Student Research

The primary opportunity for student research is the honors thesis. American Studies majors have written theses on an impressive range of subjects, including:

2011: Narratives of Transgression or Tales of Subversion? Gender and National Drag in Transnational Caribbean Performance

2010: Race Formation in Hawaiian Multicultural Literature

2008: Dude Ranches, Elvis Impersonators, and Pole Dancing: The Unlikely Ways that Las Vegas Empowered Women through Its Divorce, Marriage, and Club Industries, 1911-2008

2004: An American Asylum: The Effects of Immigration Policies on Cambodian Refugees

2004: Within Bounds but Pushing Boundaries: The Teachers at the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1904

2002: A Car with a View: Roadside Culture and American Frontiers of the 1930s and 1950s

2002: Asian American Success: A Look at Subgroup Achievement Differences

2001: Virtuous Beginnings, Successful Endings: The American Dream in the Antebellum South

1999: Living Ghetto Fabulous: A Study of African-American Youth and Gangs

1999: The Role of Theatre in Sustainable Community Development: Creating a Blueprint for Successful Social, Cultural, and Educational Intervention in American Inner-Cities

For a full list of American Studies honors theses, please visit the library  catalog.