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2007

Carter, Brenda. Dreams of Recognition, Fantasies of Revenge: Work and Workers in Late Twentieth Century American Mass Culture. (Michael Denning, Advisore)

Clytus, Radiclanni. Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual. (Paul Gilroy, Wai Chee Dimock, Advisors)

Greif, Mark. The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction at Mid-Century, 1939-1966. (Jean-Christophe Agnew, Wai Chee Dimock, Advisors)

Isaacs Jackson, Mandi. Demonstration City: Urban Renewal and Organized Resistance in the 'New" New Haven. (Michael Denning, Advisor)

Jones, Dalton. Black Market: Louis Armstrong and the Primitive Accumulation of Desire. (Michael Denning, Advisor)

Maier, Brennan. Tell It Like It Is, Baby: The Intersection of Culture and Democracy in Ralph Ellison. (Robert Stepto, Advisor)

Pulley Hudson, Angel. Reading Between the Lines: Creeks, Slaves, and Settlers on the Borders of the U.S. South, 1790s-1820s. (John Mack Faragher, Advisor)

Reading, Amy. Courting Inauthenticity: Deception and Revelation in American Autobiography. Jean-Christophe Agnew, Advisor)

Whalen, Catherine. The Alchemy of Collecting: Material Narratives of Early America, 1890-1940. Edward Cooke, Jr., Advisor)

2006

Anderson, Tonnia  Photographing the Race: The Cultural Politics of Race, Memory, and Meaning in the Photography of Richard S. Roberts, 1920-1936. (Alan Trachtenberg, Advisor)

Bernard, Louise  National Maladies: Narratives of Race and Madness in Modern American (Paul Gilroy, Advisor)

Brown, Kimberly  The Repeating Body: Literary and Visual Reiterations of Black Feminine Strength (Robert Stepto, Advisor)

Donegan, Kathleen  Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and the Writing of Settlement in Colonial America  (John Demos, Advisor)

Lawrence, Jeanne  From High-Class Goods to Bargain Basements: Department Stores, Urban Life and Labor in Chicago and Glasgow, 1880-1930  (Nancy Cott, Advisor)

Lewinnek, M. Elaine  Inventing Suburbia: Working-Class Suburbanization in Chicago, 1865-1919  (Jean-Christophe Agnew, Advisor)

Rodriguez, Besenia  Beyond Nation:The Formation of a Tricontinental  Discourse  (Matthew Jacobson, Advisor)

Roseman, Rachel  Between the Country House and the Kitchenette: Literary Excavations of Space and Self in the Work of Henry James and Gwendolyn Brooks  (Hazel Carby, Advisor)

Willis, Roxanne  Making Alaska American” Environment and Development in a Foreign Land  (John Mack Faragher, Advisor)

Zipp, Samuel  Manhattan Projects: Cold War Urbanism in the Age of Urban Renewal  (Jean-Christophe Agnew, Advisor)

2005

Bernstein, Robin Racial Innocence: White Supremacy and the Performance of Childhood. (Joseph Roach, Laura Wexler, Advisor)

Lafargue, Ferentz The Survivor Figure in the Fiction of Slavery: An Exploration of Octavia Butler's Kindred; Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba Sorciere Noire de Salem; J. California Cooper's Family; and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts. (Christopher Miller, Advisor)

Lane Chet, Carrie What I'm Worth: White-Collar Unemployment in a New Economy (Kathryn Dudley, Advisor)

Sachs, Aaron The Humboldt Current: Avant-Garde Exploration and Environmental Thought in 19th-Century America. (John Mack Faragher, Advisor)

Smyth, Jennifer American Cavalcade: Classical Hollywood's Filmic Writing of American History, 1928-1942. (Dudley Andrew, Charles Musser, Advisors)

Stirk, David observatory and Labyrinth: Central Park and
Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. (Alan Trachtenberg, Advisor)

2004

Cohen, Michael The Conspiracy of Capital: American Popular Radicalism and the Politics of Conspiracy from Haymarket to the Red Scare. (Michael Denning, Advisor)

Garcia, Jay Psychology Comes to Harlem: Race, Intellectuals, and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S. (Jean-Christophe Agnew, Advisor)

Hamlin, Françoise The Book Hasn't Closed, The Story Isn't Finished: Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement. (Glenda Gilmore, Hazel Carby, Advisors).

Kosek, Joseph Kip Spectacles of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and the Transformation of American Democracy, 1914-1956. (Jean-Christophe
Agnew, Advisor)

Nickerson, Michelle Women, Gender and Conservatism in Cold War Los Angeles, 1945-1966. (John Mack Faragher, Advisor)

Nyong'o, Tavia Uncommon Memory: The Performance of Amalgamation in Early Black Political Culture. (Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, Advisors)

2003

Cardyn, Lisa Sexualized Racism/Gendered Violence: Trauma and the Body Politic in the Reconstruction South. (Nancy Cott, Advisor).

Foy, Anthony The Dark Brotherhood: Autobiography, Ideology, Masculinity, Blackness. (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

Hughes, Deboroh Revising the American Picture Gallery: Gender, Race and Popular Visual Culture. (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

Liu, Michell Acting Out: Asian Images and the Performance of American Identities, 1898-1945. (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

Raiford, Leigh Imprisioned in a Luminous Glare: History, Memory, and the Photography of Twentieth Century African American Social Movements. (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

Robinson Whitted, Qiana African-American Literature and the Crisis of Faith. (Robert Stepto, Advisor).

Swinehart, Kirk This Wild Place: Sir William Johnson Among the Mohawks, 1715-1783. (John Demos, Advisor).

Wooten, James Regulating the 'Unseen Revolution': A Political History of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. (Stephen Skowronek, Advisor).

2002

Mutchler, Jack C. Community of Conflict: Work Nature, and Wilderness; Ranching on the Diamond Bar, 1897-1997. (John Mack Faragher, Advisor).

William, Heather Andrea. Self-Taught: The Role of African Americans in Educating the Freedpeople, 1861-1871. (Glenda Gilmore, Advisor).

2001

Brooks, Lori. The Negro in the New World: the Cultural Politics of Race, Nation and Empire, 1885-1911. (Hazel Carby and Jean Agnew, Advisors).

Drew, Bettina. Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery (John Mack Faragher, Advisor).

Entin, Joseph. Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic Astonishment in Modern American Literature and Photography (Michael Denning, Advisor).

Lewis, Andrew. The Curious and the Learned: Natural History in the Early American Republic (John Mack Faragher and Jon Butler, Advisors).

Perkinson, Robert. The Birth of the Texas Prison Empire, 1865-1915 (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

Brown, Jayna Jennifer. Babylon Girls: African American Women Performers and the Making of the Modern. (Hazel Carby, Paul Gilroy, Advisors).

Cumberbatch, Prudence Denise. Working for the Race: The Transformation of the Civil Rights Struggle in Baltimore, 1929-1945. (David Montgomery, Advisor).

Greeson, Jennifer Rae. The Figure of the South and the Imagination of Nation in the United States. (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

McGill, Lisa Diane. Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation. (Hazel Carby, Advisor).

Parisier, Nicole Heidi. Novel Work: Theater and Journalism in the Writing of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. (Jean-Christophe Agnew, Advisor).

Saul, Scott Andrew. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties. (Michael Denning, Advisor).

Thomas, Karin Michele. Traveling Eyes: African American Travelers Create a World, 1789-1930. (Alan Trachtenberg, Advisor).

Tomasic, Veronica Maria. To Own Their Rooms: Representations of the Inner Life in an Age of Transition, Late Thirties to Early Fifties. (Alan Trachtenberg, Advisor).

Walsh, Brendan Michael. A New World Proletariat: Expropriation, Transience, and Redemption in Twentieth-Century U.S. Narrative. (Michael Denning, Advisor).

2000

Brown, Elspeth. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Culture, 1884-1929. (Advisor: Nancy Cott).

Clark, Kathleen. History is No Fossil Remains: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Memory in the American South, 1863-1913. (Advisor: Nancy Cott).

Crawford, Margo. Transcendence Versus the Embodiment of Racial Abstraction in Novels by William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and John Edgar Wideman. (Advisor: Robert Stepto and Margaret Homans).

Thurner, Manuela. Girlkulture and Kulturfeminismus: Gender and Americanism in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933. (Advisor: Nancy Cott).

Hardwick, Mark Jeffrey. Creating a Consumer’s Century: Urbanism and Architect Victor Gruen, 1938-1968. (Advisor: Jean-Christophe Agnew).

Monti, Gloria Silvana. This Ain’t You, Girl!: Performing Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood. (Michael Denning, Advisor).

Schreiber, Rebecca. The Cold War Culture of Political Exile: U.S. Writers and Artists in Mexico, 1940-1965. (Advisor: Michael Denning).

