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
Koppelman, Nancy. "One for the Road: Mobility in American Life, 1787-1985," Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, August 1999.
American Society is often characterized as socially and economically “mobile.” Used in this way, “mobility” is a metaphor. This dissertation traces the metaphor’s origins from the culture of physical movement, and follows it into the twentieth century, when it becomes commonplace among American social scientists and in everyday speech. This study also shows how techniques and technologies of individual movement - shoes, horses, human propelled vehicles (bicycles), and automobiles, respectively - became symbols for a range of moral possibilities associated with “mobility.” The conclusion is an in-depth case study of one moral problem - drinking - and traces its material intersections with physical movement over the entire scope of the study. The effort is to demonstrate that material relationships influence the construction of moral problems. The exploration offers a way to understand an unusually wide sweep of American experience without sacrificing a critical posture toward the universalizing impulse that produced and perpetuates the metaphor, while simultaneously acknowledging its real presence and power.
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]