THE WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION’S
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Compiled by Jan Roush, Utah State University
Jan Roush
Cautionary Note: Time Change. This year’s analysis of emerging research in the field of western American literature covers a somewhat different time frame than have past columns because it is now possible to immediately access the database that forms the basis for this research. Since the year 2000, research for this analysis has been conducted electronically through ProQuest Digital Dissertations, the primary publisher for all master's and doctoral theses, rather than through printed media. Initially, this electronic material, which adds roughly 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities each year, was available only on CD-ROM format, to which libraries subscribed. Though saving libraries much time and money in collecting and binding the various monthly editions, the downside of this format was that the information was always at least six months behind.
Typically, this column covered, in accordance with the availability of the database, the time frame corresponding to ProQuest’s release of the information, reflecting a pattern roughly corresponding to a school year; volume 64/01, for example, contained the research released in June 2003. Due to improvements to ProQuest’s database, however, current research is now updated monthly and is immediately accessible online. With easier, more readily available access, the decision was made to run research data for this column along a calendar year rather than a school year, with the analysis itself to be published here. Full citations of titles will still be available online through the WAL website. Unfortunately, switching from a school year to a calendar year involved some overlapping, so it was decided for this time only to combine two years of research into one, thereby offering a smoother, more accurate transition. What appears online, in two separate documents, is the research for the calendar years 2002 and 2003; the analysis, however, synthesizes and analyzes the data from both years. Hence, the title above, “Research in Western American Literature, 2002 and 2003,” really means that all master's and doctoral theses from January 2002 through December 2003 have been considered for the analysis, and these are the titles listed online for each separate year.
Research Analysis. In many ways, the research for the past two years is all about power: gaining power, losing power; who has it, who doesn’t; how it is used, by whom. These are all issues underlying the 164 theses and 531 dissertations written during 2002 and 2003. Power plays a role in works having to do with identity, representation, ethnicity, race, borders, colonialism, regionalism, environment, and even sexuality—all topics that received the most emphasis for these two years. Not surprisingly, as many of the discussions took a postcolonial stance, the groups that most frequently comprised the subjects for these works were often cast into the role of the “Other,” although sometimes the subjects of such studies were themselves cast into an oppositional role, as in “White Women Writing for Their Lives: Ann Stephans, Elaine Goodale Eastman, and Ruth Benedict vis-à-vis the Native American Other.” Examining the entire body of studies for the two-year period revealed that a significant number of works (roughly one-third of the total works examined) focused on Native Americans, followed at some distance by studies relating to Chicano/a authors and experiences, though these still comprised a significant presence. A number of these works also related directly to Asian American authors and experiences, much more than the handful present in previous years. Titles like “The Representation of Internal Colonialism in Contemporary American Ethnic Fiction,” “Testaments of Colonialism: Six Native American Novels,” “Multiple Choice: Literary Racial Formations of Mixed Race Americans of Asian Descent,”or “Making It Home: The Neo-Colonial Ethics of Chicano and Latino Literature after Arrival” all point to these emphases. Interestingly, this same lens is extended to include authors on both sides of this literary border—those who write from a postcolonial stance as in “Writing against the Empire: McCarthy, Erdrich, Welch, and McMurtry” and those whose works represented views on race and colonization endemic in the nineteenth century, reflected in the title “The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London,” a study that also includes a discussion of Mark Twain’s work.
Indeed, borders played a large role in the studies that comprise this year’s analysis, both borders that encompass actual, physical space as well as psychic ones. “Blacks on the Borders: African-Americans Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Texas and the Indian Territory, 1836-1907,” “Policing the Border: Politics and Place in the Work of Miguel Mendez, Marisela Norte, and Leslie Marmon Silko,” and “A Truth Not Perfectly Visible: Culture and Cognition in the Borderline Narrative” all illustrate this range.
Identity was a topic returned to again and again in many forms, sometimes foregrounded in the title and sometimes merely alluded to; it spanned disciplines, race, ethnicity, and gender. Representative examples include “Injun Joe’s Ghost: A Genealogy of the Native American Mixed Blood in American Popular Fiction”; “‘That Mean Ol’ Oakie Boogie’: Country Music, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness in Southern California, 1936-1969,” “Latina Literature: Differential and Politicized Hybrid Identities,” “Absent Origins, Fractured Narratives, and the Reconfiguration of Identities in Three Contemporary Canadian Novels” (by Tomson Highway, Thomas King, Dionne Brand), “Identifying Captivity and Capturing Identity: Narratives of American Indian Slavery. Colorado and New Mexico, 1776-1934,” and “Indian Voices: The Politics of Cultural Representation in Three United States Museums.” Not always did these take the form of postcolonial studies. Even longstanding subjects in western American literature get fresh treatment in terms of identity, as in an author—“An Artist Creates Herself: Willa Cather and Her Struggle for Legitimacy”—or the land itself—“Living on the Dragon’s Back: Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Identity in Deep Rural Montana” or “Culture and the Cowboy State: The Making of Westerners” (Wyoming).
An interesting twist on identity that became significantly foregrounded for the first time is sexuality, which both spanned borders and re-created its identity. Focusing sometimes on masculinity, sometimes on femininity, and sometimes on hybridity, this topic took on new dimensions. Titles representing the breadth of this diversity include “Inviolate Manhood: Isolation and Sexual Unavailability in Nineteenth Century American Literature” (James Fenimore Cooper), “Killing the Berdache and Raising the Two-Spirit: Continuing and Emerging Roles of American Indian Two-Spirits,” “Failure as a Way of Life: Ambivalence, Abjection, and the Making of Modern Lesbian Identity” (Willa Cather), “Perceived Family Relationships Associated with Coming Out of Mormon Male Homosexuals,” “The Development of Urban Two-Spirit Communities and the Role of American Indian Poets Paula Gunn Allen and Janice Gould,” “Race-ing Sex: The Competition for Gender and Sexual Identity in Multi-ethnic San Francisco, 1897-1924,” or “Cross Purposes: Transvestic Figures in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture” (Mark Twain).
Also new in terms of re-creating are subjects that make use of contemporary physics: “Applications of Chaos Theory to History in the Novels of Michael Ondaatje: Disorder within Order in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming through Slaughter, and In the Skin of a Lion” or “Placing ‘The Sacred Pipe’: A Fractal Model for Lakota Ritual” (Black Elk). That is not to say that more traditional topics and/or authors found no place in current studies. They did. Studies on regionalism, sense of place, and the environment formed a significant portion of these two years’ topics, including an interesting “reaching back” to rediscover and reinterpret ecological roots, as reflected in two titles about Susan Fenimore Cooper: “Sentimental Ecology: Susan Fenimore Cooper and a New Model of Ecocriticism” and “Grounds for the New Nation: Con-structing Sense of Place in American Writings from 1780-1860.” A number of studies also focused on such authors of place and environment as Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, John Muir, Gary Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, and Ann Zwinger. Studies on individual authors once again placed Mark Twain in the forefront with 28 different titles focusing on him, followed by Willa Cather with 19, Leslie Marmon Silko, 16, James Fenimore Cooper, 13, Maxine Hong Kingston,12, and Sandra Cisneros, 10, an apt reflection of the diversity prevalent in this year’s analysis.