Utz, John. The Ugly Truth: Mystery, Fear and Manhood in the Age of Realism. (Advisor: Alan Tractenberg).

1999

Corman, Catherine. Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1824-1835.

Edwards, Brian. Morocco Bound: U.S. Representations of North Africa. 1920-1998.

Ehrhardt, Julia. ‘A taper in the imagination that never goes out’: Women, Regionalism, and the Profession of Authorship in America, 1900-1952.

Goldsby, Jacqueline. After Great Pain: The Cultural Logic of Lynching and the Problem of Realist Representation in America, 1882-1922.

González Monzón, Gaspar. Barnstorming American Culture: Traveling Entertainment as Work and Performance.

Gudis, Catherine. The Road to Consumption: Outdoor Advertising and the American Cultural Landscape, 1917-1965

Guilbert, Juliette. Rewriting the Republic: American Women’s Historical Fiction, 1824-1869.

Moskowitz, Marina. Standard Bearers: American Material Culture and Middle-Class Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.

Rotskoff, Lori E. Sober Husbands and Supportive Wives: Gendered Cultures of Drink and Sobriety in Twentieth-Century America, 1910-1965.

Stauffer, John. The Black Hearts of Men: Race, Religion, and Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America.

Stephens, Michelle Ann. Black Empire: The Making of Black Transnationalism by West Indians in the United States.

Travis, Trish. Reading Matters: Book Men, ‘Serious’ Readers, and the Rise of Mass Culture, 1930-1960.

Weiner, Mark. Race, Citizenship and Culture in American Law: Ethno-Judicial Discourse from Crow Dog to Brown v. Board of Education.

Young, Cynthia. Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Formation of a US Third World Left.

1998

Applegate, Deborah. The Culture of the Novel and the Consolidation of Middle-Class Consciousness: Henry Ward Beecher and the Uses of Sympathy, 1830-1880 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Bernard, Emily. Black Anxiety, White Influence: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance (Director: R Stepto)

Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Musicals, Travel Narratives, and Middlebrow Culture in Postwar America (Director: M Denning)

Marr, Timothy. Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientation in America from Puritans to Melville (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Newman, Kathleen. Critical Mass: Advertising, Audiences and Consumer Activism in the Age of Radio (Director: M Denning)

Saltz, Laura. Disappearing Women: Gender and Vision in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Photographs (Director: B Wolf)

Shukla, Sandhaya. India Abroad: Transnational Ethnic Cultures in the United States and Britain (Director: JC Agnew)

Weiner, Mark. Race, Citizenship and Culture in American Law, 1883-1954: Ethno-Juridical Discourse from "Crow Dog" to Brown v. Board of Education (Director: JC Agnew)

1997

Allen, Holly. Fallen Women and Forgotten Men: Gendered Concepts of Community, Home and Nation, 1932-1945 (Director: NF Cott)

Lester, Jody. Power and Marginality: The Politics of Writing about Black and/or Lesbian Identity (Director: HV Carby)

McFadden, Margaret. Anything Goes: Gender and Knowledge in the Comic Popular Culture of the 1930s (Director: NF Cott)

Rice, Stephen. Minding the Machine: Language of Class and Early Industrial America, 1820-1860 (Director: J Butler)

1996

Berger, Martin. Determining Manhood: Constructions of Sexuality in the Art of Thomas Eakins (Director: J Prown)

Conolly-Smith, Peter. The Translated Community: New York City's German-Language Press as an Agent of Cultural Resistance and Integration, 1910-1918 (Director: JC Agnew)

Dirks, Jacqueline. Righteous Goods: Women's Production, Reform Publicity and the National Consumers' League, 1891-1919 (Director: NF Cott)

Levy, Anne Shullenberger. America Discovered a Second Time: French Perceptions of American Notions of Time from Tocqueville to Labouyale (Director: DB Davis)

McAlister, Elizabeth. "Men Moun Yo;" "Here Are the People:" Rara Festivals and Transnational Popular Culture in Haiti and New York City (Directors: J Butler and HV Carby)

Phillips, David. Art for Industry's Sake: Halftone Technology, Mass Photography and the Social Transformation of American Print Culture, 1880-1920 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Rony, Dorothy B. Fujita. "You Got to Move Like Hell": Trans-Pacific Colonialism and Filipina/o Seattle, 1919-1941 (Director: D Montgomery)

