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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

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

Author:

Green, Spencer Lincoln

Title:

Coming of Age in the Latter Days: Adolescent Folklore and the Paradox of Mormon Identity

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

america
religion
mormon
LDS
adolescent
folklore
identity
coming of age

File:

Download Dissertation_GrowingUpMormon1.pdf

Committee Members:

Simon Josef Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Michael Lee Barton, Committee Member
Christopher Hollenbeak, Special 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:

Rodriguez, Felix

Title:

MAPPING CONTESTED IDENTITIES IN DOMINICAN ART EDUCATION: AN HISTORICAL INQUIRY

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

art education
art education history
Dominican Studies
Dominican Republic
vocational education
globalization
imperialism
history
caribbean
folklore
Freire
Sandoval
identity
blackness

File:

Download 20190610_Felix_Rodriguez_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Graeme Sullivan, Committee Member
B. Stephen Carpenter, II, Committee Member
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Outside Member

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:

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:

Morel, Annamarie

Title:

Glamour, Guns, And Glitter: Selfie-Empowerment and Self-Representation Online

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

photography
self-portraits
selfies
social media
digital culture
visual culture
gender
identity
vernacular photography
glamour
fashion
popular culture
folklore
influencer
beauty
firearms

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Committee Members:

Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
Jeffrey A Tolbert, Committee Member
Russell Frank, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ham, Lesley

Title:

SECULAR AND SACRED: CROATIAN AMERICAN FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS IN STEELTON, PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Croatian American
Steelton PA
folklore
tradition
folk dance
tamburitza
kolo
ethnicity
immigrants
folk music
South Slavic
ritual year

File:

Download Lesley_Ham_EDIT_Dissertation_AMST_2023-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Buccitelli, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Simon Bronner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sara Imanpour, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Haddad, Major Field Member
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member