Dissertations
2009
John Gronbeck-Tedesco
"Reading Revolution: Politics in the US-Cuban Cultural Imagination, 1930-1970"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Jason Mellard
"Cosmic Cowboys, Armadillos, and Outlaws: The Cultural Politics of Texan Identity in the 1970s"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Amy Ware
"The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers and the Tribal Genealogies of American Indian Celebrity"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
2008
Angela Maxwell
"A Heritage of Inferiority: Public Criticism and the American South"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Jessica Grogan
"A Cultural History of the Humanistic Psychology Movement in America"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Amy Shoultz
"A Revolutionary Idea: Gilbert Stuart Paints Sarah Morton as the First Woman of Ideas in American Art"
Supervisor: Susan Rather
Jessica Swigger
"''History is Bunk'' Historical Memories at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
2007
Soo Young Lee
"God’s Chosen People: Protestant Narratives in Korean Americans and American National Identity"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Gregory Carter
"America’s New Racial Heroes: Mixed Race Americans and Ideas of Novelty, Progress, and Utopia"
Supervisor: Neil Foley
Philip Tiemeyer
"Manhood up in the Air: Gender, Sexuality, Corporate Structure, and the Law in Twentieth Century America"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Kimberly Hamlin
"Beyond Adam's Rib: How Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Redefined Gender and Influenced American Feminist Thought, 1870-1920"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Allison Perlman
"Reforming the Wasteland: Television, Reform, and Social Movements 1950-2004"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
2006
Amy Nathan Wright
"Civil Rights ''Unfinished Business'': Poverty, Race, and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Joel Silverman
"Pursing Celebrity, Ensuing Masculinity: Morris Ernst, Obscenity, and the Search for Recognition"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Nancy Semin
"An Examination of Linda Lovelace and Her Influence on Feminist Thought and the Pornographic Industry in America"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Mike O'Connor
"Democratic Capitalism in the United States"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Matthew Hedstrom
"Seeking a Spiritual Center: Mass-Market Books and Liberal Religion in America, 1921-1948"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Polly Adema
"Festive Foodscapes: Iconizing Food and the Shaping of Identity and Place"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
2005
Cary Cordova
"The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Identity in San Francisco"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Paul Erickson
"Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of City-Mysteries Fiction in Antebellum America"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Joel Huerta
"Red, Brown, and Blue: A History and Cultural Poetics of High School Football in Mexican America"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Ray Sapirstein
"Out From Behind the Mask: The Illustrated Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Photography at Hampton Institute"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Pio Schurti
"Reception and Function of American Culture in Switzerland after World War II"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Michael Scully
"American Folk Music Revivalism, 1965-2005"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Alice Shukalo
"Communing With the Gods: Bodybuilding, Masculinity, and U.S. Imperialism, 1875-1900"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Kim Simpson
"Hit Radio and the Formatting of America in the Early 1970s"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
2004
Bill Bush
"Representing the Juvenile Delinquent: Reform, Social Science, and Teenage Troubles in Postwar Texas"
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Bill Fagelson
"Nervous out of the Service: 1940s American Cinema, World War II Veteran Readjustment, and Postwar Masculinity"
Supervisor: Bob Abzug
Adam Golub
"Into the Blackboard Jungle: Educational Debate and Cultural Change in 1950s America"
Supervisor: Janet Davis
Benita Heiskanen
"Fighting Identities: The Body in Space and Place"
Supervisor: Neil Foley
Ryan McMillen
"Space Rapture: Extraterrestrial Millennialism and the Cultural Construction of Space Colonization"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
2003
Laura Ehrisman
"Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Performance in San Antonio’s Public Culture"
Supervisor: Steven D. Hoelscher
Tsuyoshi Ishihara
"Mark Twain in Japan: Mark Twain's Literature and 20th Century Japanese Juvenile Literature and Popular Culture1"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
2002
Fred Nadis
"Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage, 1845-2001"
Supervisor: Jeffrey L.Meikle
Linda Scarbrough
"A Road and a River: The Remaking of Williamson County, Texas, 1948-2000"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Danielle Brune
"Sweet Daddy Grace: The Life and Times of a Modern Day Prophet"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Kelley Mendiola
"The Hand of a Woman: Four Holiness-Pentecostal Evangelists and American Culture, 1840-1930"
Supervisor: Jeffrey L. Meikle
John Haddad
"The American Marco Polo: Exursions to a Virtual China in U.S. Popular Culture, 1784-1912"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Kim Hewitt
