Thesis Directory
Here is a sampling of recent theses produced in American Studies.
| Title (Advisers) ▾ | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rude, Crude, and Politically Shrewd: South Park's Satire of Religion, Politics, and Censorship (Doherty) | Zachary Mayer | 2025 |
| The Land That Never Has Been: Agricultural Expressions of Liberty in the Deep South 1730-1860 (Farrelly) | Daniel Block | 2025 |
| Breaking the Ice: An Analysis of Figure Skating and American Culture (Farrelly) | Sami Joy Winawer | 2023 |
| Rewriting the Nation: Dorothy Thompson on Women, Anti-Fascism and American Journalism in the 1930s (Doherty) |
Gavi Klein | 2022 |
| Natural and Economic Highways and Gateways: A History of Rivers, Harbors, and the Power of the Federal Government (Farrelly) | Donald Weiss | 2020 |
| The Coming of Age of American Journalism (Farrelly) | Natalia Wiater | 2020 |
| Revisiting the "Three R's:" Exploring the Effects of Religion, Race, and Regulation on America’s Public School Systems (Farrelly) | Emily Glovin | 2019 |
| Political Influence Before Women’s Suffrage: Insight into a Wider Definition of Political Engagement (Farrelly) | Julianna Scionti | 2019 |
| Serving up opportunity : the economic and social impacts of the Fred Harvey Company on the southwestern United States from 1876 to the present (Farrelly) | Ruaidhri Belfry Crofton | 2018 |
| Smoke! Smoke! Smoke (That Cigarette): How TV Kept the Cigarette Industry Alive in the 1950s (Doherty) | Abigail Patkin | 2018 |
| Fantasy sports:on being a sports fan in digital America (Cohen) | Alex Ellison | 2016 |
| The road from Brown to Concerned Parents: desegregation and public good theory (Breen) | Allie Goodman | 2016 |
| Not just for kids:animation grows up during World War II (Doherty) | Ilana Kruger | 2016 |
| "It's about power": Buffy the Vampire Slayer's stab at establishing the strength of girls on American television (Antler) | Sarah Lemelman | 2016 |
| The Second Vatican Council and the Americanization of Catholicism (Farrelly) | Joseph Lanoi | 2015 |
| Wired America : the social, economic, and legal parallels between the electrical revolution and the information age (Farrelly) | Lassor Feasley | 2014 |
| The dissipation of an American ideal : upward mobility in the face of drastic income inequality (Whitfield) | Alana Abramson | 2012 |
| Analyzing the failure of integration in education through the lens of Boston and Atlanta (Farrelly) | Rebecca Klein | 2012 |
| The WB: Chasing the Teen Demo in a Non-Network Era (Doherty) | Jennifer Abidor | 2011 |
| The Funny Ladies of "Saturday Night Live": How Women Broke Into the Boys' Club (Doherty) | Anne Chiorazzi | 2011 |
| The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth: The Rise of Geekdom in American Culture (Doherty) | Robin Lichtenstein | 2011 |
| Deconstructing Camelot: The Myths of the Kennedy Presidency (Doherty) | Sean Petterson | 2011 |
| Pretty, Provocative, Progressive in Pink: Pink and Its Representation of Femininity (Antler) | Sri Kuehnlenz | 2010 |
| The U.S. Mortgage Market: A Complex Quest for the American Dream (Gaskins) | Stephanie Marshak | 2010 |
| Cheating in Baseball: Reflections on American Culture (Cohen) | Eli Sedransk | 2010 |
| Nixon Go Home: A Study of Inter-American Perspectives on Richard Nixon's 1958 Goodwill Tour of Latin America (Doherty) | Marni Singer | 2010 |
| Every Cinderella Has Her Midnight: Deception in the Screwball Comedies of the Great Depression (Doherty) | Claire Steinman | 2010 |
| Women in Combat in the Iraq War: A Profile of the American Female Soldier (Doherty) | Jenna Berger | 2009 |
| American Independent Cinema: From Low-Budget Roots to Big Hollywood Shoots (Doherty) | Ben Strassfeld | 2009 |
| The Reinvention of the Mikveh (Antler) | Naomi Adland | 2008 |
| The Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942 (Antler) | Rachel Dionne | 2008 |
| America Is Just a Word: Post-Hardcore, Emo and American Culture (Doherty) | Leor Galil | 2008 |
| Foster Children in School Systems (Antler) | Nicole Guertin | 2008 |
| Countercultural Sports in America: The History and Meaning of Ultimate Frisbee (Cohen) | Jordan Holtzman-Conston | 2008 |
| The Wolf and the Lamb: Exploring the Relationship Between Evangelicals and Popular Culture in America | Cindy Kaplan | 2008 |
| Fact or Fiction? An Analysis of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories (Cohen) | Chris McDonough | 2008 |
| The Rise of the Newsjester: The Evolution of 20th Century Political Satire and Its Effects on the American Political Process (Doherty) | David Pepose | 2008 |
| Is AIDS Special? A New Paradigm of Public Health and Individual Rights (Antler) | Leah Berkenwald | 2007 |
| The American Presidency: From Vision to Television (Whitfield) | Raena Davis | 2007 |
| Casting a Reflective Light on History (Cohen) | David Gorman | 2007 |
| Advertising: American Dreams and American Nightmares (Cohen) | Jenifer Libo | 2007 |
| What a Waste! Solid Waste and Consumption in the 21st Century (Donahue) | Lisa Nussbaum | 2007 |
| We Are Not the Only Racists ... But Only We Play Them on TV (Cohen) | Suzanne Carter | 2006 |
| Banned By Binford: Film Censorship, Race and the Law in Memphis, 1915-1965 (Doherty) | Lisa Debin | 2006 |
| Equity in Education in South Carolina: A Promise Unfulfilled Yet Unrelentingly Pursued (Antler) | Dawn Miller | 2006 |
| One Sweet Dream: The Beatles and America, 1964-1967 (Cohen) | Sara Tennebaum | 2006 |
| Television on Trial: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Debate Over Cameras in the Courtroom (Socolow) | Monica Asher | 2005 |
| Attracting Women: The Representation of Woman in Contemporary French and American Magazine Advertising (Socolow) | Rachel Katz | 2005 |
| Bright "Young Things With a Splendid Talent for Life": F. Scott Fitzgerald's Flappers and New Women (Whitfield) | Miriam Lamey | 2005 |
| Rebels Who Found Their Cause: The Cinematic Progression of Youth Rebellion From the 1950s to the 1960s (Whitfield) | Judith Lupatkin | 2005 |
| Opening the "Screen Door," Closing the Pay Gap: Overcoming Barriers of Discrimination to Working Women (Antler) | Nina Schwartz | 2005 |
| The Journalist as a Thinker: A Comprehensive Study of the Work of Thomas L. Friedman (Whitfield) | Samantha Slater | 2005 |
| An Open Door? A Survey of Paradoxes and Tensions in Post-9/11 U.S. Immigration Law and Policy (Gaskins) | Tannewald | 2005 |