American Studies Program

1971

George Keating
"Three Progressives (Jane Addams, George Perkins and Hiram Johnson) and the Progressive Profile"

Richard Lyon
"Joseph Tidings and the Election of 1970"

John Shortall
"The Impact of Miranda v. Arizona"

1972

John Lingvall
"The Lusk Report (1919)"

Frances McDonough
"Norman Mailer's An American Dream"

Thomas Strzemienski
"The Effects of Technology Upon the Society of Man: Lewis Mumford and His Critics"

Paul White
"Anti-Trust Policy and Conglomerates"

1973

Richard Berlanti
"A Study of Rock and Roll Music"

Barbara Bondaza
"The New American Eve: Hawthorne's Alternative to the Adamic Myth"

Larry Gallagher
"Faulkner, the Depression, and the Burden of History"

Helen Gaquin
"Women in the American Political Order: Level and Areas of Participation"

Michael Sean Gogarty
"Robert F. Kennedy: The Growth of a Moral Politician"

Clifford Eliot Librach
"Danger and Opportunity: Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Voting Rights Act of 1965"

Thomas Piscetta
"The Progressive Trilogy (Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam) of J.D.Salinger"

Lawrence Reilly
"Nathaniel Hawthorne: Critic of American Reformism"

Patricia Rogozinski
"The Italian Immigrant in Chicago: Crime and Politics"

Michael Sentance
"The Candidate and his Constituency in the Year of the People: Several Aspects of the 1968 McCarthy
Campaign"

Greg Spinner
"The Artist in Society"

Greg Spinner
"Crisis and Quiescence: An Interpretive Essay of Conservative Trends in American Thought, 1968-1972"

James Verrillo
"New Communities in : A Historical Perspective"

Wendy Clark
"NASA and the Fundamentalist Mind" (unfinished)

1974

Daniel Cohan
"Untitled"

James Carroll
"Education as a Means of Social Mobility: Myth or Reality?"

Bill Curry
"George McGovern, the Press, and Politics of Perception"

Steve Haught
"(Senator Henry) Bellmon (of Oklahoma) and Busing: A Man, An Issue, A Problem"

Eileen Sweeney
"Baltimore, Maryland: A Case Study of the American Urban Crisis"

Kathy Vagt
"An Historical Study of Three Organizational Levels Within the American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees"

1975

Fred Baylor
"Black Values As Related to Self Concepts and Attitudes Toward Blackness as a Function of Social Class"

Leopold Dyce
"A Personal Analysis of American Life as Depicted in Black Literature"

Kathleen Flynn
"Prospects for Regional Government"

Steven Kurdziel
"Alfred Kelley and the Story of Western Expansion"

Diane Rogozinski
"Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Success"

Daniel Ryan
"1880 as Watershed: Effects of Science and the Frontier"

1976

Edwin Berger
"Man, God, and the Universe as Treated in Selected Works of Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
Walt Whitman"

Gerald Elston
"The Broken Contract: 19th Century Afro-American Perceptions of Government and Society"

Timothy Michael Gay
"The Spirit of Brutality: Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson and the Subversion of Civil Liberties,
1917-1918"

Judith Giuliani
"Enhancing the Presidency: Presidential Use of Television"

William Gruber
"Cleveland and the Model Cities Program"

Charles Kahwaty
"The Loyalists in the American Revolution: A Consideration of Their Motives"

Theodore Leonsis
"More Town than City: A Personal Biography of Jack Kerouac"

John McShea
"Frankly Speaking: Frank L. Rizzo, the Man who 'Made' Mayor"

Brian Melody
"The Emergence of Modern Advertising in "

Frank Mita
"Hemingway's Palimpsest: A Report Based on Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and G.M. Trevelyan's
Scenes From 's War"

Marcie Ritz
"The Stamp Act Crisis In Maryland"

Tanya Russ
"From McCarthy to May Day: Changing Perceptions of Communism"

Maribeth Sprecher
"A Beginning: Federal Housing in the 1930's"

Mary Sweeney
"American Ethnic Neighborhoods"

1977

Thomas Dailey
"Stock Criticisms Made Against American Catholic Higher Education in the Late Nineteenth Century: A
Defense"

Anna Hirai
"Out of the Mainstream, Beyond Fact and Before Fantasy: 'New Wave' Science Fiction"

Peter John Holden
"Regulating Medical Care: Peer Review and the Federal Government"

Terry McGannon
"Hawthorne as Transcendentalist: A Study of The Old Manse"

Sean McLaughlin
"Catholic Fiction and Literary Criticism During the Americanist Controversy"

Jay Rosenstein
"Television and the Presidential Campaign of Hubert Humphrey"

Maria Shriver
"The Religious Issue in the 1960 Campaign of John F. Kennedy"

Sylvan Sobel
"A Return to Vaudeville: Its Functions and What it Said About , 1885-1932"

Christopher Spiller
"The Right to Work: The New Deal and the Seventies"

1978

Daniel Burke
"The Catholic Church in the City: Urban Parishes and Neighborhood Organizations"

John P. Carey
"The 1968 Crisis at Columbia University: A Reassessment"

John Chema
"Carl Stokes and Cleveland: A Story of the Turbulence of His Times"

Michael Douglas
"Henry Adams and Political Life in the : A Selective Study"

Mary Jean Egan
"Preservation Politics in Georgetown, 1930-1950: A Study in Neighborhood Renewal and Dislocation"

Thomas Fleming
"Metaphysics and the Human Imagination: A Review of the Philosophy of William F. Lynch"

Hartina Flournoy
"The Portrayal of Women in the Comic Strips Blondie and Brenda Starr: The Mary and Eve Motifs"

Mary Huger
"Stone City and the Genesis of Regionalism in the Federal Arts Program"

Jill Ann Leff
"The National Conference of Catholic Bishops: An Assessment of Its History, Corporate Activity and Implications
for the Church in "

Priscilla Totten
"The Reaction of American Women to Margaret Sanger and Birth Control, 1914-1930"

Hugh Wilkinson
"Charles M. Sheldon and Stephen Crane: Two Perspectives on the Individual in Industrial , 1890-1900"

1979

Mark Andrews
"Irvin S. Cobb's Literary Legacy: A Study of Literature as Social Artifact"

Robert Auth
"The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act"

Maureen Bodo
"Henry Adams and Science: The Search for Unity in Philosophy and Physics"

Thomas Cohn
"The Progressive Anomaly: A Look at Washington, D.C. in the Progressive Era"

Dorothy Dale
"Jane Peterson (American Artist)"

Richard Fiesta
"The Industrialist in Politics: Henry Clay Frick"

Frank Gaffney
"Harlem and the Dream Deferred: The Negro Renaissance as an Urban Phenomenon"

James Kearn
"A Machine that Drove on Both Sides of the Street: Pittsburgh Politics, 1870-1900"

Steven Lotterer
"No Red Ribbons: The 1978 Republican Primary in Kansas' Fifth Congressional District"

Lawrence Monte
"The Ideal of Progress in American Medicine, 1920-1938: A Literary-Historical Study with Particular Reference
to Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith and William Carlos Williams' Autobiography and Life Along the Passaic River"

Kim Rafter
"Westport, Connecticut as Artistic Community: Art and Urbanism"

Lawrence Segal
"Equality in : An Evolving Doctrine"

Suzanna Samstag
"Aspects of Her Soul...Margaret Fuller: Identity and Vocation"

Richard Tranter
"Appalachians: Our Native Immigrants--A Study of Ethnic Migration, 1940-1970"

1980

Beth Blanken
"Land and Literature in Chicano Culture"

Michael Butler
"The Image of the Worker in the American Novel, 1870-1900"

Daniel Collopy
"Senate Perquisites for Election: You Pay for Them"

Maureen Cooney
"John Neihardt: Poet From Nebraska"

Elizabeth Kelly
"Moses Billings: Nineteeth Century Portrait Painter"

Mary Helen McNeal
"A Fractured Dream: Organizational Politics and Black Leadership in Baltimore, 1967-1972"

Mark Macenka
"The Contemporary Corporation in "

Sharon Rust
"Ayn Rand and the Objectivists: The New Intellectuals"

John Sheehan
"The Impact of the 1960's Upon the American Myth of the Messianic Mission"

Nancy Winkler
"The Unelected Leaders: Business Activism in Baltimore's Urban Renewal, 1952-1958"

1981

James Clifford
"A Time to Say No: Conscientious Resistance to the Vietnam War"

Elizabeth Ebner
"An Interesting Comparison: A Study of Lillian Hellman's Adaptation of The Lark in Relation to the Politics of
the 1950's"

Kathleen Johnson
"Mexican Immigration and Policy: The Labor Program Alternative"

Karen Linehan
"Boston's North End Community in Transition"

Glenn Lowenstein
"A New Commodity Policy for the Emerging Structure of Agriculture"

Edward McBride
"Safe Haven: Protective Space and Community Stability in a Philadelphia Neighborhood"

Timothy Magee
"The Tradition of Progressive Education in the 1960's: Philadelphia as a Case Study"

Katharine Mannix
"Margaret Anderson and the Little Review: Reflections of the Literary Temper of the 1920's"

Lisa Miller
"Black Art of the 1960's: Definition and Significance"

Frances Mooney
"Legislating Morals: A Case Study of the District of Columbia's Gambling Referendum"

Stephen Moore
"Critical and Popular Perceptions of Moby Dick, 1851 to the Present"

James Napier
"Henry Wallace's Opposition to Foreign Policy During the Early Cold War Years"

Peter Radell
"Morgan Community School: A Case Study in Urban Education Reforms"

Kristine Reddington
"The Peace Corps: An American Mission"

Ellen Ryan
"The Spiritual and Artistic Theories of William James Stillman"

Patricia Sullivan
"An Expectation of Forsythia" (play)

Nancy Sur
"The Role of the Catholic Church in the Movement Against the War in , 1965-1968"

1982

Elizabeth Doyle
"The Desegregation of Boston's School System: A City Divided"

William Ferraro
"The National Anthem Act of 1931: The Emergence of a Legal Symbol"

Gloria Gaines
"The Emergence of the Professional Breeding Farm, 1950-1980"

Maria Christina Garcia
"Cuban Immigration, 1959-1971: A Study of a Modern Immigration Experience"

Timothy Garry Jr.
"The Floridation Question in New York City: In Whom Can We Trust? 1952-1965"

John Koutsoumpas Jr.
"Politics and the Pulpit: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, the First Catholic President of the "

Dana Lebo
" Aid in Egyptian Education: An Inter-Cultural Study"

Dierdre McCarthy
"Through the Eyes of a Cartoonist: Bill Maudlin Looks at World War II and the Post War Society"

Lisa Micallef
"A Poet Out of His Time: A Study of the Image of Women in Thirteen Poems by Robert Frost"

Molly Murphy
"Women's Athletics and Title IX"

Jeffrey Perry
"The Enduring Ambiguity of Andrew Carnegie: A Critical Study"

Jacqueline Marie Valdespino
"The Portrayal of Women in Popular American Magazines: 1942-1944"

Deborah Wean
"Eleanor Roosevelt: A Model First Lady?"

Wen Yang
"The Lost Generations: A Literary Study of the American and Chinese Experiences During the Twenties and
Eighties"

1983

Jeffrey Befort
"The Development and Expression of Pluralism in American Catholic Social Action"

Jennifer Lee Campbell
"A Bison in the Met, and Other Problems of Corporate Involvement in the Visual Arts"

Michael Anthony Carducci
"The Appalachian Regional Commission: A Commitment to Rural "

Katherine Connelly
"Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers: A Man With a Vision"

Sally Enoch
"Crystal Eastman and the War Years: The Women's Peace Party of New York and the American Union Against
Militarism"

John Gilvar
"Three Recent Labor Documentaries: Reflections on Politics and Style"

John Godges
"The Troubled American Conscience: A Study of the March on Washington, 1963 and 1983"

John Interrante
"Republican Remedies for the Diseases Most Incident to Republican Government: The Development of a Reform
Ideology and Internalization of Change by Benjamin Rush"

Jill Suzanne Jameson
"The Herfindahl Guidelines: A Breakthrough For Merger Policy?"

Frances McGovern
"The Sanity of the Insanity Defense"

Andrea Masucci
"Eric Sevareid: Journalist, Historian and CBS's Commentator in Charge of Significance"

Kevin Melvin
"Tribalism and Individualism: Divergent Paths to Wounded Knee"

Ken Veilleux
"Blacks and World War II: An Ambivalent Leadership"

1984

Andrew Bellwoar
"Bob Dylan: An American in Search of the Self"

Mary Eileen Carroll
"A History of Disease in : Anorexia Nervosa as a Paradigm"

Elizabeth Draper
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Paradox of Motherhood in "

Katherine Early
"For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People: Cultural Attitudes and the Establishment of Yellowstone National
Park"

Julia Kingsley Evans
"The Double Burden of Being Black and Female in : A Study of Works by Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange
and Alice Walker"

Patrick Gaffney
"Time and Reader's Digest in : American Cultural Penetration"

John Klopf
"H.L. Mencken and Societal Influences on the American Language"

Frances McCabe
"The Symbolic Value of the Apollo Mission"

Scott Peoples
"Jazz Becomes Art: The Discovery of Thelonious Monk"

Matthew Porter
"'I Always Bet on Sunshine': Henry W. Grady and His Vision of the New South, 1880-1889"

Eudora Richardson
"Old South to New York: Three Industrializing Families in Post-Bellum North Carolina"

Steven Sledzik
"Gary Wills: Catholic Commentator"

1985

Mary Fahy
"Lolita in the : Vladimir Nabokov's Experience as an American Writer"

Tracey Fitzgerald
"The National Council of Negro Women and the Feminist Movement, 1935-1975"

Bruce Fort
"The Life and Works of Francis G. Caffey: The Southern Provincial in Metropolis"

Kurt Inderbitzin
"Nuclear War and the : A Study of the History, Strategy and Civil Defense of the Nuclear
Force"

Karen Kozachok
"The Evolution of the Commercially Crafted Presidential Campaign"

Mary McCarthy
"Mobil vs. Marathon: Corporate Takeovers and American Society"

Matthew Sippel
"The Revitalization of Buffalo, New York"

1986

Ron Burke
"The Masses: A Nexus of Artist, Worker and the New World Order"

Tara Cryan
"Edward R. Murrow and See It Now: A Small Footnote to History in the Fight Against the Senator"

Geoffrey Fitzgerald
"American Entrepreneurship: The Popular and Economic Ramifications of the Entrepreneur"

Kendra Follett
"James B. Stockdale and Robert Garwood: The Contrast and Contradiction of "

Andrew Law
"Andy Warhol: 'Do Not Understand Me Too Quickly'"

Martha Lawler
"Gari Melchers, 1860-1932: Jack of All Trades...Master of One?"