"Psychedelics and Psychosis: LSD an Changing Ideas of Mental Illness, 1943-1966"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Gale Greenleaf
"Cohousing in the United States: Utopian Ideals in the Twenty-first Century"
Supervisor: Jeffrey L. Meikle
Carol Meaney
"Return of the Witch: The Scapegoating of the Unredeemable Woman in Modern American Cinema"
Supervisor: Robert H. Abzug
Alicia Barber
"Building It Up, Living It Down: Civic Reputation, Tourism and Urban Development in Reno, Nevada"
Supervisor: Steven Hoelscher
Clifford Farrington
"Biracial Unions on Galveston's Waterfront, 1865-1925"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Bryan Stone
"West of Center: Jews on the Real and Imagined Frontiers of Texas"
Supervisor: Robert H. Abzug
2001
Kim Hewitt
"Psychedelics and Psychosis: LSD and Changing Ideas of Mental Illness, 1493-1966"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Richard Ribb
"Jose Tomas Canales and the Texas Rangers: Myth, Identity, and Power in South Texas, 1900-1920"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Elizabeth Moore
"Being Black: Existentialism in the Work of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin"
Supervisor: Robert H. Abzug
Tommie Meyers
"The Education of Frank Waters 1902-1969, Finding a Southwestern Literary Voice"
Supervisor: William H. Goetzmann
Lisa Rhodes
"Groupies, Girls, and Chicks: Articles on Women Musicians and Fans in Rolling Stone and Selected Other Mainstream Magazines 1967-1972"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon and Janet Staiger
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
"Powering the Modern Body: Theories of Energy Transfer in American Medicine, Science, and Popular Culture, 1875-1945"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
"In the Shadow of the South: The Untold History of Racial Integration at The University of Texas at Austin"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Elizabeth Pollard Grayson
"Calling the Heart Back Home: Irish Catholic Women in America,1845-1915"
Supervisor: Mark C. Smith
Sang-Dawn Lee
"Big Brother, Little Brother: The American Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Maureen Reed
"Homesickness: Untold Stories of New Mexican Women and Multiculturalism, 1930-1965"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon
Mark Sawin
"Raising Kane: The Creation and Consequences of Fame in Antebellum America, or, The Thrilling and Tragic Narrative of Elisha Kent Kane and his Transformation into Dr. Kane, the Hero of the Romantic Age"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
2000
Vicki Jo Howard
"American Weddings: Gender, Consumption, and the Business of Brides"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Karen Ann Russell King
"Surviving Modernity: Jewishness, Fieldwork, and the Roots of American Anthropology in the 20th Century"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Donald Walden
"The Southern Peasant: Poor Whites and the Yeoman Ideal"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
David Armstrong
"The True Believer: Walt Whitman Rostow and the Path to Vietnam"
Supervisor: Mark Smith and Robert Divine
Elizabeth Boyd
"Southern Beauty: Performing Femininity in an American Region"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon
Joel Dinerstein
"Swinging the Machine: White Technology and Black Culture Between the World Wars"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Kathryne Tovo
"The Unparalleled Individuality of Me: The Story of Mary MacLane"
Supervisor: Desley Deacon
1999
Siva Vaidhyanathan
"Unoriginal Sins: Copyright and American Culture"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Todd Vogel
"Staging Race, Sabotaging Whiteness: Marginalized Writers Redirect the Mainstream"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
1998
Jonathan Silverman
"Success on the Margins"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Frank Goodyear
"Constructing a National Landscape: Photography and American Tourism, 1850-1900"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Eric Eliason
"Celebrating Zion: Pioneers in Mormon Popular Historical Expression"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Charles Kupfer
"Whom Do We Fear?: American Reactions to Blitzkrieg, Summer 1940"
Supervisor: Elspeth Rostow
1997
Cathy Turner
"Marketing Modernism: Advertising Modern Literature in the United States Between the Wars"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Kathleen Rice
"Notations of the Heart: The Wood Engraving Illustrations of Clare Leighton, 1929-1954"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Gerald Hauck
"The Mann Family in American Exilie: 1936-1950"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Tim Davis
"Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle and Bill Stott
Robert Jackson
"James B. Eads"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Robert Bednar
"Postmodern Vistas: Landscape, Photography, and Tourism in the Contemporary American West"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1996
Dorothy MacInerney
"A Southern Bell: Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy"
Supervisor: Robert Abzug
Tevi Troy
"Ideas in Action: White House Intellectuals and the Modern Presidency"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
1995
Jan Todd
"Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: An Examination of the Role of Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800-1870"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Pelin Basci
"Clowning in American Culture: The Nineteen Sixties"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
1994
Davis G. Wharton
