Name

Date

Thesis Title

Current Employment

Aaron Gilbreath

2007

“A Little Place Getting Smaller”: The Depopulation and Social Spatialization of Grove County, Kansas

GTA, Geography, KU

Erin Gingrich-Gaylord

2007

“Every child was my child, every man my man”: The Ideology and Strategy of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the Beginning of the Nuclear Age, 1945-1965

Efugbaike Ajayi

2006

Identity, Immigration, and Religion: Young African Christians in the Midwest

Advisor, Education Administration, KU

Lindsey Feitz

2006

Manufacturing the Myth of Marlboro Country: A Cultural History of Phillip Morris, Asia and Leo Burnett Hong Kong’s Advertising Strategies, 1976-1981

GTA, American Studies, KU

Shannon Ikerd

2006

Non-thesis

Case Manager, Douglas County AIDS Project, Lawrence, KS

Elizabeth Miller

2006

Women Helping Women: The Battered Women’s Movement in Lawrence, Kansas A Case Study

GTA, American Studies, KU

Milton Wendland

2006

With Less Noise than Expected: The Disappearing Feminine in All-Male Spaces

GTA, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, KU

Megan Williams

2006

Imaging Lena Horne: Race and Representation in 1940’s America

GTA, American Studies, KU

Catherine McGivney

2005

Non-thesis

Ami Marie Sommariva

2005

“You can’t throw it away”: Heirlooms, Identity, and Reification

PhD Student, Cultural Studies, UC Davis, Davis, CA

Ulrike Spiegl

2005

Opposing Desegregation: the Use of Social Darwinism in Henry Garrett’s Argument Against Desegregation

Educator, Santa Barbara, CA

Patrick Sumner

2005

Non-thesis

Sirkka Bertling

2004

The Swinger Returns:  Rat Pack Masculinity, Nostalgia and Film

Electronic Media & Film Dept, Towson University, Towson, MD

Khady Diene

2004

Non-thesis

Jaime Gassmann

2004

NASCAR’s Shift into High Gear: Mainstreaming Effects of the Rationalization of Sponsorship and Media Coverage

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Sang Jo Kim

2004

Quiet Odyssey: A Case Study of Korean Presence in Junction City, Kansas: historical, gender and cultural perspectives with individual narratives

GTA, American Studies, KU

Hang Le

2004

Vietnam Veterans and the Healing Process

Dean of College, Hanoi, Vietnam

Trevor Loney

2004

Non-thesis

Advisor, Freshman-Sophomore Advising left, KU; Courtesy Lecturer, Humanities & Western Civ.

Cornelius Minor II

2004

Non-thesis

Teacher, NYC Public School, New York, NY

Rebecca Ramspott

2004

Juliana Force: Framed and Forgotten Figure in American Art

Associate of Marketing and Communications, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Megan Rocha

2004

Still Imagining “the Indian”: Determining Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country

Associate Faculty, Native American Studies, College of the Redwoods, Klamath-Trinity (Eureka), CA

Chelsea Schlievert

2004

Writing Women Out of Beat: An Analysis of the American Postwar Scene

Department of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

LynAnne Smucker

2004

Non-thesis

Hong Cai

2003

Non-thesis

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Jeong Uk Kim

2003

Non-thesis

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Stefan Klinke

2003

Eudora, Kansas: The transformation of a German Frontier Settlement into a Midwestern Town

Monika Pacziga

2003

Unending Desire: Renunciation in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence and The Mother’s Recompense

English Language Teacher, Patrona Hungariae High School, HUNGARY

Ailecia Ruscin

2003

Searching for My Foremothers: An Exploration into the Lives of Southern White Women in the Civil Rights Movement

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Battsetseg Serg

2003

Non-thesis

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Nicholas Shump

2003

Non-thesis

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Clara Baker

2002

Non-thesis

High School history teacher, Bass Harbor, ME

Rebecca Barrett-Fox

2002

Edifying Entertainment: How Women Use Christian Romance Novels

 Lecturer, English Department, KU

Fabien Curie

2002

Non-thesis

Michael Sweeney

2002

Spinning the Wheels of Progress: Exploring the “tastes and temper of the times” at Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress

PhD Student, American Studies, KU

Alison Watkins

2002

Creating Community: The Early History of the Lawrence Community Nursery School, 1948-1965

Coordinator, KU Graduate School/International Programs

Norton Wheeler

2002

Bridging the Pacific: The 1990 Institute and Transnationalism in Late-20th Century U.S.-China Relations

Adjunct Professor, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

Jong-Kweon Yi

2002

Minimum Dharma and Maximum Sangha: Americanization of Buddhism with Reference to Lawrence, Kansas

Korean Buddhist Organization, New York, NY

Junfeng (David) Zhang

2002

Non-thesis

English Department, Central China Normal University, Wuhan Hubei, China

Kevin Armitage 

2001

Non-thesis

 PhD Student, Dept. of History, KU

Brent Campney

2001

White Resistance in the Time of the Liberal Consensus: Lawrence, Kansas, 1945-1960

PhD Student, American Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Ingerlene Voosen-Embry

2001

Out of Place: Negotiations of Gender and Place in Two Late Twentieth-Century American Women’s Travel Writings of Northeast Asia

Associate Editorial Director, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO

Rochelle Votaw

2001

Non-thesis

youTHink Youth Art Project, Los Angeles, CA

Jianxia Zhao

2001

Non-thesis

Tourism Management School, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou Henen, China

Isabelle DeFeo

2000

Non-thesis

Owner, Web design firm, Chicago, IL

Andrea Weis

2000

Non-thesis

Lecturer, English Dept. KU

Kerry Callahan

1999

An Effective Presence: Nineteenth Century Infant Study

Cheryl Patterson

1999

Aspects of Negro Life: From Topeka to Harlem, Forming Aaron Douglas

Susilorini

1999

Non-thesis

Naomi Weinberg

1999

Style as Capital: Women’s Appearances in 1930’s Kansas

Honggen (Jonathan) Yi

1999

Non-thesis

Julian Craig

1998

Non-thesis

Mark Luce

1998

Non-thesis

Todd Ormsbee

1998

“There is life here for the people”: Tradition, Orality and the Sacred in Native American Autobiography

Assistant Professor of American Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Cotten Seiler 

1998

“Something in the Water”: Independent Rock Music in Louisville, Kentucky

Associate Professor of American Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Michael Ezra

1997

“And Protect Yourself at All Times”: Frederick Douglass, The Heavyweight Championship, and Autonomous Public Black Masculinity

Department Chair, American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

Partha Mazumdar

1997

“Unfortunately It’s Racist”: The Ideological Construction of the Model Minority Thesis

Sandra Rainero

1997

“Oi Farfaire’ Infiocchetella’!” Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Practices in Eduardo Migliaccio’s Popular Theater

Nadine Requardt

1997

American Pain

Mark Salisbury

1997

Non-thesis

Karl Savage

1997

“We are not the ordinary”: The Mormon Musicals of the 1970s and the Politics of Identity

Sandra Gutierrez

1996

Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Language as Components of U.S. Latino Identity Revealed in Three U.S. Latino Novels: The Mixquiahuala Letters, The Line of the Sun, and Dreaming in Cuban

Robin Hemenway

1996

“A Stranger in the House”: Middle-Class Stepmothers and the Cult of Motherhood, 1800-1865

William Ingram

1996

“The Worldwide Church of God”: The Theocracy of Herbert W. Armstrong

Andrea Katzman

1996

Developing Identities in the Heartland: Jewish Women in Kansas City During World War II

Pre K, General Studies teacher, Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