Stephen Leisz
"Edward Abbey: Modern Jeremiah"

Edward Levin
"Walter Lippman and the 1960's: A Minor Dark Age"

Ann Morrow
"Federal Policy for Native American Cultures: Self-Determination Policies and Their Effect on Native Health
Care Delivery"

Kimberly Newman
"Images of Women in Two Periodical Publications of the 1890's"

Kevin O'Keefe
"Baltimore Politics 1971-1986: The William Donald Schaefer Years and the Struggle for Succession"

Kathryn Olson
"The Girls' Friendly Society in Late Nineteenth Century Baltimore"

David Small
"The American Ambivalence Towards the Pursuit of Wealth: Thorstein Veblen, Alexis de Tocqueville and F. Scott
Fitzgerald"

Sarah Trahern
"A Tennessee Banker in the New South: Sterling Fort's Clarkesville Diary, 1906-1916"

Judson VanDervort, Jr.
"Moorestown (New Jersey) in 1986: A Time of Transition"

Barbera Weidenbruch
"The American Experience of Conversion"

1987

Sara Anderson
"The Formation of Ms.: Reflections of Changes in Feminism in American Culture"

Diana Chung
"'The Grace that Remains': The Continuity of Identity and Culture in Native American Women's Literature"

Sallie Dinkel
"Robert Kennedy: The Making of a Candidate"

Lee Dioso
"Decency and the Death Penalty in America"

Susan Enfield
"Alfred Stieglitz: Photography, Modernism and American Cultural Reform"

Jon Enriquez
"To Strike Terror into the Hearts of the Underworld: The Batman as American Myth"

Sandra Garbrecht
"Loren MacIver: The Painter and the Passing Stain of Circumstance"

Mark Gleason, Jr.
"He Kills Us: A Cultural Look at The Catcher in the Rye"

Susan Granger
"ANTA, The Final Quarter Century?: The Decline of the American National Theatre and Academy in a Pluralistic
Society, 1960-1986"

Dan Horrigan
"Edward Taylor and the Preparatory Meditations: A Poetry of Hope"

David Hudanish
"Looking at the Past to Understand the Future"

Charlotte Hebebrand
"Invisible Women (Homelessness)"

Joe LaPlante
"Al Capone: Folk Hero of the Nineteen-Twenties"

Mary Pat McMahon
"Father Edward J. Flanagan (and Boys Town): A Master Advertiser"

Alina Marquez
"Striking a Bargain: The Establishment of Cuban Immigrants in Modern America"

Karen Smith
"The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Working Women in Industry: The Utopian Dream of M. Carey Thomas,
1921-1937"

Thomas Valentine
"Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys: Punk Satirists of the 1980's"

Ann Marie Young
"The War on Poverty and VISTA's Unique and Exemplary Role in It"

1988

Lisa Carlucci
"Reflections in the Wall: The POW-MIA Problem"

Barbara Cousins
"The Juvenile Justice System: GULC Street Law--CIPRA Program for Juvenile Offenders"

Paul Donnellan
"Media Coverage of Oliver North's Testimony at the Iran-Contra Hearings: A Cultural Assessment"

Jeffrey Finnell
"Selective Conscientious Objectors"

Cynthia Griffith
"Caricature of a Candidate: The Press and the Gary Hart Campaign"

Christine Hegenbart
"Women on Wall Street: The Glass Ceiling"

Elizabeth Hughes
"The Changing Face of Historic Preservation: Charles Carroll of Carrollton in 1937 and 1987"

Mary Carroll Johansen
"The Role of the Reserve Clause in the Development of the Baseball Industry"

Jerome Kramer
"Rolling Stone and the Counter Culture, Their Twenty Years: American Success or Sell-Out?"

Judith McCarthy
"Deciding What's Decent: The Involvement of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae with the Legion
of Decency"

Julie Manning
"Frank P. Walsh and the Irish Question: An American Proposal"

Anthony Nicotera
"John LaFarge, S.J., Catholic Interracial Pioneer: A Man Not Afraid To Rock the Boat of Racial Injustice"

Elizabeth Nix
"Jane Byrne and Women in American Politics"

Mitchell Wood
"Fighting at City Hall: Legal Battles Between the Catholic Church and Gay Communities in Five Metropolitan
Areas"

Stephanie Yuhl
"The Message Within The Messenger: A Magazine History, 1850-1865"

1989

Ellen Bracken
"New Women's Theatre"

Kathryn Buckley
"Class and the American Family in the Novels of Anne Tyler"

George Bunch
"The Literary Culture of the Depression"

Richard Burke
"Political Ideology"

Paige Conner
"The Entry of Women into the Field of Architecture"

Margaret Dowley
"Amidst a Chain of Broken Memories: The Mission for Native Americans at Hampton Institute"

Susan Duggan
"The U.S. Constitution"

Greta Gaines
"What a Wild Horse Feels Like: A Modern Frontier Thesis About Four Western Women"

Daniel Gramins
"AIDS"

Jeffrey Jackman
"Drug Use in America: No End in Sight"

Margaret Judge
"Blacks in White Hollywood: The Evolution of Blacks in American Film From Rastus to Mars Blackmon"

Josie LeCraw
"Past and Present Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Merton"

Kevin Marinacci
"Fayette County, North Carolina"

Regina Metz
"The Kerner Commission and Its Housing Grievance"

David Eric Morris
"Community Relations in Miami During the 1960's and Its Historical Antecedents"

Carol Peterson
"Family Ideology and Infant Mortality in the U.S."

Kate Reed
"Frank Capra"

Eileen Roberts
"Domestic Feminism and the American Catholic Church: The National Conference of Catholic Women in the
1920's"

Christine Santspree
"Women in the Twentieth Century Mormon Church"

Laura Schere
"William Burroughs Kicking the Habit: The Possibility of Freedom and the Problems of Political Discourse in
America"

Jennifer Schima
"The Frederic Papers and The Damnation of Theron Ware: The Irish American as Celt"

Jesica Seacor
"National Geographic, 1888-1988: Perceptions and Misperceptions"

Elizabeth Totaro
"The Phenomenon of City Magazines in the 1970's and 1980's"

Linda Wang
"The Opening of a Text: A Cultural Reading of The Closing of the American Mind"

1990

Bob Barrette
"Andrew Greeley as Novelist"

Michael Bracy
"An American Odyssey: A Study of Theme, Style and Adaptation in the Films of Stanley Kubrick"

Kristen Donoghue
"Howard Beach, New York: Racism in the 1980's"

Elizabeth Downer
"The Oglala Lakota College: A Catalyst for Positive Change in the Pine Ridge Reservation Community, South
Dakota"

Christine Glaser
"Barbara W. Tuchman: Accessible History"

Kelly Hamilton
"How to Get to Sesame Street: A Look at Sesame Street's First Twenty Years"

Cecilia Kim
"The Role of Ethnic Organizations in Assimilation: A Case Study of the Korean Community in the Metro-Atlanta
Area"

Gregory Lisa
"The Demise of Absolutes, American Self-Consciousness, and O'Neil's The Question as the Paradigmatic Hero"

Elizabeth Mitchell
"From the Front Porch to the Boardroom: Stories of Atlanta's Cabbagetown"

Brett Mizelle
"White Violence and Black Response: The Racial Massacre at Atlanta, September 1906"

Amy Morello
"The Italian Immigrant and Crime Throughout the Progressive Era: Perception Versus Reality"

Kathy O'Rourke
"Irish Ceili Dancing in the Washington/Baltimore Area in the Twentieth Century: A Comparison Study of the 1950's
and the 1980's"

Matthew Shine
"Trying His Best to Be Just Like He Is: A Look At Bob Dylan in Words and Music, 1962-1967"

Mark Sprinkle
"Recent American Picture Books and Ideals of Childhood"

Amy Uelmen
"Seeing the U.S.A.: The Landscapes of Walt Disney"

Michelle VanDervort
"The Media's Coverage of Homelessness in America: Reflection or Perception?"

Christopher Walsh
"Father Groppi: Milwaukee's Marching Priest"

Nicole Wong
"The Uttering of "I": A Study of Self Concept Among Chinese-American Women"

Lisa Ziernicki
"Moralism in Public Policy: Examining the War on Drugs"

1991

George Barbatsuly
"The Hidden Side of the Moon Landing: Exploring Cultural Reactions to the U.S. Space Program in the 1960s"

Catherine Corrigan
"Film as a Cultural Prism: A Study of World War II and Vietnam War Films"

John deGrandpre
"Saul Bellow's Images of the Individual in American Society 1953-1963"

Doug Disrud
"Consumption and Identity: 'Abundance' and 'The American Character' 1945-1960"

Kathleen Farley
"Untangling Spider-Women's Modern Web: Investigating the Role of Native American Women's Voice in
Contemporary Native American Writing"

Gregory Milano
"In the Name of God and the Law: American Sanctuary for Central American Refugees"

Chris Moore
"The Washington Peace Center: Twenty-Seven Years of Bringing Peace to the People"

David Nasatir
"Bill the Kid: American Individualism and Film"

Christopher Panarella
"Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J.: His Life and Views on the Church-State Issue"

Elise Plunkett
"The American Revolution Bicentennial 1976: Rehabilitating the Idea of America"

Edward Power
"Curriculum of Exclusion: Afrocentric Reform in American Public Secondary Education"

Amit Shah
"The American Conception of Death: A Linkage Through History"

John Slavin
"Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing: A Study of Film as a Socio-Cultural Document"

Teresa Teleen
"Seek Beauty, Give Service, Be Happy: The Camp Fire Girls of America in Myth and Reality"

Kathy Tomsho
"The Debate About Family Life Education in Prince William County: 'Shirtsleeves Democracy'"

Christopher van Loben Sels
"Technology, Abundance, and Recycling: How American Culture Deflects Environmental Reforms"

1992

Michael Byrne
"A Young Gentleman's Literature: A Thoughtful Look at the Georgetown College Journal"

Lara Coraci
"Equal Protection Mad Equal: The Story of Thurgood Marshall"

Kevin Dermody
"MTV and Youth: A Cultural Study of the Effects of Music Videos on Adolescents"

Pamela Dintruff
"Madonna: Pop Icon of American Culture?"

Elizabeth Dolan
"Gone With the Wind: The Danger of An Illusion"

Steve Fishbach
"Schoolhouse Blues: The Failure of Education Reform in Rochester, New York, 1960-1992"

Jason Gould
"Power Play: The Story of Television and the Civil Rights Movement"

Maggie Hanson
"Rembert Weakland: An Archbishop for a Pluralistic Society"

Coleen Hennessey
"American Education Put to the Test: Repercussions of the Modern Educational Crisis Fostered by Sputnik and
Global Economic Education"

Suzi Hoffman
"Marginalized Groups on a Quest for Development: A Comparative Study of the D.C. Latino Community and the
Popular Movement in El Salvador"

John Huston
"Making the Freeway: An Essay on Los Angeles"

Jean-Claire Kirk
"Earth First!: American Extremism in Action; A Look at Radical American Environmentalism"

Jenny Kline
"Cultural Variations on an American Obsession: Why Is Thin In?"

Bryce MacDonald
"Bagels and Lox: An Examination of the People of the Upper West Side"

Sherri Miles
"Lee v. Weisman: America's Religious Tradittion At A Crossroads"

Josh Nickerson
"Fitting In: Chinese, Filipino, and Korean Immigrants in American Life, 1965-1975"

Ira Parsons
"No More Sunny Days: A Look at the Backdrop of Children's Television in the United States Educational
Recession"

Leah Pisano
"Frank Lloyd Wright: 'Truth Against the World'"

Tom Roddis
"Joe DiMaggio: Major League Ballplayer, Minor League Hero?"

Tricia Wood
"Reganite Films: A Cure for the Malaise?"

1993

Daniel J. Bavuso III
"'Slouching Toward Bethlehem,' The Counterculture: Cultural Rejection or Spiritual Revival?"

Elizabeth Cherry
"Sex-Role Socialization: The Use of Educational Texts in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"

Toby M. Chieffo
"Focusing the Eye: Stanford White, Designing Frames - - Designing Society, 1880-1906"

Erica Colleton
"Rookies Ain't the Only Ones that Drop: Gangs, Their Activities, and America's Response"

Steven D. Evans
"The Technical & Ethical Dimensions of AIDs in American Society"

Mary Megan Faraday
"The Washington National Cathedral: The Gothic in American Ecclesiastical Architecture"

David Freeman
"Internal Colonization: From Alienation to Resistance in Third World America"

Michael Gaffney
"Environmental Crisis, An Examination of Two Test Cases"

J. Neal Gardner
"John LaFarge, S.J.: A Vision of Change, A Pioneer of an Interracial Movement"

Gregory J. Han
"'The Best Show in L.A.': Aimee Semple McPherson and Her Role in Religious America"

Kari Kovach
"Seeing Stars in the Land of Opportunity: The Hollywood-Washington Connection"

Erin Melley
"The Children's Defense Fund: Crusaders For Kids - - Champions of Change"

Timothy Brennan Neary
"Creating a City of God in the Nation's Capital; The Work of Saint Augustine Parish School"

Thomas A. Rice
"The Dawes Plan: A Period of Restrained Foreign Policy"

Erin Michaela Sweeney
"The Dance Theater of Harlem's John Henry: Folk Culture on the Classical Ballet Stage"

Matthew Uelmen
"Cannibal Culture, technology and American music"

Terra Weikel
"Yovos, Americans in Togo, West Africa, A Personal Experience of Intercultural Contact"

Karen Marie Woods
"American Classic or Racist Trash? Huckleberry Finn and Classroom Censorship"

Glen Zwicker
"Foreigners At Home: Americans Who Live in Sevilla"

1994

Bridget Bradley
"Crossing Borders, Transferring Culture: The Process of Assimilation in America"

Heather Campbell
"Defining Art in America: Art from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition"

Matthew Doherty
"Fighting for the New Frontier: The Fin-de-Siecle Struggle to Define the American Experience"

John Donoghue
"Babylon is Fallin': The Twenty-Ninth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers"

Michael Dugan
"Total Education: Father Edmund Walsh and the School of Foreign Service, 1919-1936"

Kahleen Hogan
"What Portrait Have We Painted? Historical Preservation and the Meaning of America"

Jonathan Kalisch
"Catholic Missionaries, the Federal Government, and Native American Indian Acculturation"

Kathy Krysiak
"The Real 'Golden Girls': An Examination of the Cultural and Economic Realities of Contemporary
Elderly Women"

Matthew Luckett
"Waiting Voices: Japanese American Women and the World War II Incarnation Experience"

Amy McCabe
"The Underground 'Radiant Child' of the 1980's: Keith Haring and Graffiti as Art"

Hannah McCann
"In the American West: Artist, Audience, Subject"

Kevin Meagher
"The Meaning of the Errand: American Reactions to the Atomic Bomb"

Michael O'Grady
"Romantic Images of War in American Culture and the Effect on the Fighting Soldier in Vietnam"

Mary Strunk
"'Dumb and Not Beautiful': Malleable Myths Surrounding Women Gangsters of the 1930s and Their Translation into
Film"

Katherine Tromble
"E Pluribus Unum, Erin Go Braugh: The Sixty-Ninth N.Y.S.M. and the Development of an Irish-American Identity"

Donna Truglio
"Thanksgiving: The Creation of an American Tradition"

James Wilson
"Television News, Social Crisis, and Public Information: The Crown Heights Riots"

Lara Winner
"Humanitarian Politics: American Refugee Policy in the Post-World War II Era"

Juliane Wohler
"A Decade of Ms. Magazine, 1982 to 1992: Classroom Aid or Coffee Table Clutter?"

Jason Zoto
"The Civil Rights Movement Then and Now: An Analysis of the Progress of the Movement from 1964 to 1994"

1995

David Bernstein
"Legend of the Blue and Gray: A History of Rowing at Georgetown"

James Brogan
"To Create 'A Citty upon a Hill': Desegregation in the Public Schools of the District of Columbia and the Rhetoric of
Racial Equality, 1939-1971"

John Clavadetscher
"The Symbolic Importance of the Marlboro Man: The Mythology of the American Cowboy, and How Philip Morris
Inc. Economically Profited From This American Icon"

Catharine Egan
"The Evolution of the Role of the First Lady"

Heather Elliott
"1992, Year of the Woman: Women Candidates in Contemporary America"

Dana Guthrie
"The American Art Union (1839-1850) and the Democratization of American Art"

C.C. Halloran
"Infection of the Australian Mind? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on American Popular Culture in
Australia"

Jennifer Henry
"The American Women's Movement and American Cultural Mythology: A Means of Liberation or a Force of
Oppression?"

Kimberly Johnson
"Paradoxes in Hip-Hop"

Daniel Kamensky
"Glamorizing the News: How Entertainment Values Hove Transformed the News Business"

Coleen Macnamara
"The American Love of Liberty: An Analysis of Why the Health Security Act Failed"

Kano Mayer
"Tin Cup: A Birth and Death in America"

Mark McLarty
"Sino-American Relations between the Second World War and the Onset of the Cold War"

Brian Monnich
"The NCAA: The Past, Present, and Future of Academic Integrity and Race Relations in 'Big-Time' Intercollegiate
Athletics"

Katherine O'Halleran
"Violent Indications: A View of Race Relations Through the Actions of Rioters in 1919 and 1966 Race Riots in
Chicago"

Gian-Carlo Peressutti
"Betraying Our Past: Nuclear Waste Disposal and Changing Conceptions of the American Frontier"

Andrew Perry
"Boys in the Woods: The Boy Scout Handbook and the Adventure of Adolescence, Masculinity, and America,
1910-1995"

Margaret Sansone
"Standing on Hallowed Ground: Indian Sacred Sites & The Scope of the Free Exercise Clause"

Sarah Seaman
"Norman Rockwell (1894-1978): The Illustrator, The Artist, The Storyteller"

Edward Sippel
"U.S. Involvement in Chile 1970-1973: The Decisions behind the Decisions"

Katharine Wang
"Voices for the Earth: The Legacy of Ansel Adams and the Evolution of Environmental Photography"

1996

Thomas Paul Akana
“The Academics vs. The Patriots: Public History, Public Memory, and the Fallout of the Enola Gay Controversy at the National Air and Space Museum”

Amiée Albertson
“Proposition 187: A New Variation of an Old American Theme”

Brendan Barrett
“Reading Ralph Reed: The Rhetoric of the Christian Coalition”

Allen Burton
“Diamonds and Asphalt: A.G. Spalding and America’s National Game”

Bill Caffrey, Jr.

“Baseball and American Cinema, 1971-1995: How the American Mythology surrounding baseball has been interpreted and portrayed in the baseball films of the last twenty-five years”

Gina Dyson
“Party Girls: Brownie Wise and the Tupperware Phenomenon in 1950's Suburbia”

Amy N. Fitzgerald
“Better to be a Slave of the Jesuits?: The Maryland Jesuits’ Policy and Practice Regarding the Treatment of Their Slaves (1805-1838)”

Kate Gallin
“Virgin or Whore: Unmasking the Face of Fallen Woman in Turn of the Century American Literature”

Tiffany M. Gill
“Ain’t No Body’s Business If I Do: Classic Blues Women, Rap Artists, and the Reclaiming of Black Female Sexuality”

Kimberly Hamlin
“Artists, Critics, and the I.W.W.: America’s Flirtation with Radical Causes, 1912-1917"

Robert Hosang
“Erotic Epistemology and the Study of Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider”

Kilandigalu Mohamed Madati
“The American Mosaic: A Study of the Ideals and Concepts Behind Affirmative Action and Multiculturalism”

John Martino
“The Foundations of the American Political Tradition: The Myth of the Enlightened Republic”

Ashley McKinney
“Work & Success Ethic in America’s Gilded Age”

Audrey Mickahail
“Eastern Origins, Western Landscapes: A Discussion of the Phenomenon of Arab Immigration and Acculturation in 20th Century American Culture”

Thomas P. Oates
“Mass Media to Mass History: The Columbia University Protests of 1968"

Michael Sedor
“Subterranean Homesick Blues: Historical Study of the Weatherman Organization”

