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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, 1993
- Kocks, Dorothee E. "Champions of Place: Politics and Landscape in the 1930s and 1980s."
- Dey, Deborah. "Pastoral Themes and Their Use in the Meramec Dam Controversy."
- Herman, Ellen. "American Studies Program."
- Raab, Josef. "Elizabeth Bishop’s Hemisphere."
February, 1993
March, 1993
- Hobbs, Stuart D. "The End of the American Avant Garde, 1930 to 1965."
- Kessler, Donna J. "Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend."
- Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream in Five Major Novels."
April, 1993
- Goodwin, Lorinda B.R. "'A Stately Roof to Shelter Them': An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Turner Family of Eighteenth-Century Salem, Massachusetts."
- Venable, Charles L. "A Craft in Industry: Silversmithing in America, 1840-1940."
- Paxson, Peyton. "Charles William Post: The Mass Marketing of Health and Welfare."
- Restad, Penne L. "O Holy Night: The Creation of an American Christmas."
May, 1993
- Brown, Margaret Ann. "Not Your Usual Boardinghouse Types: Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony, 1906-1907."
- Comer, Douglas C. "Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, Ideology, and the Annexation of the Southwest."
- De la Vega-Hurtado, Margarita. "A Foreigner's Gaze: The American Films of Louis Malle."
- Eiselein, Gregory. "Humanitarian Works: Writing, Reform, and Eccentric Benevolence in the Civil War Era."
- Fertig, Barbara. "Belonging to the Crown: Ethnicity and Gender Roles in a Portuguese-American Feast."
- James, Theresa. "Cradled in the Larger History of One's Time': Epistemological Pattern in the Work of Norman Mailer."
- Knepper, Cathy Dee. "The Gospel According to Greenbelt: Community Life in Greenbelt, Maryland, 1935-1990."
- Lachin, Teresa B. "'War and Remembrance': The War Memorial as Cultural Artifact."
- McNary, Lisa D. "The Deming Management Theory: A Managerial Leadership Profile for the New Economic Age."
- Metcalf, Greg. "Looking for Marlowe: Paratextual Characters in American Culture."
- Morand, Lynn Louise. "Craft Industries at Fort Michilimackinac, An Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade Outpost."
- Prown, Katherine Hemple. "Revisions and Evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literary Culture, and the Problem of Female Authorship."
- Scholz, Anne-Marie Wilhelmina. "Domesticating Female Mastery: Reading Jane Austen in America, 1826-1926."
- Sharpless, Mary Rebecca. "Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Cotton Farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie, 1900-1940."
- Smith, Dale Edwyna. "The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820 to 1868."
June, 1993
- Johanningsmeier, Charles A. "Buying and Selling Words by the Thousand: Newspaper Syndicates and the American Literary Marketplace, 1860-1900."
- Larson, Rebecca Darlene. "'Public Friends': Quaker Women Travelling Ministers, 1700-1775."
- Van Leeuwen, Marianne. "Americans and the Palestinian Question: The US Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973-1988."
- Xia, Yanwen. "The Sojourner Myth and Chinese Immigrants in the United States."
July, 1993
- Boler, Megan. "Feeling Power: The Discourses of Emotion in United States Higher Education."
- Waldron, Mary E. "'From Cornerstone to Steeple Cross': An Urban Parish Rebuilds Itself: Saint Francis Xavier (College) Church 1884-1914."
August, 1993
- Duffy, Timothy P. "The Gender of Letters: The Man of Letters and Intellectual Authority in Nineteenth-Century Boston."
- Gennari, John Remo. "The Politics of Culture and Identity in American Jazz Criticism."
- Gleason, William. "Playing for Keeps: Recreation and Re-Creation in American Literature, 1840-1940."
- Kilgore, DeWitt Douglas. "Beyond Earth: Popular Science, Science Fiction, and the Cultural Construction of an American Future in Space."
- Lovaas, Karen Elizabeth. "Waging Hormones."
- Parrish, Nancy Clyde. "Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age."
September, 1993
- Chasin, Alexandra. "All Other Things Being Equal: Studies in U.S.-American Material Culture."
- Hoberman, Michael. "Back Up on Brushy: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920."
- Thompson, Mark A. "Impressionable Landscapes: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century California Literature."
October, 1993
- Baumgarten, Nikola. "Immigrants as Democrats: Education in St. Louis Before the Civil War."
- Gussman, Deborah. "Remembering Plymouth Rock: The Making of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Colonial New England."
- Pasley, Jeffrey L. "`Artful and Designing Men’: Political Professionalism in the Early American Republic, 1775-1820."
November, 1993
- Hathaway, Heather. "Cultural Crossings: Migration, Generation, and Gender in Writings by Claude McKay and Paule Marshall."
- Jackson, Leon. "The Two Worlds of William Wells: Ideology and Economy in the Early American Republic of Letters."
- Oxendine, Linda Ellen. "Tribally Oriented Museums: A Reinterpretation of Indigenous Collections."
- Shen, Xiao Hong. "Yale’s China and China’s Yale: Americanizing Higher Education in China, 1900-1927."
December, 1993
- Beecher, Mary Anne. "A Place for Everything: The Influence of Storage Innovations on Modern American Domesticity (1900-1955)."
- Beattie, Keith. "Healing, Voices, Home: Strategies of Unity in Representations of the Impact of the War in Vietnam upon U.S. Culture."
- Maxwell, William J. "Dialectical Engagements: The New Negro and the Old Left, 1918-1940."
- Roberts, Shari. "Seeing Stars: Feminine Spectacle, Female Spectators, and World War II Hollywood Musicals."
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