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Dissertations from 2005
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, History
Life history movements and spawning of São Francisco River fishes, Brazil, Alexandre Lima Godinho
Mao's American strategy and the Korean War/, Wanli, Hu, History
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, History
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 Quintín 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, History
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 Tomás Garrido Canabal, 1922-1935 : a Mexican house divided., Kristin A. Harper, History
Border crossings and multicultural whiteness: Nationalism in the global production and United States 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, History
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
Violation and immunity : the languages of politics and health in prerevolutionary Massachusetts., Martha, Yoder, History
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 ético del exilio: La autoescritura del éxodo republicano español, 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 : the new politics of black women in New York City, 1944-1972., Julie A. Gallagher, History
Construindo Germano Almeida: A consciência da (des)construção, Paula A Gandara
Las imagenes y temática alimentarias como discursos de aserción 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, History
A social history of Protestantism in Colombia : 1930-2000., David W. Hamblin, History
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: Mitificación y resistencia en cinco relatos del yo, Ignacio F Rodeno Iturriaga
"Thinking globally" : political movements on the left in Massachusetts., Robert E. Surbrug, History
Restoring the thin red line : British policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783-1812., Timothy D. Willig, History
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 C. Fox, History
The birth of American tourism : New York, the Hudson Valley, and American culture, 1790-1835., Richard H. Gassan, History
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, History
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 Mueller, 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, History
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, History
The development of the modern fantasy novel, Holly E Ordway
Sueño 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