CHAIR:
Curtis Marez, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Shelley Streeby, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
The "Mechanic Accents" of Empire: Labor, Race, and the Culture of SensationRosaura Sánchez, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
The Land Act of 1851 as the Handmaiden of Manifest DestinyBeatrice Pita, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
Ruiz de Burton's Questioning of Manifest Destiny
COMMENT:
Curtis Marez
CHAIR:
Joy James, Department of Africana Studies, Brown University
PAPERS:
Sora Han, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Veiled ThreatsDylan Rodríguez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
State Terror and the Limits/Possibilities of Absolute Conflict: Waging Wars Through and Beyond Prison SpaceAndrea Smith, Program in Native American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Safety at Home? Gender Violence and the State
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Alicia Arrizon, Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Anthea Kraut, Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute
Between Primitivism and Diaspora: Choreography and Geography in the Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine DunhamStephanie L. Batiste, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
The Devil's Daughter: Sisterhood, Voodoo, and the Ambivalence of Black DiasporaBeth Berila, Department of English, Syracuse University
"What Do You Expect From a Bunch a' Cowboys?": Queerness and Western Identity in The Laramie Project
COMMENT:
Alicia Arrizon
CHAIR:Lisa Dresdner, Department of English, Norwalk Community CollegePAPERS:
COMMENT:Ronda C. Henry, Department of English, DePauw University
Darkwater and Dark Princess: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Gendered Politics of Pan-AfricanismDanielle Glassmeyer, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago
"Maternity" and Nation-Building in The Quiet American and The Ugly AmericanJessica Livingston, Department of English, University of Florida
Murder in Juarez: Gender, Violence, and the Global Assembly LineLisa Dresdner
CHAIR:Gordon Hutner, Department of English, University of KentuckyPAPERS:Frederick Wegener, Department of English, California State University, Long BeachCOMMENT:
Anna McClure Sholl, The "College Novel," and the Specter of the Corporate University in AmericaLisi Schoenbach, Department of English, University of Virginia
Law, Literature, and Modernity: Holmes, James, and the Invention of the DisciplinesCharles Sheaffer, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
The Death of the Frontier and the Birth of the Digital HumanitiesGordon Hutner
CHAIR:Stephen Germic, Department of English, James Madison UniversityPAPERS:Seo-Young Jennie Chu, Department of English, Harvard UniversityCOMMENT:
The League of Nations and "An Americanized Planet"Patricia Perea, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Unraveling America: Almanac of the Dead, Empire, and the Fear of RevolutionMolly Wallace, Department of English, University of Washington
An Environmental History of the Future: Terraforming or Ameri-forming?Stephen Germic
CHAIR:TBAPAPERS:Laura Browder, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityCOMMENT:
A Better Lover, A Better Soldier: Loreta Velazquez's Civil War Autobiography and the Construction of Armed WomanhoodYvonne Keller, Women's Studies Program, Miami University
"Redefining the Conditions of Vision": The Cultural Work of Experimental U.S. Lesbian Fiction of the 1970sVictoria J. Hesford, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
A Queer Feminism: Reading Kate Millett's Autobiography, FlyingTBA
CHAIR:Marcy Newman, English Department, Boise State UniversityPAPERS:Minh-Ha T. Pham, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, BerkeleyCOMMENT:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Multicultural Breakthrough or Breakdown?Csaba Toth, Department of History, Carlow College
Sonic Rim: Performing Noise around Asia-PacificCristin McVey, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
The "Homeboy Cosmopolitan" as Transnational Interloper: Vision, Mobility, and Imagination in the African DiasporaMarcy Newman
CHAIR:Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary, Department of History, California State University, Monterey BayPAPERS:Diem-My Bui, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignCOMMENT:
From Murder to Freedom: Freedom and Democracy Narratives in the Vietnamese American CommunityMatt Lasner, Department of Urban Plannning and Design, Harvard Design School, Harvard
Something to Rally For: The Struggle to Preserve the Working-Class City in the Time of the Vietnam ConflictNatasha Zaretsky, Department of History, Southern Illinois University
"America's Longest Held POW: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Memoirs of Everett Alvarez, Jr.Cecelia Elizabeth O'Leary
CHAIR:Norman Yetman, Department of American Studies, University of KansasPAPERS:Alexandra Weathers Smith, Department of History, University of California, BerkeleyCOMMENT:
Yiddish Theatre Audiences: Local Community and Urban Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century New YorkMiglena Todorova, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
"I Know It From the Movies!": Film and Whiteness Across National Borders and EthnicitiesRobert M. Zecker, Department of History, Saint Francis Xavier University
