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WELCOME TO AMERICAN STUDIES

M.A. Theses Completed in the Department of American Studies
California State University, Fullerton

1980 Marlon Knopf Brown The Deprogramming Controversy: A Struggle for Image
Pamela Hunt Steinle The American Marital Paradigm in Crisis, 1959-1979
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
1982 Deborah Dawson Christner The Romantic Ideal of the Artist in the Music Industry
1983 Dana Thayer Duenzen The Cultural Image of Women and Femininity in Sports
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
1985 Kathryn Ruth Hamilton Villains and Cultural Change: Aaron Burr and Victorian America
1987 Denise Marie D'Amico American Beauty Culture: Ethnography of a Cosmetics Department
1988 Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb Defending the Errand in the Nuclear Age: The American Civil Religion under Stress
1989 Brigitte E. Johnson Elvis Presley: The Symbol of an Age
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
1991 Mary Grant Imagining Orange County: Gregory Benford, Science Fiction, and Cultural Criticism in a Southern California Community
1992 Marsha Gilpin Ehlers The Film Depiction of America's Teachers, 1968-1983
Suzanne Walter The American Christmas: Tradition in Transition
1994 Denise Nola-Faye Lowe The Depiction of Single-Career Women in Network Situation Comedies, 1950-1994
1995 Tracy Allison Smith Uncovering a Sense of Place: The Interaction between Culture and Landscape in Santa Ana Canyon, Orange County, California
1996 Christopher York Bat Signals: The Popular Construction of the Batman Myth
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)
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
1999 Annette M. Bagley Rural Lessons in Multicultural Education: An Ethnographic Study of a Small Town's Public Schools
2000 Amy Lefkowitz Packaging Religion: Exploring the Boundaries of Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Popular Media
Donald Langford Good Vibrations, Southern California Surf 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
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
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
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

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
# Giles T. Brown Award for the Outstanding M.A. Thesis of the Year at CSU Fullerton

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