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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:

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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

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

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:

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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

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

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

Author:

Newton, Rhonda Ruth

Title:

Quiltmaking Teachers: Piecing a Career at the Intersection of Learning and Leisure

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
actor-network theory
recreation specialization
communities of practice
leisure studies
quilting
quiltmaking
nonformal education
credentialing

File:

Download Newton_-_Final_-_Fall_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Louise Swartz, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Careen Yarnal, Outside Member

Author:

Snider, Katharine John

Title:

Moments of Light and Years of Agony: Caroline Peart, American Artist 1870-1963

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Caroline Peart
Christian Brinton
19th century American art
20th century American art
Philadelphia artists
American female artists
19th century American female artists
20th century American female artists
spiritualism
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

File:

Download KSJ_dissertation_Oct_24.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Ayer Verplanck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Outside Member

Author:

Black, Caitlin

Title:

From Seed to Cigar: A Cultural Landscape of South-Central Pennsylvania Tobacco

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
Tobacco
Cultural Landscape

File:

Download CBlack_DissertationFinal_March2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Ayer Verplanck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
Joseph James Cecere, Outside Member

Author:

Asbury-Newsome, Susan

Title:

PARLOR FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: BOARD GAMES AND THE TRANSFORMATION WITHIN THE HOME

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Cultural History
Material Culture
Board Games (American)
Victorian Home
Family Studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Simon J. Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Outside Member

Author:

Basalik, Stefanie

Title:

The First Lady's Hidden-Hand: Mamie Eisenhower's Approach to 1950s Politics

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Mamie
Eisenhower
First Lady
Hidden-Hand
1950s
Politics
Fashion
Toile
White House
Housewife
Mamie Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Carol Nechemias, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Beecher, David Lory

Title:

"AN HONORABLE AND MANLY SPORT": THE ROLE OF THOROUGHBRED HORSE RACING IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Horse racing
Slavery
Plantation Life
Antebellum South
Gambling
Thoroughbred

File:

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Committee Members:

John Rogers Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Indrit Hoxha, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheets, Jessica

Title:

"No More Striving of Brother against Brother": Family Divisions and Historical Memory of the Revolutionary War

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Revolutionary War
civil war
loyalists
patriots
historical memory
family divisions

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Thomas Townsend Amlie, Outside Member
James D. Scudieri, Special Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hadighi, Mahyar

Title:

A Shape Grammar for Hybridity: The Domestic Architecture of William Hajjar in State College, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

William Hajjar
single-family houses
hybridity
mid-century architecture
shape grammar
college town

File:

Download Mahyar_Hadighi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose M Pinto Duarte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali M Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Loukas N Kalisperis, Committee Member
James Gill Cooper, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Outside Member
Rebecca Lynn Henn, Program Head/Chair
Ali M Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kinsley, Jamie

Title:

The Garden in the Machine: Homesteading, Local Foodways, and Agriculture in York, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Foodways
Homesteading
agriculture
environmentalism
folklore
food
garden
gardening
vegetables
crops
ethnography
libertarian
communitarian
self-sufficient
York County
Pennsylvania
community gardens
food desert
farm
farmers
chicken
plants
small-scale farming
industrialization
urbanization

File:

Download Garden_in_the_Machine_Kinsley_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Rogers Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Elizabeth Clark, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Whalen, Gina

Title:

Giving Voice to the Transformative Learning of Mothers who Lost a Child to Suicide

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

transformative learning
suicide
child loss
bereaved mothers
feminist perspectives on adult learning
autoethnography
narrative
grief
suicide loss survivors
suicide bereaved
critical reflection
discourse dialogue
adult education
suicide postvention

File:

Download Final_Whalen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Outside Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clark, Brittany

Title:

Behind the Counter and On Screen: Representations of Retail Work in Popular Media

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

popular culture
retail
advertisements
television
memoirs
film
memes
retail employee

File:

Download BClark_-_Dissertation_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Mary Zaborskis, Committee Member
Ozge Aybat, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haymond, Raven Victoria

Title:

Placental Ingenuity: An Examination of Postpartum Placenta Encapsulation Among 21st-Century American Women

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

placenta consumption
placentophagy
postpartum mood disorder
gender studies
postpartum care
prenatal care
communities of care
doula
childbirth
postpartum
placental practices

File:

Download Haymond_Final_Dissertation_Draft_June_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Verplanck, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Holly Angelique, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Haddad, Major Field Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair
Mary Zaborskis, Major Field Member

Author:

Archer, Jill Alexis

Title:

Negative Perceptions of American Public Education: How the Absences of Core American Values in K-12 Public Schools Can Cause Perceptions of Failure

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

core American values
education
school reform
negative perceptions of public school
individualism
equality
competition
change
digital age
technology

File:

Download Jill_Archer_-_Dissertation__Final_Submission_.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair
Charles Kupfer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas Amlie, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
John Haddad, Major Field Member

Author:

Holmes, Kathryn

Title:

Your Religion is Showing: Negotiating the Culture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the Body

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Bodylore
Mormon Studies
Folklore
Gender

File:

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Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Christopher Hollenbeak, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lain, Korie Lee

Title:

A House Fit For the Dead: Gravehouses in the Cultural Landscape of the Upland South

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

gravehouse

File:

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Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Joseph James Cecere, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair