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Recent books by KU AMS alumni

       

MA Alumni

Name Date Thesis Title Current Employment
Tyler Branson 2011 "Steeped in Rhetoric: Digital Populism and the Tea Part Movement"

PhD Candidate, American Studies, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Than Hai Le Cao 2010 Stories of Past and Present: an Analyris of the Life Narratives by Vietnamese Amercans of the 1.5 Generation PhD Candidate, GTA American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Xiangyi Huang 2010 How Japanese is Wii? The Reception and Localization of Japanese Video Games in America
Said Said Abdourazak 2009 Non-thesis
Jacob Bustad 2009 Nationalism, Masculinity, and American Legion Junior Baseball int he 1920s

Adjunct Faculty, Towson University, Baltimore, MS, PhD Candidate Kinesiology, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
Daniel Carey-Whalen 2009 "Suburban Place?: Finding Place in Overland Park, Kansas" Research Development Coordinator for the Institute of Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX
Yan Chen 2009 Seek Science, Meet Jesus: KU Chinese Students' Experience with Local Christian Influence PhD Student, Business, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Howard Graham 2009 "Intimate Emptiness: Flint Hill Wind Turbine Controversy" Learning Services Coordinator, Athletic Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Heather La Bash 2009 "Yoko Ono: Transnational Artist in a World of Stickiness" Software Entitlement Coordinator, IBM
Kyle Waugh 2009 "New from Now/Here: Ed Dorn, Lawrence Kansas & the Poetics of Migration, 1965-1970" Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY
Jason Barrett-Fox 2008 "Feminism, Socialism, and Pragmatism in the life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius 1887-1941" Faculty English and Writing, Hesston College, Hesston, KS
Hang Thi Thu Le 2008 Non-thesis Professor, Institute of American Studies, Vietnam
Dena Mohammad 2008 Non-thesis Iraq
Damon Talbott 2008 "Recommended by Duncan Hines: Automobility, Authority, and American Gastronomy" PhD Student, American Studies, and GTA, Western Civilizations, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Michael Sweeney 2008 Spinning the Wheels of Progress: Exploring the Tastes and Temper of the Times at Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress Adjunct Lecturer, American Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Dorothea Williams 2008 Non-thesis GRA and PhD Student, American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Efugbaike Ajayi 2007 Identity, Immigration, and Religion: Young African Christians in the Midwest Advisor, Education Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Lindsey Feitz 2007 Manufacturing the Myth of Marlboro Country: A Cultural History of Phillip Morris, Asia and Leo Burnett Hong Kong’s Advertising Strategies, 1976-1981 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Bridgewater College, Charlottesville, VA
Aaron Gilbreath 2007 “A Little Place Getting Smaller”: The Depopulation and Social Spatialization of Grove County, Kansas PhD Candidate, GTA, Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Erin Gingrich-Gaylord 2007 “Every child was my child, every man my man”: The Ideology and Strategy of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the Beginning of the Nuclear Age, 1945-1965 Development Associates, Universty of Texas, Austin, TX
Elizabeth Miller 2007 Women Helping Women: The Battered Women’s Movement in Lawrence, Kansas A Case Study Director of Investments, State of Kansas, Topeka, KS
Milton Wendland 2007 With Less Noise than Expected: The Disappearing Feminine in All-Male Spaces Visiting Assistant Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Megan Williams 2007 Imaging Lena Horne: Race and Representation in 1940’s America PhD Candidate, American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Shannon Ikerd 2006 Non-thesis Case Manager, Douglas County AIDS Project, Lawrence, KS
Ami Marie Sommariva 2006 “You can’t throw it away”: Heirlooms, Identity, and Reification PhD Student, Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis, CA
Sang Jo Kim 2005 Quiet Odyssey: A Case Study of Korean Presence in Junction City, Kansas: historical, gender and cultural perspectives with individual narratives PhD Candidate, American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Trevor Loney 2005 Non-thesis PhD Candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Catherine McGivney 2005 Non-thesis  
Cornelius Minor II 2005 Non-thesis Teacher, NYC Public School, New York, NY
Rebecca Ramspott 2005 Juliana Force: Framed and Forgotten Figure in American Art Public Information Specialist/Technology and New Media, Department of News and Media Services, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
Ulrike Spiegl 2005 Opposing Desegregation: the Use of Social Darwinism in Henry Garrett’s Argument Against Desegregation Educator, Santa Barbara, CA
Patrick Sumner 2005 Non-thesis Social Worker, Kansas City, KS
Sirkka Bertling 2004 The Swinger Returns:  Rat Pack Masculinity, Nostalgia and Film Electronic Media & Film Dept, Towson University, Towson, MD
Khady Diene 2004 Non-thesis Banking, Lexington, KY
Jaime Gassmann 2004 NASCAR’s Shift into High Gear: Mainstreaming Effects of the Rationalization of Sponsorship and Media Coverage Director of Operations, Alupa Creative and Editor at Real Estate Economics, Lawrence, KS
Hang Le 2004 Vietnam Veterans and the Healing Process Dean of College, Hanoi, Vietnam
Monika Pacziga 2004 Unending Desire: Renunciation in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence and The Mother’s Recompense English Language Teacher, Patrona Hungariae High School, Hungary
Megan Rocha 2004 Still Imagining “the Indian”: Determining Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country Associate Faculty, Native American Studies, College of the Redwoods, Klamath-Trinity, Eureka, CA
Chelsea Schlievert 2004 Writing Women Out of Beat: An Analysis of the American Postwar Scene Communications and External Affairs Specialist, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
LynAnne Smucker 2004 Non-thesis Community Living Opportunites, Lawrence, KS
Clara Baker 2003 Non-thesis High School history teacher, Bass Harbor, ME
Rebecca Barrett-Fox 2003 Edifying Entertainment: How Women Use Christian Romance Novels Lecturer, Graduate Writing Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Hong Cai 2003 Non-thesis PhD Candidate, American Studies and GTA Humanities & Western Civilization, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Fabien Curie 2003 Non-thesis  
Jeong Uk Kim 2003 Non-thesis
Stefan Klinke 2003 Eudora, Kansas: The transformation of a German Frontier Settlement into a Midwestern Town PPC Specialist and Google Ad Words Trainer, Atlanta, GA
Ailecia Ruscin 2003 Searching for My Foremothers: An Exploration into the Lives of Southern White Women in the Civil Rights Movement PhD Student, American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Battsetseg Serg 2003 Non-thesis PhD Candidate, American Studies, and GTA for Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Nicholas Shump 2003 Non-thesis Instructor, Ancient History, Barstow School, Kansas City, KS
Michael Sweeney 2003 Spinning the Wheels of Progress: Exploring the “tastes and temper of the times” at Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress Adjunct Lecturer, American Studies, Univeristy of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Robert Vodicka 2003 No Values Student Intern, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Alison Watkins 2003 Creating Community: The Early History of the Lawrence Community Nursery School, 1948-1965 Coordinator, Graduate School/International Programs, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Jong-Kweon Yi 2003 Minimum Dharma and Maximum Sangha: Americanization of Buddhism with Reference to Lawrence, Kansas Korean Buddhist Organization, New York, NY
Brent Campney 2002 White Resistance in the Time of the Liberal Consensus: Lawrence, Kansas, 1945-1960 Assistant Professor, Dept. of History and Philosophy, The University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Norton Wheeler 2002 Bridging the Pacific: The 1990 Institute and Transnationalism in Late-20th Century U.S.-China Relations Adjunct Professor, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
Junfeng (David) Zhang 2002 Non-thesis Professor, English Department, Central China Normal University Wuhan Hubei, China
Kevin Armitage 2001 Non-thesis PhD Student, Dept. of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Ingerlene Voosen-Embry 2001 Out of Place: Negotiations of Gender and Place in Two Late Twentieth-Century American Women’s Travel Writings of Northeast Asia Associate Editorial Director, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Rochelle Votaw 2001 Non-thesis youTHink Youth Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
Jianxia Zhao 2001 Non-thesis Tourism Management School, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou Henen, China
Isabelle DeFeo 2000 Non-thesis Owner, Web design firm, Chicago, IL
Andrea Weis 2000 Non-thesis Lecturer, English Dept. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Kerry Callahan 1999 An Effective Presence: Nineteenth Century Infant Study  
Cheryl Patterson 1999 Aspects of Negro Life: From Topeka to Harlem, Forming Aaron Douglas  
Susilorini 1999 Non-thesis  
Naomi Weinberg 1999 Style as Capital: Women’s Appearances in 1930’s Kansas  
Honggen (Jonathan) Yi 1999 Non-thesis  
Julian Craig 1998 Non-thesis  
Mark Luce 1998 Non-thesis  
Todd Ormsbee 1998 “There is life here for the people”: Tradition, Orality and the Sacred in Native American Autobiography Assistant Professor of American Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Cotten Seiler 1998 “Something in the Water”: Independent Rock Music in Louisville, Kentucky Associate Professor of American Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Michael Ezra 1997 “And Protect Yourself at All Times”: Frederick Douglass, The Heavyweight Championship, and Autonomous Public Black Masculinity Associate Professor of American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
Partha Mazumdar 1997 “Unfortunately It’s Racist”: The Ideological Construction of the Model Minority Thesis  
Sandra Rainero 1997 “Oi Farfaire’ Infiocchetella’!” Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Practices in Eduardo Migliaccio’s Popular Theater  
Nadine Requardt 1997 American Pain  
Mark Salisbury 1997 Non-thesis  
Karl Savage 1997 “We are not the ordinary”: The Mormon Musicals of the 1970s and the Politics of Identity  
Sandra Gutierrez Ruiz 1996 Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Language as Components of U.S. Latino Identity Revealed in Three U.S. Latino Novels: The Mixquiahuala Letters, The Line of the Sun, and Dreaming in Cuban Primary Spanish Teacher, Lucaya International School, Freeport, Grand Bahama, the Bahamas
Robin Hemenway 1996 “A Stranger in the House”: Middle-Class Stepmothers and the Cult of Motherhood, 1800-1865  
William Ingram 1996 “The Worldwide Church of God”: The Theocracy of Herbert W. Armstrong  
Andrea Katzman 1996 Developing Identities in the Heartland: Jewish Women in Kansas City During World War II Pre K, General Studies teacher, Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Don Lambert 1996 The Life & Art of Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton  
Sheryl Adelman-Kimmel 1995 The Deadheads: An American Subculture Academic Advisor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Bum Lee 1995 Non-thesis  
Yuki Watanabe 1995 Non-thesis  
Chalermsri Chantasingh 1994 Chinese American Experience and Euro-American Presence in Frank Chin’s Plays  
Saralyn Hardy 1994 Coronado Heights: A Study of Place Director, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 
Astrid Kogelman 1994 Manly-Hearted Woman: Symbol of Deviancy or Gender Diversity  
Roberto Marsengo 1994 Violence in the Garden: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and Other Modes of (Mis)Representation  
Keiko FuUniversity of Kansas, Lawrence, KSma 1993 Non-thesis  
Simon Goddard 1993 The Novel as Articulation of a Social Crisis: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Dust Bowl Migration in the Great Depression  
Clifton Phillips 1993 A Feminist Analysis of Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous Prose and Eastern Religious Beliefs  
Katja Hartman, nee Rampelmann 1993 Small Town Germans: The Germans of Lawrence, Kansas, From 1854 to 1918 Director, Berlin Office (Germany), Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Helen Sheumaker 1993 The Grave Markers of Nicodemus, Kansas as a Test of Black Town Isolation Coordinator of Education, McGuffey Museum, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH
Hong Yang 1993 Non-thesis  
Leann Aubuchon 1992 Non-thesis  
Guadalupe Bryant 1992 The Home Altars of El Grito  
Claudia Ericson 1992 Non-Thesis  
Kirsten Hoffmann 1992 Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen’s Visions of America. The Rock Musician and His Role in the Popular Culture of the 1980’s  
Jae Lee 1992 Non-thesis  
Paula Lopez-Cano 1992 Non-thesis  
Lisa Lim 1991 Surveying Subud in the USA  
Yansheng Liu 1991 Interest in Christianity by the Chinese from Mainland China in Lawrence, Kansas  
David Scott 1991 Non-thesis  
Adel Jendli 1990 Non-thesis Associate Professor, College of Communications and Media Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai
Zhong-Ping Liang 1990 Non-thesis Attorney, Arlington, VA
Moussa Sissoko 1990 African Perceptions of U.S. Race Relations Jeune Afrique, 1961-1971 Professor of English, University of Mali, Bamako, MALI
Maria Stampino 1990 True Women and Heroines: A Study of American Women’s Fiction Written Between 1863-1865 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Miami University, Coral Gables, FL 
Yoshiko Tarutani 1990 Cross-cultural Experiences of Japanese-American Wives in Kansas  
Jean Van Delinder 1990 Non-thesis Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Mathias Eberenz 1989 “Send Us None Who Are Drunkards” --The Irish in America Between 1820 and 1920: Drinking, Temperance, and the Question of Americanization  
Mitsuko Nakashima 1988 Non-thesis Assistant Professor and Chair, of the Aging Specialization, University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD
Hatsumi Takemata 1988 Non-thesis  
Karen Williams 1988 Non-thesis  
Margaret Greer 1987 Hard Labor: Controlling Reproductive Technology  
Hisae Orui 1987 The Moral Majority in the American Tradition of Revitalization Movements  
Kaylanee Subhavan 1987 Non-thesis  
Megan Chlebak 1986 Black Fathers in Seventeen Black Novels, 1940-1970  
Karen Juers 1986 A Weave of Utopias: Reading in American Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970’s  
Chau-Jiunn Paul Shie 1986 Non-thesis  
Kathleen Wells-Morgan 1986 Non-thesis High School Teacher, Columbia, MO
Pia Thielmann 1985 Marge Piercy’s Women: Visions Captured and Subdued  
Donald Brake 1984 MPhil Non-thesis  
Elisabeth Finkbeiner 1984 Non-thesis  
John Haymaker 1983 Non-thesis  
Yumi Ikeda 1983 The Effect of Modernization and Culture on Intergenerational Relations: American Perspectives Applied to the Japanese Elderly  
Rachel Vukas 1983 Variation in Anglo-American Folksong  
Linda Woodsmall 1983 Non-thesis  
Stephanus Dharmanto 1982 Non-thesis  
Annette University of Kansas, Lawrence, KShlmann 1982, 1984 MPhil Non-thesis Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County, Baraboo, WI
Joel Paddock 1982 Partisan Deviation and the Transformation of the Political Agenda: Kansas Politics, 1930-1936 Professor, Department of Political Science/College of Humanities and Public Affairs, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
Laura Skaggs 1982 Non-thesis  
Paul Van Der Voort III 1982 MPhil Non-thesis  
Clare Vlahos 1982 MPhil Non-thesis  
Karin Gagne 1980 Non-thesis  
Mary Wilk 1980 Non-thesis  
Claude Barilleaux 1979 Non-thesis  
Janet Coulston 1979 Non-thesis  
William Dinges 1979 MPhil Non-thesis Professor of Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. 
Frances Hebenstreit 1979 Non-thesis  
Chauncey (Chico) Herbison 1979, 1980 MPhil Non-thesis Assistant Professor, African-American Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Judith Jenkins 1979 Non-thesis  
Jean Kennedy 1979 MPhil Non-thesis  
Joan Lynaugh 1979 MPhil Non-thesis  
Elaine Prostak 1979 MPhil Non-thesis  
Alex Seago 1979 Non-thesis Dean, School of Communications, Arts, & Social Science
Melvin Thorne 1979, 1980 MPhil Non-thesis Associate Teaching Professor, Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; Director of the Humanities Publication left 
Nancy Ursery 1979 Non-thesis  
Daniel Yakes 1979 MPhil Non-thesis  
Alan Milstein 1978 Non-thesis Attorney, Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky, Pennsauken, NJ
Linna Place 1978 MPhil Non-thesis Director, International Academic Programs, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Patricia Russell 1978 Non-thesis  
John Stitz 1978 MPhil Non-thesis  
Susan Wells 1978 Non-thesis  
Michiko Yamamoto 1978 Non-thesis  
Sue Zschoche 1978 Non-thesis Associate Professor and Chair, History Department, Kansas State University  
L. Thomas Pollard 1977 MPhil Non-thesis Professor, Department of Social Sciences, National University, San Jose, CA
Karl Sonderegger 1977 Non-thesis  
Floyd Thomas, Jr. 1977, 1981 MPhil Non-thesis  
Martin Shapiro 1976 Non-thesis  
Paul Ceruzzi 1975, 1977 MPhil Non-thesis Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing, Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
Joseph Horgan 1975 Non-thesis Attorney, Olathe, KS
Jen Jenkins 1975 Non-thesis Staff Attorney, DineEquity, Inc., Lenexa, KS
David Curry 1974 Non-thesis  
Tom Johnson 1974 MPhil Non-thesis Professor Emeritus of Journalism, San Francisco State University; Manager/Director, Institute for Analytic Journalism
Robert Kent 1974 Non-thesis  
Robert Leanna 1974 Non-thesis  
Peter Morales 1974 Non-thesis President, Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston
Busnagi Rajannan 1974 Non-thesis  
David Wollrich 1974, 1976 MPhil Non-thesis Decision review Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs
Lee Hales 1972 Non-thesis Management consulting, Richard Muther & Associates, Marietta, GA
Mary Rambo Harmon 1972 Non-thesis Manager, Direct Mail, Police Athletic League, New
York, NY
Gabriele Lovrek 1972 Non-thesis  
Thomas Rehorn, Jr. 1972 Non-thesis  
Phillip Rosen 1972 Non-thesis Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Steve Siegel 1972 Non-thesis County Supervisor; Union Staff Rep, Wapello County, IA; AFSCME/Iowa Council 61, Ottumwa, IA
Mary McQueeney 1971 Non-thesis  
