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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, 1995
- Donaldson, John K. "The Themes of Reciprocity and Renewal in Traditional Cherokee Culture."
- Goode, James M. "Architecture and Politics: Thomas Ustick Walter and the Enlargement of the U.S. Capitol, 1850-1865."
- Hass, Kristin Ann. "Remaking the Nation with Purple Hearts and Fishing Lures: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and American Memory."
- Carson, Jeanie Cooper. "Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) Photography."
February, 1995
- Nation, Richard Franklin. "Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870."
March, 1995
- Cleghorn, Cassandra. "Bartleby's Benefactors: Toward a Literary History of Charity in Antebellum America."
April, 1995
- Rony, Thomas Y. Fujita. "'They Did Me A Great Wrong': History and Meanings of the Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration."
May, 1995
- Boyd, Nan Alamilla. "San Francisco Was a Wide Open Town: Charting the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Communities through the Mid-Twentieth Century."
- Brown, Sarah. "American Tourists' Narratives of the Caribbean, 1839-1939: A Study of the Experience of Tourism and of Cultural Encounter."
- Chang, Ming. "Reforming Literati as 'the Conscience of the Society'--a Sino-U.S. Cross-Cultural Study of the Leading Reformers in the Muckraking & 'the Blooming & Contending' Movements."
- Erradi, Saida. "Two American Women's Perceptions of Moroccan Women: Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Fernea."
- Evans, Timothy Henry. "Western Saddlemaking: History, Technology, Innovation."
- Garceau, Dee. "'The Important Things of Life': Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929."
- Gonzales, Lois. "Female Millworkers and the Mechanization of Textile Production: The Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, 1813 to 1822."
- Green, Amy S. "Savage Childhood: The Scientific Construction of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era."
- Jendli, Adel. "Community Leadership of African-American Ministers in a Midwestern Town."
- Kuhlman, Erika A. "The Feminist Pacifist Challenge to Progressive Hegemony: The Debate Over U.S. Intervention in World War I."
- Lepore, Jill. "The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War."
- Ligibel, Theodore J. "The Maumee Valley Heritage Corridor as a Model of the Cultural Morphology of the Historic Preservation Movement."
- McCrossen, Alexis Macon. "Holy Day, Holiday: The Rejuvenation of the American Sunday, 1860-1930."
- Middlebrook, Geoffrey C. "The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and American Public Diplomacy During the Reagan Years: Purpose, Policy, Program, and Performance."
- Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. "Domesticating Drink: Women and Alcohol in Prohibition America, 1870-1940."
- Phillips, Rod. "‘Forest Beatniks’ and ‘Urban Thoreaus’: Beat Literature and Nature."
- Scott, Alison M. "‘These Notions I Imbibed from Writers’: The Reading Life of Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1762-1841)."
- Swinth, Kirsten N. "Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of a Professional Ideal in American Art, 1870-1920."
- Vieyra, Daniel I. "The Architecture of America's Roadside Lodging From Its Beginning to the Interstate Era."
- Wang, Qijian. "The History of American Literature Translation in China."
- Westfall, Sarah B.. "Senior-level College and University Administrators' Conceptions of Institutional Quality: An Exploratory Study."
- Zrzavy, Helfried C. "Erik H. Erikson's Epiphanies: An Interpretive-Interactionist Study of Select Aspects of His Life and Work."
- Alvarez, Sally M. "Reclaiming the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Access Cable Television Programming by the U.S. Labor Movement."
- Fischer, Paul D. "Radical Pedagogy and the Interdisciplinary Revolution: Teaching 'Youth Culture' for the 21st Century."
June, 1995
- Bravmann, Scott. "Queer Fictions of the Past."
- Grayson, Ellen. "Art, Audiences and the Aesthetics of Social Order in Antebellum America: Rembrandt Peale's Court of Death."
- Jordan, Christopher Joseph. "The Representation of the Protestant Success Ethic in Films of the Reagan Era, 1981-1989."
- Kerr, Andrea Moore. "Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality."
- Samuel, Lawrence R. "Dreaming in Black and White: World War II Bonds and American Pluralism."
July, 1995
- Berger, Martin A. "Determining Manhood: Constructions of Sexuality in the Art of Thomas Eakins."
- Choi, Joung-Min. "The Critics of Democracy: The Political Visions of Walker Percy and the Tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Vanderbilt Agrarians."
- Kline, Michael. "The Politics of Knowledge in a 'Post-Industrial' City: Intellectual Work and Political Struggle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 to 1992."
- Smith, Anthony Burke. "American Catholicism and the Construction of a Public Tradition, 1932-1962."
- Westphal, D'Val. "From the Mai Lai Massacre to the Slaughter of Sarajevo: A Deconstruction of Media Coverage of Contemporary U.S. Military Involvements."
August, 1995
- Buff, Rachel J. "Calling Home: Race, Migration and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and Native American Minneapolis, 1945-1992."
- Curry, Lynne Elizabeth. "Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Maternal and Child Health Reform in Illinois, 1900-1930."
- Hackleman, Leah Diane. "The First Year? Gendering 1968."
- Hunt, Imelda. "An Oral History of Art Tatum During His Years in Toledo, Ohio, 1909-1932."
- Myers, Sally A. "Northwest Ohio Women’s Literary Clubs as Arbiters of Culture: 1880-1918."
- Ritter, Jeffrey Michael. "Local Television News: Deregulation and the New Media Landscape."
- Walls, Nina de Angeli. "Art, Industry, and Women's Education: The Philadelphia School of Design for Women, 1848-1932."
- Yount, Sylvia L. "'Give the People What They Want': The American Aesthetic Movement, Art Worlds, and Consumer Culture, 1876-1890."
September, 1995
- Levy, Anne Shullenberger. "America Discovered a Second Time: French Perceptions of American Notions of Time from Tocqueville to Laboulaye."
- Liang, Iping J. "The Lure of the Land: Ethnicity and Gender in Imagining America."
- Rubin, Rachel Lee. "Reading, Writing and the Rackets: Jewish Gangsters in Interwar Narrative."
October, 1995
- Gutjahr, Paul Charles. "Battling for the Book: The Americanization of the Bible in the Publishing Marketplace, 1777-1860."
- Wheelock, Richard Martin. "Indian Self-Determination: Implications for Tribal Communications Policies."
November, 1995
December, 1995
- Dobak, William A. "Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: The Federal Government and Economic Development in the Nineteenth-Century American West."
- Bissiri, Amadou. "The Artist-Figure in Tennessee Williams' Later Plays: A Contextual Approach."
- Blodgett, Anita Jan. "Keepers of the Gate: An Analysis of Protestant Evangelical Fiction."
- Cicala, John Allan. "The Folk Artist as Producer: A Behavioral Study of a Sicilian Immigrant Woman's Ceremonial Cooking Style."
- Crosby, Emilye. "Common Courtesy: The Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi."
- Kassner, Scott Gerald. "William Smith and the Empire of Liberty: Adventures and Misadventures on the Civil Religious Landscape of Eighteenth-Century British America."
- McAlister, Elizabeth A. "'Men Moun Yo', 'Here Are The People': Rara Festivals and Transnational Popular Culture in Haiti and New York City."
- Morris-Shortlidge, Constance Elaine. "Enfolding Bodies: A New Visual Space."
- Singh, Nikhil Pal. "‘Race’ and Nation in the American Century: A Genealogy of Color and Democracy."
- Wright, Sarah Bird. "Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur."
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