Elizabeth A. Stinson
“The Difference Between Civilization and Savagery: Experiential Education and the Union of Life and Letter”

1997

Henry Eric Bender
“The Newberry Medal: An Exploration of Children’s Literature in American Society, 1965, 1968, and 1975"

Tara Flynn Deubel
“Reclaiming Africa in America: Gullah Culture and the Search for a Usable African Past”

Jed Donahue & Christian Talbot
“The American Epic in Twentieth Century Cinema: The Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Star Wars”

Alexandra Duch
“An American in Paris: Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Experience”

Colin Dwyer
“Advocacy and Canon Creation in Jazz Scholarship”

Andrea Fainelli
“Making Horsesense: Black Beauty and the Production of Cultural Representation in Nineteenth-Century America”

Marti Frank
“Mormon Missions at Home: The Indian Student Placement Program”

Kristen Grossnickle

“Community Networks: Creating Electronic Streets Leading to the Information Superhighway”

Megan Hardin
“Disease and its Representations: David Wojnarowicz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and the Role of Disease in American Culture”

William Lucas Hudson, III
“Romance and Realism: An Evaluation of Booker T. Washington’s Ethic Through the Life of Alabama Sharecroppers”

Anna Kertesz
“The Christian Right and the Republican Party”

Elizabeth Kohn
“Making Wampum: Exhibiting the Mashantucket Pequots”

Sharon M. Leon
“Coloring Inside the Lines: Early Twentieth Century Objections to Racial Mixing”

Andrew Madden
“Reading Culture Through Architecture: Union Station and Cultural Change at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

Mark J. Marinacci
“America in the Frontier of Vietnam”

Colleen Monahan
“Seeing is Believing: Viewing Exotics–Ota Benga and Ishi–as Popular Entertainment in Progressive America”

Roxana Mullin
“The Public Making of Richard Rodriguez”

Catherine A. Nieburg-Salman
“The Shopping Mall: A Mirror of American Popular Culture”

Erin Royston
“The Politics of Cultural Intervention: The National Endowment for the Arts and Public Sector Folklore”

Jennifer M. Wiley
“‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery’: Reggae’s Young Mainstream White American Audience”

1998

Kirsten Brinker
“History Reconstructed: A Discussion of the Relationship Between Historic Preservation and American History”

James Fogarty
“Marion Barry is the City”

Anne K. Frederick
“Freeing Speech: Justice William J. Brennan’s Contribution to First Amendment Jurisprudence”

Elizabeth Larkin Hatchett
“The Great Textbooks of the Nineteenth Century: Themes and Lessons in the McGuffey Readers”

Patrick Wilson Haugh
“Family Business: The History of the Homer Scott Family and the Construction of a Western Family Empire”

Colleen D. Hitch
“Saluting War: The Jehovah’s Witnesses Challenge the American Flag, Justice System, and People, 1935-43"

Matthieu McAuliffe
“Anthology of American Folk Music: Harry Smith’s American Vision”

Anthony Paul O’Brien
“Mourning, Celebration, and Pilgrimage: How Irish-Americans Perceive and Perform the Northern Ireland Troubles”

Courtney Diesel O’Donnell
“Spock Talk: The Convergence of American Pediatrics, Politics, and Practicality; Fifty Years of Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care”

Brian Alexander Reilly
“Tracks of Union: How a Lack of Sectional Identity Influenced the Irish American’s Reaction to Abolition, 1830-1860"

John Roche
“The Social, Political, and Cultural Conscience of the Genre of 1970's Blaxploitation Films”

Megan Twohey
“How the Tobacco Industry Enslaved the New Ms. In America: Cigarette Advertising and Women in the United States, 1920-1940"

Jordan Lynch Welu
“A Good Dose of Culture for the Masses: The Late 20th Century Blockbuster Exhibition and Andrew Wyeth Helga Pictures”

Katie Wiley
“Positive Living, Negative Results: A Search for Solutions to the Spread of HIV/AIDS in the D.C. Latino Community”


1999

Sara Cantwell
“Mary Cassatt: A Professional Artist”

Carolyn R. Davol
“Introducing Americans to America: Images of African Americans in FSA Photographs: Gordon Parks and Marion Post Wolcott”

Heather Delaney
“The Intersection of Politics and Pedagogy in the Debate over Bilingual Education: A Case Study of California’s Proposition 227"

Margaret Mary Grammins
“Morons, Imbeciles, and Idiots: Virginia’s Eugenics”

Chantal Laurie
“A Visit to Boston Latin School: Affirmative Action as a Compelling Cultural Debate”

Sarah Mollogy
“Sunny Days on Sesame Street: An American Experiment – Ongoing (and Online) 1969-1999"

Stephanie E. Niehaus
“Divided Loyalties: The Effect of Eamon de Valera’s American Mission on the Irish-American Community”

Micki O’Neil
“New York City’s School Crisis: Talking Power”

Joseph Michael Pepek, III
“Penny Scales and (Scape)goats: Transforming the American Body During the 1920s”

Allison Tepley
“Belles of the Ball: The Social Dance of the Chattanooga Ball”

Melissa S. Tidwell
“The DeRolph Case: Challenging American Notions of Fair Play”

2000

David Avitabile
“Borough of Parishes: The Role of the National Parishes in Shaping Neighborhoods in Brooklyn, 1890-1950"

Christopher M. Bruckmann
“Constructing an Hero: Myths, Legends, and Lies in Selected Early Biographies of Ulysses S. Grant”

Stephen J. Buckingham
“Divided House: The Shaping Loyalties in Maryland During the Civil War”

Harmon L. Cooper
“Wilder for Governor ‘89: The Changing Face of American Politics”

Scott W. Coyle
“From Radio Priest to Radio Fascist: Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Hopes and Fears of Early American Radio”

Jennifer L. Dana
“How Music Reflects and Affects Culture: The Role of Bebop in 1940s America”

Melody Drummond
“Content and Discontent: Understanding the Titled Arc Controversy, A Decade Later”

Jamie Gross
“Survival Narratives: An Evolving American Genre”

Ehren Halse-Strumberg
“William Grant Still: Composing an American Heritage”

Alexandra Lewis
“Race, Gender and Identity: Asian American Literature in the Era of Globalization”

Chris Mattei
“Dine’ Bi’olt’a: Cultural Identity at the Rough Rock Community School”

Preetmohan S. Sabharwal
“Rag-heads, Hindoos, and Nonwhite Caucasians: Sikh Racialization and Exclusion, 1905-1923"

Bonnie Schreiber
“Hate Speech: Censor or Censure – Marching Nazis, Cyber Hate and the Future of the First Amendment”

Jennifer Seidenberg
“Playing Indian: The Rise of Cultural Appropriation and Ethnic Consumerism in the United States”

Selene Steneck
“Visions of Progress, Dreams of Tradition”

2001

Jacques Arsenault
“Capitalizing on the Counterculture: The Impact of the Music Industry on the San Francisco Sound at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.”

Marybeth Baxter
“A Woman’s War: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement.”

John Blair
“Entering the Social Dialogue: John Sayles’s Exploration of Race and Power in Lone Star.”

S. Farley
“Women in Uniform: Representations of Military Nurses in the Post-Vietnam Era.”

Sarah Fass
“Stifled Voices: An Exploration of Middle School Reading Requirements.”

Chris Gould
“Motel? Do Tell: Colonizing the Roadscape in the Twentieth Century.”

Aaron Hiatt
“Success Beyond the Arc: A Study of Post-Colony Life among South Dakota Hutterite Colony. Defectors.”

Melissa Marinelli
“Telling a Story: Retrieving Rheta Childe Dorr.”

Matthew McHale
“Taking Care of Their Own: The Black Church and the Social Gospel.”

Jenny E Schwarz
“American Chaos & Biblical Order: Use of the Hebrew Scriptures in Film Iconoclasm: Unforgiven, Blade Runner, and Magnolia.”

Geoff Sonn
“Migrant Agricultural Workers and Health Care in the United States: The Struggles and Successes of Washington State’s Columbia Valley Community Health.”

Lizzy Whitehorn
“Judaism’s Prophetic Tradition and the American Dream: Rabbis Charles Mantinband and Perry Nussbaum Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.”

Amy Zimmerman
“Thirty Dollars a Week for Knowing Nothing: The Letters of Louise Miller Boyer.”


2002

Dominic Ambrosio
"Reflecting American Values: Presidential Rhetoric in Times of Crisis."

Danielle M. Boehmcke
“Disney’s American Ideals within the Built Environment: A Study of the Landscapes and History of Disney’s Theme Parks.”

Elena Boyd
“The Debt We Owe Ourselves: Realizing Justice Through Slavery Reparations.”

Sara Chieffo
“Glorifying the Nymphet: Censorship, Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.”

Jørgen Cleeman
“Achieving Invisibility through Versatility: The Mainstreaming of American Graphic Novels.”

Christiane Connors
“‘To My Surprise They Evangelized Me Too’: Maryknoll and Its Class of 1956.”

Alia Creasey
“Recognizing a Health and Healthcare Underclass: Black Healthcare in the Nation’s Capital.”

Tara Dempsey
“Stax Records: A Cultural and Musicological Study Re-Evaluating its Signficance.”

Adam Hoit
“Local Knowledge in the Elian Gonzalez Affair: Community and Conscience Through Editorial Cartoons.”

Megan Lawson
“Money and America: ‘Fixing’ Intersex Children for Fifty Years.”

Adam McGovern
“Washington’s Renaissance: Music, Performance, and Pride in the African-American Community of Washington D.C. During the Early Twentieth Century.”

Sara Mills
“Resisting the Nuclear Repository, Reimaging the Nevada Landscape: A Study of the Yucca Mountain Proposal.”

Jessica Schneider
“Behind a Documentary Filmmaker’s Commitment: The Failure of Robert Drew’s Direct Cinema Movement.”

Kyle Seifried
“Empire and Oil: The Case for Media Reform after the Gulf War.”

Sherman, Donald.
“Ignoring Law, Finding Justice?: A Critique of Racially Based Jury Nullification.”

Brenna Supple
“Commodifying Hallowed Ground: The Preservation Attempts at the Manassas Battlefield.”

Cameron Woods
“Project Head Start: A Promise to American Families? A Study of the Effects of Social Action Programming on American Communities.”

2003

James Bruffee
"The Regulation of American Expression: An Examination of U.S. Copyright from the Age of Independence to the Digital Moment."

Louis Caravella
"Wild Rumors, Bamboozling Stories: Cannibalism and Consumption in Moby Dick"

Danielle De Cerbo
"The New York Times in the Proportional Representation Debate, 1936-1947."

Robert Golden
"An American Classic: The Influence of Ancient Greece and Rome in The Federalist Papers."

Jason Griffin
"Full Frontal Liberality: MTV's Struggle to Balance Liberalism and Financial Success Between 1998 and 1992."

Nicholas Laskowski
"A New American Anarchism: The Do-It-Yourself Cultural Reclamation of Politics."

Laura Matthews
"The New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade: The Other 'Fighting Irish.'"

Heather Murphy
"Constructing and Traversing Boundaries With Shoes, 1960-1990."

Walter Nelson
"Homeland Security: An Analysis."

Mark Smith
"White Supremacy and the Lost Cause: Faithful Slave Narratives in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America."

Jesse Stein
"Politicians Make Strange Bedfellows: A Tale of the New Romance Between Republicans and Jews."

Erin Sullivan
"The State of Community in America: An Examination of Habits of the Heart."

Corinne Tapia
"From Daughters to Wives to Mothers: The Experiences of Southern California's Mexican-American Women During the 1940's."

Connor Williams
"Running Out of Hope: Bill Clinton's Impact on Al Gore's 2000 Presidential Bid."

2004

Doran G. Arik
"Right of Reflex: Litigation in Modern America."

Emily A. Bishop
"Murder, Mayhem, and Myth: The Manson Family and the Tate-Labianca Murders in American Memory."

Kenneth M. Bowman
"Lessons Learned From President Harry Truman's Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty, 1946-1947."

Kelly Condon
"Everyday Revolutions in Parenting: The Evolution and Effects of Gay Fatherhood."

Nicole M. Diamant
"The Artvertisement: Women and the American Visual Culture, from Edward Weston to Richard Avedon."

Timothy R. Hargadon
"Paint it Black: Race, Media, and the Black Athlete in America."

Samuel A. Haverstick III
"A Sip of Americana: An Account of Coca-Cola's Quintessential Role in American Culture."

William D. Johnston
"Homogeneity in American Radio: Localism, the Minority Voice and the Public Interest."

Philippa Koch
"Family History: A Genealogical Account of American Origins."

Sandra E. Kreis
"Not That Innocent: American Girls, Images, and the Evolution of Britney Spears in Post-Feminist America."

Jeremy R. Lundblad
"The Impact of Awareness: The Role of the Media in the Genesis of the Agent Orange Controversy."

Maria C. Moser
"Stars of David and Statues of Liberty: Representations of the Holocaust in American Young Adult Fiction."

K. Isabel Mueller
"Labors of Love: Texas Mutalistas in American Society."

Kathleen E. O'Donnell
"Reaganism, Re-released: The Channeling of Reaganist Rhetoric and Imagery Post 9/11 as Post-Detente Cold War Nostalgia."

Kate O’Keefe
“Hollywood Justice: Celebrity in America, Fatty Arbuckle, and the Cultural Implications of Scandal Narratives.”

Andrew Owen
“Blight on the Blue Ridge: Western North Carolina and the Myths of the Chestnut Blight.”

Avery B. Pardee
“The Construction of Narrative in Urban Education: Nonfiction and the Expectations of Service Learners.”

Cynthia Redwine
“African-American Responses to Uncle Remus: Challeging Social Memory.”

Edward C. Shelleby
“The Lutherans, the Scouts, and Homosexuality: Managing the Politics of Change.”

Cara C. Tarone
“The Progression of the American Dream Told Through Fancy Free Ideas on the Town and on West Side Story Streets of New York City.”

