American Studies ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Sharp Knives, Dark Hearts: Class, Colonialism, and Rebellion on Anthony Bourdain's Bookshelf, Carl Warmuth
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Trauma, Memory, Imagination, and Survivance: Uncovering Haunting Stories within the Southwest Borderlands, Tania Paloma Garcia
The Lying Woman: Avant-Garde Collaboration in Jo Harvey Allen's Alt-Country, Caitlin C. Grann
The Social Matter of Opioids: Glitches in Immunity Beyond the Human, Nathan A. Leach
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Haunting Aesthetics of Empire: Filipinx America, US Empire, and Cultural Production, Alana J. Bock
"I Know the Dream Mine is True": Mormons, Mining, and the Making of "Bad Religion" in Early Twentieth-Century Utah, Christine V. Shell
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Technologies of Territoriality: Indigeneity, Surveillance, and the State, Elspeth Iralu
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Subject Disintegration: Identity and Alterity in the Age of the Hyperreal, Sophie Ell
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Health and Revolution: Anarchist Biopolitics in the Borderlands, Benjamin H. Abbott
“Pre-Packaged Sovereignty”: The Fallacy of Indian Self-Determination in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Bia) Tribal Social Services Programs, April K. Chavez
Remixing the Archives: Indigenous Interpretations of History and the Future, Marcella Ernest
#AbolishICE: An Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Colonial Approach to Black, Indigenous, and Migrant Solidarity Building, Cecilia Frescas-Ortiz
Nubians of Plutonia: Black Women in Modern Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Graphic Literature, Marthia D. Fuller
No Longer Fenced Out: Outlaw Media Discourse and Resistance to Gentrification in Greenwich Village, Joseph Francis Gallegos
(Sīˈtĭng) Detroit: Vision and Dispossession in a Midwest Bordertown, Matthew J. Irwin
Contesting Historical Enchantment: Militarized Settler Colonialism and Refugee Resettlement in New Mexico, Christina Juhasz-Wood
Imperial Myths, Abject Devotion: Mapping Affect in New Mexican Visual Culture and Discourse, N. C. Lira-Pérez
Undocumented Youth Challenging Borders: Detentions, Deportations, and Family Separations in the 21st Century, Rafael A. Martinez
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Exploration, Disruption, Diaspora: Movement of Nuevomexicanos to Utah, 1776-1850, Linda C. Eleshuk Roybal
Unsettling Indian Health Services: Secularism, Modern Medicine, & the Reproduction of the U.S. Settler State Through the 1954 Transfer Act, Jillian Elizabeth Grisel
Cartographies of Precarity: The Cultural Politics of Filipina and Mexican Migrant Domestic Workers, Maria Eugenia Lopez-Garcia
Immigration/Migration and Settler Colonialism: Doing Critical Ethnic Studies on the U.S. - Mexico Border, Raquel A. Madrigal
Gifts of Sovereignty: Settler Colonial Capitalism and the Kanaka ʻŌiwi Politics of Ea, David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile
Living the Manito Trail: Maintaining Self, Community, and Culture, Trisha Venisa Martinez
(Re)Insurgent Ecologies: Dwelling Together Between Queasy Worlds, Kirsten E. Mundt
More Than a Fiesta: Cinco de Mayo Celebrations and the Transboundary Link in Ambos Nogales, Kristen S. Valencia
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Tangibility and Symbolism Along Historic Highway 66 in Albuquerque, Donatella Davanzo
- Little Red Riding Hood in the Dialogic Tension of Wolf Politics in the U.S. West, Kaisa T. Lappalainen
Transgender Murder Memorials: A Call for Intersectionality and Trans Livability, Lazarus Nance Letcher
The Territorial Politics of the New York Botanical Garden, 1891-1912, Carolyn McSherry
The Heart of K'é: Transforming Diné Special Education and Unsettling the Colonial Logics of Disability, Sandra Yellowhorse
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Arresting Narratives: Incommensurability, Policing, and Settler Security, Darcy H. Brazen
Keres Language Loss in the Santo Domingo Pueblo Community, Christopher Chavez
Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation, Nick Estes
(Dis)Appearing Subjects: Managing Violence Through the Discourse of Bullying, Rachel E. Levitt
From Sand Creek to Somalia: Black Bodies in Denver’s Post-Industrial Urban Cultural Re-Imagination, Webster Matjaka
Texas-Mexico Border Cultural Production: Ethnographic Aesthetics and Modernity in Folklore, Literature, and Film, Margie Montanez
"Revealing Reality": Four Asian Filmmakers Visualize the Transnational Imaginary, Stephen Edward Spence
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Place, Imaginary, Identity: Place Ethnography in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Tita Berger
Settler Social Order: The Violence of Policing in New Mexico, Elisabeth R. Ehlert Perkal
The Scientific Conquest of New Mexico: Local Legacies of the Manhattan Project 1942-2015, Lucie Anne Genay
Reclaiming the Land: Indigenous Articulations of Environmentalism at Bears Ears, Caroline Goodman
Complicating Transgender: White Privilege and the Politics of Rurality, Jordon Johnson
Decolonizing the Body: Breast Cancer and the Environment in Toxic Times, Cynthia L. Martin
African Dreams of America: Diaspora Experience in the Writing of Aidoo, Adichie and Cole, Gbenga Olorunsiwa
Femmage and the DIY Movement: Feminism, Crafty Women, and the Politics of Gender Performance, Rosemary L. Sallee
Contesting Liberalism, Refusing Death: A Biopolitical Critique of Navajo History, Melanie Yazzie
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Obama as Visual Icon: Blackness, Post-Raciality, and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Age, Jadira Gurule
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Reproducing Prevention: Teen Pregnancy and Intimate Citizenship in the Post-Welfare Era, Clare Daniel
Intimate Gestures: Race, Photography, and Spectatorship in Tijuanas Dumps and Irregular Settlements, George Luna-Peña
Material Embodiments, Queer Visualities: Presenting Disability in American Public History, Andrew B. Marcum
Unsettling Accounts: Life, Debt, and Development in the Middle Rio Grande, Samuel Karrigan Robison Markwell
Counter Culture Youth: Immigrant Rights Activism and the Undocumented Youth Vanguard, Rafael A. Martinez
Eva'lution in Fandangos, Fiestas, and Flamenco: Adding to the Repertoire of Chicano Expressive Arts, Trisha Martinez
The Un-Exceptional Bomb: Settler Nuclearism, Feminism, and Atomic Tourism in New Mexico, Eileen Clare Shaughnessy
No Admission Required: Sovereignty, Slots and Native American Art, Jane Sinclair
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Write of the Valkyries: An Analysis of Selected Life Narratives of Women in the Heavy Metal Music Subculture, Aurore Diehl
The Power of Voice: The Indian Arts Research Centers Identity Shift, Laura Elliff
When is a Convento Kiva? : A Postcolonial-Critical Indigenous Critique of the Convento Kiva at Pecos National Historical Park, David Holtkamp
Carnales: Transnational Affiliation in Chicano Vietnam War Protest, Kirsten Lustgarten
Imagining "the Town too Tough to Die": Tourism, Preservation, and History in Tombstone, Arizona, Kara McCormack
Microbes, Individuals, and Medical Charity: Tuberculosis and the Remaking of Liberal Individualism in Late 19th-Century Philadelphia, Carson Metzger
The Borderpsychosocial Development Project: Is There a Specific Psychosocial Consciousness that Frames Development for Border Women?, Maria Gloria Munguia Wellman
Savage Fakes: Misdirection, Fraudulence, and Autobiography in the 1920s, Whitney Purvis Rakich
New Mexico's Nuclear Enchantment: Local Politics, National Imperatives, and Radioactive Waste Disposal in the Desert, Jennifer Richter
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Bio+Terror: Science, Security, Simulation, Melanie Armstrong
Risky Subjects, Subjects at Risk: HPV Vaccination and the Neoliberal Turn in Public Health, Anzia Bennett
Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest, Berenika Byszewski
Recordando Nuestra Gente: Ritual Memorialization Along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Theresa Córdova
Panhe at the Crossroads: Toward an Indigenized Environmental Justice Theory, Dina Gilio
The Becoming of Age: How Discourses of Aging and Old Age in Contemporary, Popular Film Both Reinforce and Reimagine the Narrative of Aging as Decline, Pamela H. Gravagne
Whose "Shared Humanity"?: The Tribal Law and Order Act (2010), Barack Obama, and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial States, Liza Drake Minno
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Expressions of Another Center: Borderlands Visual Theory & the Art of Luis Jimenez, Eric Castillo
Gendered Crimes, Gendered Fans: Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Fandom in the Contemporary American Crime Drama, Melanie Cattrell
Occam's Beard: Belief, Disbelief, and Contested Meanings in American Ufology, William J. Dewan
Assembling the Poor People's Campaign (1968) Queer Activism and Economic Justice, Christina Juhasz-Wood
Ghostly I(s)/Eyes: The Formation of Subjectivity in Mexican American Life Narratives, Patricia Marie Perea
Imagining the Saints: Representations of Mormonism in American Culture, Jeremy R. Ricketts
Land, Gender, and the Politics of Identity Formation: Uncovering Hispana/Mexicana Voices in the Southwest, Karen R. Roybal
Los Tres Grandes - Herman Gallegos, Ernesto Galarza, Julian Samora: Rooted in Community, Guided by Friendship, Cultivating Leadership., Carmen Samora
Miniature Nation Building: Model Railroading and the Dialectics of Scale in Post-WWII America, Ivan Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
To Prevent the Breakup of the Indian Family: The Development of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978., Evelyn Lance Blanchard
Triptych Cultural Critique: Fray Angelico Chavez and Southwestern Critical Regionalism, 1939-2004, Melina Vizcaino-Aleman
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Noose That Builds the Nation: Mexican Lynching in the Southwest, Annette M. Rodriguez
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
"Mis Derechos, Mi Matriz": An Evaluation of the Women's Organization "Casa Materna", Ocotal, Nicaragua, Maruja Alice Clensay
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene, Anthony P. Avery
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
"None of Us Are Supposed to be Here": Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Production of Cherokee Histories, Julia M. Coates
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
On the Side of Angels: Lesbian Activism in Los Angeles, 1970-1990, Yolanda G. Retter
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Female Millworkers and the Mechanization of Textile Production: The Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, 1813 to 1822, Lois Bayer Gonzales
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Remembering Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1990, Sally Hyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Trading Post Tales: Biography of an Indian Trader on the Navajo Reservation, Nancy Peake
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Through Thick and Thin: Evolutionary Transitions of Las Vegas Grandes and its Pobladores, Anselmo F. Arellano
Sounds of the Frontier: Music in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Michael Lee Masterson
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Beaux Gestes: The Indian and the European in Pre-Colonial North America, Philip Drover Burnham