Thesis Directory
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* Indicates thesis adviser| Title (Advisers) ▾ | Author | Year |
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The WB: Chasing the Teen Demo in a Non-Network Era (Doherty*, Farrelly, Auslander) |
Abidor, Jennifer | 2011 |
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The Dissipation of an American Ideal: Upward Mobility in the Face of Drastic Income Inequality (Whitfield*, Cohen, Rosenberger) |
Abramson, Alana | 2012 |
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The Reinvention of the Mikveh (Antler*, Farrelly, Sales) |
Adland, Naomi | 2008 |
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Our Similarities Can Bring Us Together (Davis*, Doherty, Fellman) |
Alfred, Erna | 1997 |
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Photog Rising: Embeds, Unilaterals and the Rebirth of American War Photography (Socolow*, Doherty, McIntosh) |
Agran, Hannah | 2004 |
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The Magazine Mystique (Antler*, Buresh, Jones) |
Alkon, Cheryl | 1992 |
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Cyberspace and American Law: The Emerging Realities and Challenges of a New World (Cohen*, Stookey, Woll) |
Amato, Michelle | 2002 |
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Integrated High Education / Separated Higher Education: Which Is Better for African Americans? (Cohen*) |
Antonio, Benjamin | 1993 |
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Television on Trial: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Debate Over Cameras in the Courtroom (Socolow*, Whitfield, Harder) |
Asher, Monica | 2005 |
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Animal Rights in the American Experience: A Historical Overview (Warner*, Stookey, Jones) |
Bacon, Karen | 1994 |
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War on Drugs: The Dynamics of Prohibition and Repression in Colombia and the USA (Davis*, Cohen, Mandrell) |
Bakalarz, Jonathan | 1997 |
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Women in Combat in the Iraq War: A Profile of the American Female Soldier (Doherty*, Farrelly, Schattschneider) |
Berger, Jenna A. | 2009 |
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Is AIDS Special? A New Paradigm of Public Health and Individual Rights (Antler*, Cohen, Cadge) |
Berkenwald, Leah | 2007 |
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I Want My Gay TV: The Ups and Downs of Homosexuality on Television and in American Culture (Doherty*, Cohen, Perez) |
Berkowsky, Shannon | 2001 |
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American Sports in the Jewish Community (Fuchs*, Cohen, Reisman) |
Berman, Matthew | 1991 |
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Robert Mapplethorpe and the Curse of Obscenity: A Lesson in American Diversity (Fuchs*, Abramson, Whitfield) |
Berman, Todd | 1991 |
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The Mob Film: Defining and Interpreting an American Genre (Doherty*, Cohen, Burt) |
Bernard, Catherine | 2001 |
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The Roswell Incident: The Emergence of the UFO Community as a Subculture in American Society (Cohen*, Biel, Saler) |
Blann, Richard | 1998 |
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Finding Hospice: Florence Schorske Wald (Antler*, Cohen, Hansen) |
Block, Dorian E. | 2004 |
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Bewitching Memories (Cohen*, Davis, Morant) |
Block, Sandra | 1996 |
| Native Voice in Massachusetts: The Misrepresentation of Native Americans (Antler*, Biel, Scott) | Bogad, Molly | 1997 |
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Speech on Campus: A Critique of Speech Codes at American Colleges and Universities (Davis*, Gaskins, Milkis) |
Borg, Jonathan | 1995 |
| Serbs and Croats Living in the United States: Patterns of Cooperation and Conflict (Fuchs*, Cohen, Burg) | Brisette, Elizabeth | 1994 |
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Snail Darter, Spotted Owls and the "God Squad": Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (Warner*, Klein) |
Carrier, David | 1993 |
| We Are Not the Only Racists ... But Only We Play Them on TV (Cohen*, Doherty) | Carter, Suzanne | 2006 |
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You Can't Print That: Censorship and the Student Press (Davis*, Moeller, Teuber) |
Chilnick, Susanna | 1999 |
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The Funny Ladies of "Saturday Night Live": How Women Broke Into the Boys' Club (Doherty*, Antler, Mandell) |
Chiorazzi, Anne | 2011 |
| Taming TB: Obstacles to the United States Public-Health System's Effort to Control Tuberculosis (Stookey*, Cohen, Timmerman) | Davidson, Joshua | 1997 |
| The American Presidency: From Vision to Television (Whitfield*, Davé, Levin, Kryder) | Davis, Raena | 2007 |
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Banned By Binford: Film Censorship, Race and the Law in Memphis, 1915-1965 (Doherty*, Gaskins) |
Debin, Lisa | 2006 |
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The Consequences of a Puritanical Society: Examining Patterns of Teenage Neonaticide in Modern American (Antler*, Davis, Gil) |
Dickerman, Gabrielle | 1999 |
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The Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942 (Antler*, Doherty, McNamara) |
Dionne, Rachael | 2008 |
| Women in the Ordained Methodist Ministry, 1956-1995 (Brooten*, Doherty, Whitfield) | Eaton, Mary Jane | 1999 |
| The Evolution of Massachusetts Rape Law From Colonial Times to the Present (Davis*, Fuchs, Kamensky) | Feldberg, Cara | 1999 |
| Baseball Parks and the American City (Warner*, Cohen) | Feldman, Joseph | 1993 |
| Talking About the Talk: Defining and Defending the Daytime Television Talk Show (Doherty*, Davis, Burt) | Finn, Meredith |
1996 |
| Unlocking Doors to the Past and Future: An Architectural and Social Exploration of the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle (Antler*, Davis, Bernstein) | Finstein, Amy | 1998 |
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Forward Movement: Generational Continuity in Work and Education Patterns of American Jewish Women, 1880-1930 (Antler*, Cohen, Fishman) |
Fish, Amy | 1991 |
| The Acculturation of Japanese Americans as Reflected in Japanese American Literature (Fuchs*, Davis, Harth) | Fishman, Nancy | 1996 |
| A Broad and Changing Landscape: The Visual Arts and the American Experience (Antler*, Cohen) | Freedman, Jody | 1990 |
| America Is Just a Word: Post-Hardcore, Emo and American Culture (Doherty*, Cohen, Cunningham) | Galil, Leor | 2008 |
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The Master's Music: The Dramatic Function of Music in Alfred Hitchcock's Films (Doherty*, Whitfield, Chasalow) |
Geller, Steven | 1995 |
| Casting a Reflective Light on History (Cohen*, Whitfield, Ravid) | Gorman, David | 2007 |
| Ending School Violence: The "Zero Tolerance" Debate in United States Schools, 1989-Today (Cohen*, Davé, Levenson) | Grossman, Ana L.C. | 2009 |
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Pornography and Obscenity Regulation: Past, Present and Future (Davis*, Gaskins, Woll) |
Gruda, Jennifer | 1998 |
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Foster Children in School Systems (Antler*, Cohen, Levenson) |
Guertin, Nicole | 2008 |
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Preserving Academic Standards: An Investigation of What Has Been Done to Maintain the Academic Integrity of Universities and Colleges With "Big-Time" Athletic Programs (Cohen*, Jeff Cohen, Davis) |
Haimo, Adam | 1998 |
| From Boots to Baldo: A Century of American Adolescents and Comic Strips (Antler*, Moeller, Allara) | Heine, Sarah | 2001 |
| Evolution of Forest Management in New Hampshire, 1900-2000, Toward Ecological and Social Sustainability (Donahue*, Gaskins, A. Klein) | Hersey, Charles | 2001 |
| Countercultural Sports in America: The History and Meaning of Ultimate Frisbee (Cohen*, Farrelly, Woll) | Holtzman-Conston, Jordan | 2008 |
| Creating Generation X: Popular Culture and the "Slacker" Generation (Doherty*, Cohen, Allara) | Howell, Hillary | 2001 |
| The Substance Survives: The Lasting Contributions of Josephine Clara Goldmark (Antler*, Gaskins, Hansen) | Jacobs, Ruth | 1997 |
| Menarche Butterflies: Young Women and the Cultural (In)Significance of Menstruation (Antler*, Davis, Doress-Worters) | Jaffe, JonaRose | 1999 |
| Between Reel and Real: Television Sitcoms and Women's Roles in the American Family (Antler*, Socolow, Miller) | Jaffe, Marisa | 2004 |
| Say Your Last Prayer! Prayer in Public School and American Culture (Davis*, Gaskins, Polonsky) | Jagolinzer, Charles | 2000 |
| Exploring the New Genre of Women's Films (Antler*, Doherty, Hansen) | Jayson, Sherri | 1996 |
| Anti-Communist Liberalism: The Realistic Approach to Cold War Politics and Civil Liberties (Doherty*, Abramson, Brown, Cohen); combined with politics department | Jeruchimowitz, Howard | 1994 |
| Death Is Not the Worst Outcome (Antler*, Conrad, Stookey) | Joseph, Bethany | 1991 |
| Warning: Cigarettes Are Also Hazardous to the Health of Nonsmokers (Davis*, Doherty, Parmentier) | Kahn, Melissa | 1999 |
| Newsreels to Real News: The Birth of Moving-Image Journalism in the 1930s (Doherty*, Socolow, Miller) | Kamine, Elida | 2003 |
| Reshaping the Rabbinate: An Exploration of Female Rabbis' Experiences Balancing Religious Lives With Family and Personal Lives (Antler*, Cohen, Freeze) | Kander, Beth | 2003 |
| The Wolf and the Lamb: Exploring the Relationship Between Evangelicals and Popular Culture in America (Farrelly*, Whitfield, Cadge) | Kaplan, Cindy | 2008 |
| Three Hankies and a Bucket of Soggy Popcorn: The Women's Weepie Film and Its Social Implications in the 1930s (Doherty*, Antler, Jones) | Karnell, Erika | 1996 |
| Diaspora Adaptations: South African and American Jews (Fuchs*, Cohen, Sarna) | Kassar, Ami | 1991 |
| The Barbie Chronicles: Her Life and Times as a Perpetual Catalyst and Manifestation of the Paradox Facing the Modern American Woman (Antler*, Cohen, Dibble) | Kassner, Robin | 1998 |
| Shooting the Truth: An Exploration of the Meaning of Photographs in Postwar Films (Whitfield*, Doherty, Teuber) | Kates, Thomas | 1991 |
| Attracting Women: The Representation of Woman in Contemporary French and American Magazine Advertising (Socolow*, Whitfield, Harder) | Katz, Rachel | 2005 |
| Peter Singer and the Conscience of America (Cohen*, Gaskins, Wong) | Keusch, David | 2000 |
| Analyzing the Failure of Integration in Education Through the Lens of Boston and Atlanta (Farrelly*, Antler, Levenson) | Klein, Rebecca | 2012 |
| Blacklisted: Race and Racism in Hip-Hop Criticism (Doherty* Cohen, Cunningham) | Kleinman, Charles | 2001 |
| 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 (Cohen*, Davis, Woll) | Klugman, Ashley H. | 2003 |
| Identity, Politics and the Post-Civil Rights Black Novel (Cohen*, Antler, Burt) | Klugman, Nadav | 2004 |
| The 1978 Government Deregulation of the U.S. Airways Was Detrimental to the Efficient Operation of Our Airlines (Davis*, Melnick, Stookey) | Kobin, Kristopher | 1994 |
| Evolution of College Culture: Brandeis University, A Case Study (Antler*, Cohen, K.Klein) | Kolko, Valerie | 2001 |
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When Main Street Was Wall Street: The Securitization of Commercial Real Estate in the United States (Davis*, Gaskins, Ross) |
Korn, Tyler | 1997 |
| Pretty, Provocative, Progressive in Pink: Pink and Its Representation of Femininity (Antler*, Davé, Hansen) | Kuehnlenz, Sri | 2010 |
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Bright "Young Things With a Splendid Talent for Life": F. Scott Fitzgerald's Flappers and New Women (Whitfield*, Dave, Morrison) |
Lamey, Miriam | 2005 |
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Transfer Taken Too Far: The Juvenile Justice System and Its Adjudication of American Children Who Murder (Davis*, Cohen, Hayim) |
Lang, Robert | 1999 |
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Rotten Blood: Vampire Films as a Metaphor for AIDS (Doherty*, Conrad, Cohen) |
Latman, Audrey | 1994 |
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HIV in the Criminal Courts: An American Response to Disease (Gaskins*, Davis, Conrad) |
Lederer, Caryn | 2000 |
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Making the Past the Future: The Cape Cod National Seashore (Davis*, Biel, Teuber) |
Lema, Lisette | 1998 |
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Labor Pains: Searching for Peace in a Feminist Movement Divided Over the Virtues of Motherhood and Family (Cohen*, Lamb, Fuchs) |
Levine, Beth Seidel | 1997 |
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Advertising: American Dreams and American Nightmares (Cohen*, Farrelly, Miller) |
Libo, Jennifer | 2007 |
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The Validity of Flag Desecration as a Form of Political Dissent (Touster*, Abramson, Teuber) |
Lichtman, Steven | 1990 |
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Sesame Street: A Quality Program in a Blasted Medium (Doherty*, Moeller, Allara) |
Lightman, Jessica | 1999 |
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The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth: The Rise of Geekdom in American Culture (Doherty*, Farrelly, Holmberg) |
Lichtenstein, Robin | 2011 |
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Rebels Who Found Their Cause: The Cinematic Progression of Youth Rebellion From the 1950s to the 1960s (Whitfield*, Doherty, McIntosh) |
Lupatkin, Judith | 2005 |
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The Invention of Free Agency and Its Effects on Baseball (Socolow*, Cohen, Jaffe) |
Margolin, Brett | 1994 |
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Counterculture Journalism: The Legacy of the Berkeley Barb (Socolow*, Cohen, Miller) |
Marguilies, Elana | 2004 |
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When in the Course of Human Events: How the American Renaissance Changed the Meaning of the Declaration of Independence (Davis*, Fuchs, Milkis) |
Markowitz, Jeremy | 1996 |
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The U.S. Mortgage Market: A Complex Quest for the American Dream (Gaskins*, Cohen, Bayone) |
Marshak, Stephanie | 2010 |
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Family Entertainment: Walt Disney and the 1950s (Doherty*, Whitfield, Mandrell) |
May, Sarah | 1995 |
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Fact or Fiction? An Analysis of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories (Cohen*, Gaskins, Schrecker) |
McDonough, Christopher | 2008 |
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Safe Sex: How America Normalizes Discourse About Sexual Behavior (Doherty*, Antler, Mandrell) |
McWilliams, Helen | 2001 |
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Equity in Education in South Carolina: A Promise Unfulfilled Yet Unrelentingly Pursued (Antler*, Gaskins, Cohen) |
Miller, Dawn | 2006 |
