SPEAKER:
- Nell Irvin Painter, Department of History, Princeton University
Why Is There No Women's Studies In France?
Coffee, tea, and juice will be offered gratis to graduate students courtesy of the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Studies Association and the American Studies programs at Brown University, California State University, Fullerton, the College of William and Mary, the George Washington University, New York University, the University of Iowa, the University of Kansas, the University of Minnesota, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Texas. Muffins, bagels, and the like will be available for purchase.
CHAIR:
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, American Studies Program, University of Texas
PANELISTS:
- Niko Pfund, Editor-in-Chief, New York University Press
- T. Susan Chang, Humanities Editor, Oxford University Press
- Leslie Mitchner, Editor-in-Chief, Rutgers University Press
- David Katzman, Editor, American Studies
- Barry Shank, Book Review Editor, American Quarterly
COMMENT:
- The Audience
The Students' Committee of the American Studies Association presents a workshop which explores how graduate students in American Studies and related fields can access the world of academic publishing. This workshop will offer graduate students the opportunity to hear from individuals who are employed by university presses and scholarly journals. This panel will answer questions and offer insight into the mechanics of getting an article or book review published. The impetus for proposing this workshop arises from the need to increase the professional development component for students within the ASA.
CHAIR:
- Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
PAPERS:
- Jeffrey Melnick, American Studies Program, Trinity College
"Corner Boys": The Exposed Sites of Doo Wop Music
- Reebee Garofalo, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Latin Musical Contributions to Rock 'n' Roll
- James Smethurst, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
"How I Got to Memphis": Migration, Urbanization and the Blues
- Rachel Rubin, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Sing Me Back Home": Bakersfield, Nostalgia and Modern Country Music
COMMENT:
- Deborah Pacini Hernandez
CHAIR:
- Winifred Breines, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University
PAPERS:
- Anne Enke, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Women's Movement, Sexuality, and Public Geographies, Minneapolis, St. Paul 19701980
- Alexandra Chasin, Department of English, Boston College
Boycotts Will Be Boycotts: Questioning Consumption as a Social Change Strategy in the Gay and Lesbian Movement
- Sharon Davidson, Department of English, York University
When Going Public Means Being a Criminal: Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada
COMMENT:
- Winifred Breines
CHAIR:
- Nancy Schnog, Overseas Program, Tel Aviv University
PAPERS:
- Gustavus Stadler, Department of English, Haverford College
Fanny Fern's Public Grammar of Sensation
- Julia Stern, Department of English, Northwestern University
Publicizing Appetite in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
- Timothy Spears, Department of American Literature and Civilization, Middlebury College
Revisiting Nostalgia
COMMENTS:
- Nancy Schnog
CHAIR:
- Charlotte Cohen, Percent for Art Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York
PAPERS:
- Peter Bacon Hales, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago
Public Arts in Public Places: Contests and Spectacles in Block 37
- John Dorst, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
Public Culture, Preservation and the Public Good: A Case Study From Wyoming
- Leslie Prosterman, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Public Forum on the Mall: Symbolic Drama and the Public Good
COMMENTS:
- Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
- Charlotte Cohen
CHAIR:
- Eric Smoodin, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
- Louise Barnett, Department of English, Rutgers University
Custer Movies for a Nation at War: Cinema and the Making of Public History
- Alan Nadel, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
JFK Redux: Clint Eastwood and the Closing of the "New Frontier"
- Jodi Dean, Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Space Programs: Cyborgean Astronauts, Citizen Spectators, and the Shift to the Cyberfrontier
COMMENTS:
- Eric Smoodin
CHAIR:
- John Harley Warner, History of Medicine, Yale University
PAPERS:
- Donna Kessler-Eng, Department of English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Questioning of Medical Authority in Thoreau's Walden and the Water-Cure Journal and Herald of Reforms
- Stephen P. Rice, American Studies Program, Ramapo College of New Jersey
The Continuity Between Neurasthenia and Scientific Management
- Andrea F. Balis, Department of History, Hunter College, City University of New York
Women Consumers or Women Patients: The Effects of Pharmaceutical Regulation on the Relationship Between Doctors and Patients in the United States in the 1930s
COMMENT:
- John Harley Warner
CHAIR:
- Richard Zamoff, Department of Sociology, George Washington University
PANELISTS:
- Arnold Rampersad, Department of English, Columbia University
- Gerald Early, Afro-American Studies Program, Washington University
- Kenneth L. Shropshire, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
COMMENTS:
- Jennifer Frey, Sports Columnist for the Washington Post (Invited)
Jackie Robinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956, is a signal figure in American and African-American culture in this century. Because of the importance of baseball to the nation, the topic of the integration of baseball possesses an inherent intellectual significance not normally associated with sports. Robinson's entry was marked both by his ready acceptance by many white Americans and by displays of hostility that made his early years in the major leagues an ordeal. This panel will explore matters pertaining to the interrelated questions surrounding sports, race, and politics in America, with special reference to Jackie Robinson.
CHAIR:
- Ann Fabian, Independent Scholar, New York
PAPERS:
- Donald Scott, Department of History, New School for Social Research
The Phrenological Moment: Authority and the Epistemologies of Daily Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
- Thomas Augst, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University
The Fate of Eloquence and the Popular Science of Rhetoric
- Lynn Wardley, Department of English, Harvard University
Botanical Feminism on the Expressionist Stage, or "The Training of the Human Plant"
COMMENT:
- Ann Fabian
CHAIR:
- Lois Banner, Department of History, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, American Studies Program, Smith College
Victoria Woodhull and America's First Culture War
- Leslie Fishbein, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
Constructing the Deviant Female Self: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prostitutes and Madams, Their Sense and Sensibility
- Ellen Kay Trimberger, Women's Studies Program, Sonoma State University
From Spinster to Single: Public Image Versus Personal Experience
COMMENT:
- Lois Banner
CHAIR:
- Marianne Hirsch, Department of French, Dartmouth College
PAPERS:
- Nicole Tonkovich, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Public Practice of Private Photography:
Jane Gay's Nez Perce Documentary Photography, 18871900
- Lisa MacFarlane, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Photography and Late-Nineteenth-Century Maine: "The Way Life Should Be"
- Melody Graulich, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Part of the Stories: Family Photographs, History, and Storytelling in Memoirs by Contemporary Western Women Writers
COMMENT:
- Marianne Hirsch
CHAIR:
- Peggy Pascoe, Department of History, University of Oregon
PAPERS:
- Michael Salman, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
The Internationalization of Anti-Slavery Ideology and the Politics of Imperialism: The United States and the Philippines
- Laura Briggs, Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Reforming the "Tropical" Family: The Politics of Development in Puerto Rico, 19491966
- Melani McAlister, American Studies Department, George Washington University
Benevolent Supremacy: The Biblical Epic at the Dawn of the American Century
COMMENT:
- Peggy Pascoe
CHAIR:
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Dance Department, Temple University
PAPERS:
- Dorrie Beam, Department of English, University of Virginia
(Re)Covering the Flower of Black Female Sexuality in Hopkin's Winona
- Laura Behling, Department of English, Kalamazoo College
Publicizing the Private(s): Setting the Sexual Agenda in Modern American Culture
- Tova Perlmutter, Department of History, University of Michigan
When Are Jews White? The Mutual Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identity Through Law
COMMENT:
- Harvard Sitkoff, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
CHAIR:
- Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
- Walter Mignolo, Department of Literature, Duke University
Local Grounding and Theoretical Constructions
- Norma Cantú, Department of English, Texas A&M International University
Navigating Public Discourse: Norma Alarcon's Third Woman Press and the Construction of a Chicana Discourse
- Mary Pat Brady, Department of English, Indiana University
Recursive Ambivalence and Slipping Subjectivity
COMMENT:
- Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University
CHAIR:
- Dianne Ashton, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Rowan University
PAPERS:
- John Smolenski, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Performance and Piety: Gender Conflict and the Problems of Public in Quaker Pennsylvania,
16851750
- Juliette Guilbert, American Studies Program, Yale University
"Sacred Obligations:" Sarah Hale's Public History, 18271863
- Gillian Silverman, Program in Literature, Duke University
"You've Come A Long Way Baby!": Feminism and the Politics of the Right
COMMENT:
- Dianne Ashton
CHAIR:
- Wanda M. Corn, Department of Art, Stanford University
PAPERS:
- Charlotte Wellman, Department of Art, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Charles Sheeler's The Artist Looks at Nature: Picturing the Self in 1940s America
- Terence Diggory, Department of English, Skidmore College
American Abstract: The Place of Marianne Moore and Charles Sheeler in the Criticism of William Carlos Williams
- Elisabeth Joyce, Department of English, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Marianne Moore's Surrealism: "Mystery is a convenient cloak for the unpermissable"
COMMENT:
- Christopher MacGowan, Department of English, The College of William and Mary
