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Art, Music and Popular Culture
- Berman, Todd Robert Mapplethorpe and the Curse of Obscenity: A Lesson in American Diversity (1991)
- Blann, Richard The Roswell Incident: The Emergence of the UFO Community as a Subculture in American Society (1998)
- Feldman, Joseph Baseball Parks and the American City (1993)
- Finstein, Amy Unlocking Doors to the Past and Future: An Architectural and Social Exploration of the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle (1998)
- Freedman, Jody A Broad and Changing Landscape: The Visual Arts and the American Experience (1990)
- Geller, Steven The Master's Music: The Dramatic Function of Music in Alfred Hitchcock's Films (1995)
- Kassner, Robin The 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 Blacklisted: Race and Racism in Hip-Hop Criticism (2001)
- Lichtenstein, Robin The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth: The Rise of Geekdom in American Culture(2011)
- Margolin, Brett The Invention of Free Agency and Its Effects on Baseball (2002)
- Podol, Michael The Ash Can School (1990)
- Prisand, A. Amanda Social, 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, Elissa An American Family Album: Evolving Changes of the Family in 20th Century Theater (1994)
- Shapiro, Deborah The Contemporary Significance of American Grandparenthood (1992)
- Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film (2003)
- Tonguch, Inci The Female Body Image in North American Literature (1992)
Education
- Borg, Jonathan Speech on Campus: A Critique of Speech Codes at American Colleges and Universities (1995)
- Finstein, Amy Unlocking Doors to the Past and Future: An Architectural and Social Exploration of the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle (1998)
- Grossman, Ana Ending School Violence: The "Zero Tolerance" Debate in the United States Schools: 1989-Today (2009)
- Haimo, Adam Preserving Academic Standards: An Investigation of What Has Been Done to Maintain the Academic Integrity of Universities and Colleges With "Big-Time" Athletic Programs (1998)
- Jacobs, Ruth The 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)
- Klein, Rebecca H. Analyzing the Failure of Integration in Education Through the Lens of Boston and Atlanta (2012)
- Kolko, Valerie Evolution of College Culture: Brandeis University, A Case Study (2001)
- Paulle, Bowen A Survey of Literature Surrounding Progressive Education in America (1992)
- Prager, Hillary Gender Equity: The Controversy Over Single-Sex Education (1997)
- Wechsler, Deborah The Representation of American Identity in Institutions of Jewish Education in the United States (1991)
Environmental Studies
- Carrier, David Snail Darter, Spotted Owls and the "God Squad": Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (1993)
- Feldman, Joseph Baseball Parks and the American City (1993)
- Hersy, Charles Evolution of Forest Management in New Hampshire: 1900-2000 Toward Ecological and Social Sustainability (2001)
- Lema, Lisette Making the Past the Future: The Cape Cod National Seashore (1998)
- Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film (2003)
- Stracuzzi, Francine The Erie Railroad and Its Effect on a Small Town in America (1992)
Ethnicity and Race
- Alfred, Erna Our Similarites Can Bring Us Together (1997)
- Antonio, Benjamin Integrated Higher Education, Separated Higher Education: Which Is Better for African Americans (1993)
- Berman, Matthew American Sports and the Jew (1991)
- Bogad, Molly Native Voices In Massachusetts: The Misrepresentation of Native American History (1997)
- Brisette, Elizabeth Serbs and Croats Living in the United States: Patterns of Cooperation and Conflict (1994)
- Fish, Amy Forward 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, Ami Diaspora Adaptations: South African and American Jews (1991)
- Klein, Rebecca H. Analyzing the Failure of Integration in Education Through the Lens of Boston and Atlanta (2012)
- Kleinman, Charles Blacklisted: 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, Karen The Model Minority Stereotype: The Cost of the American Dream for Asian Americans (2000)
- Rappaport, Ellen The Community History Forgot: The Jews of Boston's North End, 1890-1915 (1992)
- Rosenbaum, Nancy Jury Justice? A Look at the Scottsboro Case and the Leo Frank Trial (1995)
- Soubousky, SarahAffirmative Action in Universities (2000)
