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
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. "San Francisco Was a Wide Open Town: Charting the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Communities through the Mid-Twentieth Century," Department of American Civilization, Brown University, May 1995.
Through the 1950s San Francisco’s homosexual communities articulated an agenda and pursued distinct cultural and political strategies long before similar movements took shape in other cities. Homophile movements, bar communities, and gay and lesbian entrepreneurs organized coordinated efforts that brought the concerns of San Francisco’s lesbian and gay communities and the concept of homosexual civil rights into the public eye. At the same time, internal conflicts emerged within queer communities over organizational strategy and public representation. The internal conflicts enabled new levels of political organizing to emerge even while it divided communities into increasingly distinct factions. Through oral history transcripts, homophile movement publications, and rare archival materials, this dissertation documents a phase in the growth of San Francisco’s lesbian and gay communities in that it traces their evolution and historicizes the convergence of increasingly distinct cultural and political movements.
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]