Name

Date

Maurice Bryan, Jr.

2007

Emerging Man: The Confrontation of Violence and the Construction of Black Manhood in the Films of Gordon Parks

Associate Vice Provost for Diversity and Equality, KU

Amber Clifford

2007

Queering the Inferno: Space, Identity, and Kansas City’s Jazz Scene

Instructor, Anthropology, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO

Evan Heimlich

2007

Divination by the Ten Commandments: Its Rhetorics and its Genealogies

Specially Appointed Associate Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Jennifer Heller

2007

The Search of Something More: Evangelical Women, Middle-Class Marriage, and the ‘Problem that has no name’ in Popular Advice Books of the 1970s

Lecturer/Academic Program Associate, Humanities and Western Civilization, KU

Andrea Pacor

2007

Natural Life, Manufactured Feelings: National Identity, Bio-Political Power and the Japanese American Internment

Substitute Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, NY

Norton Wheeler

2007

Transnationalism in the Modernization of Post-Mao China: A Study in American Cultural Transfer

Adjunct Professor, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

Sheryl Adelman-Kimmel

2006

The Changing of the Guard: A Case Study of Maynard I. Wishner as an American Jewish Communal Leader

Academic Advisor, KU

Chauncey (Chico) Herbision

2006

B(l)ack to the World: Explorations in Race, Trauma, Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films

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

Gwyn Mellinger

2006

Members of the Club: A Genealogy of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Diversity Initiative

Associate Professor of Journalism, Baker University, Baldwin, KS

Ray Pence

2006

First and Foremost a Scientist? Lee Myerson and Changing Definitions of Disability, 1948-1977

Lecturer, American Studies, KU

Bradley Carter

2004

Reverence Helmeted and Armored: 20th Century Military Chaplain Memoirs

Associate Professor of Military History, US Army, Fort Gordon, GA

David Anthony Tyeeme Clark

2004

Representing Indians: Indigenous Fugitives and the Society of American Indians in the Making of Common Culture

Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Aaron Ketchell

2004

Holy Hills: Religion and Recreation in Branson, Missouri

Lecturer, Religious Studies, KU

Todd Ormsbee

2004

Sexuality and Experience: Gay Male Publicity, Community and Meaning in 1960s San Francisco

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

Amber Reagan-Kendrick

2004

Ninety Years of Struggle and Success: African American History and the University of Kansas, 1870-1960

Dean of Students & Community Affairs, Donnelly College, Kansas City, MO

Michele Casavant

2003

To Boldly Go Where No Other Has Gone Before: The Construction of Race and Gender in Star Trek

Coordinator of Advising, School of Education, KU

Greg Ventello

2003

Violence Engendered: The American Rifleman Identity

Associate Professor of Humanities, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS

Ann Birney

2002

Her Father’s Son: Girls Doing ‘Boys’ Work on Great Plains Family Farms and Ranches 1915-1980

Performer and Director, Ride into History Cultural Project, Admire, KS

Cotten Seiler 

2002

Anxiety and Automobility: Cold-war Individualism and the Interstate Highway System

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

Todd Starke-Meyerring

2002

Subverting Subversion: The Ideology of Class, Gender, and Race in the Deployment of Tragedy in American Beauty, Boys Don’t Cry, and Bamboozled

Instructor of English, Dawson College, Montreal Quebec, Canada

Deborah Whaley

2002

By Merit, By Culture: The Cultural and Counterpublic Sphere Work of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (ΩΦΕΛΥΟΜΕΝ ΥΠΗΡΕΤΙΔΕΣ: The Cultural and Counterpublic Sphere Work of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Michael Ezra

2001

Muhammad Ali’s Main Bout: Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1967

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

Stewart Lawler

2001

The Power of Performance and the Performance of Power: A Master/Mistress Trope for Black Cultural Difference in the African Diaspora

Lecturer of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Carol Matthews

2001

Taken: Constructions of ‘Race’, ‘Biology’ and Colonialism Informing the Alien Abduction Narrative in the United States

Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, & Geography, Missouri Western State University, St Joseph, MO

David McElwain

2001

The Only Dance in Iowa: A Cultural History of Iowa Six-Player Girls Basketball

Instructor of Mass Communications/Journalism, Wayne State College, Detroit, MI

Janet Rose

2001

“And Ears Don’t Count”: Body Piercing in America and Other Variations in the Theme of Belonging

Lecturer, American Studies & Communications, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

Moussa Sissoko

2001

The Impact of the Peace Corps Experience on Returned Volunteers: A Case Study of Peace Corps Mali Returned Volunteers

Professor of English, University of Mali, Bamako, Mali

Douglas Sudhoff

2001

A Model of Deviance in the Television News

Assistant Professor of Mass Communications, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO

Myriam Vuckovic

2001

“Onward Ever, Backward Never”: Student Life and Students’ Lives at Haskell Institute 1884-1920

Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC

Maria Alcocer

2000

The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City since World War II

Adjunct Faculty of Languages, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA

Jean Attebury

2000

Language for the Land: The Prairie Park Debate

Social Studies Teacher, Landon Middle School, Topeka, KS

Natalie Dykstra

2000

Working it Out: Domesticity, Space, and Self-Representation in Women’s Autobiographical Writing

 Associate Professor of English, Hope College, Holland, MI

Suzanne Heck

2000

Indian Identity and Cultural Renewal: A Case Study of the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri

Program Coordinator, Prairie Band Pottawatomie Nation Social Services, Mayetta, KS

Joel Morton

2000

Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men’s Movement

Hotline & Resource Network Coordinator, Farm Aid, Cambridge, MA

Maria Novo-Fraga

2000

Make It Fast and Keep It Moving: Post-Cold War Action Films and Globalization

Lecturer of English, Helmut Schmidt Universitaet, Hamburg, Germany

Marylou O’Neil

2000

Act Your Age!: Law, Culture, and the Boundary Between Child and Adult

Associate Professor of English, Instanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Richard Schur

2000

Rites of Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Luis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory

Assistant Director, left for Interdisciplinary Studies,  Drury College, Springfield, MO

Nancy Strow Sheley

2000

Bringing Light to Life: The Art of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)

Associate Professor of English & Liberal Studies, California State University, Long Beach, CA

Pia Theilmann

2000

Hotbeds: Black-White Love and Its Representations in Selected Contemporary Novels from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean

Chalermsri Chantasingh

1999

The Americanization of the King and I: The Transformation of the English Governess into an American Legend

Professor, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Helen Sheumaker

1999

“A Token that Love Entwines”: Human Hair Work and the American White Middle-Class, 1780-1900

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

Amanda Rees

1998

“Envisioning the Great Plains”: Contemporary Narratives of the Landscape

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

Gretchen Eick

1997

“Lift Every Voice”: The Civil Rights Movement and America’s Heartland, Wichita, Kansas 1954-1972

Professor of History, Friends University, Wichita, KS

Cathy Ambler 

1996

The Look of the Fair: Kansas County Fairscapes, 1854-1994

Assistant Director of Historic Preservation, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS

Brian Black

1996

Petrolia: A Landscape of Pennsylvania’s Oil Boom, 1859-1873

Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Penn State University, Altoona, PA

Walter Fleming

1996

The American Indian and Federal Land Leasing Policies, 1884-1917

Associate Professor, Native American Studies Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Willie Dobak

1995

Fort Riley and its Neighbors: The Federal Government and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Historian, US Army left of Military History, Washington DC

Adel Jendli

1995

Community Leadership of African-American Ministers in a Midwestern Town

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

Jean Hendricks

1994

Women Step to the Altar: Role Perception and God-language of 1990’s Clergy

Nina Roth

1993

The Politics of Federal Family Policy in the U.S., 1965-1988: The American Family as Contested Rhetorical Terrain

Michael Scheibach

1993

The Atomic Generation: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955

Clare Vlahos

1992

A History of RLDS Spirituality 1860-1885

Ja Mo Kang

1991

The Image of the Grandparent as Depicted in Selected Twentieth-Century American Novels

Chau-Jiunn Paul Shie

1991

Why the Robertson Campaign Failed: A Study of the Political Mobilization of Evangelical Ministers in the 1988 Republican Presidential Primaries

Tzu-Ching Lu

1990

Ethnic Enterprise in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area: The Chinese Restaurant Business

Daniel Yakes

1990

Common Men, Uncommon Wealth: Socioeconomic Inequality, Mobility and Power in Two Michigan Communities

Barbara Burgess

1989

Migrant Women to Oregon 1836-1860: Hail the Columbia

Annette Kuhlmann

1989

Collaborative Research in Biculturalism Among the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

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

Linna Place

1989

Priestly People Aging and Continuity in an Ethnic Community

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

Floyd Thomas, Jr.

