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
Kusnerz, Peggy Ann. "Picturing the Past: Photographs at the Library of Congress, 1865-1954," Department of Communications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 1992. Advisor: Marion Marzolf (History of Photography, History of Public Institutions, 2)
The subject of this dissertation is the acquisition and status of photographs at the Library of Congress from 1865 to 1954. The origins of the photography collection, assembled in the late nineteenth-century through the mechanism of copyright deposit, and the status photographs in the Division of Prints (established 1897), and the Division of Fine Arts (established 1929), are reviewed. The dissertation is a study of organizational change. It examines the external and internal circumstances which motivated the Library to redefine its purpose and to redirect its efforts regarding photography. Examining the fortunes of the photography collections at the Library of Congress provides a window into the role that libraries and librarians play in constructing the visual memory of a culture. The preservation of the photographic heritage is found, in this case study, to be the result of forces in society and the power of an interested individual, intersecting within an organization, the national library.
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]