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Ph.D.



Disseration Title

James Beeby

Revolt of the Tar Heelers: A Socio-Political History of the Populist Movement in North Carolina, 1892-1901

Charlene Etkind (Blair)

Communities in Cyberspace: An Investigation into the Cohesion of Internal Relay Chat Channels and Relationships Between Participants
Jeff Flagg The Road Toward Wisdom: The Evolution of Land Ethical Attitudes in the Adirondack State Park

Leman Giresunlu

American Women's Travels to Turkey at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Dawn Heinecken The Women Warriors in Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body In Popular Media
Vicki Ohl Kay Swift: Style, Wit and Class in an American Composer

Joseph Ruff

The Importance of Being Ernest: The Aesthetics of Sincerity in Local Country Music Networks
Clifford Vaughn Dixieland Demonstrations: The Display of Power in Selmians' Struggle for Civil Rights
Sharon Vriend "My Life in the White World": The European-American Representation of Marion Anderson, 1939-1957

M.A.


 
Thomas Conley Quentin Duroy Simeon Furman 
David Haus Diana Mincyte Sean Newborn
Seth Waite Thomas Waniewski Tanya Hedges

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Matthew Johnson

Beyond Futility: On the Responsibilities of Critical Intellectuals in Social Change

Torey King

Who You Calling a Feminist?: Creating New Feminisms in Popular Music, 1986-1994
Dean Kohrs Repurposing Professor Campbell: A Qualitative Study Concerning New Media Intellectual Property and Scholarship

Dorothy LaRouth Perry

The 1957 Desegregation Crisis of Little Rock, Arkansas: A Meeting of Histories
Marcella McCoy African American Fraternities and Sororities and African Communities: Cultural Parallels Among Selected Public Rituals
Randall Norris God and Nature In Cumberland County: Disaster Narratives From East Tennessee 
William Peterson Storm Warriors: The US Life-Saving Service in American Culture, 1870-1915

Beth Shervey

That Place with That Theatre: The Convergence of the Little Theater on the Square and Small-Town Ideals in Sullivan, Illinois 1957-1977
Mary Thompson Women and Technologies of Body Modifications
David Wall Subject to Disorder: Carnival and the Grotesque Body in Antebellum Literature and Culture

M.A.


 
Patrick Alexander Keri Cartwright Christin Giblin
Ebony Green Benjamin Johns Andrea Kabwasa
Catherine Shufelt Lianne Tauxe Scott Walker

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Marcella Bush

From Mythic History to Historic Myth: Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in Popular History

Louis Eason

A Time of Destiny: Ifa Culture and Festivals in Ile-Ife, Nigeria and Oyotunji African Village in Sheldon, South Carolina
Leonard Gadzekpo Comparative Study of African American and Nigerian Art from the 1960s to the 1970s: A Cultural History Perspective

Barbara Kunkle

Appalachia and the Imagination of Empire
Kelly Mayhew "Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine:" Women's Expressions/ Performances of Sexuality in the Twenties and Early Thirties
James Miller Post-modernism and Utopia: Dystopian/Utopian Themes in the Works of Don DeLillo, Harold Jaffe and Octavia Butler

Colleen Vallo (Cook)

Cultural and Legal Analysis of the 1996 Communications Decency Act

M.A.


 
Brian Dolinar Camilla Dacey-Groth Emily Pettigrew
Jason Wesco Josef Swora Robert Sloane
Sarah Heck Stuart Tart Thomas Deignan

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Richard Gilman

The Unity School of Christianity and the Development of Therapeutic Culture in the United States, 1889-1920
Anne Lacsamana Colonialism, Globalization, and the Filipina Mail-Order Bride
Michael Marsh  

Steven C. Steele

"Subvert the Dominant Paradigm": Environmentalism, Earth First!, and Opposition Theory

M.A.


 
Morten Anthun Christine Brucker Jonothan Bruning
Ester Carr Stacy Davidson Bryan Fruth
Benjamin Irvin Laurie McKesson Paloma McMullan
Antje Schiffler Blaine Vanry Solomon Davidoff
  Michael Marsh Charlotte Sweet

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Kay Campbell

Afrikan/Native American, Art and Resistance: Dual Heritage and the Art of Edmonia Lewis

James Coon

Sixties Entertainment Television and Cold War Discourse
Paul Fischer Radical Pedagogy and the Interdisciplinary Revolution: Teaching "Youth Culture" for the Twenty-First Century

Leah Hackleman

The First Year?: Gendering 1968
Mark Howell From Moonshine to Madison Avenue: A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Imelda Hunt An Oral History of Art Tatum During His Years in Toledo, OH 1909-1932

Theodore Ligibel

The Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor as a Model of the Cultural Morphology of the Historic Preservation Movement
Molly Merryman Gendering the Warrior: The Disbandment of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
Sally Myers Northwest Ohio Women's Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture: 1880-1918
Phyllis Zrzavy Erik H. Erikson's Epiphanies: An Interpretive-Interactionist Study of the Select Aspects of His Life and Work

M.A.