Annie Desprez 1970 Idealism and Reality in American Farm House Architecture 1840-1880  
Jill Niebrugge 1970 Mrs. Warren’s Avocation: A Study of Mercy Otis Warren as Historian of the American Revolution Scholar-in-Residence, Department of Sociology, American University, Washington DC
Ivan Goldman 1967 Woodrow Wilson: American’s 1918 Expedition to Archangel, and the Periodical Press Columnist, The Ring magazine; author, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

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Ph.D. Alumni

Name Date Dissertation Title Current Employment
Ruben Afagla 2011 Reading Cook-Lynn: Anti-Colonialism, Cultural Resistance, and Native Empowerment Maitre Assistant Professor, Literature and American Studies, Lome University, Lome, Togo
Rebecca Barrett-Fox 2011 "Pray Not for this People for Their Good": Westboro Baptist Church, the Religious right, and American Nationalism Faculty, Sociology Department, Hesston College, Hesston, KS
Jaime Gassmann 2011 Patrolling the Homefront: The Emotional Labor of Army Wives Volunteering in Family Readiness Groups Director of Operation Alupa Creative, Editor at Real Estate Economics, Manhattan, KS
Michael Sweeney 2011 Ancestors, Avotaynu, Roots: an Inquiry into American Genealogy Discourse Adjunct Lecturer, American Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Milton Wendland 2011 "Real, Truly Live Places: Notes Towards the Queer Uncanny" Visiting Assistant Professor; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department; University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Doretha Williams 2011 Kansas Grows the Best Wheat and the Best Race Women: Black Women's Club Movement in Kansas 1900-30
Elizabeth Yeager 2011 Understanding "It:" Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Washburn University, Topeka, KS; Lecturer, Graduate Writing Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Lindsey Feitz 2010 Enlisting Feminism: Avon's Global and the Transnational Marketing of Femininity Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Bridgewater College, Charlottesville, VA
Jeonguk Kim 2010 Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries, 1882-1913 Research professor, Institute for the Study of History, Korea University
Daniel Kerr 2010 Sheepdogs and Barbed Wire: an Environmental History of Grazing on the High Plains Unemployed
Elizabeth Miller 2010 Moving to the Head of the River: the Early Years of the US Battered Women's Movement Director of Investments, Pooled Money Investment Board, Topeka, KS
Thomas Thirlkel 2010 Forgotten Children: African American Children and the Child Welfare Reform in St Louis 1890-1930
Ann Dotter 2009 Transnational Cultural Transactions Distributing American Teen-girl-Films in France, 1986-2006 Assistant Director, Co-Curricular Engaged Learning Advising, Honors Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Lioubov Guinzbourg 2009 Confronting the Cold War Legacy: the Forgotten History of the American Colon in St. Petersburg, a Case Study of Reconciliation Interpreter/Translator, United Nations, New York, NY
Monique Laney 2009 Transnational Migration and National Memory: How German Rocket Engineers became Americans in Huntsville, Alabama Verville Fellowship, National Air and Space Museum, and Teacher, American University, Washington, DC
Hilary Lowe 2009 Literary Destination: Mark Twain's Houses and Literary Tourism Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Phil Hofstra 2008 "Florence Knoll" Design, and the Modern American Work Office Place Professor Practice, Architecture, KU
Cheryl Ragar 2008 Plunging Into the Very Depths of the Souls of our People: The Life and Art of Aaron Douglas Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Andrea Weis 2008 Das Zweite Gesicht der Niederlage: Transnational Private Memories of German Prisoners of War in U.S. Captivity  
Maurice Bryan, Jr. 2007 Emerging Man: The Confrontation of Violence and the Construction of Black Manhood in the Films of Gordon Parks Director of Employment Practices/Dispute Resolution, California State University, Chico, CA
Amber Clifford Napoleone 2007 Queering the Inferno: Space, Identity, and Kansas City’s Jazz Scene Instructor of Anthropology, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
Evan Heimlich 2007 Divination by the Ten Commandments: Its Rhetorics and its Genealogies Professor, University of California, Riverside
Jennifer Heller 2007   Lecturer/Academic Program Associate, Humanities and Western Civilization, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Andrea Pacor 2007 Natural Life, Manufactured Feelings: National Identity, Bio-Political Power and the Japanese American Internment Adjunct Associate Professor, English, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
Sheryl Adelman-Kimmel 2007 The Changing of the Guard: A Case Study of Maynard I. Wishner as an American Jewish Communal Leader Academic Advisor, KU
Norton Wheeler 2007 Transnationalism in the Modernization of Post-Mao China: A Study in American Cultural Transfer Assistnat Professor, History, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO
Walter Fleming 2006   Associate Professor, Native American Studies Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Chauncey (Chico) Herbision 2006 B(l)ack to the World: Explorations in Race, Trauma, Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films Assistant Professor, African-American Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Gwyn Mellinger 2006 Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Diversity Initiative Columnist and Professor, Journalism, Baker University, Baldwin, KS
Ray Pence 2005 First and Foremost a Scientist? Lee Myerson and Changing Definitions of Disability, 1948-1977 Lecturer, American Studies, KU
Bradley Carter 2004 Reverence Helmeted and Armored: 20th Century Military Chaplain Memoirs Associate Professor of Military History, US Army, Fort Gordon, GA
David Anthony Tyeeme Clark 2004 Representing Indians: Indigenous Fugitives and the Society of American Indians in the Making of Common Culture Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Aaron Ketchell 2004 Holy Hills: Religion and Recreation in Branson, Missouri Lecturer, Religious Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Chair, History, US History, Barstow School,
Kansas City, KS
Todd Ormsbee 2004 Sexuality and Experience: Gay Male Publicity, Community and Meaning in 1960s San Francisco Assistant Professor of American Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Amber Reagan-Kendrick 2004 Ninety Years of Struggle and Success: African American History and the University of Kansas, 1870-1960 Dean of Students & Community Affairs, Donnelly College, Kansas City, MO
Michele Casavant 2003 To Boldly Go Where No Other Has Gone Before: The Construction of Race and Gender in Star Trek Coordinator of Advising, School of Education, KU
Greg Ventello 2003 Violence Engendered: The American Rifleman Identity Associate Professor of Humanities, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
Ann Birney 2002 Her Father’s Son: Girls Doing ‘Boys’ Work on Great Plains Family Farms and Ranches 1915-1980 Performer and Director, Ride into History Cultural Project, Admire, KS
Cotten Seiler 2002 Anxiety and Automobility: Cold-war Individualism and the Interstate Highway System Chair, Associate Professor, American Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Todd Starke-Meyerring 2002 Subverting Subversion: The Ideology of Class, Gender, and Race in the Deployment of Tragedy in American Beauty, Boys Don’t Cry, and Bamboozled Professor, History, Dawson College, Montreal Quebec, Canada
Deborah Whaley 2002 By Merit, By Culture: The Cultural and Counterpublic Sphere Work of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (ΩΦΕΛΥΟΜΕΝ ΥΠΗΡΕΤΙΔΕΣ: The Cultural and Counterpublic Sphere Work of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Michael Ezra 2001 Muhammad Ali’s Main Bout: Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1967 Department Chair, American Multicultrual Studies, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
William Stewart Lawler 2001 The Power of Performance and the Performance of Power: A Master/Mistress Trope for Black Cultural Difference in the African Diaspora Lecturer of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Carol Matthews 2001 Taken: Constructions of ‘Race’, ‘Biology’ and Colonialism Informing the Alien Abduction Narrative in the United States Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, & Geography, Missouri Western State University, St Joseph, MO
David McElwain 2001 The Only Dance in Iowa: A Cultural History of Iowa Six-Player Girls Basketball Instructor of Mass Communications/Journalism, Wayne State College, Detroit, MI
Janet Rose 2001 “And Ears Don’t Count”: Body Piercing in America and Other Variations in the Theme of Belonging Lecturer, American Studies & Communications, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Moussa Sissoko 2001 The Impact of the Peace Corps Experience on Returned Volunteers: A Case Study of Peace Corps Mali Returned Volunteers Professor of English, University of Mali, Bamako, Mali
Douglas Sudhoff 2001 A Model of Deviance in the Television News Assistant Professor of Mass Communications, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO
Myriam Vuckovic 2001 “Onward Ever, Backward Never”: Student Life and Students’ Lives at Haskell Institute 1884-1920 Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Maria Alcocer 2000 The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City since World War II Adjunct Faculty of Languages, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Jean Attebury 2000 Language for the Land: The Prairie Park Debate Social Studies Teacher, Landon Middle School, Topeka, KS
Natalie Dykstra 2000 Working it Out: Domesticity, Space, and Self-Representation in Women’s Autobiographical Writing  Associate Professor of English, Hope College, Holland, MI
Suzanne Heck 2000 Indian Identity and Cultural Renewal: A Case Study of the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri Program Coordinator, Prairie Band Pottawatomie Nation Social Services, Mayetta, KS
Joel Morton 2000 Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men’s Movement Hotline & Resource Network Coordinator, Farm Aid, Cambridge, MA
Maria Novo-Fraga 2000 Make It Fast and Keep It Moving: Post-Cold War Action Films and Globalization Lecturer of English, Helmut Schmidt Universitaet, Hamburg, Germany
Marylou O’Neil 2000 Act Your Age!: Law, Culture, and the Boundary Between Child and Adult Associate Professor of English, Instanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Richard Schur 2000 Rites of Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Luis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury College, Springfield, MO
Nancy Strow Sheley 2000 Bringing Light to Life: The Art of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961) Associate Professor of English & Liberal Studies, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Pia Theilmann 2000 Hotbeds: Black-White Love and Its Representations in Selected Contemporary Novels from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean  
Chalermsri Chantasingh 1999 The Americanization of the King and I: The Transformation of the English Governess into an American Legend Professor, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Helen Sheumaker 1999 “A Token that Love Entwines”: Human Hair Work and the American White Middle-Class, 1780-1900 Coordinator of Education, McGuffey Museum, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH
Amanda Rees 1998 “Envisioning the Great Plains”: Contemporary Narratives of the Landscape Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Gretchen Eick 1997 “Lift Every Voice”: The Civil Rights Movement and America’s Heartland, Wichita, Kansas 1954-1972 Professor of History, Friends University, Wichita, KS
Cathy Ambler  1996 The Look of the Fair: Kansas County Fairscapes, 1854-1994 Assistant Director of Historic Preservation, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS
Brian Black 1996 Petrolia: A Landscape of Pennsylvania’s Oil Boom, 1859-1873 Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State University, Altoona, PA
Walter Fleming 1996 The American Indian and Federal Land Leasing Policies, 1884-1917 Department Head and Professor, Native American Studies Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
W.A. Dobak 1995 Fort Riley and its Neighbors: The Federal Government and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century American West Historian, US Army Center of Military History, Washington DC
Adel Jendli 1995 Community Leadership of African-American Ministers in a Midwestern Town Associate Professor, College of Communications and Media Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jean Hendricks 1994 Women Step to the Altar: Role Perception and God-language of 1990’s Clergy  
Nina Roth 1993 The Politics of Federal Family Policy in the U.S., 1965-1988: The American Family as Contested Rhetorical Terrain  
Michael Scheibach 1993 The Atomic Generation: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955  
Clare Vlahos 1992 A History of RLDS Spirituality 1860-1885  
Ja Mo Kang 1991 The Image of the Grandparent as Depicted in Selected Twentieth-Century American Novels  
Chau-Jiunn Paul Shie 1991 Why the Robertson Campaign Failed: A Study of the Political Mobilization of Evangelical Ministers in the 1988 Republican Presidential Primaries Dean of Academic Administration, University of Northern Virginia
Tzu-Ching Lu 1990 Ethnic Enterprise in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area: The Chinese Restaurant Business  
Daniel Yakes 1990 Common Men, Uncommon Wealth: Socioeconomic Inequality, Mobility and Power in Two Michigan Communities  
Barbara Burgess 1989 Migrant Women to Oregon 1836-1860: Hail the Columbia  
Annette Kuhlmann 1989 Collaborative Research in Biculturalism Among the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County, Baraboo, WI