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Bowers v. Hardwick: An Interdisciplinary Critique (Davis*, Gaskins, King) |
Morrison, Brian | 1996 |
| The Politics of Medicine: The Office of the Surgeon General in American Politics (Cohen*, Stookey, Woll) | Newman, Staci | 1999 |
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What a Waste! Solid Waste and Consumption in the 21st Century (Donahue*, Goldin, Miller) |
Nussbaum, Lisa | 2007 |
| Black Inheritance: An Analysis of African-American Reparations (Cohen*, Stookey, Bryant) | Pauleon, Margery | 1999 |
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A Survey of Literature Surrounding Progressive Education in America (Cohen*, Doherty, Witt) |
Paulle, Bowen | 1992 |
| Freedom and Security: A Survey of the Civil-Liberties Debate in Post-9/11 America (Cohen*, Gaskins, Woll) | Pearlman, David A. | 2004 |
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The Rise of the Newsjester: The Evolution of 20th Century Political Satire and Its Effects on the American Political Process (Doherty*, Farrelly, McNamara) |
Pepose, David | 2008 |
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Deconstructing Camelot: The Myths of the Kennedy Presidency (Doherty*, Cohen, Fischer) |
Petterson, Sean | 2011 |
| Reconsidering the Presidency of a Great Leader and Civil Rights Reformer: Lyndon Johnson (Gaskins*, Cohen, Milkis, Nelson) | Pildis, Sara | 1998 |
| The Slasher Film: Influences and Reflections on American Culture (Doherty*, Donahue, Quinney) | Politano, Seth | 2000 |
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Registration and Community Notification: An Analysis of the Legal and Practical Implications Associated With Their Application (Davis*, Gaskins, Teuber) |
Posner, Amy | 2001 |
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The Model Minority Stereotype: The Cost of the American Dream for Asian Americans (Davis*, Fuchs, Lamb) |
Poy, Karen | 2000 |
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Gender Equity: The Controversy Over Single-Sex Education (Davis*, Antler, Giele) |
Prager, Hillary | 1997 |
| Social, Personal and Political Commentary in American Art During the Depression (Davis*, Moeller, Scott) | Prisand, A. Amanda | 1997 |
| Framed? Considering the Alleged Liberal Bias of American Journalists (Whitfield*, Fuchs, Abramson) | Rabin, Steven | 2000 |
| The Community History Forgot: The Jews of Boston's North End, 1890-1915 (Fuchs*, Sarna, Jones, Warner, Keller) | Rappaport, Ellen | 1992 |
| Freedom of Choice? The Dual Victimization of Certain Rape Survivors Seeking Abortions (Davis*, Stookey, Reinharz) | Rausch, Rebecca |
2001 |
| Staggerlee's Revenge: A History and Critical Investigation of the Ideas in Rap Music (Cohen*, Klein, Woll) | Richman, Eric | 1994 |
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Simpsons and America in the '90s (Doherty*, Donahue, Allara) |
Riss, Alexander | 2000 |
| Jury Justice? A Look at the Scottsboro Case and the Leo Frank Trial (Gaskins*, Cohen, Woll) | Rosenbaum, Nancy | 1995 |
| Sexual Privacy and Intrusive News-Gathering: Does the Public Have the Right to Know What Happens in the Bedroom? (Gaskins*, Cohen, Timmerman) | Rosenfeld, Jeffrey | 2001 |
| An American Family Album: Evolving Changes of the Family in 20th-Century Theater (Fuchs*, Dimock) | Schechter, Elissa | 1994 |
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When "Reasonable Doubt" Becomes Unreasonable: A Legal Guide to the Modern-Day Juror (Cohen*, Teuber, Gaskins) |
Schneider, Jesse | 1995 |
| Opening the "Screen Door," Closing the Pay Gap: Overcoming Barriers of Discrimination to Working Women (Antler*, Gaskins, Carter) | Schwartz, Nina | 2005 |
| Cheating in Baseball: Reflections on American Culture (Cohen*, Donhaue, Terris) | Sedransk, Eli | 2010 |
