Dissertations from 2012
Woodrow Wilson's Conversion Experience: The President and the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment, Beth Behn
Dissertations from 2011
Nationalism & the politics of historical memory: Charlemagne Peralte's rebellion against U.S. occupation of Haiti, 1915-1986, Yveline Alexis
"The lover's instructor": Courtship advice in Anglo-America, 1640-1830, Carolyn May Barske
Dissertations from 2010
Seeking Shakers: Two Centuries of Visitors to Shaker Villages, Brian L. Bixby
The preservation of Iroquois thought: J. N. B. Hewitt's legacy of scholarship for his people, Kathryn Lavely Merriam
A Stitch In Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America, Aimee E. Newell
Becoming Union Square: Struggles for legitimacy in nineteenth-century New York, Michael D Shapiro
Dissertations from 2009
Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Parabolic drama and the question of absurdity, Michael Y Bennett
Before the Second Wave: College Women, Cultural Literacy, Sexuality and Identity, 1940--1965, Babette Faehmel
The cartography of borders in Ana Teresa Torres's "Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion", Maria Figuera
The abject of my affection: "Heimosexuality" in German texts and films, Kyle E Frackman
Der Wenderoman: Definition eines genres, Anne Hector
American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism in the Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed
On the threshold: Placing servants in modernist domesticity, Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Dissertations from 2008
A tutelazo limpio: A story of the struggle for identity and rights in Colombia and the demobilizing effect of the law, Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas
A life history of Dr. Nettie Webb: Possibilities and perspectives from a life committed to education, Paige M Bray
Allegory, history and fiction in the works of Alejo Carpentier and Jose Saramago, Gloria Alicia Caballero-Roca
La representacion de la enfermedad y el dolor en la narrativa peninsular y latinoamericana desde el siglo XIX hasta el presente, Camelly Cruz-Martes
Brazilian women writers in English: Translation of culture and gender in works by Clarice Lispector, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and Ana Maria Machado, Lilian Passos Wichert Feitosa
Coming into clover: Ireland and the Irish in early American cinema, 1895--1917, Peter Flynn
From infancy to death? An examination of the African burial ground in relation to Christian eighteenth century beliefs, Ruth Annette Mathis
The grace of effort: Studies in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean form, Nicole Catherine Matos
City of amalgamation: Race, marriage, class and color in Boston, 1890--1930, Zebulon V Miletsky
The hills of home: Environmental identity in the rural north, 1815--1860, Jill Mudgett
Beyond the Caribbean, the Afro Hispanic difference in continental Spanish American literature: Memory, transatlantic journey, slavery, and rebellion in three contemporary Afro Hispanic novels, Rosario Montelongo de Swanson
Specters of war: Reclamation, recovery, and return in southeast Asian-American literature and history, Bunkong Tuon
Mothers and motherhood in the Middle English romances, Ju Ok Yoon
Dissertations from 2007
Performing fiction: The inward turn of postcolonial discourse in anglophone Caribbean fiction, Carol Y Bailey
Historical erasure and cultural recovery: Indigenous people in the Connecticut River Valley, Margaret M Bruchac
The Northamerican metaphor: Film, literature, and society in the chronicles of Elisa Lerner, Cecilia Cuesta-Velez
Brussel - Bruxelles - Brussel: Brussels in the Flemish literary mirror from 1830 to 1932, Caroline M. P. C Dothee
Re-viewing the Holocaust through a new lens: Memory, language, and identity in the autobiographical texts of Cordelia Edvardson, Ruth Kluger, and Elizabeth Trahan, Lauren Levine Enzie
Children of the socialist paradise: Redefining social and esthetic values in post Cold-War Cuban cinema, Enrique Garcia
New history, new language: Biblical intertextuality in the poetry of Rahel Bluvshtain, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller
"Something energetic and spirited": Massachusetts Federalists, rational politics, and political economy in the age of Jefferson, 1805--1815, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
A mission to a mad county: Black determination, white resistance and educational crisis in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Jill L Ogline
Ontogeny and life history of shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur 1818): Effects of latitudinal variation and water temperature, Erika L Parker
Burnings and blessings: The cultural reality of the supernatural across early modern spaces, Thomas J Rushford
Not even past: Race and commemoration in a southern city, Katherine D Walker
Dissertations from 2006
Living politics by awakening history: A critical approach to Walter Benjamin through Sigmund Freud, Alex Betancourt-Serrano
By a gentle force compell'd: An analysis of rape in eighteenth-century English fact and fiction, Stephen M Constantine
Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction, Sandra Caona Duvivier
Courage under fire: African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality, David A Goldberg
La humanizacion de lo perverso: Erotismo y subversion en la obra de Mayra Santos Febres, Jeandelize B Gonzalez Rivera
