Dissertations from 2004
The nostalgia for novelty: Revivals of the eighteenth century novel, genuine and spurious, Jonathan B Sadow
Language of the soul: Galenism and the medical disciplines in Elyot, Huarte, and Shakespeare, David Wesley Swain
Modernizing English teacher education in China: Faculty perspectives, Timothy W Taylor
Remembering Jim Crow: The literary memoir as historical source material, Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Literary journalism as artfulness: The resonant voice of Tracy Kidder, Henry O. Wefing
Violation and immunity: The languages of politics and health in prerevolutionary Massachusetts, Martha Yoder
The prisons outside and the prisons in our heads: Television and the representation of incarceration, William Yousman
Latvian nationalist ideas and intellectuals 19th century--1939, Ieva Zake
Dissertations from 2003
"Wohin schwankt ihr noch eh' der Atem schwand?": Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen Lyrik aus Theresienstadt (1941--1945), Sandra Alfers
"Who 'twas that cut thy tongue": Postmodern and Hollywood Shakespeares and the betrayal of the adolescent audience, Melissa A Bagg
El reto etico del exilio: La autoescritura del exodo republicano espanol, Alejandra Barriales-Bouche
"Now, literature, philosophy, and thought, are Shakspearized": American culture and nineteenth-century Shakespearean performance, 1835--1875, Elaine Brousseau
El triunfo de lo efimero: Visiones de la moda en la literatura peninsular moderna (1728--1926), Ana Maria Diaz-Marcos
Living legacies: Black women, educational philosophies, and community service, 1865--1965, Stephanie Yvette Evans
Women of action, in action: The new politics of Black women in New York City, 1944--1972, Julie A Gallagher
Construindo Germano Almeida: A consciencia da (des)construcao, Paula A Gandara
Las imagenes y tematica alimentarias como discursos de asercion en la literatura femenina hispanoamericana (siglo XVI--XX), Deborah Liz Gonzalez
Trade and conversion: Indians, Franciscans and Spaniards on the upper Amazon frontier, 1693--1790, Richard James Goulet
A social history of Protestantism in Colombia: 1930--2000, David Wayne Hamblin
The experiences of high school teachers in Massachusetts with the History and Social Science Curriculum framework, Margaret Harris
Home feelings with the past: Antebellum American literature and the anachronistic imagination, Jeffrey Robert Insko
The desire to see: Western iconoclasm and the return of the empty image, Dora E Martinez-Ramos
Miss-behaving: Conduct, the underread, and the history of the novel, 1800--1830, Patricia A Matthew
Historical inscriptions: Black bodies in contemporary Puerto Rican narrative, Zaira O Rivera Casellas
Un puente entre las literaturas hispanoamericana y U.S. latina: Mitificacion y resistencia en cinco relatos del yo, Ignacio F Rodeno Iturriaga
"Thinking globally": Political movements on the left in Massachusetts, 1974--1990, Robert E. Surbrug
Restoring the thin red line: British policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783--1812, Timothy David Willig
Dissertations from 2002
A New World for a new nation: The promotion of America in early modern England, Francisco Jose Borge
Rejuvenating France: The creation of a national youth culture after the Great War, Barbara Curtis Fox
The birth of American tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American culture, 1790--1835, Richard H Gassan
Slavery's children: A study of growth and childhood sex ratios in the New York African Burial Ground, Susan Kay Goode-Null
Clubs, secret societies and male quest romance, Thomas Michael Greene
Haunted by waters: Race and place in the American West, Robert Terry Hayashi
Property from the sky: The creation of property rights in the radio spectrum in the United States, Elizabeth M Kruse
Black representation in American animated short films, 1928--1954, Christopher Paul Lehman
Culinary scapes: Contesting food, gender and nation in South Asia and its diaspora, Anita Mannur
Race for sanctions: The movement against apartheid, 1946--1994, Francis Njubi Nesbitt
What's love got to do with it? The dynamics of desire, race and murder in the slave South, Carolyn Jean Powell
Magic realism and social protest in Spanish America and the United States: These illusions called America, Jennifer Clare Rodgers
Coming of age in American cinema: Modern youth films as genre, Matthew P Schmidt
Constitutional interpretation and nation building: The Territorial clause and the Foraker Act, 1787--1900, Charles Robert Venator Santiago
Dissertations from 2001
"Discontented but not inevitably reactionary": Organized labor in the Nixon years, Maria Graciela Abarca
Justine Ward and the genesis of the Ward method of music education, Richard Ramon Bunbury
Between profits and primitivism: Rehabilitating white middle-class manhood in America, 1880--1917, Athena Beth Devlin
Ceramic style and the Late Woodland period (1000--400 B.P.) sachemships of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Frederick James Dunford
"Rilke und kein Ende": Zur Rilke-Rezeption in Schweden von 1904 bis in die 1960er Jahre, Birgitta Fryksen
Massachusetts agriculture and food self-sufficiency: An analysis of change from 1974 through 1997, David Lee Holm
