MA theses
Many American Studies MA theses are available for inspection in the Hemmingway Library at the Cooper House.
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Duncombe, Edward S. Ethete: Episcopal Churchwork Among the Northern Arapahoes 1883-1925
Campbell, Richard A. Discovering America
Clark, William J. Frank Norris As Social Novelist: Acquisition in America
Gruber, Barbara R. Der Weg Zum Regenberg: A Translation of N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain
Gardner, Mark L. The Western Photography of Owen Wister
McClure, Ron Thank You, Marcel
Peel, Sheila Sundquist Victoria Woodhull and the Radical Revolution
Gersten, Ian Arthur Lakota Principles of Intrasocietal Relationship: Living like a Lakota in the Eyes of Tunkasila
Hansen, Sharon M. Culture of Choice: An Ethnography of a Hobbyist Powwow
Logsdon, Charles W. The Use of Plants in American Regional Folk Medicine: A Survey of Plant Genera, Medical Uses and Bio-Active Chemical Constituents
Penney, Dori M. Historic Settlement Pattern in the Forest River Valley, North Dakota
Sorg, Eric William F. Cody: Myth, Symbol, Reality
McDougal, Paula J. Karl Stuss and the Photo-Secession
Bittner, William E. Pearls Before Swine: The Humor of S.J. Perlman
Foulke, Steven V. Wright Morris' The Inhabitants and the Documentary Photo-Text Tradition
Guenther, Todd At Home On the Range: Black Settlement in Rural Wyoming, 1850-1950
Reiber, Dale E. The Marketing of a Native american Image Through Navajo Textiles and the Southwest
Wiseman, Michael Don't Pray for Rain—Buy it: The Rational Ordering of Water for Irrigation Through Social Engineering
Wood, Deana Rae Medicine Bow Tie Hack Resources: Material Culture and Social Structure
Zitt, Thomas J. Democratic Myth in American Television: How Popular Is Popular Culture?
Grimm, George F. Catastrophe in Paradise: A Study of the Alienated Individual in the Fiction of James Welch
Hickman, Barbara J. Japanese Railroad Workers in Wyoming, 1981-1941: An Interdisciplinary Study
Stafford, Pamela J. A Rhetorical Comparison of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and Students for a Democratic Society
Amundson, Michael A. The Mink and Manure Crowd: The History of an Elite Subculture in Wyoming
Gillam, Christi A. The Girl I Left Behind Me: Images of the Frontier Army Officer's Wife
Balmer, Brent John Harvey Kellog and the Seventh-Day Adventist Health Movement
David, John Edward Explorations of the Counterfeit: An Interpretation of Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full metal Jacket
Owens, Patricia Ann When Friends Were Friends Forever: The Friendship of Henry Adams and John Hay
Simnacher, Linda Preserving Eden: A Contemporary Ranch in Western Wyoming
Case, Brandon M. Life in a Nuclear Landscape: Missiles in Platte County Wyoming, 1960-1990
Draus, Paul J. Walking the Wild Side Henry Thoreau, nelson Algren, and the Rejection of Middle Class Values
Dykstra, Natalie Anne Eye in the New World Garden: The Autobiographies of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Elineore Pruitt Stewart
Hagenberger, Linda Anne Rediscovering the Fire: The men's Movement and Gender Relations in the 1990's
Hiller, Orlando F. Drug Discourse: Miscellaneous Essays
Kim, Paul J. Standing Still in the Borderlands of Hypenation: Cultural Functions of Autobiography
Rees, Amanda Cultural Landscape preservation and Federal Land Management: The Forest Service as Case Study
Scholze, Sharon R. When Our Deeper Meanings Collide: The Chippewa Treaty Rights Dispute in Northern Wisconsin
Thomas, Jill Erin You're Either On the Bus: A Historiography of Expression Between the Sixties and the Eighties
Wambeam, Rodney Multiple Screens and Peculiar Films: Using Variance Within Postmodern Discourse to Interpret Contemporary Cinema Culture
Wang, Jing-hau The Myth of Chinese-American Settlement
Wilson, Joseph Peter A Cultural Look at Gun Ownership
Zmyj, Peter M. The meaning of Conservation in Twentieth Century U.S. Federal Land Policy
Connely, Michael E. Fences: Moral and Material Boundaries in The American West
Davis, James B. Loving A Significant "Other": Representing Inter-Racial Relationships In a Post-Modern World
Lewis, William L. From First-Class Men to Rivetheads
Luther, Edwin C., IV American Space, American Place Reading the Suburban Landscape of Chesterfield County, Virginia 1900-1993
Ott, Mark P. Biography as Image Management: The Case of Ernest Hemingway
Ammirati, Peter C. Touring the Indian: Pilgrimage, Neo-Colonialism, and Authentic Confusion at the Big Horn Medicine Wheel
