2023
Making In The Name: Diasporic Dystopias on the Stage, Andrew Omar Crisol
2022
“We had become the VC in Our Own Homeland:” Indigenous Veterans of Vietnam and the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee, Margaret Curtin
Small Towns Must Struggle: The Impact of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” in Ellenville, New York, 1960-present, Kaleigh Lagville-Graham
Radical Folk Heroes: Anansi & Br’er Rabbit’s West African Origins & Their Forced Pilgrimages, Sage Adia Swaby
A Biomythography of Mommy, Immanuel J. Williams
2021
Towards a Celebration of Native Resilience: Interrupting National Myth-Making in the American Classroom, Claire FitzGibbon Lampson
Encountering Authenticity: A Case Study on the Cooperstown Farmers’ Museum, Frances J. Lewis
2020
“A Visit to the Coffee Houses”: How Local News Wrote About the Humoresque Coffeeshop Raids, Nick Fiorellini
Feta, Blintzes, and Burritos: The Evolution of the Diner and Immigrants' Role in Defining American Food Culture, Alexis Kimberly Maresca
“No Place” in CyberSpace, Scarlett Sinay
2019
"The Great Pleasures Don't Come So Cheap:" Material Objects, Pragmatic Behavior and Aesthetic Commitments in Willa Cather's Fiction, Bari Taylor Bossis
Freedom of Speech in America’s Concentration Camps: The Press and Public Discourse for Japanese Americans at Manzanar, Anna-Sofia Andrea Botti
Picturing a History, Bella Feinstein
Freedom Now!: The Function of Jazz in the Civil Rights Movement, Christa R. Gammage
A Hundred Houses: Pauline Leader and the Spatial Poetics of Disability, Carl Robert Nelson
2018
King Cake: A Lok at the Cake That Gave Mardi Gras Its Flavor, Amy T. Cassiere
“I Wanna Be Like Mike:” A Synthesis of Sports Marketing from Babe Ruth to Michael Jordan, Michael John Duffy
Back to the Country: America's White Working Class in Literature and Culture, Quentin Robert Lundstedt
Privacy in America: The Traditions, Changing Views, and Response, Emmet J. O'Connell
Ban The Carriage Industry? Yea or Neigh: An Examination of the Arguments Around the Carriage Industry by a Certified Carriage Driver In-Training, Emma Greenberg Rehfeld
2017
Rauschenberg's Journey to Dante: Or How to Keep a Clean Head, Maxwell Ian Eric Barnes
The City After: Crises in Contemporary New York Narratives, Rachel Peri Papert
2016
"Fruits are Ripe, WE are Fresh": The Rapper, The Emcee, The Cypher and the Participatory Spectrum of Hip-Hop, Peter Heyer Anchel
Smokin' Out the Truth: An Early History of Southern Barbecue, Morgan Vivianne Di Santo
The History and Democratization of Men's Lacrosse, Samuel Woodward Funnell
"Disreputable Houses of Some Very Reputable Negroes": Paternalism and Segregation of Colonial Williamsburg, Nora Ann Knight
Consuming Death, Suffering and Chaos: Visual Narratives of the Civil War, Vietnam War and September 11th, Anna Carolyn Lyden
Competition, Corporatization and Culture: A Contrast of Person-to-Person and Online Video Gaming Communities In America, Jeffrey Miles Rossen
2015
Remember, Remember: An Analysis of the American Memorial; Celebrating Collective Memory and Historic Preservation in American Grief Culture, Mariah E. Weaver
2014
As American as Apple Pie: The History of American Apple Pie and Its Development into a National Symbol, Rebecca Claire Bunschoten
Two Faces or Two Heads? The Intersection of Immigration Reform Policies and the Welfare State in the United States, Sofia V. Celedon
'you', Urs, and Mine: Space and Memory in Urs Fischer's 'you', Zoe Jil Groomes-Klotz
The Darkness of our Imagined Fears: Zombie Fascination and the American Culture of Terror, Jessica Grey Merliss
American Symphony Orchestra: The Establishment of an American Cultural Institution, Scot Elison Moore
Dusty Hands and Plastic Hair: The Phenomenon of Life Groups at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) 1880-2007, Madeline Morgan Scholl
The Presidential Image: Documentary Media and Presidential Politics, William M. Tilghman
Transitions, Melissa Terese Van Fleteren
American Skyscraper: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center, Jake Bernard Williams
2013
Diane Von Furstenberg: Feel Like Woman, Wear A Dress, Brandon Arlen Blackwood
Understanding Reagan: A Look at the Complex Life, and Afterlife, of an American Icon, Allison Marie Davis
Adeline and the Black Hills, Maryellen Groot
Artistic Reactions to Prohibition: A study of artist rebellion to influence the masses, Miriam Ana Huppert
Lost at Sea: Isolation, Will, and Imagination in the Face of the Sublime in Moby-Dick, Katherine Lairen Jackson
Deep Cleaning the Home with Ma Perkins: A Cultural History of America’s Most-Trusted Radio Soap Opera, Devon Ruttan Moffat
Olvera Street: Myth, Exploitation, & Art, Clare Frances O'Brien
Mirrors of Distorting Glass: Identity, Commodity, and the Inescapable Traditions of Black American Performance in the Music and Image of Jay-Z, Casey Elisabeth Romaine
Of All Our Relations: Captivity Narratives and the Films they Inspired, Samuel William Schroedel
2012
Vigilante Patriotism: An Exploration of the Modern American Comic Book, Joshua Abrams
An Analysis of School Integration through the Works of W. E. B. DuBois (1890s-1954), Raquel Hardy
CHRIST COMES TO CHICAGO!: Billy Sunday in the Windy City, Spring 1918, Joshua Kopin
Bodies in Transformation: Viewing Nudity and Nakedness in Three Performance Works by Eiko & Koma, Rachel Machtinger
Democratic Elegance: Jacqueline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama's interactions with fashion, Mackie Siebens
2011
Murray Bookchin: American Contrarian, Lucas Denton
The Disciplined Hedonist: Examing Body Politics Through the Narratives of Runners, Abigail L. Ferla
A Singing Country: American Folk Expression and The Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle Expedition of 1935, Odetta B. Hartman
2010
History in a Home: Exploring Montgomery Place, Aaron Ahlstrom
Laying Waste: The Exhibition and Destruction of Worn Out and Useless Things in America, 1929-1942, Willy Berliner
Reinhold Niebuhr, Abraham Lincoln and the American Argument Against Perfectionism, Andrew Simon
Confederate Remembrance: A Social III in Disguise, Gabriel Yassky
2009
In Defense of the Fourth Amendment: Ensuring U.S. National Security and Protecting the Citizens' Right to Privacy in a World with International Terrorism, Maximillian Rasbold-Gabbard
Trauma, Memory, and Mourning: Commemorative Responses to September 11, Allison Reeves
Reality Bites: The Late Works of Mark Twain, Daphne Steinberg
Bombs, Bigotry, Mass-Murder and Mischief: Empowering Children Through Dr. Seuss, Rebecca Weiner
Human After All? The Great War, Modernity, and the Cybernetic Revolt, Travis Wentworth
Sin Maíz no Hay País: Campesino Agriculture and Food Politics in Oaxaca, Mexico, Julia Wentzel
2008
There is no "I" in Team... But There is a "Me": Baseball in Literature, Heroism, and Becoming American, Matthew Lehrer
Screen, City, Space of Exception: Reactivating and Reimagining Crisis in America, Lauren Wessler
2007
Adventures in Cultural Differences: Uncomfortable Racial Interactions Among White Liberal College Students, Alexandra Lennon-Simon