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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Donath, Jackie R. "Design as Mass Communication: An Iconological Case Study of the Work of Charles and Ray Eames," Bowling Green State University, August 1986.
This generally chronological examination of the products of two preeminent American designers of the postwer period combines an expanded definition of mass media and elements of material culture and iconological research to develop a coherent approach to a wide variety of communication acts and artifacts as messages to and about American culture.
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