Don Lambert

1996

The Life & Art of Elizabeth “Grandma” Layton

Sheryl Adelman-Kimmel

1995

The Deadheads: An American Subculture

Academic Advisor, KU

Bum Lee

1995

Non-thesis

Yuki Watanabe

1995

Non-thesis

Chalermsri Chantasingh

1994

Chinese American Experience and Euro-American Presence in Frank Chin’s Plays

Saralyn Hardy

1994

Coronado Heights: A Study of Place

Director, Spencer Museum of Art, KU 

Astrid Kogelman

1994

Manly-Hearted Woman: Symbol of Deviancy or Gender Diversity

Roberto Marsengo

1994

Violence in the Garden: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and Other Modes of (Mis)Representation

Keiko Fukuma

1993

Non-thesis

Simon Goddard

1993

The Novel as Articulation of a Social Crisis: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Dust Bowl Migration in the Great Depression

Clifton Phillips

1993

A Feminist Analysis of Jack Kerouac’s Spontaneous Prose and Eastern Religious Beliefs

Katja Rampelmann

1993

Small Town Germans: The Germans of Lawrence, Kansas, From 1854 to 1918

Helen Sheumaker

1993

The Grave Markers of Nicodemus, Kansas as a Test of Black Town Isolation

Coordinator of Education, McGuffey Museum, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH

Hong Yang

1993

Non-thesis

Leann Aubuchon

1992

Non-thesis

Guadalupe Bryant

1992

The Home Altars of El Grito

Claudia Ericson

1992

Non-Thesis

Kirsten Hoffmann

1992

Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen’s Visions of America. The Rock Musician and His Role in the Popular Culture of the 1980’s

Jae Lee

1992

Non-thesis

Paula Lopez-Cano

1992

Non-thesis

Lisa Lim

1991

Surveying Subud in the USA

Yansheng Liu

1991

Interest in Christianity by the Chinese from Mainland China in Lawrence, Kansas

David Scott

1991

Non-thesis

Adel Jendli

1990

Non-thesis

Associate Professor, College of Communications and Media Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai

Zhong-Ping Liang

1990

Non-thesis

Attorney, Arlington, VA

Moussa Sissoko

1990

African Perceptions of U.S. Race Relations Jeune Afrique, 1961-1971

Professor of English, University of Mali, Bamako, MALI

Maria Stampino

1990

True Women and Heroines: A Study of American Women’s Fiction Written Between 1863-1865

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Miami University, Coral Gables, FL 

Yoshiko Tarutani

1990

Cross-cultural Experiences of Japanese-American Wives in Kansas

Jean Van Delinder

1990

Non-thesis

Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Mathias Eberenz

1989

“Send Us None Who Are Drunkards” --The Irish in America Between 1820 and 1920: Drinking, Temperance, and the Question of Americanization

Mitsuko Nakashima

1988

Non-thesis

Assistant Professor and Chair, of the Aging Speicalization, University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD

Hatsumi Takemata

1988

Non-thesis

Karen Williams

1988

Non-thesis

Margaret Greer

1987

Hard Labor: Controlling Reproductive Technology

Hisae Orui

1987

The Moral Majority in the American Tradition of Revitalization Movements

Kaylanee Subhavan

1987

Non-thesis

Megan Chlebak

1986

Black Fathers in Seventeen Black Novels, 1940-1970

Karen Juers

1986

A Weave of Utopias: Reading in American Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970’s

Chau-Jiunn Paul Shie

1986

Non-thesis

Kathleen Wells-Morgan

1986

Non-thesis

High School Teacher, Columbia, MO; Active in Mid-America American Studies Association 

Pia Thielmann

1985

Marge Piercy’s Women: Visions Captured and Subdued

Donald Brake

MPhil 1984

Non-thesis

Elisabeth Finkbeiner

1984

Non-thesis

John Haymaker

1983

Non-thesis

Yumi Ikeda

1983

The Effect of Modernization and Culture on Intergenerational Relations: American Perspectives Applied to the Japanese Elderly

