Register
Register here for the annual meeting and to begin or renew an ASA membership
Register here to submit a proposal through the ASA's 2012 submission site.
Register here for JHU Press and ASA membership services, including online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online.Register here to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.
Click here for membership FAQ's
Events
Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
Oct. 1 | Travel Grants for Graduate Students
For submission guidelines, click here
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
Padget, Martin. "Cultural Geographies: Travel Writing in the Southwest, 1869-1897," Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, February 1993. Advisor: Michael Davisdon/Nicole Tonkovich (9, 16, 6)
This dissertation provides a critical understanding of Anglo-American travel writing as it was used as a primary means of making sense of the U.S. conquest of the Southwest in the late nineteenth century. Taking the region as a meeting ground of diverse cultures, the study asks: How did Anglo-American narratives of exploration and travel, as well as novels and more “scientific” ethnological studies of indigenous peoples, construct the cultural geography of the Southwest? The dissertation examines the hierarchies of cultural value created in travel writing through writers’ perceptions of race, class, gender, nationality, and ethnicity in the region. Individual chapters are on John Wesley Powell, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Charles Fletcher Lummis.
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]