"All I Ever Knew of Europe Was America": Slovak Migrants Transnational Community, 1890-1926Libby Garland, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
"Lower Than Al Capone's Gangsters": Jewish Smugglers of Jewish Aliens into the United States During the Interwar YearsNorman Yetman
CHAIR:Jessica Nathanson, Department of American Studies, State University of New York, BuffaloPANELISTS:Greg Dimitriadis, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, State University of New York, BuffaloCOMMENT:Carla Kaplan, Department of English, University of Southern California
Joanne Meyerowitz, Department of History, Indiana University
Cindy Mills, American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Robert Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Nancy A. Hewitt, Department of History, Rutgers University
Robert Townsend, Publications, Information Systems, and Research, American Historical Association
Audience
CHAIR:Cris Mayo, College of Education, University of DelawarePAPERS:James Polchin, American Studies Program, New York UniversityCOMMENT:
"Give Me Something Dirty": Queer Readers in the 1930sStephanie Foote, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Odd Girl Out Again: Republishing as the Making of 'Our' Lesbian PastJ. Todd Ormsbee, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas
"For Those in Our Community": Discursive Strategies of Community Building in Gay Publications,
1960s San FranciscoAudience
CHAIR:Carl Smith, Departments of English and American Studies, Northwestern UniversityPAPERS:Adam Sweeting, Department of Humanities, Boston UniversityCOMMENT:
The "Autumnal Remitting Fever": Medicine, Indian Summer, and the Late Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Fear of Warm WeatherMegan Kate Nelson, History and Literature Department, Harvard University
Miasma: Physicians, Swamplands, and the Discourse of Disease in Southern Culture, 1800-1880Andrew Curtis and John M. Anderson, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Animating and Spatially Analyzing the New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878Paul Kelton, Department of History, University of Kansas
CHAIR:Paul Jerome Croce, American Studies Department, Stetson UniversityPANELISTS:Candy Gunther Brown, Department of American Studies, St. Louis UniversityCOMMENT:Danielle Brune, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
John Corrigan, Department of Religion and Department of History, Florida State University
Matthew Hedstrom, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Sharon M. Leon, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Audience
CHAIR:Milette Shamir, Department of English, Tel Aviv UniversityPAPERS:Timothy Marr, Curriculum in American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillCOMMENT:
Antebellum American Aspirations and the Turkish "Empire of Sin": Protestants and the Problem of Ottoman Ascendancy in the Holy LandHilton Obenzinger, Department of English, Stanford University
Holy Land Travel and the American Covenant: Nineteenth-Century Palestine in the Settler-Colonial ImaginationYaakov Ariel, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A Holy Land Indeed: Palestine in American Protestant CultureMelani McAlister, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
CHAIR:T. Gregory Garvey, Department of English, State University of New York, BrockportPANELISTS:Dana Heller, Department of English, Old Dominion UniversityCOMMENT:Evgenii Mikolaevich Pashentsev, Faculty of History, Moscow State Pedagogical University
Tatiana Venediktova, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University; Director of American Studies Summer Institute
Audience
CHAIR:Amy Schrager Lang, Center for Continuing Education, Sarah Lawrence CollegePAPERS:Rosanne Currarino, Department of History, Queen's UniversityCOMMENT:
The Consumer-Citizen and the Limits of LiberalismPatrick Wehner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Intellectual Outsourcing: Cultural Studies and the "Postmodern Turn" in MarketingCecelia Tichi, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Muckrakers: The Production Side of Consumer CultureAudience
CHAIR:Roger Hatridge, Department of English, North Kansas City High School, North Kansas City, MissouriPANELISTS:Lee Bebout, English Department, Purdue UniversityCOMMENT:Ron Briley, History Department, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque
Deborah Schmalholz, Teacher Coordinator for Professional Growth, School District U-46, Elgin, Illinois
Roger Hatridge
CHAIR:Susan Manning, Departments of English and Theatre, Northwestern UniversityILLUSTRATED PRESENTATION:Valerie A. Briginshaw, Reader in Dance, University College Chichester
PERFORMANCE
COMMENT:Nora Amin, "Islamicizing the unislamixizable!!!"
Susan Manning
CHAIR:Tomás F. Sandoval, Jr., Department of Human Communications, California State University, Monterey BayPAPERS:Cary Cordova, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, AustinCOMMENT:
Latin America Remembered, Imagined, Revisioned: Cutural Production in San Francisco's Mission DistrictJason Ferreira, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Venceremos!: Los Siete de La Raza and Third World Radicalism in San Francisco, 1969-1975Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Music and Mobilization: The Sounds and Rhythms of San Francisco's Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983Tomás F. Sandoval, Jr.