Rachel Vukas

1983

Variation in Anglo-American Folksong

Linda Woodsmall

1983

Non-thesis

Stephanus Dharmanto

1982

Non-thesis

Annette Kuhlmann

1982,
MPhil 1984

Non-thesis

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County, Baraboo, WI

Joel Paddock

1982

Partisan Deviation and the Transformation of the Political Agenda: Kansas Politics, 1930-1936

Professor, Department of Political Science/College of Humanities and Public Affairs, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

Laura Skaggs

1982

Non-thesis

Paul Van Der Voort III

MPhil 1982

Non-thesis

Clare Vlahos

MPhil 1982

Non-thesis

Karin Gagne

1980

Non-thesis

Mary Wilk

1980

Non-thesis

Claude Barilleaux

1979

Non-thesis

Janet Coulston

1979

Non-thesis

William Dinges

MPhil 1979

Non-thesis

Professor of Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. 

Frances Hebenstreit

1979

Non-thesis

Chauncey (Chico) Herbison

1979, MPhil 1980

Non-thesis

Assistant Professor, African-American Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Judith Jenkins

1979

Non-thesis

Jean Kennedy

MPhil 1979

Non-thesis

Joan Lynaugh

MPhil 1979

Non-thesis

Elaine Prostak

MPhil 1979

Non-thesis

Melvin Thorne

1979, MPhil 1980

Non-thesis

Associate Teaching Professor, Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; Director of the Humanities Publication left 

Nancy Ursery

1979

Non-thesis

Daniel Yakes

MPhil 1979

Non-thesis

Alan Milstein

1978

Non-thesis

Attorney, Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky, Pennsauken, NJ

Linna Place

MPhil 1978

Non-thesis

Research Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO

Patricia Russell

1978

Non-thesis

John Stitz

MPhil 1978

Non-thesis

Susan Wells

1978

Non-thesis

Michiko Yamamoto

1978

Non-thesis

Sue Zschoche

1978

Non-thesis

Associate Professor and Chair, History Department, Kansas State University  

L. Thomas Pollard

MPhil 1977

Non-thesis

Professor, Department of Social Sciences, National University, San Jose, CA

Karl Sonderegger

1977

Non-thesis

Floyd Thomas, Jr.

1977, MPhil 1981

Non-thesis

Martin Shapiro

1976

Non-thesis

Paul Ceruzzi

1975,
MPhil 1977

Non-thesis

Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing, Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC

Joseph Horgan

1975

Non-thesis

Attorney, Olathe, KS

Jen Jenkins

1975

Non-thesis

David Curry

1974

Non-thesis

Robert Kent

1974

Non-thesis

Robert Leanna

1974

Non-thesis

Peter Morales

1974

Non-thesis

Busnagi Rajannan

1974

Non-thesis

David Wollrich

1974

Non-thesis

Lee Hales

1972

Non-thesis

Management consulting, Richard Muther & Associates, Marietta, GA

Mary Rambo Harmon

1972

Non-thesis

Manager, Direct Mail, Police Athletic League, New
York, NY

Gabriele Lovrek

1972

Non-thesis

Thomas Rehorn, Jr.

1972

Non-thesis

Phillip Rosen

1972

Non-thesis

Steve Siegel

1972

Non-thesis

County Supervisor; Union Staff Rep, Wapello County, IA; AFSCME/Iowa Council 61, Ottumwa, IA

Mary McQueeney

1971

Non-thesis

Annie Desprez

1970

Idealism and Reality in American Farm House Architecture 1840-1880

Jill Niebrugge

1970

Mrs. Warren’s Avocation: A Study of Mercy Otis Warren as Historian of the American Revolution

Scholar-in-Residence, Department of Sociology, American University, Washington DC

Ivan Goldman

1967

Woodrow Wilson: American’s 1918 Expedition to Archangel, and the Periodical Press

Columnist, The Ring magazine; author, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA