Dissertations
2018
Duncan Moench
"The Anglo-Liberal Society: A Reinterpretation of Louis Hartz and American Nativism"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Emily Roehl
"Sensing Tough Oil: Aerial Vision, Resource Extraction, and Performing Aesthetic Resistance"
Supervisor: Steve Hoelscher
2017
Carrie Andersen
"Securing America: Drone Warfare in American Culture After 9/11"
Supervisor: Randolph Lewis
Dr. Andersen was awarded the Michael H. Granof Award, given “to recognize the University’s top dissertation.” Dr. Andersen is also the recipient of the UT Graduate School’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts.
Andrew Gansky
"Myths and Legends of the Anti-Corporation: A History of Apple, Inc., 1976-1997"
Supervisor: Randolph Lewis
Elissa Underwood Marek
"Cooking with Conviction: Food and Foodways in the U.S. Carceral State"
Supervisor: Simone Browne
2016
Sean Cashbaugh
"A Cultural Hsitory Beneath the Left: Politics, Art, and the Emergence of the Underground During the Cold War"
Supervisor: Randolph Lewis
Irene Garza
"Martialing Latindad: Latina/os Re-making the Military from Vietnam to the Global War on Terror, 1969-2006."
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Brendan Gaughen
"Practices of Place: Ordinary Mobilities and Everyday Technology"
Supervisor: Jeff Meikle
Philis Barragan Goetz
"Escuelitas and Children's Literature of Texas"
Supervisor: Juia Mickenberg
Josh Holland
"Kurt Hahn, the United World Colleges, and the Un-Making of Nation"
Supervisor: Julia Mickenberg
Lily Laux
"Teaching Texas: Race, Disability and the History of the School-to-Prison Pipeline"
Supervisor: Shirley Thompson
Susan Quesal
"Dismantling the Master's House: The Afterlife of Slavery in the Twentieth-Century Representations of Home"
Supervisors: Shirley Thompson and Stephen Marshall
Kirsten Ronald
"Dancing the Local: Two-Step and the Formation of Local Cultures, Local Places, and Local Identities in Austin, TX"
Supervisor: Steve Hoelscher
Jackie Smith
"Black Princess Housewive and Single Ladies: Renee Cox's Housewife Enactments and The Politics of Twenty-First Century Wealthy Black Womanhood"
Supervisor: Shirley Thompson
2015
Marvin Bendele
"Food, Space, and Mobility: The Railroad, Chili Stands, and Chophouses in San Antonio and El Paso 1870-1905"
Supervisors: Steve Hoelscher and Elizabeth Engelhardt
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
"Disciplining Conservation: Paul N. Banks and the Moorings of Library and Archives Conservation Education"
Supervisors: Elizabeth Engelhardt and Randolph Lewis
Anne Gessler
"Civilization's Supreme Test': Cooperative Organizing in New Orleans, 1890s-2014"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Andrea Gustavson
"Vernacular Photography and The Cold War, 1945-1991"
Supervisors: Steve Hoelscher and Julia Mickenberg
Jennifer Kelly
"Your Work is Not Here: Solidarity Tourism in Occupied Palestine"
Supervisors: Barbara Harlow and A. Naomi Paik
Courtney Williams Barron
"The Political Economy of Literacy in the 'Post-Racial' Era: The Common Core State Standards and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality in the United States"
Supervisors: Shirley Thompson and Uri Treisman
Jeannette Vaught
"Science, Animals, and Profit-Making in the American Rodeo Arena"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
2014
Eric Covey
"US Mercenary Encounters with the Ottoman World, 1805-1882"
Supervisor: Elizabeth Engelhardt
Andrew Friedenthal
"Heroes of the Past, Readers of the Present, Stories of the Future: Continuity, Cultural Memory, and Historical Revisionism in Superhero Comic"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Andrew Jones
"The British Experience with American Independent Photography, 1944-1980"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Lisa Powell
"Landscapes of Mining and Agriculture in Western Kentucky"
Supervisors: Steven Hoelscher & Elizabeth Engelhardt
2013
Rebecca D'Orsogna
"Yoga in America: History, Community Formation, and Consumerism"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Anthony Fassi
"Manufacturing Ruin"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Katherine Feo Kelly
"Container Culture: Organizing the American Domestic Interior, 1978-2010"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
2012
Gavin Benke
"Electronic Bits and Ten Gallon Hats: ENRON, American Culture and the Postindustrial Political Economy"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle & Steven Hoelscher
John Cline
"Permanent Underground: Radical Sounds and Social Formations in 20th Century American Musicking"
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Christina Garcia Lopez
