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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, 2000
- Buick, Kirsten Pai. "The Sentimental Education of Mary Edmonia Lewis: Identity, Culture, and Ideal Works."
- Collins, Elliott. "Bayard Rustin: A Civil Rights Biography."
- Higbie, Frank Tobias. "Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880-1930."
- Lubin, Alex. "Race-ing Romance: Interracialism and the Limits of Freedom in Post-WWII American, 1945-1954."
- Wood, Meredith. "ReSisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels."
February, 2000
- Moore, Patricia Elaine. "Santo De Santa Fe: Mediators of Family and Faith, Culture and Place."
March, 2000
- Cockerill, Kristan. "Words and Deeds: Assessing Print Media Language Influences on Public Perception and Water Management Policy Decisions."
- Heckscher, Jurretta Jordan. "'All the Mazes of the Dance': Black Dancing, Culture, and Identity in the Greater Chesapeake World from the Early Eighteenth Century to the Civil War."
- Pynes, Patrick Gordon. "Erosion, Extraction, Reciprocation: An Ethno/Environmental History of the Navajo Nation's Ponderosa Pine Forests."
April, 2000
- Griffin, Catherine C. "'Joined Together in History:' Politics and Place in African American and American Indian Women's Writing."
- Woodiel, Loftin C.. "William C. Quantrill, Deviant or Hero?."
May, 2000
- Archuleta, Micki. "A Covenant of Struggle: Constitutional Discourse and Ideological Debate in Antebellum America."
- Boots, Cheryl Charline. "Earthly Strains: The Cultural Work of Protestant Sacred Music in Three Nineteenth-Century American Popular Novels."
- Brown, Elspeth H. "The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Culture, 1884-1929."
- Dinerstein, Joel. "Swinging the Machine: White Technology and Black Culture Between the World Wars."
- Dykstra, Natalie A. "Working it Out: Domesticity, Space, and Self-Representation in Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1868-1914."
- Foley, Hugh W., Jr. "Jazz from Muskogee, Oklahoma: Eastern Oklahoma as a Hearth of Musical Culture."
- Garrison, Ednie Kaeh. "The Third Wave and the Cultural Predicament of Feminist Consciousness in the U.S.."
- Herlihy, Mark A. "Leisure, Space and Collective Memory in the 'Athens of America': A History of Boston's Revere Beach."
- Howard, Vicki. "American Weddings: Gender, Consumption, and the Business of Brides."
- Kotchian, Sarah B. "Converting to Spiritual Profits: CEO Faith and Corporate Environmental Performance."
- Lentz, Kristen Marthe. "Television as Bad Object: Feminism, Race and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television and Film."
- Lloyd, John P. "Revising the Republic: Popular Perceptions of Constitutional Change During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era."
- Miller, Ronald J. "The Free School Movement, 1967-1972: A Study of Countercultural Ideology."
- Montague, Diana M. "Empowering the Sense of Place: Regional Detection Fiction Elevates Non-Urban American Culture."
- Morse, Susan I. "The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Urban Landscape, 1827-1927."
- Morton, Joel. "Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men’s Movement."
- Ren, Michele D. "Imperial Designs: The Victorian Home and the (Re)Vision of Empire in American Culture."
- Rishoi, Christy. "Girl Power: The American Woman’s Coming of Age Narrative."
- Roberts, Paige W. "The Politics of Preservation: Historical Consciousness and Community Identity in Portsmouth, New Hampshire."
- Schur, Richard Lee. "Rites or Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Louis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory."
- Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt. "Travel Writing and Resistance: Travel Narratives by African American and Euro-American Women, 1820-1860."
- Taylor, Lori Elaine. "Telling Stories about Mormons and Indians."
- Utz, John Fredric. "The Ugly Truth: Mystery, Fear and Manhood in the Age of Realism."
- Vogels, Jonathan B. "'Outrageous Acts of Faith': The Films of Albert and David Maysles, 1962-1986."
- Walsh, Christopher Robert. "Craven Images: Cowardice in American Literature, From the Revolutionary to the Nuclear Era."
- Waterman, Bryan Elliot. "Friendly Club of New York City: Industries of Knowledge in the Early Republic."
- Wherry, Maryan. "The Military Officer's Wife: Creating and Locating a Social Identity."
- Casey, Brian W. "Romantic Campus: Emotion and the American College, 1880-1940."
June, 2000
- Allen, Gloria Seaman. "Threads of Bondage: Chesapeake Slave Women and Plantation Cloth Production, 1750-1850."
July, 2000
- Alcocer-Berriozabal, Mary. "The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City Since World War II."
- Annus, Iren. "The Constitution of Mormon Identity."
- Mickenberg, Julia L. "Educating Dissent: Children’s Literature and the Left, 1935-1965."
- Sims, Yvonne. "From Mammies to Action Heroines: Female Empowerment in Black Popular Cinema."
- Taysom, Martha. "The Hope of the Great Community: The Communal Philosophy of Josiah Royce."
August, 2000
- Lees, Victoria. "Heresy, hearsay and historiography: tracing the voice of Anne Hutchinson."
- Pierce, Lori. "Constructing American Buddhisms: Discourses of Race and Religion in Territorial Hawaii."
- Robinson, Michael G. "Genre From the Audience Perspective: Science Fiction."
- Wehner, Patrick T. "Living in Style: Marketing, Media, and the Discovery of Lifestyles."
September, 2000
- Brasell, Roger Bruce. "Imag(in)ing the American South in Documentary Film and Video."
- McCracken, Allison. "Real Men Don’t Sing: Crooning and American Culture, 1928-1933."
October, 2000
- Austin, John Peter Nathaniel. "The Literary Compilation in Antebellum America: 1820-1850."
- Mizelle, Brett. "To the Curious: The Cultural Work of Exhibitions of Exotic and Performing Animals in the Early American Republic."
- Thielmann, Pia. "Hot Beds: Black-White Love and its Representations in Selected Contemporary Novels from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean."
November, 2000
- Anderson, Crystal S. "'Far From Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Novels."
- Bilder, Mary Sarah. "Salamanders and Sons of God: Transatlantic Legal Cultural and Colonial Rhode Island."
- Fields, Sarah K. "Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America."
December, 2000
- Anderson, Robert L. "Voices of Steel: New Left and Worker Resistance to Steel Industry Restructuring, Western Pennsylvania, 1979-1986."
- Fraga, Maria I. Isabel. "Make It Fast and Keep It Moving: Post-Cold War Action Films and Globalization."
- Glisson, Susan M. "Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed: Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker and Women's Leadership and Organization in the Struggle for Freedom."
- Gregory, Patricia L. "Women's Experience of Reading in St. Louis Book Clubs."
- Sheley, Nancy Strow. "Bringing Light to Life: The Art of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)."
- Swiger, Molly J. "Consuming ‘Third World’ Children: Constructing an American Self."
- Veder, Robin Maremant. "How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture."
- Vermaas, Lori. "The National Trees: Celebrating the Sequoias-Their Trunks, Roots, Stumps, Bark-and Their Depiction as Big Trees in America, 1852-1944."
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