(Bold entries are dissertations completed in the Program in American Culture.)

2009

• Dean Saranillio. Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai'i Statehood.

2008

• Jan Bernabe. Improbable Visions: Filipino Bodies, U.S. Empire and the Visual Archives.

2006

• Robin Li. Being Good Chinese: Chinese Scholarly Elites and immigration in Mid-Century America.

2005

• Chi-Ying Cheng. Bicultural Identities: Determinants, Processes, and Effects. (Psychology)
• Janna Kim. Sexual Socialization Among Asian Americans: A Multi-Method Examination of Cultural Influences. (Psychology)
• Belinda Kong. Species of Afterlife: Translation and Displacement in Twentieth-Century Chinese-English Contexts (Arthur Miller, Gao Xingjian, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Ha Jin). (English)
• Grace Wang. Soundtracks of Asian America: Music, Race, and National Belonging.

2004

• Ming-Chuan Chang. Behavioral and Sociocultural Influences on Physical Activity among Asian-American Youth. (Health Sciences)
• Wendy Cheng. Overt and Covert Narcissism in Asian Americans, European Americans, and Asians. (Psychology)
• Nhi Lieu. Private Desires on Public Display: Vietnamese American Identities in Entertainment.
• Cynthia Wu. “The Mystery of Their Union ”: Cross-Cultural Legacies of the Original Siamese Twins.

2003

• Akane Zusho. Culture, Self, and Goals: An investigation into the motivational processes of bicultural Asian-American and Anglo-American college students. (Psychology)
• Nadia Kim. Guests in Someone Else’s House? Korean Immigrants in   Los Angeles   Negotiate American “Race,” Nationhood, and Identity. (Sociology)

2002

• Grace Chow. The Cultural Context of Perfectionism and Psychological Outcome: Investigating a stress-mediated model with Asian American and European American students (Psychology)
• Evelyn Flores. Rewriting Paradise : Countering Desire, Denial, and the Exotic in American Literary Representations of the Pacific. (English)
• Anna Pegler-Gordon. In Sight of America: Photography and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1880-1930
• Susan Sy. Parent Involvement and Children’s Transition to School in Asian American and European American Families. (Psychology)
• Damon Williams. Ethnic Identity, Integration and Academic Outcomes: A study of African American, Asian Pacific America, and Latino/a Students. (Psychology)

2001

• Kimberly Alidio. Between Civilizing Mission and Ethnic Assimilation: Racial Discourse, United States Colonial Education, and Filipino Ethnicity, 1901-1946. (History)
• Barbara Won Kim. Race, Space, and Identity: Examining Asian American Racial and Ethnic Formations in the Midwest . (Sociology)
• Daryl Maeda. Forging Asian American Identity.
• Bruce Randel. Achievement Values: A Comparison of Asian American and European American Adolescents. (Educational Psychology)

2000

• Dames, Vivian. Rethinking the Circle of Belonging: American Citizenship and the Chamorros of  Guam . (English)
• Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi. Demystifying the Model Minority: The Influences of Identity and the College Experience on Asian Pacific American Undergraduates’ Racial Attitudes. (Sociology)
• Rapeepanchanok Thongthiraj. “To Be or Not To Be . . . Is the Question?” Race and Identity Transformations in Asian American Literature.

1999

• Kimberly Ann Goyette. The College Attendance of Asian Americans. (Sociology)
• David Shih. Representation and Exceptionalism in the Asian American Autobiography (Sui Sin Far, Onoto Watanna). (English)

1997

• Shipa Dave. Alien States: Colonial Fetishisms and Asian-American Migrations. (English)
• Reshela DuPuis. Documenting Community: Activist Videography in Hawai’i.
• Morris Young. Literacy, Legitimacy, and the Composing of Asian-American Citizenship. (English)
• Amy Kyung Wha Lee. Married Korean Women in the United States: Determinants of Employment in Comparative Perspective. (Sociology)
• LeiLani Nishime. Creating Race: Genre and the Cultural Construction of Asian-American Identity.

1996

• Xianglei Chen. Educational Achievement of Asian-American Students: A Generational Perspective. (Sociology)
• Shi-Qui Cui. “Gender and Representation in Chinese New Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.
• Joseph D. Won. Yellowface Minstrelsy: Asian Martial Arts and the American Popular Imaginary.

1995

• Thomas Fujita Rony. “They Did Me A Great Wrong”: History and Meanings of the Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration.

1993

• David Mitchell. Conjured Communities: The Multiperspectival Novels of Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia.

1992

• K. Scott Wong. Encountering the Other: Chinese Immigration and Its Impact on Chinese and American Worldviews, 1875-1905. (History)

1989

• M. Jeanne Swanson. The Impact of Acculturation Experiences on Five Southeast Asian Refugee Families in the   United States: Implications for Adult Education.

1986

• Mark Langberg. Residential Segregation and the Assimilation Process: The Case of Asian Americans in 1980. (Sociology)

1985

• Jon Matsuoka. Vietnamese in America: An Analysis of Adaptational Patterns. (Sociology)