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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:

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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

Author:

Singer, Matthew Frederick

Title:

Building Liberal Religion: Jews and Unitarians Reform Faith and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
Judaism
Unitarianism
Art History
Architectural History
Religion
Philadelphia
Reform
Frank Furness
William Henry Furness
Morris Jastrow
Marcus Jastrow
Ethical Culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ruhsam, Jonatha Jeanine

Title:

The Great Maine Bathroom Case: Contesting Sex Segregation and Gender Regulation in America

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
gender
sex segregation
gender crossing
transgender
liberal democracy
third gender
L. Frank Baum
Matilda Joselyn Gage
Alexis de Tocqueville
Nicole Maines
Wayne Maines
bathroom bills
gender regulation
gender binary
heteronormativity

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 Buccitelli, Committee Member
Kamini Grahame, Outside Member

Author:

Hutcheson, Cory Thomas

Title:

CHRISTMAS MONSTERS: THE PHILADELPHIA PARADE OF SPIRITS IN CONTEXT

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

folklore
festival
holidays
American Studies

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Cory_Thomas_Hutcheson__Final_V4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Simon J. Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Outside Member

Author:

Appel, Molly D

Title:

The Students of Human Rights: Literature, Pedagogy, and the Long Sixties in the Americas

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Latin America
Latinx Studies
Literature
Film
Poetry
Argentina
Mexico
Tlatelolco
Nuyorican
critical pedagogy
feminist pedagogy
decolonial
human rights
American Studies
Alicia Partnoy
Roberto Bolaño
Pedro Pietri
La historia oficial
Sixties
Students
Student Movements
Student activism
Post-dictatorship
Puerto Rico
education
debt
pedagogy

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosemary Jane Jolly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosemary Jane Jolly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Committee Member
Sarah Jo Townsend, Committee Member
John Andres Ochoa, Outside Member

Author:

Bryan, Peter Cullen

Title:

The Dream of Three Lifetimes: Translation and Transnationality in Donald Duck Comics

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
Communication
Popular Culture
Comics Studies

File:

Download Bryan_Dissertation_Manuscript__Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
Roderick Lamar Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Bott, Alicia Cecelia

Title:

The Art of Display: Permissive and Restrictive Women’s Fashion of the Progressive Era

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Women
Fashion
Politics
New Woman
Modern Woman
Gibson Girl
Flapper
Roaring Twenties
Department Stores
Wanamaker's
Philadelphia
Politics of Fashion
Turn of Twentieth Century
Progressive Era
Photography
Feminism
History of Fashion
Women's History
Gender
Visual Culture
American Studies
History of Advertisements

File:

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Committee Members:

Catherine Rios, Outside Field Member
Charles Kupfer, Major Field Member
Anne Verplanck, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ozge Aybat, Outside Unit Member
John Rogers Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Glass-Heffner, Andrea

Title:

Gentrification, Interrupted: Place-Based Identity, Vanishing Landscapes, and the War on Gentrification in Urban America

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
Urban Studies
Gentrification
digital culture
gender and sexuality
spatial justice
memory
space and place
popular culture
visual culture
folklore
vanishing landscapes

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Outside Member

Author:

Lepore, Judith A

Title:

Civilizing the Unruly Masses: The Impact of Edward L. Bernays's Invisible Governance on American Democracy

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Edward Bernays
public relations
democracy
engineering of consent
masses
Sigmund Freud
politics
American Studies
mass manipulation
propaganda
Progressive Era

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Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Simon Bronner, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Haddad, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Crawford, Denis

Title:

The Forgotten Showman: The Sporting Life and Times of Johnny F. Bassett

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Johnny F. Bassett
World Football League
World Hockey Association
Unitied States Football League
Sports History
Sports Business
Redneck Chic
Canadian History
American Studies
Canadian anti-Americanism
Lost Cause Mythology

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charity Dawn Fox, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
David L Williamson IV, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair