American Studies Honors Theses

"A Joy to Watch": How Julia Child Reimagined Domesticity and the Domestic Space

Challenging the Oppression of Motherhood & Preserving Normative Femininity: Women's Agency in the Hot Mom Trend

Consuming Authenticity: Deconstructing “Do-It-Yourself” Punk Rock Ethics in Philadelphia

Cosmopolitan Magazine: The Male Issue

A Forgotten History: The 1930's Student Movement

A Gun to Our Head? American Imagination of the Russian Character Since 1946

Narrating Death in a Culture of Denial: Stage IV Cancer Narratives Told Through Blogs and Memoirs

"Never Underestimate the Power of a Big Gold Frame"*: Deconstructing the Ideological Powers of the Museum and Understanding the Development of the Curatorial Profession

Pinking the White House: Barbie, Femininity, and Power in the United States

Worshipping to Control: The Public Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Political Right