All in all, a new dynamism appears to permeate the research in western American literature from these past two years, of which diversity is just one component. That fluidity so reflective of contemporary physics appears repeatedly in the transformative nature of the texts comprising these 695 theses and dissertations that are increasingly interdisciplinary in subject matter. It may not be possible to always know who holds the power or who is trying to wrest it, but as the research and analysis for this time frame bears out, it really is not so much the ultimate outcome that counts as the journey itself, a journey across borders of race, place, ethnicity, or sexuality. In these new regions, created by such border crossings, lie the nuclei of tomorrow’s western American literature.
[Editor’s note:
All entries in this listing have been taken from Dissertation Abstracts International. We have made no attempt to change the sentence-style capitalization of the titles to headline capitalization, the latter of which we normally use in Western American Literature. Any misspellings of names as well as any inconsistencies in format are also DAI’s. Entries are listed by title, author, and institution.]
RESEARCH IN WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 2003
Master’s Theses:
MA=master of arts
MArch=master of architecture
MFA=master of fine arts
MJ=master of journalism
MNRM=master of natural resource management
MS=master of science
MSW=master of social work
American Literature:
Chicana identity in the works of Ana Castillo
by Collins, Stacy Lynn, MA
CENTRAL MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Creating a new genre: Mary Rowlandson and her narrative of Indian captivity
by De Luise, Rachel Bailey, MA
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Hamlin Garland’s truth about farming: An examination of realism and romanticism in Hamlin Garland’s early works
by Ensley, Eric William, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2002
Car culture: Road maps of space, motion and narrativity in twentieth-century culture (Victor Appleton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac)
by Euler, Zachary Sulin, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
Bartram, Brackenridge, Parkman: The emergence of romantic travel narrative on the American Frontier (William Bartram, Henry Marie Brackenridge, Francis Parkman)
by Gaertner, Stephen A., MA
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
The development of urban Two-Spirit communities and the role of American Indian poets Paula Gunn Allen and Janice Gould
by Ishcomer, Brandie Ann, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2003
The story is everything: The path to renewal in Leslie Marmon Silko’s ‘Ceremony’
by Kilgore, Tracy Yvonne, MA
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Legacy of the viejas: Older women in the novels of Allende, Esquivel, and Garcia (Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Mexico, Cristina Garcia, Chile)
by McNelley, Susan A., MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2002
Religious turmoil: The conflict between Buddhism and Catholicism in Jack Kerouac’s life and writing
by Simpson, Emily Patricia, MA
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
American Studies:
A study of the Zoot Suit culture: Past and present
by Estrella, Lynda, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON, 2003
Who’s afraid of the big bad lobo? Anglo and Western Apache reactions to the Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program in the American Southwest, 1994-2002
by Fellowes, Simon Alexander, MS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON, 2002
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Consequences of the corporate structure in establishing the land claims of Native Alaskans
by Johnson, Connie Gwen, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2003
Wing Chong Luke: A Chinese American change agent and pioneer in northwest politics, 1925-1965
by Luke, Bettie Sing, MS
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2002
‘A country to lift the blood’: Portrait of a westering family finding home in the Tetons (Wyoming)
by Schrand, Brandon Russell, MS
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Harmony in four parts: Barbershop music and Mormon culture in northern Utah
by Stiffler, Matthew W., MS
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Art History:
‘Canada: A People’s History’. An analysis of the visual narrative for a colonial nation
by Brook, Glenn Leonard, MA
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Six generations of Hopi pottery: A stylistic analysis of Nampeyo family designs
by Chervnsik, Holly Elizabeth, MA
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-CLEAR LAKE, 2003
Layers of meaning in a Kwakiutl potlatch figure (British Columbia)
by Gossen, Anne, MA
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (WINTERTHUR PROGRAM), 2003
The California quilt and the California quiltmaker: 1850-1945
by Schneider, Linda Susan, MS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO, 2002
Canadian History:
Madeline Izowsky, 1885-1979: A Polish woman in western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia)
by Box, Carol Lynn, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2003
On our way to healing: Stories from the oldest living generation of the File Hills Indian Residential school (Saskatchewan)
by Callahan (nee Thomas), Ann Blair, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
Paper talk: Print culture, libraries and Aboriginal people in Canada before 1960
by Edwards, Brendan Frederick R., MA
TRENT UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2003
Examining the use of oral tradition in the writing of Ojibwa history
by Hipfner, Tanya Lyn, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2003
Canadian Literature:
Visions, voices, and voisinages: Contemporary Canadian women’s spiritual autobiographies
by Aikman, Laurie Kathleen, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2001
Identity formation and Native Canadian women’s literature: Radicalizing resistance (Lee Maracle, Jeannette Armstrong)
by Forsyth, Jessie Wanyek, MA
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Applications of chaos theory to history in the novels of Michael Ondaatje: Disorder within order in ‘The Collected Works of Billy the Kid’, ‘Coming Through Slaughter’ and ‘In the Skin of a Lion’
by McKenzie, Robert Murray, MA
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Cinema:
Old West, new west: Rhetorical representations on vigilantism in film (Michael Mann, Bill Pullman)
by Berokoff, Tanya Ellen, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON, 2003
Lola Montez (with original writing, screenplay)
by Goode, Katie Daniels, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2002
Spirit of the West: The Alberta cowboy in Canadian cinema
by Grant, Ashley, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Comparative Literature:
Shaping identity under colonial systems: A comparison of African and Canadian-Metis texts by Chinua Achebe, Maria Campbell, James Ngugi, and Beatrice Culleton (Nigeria, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenya)
by Karambiri, Sarah, MA
UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE (CANADA), 2002
The bildungsroman in female fiction: A study of female development in selected women writers of color (Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica)
by Sanjurjo Rodgriguez, Zenaida, MA
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, MAYAGUEZ (PUERTO RICO), 2002
Cultural Anthropology:
Clothing and the perception of ethnicity: Californios in southern California, 1850-1870
by Bowdoin Gil, Carol Anne, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, 2002
Collecting history: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the museum movement, 1883-1916 (British Columbia)
by Coombs, Jeremy Lee Michael, MA
YORK UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Towards an understanding of suicide among Aboriginal people
by Gosek, Gwendolyn Mildred, MSW
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
What do Inuit drawings mean to Nisga’a children?
by Izu, Yuka, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2003
‘Walking in the footsteps of our ancestors’: Present-day representation of Peigan/Blackfoot cultural identity
by Markley, Janet Katherine, MA
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2002
Conquistando espacios para salir adelante: Fine-tuning the discourse on women’s participation in Mexico’s maquiladoras
by Marman, Georgia Elizabeth, MA
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (CANADA), 2002
Preservation of Native American cultural property under United States Federal law: A discursive analysis of NAGPRA
by McCarthy, Amanda Jean Christina, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Toward culturally appropriate consultation: An approach for Fort McKay First Nation (Alberta)
by McKillop, Jennifer Ann, MEDes
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2002
Ka Isinakwak Askiy: Using Cree knowledge to perceive and describe the landscape of the Wapusk National Park area (Manitoba)
by M’Lot, Maria Anne, MNRM
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
Educational travel for societal change: An exploration of popular education along the Mexico-United States border
by Perin, Jodi Rae, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2003
The perspective of two-spirit Aboriginal people
by Slutchuk, Rishona Judith, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2003
Towards moral and ethical research in collaboration with First Nation communities
by Stevenson, Earl Conrad, MNRM
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
Alaska Native subsistence and sovereignty: An unfinished work
by Wolf, Barbara Frances, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2003
Fine Arts:
Diurnal rhythms: The daily life and art of a Mexican American migrant
by Munoz, Lillia, MFA
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN, 2003
Folklore:
Beacon in the night: Contested space and regional culture on the central Oregon coast
by Roman, Melissa Jane, MA
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Geography:
Along Highway 16: A creative meditation on the geography of northwestern British Columbia
by de Leeuw, Sarah, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2002
Music geography across the borderline: Musical iconography, mythic themes, and North American perceptions of a borderlands landscape
by Huefe, Edward George, III, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, 2002
‘Where have all the traplines gone?’: The mercury contamination of the English-Wabigoon River System and its consequences on the Ojibway of Grassy Narrows (Ontario)
by Kneen, Soha, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Linguistics:
Reviving Kwak’wala language
by Alfred-Smith, Andrea Helen, MA
ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Spanglish as a marker of identification among Hispanics in the United States: A case study of two Tejano radio stations (Texas)
by Phillips, Rebecca K, MA
RICE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Mass Communication:
Boosting the boom, taming the backlash: How the Los Angeles Times influenced westward migration in the 1920s (California)
by Symons, Allene Kaye, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Nonexperts and narrative in public debate: A case study of Wallace Stegner’s mass media use to promote environmental causes
by Zachry, T. A., MS
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Modern Literature:
Trois poetes acadiens sur la route de Jack Kerouac (Hermenegilde Chiasson, Gerald Leblanc, Raymond LeBlanc, French text, Nova Scotia)
by Black, Thea M., MA
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Lingit Aani: An Alaska native memoir (Original writing)
by Hayes, Ernestine, MFA
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE, 2003
Transgressing boundaries and cultural haunting in Chinese American and Chinese Canadian ‘talk stories’ (Maxine Hong Kingston, Wayson Choy, Sky Lee)
by Morfetas, Elpida, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Symbiosis and exchange in multicultural spaces: A study of Nadine Gordimer and Joy Harjo (South Africa)
by Nixon, Angelique V., MA
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, 2002
Music:
Cowboy and western music: Its mark on the Southern California landscape
by Fisher, Steve John, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, 2002
Theater:
Latina playwrights and cultural identity: Two views from north and south of the border (Sabina Berman, Sylvia Gonzalez S., Mexico)
by Woods, Rosemarie Christine, MA
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY, 2003
Pioneers of the prairies: The folk plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood
by Kivisto, Mikko William, MFA
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2002
United States History:
Jose Maria Redondo: Yuma pioneer and entrepreneur, 1830-1878 (Arizona)
by Blaine, Patricia A., MA
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Chinese Americans: Builders of early California and the West
by Cheung, Henry Fay, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON, 2003
Empanadas on the Fourth of July: An historical and cultural mapping of the Argentinian-American community in California’s Los Angeles Basin, San Fernando Valley, and Orange County
by Haider, Carlota Ferreyra, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON, 2003
Governor James V. Allred, Hispanics, and the rule of law in New Deal Texas (Texas, James V. Allred)
by Marlin, Robert Ossian, IV, MA
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-CLEAR LAKE, 2003
Agencies of change: The use of education and advertising to promote modernity to rural Nevada women, 1920-1940
by McBride, Beverly Haskett, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003
Cherokee Indian removal: The Treaty of New Echota and General Winfield Scott
by McMillan, Ovid Andrew, MA
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Chilocco: Health conditions at a Native American boarding school, 1884-1930 (Oklahoma)
by Murphy, Wynona Winters, MA
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
The American Indian community in Denver: 1952-2002 (Colorado)
by Ono, Azusa, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO, 2003
Visions of two gods: Religion, class, and the Italian community of Carbon County, Utah, 1900-1930
by Pehl, Matthew Sean, MA
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
The rise and fall of the Texas Railroad Commission
by Schmidt, Mark Steed, MA
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 2003
Intervention and conflict in the Trans-Nueces, 1755-1850 (Texas)
by Villarreal y Talamantes, Armando, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2003
Sweet dreams in sugar land: Japanese farmers, Mexican farm workers, and northern Utah beet production
by Welker, Richard Todd, MA
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Doctoral Theses:
DA=doctor of arts
DLitt=doctor of literature
EdD=doctor of education
PhD=doctor of philosophy
PsyD=doctor of psychology
American Literature:
Making the New Deal man: On the representation of workers, writers, and cowboys during the Great Depression
by Abshire, Kreg Alan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 2002
Mapping the ‘inland empire:’ American literature, criticism, and the problem of culture, 1915-1941
by Aronoff, Eric Paul Wallach, PhD
RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK, 2003
Civil War veterans in the fiction of Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, and Henry James
by Beck, Avent Childress, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2003
White women writing for their lives: Ann Stephens, Elaine Goodale Eastman and Ruth Benedict vis-à-vis the Native American Other
by Berg, Tamara Jo, PhD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2002
The art of change: Experimental writing, cultural activism, and feminist social transformation (Carole Maso, Gloria Anzaldúa, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Anna Deavere Smith)
by Berila, Elizabeth, PhD
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Jack Kerouac and the liberal tradition
by Beveridge, Thomas Gordon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2003
Transplanting the novel of manners to American soil: Willa Cather and the democratization of manners
by Bradley, Jennifer L., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2002
Injun Joe’s ghost: A genealogy of the Native American mixed blood in American popular fiction
by Brown, Harry J., PhD
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, 2003
History, culture, and the spirit of place in the New Mexico novels of Frank Waters
by Buehrer, Jolene Kay, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA, 2003
Negotiating copyright: Authorship and the discourse of literary property rights in nineteenth-century America (James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson)
by Buinicki, Martin Thomson, Jr., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 2003
Rhetoric, experience, and identity in frontier writing and mapping of the Americas (Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca, Mexico, Peru, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, William H. Prescott)
by Burns, Mark Kevin, PhD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘Disturbing and convenient’: Self-determination, social status anxiety, and the racial discovery plot (Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Pauline E. Hopkins)
by Bussey, Susan Hays, PhD
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2003
Carnival tradition in Willa Cather’s fiction
by Chinery, Mary Catherine, PhD
DREW UNIVERSITY, 2003
The conjurer unmasked: Literary and theatrical magicians, 1840-1925 (Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Browning, Mark Twain)
by Claxton, Michael Jay, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2003
Women’s transformative texts from the southwestern ecotone (Ana Castillo, Helena Maria Viramontes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan)
by Cook, Barbara Jean, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2003
Family matters: Kinship prohibitions and civic relations (A. J. Switzer, Zane Grey, Mark Twain, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins)
by Cornelissen, Jennifer Dyer, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, 2003
The politics of storytelling: Cultural memory and national identity in United States postmodern fiction (Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, Leslie Marmon Silko)
by Cushman, Susan Elizabeth, PhD
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, 2003
Trauma and typology: ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ and its filmed versions (1909-1992) (James Fenimore Cooper)
by Danelski, Christine Mary, PhD
THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Women’s addresses: Epistolary strategies in antebellum American literature (Lydia Sigourney, Caroline Kirkland, Lydia Maria Child)
by Dawson, Jennifer R., PhD
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
‘Barbaric Splendor:’ The Colville Reservation writings of 1887-1889 Indian Agent Rickard D. Gwydir (Mourning Dove, Washington)
by Dye, Kevin Robert, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2003
America’s hell and the hero’s quest for identity (Mark Twain, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson)
by Elayan, Khalil I., PhD
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Willa Cather and Georgia O’Keeffe: Modernism and the importance of place in color, light, and imagery
by Faber, Kathryn Hourin, DLitt
DREW UNIVERSITY, 2002
The avian as Native and natured Other: Re-imagining the bird, from British Romanticism to contemporary Native American literature
by Gannon, Thomas Charles, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 2003
Motherlands: Re-imagining maternal function in contemporary women’s fiction (Margaret Atwood, Zimbabwe, Shirley Jackson, Marilynne Robinson, Doris Lessing)
by Gary, Lara Karine, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, 2002
Noble designs of nature and nation: God, science, and sentiment in women’s representations of the American landscape
by Gianquitto, Tina Lee, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2002
Border life on the Mississippi: Mark Twain, Missouri, and the reconstruction of American identity
by Goeke, Joseph Francis, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 2003
The shape of community in the visual West: Land, water, and women in the work of Paul Taylor and Dorothea Lange
by Goggans, Jan Ellyn, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, 2002
Touring ‘Arizona Highways’: The state’s best known magazine as tourist site
by Goldman-Rivera, Dorie S., PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Operators at the borders: The hero as change agent in border literature (Americo Paredes)
by Handelman, Jonathan Steven, PhD
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 2003
We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature
by Hannah, Leslie Deon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2002
Faces of Thoreau in American literature (Henry David Thoreau, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, Edward Abbey, Hayden Carruth)
by Hartman, Steven P., PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, 2003
‘We are the people’: Native American and Chicano/a literatures as intersecting indigenous literatures of the American Southwest
by Hebebrand, Christina Marlis, PhD
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Irreconcilable histories: Postnationality in Chicana/o literature and culture
by Hernandez, Ellie Diana, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
Making it home: The neo-colonial ethics of Chicano and Latino literature after arrival (Junot Diaz, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Denise Chavez, Elias Miguel Munoz, Demetria Martinez)
by Irizarry, Ylce, PhD
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
From trench to trope: Narrating American masculinity after World War I (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, William Faulkner)
by James, Pearl, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Women on the edge: Autobiographical selves and the lure of the boundary in twentieth-century United States literature (Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, Zora Neale Hurston, Leslie Marmon Silko)
by Kam, Tanya YukLing, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 2003
Nineteenth-century American shipwreck narratives and national identity (Rebecca Harding Davis, Mark Twain, Winslow Homer)
by Lane, Daniel W., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, 2002
Reading the trail: Exploring the literature and natural history of the California Crest (Mary Austin, John Muir, Gary Snyder)
by Lewis, Corey Lee, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003
Laboring in the desert: The letters and diaries of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Ida Hunt Udall
by Long, Genevieve Jane, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2002
Traveling in place: Contemporary American nature writing and the question of culture (Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, Barry Lopez)
by Lucas, Susan Michelle, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2002
Sentimental ecology: Susan Fenimore Cooper and a new model of ecocriticism
by Magee, Richard Michael, PhD
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, 2002
Valuing concientizacion: The cultivation of a materialist moral epistemology in Chicana/o narrative (Cherrie Moraga, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Gloria Anzaldua, Helena Maria Viramontes, Richard Rodriguez)
by Mah y Busch, Juan Daniel, PhD
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 2003
Unmaking history: Modern American literary autobiography and the limits of nineteenth century life-writing (Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein)
by Manson, Matthew Jack, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2002
The racial problem in the literary work of Barbara Kingsolver (Spanish text)
by Martinez Alonso, Maria Luisa, Dr
UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID (SPAIN), 2002
A truth not perfectly visible: Culture and cognition in the Borderline narrative
by McCord, Patrick Thomas, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 2002
Against the current: Class, race, morality and the limits of love in ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and beyond (Mark Twain)
by McCoy, Sharon D., PhD
EMORY UNIVERSITY, 2003
Senses of the land: Depictions of Alaska in recent non-fiction
by McGill, Frank Joseph, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2003
Trickster discourse: Mediating transformation for a New World (Gerald Vizenor, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paule Marshall, Barbados)
by McNeil, Elizabeth Ann, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Cultural semiosis in Mexican and Chicano feminine literature: Analysis of signs, language, and popular myths within the narrative of Mexican and Mexican-American women writers (Guadalupe Loaeza, Martha Cerda, Gloria Anzaldúa, Carmen Tafolla, Spanish text)
by Melgarejo, Maria Teresa, PhD
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, 2001
Encountering the Indian in the age of sentiment, 1824-1868
by Mielke, Laura Lynn, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2003
Empty landscapes (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah)
by Miller, Karen Margaret, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2003
Testaments of colonialism: Six Native American novels (John Joseph Matthews, D’Arcy McNickle, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan)
by Mollard, Rhona Smyth, DA
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (NEW YORK), 2002
Body matters: Gary Snyder, the self and ecopoetics
by Murray, Matthew Dodd, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, 2000
Ethnographic criticism and Native American fiction: Cultural texts, textual culture in the novels of James Welch
by Nelson, Christopher R., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 2002
The rhetoric of authority and the death metaphor (James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison)
by Noel, Deborah Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 2003
Conversation and teaching: Awakening, nurturing, and sustaining a moral vision (Mark Twain, May Sarton)
by Ozga, Janice Sweetman, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, 2002
Place, writing, and identity: The construction of in-between world subjects (Sandra Cisneros, Joy Kogawa, Sally Morgan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cleo Odzer)
by Pragatwutisarn, Chutima, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON, 2002
Policing the border: Politics and place in the work of Miguel Mendez, Marisela Norte, and Leslie Marmon Silko
by Pritchard, Demian Lee, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, 2003
Education in irony: United States ‘literacy crisis’ and the literature of American Bildung (Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather)
by Puente, David Loren, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, 2003
A thing wide open: Nature, modernity, and American women writers (Gene Stratton-Porter, Mary Austin, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Marianne Moore)
by Raine, Anne Elizabeth, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2002
Writing Chicana identity: Strategies of resistance and reformulation
by Ramirez-Dhoore, Dora Alicia, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2003
Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers
by Robins, Barbara Kimberly, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2001
Native claims: Immigrant anxieties, American Indians, and American modernisms (Mordechai Manuel Noah, Abraham Cahan, Nathanael West, Henry Roth)
by Rubinstein, Rachel, PhD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2003
The Holy Land in transit: Colonialism and the quest for Canaan (Gerald Vizenor, Winona LaDuke, Liyana Badr, Emile Habiby)
by Salaita, Steven, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2003
Cross purposes: Transvestic figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
(Mark Twain)
by Salzer, Kenneth John, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, 2002
Donde nacen y mueren las fronteras: El cine fronterizo mexicano y chicano (Carlos Bolado, Angel Flores Torres, Lourdes Portillo, David Riker, Spanish text)
by Sandoval, Trino, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
From place to populace: Indian removal and state-formation in antebellum American literature (Elias Boudinot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ross, Catharine Brown, Catharine Maria Sedgwick)
by Schneider, Bethany Suzanne, PhD
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 2002
America and its discontents: Cynicism in the American modernist imagination (Henry Adams, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West)
by Schreier, Benjamin J., PhD
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, 2003
Exposing Sin City: Southern California sense of place and the Los Angeles anti-myth
by Sekhon, Sharon Elaine, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2002
Protest and accommodation: Willa Cather’s antimodernism
by Sevick, Leona Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK, 2002
‘That mongrel moral sense’: A study of Mark Twain’s satire
by Stanion, Charles Boyd, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, 2003
Conceptualizing American Indian literary theory: Oral theories and written traditions (N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Robert J. Conley)
by Teuton, Christopher Barett, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2003
From Edwards to Dillard: Puritan mysticism and the tropology of American nature writing (Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Annie Dillard)
by Vanderspek, Dennis Randolph John, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO (CANADA), 2002
Hanay Geiogamah, Kiowa-Delaware playwright: A critical biography
by Vassar, Andrew Paul, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, 2002
Looking backward, looking forward: Visions of utopia and progress in turn-of-the-century American literature [Twain, Wister, Cather]
by Vella, Lia Mary, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2003
Imagining solitude: Epistolarity in the novels of the Early Republic (James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville)
by Wakabayashi, Makiko, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2003
The recycling of the Mohicans: The ‘classic’ novel and iterative adaptation (James Fenimore Cooper, Michael Mann, George B. Seitz, Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur)
by Williams, Michael Allen, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, 2002
From Cooper to Le Carre: The engagement of reality in the evolution of espionage fiction (James Fenimore Cooper, John Le Carre, with original writing)
by Woods, Brett F., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (UNITED KINGDOM), 2003
Finding ourselves in empty places: Life and literature of the Midwest (Minnesota, Nebraska)
by Wright-Peterson, Virginia Marlaine, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2002
The construction of ethnicity in modern American literature, 1900-1945: Writing and reading ethnic narratives (Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather)
by Wu, Yi-Ping, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, 2003
Peter Matthiessen and the literature of environmental justice: ‘All problems merge’
by Yamashiro, Shin, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003
Redefining female identity in the American city: A study of selected twentieth-century American urban novels by women (Anzia Yezierska, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ann Petry, Joyce Carol Oates)
by Zak, Deborah Jeanne, PhD
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, 2002
Speaking a word for nature: Representations of nature and culture in four genres of American environmental writing (Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, David Quammen, Richard Powers)
by Zuelke, Karl William, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, 2003
American Studies:
Defining Americans: Nation, state, and the politics of racial mixture, 1885-1905
by Basson, Lauren Louise, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2002
Aloha America: Hawaiian entertainment and cultural politics in the United States empire
by Imada, Adria L., PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2003
Acting out: Images of Asians and the performance of American identities, 1898-1945 (Sessue Hayakawa)
by Liu, Michelle Su-mei, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Bordering on the sacred: Religion, nation and United States-Mexican relations, 1910-1929
by Martinez, Anne M., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2003
Bordering on the sacred: Religion, nation and United States-Mexican relations, 1910-1929
by Martinez, Anne M., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2003
A sentimental empire: White women’s responses to Native American policy, 1824-1894
by Romeyn, Sara Northrop, PhD
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2003
Bajito y Suavecito/low and slow: Cruising through lowrider culture (California)
by Sandoval, Denise Michelle, PhD
THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
This wild place: Sir William Johnson among the Mohawks, 1715-1783 (Molly Brant)
by Swinehart, Kirk Davis, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Manifest destiny: The idea of progress and the rationalization of violence in Western colonization
by Ward, Patrick Dennis, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2002
Archaeology:
Revisiting the dean: Byron Cummings and southwestern archaeology, 1893-1954 (Arizona, Utah)
by Bostwick, Todd William, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Crow-Omaha marital alliances and social transformations: Archaeological case studies on the Taino, Hohokam, and Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley (Arizona, Greater Antilles, Louisiana)
by Ensor, Bradley Eugene, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 2003
A tale of three villages: Archaeological investigation of late prehistoric and historic culture change in western Alaska
by Frink, Lisa M., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2003
Potting in Zion: Craft and industry in Utah, 1848-1930
by Scarlett, Timothy James, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2002
Art History:
Orphans of modernism: Chicano art, public representation, and spatial practice in southern California
by Chavoya, C. Ondine, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, 2002
How Canada stole the idea of Native art: The Group of Seven and images of the Indian in the 1920’s (Langdon Kihn)
by Dawn, Leslie Allan, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2002
Contemporary art of Alaska: Found and assembled in Alaska, and, John Hoover: Art and life
by Decker, Julie Michelle, PhD
UNION INSTITUTE AND UNIVERSITY, 2002
Embodiments of power: Nineteenth-century warrior art among the Cheyennes and Kiowas
by Finson, Bradley A., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2003
Interpreting the artist’s studio memorial: An exhibition strategy of museums of western art
by Kennedy, Elizabeth Jayne, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2003
Chicana/o murals of California: Indigenist aesthetics and the politics of space, 1970-2000
by Latorre, Guisela Maria, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 2003
The American Indian art world and the (re-)production of the primitive: Hopi pottery and potters (Arizona)
by McChesney, Lea Stevens, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2003
The gilded rush: Art patronage, industrial capital, and social authority in Victorian California
by Ott, John William, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2002
‘To grab a hunk of lightning’: An intellectual history of Depression-era American photography
by Sampsell, Catherine Marie, PhD
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, 2002
The landscape of solitude: Encountering images of contemplation in Western landscape painting
by Zhang, Hua, PhD
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, 2003
Canadian History:
Tsuu T’ina: A history of a First Nation’s community, 1890-1940 (Alberta)
by Churchill, Elizabeth, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2000
The political economy of Indian health and disease in the Canadian northwest
by Daschuk, James William, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
Misatim Pimasew / The Flying Horse
by Dickey, Freeda A. Hart, PhD
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, 2002
Stories of Canada: National identity in late-nineteenth-century English-Canadian fiction
by Hedler, Elizabeth Esther, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, 2003
Colonizing bodies: Aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-1950
by Kelm, Mary-Ellen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA), 1995
From diaspora to North American civil rights: Chinese Canadian ideas, identities and brokers in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1924 to 1960
