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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Aamodt, Terrie Dopp. "Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptical Imagery and the Civil War."
Abrahamson, David. "The Rise of the Special Interest Magazine in 'the Other 1960s': An Economic and Sociocultural History."
Achode, Codje. "The Negro Renaissance from America Back to Africa: A Study of the Harlem Renaissance as a Black African Movement."
Ackermann, Marsha E. "Cold Comfort: The Air Conditioning of America."
Adelt, Ulrich . "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s."
Adelt, Ulrich. "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 1960s."
Alaimo, Stacy. "Cartographies of Undomesticated Ground: Nature and Feminism in American Women's Fiction and Theory."
Alcocer-Berriozabal, Mary. "The Structure and Development of the American Expatriate Community in Mexico City Since World War II."
Aleiss, Angela M. "From Adversaries to Allies: The American Indian in Hollywood Films, 1930-1950."
Alexander, Eleanor. "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore; A Social History of Love, Sex and the African-American Elite, 1870-1910."
Alexander, Ilene. "Learning in Other Ways: A History of Feminist Pedagogy in the U.S."
Alexander, Lisa. "Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality up to Bat: Intersectionality and Power in Major League Baseball, 1995 - 2005 ."
Allen, Gloria Seaman. "Threads of Bondage: Chesapeake Slave Women and Plantation Cloth Production, 1750-1850."
Alsaeed, Ibrahim H. "The Origin and Meaning of America's Special Relationship With Israel."
Alvarez, Sally M. "Reclaiming the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Access Cable Television Programming by the U.S. Labor Movement."
Ambler, Cathy. "The Look of the Fair: Kansas County Fairscapes, 1854-1994."
Ambrose, Andrew M. "Redrawing the Color Line: The History and Patterns of Black Housing in Atlanta, 1940-1973."
Anderson, Crystal S. "'Far From Everybody's Everything': Literary Tricksters in African American and Chinese American Novels."
Anderson, Elizabeth S. "Pirating Feminisms: Film and the Production of Post-War Canadian National Identity."
Anderson, Robert L. "Voices of Steel: New Left and Worker Resistance to Steel Industry Restructuring, Western Pennsylvania, 1979-1986."
Andreasen, Bryon C. "'As Good A Right to Pray': Copperhead Christians on the Northern Civil War Home Front."
Andrews, Doris Elisabett. "Popular Religion and the Revolution in the Middle Atlantic Ports: The Rise of the Methodists."
Annus, Iren. "The Constitution of Mormon Identity."
Applegate, Deborah Mari. "The Culture of the Novel and the Consolidation of Middle-Class Consciousness: Henry Ward Beecher and the Uses of Sympathy, 1830-1880."
Archuleta, Micki. "A Covenant of Struggle: Constitutional Discourse and Ideological Debate in Antebellum America."
Arjet, Robert. "Gunplay: Men, Guns, and Action Films in the United States."
Arnold-Lowrie, Christine M. "A Punishment for my Pride: The Hamiltons of Port Tobacco, Maryland, 1860-1900."
Ash, Patricia B. "Quest for Harmony: Religion in the Origin of the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement."
Ashe, Bertram D. "From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction."
Atwood, Paul L. "The United States and Costa Rica, 1945-1960: The Containment of Liberal Nationalism."
Augspurger, Michael. "An Economy of Abundant Beauty: Fortune and the Culture of Corporate Liberalism."
Augst, Thomas. "Making Society Out of Books: Character, Self-Fashioning, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century America."
Austin, Joe. "Taking the Train: Youth Culture, Urban Crisis, and the "Graffiti Problem" in New York City, 1970-1990."
Austin, John Peter Nathaniel. "The Literary Compilation in Antebellum America: 1820-1850."
Avery, Anthony P. "Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene."
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