| Year |
Author |
Thesis Topic |
| 2011 |
Heather Andrews |
"With His Head in the Lion's Mouth”: James Baldwin Interrogates American
Innocence and Identity |
| |
Joy Shannon |
The First Counterculture Celebrity: Oscar Wilde's 1882 North American Tour |
| 2009 |
Matthew Glassman |
“The Ball Don’t Lie”: Cultural Tension and the Commodification of Hip-Hop Authenticity in the 1990s NBA |
| |
Steve Manseau # |
Roll, Truck, Roll: A Cultural Appreciation of Trucker Music, America's Last Worksong Canon (Winner of the 2010 Giles Brown Outstanding Thesis Award) |
| 2008 |
Melanie Pyles |
In This World But Not of This World: Pentecostal Churchgoers Negotiate the Spiritual, Political, and Financial Aspects of Contemporary Life in Orange County |
| |
Eri Tsuji |
“Six Eyes Gazing at the Ghosts in the Dark”: Three Novelists' Explorations into the Memories of the Vietnam War |
| 2007 |
Brenda Beza |
El mundo de lotería: Transnational Identity in Play |
| |
Danielle Marie DiPirro |
From Biting The Apple to Breaking the Spell: Analyzing Love in the Disney Princess Collection |
| |
Sarah Gillen |
Hip Hop According to the Adolescents of the Inland Empire |
| |
Megan Jensen |
This Land Is Our Land Too: Rural Women and the 1980s Farm Crisis |
| |
Matthew Knowlton |
Military Crackdown: Policing the Boundaries of Race, Gender, and Same-Sex Relations in Oceanside, California, 1974-1976 |
| 2005 |
Kristin Hargrove |
Sunpist: Exploring the Alienation Resulting from Orange County 's Post-World War II Development |
| |
Stephanie Kolberg |
Marketing the Middle Landscape in Irvine , California : The Image of a Master-Planned Community and the Pursuit of the Suburban Ideal, 1959-2005 |
| 2004 |
Jeff Auer |
Glitter Rock: Sex,
Drugs, and Gender in American Youth During the 1970's |
| |
Akane Shinohara |
The World of
Urban Native Americans: People, Community, and Challenges
for Cultural Survival in Contemporary Southern California |
| |
Lydia Ann Cristea |
Romanians
and the American Dream: Myth and Reality in Contemporary
Immigrant Experience |
| |
Phillip Scott |
The Ford Mustang
and the Chevrolet Corvette: Icons in American Culture |
| 2002 |
Cynthia Bruns |
Into the Wilderness:
The Rise and Decline of Backpacking in America, 1965-1977 |
| |
Bradley Parsons |
The Stories We
Tell Ourselves: Postmodern Narratives in Popular Culture |
| 2001 |
Leslie Boullon |
Surf Narratives:
California Dreamin' on a New Frontier |
| |
Trista O'Connell |
Seductress,
White Slave, or New Woman: Competing Images of Prostitution
and Womanhood in American Illustrations and Paintings,
1830-1920 |
| |
Brenda Yecke |
In and Out of Bounds:
The Representation of Women in Sports Illustrated,
1954-1999 |
| 2000 |
Amy Lefkowitz |
Packaging Religion:
Exploring the Boundaries of Religion and Spirituality
in Contemporary Popular Media |
|
Donald Langford |
Good Vibrations,
Southern California Surf Culture |
| 1999 |
Annette M. Bagley |
Rural Lessons in
Multicultural Education: An Ethnographic Study of a Small
Town's Public Schools |
| 1998 |
Jon Legree |
Icarus in America:
The Pilot in American Culture |
|
Eric C. Wat |
In No One's Shadows:
A History of Organizing among Gay Asian Men in Los Angeles
in the Pre-AIDS Years |
| 1997 |
Kenneth Delbert Boteler |
Love, Marriage,
and Death: A Study of Change in the Vietnamese and American
Cultures |
|
Barbara Anne Campbell |
Underneath This
Prim Exterior: The Passion of Aimee Semple McPherson
and the Construction of Public Self in Women's Ministry |
|
Denise J. Flynn |
Smoking Heads: Decoding
Cigarette Advertisements, 1936-1996 |
|
Julie Ann Omelich |
Responding to
'Stories That Had to Be Told': The Popular Reception
of Journalist, Author, and Television Heroine Laura Ingalls
Wilder |
|
Arlene J. Ring # |
The Coyote: An American
Character (Canis Latrans) |
| 1996 |
Christopher York |
Bat Signals: The
Popular Construction of the Batman Myth |
| 1995 |
Tracy Allison Smith |
Uncovering a Sense
of Place: The Interaction between Culture and Landscape
in Santa Ana Canyon, Orange County, California |
| 1994 |
Denise Nola-Faye Lowe |
The Depiction of
Single-Career Women in Network Situation Comedies, 1950-1994 |
| 1992 |
Marsha Gilpin Ehlers |
The Film Depiction
of America's Teachers, 1968-1983 |
|
Suzanne Walter |
The American Christmas:
Tradition in Transition |
| 1991 |
Mary Grant |
Imagining Orange
County: Gregory Benford, Science Fiction, and Cultural
Criticism in a Southern California Community |
| 1990 |
Roseanne Greenfield # |
The Bolsa Chica
Wetlands of Huntington Beach: The Changing Environment,
Land Use Patterns, and Cultural Values of Its Inhabitants
from 500 A.D. to the Present |
| 1989 |
Brigitte E. Johnson |
Elvis Presley:
The Symbol of an Age |
| 1988 |
Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb |
Defending
the Errand in the Nuclear Age: The American Civil Religion
under Stress |
| 1987 |
Denise Marie D'Amico |
American Beauty
Culture: Ethnography of a Cosmetics Department |
| 1985 |
Kathryn Ruth Hamilton |
Villains and
Cultural Change: Aaron Burr and Victorian America |
| 1984 |
Gabriele Gugetzer |
Lesbianism in
the American Expatriate Community in Paris in the 1920's:
A Study |
|
Jessica Ruth Johnston |
The Double Bind:
'Eat and Stay Thin': Food as a Condensed Cultural Symbol
and the Overweight Stigma, 1890-1980 |
| 1983 |
Dana Thayer Duenzen |
The Cultural Image
of Women and Femininity in Sports |
| 1982 |
Deborah Dawson Christner |
The Romantic
Ideal of the Artist in the Music Industry |
| 1981 |
Chiharu Kawai |
For Whom the Wedding
Bells Toll: Methods of Mate Selection and Attitudes toward
Marriage among College Females in Japan and in the United
States |
| 1980 |
Marlon Knopf Brown |
The Deprogramming
Controversy: A Struggle for Image |
|
Pamela Hunt Steinle |
The American Marital
Paradigm in Crisis, 1959-1979 |