CHAIR:Lee Bernstein, American Studies Program, San Jose State UniversityPAPERS:Christopher Capozzola, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCOMMENT:
The Texas Rangers Between War and Revolution: Volunteer Law Enforcement in Texas, 1912-1920Michael E. Staub, Program in American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
Desegregating New York: Jewish Communal Conflict Over the "Neighborhood School" MovementCarol Mason, Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
White Supremacists and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy: Local Struggle, National Strategy, Global ResurgenceLee Bernstein
CHAIR:Alexis McCrossen, Department of History, Southern Methodist UniversityPAPERS:Lisa D. Schrenk, Division of Architecture and Art, Norwich UniversityCOMMENT:
Little Red Wagons and the Streamlining Extravaganza of the 1930sDavid Burnett, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
From Hitler to Hippies: the Volkswagen Bus Comes to AmericaBen Chappell, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
Lowrider SubjectsAlexis McCrossen
CHAIR:Peter Coviello, Department of English, Bowdoin CollegePAPERS:John Christopher Cunningham, Department of English, Drew UniversityCOMMENT:
Sexual Frustration/Racial Repatriation: The Case of Chester HimesStephen Knadler, Department of English, Spelman College
Re-Mapping the Way Home: Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance's Queer DiasporaRebecca Schreiber, American Studies Program, Columbia University
Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the Politics of FormPeter Coviello
CHAIR:Cynthia H. Tolentino, Department of English, University of Oregon, EugenePAPERS:Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Women's Studies Department, Washington State UniversityCOMMENT:
"So, you are a Mestiza": Exploring the Consequences of Ethnic and Racial Clumping for Latinas in the U.S. AcademyRobert McKee Irwin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University
Why American Studies Needs to Be BilingualCynthia H. Tolentino
CHAIR:Lillian S. Robinson, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia UniversityPAPERS:Hans Bak, Department of American Studies, University of Nijmegen, The NetherlandsCOMMENT:
Between the Local and the Global: Dislocation and Transformation in the Amphibious Fictions of James Welch and Bharati MukherjeeWendy W. Walters, Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College, Boston
History's Dispersals: Caryl Phillips Mines the DiasporaCynthia Franklin, Department of English, University of Hawai'i
Dis-Placing the West and Re-Placing Humanism in Edward Said's Out of PlaceLillian S. Robinson
CHAIR:Silvia Spitta, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Dartmouth CollegePANELISTS:Kenya Dworkin y Méndez, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon UniversityCOMMENT:José Fernández, History Department, University of Central Florida
Erlinda Gonzáles-Berry, Department of Ethnic Studies, Oregon State University
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Dartmouth College
Chuck Tatum, College of Humanities, University of Arizona
Audience
CHAIR:Anne Enke, Department of Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, MadisonPANELISTS:George Chauncey, Department of History, University of ChicagoCOMMENT:Linnea Stenson, Steven J. Schochet Center for GLBT Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Lee Quinby, Division of Humanities, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Audience
CHAIR:Paul Giles, American Literature Program, University of Cambridge, U.K.PANELISTS:Olutayo Charles Adesina, Department of History, University of Ibadan, NigeriaCOMMENT:Thomas Bender, Department of History, New York University
Ana Margheritis, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Kousar Jabeen Azam, Political Science Department, Osmania University, India
Audience
CHAIR:Sherry Ortner, Department of Anthropology, Columbia UniversityPAPERS:George Marcus, Department of Anthropology, Rice UniversityCOMMENT:
Ethnography In and On America: Aspects of a Debate Divided Along the Lines of Anthropological and Sociological TraditionsNicholas De Genova, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Racialized Mexican Trans-nationality, Chicanos, and "American" AbjectionSandhya Shukla, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Cross-Cultures of the Local and Global in Twentieth Century HarlemAndrew Ross, Program in American Studies, New York University
CHAIR:Eric Gary Anderson, Department of English, Oklahoma State UniversityPAPERS:Lauren Stuart Muller, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
"Moving Towards Home": Naming Alliances Across Tough Distances in the Poetry of Joy Harjo and June JordanSharon Delmendo, Department of English, St. John Fisher College
"Truly Brother and Sister Now": Recuperation of the Indio/Indian Postcolonial DynamicCOMMENT:
Audience
10:00-11:45
Befriending Sailors, Blinding Woodard, Posting Seberg (EXHIBIT)
Kendall S. Natvig, Language Arts Department, Iowa Central Community College
