination in Antebellum America.” (Susan Mizruchi)
Ella Howard: “Skid Row: Homelessness on the Bowery in the Twentieth Century.” (Bruce Schulman)
Aaron Lecklider: “Brainpower: Intelligence in American Culture from Einstein to the Egghead.” (Bruce Schulman)
Katherine Stebbins-McCaffrey: “Reading Glasses: American Spectacles in the Age of Franklin.” (Jill Lepore)
2006
Laura Driemeyer: “Rising from the Ashes: The Transformation of 19th Century Building Culture in Charlestown, MA.” (Keith Morgan)
Karin Goldstein: “From Pilgrims to Poverty: Biography of an Urban Renewal Neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts.” (Bruce Schulman)
Johnny Lew: “Travels in a World-Economy: Varieties of Subjectivity in Travel Writing, 1492-1666.” (Susan Mizruchi)
Kavita Ramdya: “Bollywood Weddings: Accruing Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Second-Generation Indian-American Hindu Matrimonials.” (Stephen Prothero)
Paul Schmitz: “D’Agostino Supermarkets, from Pushcart to Product: Family and Ethnicity as Cultural Currency.” (Marilyn Halter)
2005
Elif S. Armbruster: “Reading in Three Dimensions: Domestic Architecture and American Authorship from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton.” (Susan Mizruchi)
Diane Jacobsohn: “Boston’s ‘Three-Decker Menace’: The Buildings, the Builders, and the Dwellers, 1870-1930.” (Richard Candee)
John Tessitore: “Whitmania: The Poetics of Free Religion.” (Susan Mizruchi)
2004
Brian Carso: “‘Whom Can We Trust Now?’: The Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War.” (Gerald Leonard)
Bradley Queen: “Conservatism and the Logic of American Consumer Democracy, 1938-1976.” (Marilyn Halter)
Janine Skerry: “Silver at Harvard College from its Founding to the Revolution.” (Bruce Schulman)
2003
Elysa Engelman: “The Face that Haunts Me Ever: Consumers, Retailers, Critics, and the Branded Personality of Lydia E. Pinkham.” (Bruce Schulman)
Kathleen Lawrence: “Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its Legacy: Margaret Fuller, William Wetmore Story, and Henry James.” (Susan Mizruchi)
2001
Paul S. D’Ambrosio: Ralph Fasanella (1914-1917) The Making of a Working Class Artist. (Patricia Hills)
Thomas Andrew Denenberg: Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America. (Richard Candee)
Jennifer R. Green: Books and Bayonets: Class and Culture at Antebellum Military Academies. (Nina Silber)
Laura Johnson: Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925. (John Matthews)
2000
Bradford Martin: “The Theatre in the Street: Art and Cultural Groups in the 1960s.” (Bruce Schulman)
Jonathon Vogles: “Outrageous Acts of Faith: The Films of Albert and David Maysles, 1982-1986.” (Bruce Schulman)
Bryan Waterman: “The Friendly Club of New York City: Industries Of Knowledge in the Early Republic.” (Susan Mizruchi)