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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, 2001
- Drown, Eric M. "Usable Futures, Disposable Paper: Popular Science, Science Fiction and Modernization in America, 1908-1937."
- Maeda, Daryl J. "Forging Asian American Identity: Race, Culture, and the Asian Amerian Movement, 1968-1975."
- Dowling, Robert M. "Slumming: Morality and Space in New York City from 'City Mysteries' to the Harlem Renaissance."
- Green, Jennifer R. "Books and Bayonets: Class and Culture at Antebellum Military Academies."
- Augspurger, Michael. "An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune and the Culture of Corporate Liberalism."
- Hughes, Ellen Roney. "Machines For Better Bodies: A Cultural History of Exercise Machines in America, 1839-1950."
- Martin, Denise. "Nature, Maat and Myth in the Cosmologies of the Ancient Egyptians and the Dogon."
- Nadell, Martha. ""Nor Can I Reduce This Experience to a Medium": Race, Art, and Literature in America, 1920s-1940s."
- Smith, Jessica Todd. "Is Polite Society Polite?: The Genteel Tradition in the Figure Paintings of William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941)."
- Streeter, Caroline Anne. "Ambiguous Bodies, Ambivalent Desires: The Morphing Mulatta Body in U.S. Culture, 1965-1999."
February, 2001
- Hutchins, Loraine. "Rites: A Cultural Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Sacred Sexuality Trends and Traditions."
- Richardson, Judith. "Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley."
April, 2001
- Brown, Bridget M. "The Terror is Real: The History and Politics of Alien Abduction."
- Cowan, William Tynes. "The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative."
- de la Pena, Carolyn Thomas. "Powering the Modern Body: Theories of Energy Transfer in American Medicine, Science and Popular Culture, 1875-1945."
- Kelly, Arlene Blumenthal. "How Deaf Women Construct Teaching, Language, Culture, and Gender: An Ethnographic Study of ASL Teachers."
- Knight, Carole L. "Survival of the Forest: The Evolution of Forest Park as a Reflection of the Social and Cultural Dynamics of St. Louis."
- Sawin, Mark H. Meltzer. "Raising Kane: The Creation and Consequences of Fame in Antebellum America, or, The Thrilling and Tragic Narrative of Elisha Kent Kane and his Transformation into Dr. Kane, the Hero of the Romantic Age."
- Tucker, Richard. "Brushstroke: Commerical Icon and Cultural Image."
May, 2001
- Carso, Kerry Dean. "Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850."
- Coffey, Marion J. "Conceiving a Social Movement: Pro Choice Organizing Post-Roe v Wade."
- D'Ambrosio, Paul S. "Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997): The Making of a Working Class Artist."
- Davidoff, Solomon. "Of Their Own Accord: (Mis)Readings of Geotheistic Allusions to Popular Fiath in C. S. Lewis' ."
- Denenberg, Thomas. "Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America."
- Dohle Jr., James P. "JROTC: A Study of Two St. Louis Schools."
- Donahue, Matthew A. "The Message Behind the Beat: Social and Political Attitudes Expressed in American Rap and Punk Rock Music of the 1980's and Early 1990's."
- Farmelant, Kristen Petersen. "Trophies of Grace: Religious Conversion and Americanization in Boston's Immigrant Communities, 1890-1940."
- Flood, Karen P. "Contemplating Corpses: The Dead Body in American Culture, 1870-1920."
- Friedman, Sandie Ruth. "Racing With Catastrophe: Representations of the Holocaust and American Jewish Anxiety."
- Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi. "In the Shadow of the South: The History of Racial Integration at the University of Texas at Austin."
- Grayson, Elizabeth Pollard. "Calling the Heart Back Home: Irish Catholic Women in America, 1845-1915."
- Greeson, Jennifer Rae. "The Figure of the South and the Imagination of Nation in the United States."
- Joseph, Miriam E. "Perceived Cultural Influences on Generativity Identified by Childless Women."
- Kishimoto, Kyoko. "Race and History Wars in the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japanese Media."
- Lawler, W. Stewart. "The Power of Performance and the Performance of Power: A Master/Mistress Trope for Black Cultural Difference in the African Diaspora."
- Lee, Sang-Dawn. "Big Brother, Little Brother: The Influence on Korean Culture in the Lyndon B. Johnson Years."
- Ostherr, Kirsten. "Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Audiovisual Discourse of World Health."
- Reed, Maureen. "Homesickness: Untold Stories of New Mexican Women and Multiculturalism, 1930-1965."
- Rose, Janet S. "‘And Ears Don’t Count:‘ Body Piercing in America and Other Variations on the Theme of Belonging."
- Sachs, Andrea Jule. "The Politics of Peverty; Race, Class, Motherhood, and the National Welfare Righs Organization, 1965-1975."
- Selch, Frederick R. "Instrumental Accompaniments for Yankee Hymn Tunes: An Investigation of the Evidence."
- Simonsen, Jane. "Making Home Work: Race, Gender, and the Uses of American Domestic Space, 1850-1920."
- Sissoko, Moussa. "The Impact of the Peace Corps Experience on Returned Volunteers: A Case Study of Peace Corps Mali Returned Volunteers."