Mobility and home: Shifting constructions of gender, race, and nationality in Chinese diasporic literature, Shuchen Susan Huang
A poesia portuguesa dos anos 30 aos anos 70: Mario Henrique Leiria inedito, Tania A Martuscelli
Not in this family: Gays and the family of origin in North America, 1945--1990s, Heather Murray
Child abuse in contemporary children's literature: A critical multicultural analysis, Albertina Navarro Rios
Unpacking the suitcases they carried: Narratives of Dominican and Puerto Rican migrations to the northeastern United States, Victoria Nunez
Towards a transnational aesthetics: Literary displacement and translation as a transnational narrative space, Seonjoo Park
American ideal: Theodore Roosevelt and the redefinition of American individualism, Paul M Rego
The "Negro Market" and the black freedom movement in New York City, 1930--1965, Julia L Sandy-Bailey
Pledging transnational allegiances: Nationhood, selfhood, and belonging in Jewish American and Asian American immigrant narratives, Cathy J Schlund-Vials
"We're the people": Realism, mass culture, and popular front pluralism, 1935--1946, Christopher R Vials
Der 20. Juli 1944 auf der Buhne, Susanne M Wagner
Dissertations from 2005
The psychodynamics of white racism: An historical exploration of white racial pathology as elicited by prizefighters Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali, Michal Louise Beale
Demonizing esotericism: The treatment of spirituality and popular culture in the works of Gustav Meyrink, Amanda Charitina Boyd
Analysis of enigmatic structures on Mars and Venus and implications for crustal history, Debra L Buczkowski
The politics of style: Building, builders, and the creation of federal Boston, Thomas E. Conroy
Life history movements and spawning of Sao Francisco River fishes, Brazil, Alexandre Lima Godinho
Mao's American strategy and the Korean War, Wanli Hu
Lyrics and the law: The constitution of law in music, Aaron R. S Lorenz
Romancing the nation: Allegorical romance in nineteenth-century Irish and British novels, Bridget Matthews-Kane
Meiji maiden: Umeko Tsuda and the founding of higher education for women in Japan, Theresa G McCue
"To lawless rapine bred": A study of early Northeastern execution literature featuring people of African descent, Tanya M Mears
Disrupting dissemblance: Transgressive black women as politics of counter-representation in African American women's fiction, Trimiko C Melancon
Bruder Eichmann and other relatives: Representations of Nazis on German stages, Kerstin M Mueller
An implicit continuum: Elegiac impulses and poetics of loss in nineteenth-century British poetry, Ismet Ozkilic
Emerging postcolonial discourses in Spanish America: The case of "Revista Gris", Clara Eugenia Ronderos
The contradictory imperatives of New Deal banking reforms, Ellen D Russell
Singing/telling the 80s: A cultural study of some of the most representative Spanish pop and rock songs of the 80s, Ana Maria Sanchez-Catena
Contested grounds: The transformation of the American Upper Ohio Valley and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770--1850, Christoph Strobel
Education in post-apartheid South Africa: Towards liberation or equity?, Tsoaledi Daniel Thobejane
Berceo's other world: The visions of the "Poema de Santa Oria", Elizabeth Page Vrooman
Dissertations from 2004
"We know our rights and have the courage to defend them": The spirit of agitation in the age of accommodation, 1883--1909, Shawn Leigh Alexander
We are chosen: Jewish narratives in Galveston, Montreal, New York, and Buenos Aires, Wendy H Bergoffen
Reading class: Disrupting power in children's literature, Maria Jose Botelho
Selling sexual liberation: Women-owned sex toy stores and the business of social change, Lynn Comella
Confronting the tribal zone: Toward a critical ethnohistory of colonial state formation in San Juan through the system of encomiendas, 1509--1520, Gabriel De La Luz-Rodriguez
The minstrel in the parlor: Nineteenth-century sheet music and the domestication of blackface minstrelsy, Stephanie Elaine Dunson
Of visions and sorrows: Manuel Quintin Lame's Indian thought and the violences of Colombia, Monica Espinosa Arango
Excellence is the highest form of resistance: African American reformers in the pre-Civil War North, Germaine Etienne
Women who showed the way: Arbeiterinnen in DEFA feature film, 1946--1966, Jennifer L Good
Perceptions of new teacher candidates in history/social studies at one public university and the critical choices they face, Andrew D Hamilton
Revolutionary Tabasco in the time of Tomas Garrido Canabal, 1922--1935: A Mexican house divided, Kristin A Harper
Border crossings and multicultural whiteness: Nationalism in the global production and U.S. reception of vampire films, Dale M Hudson
Refusing to be silent: Tracing the role of the black woman protector on the American stage, Brandon L. A Hutchinson
Critical multicultural analysis of reconstructed folk tales: Rumpelstiltskin is my name, power is my game, Jane Elizabeth Kelley
Reading female sanctity: English legendaries of women, ca. 1200--1650, Mary Elizabeth Long
Narrative justice: The gothic and the law in Anglo-America, 1790--1860, Bridget M Marshall
Black South African writing against apartheid, 1959--1983, Philden Ndlela
Corporate stories: "Fortune" magazine and modern managerial culture, Kevin S Reilly