Jean Seberg: 50's Icon--National and InternationalAndrew H. Myers, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg
Resonant Ripples in a Global Pond: The Blinding of Issaac WoodardJosie Fowler, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Of "Orientals" in America and "Red Seamen in Asia": Advancing the Cause of Revolution from the Harbors and Ships of the World
CHAIR:Bárbara Reyes, Department of History, University of New MexicoPAPERS:Adriana Estill, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New MexicoCOMMENT:
Lowrider Magazine, Latina Magazine, and Miss Clairol: What's Class Got To Do With It?Susan Marks, Independent Scholar
The Betty MystiqueLinda Heidenreich, Department of Women's Studies, Washington State University
Deconstructing Betty: Race, Capital and the Mobilization of Betty Crocker Images in Twentieth-Century AmericaBárbara Reyes
CHAIR:Theresa Meléndez, Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies, Michigan State UniversityPAPERS:Anne M. Martínez, American Studies Program, University of MinnesotaCOMMENT:
Crossing Over: Mexican Labor and the Color Line in 1920s ChicagoTheresa Delgadillo, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Localizing the Transnational: A Look at Two Photographic Collections of Latino/a Life in the MidwestFrances Aparicio, Program in Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Language and Colonialism: Latino/a Linguistic Autobiographies from the MidwestTheresa Mélendez
CHAIR:Peter Bacon Hales, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, ChicagoPAPERS:Joan Saab, Department of American Studies, University of RochesterCOMMENT:
Art and Work on the WPAKate Sampsell, Department of History, Georgetown University
Lewis Hine and "The Moral Equivalent of War": Photography as ToilSharon Ann Musher, Department of History, Columbia University
Painting out the Bottom Third: How Government-Sponsored Artists and Intellectuals Made the Poor into the People During the Great DepressionCarol Quirke-Radja, Department of History, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Bitter Kisses: Visual Narratives of a Sit-down Strike at Hershey Chocolate Corporation, April 1937Ellen Wiley Todd, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
CHAIR:Amy Koritz, Department of English, Tulane UniversityPAPERS:Rebekah J. Kowal, Department of Dance, University of IowaCOMMENT:
Chorographic Opacity in the Early Cold War YearsKaren Backstein, Independent Scholar
Music, Dance, Performance, Politics: The Concert Videos of Ney Matogrosso and Caetano VelosoJanice Ross, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Vanishing Spectators in 1960s Performance and Popular CultureAudience
CHAIR:Meredith Raimondo, Women's Studies Program, California State University, FullertonPAPERS:David L. Moore, Department of English, University of MontanaCOMMENT:
Genders of Resistance: the Homoerotic Warrior in Sherman Alexie and Craig WomackPhilip Tiemeyer, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
American Wet Dream: Sex and Politics in the Ad Campaign of Abercrombie & FitchJason Ruiz, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Slices of Beefcake: Physique Pictorial and the Construction of a Queer Aesthetic, 1951-1969Meredith Raimondo
CHAIR:Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College ParkPAPERS:Tiffany Willoughby Herard, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa BarbaraCOMMENT:
Civilizing Settler Society in South Africa: the Carnegie Commission Study of "Poor Whites" in South Africa, 1927-1932Yuka Tsuchiya, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
The Racial Origin of the U.S. Occupation of Japan: The State Department Postwar Planning
from 1941 to 1945Irem Balkir, Department of American Culture and Literature, Bilkent University, Turkey
Gendering the Cultural Cold War: American 50s and Turkish CultureAlyosha Goldstein, American Studies Program, New York University
Fixing the Local: "Community Development," the Cold War, and the Puerto Rican Social LaboratoryKandice Chuh
CHAIR:Bill Brown, Department of English, University of ChicagoPAPERS:Wendy Katz, Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska, LincolnCOMMENT:
The Truthful Likeness in Seventeenth-Century New EnglandNancy Siegel, Department of Art History, Juniata College
Dishing It Out: Staffordshire Pottery and American Nationalism—A Transatlantic JourneyDennis Raverty, Department of Art and Design, Iowa State University
Locale and Memory in the Recent Work of Siah ArmajaniBill Brown
CHAIR:Jean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of DelawarePAPERS:Mary Caudle Beltran, Department of Radio, Television, and Film, University of Texas, AustinCOMMENT:
The Bronz-ing of Whiteness in Millennial Culture and Hollywood Film: Only the Fast, Furious, and (Multiracial) Can SurviveAndrew F. Sargent, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Buddies at the Border: Policing Aliens, Preserving 'America'Marilyn Yaquinto, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University
Cinema and Cops: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Global GhettoJean Pfaelzer