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Free Louise: How One Trial Influenced Public Opinion Through the Media (Cohen*, Moeller, Woll) |
Sheehan, Erin | 2001 |
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The Contemporary Significance of American Grandparenthood (Fuchs*, Cohen, Conrad) |
Shapiro, Deborah | 1992 |
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The Four-Legged Stool (Fuchs*, Antler, Hollifield) |
Shapiro, Jonathan | 1991 |
| Medicare: Insuring Its Longevity (Cohen*, Stookey, Woll) | Sherman, Melissa | 2000 |
| The Burdens of Hate and Free Speech on the Internet (Davis*, Stookey, Jacobson) | Silverstone, Scott | 2000 |
| Nixon Go Home: A Study of Inter-American Perspectives on Richard Nixon's 1958 Goodwill Tour of Latin America (Doherty*, Whitfield, Mandrell) | Singer, Marni | 2010 |
| The Journalist as a Thinker: A Comprehensive Study of the Work of Thomas L. Friedman (Whitfield*, Socolow, Brown) | Slater, Samantha | 2005 |
| Greening Hollywood: The Ecological Social Problem Film (Doherty*, Donahue, Engerman) | Snoyer, Manisha | 2003 |
| Affirmative Action in Universities (Cohen*, Antler, Traver) | Soubousky, Sarah | 2000 |
| Family Violence in the United States: Commonalities in Cause, Treatment and Prevention (Antler*, Gil, Stookey) | Starr, Aviva | 1991 |
| Every Cinderella Has Her Midnight: Deception in the Screwball Comedies of the Great Depression (Doherty*, Whitfield, Siomopoulos) | Steinman, Claire | 2010 |
| A Time For Change (Antler*, Reihnart, Stookey) | Stone, David | 1992 |
| The Erie Railroad and Its Effect on a Small Town in America (Warner*, Cohen, Woll) | Stracuzzi, Francine | 1992 |
| American Independent Cinema: From Low-Budget Roots to Big Hollywood Shoots (Doherty*, Whitfield, Auslander) | Strassfeld, Ben | 2009 |
| Henrietta Szold: Portrayal Through a Gendered Lens (Antler*, Cohen, Lanser) | Sussman, Shayna | 2004 |
| An Open Door? A Survey of Paradoxes and Tensions in Post-9/11 U.S. Immigration Law and Policy (Gaskins*, Dave, Kryder) | Tannenwald, Alan | 2005 |
| Orson Welles: Hollywood Maverick (Whitfield*, Allara, Doherty) | Teitler, Andrea | 1993 |
| One Sweet Dream: The Beatles and America, 1964-1967 (Cohen*, Whitfield) | Tennebaum, Sara | 2006 |
| Conspiracies and Cover-ups: The Portrayal of American Government by Hollywood's Political Thrillers in the 1980s (Moeller*, Allara, Davis) | Tolksdorf, Paul | 1994 |
| The Female Body Image in North American Literature (Antler*, Allara, Doherty) | Tonguch, Inci | 1992 |
| I'll Be There For You: Friends as Surrogate Families in Television of the 1990s (Antler*, Davis, Irr) | Toth, Gabriela | 2001 |
| Rehabilitation: Is America Effecting Positive Change? (Gaskins*, Davis, Fellman) | Vasquez, Alicia Joy | 1997 |
| Media Crisis: A Study of Health-Care Coverage in the 1960s and the 1990s (Moeller*, Stookey) | Weber, Harry | 1994 |
| The Representation of American Identity in Institutions of Jewish Education in the United States (Antler*, Fuchs, Reimer) | Wechsler, Deborah | 1991 |
| On the Brink: American Policy in Vietnam From November 1963 to March 1965 (Cohen*, Doherty, Schrecker) | Weiss, Mark | 1995 |
| Youth Gang Violence, 1980-1995: Focus on Broward County, Florida (Davis*, Cohen, Fellman) | Weitz, Bradley | 1995 |
| The Electoral College Method of Electing the President and Vice President, and Proposals for Reform (Fuchs*, Woll, Melnick, Cohen) | Weitzer, David | 1994 |
| The Dead Live On: New Meaning for Family, Community and Religion in American Culture, 1965-1995 (Cohen*, Doherty, Stein) | Wilgoren, Rachel | 1995 |
| The Mediation Alternative: American Law and Conflict Resolution (Cohen*, Davé, Terris) | Zack, Maayan | 1997 |
| An Examination of Massachusetts Landlord-Tenant Law (Biel*, Cohen, Woll) | Zak, David | 1998 |