{"id":24,"date":"2010-06-01T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/amnesp\/phd\/dissertations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:14:52","slug":"recent-dissertations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/people\/phd-alumni\/recent-dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026<\/h2>\n<p><span><strong>Max Clee<\/strong>, &#8220;Out of Sight: Technologies of Mass Waste in America 1920-1970&#8221; (<\/span><span>Will Moore)<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><strong>Genevieve Kane<\/strong>, &#8220;<\/span><span>Climate Resilient: An Environmental History of the Boston Commercial Waterfront and its Architecture since the Nineteenth Century \u201c (Andrew Robichaud)<\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Ena Ozaki<\/strong>,<span>&#8220;Under the Umbrella of the Press: Women and the Making of Modern American Journalism, 1885\u20131910\u201d (Bruce Schulman)<\/span><\/div>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Reut Odinak<\/strong>, &#8220;Womb for Rent: The Politics of Surrogacy, Reproduction, and Motherhood on Television&#8221;\u00a0(Deborah Jaramillo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betsy Walters<\/strong>, &#8220;Oscar\u2019s New Rules: Industrial Shifts, Cultural Controversies, and the Changing Status of the Academy Awards in the 21st Century&#8221;\u00a0(Deborah Jaramillo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Boyd<\/strong>, \u201cNationalizing the Confederacy: Physical Representations of the Lost Cause Mythology Across the United States from World War II to Present Day\u201d (Nina Silber)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ga\u00eblle Bouaziz<\/strong>, &#8220;&#8216;You Are Watching NASA Television&#8217; Space, Science, and NASA&#8217;s Governmental Television Model&#8221; (Deborah Jaramillo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arthur Kamya<\/strong>, &#8220;Policing for Profit: Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1690.\u201d (Brendan McConville)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meghan Townes<\/strong>, &#8220;<span>Beyond Monument Avenue: Art, Authority, and Visions of the Future in Reconstruction and New South Richmond.&#8221; (Ross Barrett)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perri Meldon,<\/strong> &#8220;<span>Dwelling with Ditches: Conservation, Cultural Memory, and Ecological Resilience in the Great Dismal Swamp<\/span>&#8221; (Sarah Phillips)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Emily Palombella<\/strong>, &#8220;Precious Speculation: Developing American Gem Extraction Across the Long Nineteenth Century&#8221;\u00a0(Brooke Blower)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julia Carroll<\/strong>, <span>&#8220;The Protestant Sanctioning of Slavery in the Anglo-American South: George Whitefield, The Huntingdon Connexion, and Black Bethesdans, 1739-1791&#8221; (Joseph Rezek)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grace McGowan<\/strong>, <span>\u201cVenus Worked in Bronze\u201d: African American Women Writers and Classical Beauty Myths\u201d (Anita Patterson)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kayli Rene\u00e9 Rideout<\/strong><span>, <\/span><span>\u201cNot made by hands, built by memory and devotion\u201d: Tiffany\u2019s Confederate Memorial Windows&#8221; (William Moore)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Marina Wells<\/b>, \u201cMaking Men From Whales: Gender and American Whaling Art, 1814-1861<span>\u201d (Ross Barrett)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Katherine<\/strong> <strong>Evans<\/strong>, &#8220;&#8216;I<span> am Going to be a Veteran of this War:&#8217; American Women&#8217;s Explorations of Domestic Life on the Western Front&#8221; (William Huntting Howell)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Megan LeBarron<\/strong>, <span>\u201cHeartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest and Literary Modernism in the Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis&#8221; (John T. Matthews)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Astrid Tvetenstrand, <\/strong>&#8220;Buying a View: American Landscape Painting and Gilded Age Vacation Culture, 1870-1910&#8221; (Ross Barrett)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Case, <\/strong>&#8220;To Balance the World: The Development of the United States\u2019 National Interest, 1919-1969&#8221; (Bruce Schulman)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madeline Webster<\/strong>, &#8220;Race and Reuse: Black Historic Preservation Efforts in Boston, 1876-1976&#8221; (Daniel Abramson)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Megan Hermida<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Lu<\/strong>, <span>\u201cAmateur Travel Films of the American Pacific, 1923-1975&#8243; (Roy Grundmann)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alyssa <\/strong><span><strong>Kreikemeier<\/strong>, &#8220;Aerial Empire: Contested Sovereignties and the American West&#8221; (Sarah Phillips)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan DeFraia,<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;State Work: A History of the American Reporter and Journalistic Independence&#8221; (Bruce Schulman)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Frankie Vanaria,\u00a0<\/strong><span>&#8220;The Global Screen: Intercultural Dialogue and Community in the Filmmaking of Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu&#8221; (Roy Grundmann)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Rachel Kirby<\/strong>, &#8220;Consuming the South: Representations of Taste, Place, and Agriculture&#8221; (Ross Barrett)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Stokum,\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;A Working Dress: American Intellectuals and Manual Labor, 1800-1860&#8221; <strong><\/strong>(Jon Roberts)<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Christine D&#8217;Auria:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cBefore the Blacklist: The Fiction and Film Work of Hollywood Screenwriters\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0(<\/span>Susan Mizruchi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Samantha Pickette:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>&#8220;Bridging the JAP: The Female-Driven Reconception of the Young Jewish Woman in American Popular Culture during the 1970s&#8221; (Ingrid Anderson)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Edmonstone: <\/strong>&#8220;Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the Literary Culture of Empire, 1898-1959&#8221; (Louis Chude-Sokei)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2021<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jessica S. Samuel:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;From Virgin Land to Virgin Islands: Conserving &#8216;America&#8217;s Paradise&#8217;&#8221; (Julian Go)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Ahlstrom:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Revitalizing Forests: Multiple Management and the Evolving Landscapes of Massachusetts&#8217;s State Forests and Parks, 1891-1941&#8221; (Keith Morgan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mariah Gruner:<\/strong> &#8220;&#8221;&#8230;Has Ever Been the Appropriate Occupation of Woman&#8221;: Crafting Femininity in American Women&#8217;s Decorative Needlework, 1820 to 1920&#8243; (Ross Barrett)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Thomas: <\/strong>&#8220;Art Against Docility Visual Culture and Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai&#8217;i&#8221; (William Moore)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<p><strong>P.J. Carlino: <\/strong>&#8220;Docile by Design: Commercial Furniture and the Education of American Bodies 1840-1920&#8221; (William Moore)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel R. Palfreyman:\u00a0<\/strong><strong><\/strong>&#8220;The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Through it&#8217;s Twentieth-Century Architecture&#8221; (William Moore)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Viens:<\/strong> <span>&#8220;&#8216;To Try the Speed&#8217;: Adventures in the Development of Massachusetts Railroads, 1826-1850&#8221; (Sarah Phillips)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Archives<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/people\/alumni\/phd-alumni\/recent-dissertations\/dissertations-2010-2019\/\">2010-2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/people\/alumni\/phd-alumni\/recent-dissertations\/dissertations-2000-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2000-2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/people\/alumni\/phd-alumni\/recent-dissertations\/dissertations-1990-1999\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1990-1999<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/people\/alumni\/phd-alumni\/recent-dissertations\/dissertations-1980-1989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1980-1989<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/people\/alumni\/phd-alumni\/recent-dissertations\/dissertations1972-79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1972-1979<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Max Clee, &#8220;Out of Sight: Technologies of Mass Waste in America 1920-1970&#8221; (Will Moore) Genevieve Kane, &#8220;Climate Resilient: An Environmental History of the Boston Commercial Waterfront and its Architecture since the Nineteenth Century \u201c (Andrew Robichaud) Ena Ozaki,&#8221;Under the Umbrella of the Press: Women and the Making of Modern American Journalism, 1885\u20131910\u201d (Bruce Schulman) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1963,"featured_media":0,"parent":5263,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15479,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/15479"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}