Kristin N. Thorne
“Baltimore’s Little Italy: Locating the Italian-American Experience.”

Kara Ward
“The Anatomy of a Public Servant: John J. DiIulio, Jr. in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.”

2005

Stephen F. Alleva
“A Lasting, Lifetime Loving Singing Group: The Georgetown Chimes as an Ideal Institution.”

Ron Anderson
“Buffeting the ‘Opposing Billows’ of Racial Prejudice: Reexamining Black American Participation at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.”

David Benjamin
“Sticky Fingers: Andy Warhol, Denim, and Postmodernism.”

Christopher J. Cariello
“Mapleculturalism, NJ: One American Suburb’s Response to the Challenge of Diversity.”

Jason M. Crawford
“The McKinley High School in 1954-1955 and 2004-2005: A Hope for Washington, DC.”

Zachary B. Domont
“Changing Face of America: An Examination of the Construction and Portrayal of Cosmetic Surgery in America.”

Jennifer L. Farace
“The Most American Spot on Earth: Lorrin Thurston and the Hawaaiin Revolution of 1893.”

Timothy G. Heck
“Red Scare? America Reacts to Sputnik: The First Month.”

Amanda House
“The Spokane Free Speech Fight of 1909-1910: Defending the Rights of the American Laborer.”

Kimberly Rothwell
“National Pastime and National Crises: Baseball’s Cultural Work from the Civil War Through September 11th.”

William W. Sehestedt
“Revisiting No Name City: Auteurs, Deconstruction, and the Town in Film Westerns.”

Maureen M. Sullivan
“American Labor and its Day: The Declining Spirit of a Holiday and a Movement.”

Christina M. Weyl
“The Professionalization of an American Woman Printmaker: The Early Career of Grace Albee, 1915-1933.”

2006

 Mary Elizabeth Casey
"The Authentic Hip Hopper and the Construction of Racial Identity in : Marketing and Distributing Rap Music Across Race and Class"

Anthony P. Danielak
"A Voice for Justice: Monsignor John J. Egan and the Archdiocese of Chicago"

Charles Gerli
"Personifying the Unwanted: Notions of Citizenship Through Monstrosity from Dracula to Norman Bates"

Liam Hardy
"Mark Twain's 'Orient:' Changing Americans' Perspective Through New Representations of the Ottoman Empire in 'The Innocents Abroad'"

 

Kate House
"Uncovering Catholic Morality and Personified Evil in 'The Exorcist,' from Novel to Film"

Melissa A. Jara
"Estrada Courts: Redefining Identity in Twentieth Century Los Angeles"

Katherine M. Kaiser
"'Dear Madam...' The Correspondence Between Mercy Otis Warren and John Adams, 1773-1814"

 

Sarah Therese Licandro
"The Educational Achievement of Latinos in the : An Assessment with Particular Focus on Latinos in the New Settlement States"

Tessa L. Moran
"The Cherokee Phoenix: An American Legacy"

Jaclyn Susan Mosher
"Preserving the Nation's Vanishing Treasures: The Evolving Methodology of Film Collection, Preservation and Exhibition at the Library of Congress"

Meghan M. O'Neil
"To Teach or Not to Teach: Intelligent Design, Evolution and the Freedom of American Education"

Elizabeth Nelson
"Capitalism v. Democracy: Title IX in Collegiate Athletics"

Sterling Nye Seery
"W*lMart: How the World's Largest Company is Limiting Media Content in its Stores and Thereby Limiting Freedoms at Large"

Sarah Ellen Smith
"Playing With the Boys: 'Rolling Stone' and Gender Politics of American Rock Journalism, 1967-1971"

Nicolas M. Timiraos
"The 'Weekly Standard' and the Conservative Movement in "

James Viano
"Finding American Music: The Role of Record Producers in Popularizing Local Performers During the 1920s and 1930s"

Erin Zacuto
"Cautious Constructions: The Preservation of Historic Houses in Washington, DC"

2008

Darren Alberti
“More than a Fight: African American Representation in 20^th Century American Prizefighting” 

Matthew W. Appenfeller 
“Recreated Civita: The Birth and Transformation of an Italian-American Transnational Neighborhood” 

Frances Margarita Bajet
“Recovered from Invisibility: Filipina Immigrant Women in the , 1906-1946” 

Nicholas McGraw Berry  
“Detroit’s Fall From Grace: Racial Conflict and the Collapse of the Automobile Industry”

Margaret D Breslin
“Early Childhood Education Across Cultures: Reggio Emilia in the DC Public Schools”

Jessica K. Farace 
“Washington, D.C. Race Riot: Factors Which Fueled the Flames” 

Jennifer A. Foldvary   
“Life as We See it: Home Front Perceptions of World War II From Pearl Harbor to Buna Beach Through the Lends of Life Magazine” 

Christine Emily Gallagher   
“Destinies Intertwined: ’s View of in Nineteenth Century Literature” 

Gregory Brett Goldberg 
“Red, White, and Jewish: World War II and the Incorporation of Jews into White .”

Sheila Butler Grant
“From North to South, Catholic to Protestant and Puerto Rican to Guatemalan: The Institutional Religious Response to Latinos in Delaware”              

Michael Hill 
“Come and Get These Memories: Interpreting the Motown Narrative(s)”

Erica Imbimbo
“Performance as History: The Evolution of Site Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg”

Catherine Quinn Kaplun 
“Exhibiting Controversy: The West as and the Cultural Responsibility of the Smithsonian Institution”

Caitlin Nora Kelly
“Dressing Up Democracy: Clothing’s Culture Role in 1920s ”  

John Mather Lupton IV  
“African American Civil War Service: The Unrealized Blueprint for the Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction”

Erin E. Lynch
“Insular Community: The Role of the Lubavitch Jews in Liberal Democracy”

William Martinez  
“Gangsters in Paradise: The American Mafia, Organized Crime and the Development of South Florida”

Deirdre Mary McShea
“The Foundations of the Nation: The Dialogue Between Slavery and Liberty at the President’s House in Philadelphia”        

Daniel Lawrence Mita   
“Battleground for Revival: The Delmarva Peninsula and the Methodist Movement of the American Revolution 175-1784”

Lillien E. Nathan 
“The Sopranos and Sex and the City: The Patriarchy of HBO”  

Philip A. Perry   
“Perpetuating Perspectives: American Journalism in the Middle East from Mark Twain to Daniel Pearl"

 
Kyle A. Poelker   
“Rabbit, Run(ning): John Updike, The American Adam and a New Masculinity”

Lauren Marie Carley Randle  
“’s Sweethearts: Women Candidates, Gender Politics and Campaign Advertising in 21^st Century ”

Jessica Ruppert   
“The National Museum of African American History and Culture: Exhibiting on the National Mall”

Benjamin James Shaw
“The Life of John A Wilson: The Evolution of an American Civil Rights Advocate”

Julia Tarnell
“Winning over : Images of Women in World War I Propaganda Posters”

Gregory M. Zlotnick
“Black and Blue and Gray: Georgetown University Men’s Basketball, Race Perceptions, and Multiculturalism in Higher Education During the John Thompson Era”