1989

Cultural Conservation Through the Preservation of Material Culture -- The Representation of Black American Artists in ‘Mainstream’ Museums

Shirley Veith

1988

The Development of the Nursing Profession at the University of Kansas: 1906-1941

Sam Gon Kim

1986

Black Americans’ Commitment to Communism: A Case Study Based on Fiction and Autobiographies by Black Americans

Anne Marvin

1986

The Fertile Domain: Irrigation as Adaptation in the Garden City, Kansas Area, 1880-1910

Melvin Thorne

1986

The Core of Contemporary American Conservative Thought

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

John Bungard

1985

Becoming a Denomination: The Church-Sect Typology and the Stone-Campbell Movement

A. Michael Collins

1985

Employment Training Policies and Politics, 1980-1982: The Transitions from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act to the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982

Donna Schafer

1984

Reminiscence Groups and the Institutionalized Elderly: An Experiment

Sue Zschoche

1984

“Preserving Eden”: Higher Education, Woman’s Sphere, and the First Generation of College Women, 1870-1910

Associate Professor and Chair, History Department, Kansas State University  

William Dinges

1983

Catholic Traditionalism in America: A Study of the Remnant Faithful

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

Robert Kent

1983

Planning for Abundance: Capitalism and American Ideas of National Planning, 1880-1920

L. Thomas Pollard

1983

The Grapes of Wrath and Native Son: Literary Criticism as Social Definition

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

Elaine Prostak

1983

“Up in the Air”: The Debates over Radio Use During the 1920’s

John Stitz

1983

A Study of Family Farm Culture in Ellis County, Kansas and the Relationship of That Culture to Trends in Farming

Joan Lynaugh

1982

The Community Hospitals of Kansas City, Missouri, 1870-1915

Ronald Boland

1981

The War in Poverty in Fort Wayne, 1965 to 1975 – A Case Study

Paul Ceruzzi

1981

The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, 1935-1945: A Cross-Cultural Study

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

Jean Kennedy

1981

William Allen White: A Study of the Interrelationship of Press, Power, and Party Politics

Marilyn Kindred

1981

The Role of the Army Officer Corps in the American Arts, 1820-85

Jean Yonke

1981

William Faulkner as a Moralist and Cultural Critic: A Comparison of his Views with Those of Historians and Social Scientists

Busnagi Rajannan

1978

American Freethinkers and South Indian Free Thought: 1875-1947

Jill Niebrugge Brantley

1977

“A Pattern on Experience”: The Treatment of Deviance in the Post-World War II American Novel as a Test Case of the Use of Literature in the Study of Society

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

Ronald Naugle

1976

Industry’s Valley: The Social Consequences of Industrialization in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, 1860-1870

Bruce Adams

1975

The White Negro: The Image of the Passable Mulatto Character in Black Novels, 1853-1954

Robert Huitt

1973

Ideological and Normative Consensus in the Local Church: An Empirical Study of Four Methodist Congregations in Kansas

Timothy Miller

1973

Ethics and the Counter Culture

Professor, Religious Studies, KU

Eldon Turner

1973

Law and Political Culture: A Functional Study of the Relation of Theology to Jurisprudence, Political Values and Legal Activity in Colonial Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1671-1680

Robert Buchanan

1972

Patterns of Organization and Leadership Among Contemporary Oklahoma Cherokees

Wayne Lobue

1972

Religious Romanticism and Social Revitalization: The Oberlin Perfectionists

Charles Steele

1972

American Indians and Urban Life: A Community Study

Theodore Hovet

1970

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Holiness Crusade Against Slavery

Joseph Collier

1969

Editorial Reaction of Certain Catholic Periodicals to United States Department of State Policy in the Far East: 1950

Charles Shaffert

1969

The Editorial Attitudes of the New York Daily Tribune and the New York Daily Times Towards the Negro, 1850-1859