Linna Place 1989 Priestly People Aging and Continuity in an Ethnic Community Research Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Floyd Thomas, Jr. 1989 Cultural Conservation Through the Preservation of Material Culture -- The Representation of Black American Artists in ‘Mainstream’ Museums  
Shirley Veith 1988 The Development of the Nursing Profession at the University of Kansas: 1906-1941  
Sam Gon Kim 1986 Black Americans’ Commitment to Communism: A Case Study Based on Fiction and Autobiographies by Black Americans  
Anne Marvin 1986 The Fertile Domain: Irrigation as Adaptation in the Garden City, Kansas Area, 1880-1910  
Melvin Thorne 1986 The Core of Contemporary American Conservative Thought Associate Teaching Professor, Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
John Bungard 1985 Becoming a Denomination: The Church-Sect Typology and the Stone-Campbell Movement  
A. Michael Collins 1985 Employment Training Policies and Politics, 1980-1982: The Transitions from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act to the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982  
Donna Schafer 1984 Reminiscence Groups and the Institutionalized Elderly: An Experiment Executive Director, National Association for Professional Gerontologists, Healdsburg, CA; former Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Humboldt State University, retired
Sue Zschoche 1984 “Preserving Eden”: Higher Education, Woman’s Sphere, and the First Generation of College Women, 1870-1910 Associate Professor and Chair, History Department, Kansas State University , Manhattan, KS
William Dinges 1983 Catholic Traditionalism in America: A Study of the Remnant Faithful Professor of Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. 
Robert Kent 1983 Planning for Abundance: Capitalism and American Ideas of National Planning, 1880-1920  
L. Thomas Pollard 1983 The Grapes of Wrath and Native Son: Literary Criticism as Social Definition Professor, Department of Social Sciences, National University, San Jose, CA
Elaine Prostak 1983 “Up in the Air”: The Debates over Radio Use During the 1920’s  
John Stitz 1983 A Study of Family Farm Culture in Ellis County, Kansas and the Relationship of That Culture to Trends in Farming  
Joan Lynaugh 1982 The Community Hospitals of Kansas City, Missouri, 1870-1915 Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Ronald Boland 1981 The War in Poverty in Fort Wayne, 1965 to 1975 – A Case Study  
Paul Ceruzzi 1981 The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, 1935-1945: A Cross-Cultural Study  Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing, Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
Jean Kennedy 1981 William Allen White: A Study of the Interrelationship of Press, Power, and Party Politics  
Marilyn Kindred 1981 The Role of the Army Officer Corps in the American Arts, 1820-85  
Jean Yonke 1981 William Faulkner as a Moralist and Cultural Critic: A Comparison of his Views with Those of Historians and Social Scientists  
Busnagi Rajannan 1978 American Freethinkers and South Indian Free Thought: 1875-1947  
Jill Niebrugge Brantley 1977 “A Pattern on Experience”: The Treatment of Deviance in the Post-World War II American Novel as a Test Case of the Use of Literature in the Study of Society Scholar-in-Residence, Department of Sociology, American University, Washington DC
Ronald Naugle 1976 Industry’s Valley: The Social Consequences of Industrialization in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, 1860-1870  
Bruce Adams 1975 The White Negro: The Image of the Passable Mulatto Character in Black Novels, 1853-1954  
Robert Huitt 1973 Ideological and Normative Consensus in the Local Church: An Empirical Study of Four Methodist Congregations in Kansas  
Timothy Miller 1973 Ethics and the Counter Culture Professor, Religious Studies, KU
Eldon Turner 1973 Law and Political Culture: A Functional Study of the Relation of Theology to Jurisprudence, Political Values and Legal Activity in Colonial Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1671-1680  
Robert Buchanan 1972 Patterns of Organization and Leadership Among Contemporary Oklahoma Cherokees  
Wayne Lobue 1972 Religious Romanticism and Social Revitalization: The Oberlin Perfectionists  
Charles Steele 1972 American Indians and Urban Life: A Community Study  
Theodore Hovet 1970 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Holiness Crusade Against Slavery  
Joseph Collier 1969 Editorial Reaction of Certain Catholic Periodicals to United States Department of State Policy in the Far East: 1950  
Charles Shaffert 1969 The Editorial Attitudes of the New York Daily Tribune and the New York Daily Times Towards the Negro, 1850-1859  

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