American Studies Honors Projects

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Tinbete Ermyas
"(Re)Defining The Self, (Re)Defining Politics: Self, Community and (Transnational) Black Politics in first-Generation Black American Autobiography"
Advisor: Professor Duchess Harris

Carmen Phillips
"Exploring Post Civil Rights Pop Culture Politics "
Advisor: Professor Duchess Harris

Gao Nue Xiong
Topic: Cutltural identity formation of post-war Hmong Americans
Advisor: Professor Karin Aguilar-San Juan

Alessandra Williams
"A Piece of Land: Black Women and Land in South Africa and the United States of America"
Advisor: Professor Peter Rachleff

Alex Grant
"The Iron Lady in Watts: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Housing Policy in the United States and Great Britain"
Co-Advisor: Professor Duchess Harris

Kiri Sailiata
"Warriors of Two Worlds: Indigenous Enlistment in the US Military"
Advisor: Professor Karin Aguilar-San Juan

Mollie Gabrys
"Bloody Sunday in Black and Green: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Understanding of Civil Rights Campaigns in the United States and Northern Ireland"
Advisor: Professor Duchess Harris

Freda Fair
"The Construction of Queer Space in Twentieth Century African American Science Fiction and in Medical Discourses of the Eugenics Movement"
Advisor: Professor Jane Rhodes