- Wechsler, Deborah The Representation of American Identity in Institutions of Jewish Education in the United States (1991)
Film and Television
- Abidor, Jennifer The WB: Chasing the Teen Demo in a Non-Network Era(2011)
- Berkowsky, Shannon I 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)
- Chiorazzi, Anna The Funny Ladies of of Saturday Night Live: How Women Broke Into the Boys' Club (2011)
- Finn, Meredith Talking About the Talk: Defining and Defending the Daytime Television Talk Show (1996)
- Fishman, Nancy The Acculturation of Japanese Americans as Reflected in Japanese American Literature (1996)
- Geller, Steven The Master's Music: The Dramatic Function of Music in Alfred Hitchcock's Films (1995)
- Jayson, Sherri Exploring 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, Erika Three Hankies and a Bucket of Soggy Popcorn: The Women's Weepie Film and Its Social Implications in the 1930s (1996)
- Kates, Thomas Shooting the Truth: An Exporation of the Meaning of Photographs in Postwar Films (1991)
- Latman, Audrey Rotten Blood: Vampire Films as a Metaphor for AIDS (1994)
- Lightman, Jessica Sesame Street: A Quality Program in a Blasted Medium (1999)
- May, Sarah Family Entertainment: Walt Disney and the 1950s (1995)
- Politano, Seth The Slasher Film: Influences and Reflections on American Culture (2000)
- Riss, Alexander The Greatest Show on Earth: The Simpsonsand America in the '90s (2000)
- Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film (2003)
- Strassfeld, Ben American Independent Cinema: From Low-Budget Roots to Big Hollywood Shoots (2009)
- Teitler, Andrea Orson Welles: Hollywood Maverick (1993)
- Tolksdorf, Paul Conspiracies and Cover-ups: The Portrayal of American Government by Hollywood's Political Thrillers in the 1980s (1994)
- Toth, Gabriela "I'll Be There For You": Friendsas Surrogate Families in Television of the 1990s (2001)
Gender Studies
- Block, Sandra Bewitching Memories (1996)
- Dickerman, Gabrielle The Consequences of a Puritanical Society: Examining Patterns of Teenage Neonaticide in Modern America (1999)
- Jaffe, Jonarose Menarche 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, Robin The Barbie Chronicles: Her Life and Times as a Perpetual Catalyst and Manifestation of the Paradox Facing the Modern American Woman (1998)
- Levine, Beth Seidel Labor Pains: Searching for Peace in a Feminist Movement Divided Over the Virtues of Motherhood and Family (1997)
- Prager, Hillary Gender Equity: The Controversy Over Single-Sex Education (1997)
- Tonguch, Inci The Female Body Image in North American Literature (1992)
Journalism and Media Studies
- Alkon, Cheryl The 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, Hillary Creating 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, Steven Framed? Considering the Alleged Liberal Bias of American Journalists (2000)
- Rosenfeld, Jeffrey Sexual Privacy and Intrusive Newsgathering: Does the Public Have the Right to Know What Happens in the Bedroom? (2001)
- Sheehan, Erin Free Louise: How One Trial Influenced Public Opinion Through the Media (2001)
- Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film (2003)
- Tonguch, Inci The Female Body Image in North American Literature (1992)
- Weber, Harry Media Crisis: A Study of Health Care Coverage in the 1960s and the 1990s (1994)
Legal Studies
- Amato, Michelle Cyberspace and American Law: The Emerging Realities and Challenges of a New World (2002)
- Bakalarz, Jonathan War on Drugs: The Dynamics of Prohibition and Repression in Colombia and the USA (1997)
- Borg, Jonathan Speech on Campus: A Critique of Speech Codes at American Colleges and Universities (1995)
- Carrier, David Snail Darter, Spotted Owls and the "God Squad": Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (1993)
- 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, Jennifer Pornography and Obscenity Regulation: Past, Present and Future (1998)
- Jagolinzer, Charles "Say Your Last Prayer!": Prayer in Public School and American Culture (2000)
- Joseph, Bethany Death 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, Tyler When Main Street Was Wall Street: The Securitization of Commercial Real Estate in the United States (1997)
- Lang, Robert Transfer 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, Steven The 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, Brian Bowers v. Hardwick: An Interdisciplinary Critique (1996)
