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Spring 2007

Rebecca Green

"Ancestral Ideologies in a Contemporary World: Art and the Creation and Performance of Identity in Highland Madagascar"

 

Fall 2006

Leigh Ann Wheeler

"Liberating Sex: How the American Civil Liberties union Shaped Sexual Culture in the Twentieth-Century United States"

Sridevi Menon

"Narrating Brunei: Traveling Histories of Brunei Indians"

Lawrence Coates

"Temporary Landscapes: a novel"

 

Spring 2006

Liette Gidlow, History

"Advertising the American Presidency, 1952 - Present"

Susana Peña, Ethnic Studies

" Oye Loca : The Making of Cuban American Gay Miami"

 

Fall 2005

Edgar Landgraf, German, Russian, and East Asian Languages

"Inspiration and Artistic Creativity in Pre-Romantic and Romantic Thought: Inquiries into the Emergence of Modern Consciousness."

Rekha Mirchandani, Sociology

"What's So Special about Special Domestic Violence Courts? Social Movements and the State"

Peter Way, History

"Culture War: The French and Indian War and the Construction of Social Identity"

 

Spring 2005

Albert Dzur, Political Science

"Democratic Professionalism: Civic Task Sharing in Domains of Hidden Authority"

Lynn Whitney, Art

"The I-280 Maumee River Crossing"

 

Fall 2004

Ana Del Sarto, Romance Languages

"Failures of Memory, Memories of Failures: Contemporary Latin American Women's Narratives"

Gary Hess, History

"Explaining America's Lost War: The Forty-Year Debate Over Vietnam"

   

 

Spring 2004

Lisa Wylam, Theatre and American Culture Studies

"Studying Live Performance: Revisiting Intersections of Performance and Ethnography"

Rachel Buff, History

"Marrying In: War Brides, US Imperial Policy and Asian America, 1945 - 1975"

 

Fall 2003

Teresa Mah, Ethnic Studies

"Urban Intersections"

 

Halifu Osumare, HMSLS

"Hip Hop's Globalization in Ghana, West Africa"

 

Gregg Brownell, Division of Technology & Learning

"Beyond Images, Across Boundaries: A Case for Curriculum Studies as a Component of Media Literacy"

 

Spring 2003

Eithne Luibheid, Ethnic Studies

"Babies of Convenience? African Asylum Seekers and Childbearing in Ireland"

Carol Hess, Musical Arts

"Music and the Spanish Civil War"

 

Fall 2002

Rob Buffington, History

"The Sentimental Education of the Mexican Working Class"

Hai Ren, Popular Culture

"The Countdown of Time: Public Displays and Symbolic Economy in China and Hong Kong "

 

Opportune Zongo, Romance Languages and Women's Studies

"Cultural Forces and the Construction of Widowhood"

 

 

Spring 2002

Vickie Shields, General Education and Provost VPAA

"How Advertising Shapes Gender Identity in Adolescents: Cultural Consumption and Reception"

 

Fall 2001

Rosalie Politsky, Art

"Building an Interpretive Repertoire in the Visual Arts"

 

 

Spring 2001

Sharona Ben-Tov, English (Creative Writing)

"A Father's Secret: Completion of a Creative Novel"

Kenneth Kiple, History

"Food and Nutrition in History"

 

Fall 2000

Marvin Belzer, Philosophy and Asian Studies

"The Z-Files: Reflection on the Practical Implications of Views about Personal Identity"

 

Philip Terrie, American Culture Studies

"Robert Marshall's Wilderness Ideology"

 

Spring 2000

Fujiya Kawashima, Asian Studies

"The Aristocratic Great Family in Confucian Korea: The Munhwa Yu Lineage in the Choson Dynasty"

 

Ewart Skinner, Telecommunications

"Cultural Implications of U.S. Media on Anglophone Caribbean Audiences"

 

 

Fall 1999

Jacquelyn Cuneen, HMSLS and SMRT Division

"Gender Visuals in Sport-Related Internet Marketing: An Analysis of World Wide Web Pages"

Mary Natvig, Musical Arts

"Towards a Grammar Rhetoric of Imitation in Music in the 15th Century"

 

 

Spring 1999

Scott Martin, History and American Culture Studies

"Women, Gender, and American Temperance Reform, 1800-1860"

Judith Sealander, History

"Re-inventing Childhood: 20th Century American State Regulation of Children"

 

Fall 1998

Donald Scherer, Philosophy

"The Place of Humanities and Arts in Ecological Restoration Education"

 

Michael Staub, English and American Culture Studies

"African American Activism, Jewish Identities, and Holocaust Consciousness"

 

Spring 1998

Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Africana Studies

"African Women's Thought: Economic Roles and Agency in Africa and the British Colonies"

 

Frederico Chalupa, Romance Languages

"Ethnicity, Social Self, and Narrative in the Andean Region" 

 

Jaak Panksepp, Psychology

"Impulsive Children on Ritalin: A National Scandal in the Making"

 

Fall 1997

Geoffrey Howes, German, Russian, and East Asian Languages

"The Shadow of Steinhof: The Representation of Mental Illness in Modern Austrian Literature"

F. Scott Regan, Theatre and Film Studies

"Johnny Faustus: A Play for Young Audiences"

 

 

Spring 1997

Loren Lomasky, Philosophy

"Good, Better, Best: A Theory of Reason and Value"

Thomas Muir, Art

"Metal Vessels"

 

Jack Santino, Popular Culture

"Personal, Private, and Public: Display of Symbols in Northern Ireland"


 

Fall 1996

Ellen Berry, English and American Culture Studies

"Experiments in Transculture: Rethinking Russian and American Models of Creative Communication"


Gary Hess, History

"To Uphold Order: Truman, Johnson, Bush, and Decisions for War in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf "

   

Don Rowney, History

"Continuity in Russian History: State and Economy, 1885- 1991"

 

 

Spring 1996

Burton Beerman, Musical Arts

"Jesus' Daughter in Video Media"

 

Khani Begum, English

"Postcolonial and Gender Discourses in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing"

 

Victoria Krane, HMSLS and Women's Studies

"Health, Physical Education & Recreation: Experiences of Lesbian Collegiate Coaches"

 

Epifanio San Juan, Ethnic Studies

"Raymond Williams' Theory of Culture: Intersections of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity"


Ryan Tweney, Psychology

"Free Will in American Psychological Thought: From Jonathan Edwards to The Bell Curve"