CHAIR:Robert Bednar, American Studies Program, Southwestern UniversityPAPERS:Esther Romeyn, Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Arizona State UniversityCOMMENT:
Detecting, Acting, and the Construction of WhitenessStephen Young, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Birth in Toyland—A Case Study of Racial AnxietyMary K. Coffey, Program in Museum Studies, New York University
Revolution, Ringworm, and Rivera: Eugenic Nationalism, White Womanhood, and the Crisis of U.S. CapitalismRobert Bednar
CHAIR:Philip G. Terrie, Program in American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State UniversityPAPERS:Anne Baker, Department of English, North Carolina State UniversityCOMMENT:
National Maps and Thoreau's Local GeographyAnne Mikkelsen, University of California, Irvine
Tramping on the Mind: Robert Frost's Politics of ExtravaganceChristine Gerhardt, Department of English and American Studies, University of Dortmund
I See New Englandly: Local Geography and Global Ecology in the Poetry of Emily DickinsonPhilip G. Terrie
CHAIR:Lourdes Alberto, English Department, Rice UniversityPAPERS:Ava Landa, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of HoustonCOMMENT:
Luisa Capetillo: Creating Space for Feminist Ideology and PracticeMilagros López-Peláez Casellas, Department of Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University
Jovita Gonzalez's Dew on the Thorn: A Response to PatriarchyCarolina Villarroel, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
Angelina Elizondo de García Naranjo y Ana Caridad de León Garza. Las voces femeninas en la ideología del "México de afuera"Lourdes Alberto
CHAIR:Gail M. Nomura, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of WashingtonPANELISTS:Rick Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of WashingtonCOMMENT:Shirley Hune, Graduate Division, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Stephen H. Sumida, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Audience
CHAIR:Erin A. Smith, American Studies Program, University of Texas, DallasPANELISTS:Elizabeth Gregory, Women's Studies Program, University of HoustonCOMMENT:Sarah E. Frazer, University Archivist, University of Houston
Carey C. Shuart, Community Volunteer/Activist, Houston
Sally Russ, School of the Woods Montessori School, Houston
Audience
CHAIR:Randy Bass, ASA Crossroads Project, Georgetown UniversityPANELISTS:Bill Bryant, American Studies Department, University of IowaCOMMENT:Rob Nelson, American Studies Department, Rutgers University
Gretchen Schoel, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Tomoko Hamada, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
Judy Babbitts, School of Undergraduate Studies, University of Maryland, University College
Audience
CHAIR:Nancy Mirabal, Department of La Raza Studies, University of California, BerkeleyPAPERS:Adrian Burgos, Jr., Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignCOMMENT:
Playing a Whole Different Game?: "The Latins from Manhattan," Diaspora, and the Politics of Race in HarlemFrank Guridy, Department of History, Wheaton College
"Though Separated By Oceans Deep": Toward a History of the Black Transnational Community in Cuba and the United StatesNicole Stanton, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
"Who Are We? Afro-Americans, Colored People, or Negroes?": The Black Press Debates Racial Terminology, 1890-1920Kidada E. Williams, Department of History, University of Michigan
"Pistols and Guns are the Only Weapons to Stop a Mob": Rethinking African-American Responses to Racial Violence, 1890-1925Nancy Mirabal
CHAIR:Meghan Sweeney, Department of English, State University of New York, BuffaloPAPERS:Robin Bachin, Department of History, University of MiamiCOMMENT:
From City Beautiful to Gateway to the Americas: Assessing the Local and the Global in the Design of the University of MiamiDale Allen Gyure, Department of Architecture, Lawrence Technological University
"Which One Is the Library?": The Evolution of the Library on American College CampusesJane Weiss, Department of English, State University of New York, Old Westbury
Reverse Panopticism in the English DepartmentJonathan Silverman, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
CHAIR:Mark Anthony Neal, Department of English, State University of New York, AlbanyPAPERS:Peter X. Feng, English Department, University of DelawareCOMMENT:
Switch in Time: Count Basie in the 1960sEric Porter, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All Music": George Russell's Avant-Garde VisionKevin Fellezs, Department of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fused and Re-fused: Jazz-Rock of the 1960sMark Anthony Neal
CHAIR:Jacqueline Ellis, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, New Jersey City UniversityPAPERS:Janet Zandy, Department of Language and Literature, Rochester Institute of TechnologyCOMMENT:
"I May Paint Flat, But I Don't Think Flat": Ralph Fasanella, Epic Painter of the Working-ClassDeirdre J. Murphy, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Moralizing Commodity: Defining the Immigrant Working Class Within American Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century ArtDavid Gray, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
The Nation is Labored: Inter-National Class Aesthetics in Work Motivational PostersMichael Frisch, Departments of History and American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo
CHAIR:Danille Taylor-Guthrie, Department of Minority Studies, Indiana University NorthwestFILM:
COMMENT:Barbara Sonneborn, Director
Regret to Inform YouAudience
CHAIR:Nancy Page Fernandez, Interdisciplinary General Education Program, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaPAPERS:Eric M. Drown, Independent ScholarCOMMENT:
Amateur Experimenters in Professionalizing America: Tinkering With Modern Authority in Hugo Gernsback's Radio and Electrics Magazines, 1908-1923James S. Miller, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
White-Collar Excavations: Henry Luce, Information Journalism, and the Invention of Middle-Class FolkloreUma Pimplaskar, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Global Engagements on Glossy Pages: Transnationalism and Consumption in Women's MagazinesMichael H. Epp, Department of English, University of Alberta
National Humors: Circulating Identity in 1890s Elite PeriodicalsNancy Page Fernandez
CHAIR:Deborah Clarke, Department of English, Pennsylvania State UniversityPAPERS:Paul Ching, Program in American Culture, University of MichiganCOMMENT:
"Virile Nerds": Dot-Com MasculinitiesJennifer Tilton, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Dangerous Youth, Late Capitalism, and the Local Contestations Over the Retrenchments of the Neo-Liberal StateSohail Daulatzai, Department of Critical Studies, University of Southern California
Prophets of Rage: 9/11, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Language of the UnheardDeborah Clarke
CHAIR:Susan Smulyan, American Civilization Department, Brown UniversityPAPERS:Naomi Tanabe Uechi, Department of Comparative Literature and American Studies, Indiana UniversityCOMMENT:
Arizona and Japan: Frank Lloyd Wright and Whitman's HegelianismTsuyoshi Ishihara, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Juvenile Delinquents or Democratic Heroes?: The Fate of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in Japanese Juvenile Translations in Postwar Japan, 1945-1950Manako Ogawa, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
The Rescue Home for Geisha Girls: The Foreign Auxilary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan and its Rescue WorkSusan Smulyan
CHAIR:Renée M. Sentilles, Departments of History and American Studies, Case Western Reserve UniversityPAPERS:Jane Haladay and Molly McGlennen, Department of Native American Studies, University of California, DavisCOMMENT:
Seductive "Squaws" and Pugnacious "Princesses": The Transnational Native Identities of E. Pauline Johnson and Mourning DoveMatthew J. Martinez, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Indians Marketing Indians: Photography and Tourism Endeavors Among the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos of New MexicoMartha Viehmann, Sewall Academic Program, University of Colorado
The "Red Man" in the "White City": Native Americans and the World's Columbian ExpositionChristina Gish Berndt, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
American Indians Challenging Stereotypes: A Study of Action Taken During the Early Silent Film EraRenée M. Sentilles
CHAIR:Tony Harkins, Princeton UniversityPAPERS:William Friedman Fagelson, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, AustinCOMMENT:
"Our Poor Phantasy": War Documents and the American Experience of World War IIMarguerite Hoyt, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
The World Needs Nurses: The Local and Global Picture of Nurse Recruiting Posters from World War IIJane Dusselier, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Making Powerful Places from Portable Spaces: Food and Art in Japanese American Concentration CampsTony Harkins
CHAIR:Jonathan Holloway, African American Studies, History, and American Studies, Yale UniversityPAPERS:COMMENT:Benjamin Graves, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Negative Loyalty to the West: Richard Wright in BandungJake Mattox, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Manifest Destiny: In Nicaragua with Martin Delany and William WalkerJonathan Holloway
CHAIR:Joel Huerta, American Studies Department, University of Texas, AustinPAPERS:Lara Walker, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of HoustonCOMMENT:
Teatro de propaganda y visión alternativa de Luisa Capetillo: feminismo, anarquismo y clase obreraWilliam Orchard, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Picturing Culture: Josefina Niggli, Narrative, and the Visual ArtsPeter C. Haney, Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Hijos de la refolufia: Zoot Suit Culture in Mexicana/o Popular Theatre, between Mexico and Southern TexasJoel Huerta
