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Ph.D.

 
Alissa Burger From The Wizzard of Oz to Wicked: Trajectory of the American Myth
Nathan Crook Food That Matters: Constructing Place and Community at Food Festivals in Northwest Ohio
Colin Helb Use and Influence of Amateur Musician Narratives in Film, 1981-2001
Michael Lupro Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism
Joelle Ryan Reel Gender: Examining the Politics of Trans Images in Film and Media

M.A.


 
Kristen Cooperkline
Angela Crist
Melinda Lewis
Tamara Serrano Jonathan Van Melle
 


Ph.D.

 
Molly Brost Gender and Authenticity in the Country Music Biopic
Ramona Coleman Narrating Nation: Exploring the Place of Americaness and the Space of African American Women Through the Narratives of Venus and Serena Williams
Dellareese Higgs "Shades of Identity: The Color of Tourism"
Christopher Johnston "Lissen Up!": Rehearing the Postcolonial in the Artwork of Jean-Michael Basquiat
Marnie Pratt Achtung Bono: New Celebrity Activist Model or Same Old Song and Dance?

M.A.


 
Edwin Faulhaber
Laura Haley
Chrishawn Marsh
Claudia Schneider James Schurrer
Erin Gentry
Briel Naugle
Lisa Richman
Hajar Mahfoodh
Beckett Warren

 

 


Ph.D.

 
Eric Anderson Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in The United States
Matthew Mace Barbee Memory, Race, and Communal Belonging in Narrative and Art: Richmond, Viginia's Monument Avenue, 1948-1996
Sandra B. Conaway Girls Who (Don't) Wear Glasses: The Performativity of Smart Girls on Teen Television
Christina Gerken Immigrant Anxieties: 1990s Immigration Reform and the Neoliberal Consensus
Bradley S. Klypchak Performed Identities: Heavy Metal Musicians between 1984 and 1991
Carolyn Lea Beyond Celebration: A Call For Rethinking Cultural Studies
Dennis Mueller John Dewey: Documentary Narrative
Dan Shope Shattered Glass and Broken Dreams: Utilizing the Works of Michel De Certeau to Analyze Coping Mechanisms and Overt Forms of Resistance among Glass Workers in Huntington, West Virginia
Catherine Shufelt "Something Wicked This Way Comes": Constructing the Witch in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Stephen C. Swanson The Stranger in the Dark: The Ethics of Levinasian-Derridaean Hospitality in Noir
Dustin S. Tahmahkera Representations of Redface: Decolonizing the American Situation Comedy's "Indian"
Patrick Vrooman Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Summer Camp

M.A.


 
Larry Amin Tchamba
Amy Deitrickson
Julita Edwards
Adam Franklin Aisha Mcgriff
Emily Nielsen
Naomi Twine
 

 


Ph.D.

 

Elliot Adams

Feminist Manifestos and the Rhetoric of Whiteness
Lisa Doris Alexander Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on third, and Sexuality Up to Bat: Intersectionality and Power in Major League Baseball, 1995-2005
Maria D. DeRose Searching for Wonder Women: Examining Women's Non-Violent Power in Feminist Science Fiction
Lori S. Liggett Mothers, Militants, Martyrs, & "M'M! M'M! Good!" Taming the New Woman: Campbell Soup Advertising in Good Housekeeping, 1905-1920

Jeanine Pfahlert

The Sociological Hitch
Jamie Stuart The lesbian gaze: The business and pleasure of filmic lesbians performing onstage and off
Marilyn Yaquinto Policing the World: American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Cop Character

M.A.


 
Mark Bernard
Molly Frendo
Teresa Milbrodt
Nicole Eugene Zachary Hilpert
Na Tasha Shabazz
Irma Ferguson Andrew Jones
Nathan Titman
Viviane Frank
Jason Kirby Kelly Watson

 


Ph.D.

 
Kent R. Bean Policing the Borders of Identity at the Mormon Miracle Pageant
Timothy Shawn Elizondo "The Consumption of Masculinity One Object at a Time": A Sociological Approach to Understanding Masculinity vis-à-vis Jean Baudrillard's System of Objects
Meredith Guthrie Somewhere In-Between: Tween Queens and the Marketing Machine

Taeyon Kim

The Moving Eye: From Cold War Subject to Middle Class Cosmopolitan, Korean Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery, 1955-2001

Julie O'Reilly

Power versus Empowerment: A Textual Analysis of Television's Superpowered Women, 1996-2005
Scott M. Walter White Is and White Ain't: Representations and Analyses of Whiteness in the Novels of Chester Himes

M.A.


 
Melissa A. Altman William Jospeh Emerson III
Caroline Forester Jr.
Pawin Malaiwong Au Tuan Nguyen Molly Destafney
Angela Christine Fitzpatrick Leslie Marie Wagner  

 


Ph.D.

Disseration Title
Klevor Abo
Black Whiteness, White Blackness and the Making of Global African Identities
Joyce Barry Mountaineers are always Free?; An Examination of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia
Roger Chapman American Progressivism and the Cold War: The Case of Edward Lamb of Toledo, OH (1901-1987)
Colleen Coughlin Lezbe Friends, U-Hauls and Baubo: A Study of Lesbian Stand-Up Comedy
Kurt Dershem Consumerism and Its Discontents: American Anticonsumerist Movements
Davin Heckman It's a Small World After All; Smart Homes, Narrative, and the Technology of the Perfect Day
Elizabeth Johnson African American Women's Hair as Text
Timothy Lake A Certain Democracy: The Political Philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Cornel West
Kelly McLain The Lynching of Nicole Brown Simpson; An Analysis of White Patriarchal Racism, Black Patriarchy, and Interracism in America
Jeff Schwartz New Black Music: Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Jazz, 1959-1965

M.A.


