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Events
Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
January, 1988
- Fleming, James Rodger. "Meteorology in America, 1814-1874: Theoretical, Observational, and Institutional Horizons."
February, 1988
March, 1988
- Tyman, Jonathan P. "Film in Science, Propaganda: Examples of Its Use in America, 1940-1950."
- Welch, Margaret. "John James Audubon and His American Audience: Art, Science, and Nature, 1830-1860."
April, 1988
- Harper, Donna/Akiba Sullivan. "The Complex Process of Crafting Langston Hughes's 'Simple,' 1942-1949."
- Martin, Joel. "Cultural Hermeneutics on the Frontier: Colonialism and the Muscogulge Millenarian Revolt of 1813."
May, 1988
- Fabend, Firth. "The Yeoman Ideal: A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800."
- Ferguson, Thomas J. "American Perceptions of the Vietnam War in Popular Literature: An Interpretation by a Professional Soldier."
- Fox, Stephen Danforth. "Toxic Chemicals and Stress: Anatomy of an Out-of-Court Settlement for Women Workers at GTE-Lenkurt Electronics Plant."
- Geldburd, Diane E. "The Patterning of Human Behavior: A Test of a Prehistoric Archeological Subsistence and Settlement Model for Delaware."
- Rife, Gladys Talcott. "Iowa's Rural Women Columnists, Especially of the Fifties: Their Cultural and Historical Import in a Comparative Context."
June, 1988
- Hood, Adrienne Dora. "Organization and Extent of Textile Manufacture in Eighteenth Century, Rural Pennsylvania: A Case Study of Chester County."
- Schultz, Jane E. "Women at the Front: Gender and Genre in Literature of the American Civil War."
July, 1988
- Passet, Joanne E. "Quest for a Profession: The Origins of Library Education in Indiana."
August, 1988
- Dawson, Deborah Lynn. "Laboring in My Savior's Vineyard: The Mission of Eliza Hart Spalding."
- Kosiba-Vargas, Zaneta. "Harry Gamoa and ASCO: The Emergence and Development of a Chicano Art Group, 1971-1987."
November, 1988
- Samson, Miles David. "German-American Dialogues and the Modern Movement Before the `Design Migration,‘ 1910-1933."
December, 1988
- Bealle, John. "American Folklore Revival: A Study of an Old-Time Music and Dance Community."
- Blomberg, Belinda. "Free Black Adaptive Responses to the Antebellum Urban Environment: Neighborhood Formation and Socioeconomic Stratification in Alexandria, Virginia, 1790-1850."
- Hurth, Elizabeth. "In His Name: Comparative Studies in the Quest for the Historical Jesus."
- Moss, Rosalind Urbach. "Reinventing Spinsterhood: Competing Images of ‘Womanhood’ in American Culture, 1880-1960."
- Rellahan, J. Connelly. "At Home Among the Puritans: Sigmund Freud and the Calvinist Tradition in America."
- Weidner, Ruth Irwin. "Images of the Hunt in Nineteenth-Century America and Their Sources in British and European Art."
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