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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
February, 1989
- Jordon, John M. "Technic and Ideology: The Engineering Ideal and American Political Culture, 1892-1934."
- Koch, William N. "An Unexpected American Apocalypse: Eschatology in the Thought of Thomas Merton and Its Significance for the Myth of America."
March, 1989
- Phillips, Mary Lou Luttrell. "The Language of Naval Performance Evaluation: Officer Promotion as Reader Response and the Ideal Officer Concept."
- Maddock-Cowart, Donna Samal. "The Word, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Professor in Sixteen Post-1950 Academic Novels."
April, 1989
- Connor, Celeste. "Visions and Revisions of the American Landscape: Paintings and Photographs of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924-1934."
- Hoy, Joan McElroy. "The Publication and Distribution of Books among New England Quakers, 1775-1836."
- Kemp, Louis Ward. "Highway Diplomacy: The United States and the Inter-American Highway, 1923-1955."
- Piket, Vincent. "Louis Auchincloss: The Growth of a Novelist."
May, 1989
- Dailey, Martha LaCroix. "Dr. Michael Steck: A Prototype of Nineteenth Century American Individualism."
- Gaddie, Griffin. "Homophony and Paronomasia in America: On the Validity of Puns."
- Goldstein, Linda Lehmann. "Roses Bloomed in Winter: Women Medical Graduates of Western Reserve College, 1852-1856."
- Ho, Wen-Ching. "Miscegenation in William Faulkner: A Synecdoche for Slavery/Caste System."
- Kinsey, Joni L. "Creating a Sense of Place: Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West."
- Place, Linna Funk. "Priestly People: Aging and Continuity in an Ethnic Community."
- Press, Marcia. "That Black Man-White Woman Thing: Images of an American Taboo."
- Smart, Karl L. "A Man for All Ages: The Changing Image of Benjamin Franklin in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Literature."
- Tepfer, Diane. "Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery Downtown, 1926-1940: A Study in American Art Patronage."
- Trigg, Mary Kathleen. "Four American Feminists, 1910-1940: Inez Haynes Irwin, Mary Ritter Beard, Doris Stevens, and Lorine Pruette."
- Wainwright, Mary Katherine. ""`Through Different Eyes': The Aesthetics of Community in the Texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker."
- Weibel, Friedrich Viktor. "The Anatomy of United States Imperialism: Cultural Perspectives on American Interventionism in the Western Hemisphere, 1895-1907."
- Zafar, Rafia. "White Call, Black Response: Adoption, Subversion, and Transformation in American Literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Abolition."
June, 1989
- Dwyer, Britta Christina. "Nineteenth-Century Regional Women Artists:The Pittsburgh School of Design for Women, 1865-1904."
- Hibler, Anita. "The Publication of the Wilkes Reports, 1842-1877."
- John, Richard R., Jr. "Managing the Mails: The Postal System, Public Policy, and American Political Culture, 1823-1836."
July, 1989
- Levenduski, Christine. "Elizabeth Ashbridge's 'Remarkable Experiences': Creating the Self in a Quaker Personal Narrative."
August, 1989
- Edwards, Thomas S. "The Pursuit of the Ideal: Mass Culture and Mass Politics in the Works of Dwight MacDonald (1906-1983)."
- Haynes, Robin A.S. "Landscape as Palimpsest: The fugutive Images of Southeastern Colorado."
- Luck, Therese L. "Woman's Page as Women's Medicated Discourse at the Time of the Enactment of the 19th Amendment."
- Thomas, Floyd R., Jr. "Cultural Conservation Through the Preservation of Material Culture-The Representation of Black American Artists in 'Mainstream' Museums."
September, 1989
- Cadaval, Olivia. "The Hispano American Festival and the Latino Community: Creating an Identity in the Nation's Capital."
- Kirkham, David M. "'Inflamed With Study': Eighteenth Century Higher Education and the Formation of the American Constitutional Mind."
- Przybyzewski, Linda C.A. "The Republic According to John Marshall Harland: Race, Republicanism, and Citizenship."
October, 1989
- Burgess, Barbara. "Migrant Women to Oregon 1836-1860 - Hail the Columbia."
- Millikan, Frank Rives. "Wards of the Nation: The Making of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 1852-1920."
December, 1989
- Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and the Transformation of American Culture, 1886-1917."
- Carr, Norma. "The Puerto Ricans in Hawaii: 1900-1958."
- Knupfer, Walter Richard. "Running in Place: An Excursion into Self and Community."
- Puette, William J. "Media Portrayals of Organized Labor: The Limits of American Liberalism."
- Ruwell, Mary Elizabeth. "Eighteenth Century Capitalism: The Formation of American Marine Insurance Companies."
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