 
Holly Baumgartner Scott Csontos Paul Fischer
Stacey Lipe-Grasso John Nevins Jennifer Stocking
Scott Walter Paul Wise March McCubrey

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Kenneth Bielen

Lyrics of Civility: The Language of Popular Music and the Secularization of American Culture

Ursula Hans

The Formation of American Identities: Pennsylvania and South Carolina 1730-1776
Xiao-Yang Jiang Cross-cultural Philanthropy as a Gift Relationship: The Rockefeller Foundation Donors and Chinese Recipients

Marie Louden-Hanes

Winslow Homer and the Demimode
Michael Pryzdia The Wake of Imagination and the Postmodern Meaning of "Meaning"
Virginia Schwartz The Collegiate Culture: An Examination of the Role of Television in Addressing the Developmental Tasks of Unity and Differentiation

Michael Stephens

The Shiftiness of Childhood
Jacqueline Thursby Basque Women of the American West
Benjamin Urish America through its comedians : comedy and culture on film
Helfried Zrzavy America Through Its Comedians: Comedy and Culture on Film

M.A.


 
Carlissa Crumit-Hancock Sharon Vriend Laurel Gilbert
Ingrid Gomez Rachel Groner Tammie Harris
Krista Harte Sassaman Allison Harthcock Sherry Howard
Stephanie Jass Sharon Johnson-Riegler Jean Kalata
Monika Krammer Tricia Valentine Andreja Wieser
  Chad Litton  

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

David Andersen

Erik H. Erikson's Challenge to Modernity

Iain Ellis

U/Dys/Topian Significations: The Dissemination of the Punk Aesthetic Across 1980's American Culture
Wayne Sneath The Conspiratorial Ideology of Right-Wing Extremism in the 1990s: A Cultural Analysis of Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City
Charles R.Warner Jah As Genre: The Interface of Reggae and American Popular Music

Yan-wen Xia

The Sojourner Myth and Chinese Immigrants in the United States

 


M.A.


 
Frank Becker Guadalupe Galvan Martin Higgins
Philip Marson Robert McCord Richard Morgan
Mark Rice Elizabeth Smalley Christine Su
Ilona Tzudnowski Tsukasa Watanbe Susanne Zimmermann
  Kathleen Hern  

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Stephen Ashby

Hermeneutic of Suspicion and the Scapegoat: Toward Ontological Understanding

Elizabeth Martina Bishop

Re-shaping Ethnicity: The Half-blood as Shaman in Native American Literature
Christine Catanzarite The Genetics of Genre: The Musical Film and the Hybridization of Popular Narrative Forms

Jeannie Ludlow

Writing Monahseetah: Native American Poets (and) Writing the Body
Angela Nelson A Theomusicological Approach to Rap: A Model Study for the Study of African American Popular and Folk Musics
Vida Penezic Belgrade City Center: Some Aspects of the Transnational in Culture

Phyllis Scrocco

A Ritual Analysis of Women and Work in Selected Situation Comedies, 1963-1973
Brendan Strasser "It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)": Keith Haring, Post- modern Hieroglyphics, Panic Graffiti, and the Fun Apocalypse, and the Language of Hyperreality
Thomas Zitt Reinventing Nature in America's First National Park: Struggles Over Management Politics in Yellowstone

M.A.


 
Steven Cannon Matthew Donahue Christine Hastings
Jerry Moore Matthew Rake Christine Schott
Jay Smith Shawn Wilber
 

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Sarah Coburn

The Invasion of the Comedy Snatchers: Fantasy Sitcoms and Cultural Criticism

James Kaser

The Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Chickamauga: An Exercise in Perspectivist Historical Research
Edward Wells Growing Green: Changing Paradigms in America's Pesticide Use

Li-hua Yu

Chinese Immigrants in Idaho

M.A.


 
Derek Milne Mark McCluskey Michelle Raine
David Ulmer Deidre Vodanoff Brent Zerger

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Anne Kennedy

Louisa May Alcott: Culture, Family, and Fiction

Michael Pettengell

Naturalism in American Hard-Boiled Fiction: The First Four Decades
Renate Prescott Vietnam War Literature: The Movement from War to Home

William Romanowski

Rock'n'Religion: A Socio-cultural Analysis of the Contemporary Christian Music Industry
Duane Vorhees The "Jewish Science" of Immanuel Velikovsky: Culture and Biography as Ideational Determinants
Daniel F. Ward Authenticity in the Cultural Hybrid: A Critique of the Community Paradigm in Folk Studies

M.A.


 
Nancy Dillon Gregory Hart JoyJean Hughes
Susan Nance Mark Okeson Allan Rice
Jennifer Strayer Qian Zhao Suzanne Hoffman
Kevin Lause Holly Hoffman Mark Holding
 
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