American Studies Graduates

2022 Graduate Profiles

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Brooke Bennett

American Dream or Suburban Nightmare?: Revisiting Dualistic Depictions of the Nation’s Dominant Landscape
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Daniel Etter

The Rise and Perseverance of Cooke Aquaculture, the Public Outcry against Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture, and the Government’s Legislation Response
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Natalie Fulton

Barbie, Balmain, and the Blockchain: Understanding BalmainXBarbie Through a Lens of Escape, Nostalgia, and Futurism
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Tevel Pele

The People’s Poetry and Social Movements: Lessons from American Poets, Organizers and Non-profit Leaders in Twenty-first Century Movement-Building
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Harley Rader

Muscular Christianity: How a Turn-of-the-Century Religious Revival Explains the Rise of Donald J. Trump
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Claire Rider

Community Gardens in Berkeley and Albany, CA; The Sociopolitical Benefits that Maintain Community Spaces in Affluent Neighborhoods
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Dewi Zarni

A Wave of Racial Violence: A Case Study on The Role of Crime Narratives in Oakland Chinatown