by Mar, Lisa Rose, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA), 2002
Creating a countryside in British Columbia: An alternative modernity, 1919-1935
by Murton, James Ernest, PhD
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON (CANADA), 2002
On the hook: Welfare capitalism on the Vancouver waterfront, 1919-1939 (British Columbia)
by Parnaby, Andrew, PhD
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (CANADA), 2001
The public emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations’ self-government: A study of the language as an indicator of ethical and social attitudes in the formation of metapolicy and the discourse of First Nations’ autonomy
by Posluns, Michael Wilfred, PhD
YORK UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Canadian Literature:
The long Canadian topographical poem: 1690-1990 (Samuel Johnson, Henry Kelsey, Thomas Cary, Jon Whyte, Robert Kroetsch)
by Heath, Timothy James, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (CANADA), 2003
Reading the farm in prairie literature
by Mahoney, Shelley Lorraine, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2002
Islands at the boundary of the world: Changing representations of Haida Gwaii, 1774-2001 (British Columbia)
by Martineau, Joel Barry, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2002
‘Where is the voice coming from?’: Transformations in told-to narrative since 1969
by McCall, Sophie, PhD
YORK UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Canadian Studies:
The relocation of Aboriginal people in Canada, 1952 to 1967: A United Nations human rights analysis from a cultural perspective, cultural genocide
by Dawson, Peter Edward, PhD
YORK UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
‘Bound to improve’: Canadian women’s prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history and identity
by Matthews, Sandra Leigh, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2002
Cinema:
Perversions of romance: A look at love in fiction and film by Mexicanas and Chicanas (Angeles Mastretta, Corin Tellado, Maria Novaro, Sandra Cisneros, Denise Chavez)
by Becker, Stephanie Graham, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2003
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!’: Road movies and U.S. society, 1967-1995
by Blasini, Gilberto M.., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2002
Race and coming-of-age in American films of the 1960s: The tragic mulatta and the half-breed
by Dale, Elaine M., PhD
THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Last man becoming: The development of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man With No Name’ persona in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns and its reflections in 1960s American and Italian culture
by Hadjitarkhani, Abie, PhD
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2003
The promotion of early Hollywood: Racial, ethnic, and national identity in text and context
by Latham, James Richard, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2003
Darkening frontier, vanishing outback: Film, landscape and national identities in Australia and the United States
by Lindsay, Brian William Ian, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA), 2001
A truth not perfectly visible: Culture and cognition in the Borderline narrative
by McCord, Patrick Thomas, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 2002
The gunfighter’s shadow: The iconography of Clint Eastwood, 1965-2000
by Weiss, Geoffrey Coleman, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, 2003
Cultural Anthropology:
Vestiges of other relations: Weaving our lives across a two-nation divide (Texas, Mexico)
by Aguirre, Elea, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2002
Cherokee fishing: Ethnohistorical, ethnoecological, and ethnographic perspectives
by Altman, Heidi Maryanna, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, 2002
Etsmeystkhw khwe snwiyepmshtsn: ‘You know how to talk like a whiteman’ (Idaho, Gladys Reichard, Lawrence Nicodemus)
by Brinkman, Raymond, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 2003
From birchbark talk to digital dreamspeaking: A history of Aboriginal media activism in Canada
by Buddle-Crowe, Kathleen, PhD
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2002
Politics of citizenship: Mexican migrants in the United States
by Castaneda Gomez del Campo, Alejandra, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 2003
Sapokni pit huklo (listening to grandmother): Family, race and identity resolution in a Choctaw community
by Collins, Robert Keith, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2002
San Antonio as a magical crossroads: Healing and spirituality in the borderlands (Texas)
by de la Portilla, Elizabeth D., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 2002
Borderlands music, United States politics, and transnational marketing (Texas)
by Dorsey, Margaret Ellen, PhD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2002
An Ojibwe perspective on the welfare of children: Rescuing children or homogenizing America?
by Hand, Carol Ann, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2003
Elements of culture pertaining to schooling in the O’odham-Piipaash Indian community
by Goodman, Gail D., EdD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Ethnobotany of the Anishinaabek Northern Great Lakes Indians
by Herron, Scott M., PhD
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE, 2002
Koqqwaja’ltimk: Mi’kmaq legal consciousness
by McMillan, Leslie Jane, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2003
Point of view in Kaska historical narratives (British Columbia)
by Moore, Patrick James, PhD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2003
Imagining Lamanites: Native Americans and the Book of Mormon
by Murphy, Thomas W., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2003
Recapturing culture: American Indian identities at Bacone College, 1927-1955 (Oklahoma)
by Neuman, Lisa Kay, PhD
DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Placing ‘The Sacred Pipe’: A fractal model for Lakota ritual (Black Elk)
by Oyer-Owens, Stephen Finley, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, 2002
The role of ritual in a contemporary Ojibwa tribe (Michigan)
by Pelletier, Julie Anne, PhD
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Contemporary Lakota identity: Melda and Lupe Trejo on ‘being Indian’
by Petrillo, Larissa Suzanne, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2002
Politics of cursing: Imagining human difference in a British Columbia mining town
by Robertson, Leslie Anne, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2001
Healing among the Lakota Sioux: Towards an understanding of indigenous healing ceremonies
by Simons, Sheila Renee, PhD
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE, 2002
Clothed encounters: The power of dress in relations between Anishnaabe and British peoples in the Great Lakes region, 1760-2000
by Silverstein, Cory Carole, PhD
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2001
Skilquewat: On the trail of Property Woman. The life story of Freda Diesing (British Columbia)
by Slade, Mary Anne Barbara, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2002
My father’s name was Zahtah: Constructing the life history of Alfred Chalepah, Sr. (Oklahoma)
by Stokely, Michelle D., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2003
Kinaalda: Dine women knowledge
by Toledo-Benalli, Eulynda Jean, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2003
Coyote’s bare bones: The politics of recognition. A case study of the Honey Lake Maidu and the Federal Acknowledgment process (California)
by Tolley, Sara-Larus Canfield, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
Anglo women’s reproduction in nineteenth-century America: Three case studies of the Southwest, Midwest, and Northwest
by Urban, Kimberly A., PhD
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 2002
A social construction of grieving and bereavement rituals in the Muscogee Creek tribe
by Walker, Andrea Cheree, PhD
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Identity formation and consciousness with reference to Northern Alberta Cree and Metis indigenous peoples
by Weber-Pillwax, Cora Kathleen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (CANADA), 2003
Place psychological experience: A Native American perspective
by West, Randolph Allen PsyD
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY/NEW ENGLAND GRADUATE SCHOOL, 2002
Folklore:
Carry it on for me: Tradition and familial bonds in the art of Acoma pottery (New Mexico)
by Duffy, Karen Margaret, PhD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2002
Turtle sang himself together: Themes of cultural survival in the oral traditions of the Florida Panhandle Creek Indians
by Ellis, Lawrence Simmers, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Geography:
First (national) space: (Ab)original (re)mappings of British Columbia
by Brealey, Kenneth George, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2003
Land use history and vegetation change on the Point Reyes Peninsula, California
by Carlson, Charles Thomas, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, 2003
From the foothills to the crest: Landscape history of the southern Manzano Mountains, Central New Mexico, United States of America since 1800
by Huebner, Donald James, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2002
Modernization and sense of place in a rural region of northern British Columbia
by Larsen, Soren Christiansen;, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 2002
Saints, peaches and wine: Mexican migrants and the transformation of Los Haro, Zacatecas and Napa, California
by Nichols, Sandra Lucile, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
The political life of forests in Northern New Mexico