"Social Violence, Social Healing: The Merging of the Political and the Spiritual in Chicano/a Literary Production"
Supervisor: Cary Cordova & Jose Limon
Daniel Gerling
"American Wasteland: A Social and Cultural History of Excretement, 1860-1920"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Carly Kocurek
"Masculinity at the Video Game Arcade: 1972-1983"
Supervisor: Elizabeth Engelhardt
Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Stephanie Kolberg
"Spaces of Indulgance: Desire, Disgust and the Aesthetics of Mass Appeal"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle & Steven Hoelscher
Rebecca Onion
"How Science Became Child's Play: Science and the Culture of American Childhood, 1900-1980"
Supervisor: Janet Davis & Julia Mickenberg
Allison Wright
"Gender, Power, and Performance: Representations of Cheerleaders in American Culture"
Supervisor: Elizabeth Engelhardt
2011
Andrew Busch
"Entrepeneurial City: Race, the Environment, and Growth in Austin, Texas, 1945-2911"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Chiyuma Elliott
"Blackness and Rural Modernity in the 1920s"
Supervisor: Shirley Thompson
Craig Hillis
"The Austin Music Scene in the 1970s: Songs and Songwriters"
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Kwangjin Lee
"A Study on Jack London's The Call of the Wild: An Application of Organizational Behavior Theories"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Anna Thompson-Hajdik
"Constructing and Consuming Rural Life in Modern America"
Supervisor: Janet Davis & Steven Hoelscher
Sasha Vliet
Swerve: A Memoir of Identity in Three American High Schools
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Tracy Wuster
"'The Most Popular Humorist Who Ever Lived': Mark Twain and the Transformation of American Culture
Supervisor: Janet Davis
2010
David Bates
"Scoagan's Choice: Vachel Lindsay's Short Fiction, Poetry, and Prose"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Ben Lisle
"You've got to have Tangibles to Sell Intangibles: Ideologies of the Modern American Stadium, 1948-1982"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Robin O'Sullivan
"Compost and Consumption: Organic Farming, Food, and Fashion in American Culture"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
American Organic: A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating. Lawerence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Audrey Russek
"Culinary Citizenship in American Restaurants, 1919-1964"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
2009
John Gronbeck-Tedesco
"Reading Revolution: Politics in the US-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930-1970"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Vicky Hill
"Defining "Normal" in their own Image: Psychological Professionals, Middle-Class Normativity, and the Postwar Popularization of Psychology"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Jason Mellard
"Cosmic Cowboys, Armadillos, and Outlaws: The Cultural Politics of Texan Identity in the 1970s"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Progressive Country: How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.
Amy Ware
"The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers and the Tribal Genealogies of American Indian Celebrity"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon. Lawerence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.
2008
Angela Maxwell
"A Heritage of Inferiority: Public Criticism and the American South"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2014.
Jessica Grogan
"A Cultural History of the Humanistic Psychology Movement in America"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self. NY: Harper Collins Publisher, 2012.
Amy Shoultz
"A Revolutionary Idea: Gilbert Stuart Paints Sarah Morton as the First Woman of Ideas in American Art"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle and Susan Rather
Jessica Swigger
"''History is Bunk'' Historical Memories at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
History is Bunk: Assembling the Past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. Amherst: University of Massachussets Press, 2014.
2007
Soo Young Lee
"God’s Chosen People: Protestant Narratives in Korean Americans and American National Identity"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Gregory Carter
"America’s New Racial Heroes: Mixed Race Americans and Ideas of Novelty, Progress, and Utopia"
Supervisor: Neil Foley
The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing. NY: NYU Press, 2013.
Philip Tiemeyer
"Manhood up in the Air: Gender, Sexuality, Corporate Structure, and the Law in Twentieth Century America"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants. California: University of California Press, 2013.
Kimberly Hamlin
"Beyond Adam's Rib: How Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Redefined Gender and Influenced American Feminist Thought, 1870-1920"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Allison Perlman
"Reforming the Wasteland: Television, Reform, and Social Movements 1950-2004"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Amy Nathan Wright
"Civil Rights ''Unfinished Business'': Poverty, Race, and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
2006
Joel Silverman
"Pursing Celebrity, Ensuing Masculinity: Morris Ernst, Obscenity, and the Search for Recognition"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Nancy Semin
"An Examination of Linda Lovelace and Her Influence on Feminist Thought and the Pornographic Industry in America"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Mike O'Connor "Democratic Capitalism in the United States"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
A Commercial Republic: America's Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism. Lawerence: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
Matthew Hedstrom
"Seeking a Spiritual Center: Mass-Market Books and Liberal Religion in America, 1921-1948"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
The Rise of Liberal Religion. NY: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Polly Adema "Festive Foodscapes: Iconizing Food and the Shaping of Identity and Place"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
2005
Cary Cordova
"The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Identity in San Francisco"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Paul Erickson
"Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of City-Mysteries Fiction in Antebellum America"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Joel Huerta
"Red, Brown, and Blue: A History and Cultural Poetics of High School Football in Mexican America"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Ray Sapirstein
"Out From Behind the Mask: The Illustrated Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Photography at Hampton Institute"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Pio Schurti
"Reception and Function of American Culture in Switzerland after World War II"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Michael Scully
"American Folk Music Revivalism, 1965-2005"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
The Never-ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Alice Shukalo
"Communing With the Gods: Bodybuilding, Masculinity, and U.S. Imperialism, 1875-1900"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Kim Simpson
"Hit Radio and the Formatting of America in the Early 1970s"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Early '70s Radio: The American Format Revolution. New York City: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.
2004
Bill Bush
"Representing the Juvenile Delinquent: Reform, Social Science, and Teenage Troubles in Postwar Texas"
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Who Gets a Childhood?: Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Bill Fagelson
"Nervous out of the Service: 1940s American Cinema, World War II Veteran Readjustment, and Postwar Masculinity"
Supervisor: Bob Abzug
Adam Golub
"Into the Blackboard Jungle: Educational Debate and Cultural Change in 1950s America"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Benita Heiskanen
"Fighting Identities: The Body in Space and Place"
Supervisor: Neil Foley
The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring. New York: Routledge Publishing, 2012.
Ryan McMillen
"Space Rapture: Extraterrestrial Millennialism and the Cultural Construction of Space Colonization"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
2003
Alicia Barber
"Building It Up, Living It Down: Civic Reputation, Tourism and Urban Development in Reno, Nevada"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Jonathan Davis
"Unrealized America: Transforming American Studies to Transform America"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman
"Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Performance in San Antonio’s Public Culture"
Supervisor: Steven D. Hoelscher
Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Clifford Farrington
"Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865-1925"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865-1925. Denton: Texas State Historical Association, 2007.
Tsuyoshi Ishihara
"Mark Twain in Japan: Mark Twain's Literature and 20th Century Japanese Juvenile Literature and Popular Culture1"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.
Bryan Stone
"West of Center: Jews on the Real and Imagined Frontiers of Texas"
Supervisor: Robert H. Abzug
The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
2002
Fred Nadis
"Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage, 1845-2001"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Linda Scarbrough
"A Road and a River: The Remaking of Williamson County, Texas, 1948-2000"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Road, River, & Ol' Boy Politics: A Texas Country's Path from Farm to Supersuburb. Denton: Texas State Historical Association, 2005.
Danielle Brune Sigler
"Sweet Daddy Grace: The Life and Times of a Modern Day Prophet"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Kelley Mendiola
"The Hand of a Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840-1930"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
John Haddad
"The American Marco Polo: Exursions to a Virtual China in U.S. Popular Culture, 1784-1912"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776 to 1876. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Kim Hewitt
"Psychedelics and Psychosis: LSD an Changing Ideas of Mental Illness, 1943-1966"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Gale Greenleaf
"Cohousing in the United States: Utopian Ideals in the Twenty-first Century"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Carol Meaney
"Return of the Witch: The Scapegoating of the Unredeemable Woman in Modern American Cinema"
Supervisor: Robert H. Abzug
2001
Richard Ribb
"Jose Tomas Canales and the Texas Rangers: Myth, Identity, and Power in South Texas, 1900-1920"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Elizabeth Moore
"Being Black: Existentialism in the Work of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin"
Supervisor: Robert H. Abzug
Tommie Meyers
"The Education of Frank Waters 1902-1969, Finding a Southwestern Literary Voice"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Lisa Rhodes
"Groupies, Girls, and Chicks: Articles on Women Musicians and Fans in Rolling Stone and Selected Other Mainstream Magazines 1967-1972"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon and Janet Staiger
Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
"Powering the Modern Body: Theories of Energy Transfer in American Medicine, Science, and Popular Culture, 1875-1945"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
"In the Shadow of the South: The Untold History of Racial Integration at The University of Texas at Austin"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Integrating the 40 Acres: The Fifty-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Elizabeth Pollard Grayson
"Calling the Heart Back Home: Irish Catholic Women in America,1845-1915"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Sang-Dawn Lee
"Big Brother, Little Brother: The American Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Big Brother, Little Brother: The American Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.
Maureen Reed
"Homesickness: Untold Stories of New Mexican Women and Multiculturalism, 1930-1965"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon
A Woman's Place: Women Writing New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
Mark Sawin
"Raising Kane: The Creation and Consequences of Fame in Antebellum America, or, The Thrilling and Tragic Narrative of Elisha Kent Kane and his Transformation into Dr. Kane, the Hero of the Romantic Age"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Raising Kane: Elisha Kent Kane and the Culture of Fame in Antebellum America. Philadelphia: American Philosphical Society, 2008.
2000
Vicki Jo Howard
"American Weddings: Gender, Consumption, and the Business of Brides"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Karen Ann Russell King
"Surviving Modernity: Jewishness, Fieldwork, and the Roots of American Anthropology in the 20th Century"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Donald Walden
"The Southern Peasant: Poor Whites and the Yeoman Ideal"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
David Armstrong
"The True Believer: Walt Whitman Rostow and the Path to Vietnam"
Supervisor: Mark Smith and Robert Divine
Elizabeth Boyd
"Southern Beauty: Performing Femininity in an American Region"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon
Joel Dinerstein
"Swinging the Machine: White Technology and Black Culture Between the World Wars"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture Between the Wars. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Kathryne Tovo
"The Unparalleled Individuality of Me: The Story of Mary MacLane"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon
1999
Siva Vaidhyanathan
"Unoriginal Sins: Copyright and American Culture"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Todd Vogel
"Staging Race, Sabotaging Whiteness: Marginalized Writers Redirect the Mainstream"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
1998
Jonathan Silverman
"Success on the Margins"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Frank Goodyear
"Constructing a National Landscape: Photography and American Tourism, 1850-1900"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
Eric Eliason
"Celebrating Zion: Pioneers in Mormon Popular Historical Expression"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Charles Kupfer
"Whom Do We Fear?: American Reactions to Blitzkrieg, Summer 1940"
Supervisor: Elspeth Rostow
We Felt The Flames: Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story. San Diego: Sergeant Kirkland's Press, 2003.
1997
Cathy Turner
"Marketing Modernism: Advertising Modern Literature in the United States Between the Wars"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Marketing Modernism Between the Two World Wars. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
Kathleen Rice
"Notations of the Heart: The Wood Engraving Illustrations of Clare Leighton, 1929-1954"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Gerald Hauck
"The Mann Family in American Exilie: 1936-1950"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Tim Davis
"Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle and Bill Stott
Robert Jackson
"James B. Eads"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Rails Across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Robert Bednar
"Postmodern Vistas: Landscape, Photography, and Tourism in the Contemporary American West"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1996
Dorothy MacInerney
"A Southern Bell: Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Tevi Troy
"Ideas in Action: White House Intellectuals and the Modern Presidency"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians?. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
1995
Jan Todd
"Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1998.
Pelin Basci
"Clowning in American Culture: The Nineteen Sixties"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
1994
Davis G. Wharton
"Ties That Bind: Photographs from McDade, Texas"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
The Soul of a Small Texas Town: Photographs, Memories, and History from Mcdade. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
Randolph Lewis
"America is Hard to See: Emile de Antonio and the Art of Filmmaking"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Emile De Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Kathryn Adams
"Paper Lesbians: Alternative Publishing and the Politics of Lesbian Representation in the United States, 1950-1990"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Caroline Simpson
"American Orientalisms: The Gender and Cultural Politics of America's Postwar Relationship With Japan"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
1993
Cheri Wolfe
"The Traditional History of the Chahta People: An Analysis of Gideon Lincecum's 19th Century Narrative"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Rodger Lewis Dunn
"The Conduct of Life: A Biography of Lewis Mumford"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Penne Restad
"O Holy Night: The Creation of the American Christmas"
Supervisor: Miller
Christmas in America: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
1992
Jonathan Paul De Vierville
"American Healing Waters: A Chronology (1513-1946) and Historical Survey of America’s Major Springs, Spas, and Health Resorts"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Kennett Lynn Simmons
"Managed Health Care: Right Idea- Wrong Rules"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Aida Barrera
"Multiculturalism Before Its Time: The Making of Carrascolendas"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Looking for Carrascolendas: From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Dinana Kleiner
"Invisible Managers: Corporate Expansion and American Culture, 1870-1940"
Supervisor: Abzug and Ruefli
1991
Chi-Ping Chang
"Columbia Liberal Humanists: 1930-1960"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Tinky Weisblat
"Living Fictions: How George and Gracie, Desi and Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet Turned Their Marriagesinto Corporations, TV Shows, and American Legends"
Supervisor: Schatz and Newcomb
1990
Maria-Christina Garcia
"Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans: A History of an Immigrant Comminity in South Florida:1959-1989"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Havana Usa: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
1989
Francine Carraro
"Keep Your Plant and Water it: The Life of Jerry Bywater"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Jerry Bywaters: A Life in Art. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
William Gordon Wallace
"The History of Race Walking in America"
Supervisor: Bill Stott and Jeffrey Meikle
1988
Patricia Bradley
"Slavery in Colonial Newspapers"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
1987
Paula Marks
"Turn your Eyes Towards Bexar: Sam and Mary Maverick on the Texas Frontier"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
1986
William Howze
"The Influence of Western Painting and Genre Paintings on the Films of John Ford"
Supervisor: Thomas Schatz
Sarah Andriamana
"Chinese Immigration to California and Madagascar: A Comparative Study"
Supervisor: Elspeth Rostow
Mary Ann Diebel
"On Eagle’s Wings: Eris Voeglin’s Spiritual Realism"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Margaret Caffrey
"Stranger in this Land: The Life of Ruth Benedict"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.
Emily Cutrer
"The Art of the Woman: The Life of Elisabet Ney"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Kenneth Hafertepe
"Enlightened Sensibility: Scottish Philosophy in American Art and Architecture"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Nancy Baker Jones
"On Solid Ground: The Emergence of the Self Created Woman in Contemporary American Literature"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann and Dr. Lidoff
Kenneth Hamstra
"The American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics of 1847"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1985
Sam Ratcliff
"Texas History Painting: An Iconographic Study"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Painting Texas History to 1900. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Irene Rostagno
"Fifty Years of Looking South: The Promotion and Reception of Latin American Literature in the U.S."
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Shannon Davies
"Physicists Abroad: Copenhagen 1920-1940"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Hal Rothman
"Protected by a Gold Fence with Diamond Tips: A Cultural History of the American National Monuments"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Ed Lundy
"The Transcendental Roots of Isaac Hecker’s Vision for the American Catholic Church"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
1984
Gena Dagel Caponi
"Paul Bowles: Manufactured Savage"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Susan Kay Sloan
"Front Page Movies: The Origins of Social Problem Film"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Front Page Movies: The Origins of the Social Problem Film. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1984.
1982
James McNutt
"Beyond Regionalism: Texas Folklorists and the Emergence of a Post-Regional Consciousness"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Lauren Rabinovitz
"Radical Cinema: The Films and Film Practices of Maya Deren, Shirley Clark and Joyce Wieland"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71. Urbana: University of Illnois Press, 1991.
Larry Hartsfield
"The Imaginative and the Intellectual Response to Professional Crime in America From 1870-1917"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
William E. deBuys
"Spirted Land: The Environmental History and Cultural History of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
1981
Elizabeth Carrell
"Reflections in a Mirror: The Progressive Woman and the Settlement Experiment"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Shirley Showalter
"A Triumph of Comedy: Edith Wharton, Ellem Glasgow, Willa Cather, and a Professional Coming-of-Age"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Peter Bacon Hales
"Cities in Silver: American Urban Photography 1893-191"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
David Tanner
"Symbols of Conduct: Psychiatry and American Culture, 1900-1935"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1980
Brandimarte, Cynthia
"Fannie Hurst and Her Fiction: Prescriptions for America’s Working Women"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Buckley, Suzanne Shelton
"Divine Dancer: A Critical Biography of Ruth St. Denis"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.
Cutrer, Thomas William
"My Boys at L.S.U.: Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1934-1942"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
Gaines, David Jeffrey
"The Sun Also Sets: American Writers in Paris after the Second World War"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Rogosin, William Donn
"Black Baseball: Life in the Negro League"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues. New York : Athenaeum, 1983.