- Thomas, Karin. "Traveling Eyes: African American Travelers Create a World, 1789-1930."
- Thompson, Shirley E. "The Passing of a People: Creoles of Color in Mid-Nineteenth Century New Orleans."
- Tolentino, Cynthia. "The Liberal, The Sociologist, and the Novelist: Narratives of Race and National Development in African American and Asian American Fiction of the 1940's."
June, 2001
- Barry, Teresa Trupiano. "Rhetorics of Representation: Race, Gender, and Intermarriage in the Frontier Fiction of Ann S. Stephens, 1838-1865."
- Brophy, Alfred L. "The Intersection of Property and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought: From Missouri Compromise Through Civil War."
- Harper, Christine Froechtenigt. "The Water Wizard: John F. Wixford and the Purification of the St. Louis Water Supply in 1904."
- Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925."
- Kruger, Mark H. "The Influence of the 1960s Values of Individualism, Anti-Materialism, and Community on a Contemporary Intentional Community."
- Streamas, John. "Japanese Americans and Cultures of Relocation."
- Valandra, Charles. "The Lakota Response to Public Law 83-280: 1950-1959."
July, 2001
- Boyd, Elizabeth B. "Southern Beauty: Performing Femininity in an American Region."
- Wiseman, Michael. "Rising on the Levee: Stories After The Flood and The Construction Of Place."
August, 2001
- Dacey-Groth, Camilla. "Slaves of Fiction: Coming to Terms with the American Holocaust through Representation of Slavery in Post-Civil-Rights Fiction and Film."
- Dougan, John. "Two Steps from the Blues: Creating Discourse and Constructing Canons in Blues Criticism."
- Dvorak, Kenneth R. "Terror in Detroit: The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Black Legion."
- Groner, Rachael E. "Melancholy Subjects: Citizenship, Affect, and Publicity in Contemporary American Culture."
- Newman, Megan Haley. "The Vermin Killers: Pest Control in the Early Chesapeake."
- Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. "Breaking Laws of Origin: Resistance, Hurt, and Containment in Post-1994 Vietnamese American Literature."
- Ramirez, Horacio Nelson Roque. "Communities of Desire: Queer Latina/Latino History and Memory, San Francisco Bay Area, 1960s-1990s."
- Rodriguez, Julio. "Whiting Up: Negotiating Color and Masculinity in the Black Athlete."
- Seigel, Micol. "The Point of Comparison: Transnational Racial Construction, Brazil and the United States."
- Sharer, Jean. "Hildreth Meiere, American Muralist."
- Vuckovic, Marie. "Onward Ever, Backward Never: Student Life and Students' Lives at Haskell Institute, 1884-1920s."
- Wilkinson, Michelle Joan. "In the Tradition of Revolution: The Socio-Aesthetics of Black and Puerto Rican Arts Movements, 1962-1982."
September, 2001
- Baldwin, Davarian L. "Chicago's New Negroes: Race, Class and Respectability in the Midwestern Black Metropolis, 1915-1935."
- Devlin, Athena. "Between Profits and Primitivism: Rehabilitating White Middle-Class Manhood in America, 1880-1917."
- Robinson, Angelo D. "I’m Not the Boy for You: Images of African American Male Homosexuality."
October, 2001
- Entin, Joseph Bruce. "Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic Astonishment."
- Greenfield, Briann G. "Old New England in the Twentieth-Century Imagination: Public Memory in Salem, Deerfield, Providence, and the Smithsonian Institution."
- Noon, David. "This is (Not) a Child: Race, Gender and 'Development' in the Child Sciences, 1880-1910."
November, 2001
- Walker, Corey D. B. "The Freemasonry of the Race: The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia."
- Basso, Matthew. "Metal of Honor: Montana's World War II Homefront, Movies, and the Social Politics of White Male Anxiety."
- Osburn, Debra Pozega. "Women in Transitional Times: The Untold Stories of Working Women in the 1950s."
December, 2001
- Caldwell, Kimberly M. "From Africatown (Alabama) to 'Out Stickney;' Reminiscences of a Toledo, Ohio African-American Community, 1919-1960."
- Korr, Jeremy L. "Washington's Main Street: Consensus and Conflict on the Capital Beltway, 1952-2001."
- Baker, Laura. "Capitalism Beautiful and Consumer Democracy: Civic Ideals, Mass Culture, and the Public in Chicago, 1900-1925."
- Chang, Michael. "Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship: The 'Asian Donorgate' Controversy in Perspective."
- Drew, Bettina. "Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery."
- Ezra, Michael. "Muhammad Ali's Main Bout: Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1967."
- Menon, Srdevi. "Discursive Realms and Colonial Practice: Contrapuntal Studies of Race in Colonial India and the United States."
- Perkinson, Robert. "The Birth of the Texas Prison Empire, 1865-1915."
- Rhodes, Lisa Louise. "Groupies, Girls, and Chicks: Articles On Women Musicians and Fans in Rolling Stone and Selected Other Mainstream Magazines, 1967-1972."
- Veselits, Karen Rose. "Prologue to a Life: Dorothy West's Harlem Renaissance Years, 1926-1934."
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