Individuals with asterisks (*) next to their names are annual American Studies Thesis award recipients.
American Studies
Past Honors Theses
2016
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Mollie Forman *
Title Children of (wo)Men: Motherhood in Apocalypse Film and TelevisionThesis Advisor Beverly Haviland -
Brian Semel
Title "Tell me everything": Towers, Trauma and Television in a Tense-less 9/11Thesis Advisor Susan Smulyan
2015
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Olutoye Adegboro
Title Give Me Your American, Your Multicultural, Your Hilarious Masses; Examining Immigrant and Ethnic Humor in the Stand-Up Comedy of Margret Cho, Maz Jobrani and Trevor NoahThesis Advisor Robert G. Lee -
Hannah Duron
Title Culture, Kids, and Conversations: How Three Providence Out of School Programs Teach Tolerance and IdentityThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Patricia Ekpo *
Title Let’s be Very Public with our Suffering: Tumblr’s Online Depression and Its Queer PossibilitiesThesis Advisor Leticia Alvarado -
Daniel O'Donnell
Title Everything Good That I See Comes from White Folks”: A Critique of Brown University Service-LearningThesis Advisor Elizabeth Hoover
2014
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Margaret Hanson *
Title Remaking American Girl(hood): Fan Reuse, Reinterpretation, Alteration and Expansion of the American Girl BrandThesis Advisor Steven Lubar -
Haruko Hashimoto
Title Magical Girl Transformed: How the Feminist Origins and Agency of the Japanese Shojo in Pop Culture Are Imported and Consumed in America Through OrientalismThesis Advisor Liza Cariaga-Lo -
Evelyn Sanchez *
Title The Language of Motherhood: The Story of an Adoption AgencyThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Nathaniel Wardwell
Title Monopolizing Reading:An Analysis of Scholastic Book Clubs’ Place in American Education and CommerceThesis Advisor Laura Snyder
2013
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Brendan DeWolf *
Title Owning Slavery: Cultural Memory, Community Identity, and Brown's Slavery and Justice InitiativeThesis Advisor Matthew Pratt Guterl -
Leah Douglas
Title Politics of Pop: Soda Regulation and How We Talk About ObesityThesis Advisor Kathryn DeMaster -
Lucy Kissel
Title Care at the Close of Life: Factors that Motivate, Reward, Challenge, and Sustain Hospice NursesThesis Advisor Joan M. Teno -
Mary Laski *
Title Gracie for President: Women and American ComedyThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Jennifer Lawrence
Title Looking In / Breaking Out: The Transformative Influence of Prison Art ObjectsThesis Advisor Anne M. Valk -
Anna Tifft
Title The Object as Emotional Vessel: George and Jessie Gardner, their Collection, and the Gardner House at Brown UniversityThesis Advisor Robert P. Emlen
2012
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Ria T. DiLullo *
Title Spokesduck: Donald Duck's World War II Cartoons from 1942 through 1944: An Intersection between Propaganda and Animated ShortsThesis Advisor Beverly Haviland -
Julian A. Jimarez Howard
Title Biggie and Bateman: Contemporary Effects of the American Dream as a Consumer IdeologyThesis Advisor Ralph E. Rodriguez -
Alyssa Kichula
Title Platforms for Art: Examining the Goals and Impacts of Public Transit Art ProgramsThesis Advisor Anne M. Valk -
Tanmay Misra
Title Essays in Contemporary American Film: Youth Culture and Politics between 9/11 and ObamaThesis Advisor B. Anthony Bogues -
Kelly J. Schryver
Title Keeping Up Appearances: Examining Teen Girls' Self-Presentation and Social Comparison on FacebookThesis Advisor Maureen Sigler -
Rebecca Soules
Title Being Shaker in the Twentieth Century: Canterbury Shaker Village, 1905-1939Thesis Advisor Robert P. Emlen
2010
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Molly Mills
Title In Their Own Words: Discourse, Decision-Making and Creativity of Young Immigrant Women in Northern CaliforniaThesis Advisor Matthew Garcia -
Chelsea Miro
Title Kingdom of God: The Political Agenda of Conservative Evangelical Christians from 1940 through 2010Thesis Advisor Beverly Haviland -
Jung Wook Suh *
Title Writing A New Deal: The Federal Writer's Project in New York CityThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Alex Tudela
Title The Other Youth: Post-Second World War Constructions of Latino YouthThesis Advisor Richard Meckel
2008
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Stephen John Babish
Title Lions or Lambs?"; Hollywood Cinema in the Post-9/11 eraThesis Advisor James T. Campbell -
Hannah Furst
Title Loud Voices: Three Second-Generation Jewish Immigrant Women Writers and the Quest to be HeardThesis Advisor Richard Meckel -
Monica Raquel Pelayo
Title Cultural Intersections: The Development of Olvera Street and China CityThesis Advisor Ralph E. Rodriguez -
Robin Marie Perenchio
Title Connecting and Expanding Communities: Contemporary Native RadioThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Rebecca Michelle Silverman
Title Bubbie's Secrets' Unwrapped: Cooking up Culture in an American Jewish SisterhoodThesis Advisor Marcy Brink-Danan
2007
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John Sydney Butler
Title You Diplomacy: New Strategies for American Public Diplomacy -
Arminda Elizabeth Smith
Title Round and Round They Go: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Point Park
2006
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Ashley Elizabeth Harness
Title Liberation Incarnate: A Study of the Metropolitan Community Church of New York 1972 - 1990Thesis Advisor Mari Jo Buhle -
Amita Manghnani
Title Rhythm Nation: South Asian America Performs Race OnstageThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Kate Maxwell
Title Constructing a Creative Urban Space: The Development of AC220 in Providence, RI.Thesis Advisor Paul Buhle -
Julia Wolfson
Title My Experiences with Oral History and Industrial Evolutions: Voices of Pawtucket's WorkersThesis Advisor Paul Buhle
2005
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Heather Velez
Title Lurkers at the Threshold: Fans of H.P. LovecraftThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan
2004
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Elizabeth J. Ault
Title Why Would A Fellow Want a Girl Like Her?": Cinderella Stories on Film and the Reinscription of the Status Quo, 1950-2003Thesis Advisor Lewis Seifert -
Alina Engelman
Title Revolutionary Signs: Sandinistas and the Deaf Nicaraguan ExperienceThesis Advisor David Lewis -
Ilana Friedman
Title Tom Levin and Polly Greenberg's Reflections on the Rise and Demise of the Child Development Group of MississippiThesis Advisor Paul Buhle -
Caroline Staudt
Title Elbowing into a Man's World: the Effect of Athletics on the Women's Movement at Brown University and in America in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth CenturyThesis Advisor Brian Casey
2003
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Jennifer Hahn
Title Feminist Magazines of the Third WaveThesis Advisor Jane Gerhard -
Moye Ishimoto
Title Anime in America and The American OtakuThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
Anna Purinton
Title Sí, se puede (yes, it can be done): The Movement for Living Wages and Accountable DevelopmentThesis Advisor Paul Buhle -
Daniel Weber
Title Rock and Roll Reconnections: Mobilizing the Organic Intellectual VoiceThesis Advisor Jane Gerhard
2002
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Katherine Chavez
Title Powerful Places: The Santuario de Chimayó and Loretto Chapel of Santa FeThesis Advisor Susan Smulyan -
César Cuauhtémoc García H.
Title In the Shadow of the River: McAllen, Edinburg, and Mission in the Post-NAFTA EconomyThesis Advisor Suzanne Oboler -
Benjamin David Healy
Title Visitor with a Deadline in Mind: Privacy, Publicity, and the Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous MenThesis Advisor James Cullen -
Katharine Malinowski
Title Standards-Based Reform: The Chicago Experience and its Implications for the New Federal Role in Education ReformThesis Advisor Luther Spoehr -
Jason Michael McGill
Title Power, Race, Culture: Postwar Jazz as Fruit and SeedThesis Advisor Paul Buhle -
Elizabeth Singer More
Title Bodies of Writing: Changing Feminist Ideas of the Body and Expertise in Our Bodies, Ourselves 1971-1976Thesis Advisor Richard Meckel -
Hannah Ruth Thompson
Title Immigrant Life in Large Town New England: The Ways in which Church, Jobs, and Leisure Shape the Brazilian Community in Framingham, MassachusettsThesis Advisor Richard Meckel