2000 MA Final Projects in American Studies


"Dare to Struggle, Dare to Grin:" Hugh Romney and the Counterculture of the 1960's by Ryan McNabb. Advisor: Reebee Garafalo

The First Asian-American Televison Sitcom, All American Girl: Its Significance, Contradictions, and Limitations by Motoko Kainose. Advisor: Peter Kiang

The Grinding of the Axe: Budd Schulberg's Fiction by Daniel Boudreau. Advisor: Rachel Rubin

History, Theology, and Hope: African American Visions of Racial Reconcilation in a Modern Evangelical Movement by Rena Levin. Advisor: Thomas Buckley

In Their Own Words: 19th Century Black Women in America Speak on Major Issues that Affect Them and Their Race by Charmeen Napier. Advisor: Judith Smith

Infamy Revisited: A Critical Examination of Events Leading to War on December 7, 1941 by James M. Rakauskas. Advisor: Paul Atwood

Like an Oasis in the Desert: Images of Womanhood in the Flag of Our Union 1846-1853 by Anne Kawato. Advisor:

The Museumification of Blues Music and Culture by Eric Bloomstein. Advisor:

The People Who Made A Church by Angeline Lopes. Advisor: Charles Shively

Poverty to Prominence: The Story of David I. Walsh by Kevin J. McCarthy. Advisor: Charles Shively

Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Images of Paid and Unpaid Work for White, Middle-class Women in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1883-1895 by Nancy Dennis. Advisor: Lois Rudnick