Freedom teachers: Northern White women teaching in southern Black communities, 1860s and 1960s, Judith Collings Hudson
The scene of the crime: Imagining nature at the millennium, Camilla S Humphreys
Theater im Medienzeitalter: Das postdramatische Theater von Elfriede Jelinek und Heiner Muller, Dagmar Jaeger
Atalanta's sisters: Sport, gender, and technology in popular press, 1921--1996, Susan C Leggett
Fear of an oath: Piety, hypocrisy, and the dilemma of Puritan identity, John M Lund
Writing colonial history in post-colonial India, Deepika Marya
Mapping the pre-history of cyberspace and the making of social movement computer networks, 1973--1993, Brian Martin Murphy
Burden of blackness: Quest for "equality" among black "elites" in late-nineteenth-century Boston, Kazuteru Omori
The development of the modern fantasy novel, Holly E Ordway
Sueno nuestro (our dream): Anarchism and anthropology in a Spanish village, Mary Nothom Orgel
Beyond the cult of domesticity: Exploring the material and spatial expressions of multiple gender ideologies in Deerfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1750--ca. 1911, Deborah L Rotman
Mapping cultural and archaeological meanings: Representing landscapes and pasts in 19th century Ireland, Angele Patricia Smith
"Assimilating the primitive:" Parallel dialogues on racial miscegenation in revolutionary Mexico, Kelley Rae Swarthout
Springfield Armory as industrial policy: Interchangeable parts and the precision corridor, Bruce K Tull
Translations of "The Tempest" in Germany and Japan, Friederike von Schwerin-High
Dreams of the wild frontier: Imaginary geographies and the American West, Aaron Boyd Walker
Ruined bodies and ruined narratives: The fallen woman and the history of the novel, Amy L Wolf
Writing her way: A study of Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko, Louise Allen Zak
Dissertations from 2000
Tracking modernity: Writing the rails of empire, Marian Ida Aguiar
Laying down the law for the historical imagination: Kant, Schiller and Nietzsche, Matthew Louis Blanshei
Rubble trouble: History and subjectivity in the ruins of fascism, Siobhan S Craig
La nacion novelada: Los inicios de la novela historica gallega, Gabriel J Garcia-Bajo
"He had no right": Sex, law, and the courts in Vermont, 1777--1920, Harold A Goldman
Con nuestro trabajo y sudor: Indigenous women and the construction of colonial society in 16th and 17th century Peru, Karen B Graubart
The world fill'd with a generation of bastards: Pregnant brides and unwed mothers in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Else Knudsen Hambleton
The rebellion of Mita: Eastern Guatemala in 1837, Ann F Jefferson
afro look: Die Geschichte einer Zeitschrift von schwarzen Deutschen, Francine Jobatey
The creation of the eternal truths and the nature of God in Descartes, Daniel Patrick Kaufman
Conjured bodies, trickster voices: Transforming narrative, history, and identity in the literature of slavery, Suzanne Therese Lane
Banks, insider lending and industries of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1813--1860, Paul Andre Lockard
Topics in the historical sociolinguistics of Tejano Spanish, 1791--1910: Morphosyntactic and lexical aspects, Glenn Andrew Martinez
Actions louder than words: Gender and political activism in the American radical pacifist movement, 1942--1972, Marian Beth Mollin
"Here is a cabinet of great curiosities": Collecting the past on the American frontier, Theo Padnos
The intentional turn: Suicide in twentieth-century U.S. American literature by women, Kathleen O Ryan
La poetica del bolero en Cuba y Puerto Rico, Alinaluz Santiago Torres
The introduction of the bachelor-master-doctor degree system in Bulgarian universities: A case study, Snejana Ivanova Slantcheva
Bubonic plague in English Renaissance utopian literature, Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro
Selling sobriety: How temperance reshaped culture in antebellum America, Graham Donald Warder
The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of black faculty in the math and science pipeline: A life history approach, Lisa D Williams
Theorizing Asian America, Lingyan Yang
Dissertations from 1999
La transicion a la democracia en la novela espanola (1976--1996): Los poderes de la memoria, Carlos X Ardavin
The "exotic" Black African in the French social imagination in the 1920s, Brett Alan Berliner
"Detention castles of stone and steel": An historical archaeology of the first Rhode Island State Prison, 1838--1878, James Curtis Garman
Reconstructing a history of Spanish immigration in West Virginia: Implications for multicultural education, Thomas Gene Hidalgo
The Catholic ethic and the spirit of corporatism: Historical and contemporary links between Church and state in social services, health care and education, Richard Louis Metafora
Rebels of the New South: The Socialist Party in Dixie, 1892--1920, Brad Alan Paul
Legal modernism and the politics of expertise: American law's crisis of knowledge and authority, 1870--1930, William David Rose
Young Charles Sumner and the legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811--1851, Anne-Marie Taylor
The political economy of organized baseball: Analysis of a unique industry, Ross David Weiner
A resource-based view of strategic alliances and industry structures, Diana J Wong