 
Marnie Pratt Mary Cotofan
James Ross
Stefan Stingl James Deiter Shannon Warman
Robero Prince Tarsus Foley Qi Han
Christopher Johnston Dellareese Higgs Anna-Maria Pedron
  Cassandra Jones  

 


Ph.D.

Disseration Title
Servando Halili Jr. Visualizing the New Empire: Race and Gender Images and the American Colonization of the Philippines
Mike DuBose Reaganism's Cultural Disintegration: Identity Within the Confluence of Popular Culture During the Reagan Era
David Richardson A Sociological Examination of the Contemporary Self-Help
Susan Clerc Who Owns Our Culture?: The Battle over the Internet, Copyright, Media Fandom, and Everyday uses of the Cultural Commons
Margaret Weinberger How America Invented Thanksgiving

M.A.


 
Brian Bork Mark Brodie Kristy Ganoe
Elaine Green Vassiliki Leontis Michael McMaster
Katrice Mines Paul Pickett Patrick Saunders
Jeremiah Smith Xiaohong Wang  

 


Ph.D.

Disseration Title
John Barksdale A Construction of Community among Miners during the California Gold Rush
Kimberly Caldwell  
Julia Mason Involvement of Margins: Women's Experiences with the Mainstream and at the Margins of Breast Health
Babacar M'Baye Afrinanisms, Race Relations, and Diasporic Identities in Mules and Men, Go tell it on the Mountain, and Mumbo Jumbo
Ilana Nash "America's Kid Sister": Teenaged Girls And Popular Culture, 1930-1965
Jack Vitek Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer: The Tabloidization of American Culture

M.A.


 
Michael Albrecht Marianne Duvendack Eric Anderson
Glen Holcolm Matthew Wolf-Meyer Rafael Colon-Gonzales
Krista Kiessling Angela Gianoglio Cassandra Taylor
Louise Turner Troy Brydon  

 


Ph.D.


Disseration Title

Carrol Arnold

"If It Is to Be, It's Up to Me": Migration Narrative of African American Women in Brooklyn, New York

Allen Barksdale

A Construction of Community Among Miners during the California Gold Rush
Camilla Dacey-Groth Slaves of Fiction: Coming to terms with the American Holocaust through representations of slavery in post-civil-rights film and fiction
Solomon Davidoff Allusions to Popular Faith in C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia
Matthew Donahue The Message Behind the Beat: Social and Political Attitudes Expressed in American Rap and Punk Rock Music of the 1980's and the Early 1990's.
Kriss Ferluga X Marks What's Not: Stereotypes and Strategies in the Construction of a Generational Subculture
Kyoko Kishimoto Race and History Wars in the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japanese Media
Anne Lacsamana An Examination of Filipino Mail-Order Brides
Wayne Marshall Effable Names-A Philosophical Inquiry Into How and Why We Name God
Julio Rodriguez Whiting up: Negotiating Color and Masculinity in the Black Athlete
John Streamas Japanese Americans and Cultures of Relocation

M.A.


 
Philemon Anosike Heath Bowen Patrick Gray
Brenda Ransom Jacqueline Vreatt Ron Werdebaugh
Jill-Anne Fowler Wendy Fournier Meredith Guthrie
Scott Swinney Ginger Hintz  

 


Ph.D.



Disseration Title

Charles Coletta

Italian American Images in Contemporary Popular Culture

Philip Dickinson

"Squatters in our Imaginations": Framing the Discourse of Captivity, 1682-1979
Kenneth Dvorak Murder, Nativism and Americanism: The Black Legion as an Urban Hybrid of Ethnocultural Conflict.

Victoria Lees

Heresy or Hearsay: Investigating the Documents of the Trials of Anne Hutchinson
Diana Montague
Empowering the Sense of Place: Regional Detection Fiction Elevates Non-Urban American Culture
Christine Nerad Dressed for Rape: The Case Against the Disruptive Female in American Culture
Michael Robinson
Audience Construction of Genre: Science Fiction
Bazan Romero Nuclear Colonization or Self-determination: A Study of the Planned MRS at the Mescalero Apache Reservation
Rufus Sanders The Life of William J. Seymour: Black Father of the 20th Century Pentecostal Movement
Yvonne Sims From Mammie to Action Heroines: Female Empowerment in Black Popular Cinema
Juliann Sivulka Stronger than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising of Personal Hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940
Molly Swiger Consuming "Third World" Children: Constructing an American Self
Annette Taylor Legal Ramifications of Outside-Activity Restrictions on Journalists First Amendment
Maryan Wherry Military Wives and the Western Frontier: A Cultural Reading of Their Public Accounts

M.A.


 
Camino Alvarez Kyle Barnett Maria DeRose
Melinda Gilpin Li Shao Roy Smith
Rufus Sanders Fowler Jill
Jason Kucsma
Rastgoufard Babak Juliann Sivulka  

 

 
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