CHAIR:Harvey K. Flad, Department of Geography, Vassar CollegePANELISTS:Joni Adamson, Program in English and Folklore, University of ArizonaCOMMENT:Hazel Barbour, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC), Austin
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine, University of Houston, Downtown
Terrell Dixon, Department of English, University of Houston
Audience
CHAIR:Barbara McCaskill, Department of English, University of GeorgiaPANELISTS:Careda Taylor, Principal, Kenwood Academy High School, Chicago, IllinoisCOMMENTS:Julie M. Browning, Dean for Undergraduate Enrollment, Rice University
Jeanette H. Byrd, Elementary School Teacher, Princeton, New Jersey
Audience
CHAIR:Ellen Gruber Garvey, Department of English, New Jersey City UniversityPAPERS:Dan J. Puckett, Department of History, California Baptist UniversityCOMMENT:
The Struggle Over Hitler, Race, and Democracy in Alabama's Newspapers During World War IIRichard Fine, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
Covering D-Day: World War II War CorrespondentsJohn B. Hench, Collections and Programs, American Antiquarian Society
A D-Day for American Books in Europe: Overseas Editions, Inc., 1944-45Elke van Cassel, Department of American Studies, University of Nijmegen, & Roosevelt Study Center, Middleburg, Netherlands
In Defense of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of The Reporter, a Cold War MagazineEllen Gruber Garvey
CHAIR:AnaLouise Keating, Women's Studies Program, Texas Woman's UniversityPANELISTS:Mary Loving Blanchard, Department of English, New Jersey City UniversityCOMMENT:Ellen M. Gil-Gomez, Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino
Simona J. Hill, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna University
Eliza S. Noh, Institute of American Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Audience
CHAIR:Shirley Thompson, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, AustinPAPERS:Joanna Brooks, Department of English, University of Texas, AustinCOMMENT:
Early Black Literature and the Politics of LocationSharon Holland, Program in African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, &
Tiya Miles, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Seeing Red: Afro-Native Studies as African American StudiesJohn Saillant, Department of History, Western Michigan University
Sources of Abolitionism in the Eighteenth-Century Black AtlanticShirley Thompson
CHAIR:Rafia Zafar Department of English & Program in African & Afro-American Studies, Washington University, St. LouisPAPERS:Patricia R. Schroeder, Department of English, Ursinus CollegeCOMMENT:
Robert Johnson Versus the U.S. Postal ServiceKyle Barnett, Department of Radio, Television, & Film, University of Texas, Austin
The Lomaxes at the Gates of Culture: Authenticity and the Creation of "Folk Music"James C. Davis, Department of English, Nassau Community College
The Black Culture Industry: The Cultural Politics of Race at Boni and LiverightRafia Zafar
CHAIR:Linda J. Borish, Department of History and Women's Studies Program, Western Michigan UniversityPAPERS:John D. Fair, Department of History and Geography, Georgia College and State UniversityCOMMENT:
Mr. and Miss America Contests: A Tale of Contrasting Cultures, 1921-1985Charles Kupfer, American Studies Program, School of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Race of Men: Southern Football as Masculinity Crucible, 1964-1985Jan Todd, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas, Austin
A Patch of Sand that Changed the World: An Illustrated History of Muscle Beach and its Impact on Modern Body IdeologyLinda J. Borish
CHAIR:Diana R. Paulin, Department of English & American Studies Program, Yale UniversityPAPERS:John M. Ison, Department of English, Fullerton CollegeCOMMENT:
Maidie Knows Best: Race, Gothic, and Hollywood Personae in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Lisa B. Thompson, Department of English, State University of New York, Albany
Reclaiming the American South: Independent Film and Black Female DesireEve Allegra Raimon, Arts and Humanities Program, University of Southern Maine
Making Up Mammy: Representing Historical Erasure and Confounding Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon WomanDiana Paulin
CHAIR:Michael Stancliff, Department of English, Arizona State UniversityPAPERS:Cynthia Wu, Department of English, Macalester CollegeCOMMENT:
A "Yeller-Bellied Jap" Coulda Meant Me Too: African American Responses to the Japanese American InternmentRobin L. E. Hemenway, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
"No Large Sense of Citizenly Motives": Race, Domestic Disorder, and Citizenship in America, 1860-1920Alice Rutkowski, Department of English, University of Virginia
Sacrifice and Citizenship: Representations of African-American Soldiers in the Civil WarEdward J. Blum, Department of History, University of Kentucky
"His Work is Done. Ours is Yet Unfinished": Religion, Race, and American National Identity After Lincoln's AssassinationMichael Stancliff
CHAIR:Raul Fernandez, School of Social Sciences, University of California, IrvinePAPERS:Rod Hernandez, Department of English, University of California, Los AngelesCOMMENT:
The Local/Global Dialectic in Pocho-Che/Third World CommunicationsPatricia Kim-Rajal, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Mirando desde el otro lado/Watching From the Other Side: San Francisco Bay Area Latinas and Transnational TelenovelasMurray Forman, Department of Communication, Northeastern University
Maracas, Congas, and Castanets: Televised Musical Performance and the Representation of the "Hispanic Other," 1948-1955Raul Fernandez
CHAIR:Jennifer Gonzalez, Department of Art History, University of California, Santa CruzPAPERS:Rich Heyman, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, MorrisCOMMENT:
Daniel Burnham, Colonial Administration and the Professionalization of American City PlanningBonnie Goldenberg, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Visualizing the Filipino Other in the American PressDavid Brody, Department of Art, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Charles Longfellow's Orientalism: On Collecting Asian Photographs and Tattoos in Nineteenth-Century AmericaJennifer Gonzalez
CHAIR:Marguerite S. Shaffer, Department of History & American Studies Program, Miami UniversityPAPERS:Joe Swora, Program in American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State UniversityCOMMENT:
Still Laying the Smack Down: Racial Prejudices, Stereotypes, and Professional WrestlingC. L. Cole, Program for Studies on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Performing Democracy: Sex, Sport, and American IdentityCarlo Rotella, Department of English & American Studies Program, Boston College
The Running Fighter: Local Heroes, National Narratives, and Global Forces in BoxingJohn Dudley, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Southern Arkansas University
"Hit the Line Hard!": One Century of Spectator Sports and American ImperialismMarguerite S. Shaffer
CHAIR:James J. Farrell, Professor of History and American Studies, St. Olaf CollegePAPERS:Clinton R. Starr, Department of History, University of Texas-AustinCOMMENT:
Identifying Bohemia: The Beat Generation and the Politics of Community in North BeachJoanna Levin, Stanford University
"I'd Rather Live in Bohemia Than Any Other Land": Nation, Trans-Nation and La Vie BohemeFrancesca Sawaya, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
Volitionless Cosmopolitanism: New York in Howells and CahanJames J. Farrell
CHAIR:John-Michael Rivera, Department of English, University of Colorado, BoulderPANELISTS:Antonia Castañeda, Department of History, St. Mary's UniversityCOMMENT:Clara Lomas, Department of Romance Languages, The Colorado College
Jerry Poyo, Department of History, St. Mary's University
Antonio Saborit, Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, D. F.
Audience
CHAIR:Barry Shank, Comparative Studies Department, Ohio State UniversityPANELISTS:Catherine C. Griffin, California Indian Legal ServicesCOMMENT:Alice Y. Hom, Intercultural Community Center, Occidental College
Earl Lewis, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
Clement A. Price, Institute of Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers University
Audience
CHAIR:David Montejano, Department of History, University of Texas, AustinPAPERS:Luis Alvarez, Department of History, University of HoustonCOMMENT:
Of Pachucos, Hep Cats, and Social Horizons: Masculine Bodies, the Zoot Suit, and Dignity in World War IIBill Bush, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Talking Back to the Experts: Juvies in Civil Rights-Era TexasVicki Mayer, Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis
The Spice Girls in Cowboy Hats: Making Tejano Teen MusicSonia Saldivar Hull, Department of English, University of Texas, San Antonio
CHAIR:Catharine O'Connell, Dean of Academic Affairs, Cabrini CollegePAPERS:Charlie McCormick, Department of English and Communications, Cabrini CollegeCOMMENT:
Why Coming of Age is a Compelling Idea in Theory But A Scary Way to Teach a CourseSeth Frechie, Department of English and Communications, Cabrini College
Writing Identity: The Rhetoric of Coming-of-AgeAmy DeBlasis, Adjunct Faculty, Cabrini College
The Use of Primary Evidence and Outside Experts in a Coming-of-Age Course: Reflections from the Outside ExpertLeonard Norman Primiano, Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College
Coming-of-Age for a Generation of Seekers: The Place of Spirituality and Religion in a First-Year CourseNancy Lesko, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University
CHAIR:Riv-Ellen Prell, Department of American Studies, University of MinnesotaPAPERS:Eric L. Goldstein, Department of History, Emory UniversityCOMMENT:
Racial Conformity and Transgression in American Jewish Youth Culture, 1920s to 1940sLeslie Fishbein, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
So Jewish, Too Jewish, Not Jewish: The Intersecting Axes of Identity of Jewish American Women in the Public SphereHasia R. Diner, Department of History, New York University
A Farewell to Ethnicity: American Jewish History and the AcademyRiv-Ellen Prell