Auker, Dennis Betting on the Future: Historic Preservation, Gambling, and Central City
Bowers, Carol Lee Less Than Ladies, Less Than Love: Prostitution in Laramie, Wyoming, 1868-1920
Christiansen, Maureen A Gun In Her Hands: Images of Women In Firearms Advertising, 1890-1920
Kopervos, Aileen Patricia Naming the New World: The Competing Cultural Narratives of Puritan men, Native Americans and Women in New England 1620-1697
McGrath, Maria Multiculturalism and poststructuralism: Liberal Reform or Postmodern Revolutioni
Nagy, Matthew Frank Far From the Madding Crowd: The Absence of Student Radicalism At The University of Wyoming During the 1960's
O'Neil, Mary Lou Victims, Virgins, and Whores: Images of Women's Sexuality, Women's Magazines, and the Discourse on AIDS
Raines, Carmelina M. The Ultimate Cleopatra American Film's Conceptualization of Cleopatra
Samuelson, Shawn Andrea Inspired by an Ideal? An Ethnography of the Danish Fulbright Commission
Suendergauf, Joan Management of Bureau of Land Management Wilderness: A Case Study of the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness Study Area
Blankenship, Marshall A Study Of The Information Sources Used By Wyoming School Board Members In Initiating The Superintendent Selection Process
Bryant, William H. Re-Visioning Earth: The Image of the Planet in Advanced Consumer Culture
Cesario, Carla Ann Of Stone Talking And History Writing: The Discourse Of The Narragansett Indian Church
Favreau, Neil Considering the Stone Kingdom: Ethnography and Symbol Analysis in a Religious Commune
Gascon, Zoe S. Redefining African American Womanhood Through Collective History: The Use of The Supernatural In Beloved, Mama Day, and Daughters of the Dust
Harris, Adam Duncan Identity and Asphalt: The Search for Celebrity in Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands
Hubbell, David R. Sites of Simulation: Re-Creating Rendezvous in Mountain Man Living History
Hyland, Matthew G. Governmental Mediation of Cultural Transformations: Natural and Cultural Resource Management Processes
Ihm, Laurie A. The Arapaho Language and Culture Camp: A Model Society
Lawrence, Amy M. From Fox Hounds To Farming: The History of the Douglas-Willan, Sartoris Ranch, and the Wyoming Central Land and Improvement Company
Lemarre, Laura A. Myth on Display: The History of Medicine Bow, Wyoming in the Owen Wister Cabin
Leighty, Martha G. "Livin' Just Enough for the City": Puerto Ricans as Shadow Boxers in a Culture of Consumption
Lore, Marcene Lorraine "Classical" Music After World War Two: A Metaphoric Expression of American Culture
Nolte, Shannon K. Hyperwest: A postmodern Reading of Texts Created At the Neversummer Ranch Site in Rocky Mountain National Park
Tadic, Andrea Selling America's Story Abroad: A History of American Publick Diplomacy and its Presence in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Abel, Jennifer Anne The Transformation of a Third Place: A Cultural Study of An American Coffeehouse
Fonken, Gael La Vida Y La Muerte La Mestiza Blanca: A White Coyote's Journey Through the American West
Goodrich, Anne Melinda Dying for Sex: Documented Realities of AIDS
Laurent, Ricky D. The Bighorn medicine Wheel: A Crossroad of Cultural Conflict
Wondrak, Alice K. In the Eye of the Constructor: Cultural Visions and Commodification at Washington State's Mount Ranier
Carpenter, Lynne R. A Postcard is Worth a Thousand Words: Henning Svenson's Postcards of Laramie, Wyoming
Kendziorski, Nikolai J. Visual Text: Community Identity Viewed Through Henning Svenson's Photographs of Laramie, Wyoming
Matzkin, Jessica Masking Feminism: A Cultural Analysis of the Guerrilla Girls, A Feminist Art Movement
Farrell, Kellie A. "Reflections on Bidding Adieu to Atlantic Waters": The Natural Sublime and Historic Meaning of South Pass, Wyoming
Kilander, Ginny L. Window Washers to Levant: Pre-1915 Books From The Roycroft Print Shop
Martin, Christopher T. Under Clark Street Bridge: Cultural Aesthetics of an American Place
Menlove, Rebecca T. The Persistence of Prospect: Nature and the Site of Desire
Tiernan, Jennifer Souvenirs of War: Vietnam and the Combat Snapshot
Ellis, Robert The Repressive Screen: The Persisting Trend of negative Images and Stereotypes of Guys and Lesbians in Contemporary Mainstream Film
Langille, Christine A. Laments of War: The Role of War Memorials in American Culture
Mainardis, Katherine I. Places of Contradiction, Conflict, and Confluence: Landscape as Imagined Community
Wills, Kristel A Bomb Bursting in Air: Atomic Tourism and the Trinity Site