Schuetz, Mardith Keithly
"The Indians of San Antonio Missions, 1718-1821"
Supervisor: Frantz & Lehnertz
Smith, Mark C.
"Knowledge for What: Social Science and the Debate Over Its Role in 1930s America"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918-1941. Durham: Duke University Press 1994.
Smith, Jane Gentry
"The Mystery of the Mind: A Biography of William McDougall"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Ward, George
"Blood Brothers in the Wilderness: The Sport Hunter & Buckskin Hunter in the Preservation of the American Wilderness Experience"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1978
Harold Frank Sheets III
"Ralph Adams Cram: Expatriate in the Past"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
1977
Christa Carvajal
"German Theaters in Central Texas: 1850-1915"
Supervisor: Brokaw
Jeffrey L. Meikle
"Technological Visions of American Industrial Designers"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1979.
Phiet Qui Tran
"The French and Faulkner: The Reception of William Faulkner’s Writing in France and its Influence on Modern French Literature"
Supervisor: William Stott
William Faulkner and the French New Novelists. Arlington: Carrollton Press, 1980.
1976
James David Campbell
"Electoral Participation and the Quest for Equality: Black Politics in Alabama since the Voting Rights act of 1965"
Supervisor: Feagin
Ann Fears Crawford
"John B. Connally: The Making of a Governor, 1917-1962"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
John B. Connally: The Making of a Governor, 1917-1962. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1978.
Herbert J. Hovenkamp
"Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
John Payne
"A Jesuit Search for Social Justice: The Public Career of Louis J. Twomey, SJ 1947-1969"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Stephen Joseph Pyne
"The Inculcation of Grove Karl Gilbert: A Biography of American Geology"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Grove Karl Gilbert, a Great Engine of Research. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.
1975
Alfred Nathaniel Hunt
"The Influence of Haiti on the Antebellum South, 1791-1865"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America. Baton-Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
1974
Jo Ella Ann Doggett
"Roger Wolcott’s Poetical Meditations: A Critical Edition and Appraisal"
Supervisor: Scheick
Judith Lee Lampert
"Joseph Hergesheimer and Popular Taste 1917-1924"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Virginia Noelke
"The Origin and the Early History of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1879-1910"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Kenneth B. Ragsdale
"The History of the Chisos Mining Company: A Social and Economic Study of the Terlinga Quicksilver Distric of Texas"
Supervisor: Frantz
Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976.
1973
Karl Conrad
"Buckminster Fuller and the Technocratic Persuasion"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Marjorie Mary Menefee
"Influence of the Creative Process in Producing Significant Behavior Change in the Intensive Small Group"
Supervisor: Earl Koile and Shirley Menaker
Raymund Paredes
"The Image of the Mexican in American Literature"
Supervisor: Americo Paredes
Darwin Payne
"Yesterday’s Historian: Frederick Lewis Allen of Harper’s Magazine"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
The Man of Only Yesterday: Frederick Lewis Allen. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
1972
William A. Bloodworth Jr.
"The Early Years of Upton Sinclair: A Study of the Development of a Progressive Christian Socialist"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Upton Sinclair. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977.
Marguerite Lee Davenport
"Women in Nineteenth Century Fiction: Ideals and Stereotypes in the Novels of John William DeForest"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Dong-Bai Chai
"Josiah Strong: Apostle of Anglo-Saxonism and Social Christianity"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Joan Mary Chandler
"Anthropologists and U.S. Indians, 1928-1960"
Supervisor: R. Buaman
Susan Phinney Conrad
"Margaret Fuller: Intellectual as Woman"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America, 1830-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Clifford L. Lewis
"John Steinbeck: Architect of the Unconscious"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1971
Vladimir Barac
"Song of Myself as Myth and Reality: An American Quest for Epic"
Supervisor: Whitbread
Rosalie Sandra Perry
"Charles Ives and American Culture"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Charles Ives and the American Mind. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1974.
Marlette O. Rebhorn
"DeGaulle’s Rise to Power: The Failure of American Diplomacy, 1942-1944"
Supervisor: Divine
1970
Frank R. Prassel
"The Western Peace Officer"
Supervisor: J.B. Frantz
The Western Peace Officer: a Legacy of Law and Order. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
Carolyn M. Remy
"Protestant Churches And Mexican-Americans in South Texas"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Brian W. Dippie
"The Vanishing American: Popular Attitudes and American Indian Policy in the Nineteenth Century"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
