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American Studies Senior Honor Theses, 1990-2001

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Art, Music, and Popular Culture
  • Berman, ToddRobert Mapplethorpe and the Curse of Obscenity: A Lesson in American Diversity (1991)
  • Blann, RichardThe Roswell Incident: The Emergence of the UFO Community as a Subculture in American Society (1998)
  • Feldman, JosephBaseball Parks and the American City (1993)
  • Finstein, AmyUnlocking Doors to the Past and Future: An Architectural and Social Exploration of the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle (1998)
  • Freedman, JodyA Broad and Changing Landscape: The Visual Arts and the American Experience (1990)
  • Geller, StevenThe Master's Music: The Dramatic Function of Music in Alfred Hitchcock's Films (1995)
  • Kassner, RobinThe Barbie Chronicles: Her Life and Times as a Perpetual Catalyst and Manifestation of the Paradox Facing the Modern American Woman (1998)
  • Kamine, Elida Newsreels to Real News: The Birth of Moving Image Journalism in the 1930s (2003)
  • Kleinman, Charles Black Listed: Race and Racism in Hip Hop Criticism (2001)
  • Margolin, Brett The Invention of Free Agency and Its Effects on Baseball (2002)
  • Podol, MichaelThe Ash Can School (1990)
  • Prisand, A. AmandaSocial, Personal and Political Commentary in American Art During the Depression (1997)
  • Richman, Eric Staggerlee's Revenge: A History and Critical Investigation of the Ideas in Rap Music (1994)
  • Schecter, ElissaAn American Family Album: Evolving Changes of the Family in Twentieth Century Theater (1994)
  • Shapiro, DeborahThe Contemporary Significance of American Grandparenthood (1992)
  • Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film  (2003)
  • Tonguch, InciThe Female Body Image in North American Literature (1992)

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Education
  • Borg, JonathanSpeech on Campus: A Critique of Speech Codes at American Colleges and Universities (1995)
  • Finstein, AmyUnlocking Doors to the Past and Future: An Architectural and Social Exploration of the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle (1998)
  • Haimo, AdamPreserving Academic Standards: An Investigation of What Has Been Done to Maintain the Academic Integrity of Universities and Colleges With ‚ig-TimeŕAthletic Programs (1998)
  • Jacobs, RuthThe Substance Survives: The Lasting Contributions of Josephine Clara Goldmark (1997)
  • Kander, Beth Reshaping the Rabbinate: An Exploration of Female Rabbis  Experiences Balancing Religious Professional Lives With Family and Personal Lives (2003)
  • Kolko, ValerieEvolution of College Culture: Brandeis University, A Case Study (2001)
  • Paulle, BowenA Survey of Literature Surrounding Progressive Education in America (1992)
  • Prager, HillaryGender Equity: The Controversy Over Single-Sex Education (1997)
  • Wechsler, DeborahThe Representation of American Identity in Institutions of Jewish Education in the United States (1991)

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Environmental Studies
  • Carrier, DavidSnail Darter, Spotted Owls, and the ‡od Squadú Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (1993)
  • Feldman, JosephBaseball Parks and the American City (1993)
  • Hersy, CharlesEvolution of Forest Management in New Hampshire: 1900 - 2000 Toward Ecological and Social Sustainability (2001)
  • Lema, LisetteMaking the Past the Future: The Cape Cod National Seashore (1998)
  • Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film  (2003)
  • Stracuzzi, FrancineThe Erie Railroad and its Effect on a Small Town in America (1992)

