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Author:: Milligan, Amy K.
Title:: Kallah's Choice: Hair Covering Practices of Orthodox Women in an American Small Town
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: hair
Jewish
Judaism
folklore
bodylore
Lancaster
synagogue
women
File:: Download Milligan_Dissertation_03-22-12.pdf
Committee Members:: Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Kamini Grahame, Committee Member
Andrea Lieber, Special Member

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Author:: Blank, Trevor J.
Title:: Posthum(or)ous: The Folk Response to Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: Digital Age
computers
Internet
humor
death
disaster
mass media
folklore
File:: Download Blank_-_Dissertation_Submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Girish Subramanian, Committee Member

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Author:: Clater, Mary Elizabeth
Title:: Without Mincing Words: Presidential Rhetoric in the Late Cold War Era, 1977-1992
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: Carter
Reagan
Bush
Cold War
Berlin Wall
Communism
Inaugural
presidential speeches
rhetoric
File:: Download Dissertation_in_Progress_-_Final_FINAL_Draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
David Scott Witwer, Committee Member
Harold Bundick Shill Iii, Committee Member

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Author:: Dutch, Jennifer Rachel
Title:: Someone's in the Kitchen: The Value of Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-first Century
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: Cooking
Foodways
Popular Culture
Cookbook
Recipe
YouTube
File:: Download Jennifer_Rachel_Dutch_Final_Dissertation_2013.pdf
Committee Members:: Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Carol Ruth Nechemias, Committee Member
Charles Camp, Special Member

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Author:: Russell, David Wayne
Title:: A History of Maico Motorcycles and American Sport Motorcycle Culture, 1955-1983
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: Maico
motorcycling
motorcycle
racing
Seventies
1970s
File:: Download Maico_Russell_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

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Author:: Mcmahon, James Dennis
Title:: Built of Stone: The Family of Milton S. Hershey Constructs a Pennsylvania German Cultural Landscape
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: vernacular architecture
Hershey
cultural landscape
material culture
Pennsylvania German
File:: Download James_McMahon_final_submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Jeremy Plant, Committee Member

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Author:: Ellsworth, Brant Wesley
Title:: American Prodigals: The Rejection and Redemption of Mormons in the American West, 1890-1930
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: Mormonism
American West
Western Narrative
Masculinity
Identity Construction
File:: Download Ellsworth_Dissertation_Final_Draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Christopher Hollenbeak, Special Member

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Author:: Calamia, Lynne Marie
Title:: A New Deal for Historic Preservation: The Impact of Relief Funding on the Cultural Landscape of Pennsylvania, 1932-1941
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: historic preservation
Pennsylvania Historical Commission
Pennsylvania
Colonial Revival
Pennsbury Manor
Old Economy Village
File:: Download L.Calamia_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Anne Ayer Verplanck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Joseph James Cecere, Committee Member

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Author:: Ortmann, Susan M
Title:: "telling You Who We Are": Identity Formation on America's First Western Frontier
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: Identity
Frontier
Old Northwest
Captivity Narratives
Race
Native Americans
File:: Download Susan_Ortmann_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Francis Bremer, Special Member

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Author:: Lappas, Spero Thomas
Title:: A Rabid Dog, the Third Shooter, and Fifty Head of Cattle: Mythos and Logos in the Culture of American Criminal Justice
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: American Studies
Criminal Justice
Culture
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
The Ox Bow Incident
File:: Download dissertation_final_as_of_MAY_26_2015.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Donald Charles Hummer Ii, Special Member

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