- Pauleon, Margery Black 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, Rebecca Freedom of Choice? The Dual Victimization of Certain Rape Survivors Seeking Abortions (2001)
- Rosenbaum, Nancy Jury Justice? A Look at the Scottsboro Case and the Leo Frank Trial (1995)
- Schneider, Jesse When "Reasonable Doubt" Becomes Unreasonable: A Legal Guide to the Modern-Day Juror (1995)
- Silverstone, Scott The Burdens of Hate and Free Speech on the Internet (2000)
- Soubousky, Sarah Affirmative Action in Universities (2000)
- Vasquez, Alicia Joy Rehabilitation: Is America Effecting Positive Change? (1997)
- Zak, David An Examination of Massachusetts Landlord-Tenant Law (1998)
Politics, Political Culture and Public Policy
- Abramson, Alana The Dissipation of an American Ideal: Upward Mobility in the Face of Drastic Income Inequality (2012)
- Amato, Michelle Cyberspace and American Law: The Emerging Realities and Challenges of a New World (2002)
- Bakalarz, Jonathan War on Drugs: The Dynamics of Prohibition and Repression in Colombia and the USA (1997)
- Berger, Jenna Women in Combat in the Iraq War: A Profile of the American Female Soldier (2009)
- Block, Sandra Bewitching Memories (1996)
- Davidson, Joshua Taming TB: Obstacles to the Unied States Public-Health Systems' Effort to Control Tuberculosis (1997)
- Dickerman, Gabrielle The Consequences of a Puritanical Society: Examining Patterns of Teenage Neonaticide in Modern America (1999)
- Feldman, Joseph Baseball Parks and the American City (1993)
- Jacobs, Ruth The Substance Survives: The Lasting Contributions of Josephine Clara Goldmark (1997)
- Jeruchimowitz, Howard Anti-Communist Liberalism: The Realistic Approach to Cold War Politics and Civil Liberties (1994)
- Joseph, Bethany Death Is Not the Worst Outcome (1991)
- Kahn, Melissa Warning: 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, Kristopher The 1978 Government Deregulation of the U.S. Airways Was Detrimental to the Efficient Operation of Our Airlines (1994)
- Korn, Tyler When Main Street Was Wall Street: The Securitization of Commercial Real Estate in the United States (1997)
- Lichtman, Steven The Validity of Flag Desecration as a Form of Political Dissent (1990)
- Markowitz, Jeremy When in the Course of Human Events: How the American Renaissance Changed the Meaning of the Declaration of Independence (1996)
- Newman, Staci The Politics of Medicine: The Office of the Surgeon General in American Politics (1999)
- Petterson, Sean Deconstructing Camelot: The Mythos of the Kennedy Presidency(2011)
- Pildis, Sara Reconsidering the Presidency of a Great Leader and Civil Rights Reformer: Lyndon Johnson (1998)
- Rausch, Rebecca Freedom of Choice? The Dual Victimization of Certain Rape Survivors Seeking Abortions (2001)
- Sherman, Melissa Medicare: Insuring Its Longevity (2000)
- Stracuzzi, Francine The Erie Railroad and Its Effect on a Small Town in America (1992)
- Snoyer, Manisha Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film (2003)
- Weiss, Mark On the Brink: American Policy in Vietnam from November 1963 to March 1965 (1995)
- Weitzer, David The Electoral College Method of Electing the President and Vice President and Proposals for Reform (1994)
Religion and Ethics
- Bacon, Karen Animal Rights in the American Experience: A Historical Overview (1994)
- Block, Sandra Bewitching Memories (1996)
- Dickerman, Gabrielle The 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, David Peter Singer and 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 Culture, 1965-1995 (1995)
Youth and Family Culture
- Fish, Amy Forward Movement: Generational Continuity in Work and Education Patterns of American Jewish Women, 1880-1930 (1991)
- Howell, Hillary Creating Generation X: Popular Culture and the "Slacker" Generation (2001)
- Jaffe, Jonarose Menarche 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)
- Lichtenstein, Robin The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth: The Rise of Geekdom in American Culture(2011)
- McWilliams, Helen Safe Sex: How America Normalizes Discourse About Sexual Behavior (2001)
- Poy, Karen The Model Minority Stereotype: The Cost of the American Dream for Asian Americans (2000)
- Shapiro, Deborah The Contemporary Significance of American Grandparenthood (1992)
- Starr, Aviva Family Violence in the United States: Commonalities in Cause, Treatment and Prevention (1991)
- Weitz, Bradley Y outh Gang Violence, 1980-1995: Focus on Broward County, Florida (1995)