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Ethnicity & Race
  • Alfred, Erna Our Similarites Can Bring Us Together (1997)
  • Antonio, BenjaminIntegrated Higher Education Separated Higher Education: Which is Better for African Americans (1993)
  • Berman, MatthewAmerican Sports and the Jew (1991)
  • Bogad, MollyNative Voices In Massachusetts: The Misrepresentation of Native American History (1997)
  • Brisette, ElizabethSerbs and Croats Living in the United States: Patterns of Cooperation and Conflict (1994)
  • Fish, AmyForward Movement: Generational Continuity in Work and Education Patterns of American Jewish Women 1880-1930 (1991)
  • Kander, Beth Reshaping the Rabbinate: An Exploration of Female Rabbis  Experiences Balancing Religious Professional Lives With Family and Personal Lives (2003)
  • Kassar, AmiDiaspora Adaptations: South African and American Jews (1991)
  • Kleinman, Charles Black Listed: Race and Racism in Hip Hop Criticism (2001)
  • Klugman, Ashley H. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil: The Priest-Penitent Privilege in Evidentiary Law, With an Analysis of the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2003)
  • Poy, KarenThe Model Minority Stereotype: The Cost of the American Dream for Asian Americans (2000)
  • Rappaport, EllenThe Community History Forgot: the Jews of Boston's North End: 1890-1915(1992)
  • Rosenbaum, NancyJury Justice? A Look at the Scottsboro Case and the Leo Frank trial (1995)
  • Soubousky, SarahAffirmative Action in Universities (2000)
  • Wechsler, DeborahThe Representation of American Identity in Institutions of Jewish Education in the United States (1991)

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Film & Television
  • Berkowsky, ShannonI Want My Gay TV: The Ups and Downs of Homosexuality on Television and American Culture (2001)
  • Bernard, Catherine The Mob Film: Defining and Interpreting An American Genre (2001)
  • Finn, MeredithTalking About the Talk: Defining and Defending the Daytime Television Talk Show (1996)
  • Fishman, NancyThe Acculturation of Japanese Americans as Reflected in Japanese American Literature (1996)
  • Geller, StevenThe Master's Music: The Dramatic Function of Music in Alfred Hitchcock's Films (1995)
  • Jayson, SherriExploring the New Genre of Women's Films (1996)
  • Kamine, Elida Newsreels to Real News: The Birth of Moving Image Journalism in the 1930s (2003)
  • Karnell, ErikaThree Hankies and a Bucket of Soggy Popcorn: The Women's Weepie Film and its Social Implications in the 1930s (1996)
  • Kates, ThomasShooting the truth: An Exporation of the Meaning of Photographs in Postwar Films (1991)
  • Latman, AudreyRotten Blood: Vampire Films as a Metaphor for AIDS (1994)
  • Lightman, JessicaSesame Street: A Quality Program in a Blasted Medium (1999)
  • May, SarahFamily Entertainment: Walt Disney and the 1950's (1995)
  • Politano, SethThe Slasher Film: Influences and Reflections on American Culture (2000)
  • Riss, Alexander The Greatest Show on Earth: The Simpsons and America in the 90's (2000)
  • Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film  (2003)
  • Teitler, AndreaOrson Welles: Hollywood Maverick (1993)
  • Tolksdorf, PaulConspiracies and Cover-Ups: The Portrayal of American Government by Hollywood's Political Thrillers in the 1980's (1994)
  • Toth, Gabriela "Ill Be There For You:ŕFriends as Surrogate Families in Television of the 1990s (2001)

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<<A NAME="Gend"> Gender Studies

  • Block, SandraBewitching Memories (1996)
  • Dickerman, GabrielleThe Consequences of a Puritanical Society: Examining Patterns of Teenage Neonaticide in Modern America (1999)
  • Jaffe, JonaroseMenarche Butterflies: Young Women and the Cultural (In)Significance of Menstruation (1999)
  • Kander, Beth Reshaping the Rabbinate: An Exploration of Female Rabbis  Experiences Balancing Religious Professional Lives With Family and Personal Lives (2003)
  • Kassner, RobinThe Barbie Chronicles: Her Life and Times as a Perpetual Catalyst and Manifestation of the Paradox Facing the Modern American Woman (1998)
  • Levine, Beth SeidelLabor Pains: Searching for Peace in a Feminist Movement Divided over the Virtues of Motherhood and Family (1997)
  • Prager, HillaryGender Equity: The Controversy Over Single-Sex Education (1997)
  • Tonguch, InciThe Female Body Image in North American Literature (1992)

