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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, 1999
- Cante, Richard C. "Narration by Numbers: Gay Male AIDS and the Form of Contemporary American Culture."
- Kenschaft, Lori. "Marriage, Gender, and Higher Education: The Personal and Public Partnership of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer, 1886-1902."
- Kirwin, Elizabeth Seton. "It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s."
- Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle. "'Haunting Echoes': Histories and Exhibition Strategies for Collecting Nineteenth-Century African American Crafts."
- Stoltzfus, Emilie S. "Citizen, Mother, Worker: Public Provision of Child Care, 1945-1965."
- Thomsen, Dawn Fisk. "The Creation and Production of Detective Fiction in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America: A Developmental History of 'The Idea of Detective,' 1837-1880."
- Wallace, Michele. "Passing, Lynching and Jim Crow: A Genealogy of Race and Gender in U.S. Visual Culture, 1895-1929."
February, 1999
- Frederick, Charles R., Jr. "A Good Day to be Here: Tailgating in the Grove at Ole Miss."
- Moore, William D. "Structures of Masculinity: Masonic Temples, Material Culture, and Ritual Gender Archetypes in New York State, 1870-1930."
- Newlyn, Andrea Kelsey. "Righting the Racial Code: Narrative and Race."
March, 1999
- Fulton-Maybin, DoVeanna S. "'When Oral and Written Traditions Meet and Mingle:' Black Feminist Orality in African-American Women's Narratives of Slavery."
- Moskowitz, Marina. "Standard Bearers: Material Culture and Middle-Class Communities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
- Stephens, Michelle Ann. "Black Empire: The Making of Black Transnationalism by West Indians in the United States, 1914-1962."
- Young, Cynthia. "Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism and the Formation of a U.S. Third World Left."
April, 1999
- Braunberger, Christine C. "Stories in the Flesh: Reading Cultural Narratives of Tattooing in America."
- Cheung, Floyd. "Kingdoms of Manly Style': Performing Chinese American Masculinity, 1865-1941."
- Natanson, Barbara Orbach. "Spot the Hyphen? Representations of Immigrants and Members of Ethnic groups in Illustrated Newspaper and Magazine Stories, 1880-1925."
- Pannapacker, William A. "Revised Lives: Studies in the Changing Constructions of Authorial Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture."
- Ryan, Susan M. "The Grammar of Good Intentions: Benevolence and Racial Identity in Antebellum American Literature."
- Vogel, Todd. "Staging Race and Sabotaging Whiteness."
- Wolff, Justin. "Soldiers, Sharps, and Shills: Richard Caton Woodville and Antebellum Genre Painting."
May, 1999
- Barber, Katrine. "Celilo Falls: The Dalles Dam, Indian Fishing Rights, and Federal Energy Policy on the Mid-Columbia River."
- Flagg, Jeffery B. "The Road Toward Wisdom: The Evolution of Land Ethics in the Adirondack State Park."
- Franz, Kathleen. "Narrating Automobility: Travelers, Tinkerers, and Technological Authority in the Twentieth Century."
- Fuller, Todd. "60 Feet 6 inches and Other Distances from Home: A Creative Biography about Mose YellowHorse, Baseball, Cartoons, and the Pawnee."
- González, Gaspar. "Barnstorming American Culture: Traveling Entertainment as Work and Performance."
- Latta, Judi Moore. "Wade in the Water-The Public Radio Series: The effects of the Politics of Production on Sacred Music Representations."
- Roraback, Eileen Mary. "The Defense of the Self: Autobiographical Responses of American Intellectuals to the McCarthy Era."
- Tangires, Helen. "Meeting on Common Ground: Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America."
- Van Dyke, Michael. "Poetry's Revival: Kenneth Rexroth and the San Francisco Renaissance."
- Yu, Ningping. "Manufactured Images: Four Chinese Travelers and Their Writing about American Women."
June, 1999
- Boyd, Anne E. "From 'Scribblers' to Artists: The Emergence of Women Writers as Artists in America."
- Oaklander, Christine. "Clara Davidge and Henry Fitch Taylor: Pioneering Promoters and Creators of American Modernist Art."
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva. "Unoriginal Sins: Copyright and American Culture."
August, 1999
- Bass, Christine. "'It did not seem like a hospital it seemed like a home': Women's Experiences as Patients at Peterson's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1902-1933."
- Beeby, James M. "Revolt of the Tar Heelers: A Socio-Political History of the North Carolina Populist Party, 1892-1901."
- Entz, Gary. "Paradise on the Plains: The Development of Cooperative Alternatives in Kansas, 1850-1900."
- Kirk-Kuwaye, Christine. "Exceptional Moments: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Images of the Photographic Work of Anne Noggle."
- Moreau, Joseph. "Schoolbook Nation: Imagining the American Community in United States History Texts for Grammar and Secondary Schools, 1865-1930."
- O'Keefe, John T. "Family of God, Family of Man: Liberal Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England."
- Rustin, Nichole T. "Mingus Fingers: Charles Mingus, Black Masculinity, and Postwar Jazz Culture."
- Smoak, Gregory. "Ghost Dances and Identity: Ethnogensis and Racial Identity Among Shoshones and Bannocks in the Nineteenth Century."
- Soto, Michael. "Literary History and the Age of Jazz: Generation, Renaissance, and American Literary Modernism."
- Thuriyanonda, Chalermsri. "The Americanization of 'The King and I': The Transformation of the English Governess into an American Legend."
September, 1999
- Tobol, Amy Ruth. "Badge of Honor: The Law Students Civil Rights Research Council."
- Woods, Marianne Berger. "Wallace Nutting Photographs: Creating Myths for a New Century."
October, 1999
- Thompson, Jenny Christina. "Common Soldiers: An Ethnography of Twentieth-Century War Reenactors."
November, 1999
- Berrettini, Mark L. "Signs of Noir: Contemporary Film Noir and Social Difference in the United States."
- Cosco, Joseph P. "Eyeing Italians: Race, Romance, and Reality in American Perception, 1880-1910."
- Globensky, Anne Birgid. "At Home in Baltimore: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Lumbee Domestic Material Culture."
- Williams, Barbara White. "A Cultural Analysis of Black Women Teachers at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC: Similarities and Differences in Their Perceptions of Role and Status in the 1950s and 1990s."
December, 1999
- Jirousek, Lori M. "Immigrant Ethnographers: Observing Race and Culture in America at the Turn into the Twentieth Century."
- Vriend, Sharon R. "'My Life in the White World': The European-American Representation of Marian Anderson, 1939-1957."
- Osumare, Halifu. "African aesthetics, American Culture: Hip Hop in the Global Era."
- Raimondo, Meredith. "The Next Wave: Media Maps of the ‘Spread of AIDS’."
- Rice, Mark. "Reading the Pictured City: History, Nostalgia and the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys, 1976-1981."
- Thurner, Manuela Andrea. "Girlkultur and Kulturfeminismus: Gender and Americanism in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933."
- Yaguchi, Yujin. "The Ainu in U.S.-Japan Relations."
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