2025
Reut Odinak, “Womb for Rent: The Politics of Surrogacy, Reproduction, and Motherhood on Television” (Deborah Jaramillo)
Betsy Walters, “Oscar’s New Rules: Industrial Shifts, Cultural Controversies, and the Changing Status of the Academy Awards in the 21st Century” (Deborah Jaramillo)
Anne Boyd, “Nationalizing the Confederacy: Physical Representations of the Lost Cause Mythology Across the United States from World War II to Present Day” (Nina Silber)
Gaëlle Bouaziz, “‘You Are Watching NASA Television’ Space, Science, and NASA’s Governmental Television Model” (Deborah Jaramillo)
2024
Emily Palombella, “Precious Speculation: Developing American Gem Extraction Across the Long Nineteenth Century” (Brooke Blower)
Julia Carroll, “The Protestant Sanctioning of Slavery in the Anglo-American South: George Whitefield, The Huntingdon Connexion, and Black Bethesdans, 1739-1791” (Joseph Rezek)
Grace McGowan, “Venus Worked in Bronze”: African American Women Writers and Classical Beauty Myths” (Anita Patterson)
Kayli Reneé Rideout, “Not made by hands, built by memory and devotion”: Tiffany’s Confederate Memorial Windows” (William Moore)
Marina Wells, “Making Men From Whales: Gender and American Whaling Art, 1814-1861” (Ross Barrett)
2023
Katherine Evans, “‘I am Going to be a Veteran of this War:’ American Women’s Explorations of Domestic Life on the Western Front” (William Huntting Howell)
Megan LeBarron, “Heartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest and Literary Modernism in the Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis” (John T. Matthews)
Astrid Tvetenstrand, “Buying a View: American Landscape Painting and Gilded Age Vacation Culture, 1870-1910” (Ross Barrett)
Sean Case, “To Balance the World: The Development of the United States’ National Interest, 1919-1969” (Bruce Schulman)
Madeline Webster, “Race and Reuse: Black Historic Preservation Efforts in Boston, 1876-1976” (Daniel Abramson)
Megan Hermida Lu, “Amateur Travel Films of the American Pacific, 1923-1975″ (Roy Grundmann)
Alyssa Kreikemeier, “Aerial Empire: Contested Sovereignties and the American West” (Sarah Phillips)
Dan DeFraia, “State Work: A History of the American Reporter and Journalistic Independence” (Bruce Schulman)
2022
Frankie Vanaria, “The Global Screen: Intercultural Dialogue and Community in the Filmmaking of Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu” (Roy Grundmann)
Rachel Kirby, “Consuming the South: Representations of Taste, Place, and Agriculture” (Ross Barrett)
Christopher Stokum, “A Working Dress: American Intellectuals and Manual Labor, 1800-1860” (Jon Roberts)
Christine D’Auria: “Before the Blacklist: The Fiction and Film Work of Hollywood Screenwriters” (Susan Mizruchi)
Samantha Pickette: “Bridging the JAP: The Female-Driven Reconception of the Young Jewish Woman in American Popular Culture during the 1970s” (Ingrid Anderson)
Will Edmonstone: “Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the Literary Culture of Empire, 1898-1959” (Louis Chude-Sokei)
2021
Jessica S. Samuel: “From Virgin Land to Virgin Islands: Conserving ‘America’s Paradise’” (Julian Go)
Aaron Ahlstrom: “Revitalizing Forests: Multiple Management and the Evolving Landscapes of Massachusetts’s State Forests and Parks, 1891-1941” (Keith Morgan)
Mariah Gruner: “”…Has Ever Been the Appropriate Occupation of Woman”: Crafting Femininity in American Women’s Decorative Needlework, 1820 to 1920″ (Ross Barrett)
Emma Thomas: “Art Against Docility Visual Culture and Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i” (William Moore)
2020
P.J. Carlino: “Docile by Design: Commercial Furniture and the Education of American Bodies 1840-1920” (William Moore)
Samuel R. Palfreyman: “The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Through it’s Twentieth-Century Architecture” (William Moore)
Kate Viens: “‘To Try the Speed’: Adventures in the Development of Massachusetts Railroads, 1826-1850” (Sarah Phillips)