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Journalism & Media Studies
  • Alkon, CherylThe Magazine Mystique (1992)
  • Amato, Michelle Cyberspace and American Law: The Emerging Realities and Challenges of a New World (2002)
  • Heine, Sarah From Boots to Baldo: A Century of American Adolescents and Comic Strips (2001)
  • Howell, HillaryCreating Generation X: Popular Culture and the 'Slacker' Generation (2001)
  • Kamine, Elida Newsreels to Real News: The Birth of Moving Image Journalism in the 1930s (2003)
  • Rabin, StevenFramed? Considering the Alleged Liberal Bias of American Journalists (2000)
  • Rosenfeld, JeffreySexual Privacy and Intrusive Newsgathering: Does the Public Have the Right to Know What Happens in the Bedroom? (2001)
  • Sheehan, ErinFree Louise: How One Trial Influenced Public Opinion Through the Media (2001)
  • Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film  (2003)
  • Tonguch, InciThe Female Body Image in North American Literature (1992)
  • Weber, HarryMedia Crisis: A Study of Health Care Coverage in the 1960s and the 1990s (1994)

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Legal Studies
  • Amato, Michelle Cyberspace and American Law: The Emerging Realities and Challenges of a New World (2002)
  • Bakalarz, JonathanWar on Drugs: The Dynamics of Prohibition and Represstion in Colombia and the USA (1997)
  • Borg, JonathanSpeech on Campus: A Critique of Speech Codes at American Colleges and Universities (1995)
  • Chilnick, Susanna"You Can't Print That": Censorship and the Student Press (1999)
  • Feldberg, Cara The Evolution of Massachusetts Rape Law from Colonial Times to the Present (1999)
  • Gruda, JenniferPornography and Obscenity Regulation: Past, Present and Future (1998)
  • Jagolinzer, Charles "Say Your Last Prayer!": Prayer in Public School & American Culture (2000)
  • Joseph, BethanyDeath is Not the Worst Outcome (1991)
  • Klugman, Ashley H. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil: The Priest-Penitent Privilege in Evidentiary Law, With an Analysis of the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2003)
  • Korn, TylerWhen Main Street was Wall Street: The Securitization of Commercial Real Estate in the United States (1997)
  • Lang, RobertTransfer Taken Too far: The Juvenile Justice System and its Adjudication of American Children Who Murder (1999)
  • Lederer, Caryn HIV in the Criminal Courts: An American Response to Disease (2000)
  • Lichtman, StevenThe Validity of Flag Desecration as a Form of Political Dissent (1990)
  • Margolin, Brett The Invention of Free Agency and Its Effects on Baseball (2002)
  • Morrison, BrianBowers v. Hardwick: An Interdisciplinary Critique (1996)
  • Pauleon, MargeryBlack Inheritance: An Analysis of African-American Reparations (1999)
  • Posner, Amy Registration and Community Notification: An Analysis of the Legal and Practical Implications Associated with Their Application (2001)
  • Rausch, RebeccaFreedom of Choice? The Dual Victimization of Certain Rape Survivors Seeking Abortions (2001)
  • Rosenbaum, NancyJury Justice? A Look at the Scottsboro Case and the Leo Frank trial (1995)
  • Schneider, Jesse When ’easonable DoubtŕBecomes Unreasonable: A Legal Guide to the Modern Day Juror (1995)
  • Silverstone, ScottThe Burdens of Hate and Free Speech on the Internet (2000)
  • Soubousky, SarahAffirmative Action in Universities (2000)
  • Vasquez, Alicia JoyRehabilitation: Is America Effecting Postiive Change? (1997)
  • Zak, DavidAn Examination of Massachusetts Landlord-Tenant Law (1998)

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Political Culture & Public Policy
  • Amato, Michelle Cyberspace and American Law: The Emerging Realities and Challenges of a New World (2002)
  • Bakalarz, JonathanWar on Drugs: The Dynamics of Prohibition and Represstion in Colombia and the USA (1997)
  • Block, SandraBewitching Memories (1996)
  • Davidson, JoshuaTaming TB: Obstacles to the Unied States Public Health Systems Effort to Control Tuberculosis (1997)
  • Dickerman, GabrielleThe Consequences of a Puritanical Society: Examining Patterns of Teenage Neonaticide in Modern America (1999)
  • Feldman, JosephBaseball Parks and the American City (1993)
  • Jacobs, RuthThe Substance Survives: The Lasting Contributions of Josephine Clara Goldmark (1997)
  • Jeruchimowitz, HowardAnti-Communist Liberalism: The Realistic Approach to Cold War Politics and Civil Liberties (1994)
  • Joseph, BethanyDeath is Not the Worst Outcome (1991)
  • Kahn, MelissaWarning: Cigarettes are Also Hazardous to the Health of Nonsmokers (1999)
  • Klugman, Ashley H. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil: The Priest-Penitent Privilege in Evidentiary Law, With an Analysis of the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2003)
  • Kobin, KristopherThe 1978 Government De-Regulation of the U.S. Airways Was Detrimental to the Efficient Operation of Our Airlines (1994)
  • Korn, TylerWhen Main Street was Wall Street: The Securitization of Commercial Real Estate in the United States (1997)
  • Lichtman, StevenThe Validity of Flag Desecration as a Form of Political Dissent (1990)
  • Markowitz, JeremyWhen in the Course of Human Eventsz How the American Renaissance Changed the Meaning of the Declaration of Independence (1996)
  • Newman, StaciThe Politics of Medicine: The Office of the Surgeon General in American Politics (1999)
  • Pildis, SaraReconsidering the Presidency of a Great Leader and Civil Rights Reformer: Lyndon Johnson (1998)
  • Rausch, RebeccaFreedom of Choice? The Dual Victimization of Certain Rape Survivors Seeking Abortions (2001)
  • Sherman, MelissaMedicare: Insuring Its Longevity (2000)
  • Stracuzzi, FrancineThe Erie Railroad and its Effect on a Small Town in America (1992)
  • Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film  (2003)
  • Weiss, MarkOn the Brink: American Policy in Vietnam from November 1963 to March 1965 (1995)
  • Weitzer, DavidThe Electoral College method of Electing the President and Vice-President and Proposals for Reform (1994)

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Religion & Ethics
  • Bacon, KarenAnimal Rights in the American Experience: A Historical Overview (1994)
  • Block, SandraBewitching Memories (1996)
  • Dickerman, GabrielleThe Consequences of a Puritanical Society: Examining Patterns of Teenage Neonaticide in Modern America (1999)
  • Eaton, Mary Jane Women in the Ordained Methodist Ministry 1956-1995 (1996)
  • Kander, Beth Reshaping the Rabbinate: An Exploration of Female Rabbis  Experiences Balancing Religious Professional Lives With Family and Personal Lives (2003)
  • Keusch, DavidPeter Singer & the Conscience of America (2000)
  • Klugman, Ashley H. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil: The Priest-Penitent Privilege in Evidentiary Law, With an Analysis of the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2003)
  • Wilgoren, Rachel The Dead Live On: New Meaning for Family, Community, and Religion in American Cultire 1965-1995 (1995)

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Youth & Family Culture
  • Fish, AmyForward Movement: Generational Continuity in Work and Education Patterns of American Jewish Women 1880-1930 (1991)
  • Howell, HillaryCreating Generation X: Popular Culture and the 'Slacker' Generation (2001)
  • Jaffe, JonaroseMenarche Butterflies: Young Women and the Cultural (In)Significance of Menstruation (1999)
  • Klugman, Ashley H. See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil: The Priest-Penitent Privilege in Evidentiary Law, With an Analysis of the Child Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2003)
  • McWilliams, HelenSafe Sex: How America Normalizes Discourse About Sexual Behavior (2001)
  • Poy, KarenThe Model Minority Stereotype: The Cost of the American Dream for Asian Americans (2000)
  • Shapiro, DeborahThe Contemporary Significance of American Grandparenthood (1992)
  • Starr, AvivaFamily Violence in the United States: Commonalities in Cause, Treatment and Prevention (1991)
  • Weitz, BradleyYouth Gang Violence 1980-1995: Focus on Broward County, Florida (1995)

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