by Kosek, Jon Gregory, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
Environmental justice and American-Indian sovereignty: Political, economic, and ethnic struggles regarding the storage of radioactive waste
by Ishiyama, Noriko, PhD
RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY-NEW BRUNSWICK, 2002
Potters’ choices: The social construction of pottery-making technologies at Acoma and Laguna pueblos, New Mexico
by Olsen, Nancy Hulbert, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2002
An exploration of place attachment in the Jackson Hole Valley (Wyoming)
by Smaldone, Dave, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, 2002
The democratization of nature: State-park development during the New Deal
by Smith, Langdon, Jr., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 2002
The evolution of federal and Montana policies toward abandoned hardrock mines as interpreted from legislation, regulatory programs, and selected interviews
by Stiller, David Martin, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2002
Conflicting values, contested terrain: Mormon, Paiute and wilderness advocate values of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah)
by Trainor, Sarah Fleisher, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
The politics of cross-boundary conservation: Meaning, property, and livelihood on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana
by Yung, Laurie Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, 2003
Journalism:
The barbarism exposed: An interpretive analysis of newspaper coverage of Mormonism, 1887-1888
by Atkinson, Walter Lynn, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, 2003
Linguistics:
Tesoro perdido: Socio-historical factors in the loss of the traditional Spanish language in la Nueva Mexico (New Mexico, Colorado)
by Bernal-Enriquez, Ysaura, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2002
Reconciling cognitive universals and cultural particulars: A Mexican social network’s use of proverbs
by Dominguez Barajas, Elias, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, 2002
Indigenous language revitalization in Montana: Perspectives from four nations
by Groom-Hall, Mary, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, 2003
Speaker’s experience: A study of Mi’kmaq modality
by Inglis, Stephanie Heather, PhD
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (CANADA), 2002
Tohono O’odham syllable weight: Descriptive, theoretical and applied aspects
by Miyashita, Mizuki, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2002
Tracking Rocky Mountain women: Groups, discourse, and the reproduction of gender and sexuality
by Opffer, Elenie E., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2003
What I speak, who I am: Patterns of language choice and ethnolinguistic identity among Mexican-American adolescents
by Rasi Gregorutti, Sylvia Beatrice, PhD
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, 2002
A Northern Paiute grammar with texts (Oregon)
by Thornes, Timothy Jon, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2003
Modern Literature:
New World pastoral: Landscape and emplacement in contemporary writing of the Americas
by Casteel, Sarah Phillips, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘Above the noise and the glory’: Tiers of propaganda in Great War literature (Rupert Brooke, Mary Borden, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Willa Cather)
by Clark, Margaret L., PhD
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV., AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL COL., 2003
Music:
Musical aspects of the corrido, the war on drugs, and their convergence in a federal prison
by Alviso, Jesus R., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2002
Frontier figures: American music and the mythology of the American West, 1895-1945
by Levy, Beth Ellen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
The power of song in the missions of Northern New Spain (Mexico, California, Texas)
by Mann, Kristin Dutcher, PhD
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY, 2002
Psychology:
Trickster shows the way: Humor, resiliency, and growth in modern Native American literature (Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich)
by Ferguson, Laurie L., PsyD
THE WRIGHT INSTITUTE, 2002
Rhetoric and Composition:
Immigration and the environment: The story of a Sierra Club policy initiative
by Bender, Susan Elizabeth, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003
Women’s resistant pedagogies in turn-of-the-century America: Lydia Maria Child, Zitkala Sa, Jovita Idar, Marta Pena, and Leonor Villegas de Magnon
by Enoch, Jessica, PhD
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Native American women and literacy: Looking through and beyond a thematic view of the landscape of literacy in six Lakota women’s lives
by Gutwein, Geraldine Mendoza, PhD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2003
Cowboys and celebrity: Reading rhetorics at the Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey trial
by Richardson, Jennifer Jeanne, PhD
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Sociology:
Las tracaleras: Texas-Mexican women, music, and place
by Ramos Vargas, Deborah Rose, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 2003
Theater:
Borderlands children’s theatre: The roles and representations of Mexican-American children in Chicana/o drama for young audiences
by Aragon, Cecilia Josephine, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
U.S. History:
The United Mine Workers of America moves west: Race, working class formation, and the discourse on cultural diversity in the Union Pacific coal towns of southern Wyoming, 1870-1930
by Aiken, Ellen Schoening, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2002
Agricultural labor, race, and Indian policy on the Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 (California)
by Bauer, William John, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2003
Damming the Bighorn: Indian reserved water rights on the Crow Reservation, 1900-2000 (Montana)
by Benson, Megan Kathleen, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2003
Prep school cowboys: The education of the elite at western ranch schools (Arizona)
by Bingmann, Melissa, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘Fluid boundaries’: Southern California, Baja California, and the conflict over the Colorado River, 1848-1944
by Boime, Eric I., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, 2002
Color lines: Civil rights struggles on America’s ‘racial frontier,’ 1945-1975 (California)
by Brilliant, Mark Robert, PhD
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2002
Family and economy in frontier Louisiana: Colonial Natchitoches, 1714-1803 (Texas)
by Burton, Helen Sophie, PhD
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, 2002
Inside passage: Alaskan travel, American culture, and the nature of empire, 1867-1898
by Campbell, Robert Bruce, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Free labor on the southwestern railroads: The 1885-1886 Gould System strikes
by Case, Theresa Ann, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2002
The first president of Texas: The life of David Gouverneur Burnet
by Chambless, Beauford, PhD
RICE UNIVERSITY, 1954
Jewish fringes Texas fabric: Nineteenth-century Jewish merchants living Texas reality and myth
by Cheatham Goldman, Marilyn Kay, PhD
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 2003
A biographical study of television news pioneer Elmer W. Lower
by Cressman, Dale L., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, 2003
Financing the Mexican War (James Polk)
by Cummings, James William, PhD
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
The Meskwaki and Sol Tax: Reconsidering the actors in action anthropology (Iowa)
by Daubenmier, Judith Marie, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 2003
‘Much of the Indian appears’: Adaptation and persistence in a Creek community, 1783-1854 (Alabama)
by Davis, Karl Langston, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2003
The Altamont Festival revisited: Myth, reality, and the uses of the past (California)
by Delhomme-Cutchin, Claudine, PhD
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE, 2002
Anti-Chinese violence in the American Northwest: From community politics to the international diplomacy, 1885-1888 (Wyoming)
by Dettmann, Jeffrey Alan, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2002
The case for place: 80 years of demographic and economic change in the boom and bust Pacific Northwest
by Ewert, Eric Carl, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, 2003
People of the river: A history of the Columbia River Indians, 1855-1945 (Oregon)
by Fisher, Andrew Hardy, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Island city: The story of Galveston on the eve of secession, 1850-1860 (Texas)
by Fornell, Earl Wesley, PhD
RICE UNIVERSITY, 1955
Enclosed worlds in open space: Federal communities and social experience in the American West (Utah, Oregon, New Mexico)
by Fryer, Heather E., PhD
BOSTON COLLEGE, 2002
Feast of souls: Indians and Spaniards in the seventeenth-century missions of Florida and New Mexico
by Galgano, Robert Christopher, PhD
THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, 2003
Home for the holidays: Anglo-Protestants and Christmas in Northern California, 1849-1900
by Georges, Judith Laura, PhD
GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION, 2003
Instruments of incorporation: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American frontier, 1875-1910
by Graybill, Andrew R., PhD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘Sisters of Mercy, mothers to the afflicted’: Female-created space in San Francisco 1854 through the turn of the century (California)
by Hartfield, Anne Elizabeth, PhD
THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘We were not tramp sheepmen’: Resistance and identity in the Oregon Basque community, accustomed range rights, and the Taylor Grazing Act, 1890-1955
by Hatfield, Kevin Dean, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2003
World War I and local change in America: Federal war production and class relations in Portland, Oregon
by Hodges, Adam Jonathan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 2002
Creating an enchanted land: Curio entrepreneurs promote and sell the Indian Southwest, 1880-1940
by Howard, Kathleen L., PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Forging an indigenous future: The Nez Perces, 1893-1934 (Idaho)
by James, Elizabeth Jean, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Trail of tears to veil of tears: The impact of removal on Reconstruction
by Kievit, Joyce Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 2002
‘We wanted the land’: The Cherokee country during the era of removal and resettlement (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina)
by Kleit, David H, PhD
DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘That mean ol’ Oakie boogie’: Country music, migration, and the construction of whiteness in Southern California, 1936-1969
by La Chapelle, Peter Jon, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 2002
‘There are no trees here’: Norwegian women encounter the northern prairies and plains
by Lahlum, Lori Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, 2003
Acculturation of the Dakota Sioux: The boarding school experience for students at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian schools (South Dakota, Minnesota)
by Landrum, Cynthia Leanne, PhD
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Wars within war: Mexican guerillas, domestic elites and the Americans, 1846-1848
by Levinson, Irving Walter, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 2003
Burying the war hatchet: Spanish-Comanche relations in colonial Texas, 1743-1821
by Lipscomb, Carol A., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, 2002
‘El descanso: A comparative history of the Los Angeles Plaza area and the shared racialized space of the Mexican and Chinese communities, 1853-1933 (California)
by Lopez, Cesar, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
Tuberculosis, the Navajos, and Western healthcare providers, 1920-1960 (Arizona, New Mexico)
by MacMahon, Sandra Varney, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2003
The voice of the people: Pablo Cruz, ‘El Regidor,’ and Mexican American identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1888-1910
by Martinez, Ana Luisa R., PhD
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, 2003
The house that lemons built: Race, ethnicity, gender, citizenship and the creation of a citrus empire, 1893-1919 (California)
by McBane, Margo, PhD
‘Work worth doing’: Nevada women’s clubs and the creation of community, 1860-1920
by McMullen, Cydnee R, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003
Making history: Historic preservation and the creation of western civic identity (New Mexico, Washington, Colorado)
by Moley, Judith Mattivi, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2002
Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American popular music, 1850s-1920s
by Moon, Krystyn Rozalia, PhD
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 2003
Asserting Americanness: Race, religion, and nationalism in the turn-of-the-century American West
by Moos, Daniel J., PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2003
Asian-Pacific-American identities: An historical perspective through the theatre productions of the East West Players, 1965 to 2000
by Morioka-Steffens, Tamayo Irene, PhD
THE CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Evergreen struggle: Federal wilderness preservation, populism and liberalism in Washington State, 1935-1984
by Pebworth, Michael Jonathan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2003
The fire this time: The battle over racial, regional and religious identities in Dallas, Texas, 1860-1990
by Phillips, Joseph Michael, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2002
Consuming Colorado: Landscapes, leisure, and the tourist way of life
by Philpott, William Peter, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2002
To ‘hear about God in Spanish’: Ethnicity, Church, and community activism in the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Mexican American colonias, 1942-1965 (California)
by Pitti, Gina Marie, PhD
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2003
‘I belong in this world’: Native Americanisms and the western Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1917 (Frank Little)
by Ronning, Gerald Francis Wilhelm, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2002
American dreams derailed: Japanese railroad and mine communities of the Interior West
by Russell, Andrew Benjamin, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Reimagining community: Intertribal relations on the Northern Plains, 1885-1925
by Rzeczkowski, Frank Roman, PhD
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, 2003
The selling of California: The Indians Claims Commission and the case of the Indians of California v. the United States
by Sanchez, Susan Lynn, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, 2003
Mission stories, Latino lives: The making of San Francisco’s Latino identity, 1945-1970 (California)
by Sandoval, Tomas Francisco, Jr., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
A road and a river: The remaking of Williamson County, Texas, 1948-2000
by Scarbrough, Linda Claire, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2002
The history and symbolism of Texas Longhorn cattle
by Sharp, Frank Carl, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2000
A political history of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845
by Siegel, Stanley E., PhD
RICE UNIVERSITY, 1953
Horse thieves, hoodlums, and hanging judges: Crime and punishment on the Nevada frontier, 1859-1878
by Slaughter, Bryan Lorenzo, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, 2002
Negotiating a sense of place in the Salt River Valley: Urbanites and the desert (Arizona)
by Sloan, Stephen Mayes, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Brokers between worlds: Chinese merchants and legal culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1852-1925
by Stevens, Todd M., PhD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 2003
Golden words: Communications and information dispersal in the California Gold Rush
by Stillson, Richard T., PhD
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 2003
From lost cause to female empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
by Stott, Kelly McMichael, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, 2001
His, hers, and theirs: Domestic relations and marital property law in Texas to 1850
by Stuntz, Jean A., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, 2000
Race-ing sex: The competition for gender and sexual identity in multi-ethnic San Francisco, 1897-1924 (California)
by Sueyoshi, Amy Haruko, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2002
‘Letting down the bars’: Race, space, and democracy in San Francisco, 1936-1964 (California)
by Sullivan, Deirdre L., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2003
Japanese picture marriage in 1900-1924 California: Construction of Japanese race and gender
by Tanaka, Kei, PhD
RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK, 2002
The crossing-over place: Urban and Indian histories in Seattle (Washington)
by Thrush, Coll-Peter Ethan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2002
Learning to shop in Zion: The consumer revolution in Great Basin Mormon culture, 1847-1910 (Utah)
by Umbach, Gregory Holcomb, PhD
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 2002
War party in blue: Pawnee Indian scouts in the United States Army, 1864-1877
by van de Logt, Martinus Johannes Maria, PhD
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2002
Ethnic crossings: The making of a non-white America in the second quarter of twentieth century California
by Varzally, Allison Mary, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2002
Cantantes y cantineras: Mexican American communities and the mapping of public space (Texas)
by Villarreal, Mary Ann, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2003
Native Americans and the Russian empire, 1804-1867 (Alaska)
by Vinkovetsky, Ilya, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
Savage debauchery or sacred communion? Religion and the primitive in the Pueblo dance controversy
by Wenger, Tisa Joy, PhD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 2002
Seeing American: Visual education and the making of modern observers, 1900-1935
by Wiatr, Elizabeth Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, 2003
Something else: Creative community and black liberation in postwar Los Angeles (California)
by Widener, Daniel, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2003
Sharing the water: A history of the acequias of northern New Mexico, 1598-2002
by Wortham, James Donald, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2002
Messages from the promised land: Bohemian Los Angeles, 1880-1920 (California)
by Yeoman, Sharyn Wiley, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2003
They got game: The racial and gender politics of basketball in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1932-1949 (California)
by Yep, Kathleen Susan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2002
Sacred symbiosis: The Native American effort to restore the buffalo nation
by Zontek, Ken, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, 2003
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