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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, 1998
- Bowles-Reyer, Amy. "Our Secret Garden: American Popular Young Adult Literature in the 1970s and the Transmission of Sexual and Gender Ideology to Adolescent Girls."
February, 1998
- Collins, Samuel. "'Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance': Power, [keyword] and ideas of 'Information Society' at the Library of Congress."
- Eliason, Eric A. "Celebrating Zion: Pioneers in Mormon Popular Historical Expression."
March, 1998
- Debo, Annette. "America in H.D.'s Palimpsest: Place, Race, and Gender in her Early Poetry and Prose."
- McLoud, Melissa. "Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs: Builders in Late Nineteenth-Century Washington, D. C.."
April, 1998
- DeVaul, Diane Louise. "Mother Work-Quilts and Art: A Material Culture Study."
- McClusky, Laura J. "'Here, Our Culture is Hard': Narrative Ethnography, Domestic Violence and 'The Young Women's Revolt' in San Antonio, Belize."
- Olin, Ferris. "Consuming Passions: Women Art Collectors and Cultural Politics in the United States, 1945-1995."
- Pendergast, Tom. "Consuming Men: Masculinity, Race, and American Magazines, 1900-1950."
May, 1998
- Alexander, Ilene. "Learning in Other Ways: A History of Feminist Pedagogy in the U.S."
- Andreasen, Bryon C. "'As Good A Right to Pray': Copperhead Christians on the Northern Civil War Home Front."
- Ash, Patricia B. "Quest for Harmony: Religion in the Origin of the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement."
- Coppola, Marie S. "Toward a Missing Link in the Identity of Italian American Women: Oral Histories of Sicilian and Sicilian American Women."
- Crockett, Rosemary F. "The Garies and Their Friends: A Study of Frank J. Webb and his Novel."
- Gemme, Paola. "Domesticating Foreign Struggles: Narratives of the Italian Risorgimento and American National Identity."
- Genser, Wallace Vincent. "'A Rigid Government Over Ourselves': Transformations in Ethnic, Gender, and Race Consciousness on the Northern Borderlands-Michigan, 1805-1865."
- Goodyear, Frank H. "Constructing a National Landscape: Photography and Tourism in Nineteenth-Century America."
- Griffin, Connie D. "Ex-Centricities: A Geo/Graphics of Self-Re/Presentation in the Autobiographies of Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Kim Chernin."
- Hampton, Bonita. "A Comparative Study of Risk Factors Associated with Exposure to HIV Among a Sample of African American Women."
- Hodges, Anita Poluga. "Collective Visions of Women: Representations of Gender and Race in the Writings of Women of Color, 1900-1940."
- Koske, Mary Susan. "Finnish and American Adolescent Fantasy and Humor: An Analysis of Personal and Social Folklore in Educational Contexts."
- Mapel-Bloomberg, Kristin. "Tracing Arachne's Web: Modernism's Femin(ine)ist Fictions."
- Neel, Hildy Michelle. "Let us Now Praise Service Men: A History of the American World War II Personal Narrative, 1942-1945."
- Okoomian, Janice. "Originary Embodiments: The Female Body and Narratives of Ethnic Origin in the Contemporary United States."
- Peterson, William D. "Storm Warriors: The United States Life Saving Service in American Culture, 1870-1915."
- Pilato, Denise E. "The Retrieval of a Legacy: Perspectives on Presence and Progress of Nineteenth Century Women Inventors in American Culture."
- Pustz, Matthew. "Fanboys and True Believers: Comic Book Reading Communities and the Creation of Culture."
- Reumann, Miriam Grace. "American Sexual Character in the Age of Kinsey, 1946-64."
- Shawn, David Warren. "The Transformation of Oratory in Antebellum America: Democrats, Demagogues, and the Quest for Citizenship."
- Silverman, Jonathan. "Success in the Margins: How African-Americans, Women, and Immigrant Jews Used Cultural Production to Negotiate Prejudice and the American Dream Between World War I and the Great Depression."
- Soper, Kerry D. "Seriously Funny: A History of Satirical Newspaper Comic Strips in the Twentieth Century United States."
- Taylor, Leslie A. "Veritable Hotheads: Lesbian Scandals in the United States, 1926-36."
June, 1998
- Boukari, Safoura. "Retrouvailles: A Comparative Meditation on the Experiences of African Descended Women & the Quest for Sisterhood- Toward a New Syncretic Paradigm."
- Koistinen, Janice H. "'The Good is not Always the Beautiful': Social Reform, Good Taste, and Social Identity in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature."
- Mieras, Emily. "A ‘More Perfect Sympathy’: College Students and Social Service 1889-1914."
- Peterson, Kevin T. "From Self to Subject: American Pragmatists' Response to the Cartesian Implications of Postmodernist Subjectivity (A Cultural-Historical Retrieval)."
- Wachtell, Cynthia J. "War No More: The Emergence of Anti-War Literature for the Civil War Through World War I."
- Waksman, Steve. "Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience."
July, 1998
- Flack, Chris. "Public Interest: The Myth of the Vanishing Public in Antebellum Letters, 1830-1860."
- Maxson, Richard A. "Billy Sunday's 1917 New York City Revival: A Case Study in Apocalyptic Rhetoric."
- Wyss, Hilary E.. "Captivity and Christianity: Narrating Christian Indian Identity, 1643-1829."
- Dicker, Rory C. "Home Repair: Reconfigurations of Domesticity in American Fiction of the 1860s."
August, 1998
- DeLombard, Jeannine. "'Eye-witness to the Cruelty': Literary Abolitionism and the Antebellum Culture of Testimony."
- Ehrhardt, Julia. "'A taper in the imagination that never goes out': Women, Regionalism, and the Profession of Authorship in America, 1900-1956."
- Lazo, Rodrigo. "Filibustering an Empire: Transamerican Writing and U.S. Expansionism."
- Majewski, Karen Marie. "Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939."
- Potamianos, George. "Hollywood in the Hinterlands: Mass Culture in Two California Communities, 1896-1936."
- Robinson, Linda Leyden. "Re-Embodied Vision: The Cultural Shift from Discursive to Figural."
September, 1998
- Edwards, Brian. "Morocco Bound: U.S. Representations of North Africa, 1920-1998."
- Goldner, Loren Ralph. "Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class and the Crisis of the Bourgeois Self in the Work of Herman Melville."
October, 1998
- Collins, Lisa Gail. "Revolutions in Vision': African-American Women, Aesthetics, and Visual Politics."
- Stephanides, Adam Louis. "Tomorrow’s Women and Yesterday’s Men: Junior Novels and Change, 1946-64."
November, 1998
- Barnett, Thomas C. "A Utopian-Mythopoesis Reading of American Puritan Jeremiads: A Reclassification of Selected Seventeenth Century New England Pulpit Literature."
- Branigan, Michelle Marie. "A Biography of Frances Brand, An American Painter and Social Activist."
- Buffington, Nancy. "From Freedom to Slavery: Robert Montgomery Bird and the Natural Law Tradition."
- Fairman, Deborah. "'Unhampered Child of Liberty': Modernity, Representation and American Jewish Women, 1890-1930."
December, 1998
- Burk, Rev. Michael. "Difficult Belonging: An Ethnographic Look at How the Church Excludes."
- De Ste Croix, James B. "The Republic of Talk Radio."
- Hirayama, Hina. "'A True Japanese Taste': Construction of Knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900."
- Luis-Brown, David. "Waves of Decolonization: Towards an Inter-Americas Cultural Studies."
- Rees, Amanda. "Envisioning the Great Plains: Contemporary Narratives of the Landscape."
- Santamarina, Xiomara A. "Belabored Professions: Writing the Work of Black Women in the Mid Nineteenth Century."
- Travis, Trish. "Reading Matters: Book Men, ‘Serious’ Readers, and the Rise of Mass Culture, 1930-1960."
- Wierich, Jochen. "The Domestication of History in American Art, 1848-1876."
- Zmijewski, David. "Huck Finn and Hawaii: A Study of Hawaiian Influence on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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