(2006-7)

Gloria Alday
Co-Winner of 2007 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "Organizing a Movement: Jessica Govea-Chicana Feminist and Labor Organizer"
Advisor: Stephen Pitti
Reader: Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Chloe Beizer
Title: "'Kindred' Literary Landscapes: Parallels between Science-Fiction and Post-Literature"
Advisor: Geetanjali Chanda
Reader: Hazel Carby

Eliza Berman
Title: "The Left Behind: An Exploration of Urban High School Films through the Lens of the No Child Left Behind Act"
Advisor: Jack Gillette
Reader: Matthew Jacobson

Jordan Franklin
Title: "Hip Hop as Expression of Orality and Signifying in African-American Culture"
Advisor: Michael Veal
Reader: John Szwed

Sarah Porter Graham
Title: "Naming Music After Buildings in Transition: Lower Manhattan's Jazz Lofts in the 1970s"
Advisor: Michael Denning
Reader: Mary Lui

Zach O'Malley Greenburg
Title: "Fair or Foul? The Evolution of the American Ballpark as an Urban Object"
Advisor: Seth Fein
Reader: Michael Denning

Helena Herring
Co-Winner of 2007 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "The Miss Wayne County Pageant: Sexuality, Gender Performance and Education in the Rural South"
Advisor: Laura Wexler
Reader: Mary Lui

Christine Hew
Title: "Defining Status Through the Home: Hawai'i Plantation Society from 1875 through 1952"
Advisor: Mary Lui
Reader: Stephen Pitti

Evan Joiner
Co-Winner o f2007 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "Slavery, Freedom, and American Mythmaking: The Role of the Underground Railroad in American Historical Memory"
Advisor: Jonathan Holloway
Reader: Jean-Christophe Agnew

Nora Kletter
Title: "Selling Social Relevance: The Youth Demographic in Living Color"
Advisor: Seth Fein
Reader: Charles Musser

Priscilla Leiva
Title: "Somos Los Punx:" Latinas/os Negotiating Racialized and Gendered Spaces in Los Angeles"
Advisor: Alicia Schmidt-Camacho
Reader: Stephen Pitti

Katie Mandel
Winner of 2007 Percival W. Clement Prize
Title: "Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart Inc: An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Milestone and the Inadequacy of Class Action in Discrimination Lawsuits"
Advisor: Michael Denning
Reader: Kathryn Dudley

Katlyn G. Meserve
Title: "From Farm to Factory: Horace Augustus Moses and the Shaping of Junior Achievement, 1919-1929"
Advisor: Jean-Christophe Agnew
Reader: Laura Wexler

Whitney Sparks
Title: "What Everyone Wants"
Advisor: Hazel Carby
Reader: Stephen Lassonde

Jennifer Suhr
Title: "From Silence to Speech: Finding A Language for the Asian American Self Through a Close Analysis of Chan is Missing and Broken Speak"
Advisor: Alicia Schmidt-Camacho
Reader: Terri Frances

Hilary Szymujko
Title: "Recipe for the American Cookbook: Cooking Up American Culture with the History of Early American Cookbooks"
Advisor: Jean-Christophe Agnew
Reader: Joanne Meyerowitz

Jonathan Tenan
Title: "Professional Football in Los Angeles: A Study of Culture and Community"
Advisor: Stephen Pitti
Reader: Jean-Christophe Agnew

Geo Wyeth
Title: "Screwing Courage to the Sticking Point: How Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival Put the 'Public' Back into Theater"
Advisor: Michael Denning
Reader: Joseph Roach

(2005-6)

Sean Clifford
Title: "Objectivity in Documentary: Selection, Execution and Representation in Spider in a Jar"
Adviser: Michael Kerbel
Reader: Laura Wexler

Tess Korobkin
Co-Winner of 2006 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "Urban Writes: Art for the Public in New York City in the Early 1980s"
Adviser: Matthew Jacobson
Reader: Alexander Nemerov

Laura Manville
Co-Winner of 2006 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "Hating Suburbia: Elitism and Misogyny in Suburban Criticism, 1945-61"
Adviser: Dolores Hayden
Reader: Jay Gitlin

Hannah Oberman-Breindel
Winner of 2006 Percival Wood Clement Prize
Title: "We Accuse: Bill Epton, Political Speech, and a Clear and Present Danger"
Adviser: Beverly Gage
Reader: Matthew Jacobson

(2005)

Liba Wenig Rubinstein
Title: "The Church Burning Crisis of 1996 & Public Narrative in the Post-Civil Rights Era"
Adviser: Matthew Jacobson
Reader: Jonathan Holloway

(2004-5)

Marisa Alford
Co-Winner of 2005 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "Between Art and Science: 'Authentic' Race Performance in the Plays of Zora Neale Hurston"
Adviser: Jill Lane
Reader: David Krasner

Sarah Ax
Title: "Fan(tastic) Identities: Performativity and Community in Online Fandom"
Adviser: Jill Lane
Reader: Seth Silberman

Ari Glogower
2nd Place Co-Winner of 2005 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "American Studies and the Idea of America at Yale: 1946-1969"
Adviser: Michael Denning
Reader: Matt Jacobson

Suzanne Joskow
Title: "Muted Song: Yiddish Literary Culture in New York after 1945"
Adviser: Michael Kerbel
Reader: Matthew Jacobson

Michael Kai
Title: "Online Social Networks: The Transformation of Identity and Trust"
Adviser: Katherine Alexander
Reader: Kate Dudley

Mateya Kelly
Title: International Student Perspectives in a Global University
Adviser: Matthew Jacobson
Reader: Laura Wexler

Lucas Mills
Title: "Blues and the Trickster Myth: Aleck 'Rice' Miller"
Adviser: Michael Denning
Reader: Jay Gitlin

Casey Miner
1st Place Winner of 2005 Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Title: "Road Book Revolution: How the Road Trip Will Save America"
Adviser: Jill Lane
Reader: Hazel Carby

Jeff Mroz
Title: "An Analysis of the Development of the Healthy Food Market and a Study Examining Food Advertising Directed Toward the Baby Boom Generation"
Adviser: Lenny Vartanian
Reader: Kip Kosek

Thomas Nakanishi
Title: "Constructing the Asian American Model Minority 'A More Perfect Union': Japanese Americans and the Constitution"
Adviser: Sanda Lwin
Reader: Matthew Jacobson

Meera Shankar
Title: "Taj and Kumar Go to Hollywood: Analyzing the Representation of Indians in American-Based Films"
Adviser: Michael Denning
Reader: Stephen Lassonde

Jessica Rivkin
Title: "Marry Me a Little: The Breakdown of Traditional Romance in Stephen Sondheim's Musicals"
Adviser: Murray Biggs
Reader: Jill Lane

Jessica Soto
Title: "The Joining and its Aftermath: A case study in the effect of ethnic consciousness and class consciousness on interracial labor coalitions"
Adviser: Alondra Nelson
Reader: Patricia Pessar

James Soza
Title: "Beyond Reparations: The Tulsa Race Riot and White Ownership of History"
Adviser: Matthew Jacobson
Reader: Hazel Carby

Nate Thorn
Title: "At War on War: The American Media during American Military Conflict"
Adviser: Mary Habeck
Reader: Kip Kosek

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