"Ties That Bind: Photographs from McDade, Texas"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Randy Lewis
"America is Hard to See: Emile de Antonio and the Art of Filmmaking"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Kathryn Adams
"Paper Lesbians: Alternative Publishing and the Politics of Lesbian Representation in the United States, 1950-1990"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Caroline Simpson
"American Orientalisms: The Gender and Cultural Politics of America's Postwar Relationship With Japan"
Supervisor: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
1993
Cheri Wolfe
"The Traditional History of the Chahta People: An Analysis of Gideon Lincecum's 19th Century Narrative"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Rodger Lewis Dunn
"The Conduct of Life: A Biography of Lewis Mumford"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Penne Restad
"O Holy Night: The Creation of the American Christmas"
Supervisor: Miller
1992
Jonathan Paul De Vierville
"American Healing Waters: A Chronology (1513-1946) and Historical Survey of America’s Major Springs, Spas, and Health Resorts"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Kennett Lynn Simmons
"Managed Health Care: Right Idea- Wrong Rules"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Aida Barrera
"Multiculturalism Before Its Time: The Making of Carrascolendas"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Dinana Kleiner
"Invisible Managers: Corporate Expansion and American Culture, 1870-1940"
Supervisor: Abzug and Ruefli
1991
Chi-Ping Chang
"Columbia Liberal Humanists: 1930-1960"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Tinky Weisblat
"Living Fictions: How George and Gracie, Desi and Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet Turned Their Marriagesinto Corporations, TV Shows, and American Legends"
Supervisor: Schatz and Newcomb
1990
Maria-Christina Garcia
"Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans: A History of an Immigrant Comminity in South Florida:1959-1989"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
1989
Francine Carraro
"Keep Your Plant and Water it: The Life of Jerry Bywater"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
William Gordon Wallace
"The History of Race Walking in America"
Supervisor: Bill Stott and Jeffrey Meikle
1988
Patricia Bradley
"Slavery in Colonial Newspapers"
Supervisor: Bill Stott
1987
Paula Marks
"Turn your Eyes Towards Bexar: Sam and Mary Maverick on the Texas Frontier"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1986
William Howze
"The Influence of Western Painting and Genre Paintings on the Films of John Ford"
Supervisor: Thomas Schatz
Sarah Andriamana
"Chinese Immigration to California and Madagascar: A Comparative Study"
Supervisor: Elspeth Rostow
Mary Ann Diebel
"On Eagle’s Wings: Eris Voeglin’s Spiritual Realism"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Margaret Caffrey
"Stranger in this Land: The Life of Ruth Benedict"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Emily Cutrer
"The Art of the Woman: The Life of Elisabet Ney"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Kenneth Hafertepe
"Enlightened Sensibility: Scottish Philosophy in American Art and Architecture"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Nancy Baker Jones
"On Solid Ground: The Emergence of the Self Created Woman in Contemporary American Literature"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann and Dr. Lidoff
Kenneth Hamstra
"The American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics of 1847"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1985
Sam Ratcliff
"Texas History Painting: An Iconographic Study"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Irene Rostagno
"Fifty Years of Looking South: The Promotion and Reception of Latin American Literature in the U.S."
Supervisor: Bill Stott
Shannon Davies
"Physicists Abroad: Copenhagen 1920-1940"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Hal Rothman
"Protected by a Gold Fence with Diamond Tips: A Cultural History of the American National Monuments"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Ed Lundy
"The Transcendental Roots of Isaac Hecker’s Vision for the American Catholic Church"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
1984
Gena Dagel Caponi
"Paul Bowles: Manufactured Savage"
Supervisor: Jeffrey Meikle
Susan Kay Sloan
"Front Page Movies: The Origins of Social Problem Film"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1982
James McNutt
"Beyond Regionalism: Texas Folklorists and the Emergence of a Post-Regional Consciousness"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Lauren Rabinovitz
"Radical Cinema: The Films and Film Practices of Maya Deren, Shirley Clark and Joyce Wieland"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
Larry Hartsfield
"The Imaginative and the Intellectual Response to Professional Crime in America From 1870-1917"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
William E. deBuys
"Spirted Land: The Environmental History and Cultural History of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
1981
Elizabeth Carrell
"Reflections in a Mirror: The Progressive Woman and the Settlement Experiment"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Shirley Showalter
"A Triumph of Comedy: Edith Wharton, Ellem Glasgow, Willa Cather, and a Professional Coming-of-Age"
Supervisor: Robert Crunden
Peter Bacon Hales
"Cities in Silver: American Urban Photography 1893-191"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
David Tanner
"Symbols of Conduct: Psychiatry and American Culture, 1900-1935"
Supervisor: William Goetzmann
