Publications
2000–2007
2007
Carter, Brenda. Dreams of Recognition, Fantasies of Revenge: Work and Workers in Late Twentieth Century American Mass Culture. (Michael Denning, Advisor)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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).
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).
