Publications
2008 – present
2010
Andrew Friedman, “Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia, 1961-2001.” Advisor, Michael Denning
Sarah Haley, “Engendering Captivity: Black Women and Convict Labor in Georgia, 1865-1938.” Advisors, Hazel Carby and Glenda Gilmore
Brandi Hughes, “Middle Passages: The Redemption of African America through the African Mission Field, 1862-1905.” Advisor, Hazel Carby
Jinan Joudeh, “Hoax Literature: Reading Edgar Allan Pie, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.” Advisor, Wai Chee Dimock
William King, “Icarus Unbound: The Problem of Ambition in Anglo-American Culture.” Advisor, David Brion Davis
Anthony Light, “Keeping Their Places: Emulation, Simplicity, and Class Distinction in the Domestic Imagination, 1877-1925.” Advisor, Jean-Christophe Agnew
Benjamin Looker, “A Nation of Neighborhoods: Cities, Communities and Democracy in the American Imagination, 1940-2000.” Advisor, Michael Denning
Naomi Paik, “Testifying to Rightlessness: Redressing the Camp in Narratives of U.S. culture and Law.” Advisors, Hazel Carby and Michel Denning
Calvin Warren, “The Absent Center of Political Ontology: Ante-bellum Free Black and Political Nothingness.” Advisor, Robert Stepto
Susie Woo, “A New American Comes ‘Home’”: Race, Nation, and the Immigration of Korean War Adoptees, ‘GI Babies’, and Brides.” Advisors, Matthew Jacobson and Laura Wexler
2009
Betty Livingston Adams, “Fighting the Color Line in the ‘Ideal Suburb:’ Working-Class Black Women and the Politics of Christian Activism in Summit, New Jersey, 1898-1945.” Advisor, Glenda Gilmore
Andrea Becksvoort, “Adventure Capitalists: Commodifying Self, Experience, and Performance in American Culture, 1890-1940.” Advisor, Glenda Gilmore
Amanda Ciafone, “Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of Challenges to the Global Corporation” Advisore, Michael Denning
Daniel Gilbert, “ Expanding the Strike Zone: Baseball in the Age of Free Agency .” Advisor, Michael Denning
Megan Glick, “Infrahumanisms: Race, Nation, and the Moral Economy of Embodiement in 20th Century U.S. Culture.” Advisor, Matthew Jacobson
Brian Herrera, “Latin Explosion: Latinos, Racial Formation and Twentieth Century U.S. Popular Performance.” Advisor, Matthew Jacobson
Uri McMillan, “Subversive Objecthood: Black Female Performance” Advisor, Joseph Roach
Emmanuel Raymundo, “The Political Culture of Leprosy in the US Occupied Philippines, 1902-1941.” Advisor, Matthew Jacobson
Jennifer Wood, “The New Black: Sartorial, Corporeal and Sexual Politics in the Harlem Renaissance” Advisor, Robert Stepto
2008
Lauren Bierbaum: “Taking the Plunge!: Negotiation and Cultural Immersion, Social Mobility, and Inter-Class Collision in an Elite Summer School Program.” Advisor, Kathryn Dudley
Brenda Carter: Dreams of Recognition, Fantasies of Revenge: Work and Workers in Late Twentieth Century American Mass Culture. Advisor, Michael Denning
Paul Grant-Costa: “The Last Indian War in New England: The Mohegan Tribe of Indians vs. the Governour and Company of Connecticut, 1703-1774.” Advisors, John Demos; Johnny Faragher
Dalton Jones: Black Market: Louis Armstrong and the Primitive Accumulation of Desire. Advisor, Michael Denning
Mark Krasovic: “The Struggle for newardk: Plotting Urban Crisis in the Great Society.” Advisor, Matthew Jacobson
Shana Redmond: “Anthem: Music and Politics in Daspora, 1920-1970s.” Advisor, Hazel Carby
Annemarie Strassel: “Redressing Women: Feminism in Fashion and the Creation of American Style, 1930-1960.” Advisor, Dolores Hayden