Rubin, Rachel. Reading, Writing and the Rackets: Jewish Gangsters in Interior Russian and American Narrative (Directors: K Clark and M Denning)

Singh, Nikhil. 'Race' and Nation in the American Century: A Genealogy of Color and Democracy (Director: M Denning)

Smith, Suzanne. "Dancing in the Streets": Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, 1963-1973 (Director: HV Carby)

Uriarte, Mercedes de. Crossed Wires: Origins, Evolution and Agenda in U.S. Newspaper Construction of Outside "Others"--the Case of Latinos (Director: K Erikson)

White, Elizabeth. Sentimental Enterprise: Sentiments and Profit in American Market Culture (Director: JC Agnew)

1995

Belgrad, Daniel. The Social Meaning of Spontaneity in American Literature, 1940-1960 (Director: JC Agnew)

Cleghorn, Cassandra. Bartleby's Benefactors: Toward a Literary History of Charity in the Antebellum South (Director: R Brodhead)

Gilmartin, Katie. The Very House of Difference: Intersections of Identities in the Life Histories of Colorado Lesbians, 1940-1995 (Director: NF Cott)

Green, Amy. Savage Childhood: The Scientific Construction of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era (Director: W Cronon)

Filene, Benjamin. Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Vernacular Music in the Twentieth Century (Director: RB Stepto)

Lassonde, Stephen. Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class (Director: J Demos)

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War (Director: J Demos)

Rotella, Carlo. October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Director: RB Stepto)

Swinth, Kristen. Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of a Professional Ideal in American Art, 1870-1920 (Director: NF Cott)

Townsend, Gretchen. Protestant Material Culture and Community in Connecticut, 1785-1854 (Director: J Butler)

1994

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian: Otherness and Authenticity in the Assumption of American Indian Identity (Director: H Lamar)

Gedge, Karin. Without Benefit of Clergy: Women in the Pastoral Relationship in Victorian American Culture (Director: J Butler)

Reid-Pharr, Robert. Conjugal Union: Gender, Sexuality and the Development of an African American National Literature (Director: H Carby)

Richard, Yevette. My Passionate Feeling About Africa: Maida Springer-Kemp and the American Labor Movement (Director: D Montgomery)

Schoelwer, Susan. Painted Ladies, Virgin Lands: Women in the Myth and Image of the American Frontier, 1830-1860 (Director: B Wolf)

Viehmann, Martha. Writing Across the Cultural Divide: Images of Indians in the Lives and Works of Native and European Americans, 1890-1995 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Waldstreicher, David. The Making of American Nationalism: Celebration and Political Culture, 1776-1820 (Director: DB Davis)

Yoo, David. Growing Up Nisei: Second-Generation Japanese Americans (Director: H Lamar)

1993

Brekus, Catherine A. Let Your Women Keep Silence in the Churches: Female Preaching and Evangelical Religion in America 1740-1845 (Director: HS Stout)

Den Tandt, Christophe. The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Desmond, Jane. Physical Evidence: Bodies in Contemporary American Performance (Director BJ Wolf)

Dilworth, Leah C. Imagining the Primitive: Representations of Native Americans in the Southwest, 1880-1930 (Director: BJ Wolf)

Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: The Relationship Between Civil Rights and Foreign Affairs in the Truman Administration (Director: DB Davis)

Fisher, Paul. Itineraries in the Art-World: The Cult of Europe and Transatlantic Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920 (Director: RH Brodhead)

Forbath, William E. Law and the Shaping of American Labor (Director: DB Davis)

Hartman, Saidiya V. Performing Blackness: Staging Subjection and Resistance in Antebellum Culture (Director: Alan Trachtenberg)

Murolo, Priscilla. Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928: Class and Gender on the "Common Ground of Womanhood" (Director: D Montgomery)

Rachman, Stephen. Narrative Pathology: Plagiarism, Exhaustion, and Obscenity in the American Renaissance (Director: RH Brodhead)

Satter, Beryl E. New Thought and the Era of Woman, 1875-1895 (Director: NF Cott)

Schnog, Nancy J. Inside the Sentimental: The Psychological Work of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing (Director: RH Brodhead)

Sellers, Christopher. Manufacturing Disease: Experts and the Ailing American Worker (Director: WJ Cronon)

Shannon, Christopher. Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, Autonomy, and Culture in American Social Thought, From Veblen to Mills (Director: J-C Agnew)

Shen, Xiao Hong. Yale's China and China's Yale: Americanizing Higher Education in China, 1900-1927 (Director: J Butler)

Stowe, David. Swing Changes: The Transformation of Jazz in American Culture, 1935-1950 (Director: M Denning)

Wickberg, Daniel. The Sense of Humor in American Culture, 1850-1960 (Director: JC Agnew)

Wescott, Brian. Freed to be Something New: Native American Journey into the Performing Arts (Director: H Lamar)

1992

Ballard, Barbara. Nineteenth-Century Theories of Race, the Concept of Correspondences, and Images of Blacks in the Antislavery Writings of Douglass, Stowe, and Browne (Director: DB Davis)

Casper, Scott E. Constructing American Lives: The Cultural History of Biography in Nineteenth-Century America (Director: RH Brodhead)

Goldberg, Michael L. "An Army of Women": Gender Relations and Politics in Kansas Populism, the Woman's Movement, and the Republican Party, 1879-1896 (Director: NF Cott)

Grasso, Christopher D. Between Awakenings: Learned Men and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Connecticut, 1740-1800 (Director: HS Stout)

Griffin, Farah J. "Who Set You Flowin'?" Migration, Urbanization, and African-American Culture (Director: RB Stepto)

Haltman, Kenneth. Figures in a Western Landscape: Readings in the Art of Titian Ramsay Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820 (Director: J Prown)

Phillips, Kimberley. Heaven Bound: Black Migration, Community, and Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 (Director: NF Cott)

1991

Cartwright, Elizabeth. Physiological Modernism: Cinematography as a Medical Research Technology, 1895-1960 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Glasser, Ruth. Que Vivio Tiene la Gene Aqui en Nueva York: Music and Community in Puerto Rican New York 1915-1940 (Director: D Montgomery)

Nickerson, Catherine R. The Domestic Detective Novel: Gothicism, Domesticity, and Investigation in American Women's Writing, 1865-1920 (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Oberdeck, Kathryn. Labor's Vicar and Variety Show: Popular Religion, and Cultural Class Conflict (Director: D Montgomery)

Stein, Sally. The Rhetoric of the Colorful and the Colorless: American Photography and Material Culture Between the Wars (Director: A. Trachtenberg)

Tal, Kali. Bearing Witness: The Literature of Trauma (Director: RB Stepto)

Wallach, Glenn. Obedient Sons: Youth and Generational Consciousness in American Culture, 1630-1850s (Director DB Davis)

1990

Beavers, Herman. Wrestling Angels into Song: Coherence and Disclosure in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPhearson (Director: RB Stepto)

Bruce, Marcus C. The Unfinished Universe: William James, Pragmatism, and the American Intellectual (Director: J Butler)

Morrissey, Katherine G. Mental Territories: Environment and the Creation of the Inland Empire, 1870-1920 (Director: HR Lamar)

Myers, Kenneth. Selling the Sublime: The Catskills and the Social Construction of Landscape Experience in the United States, 1776-1876 (Director: J Prown)

1989

Brown, David H. Garden in the Machine: Afro-Cuban Sacred Art and Performance in Urban New Jersey and New York (Director: HR Lamar)

Ibarguen, Raoul Richard. Narrative Detours: Henry Miller and the Rise of New Critical Modernism (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Scobey, David M. Empire City: Politics, Culture and Urbanism in Gilded-Age New York (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Watts, Linda S. "The Moment of Recognition": A Feminist Approach to Religious and Artistic Creation in the Writings of Gertrude Stein (Director: A Trachtenberg)

Ye, Wei-li. The American Experience of Chinese Students in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (Director: JD Spence)

1988

Ferraro, Thomas J., III. Ethnic Passages: The Mobility Narratives of Yezierska, Miller, Puzo, and Kingston (Director: JC Agnew)

Frank, Dana L. At the Point of Consumption: Seattle Labor and the Politics of Consumption, 1919-1927 (Director: D. Montgomery)

Johnson, Dianne A. For the Children of the Sun: What We Say to Afro-American Youth Through Story and Image (Director: RB Stepto)

MacDonald, Bonney. In the Making: Acts of Creation in the Writing of William and Henry James (Director: RWB Lewis)

Rosenthal, Joel. Righteous Realist: Perceptions of American Power and Responsibility in the Nuclear Age (Director: G. Smith)

Stock, Catherine M. Main Street in Crisis: The Old Middle Class in the Great Depression (Director: HR Lamar)

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