CHAIR:
- Gina Dent, Department of English, Princeton University
PAPERS:
- Joshua Miller, Department of English, Columbia University
The Visible and the Voiced: Exilic Narratives of Gayl Jones and John Edgar Wideman
- Shirley Thompson, Department of History, Harvard University
New Orleans' Creoles of Color: Some Problems in the Historiography of Culture
- Wendy S. Walters, Department of English, Cornell University
Neither Engineer or Architect My Brother: Building a Man in Lloyd Brown's Iron City
COMMENTS:
- Gina Dent
This panel will explore questions related to the place of high school teachers in public culture-making and the role the university can/should play in supporting that intellectual work. The panel will share the story of one NEH Summer Institute, "Domesticating the Secondary Canon," and its several follow-up programs for secondary teachers of American literature and American history. It will use the example of this project to suggest possibilities for similar collaborations that can help create a shared public space for culture-making that is simultaneously informed by American Studies scholarship, the situated knowledge of classroom teachers' ongoing pedagogical practice, and public interest/needs/ constraints, as articulated by secondary students, parents, administrators and taxpayers.
CHAIR:
- June Howard, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
- Janet Ray Edwards, Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities
The Work of an N.E.H. Program Officer in the Public Mission of Endowment
- Sandra Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin College
Rethinking Pedagogy as Public Intellectual Work in Community-Making
- Gerri Hajduk and Dave Winter, Wheeler High School, Marietta, Georgia
An American Studies N.E.H. Project's Nurturance of Teachers and the Community
- Sarah Robbins, Department of English, Kennesaw State University
American Studies and the Schoolteacher as Public Intellectual
COMMENTS:
- June Howard
GUIDE:
- Joseph Wood, Department of Geography, George Mason University
GUIDE:
- James Oliver Horton, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
CHAIR:
- Chanta Haywood, Department of English, Florida State University
PAPERS:
- Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Law, Literature, and the Chicano Public Sphere
- Maria Damon, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Crossing Borders: Immigration, Exile, and Ethnic Identity
- Lisa Lowe, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Borders, Immigrant Cultures, Alternative Publics
COMMENT:
- José Saldívar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
CHAIR:
- Kathryn Russell, Department of Criminology, University of Maryland
PANELISTS:
- Jerome Miller, Study of Institutions and Alternatives, Alexandria, Virginia
Search and Destroy: African-American Males and the Criminal Justice System
- Eddie Ellis, President, Community Justice Center, Harlem
Proposing a Moratorium on Prison Construction
- Steven Donziger, Editor, The Real War on Crime
Privatization of Punishment
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- Angela Y. Davis, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz (Invited)
CHAIR:
- Steven Lubar, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
PAPERS:
- Roland Marchand, Department of History, University of California, Davis
In Search of a Consumer Surrogate: Restoring the Circle of Producer-Consumer Communication in the 1920s and 1930s
- Regina Lee Blaszczyk, American Studies Program, Boston University
"Getting the Facts" About American Consumers:
J. Walter Thompson Company Scrutinizes the Market Place
- Shelley Nickles, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Their Purchased Symbols": Household Appliances, Industrial Designers, and the Blue-Collar Consumer in Postwar America
- Carolyn Goldstein, Exhibitions Department, National Building Museum
Do It Yourself: Buying and Selling Home Improvement in Postwar America
COMMENTS:
- Jeffrey L. Meikle, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin
CHAIR:
- Cheryl Walker, Department of English, Scripps College
PAPERS:
- Joel Martin, Department of American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
Colonialism: A Theme for Native/American Studies
- Martha Viehmann, Department of English, University of Denver
Crossing Boundaries: The Study of Native American Literature in the Context of American Studies
COMMENT: Carol Miller, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
- Randel Hanson, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Intellectual Labors Across Boundaries: Working for and Between Academic and Non-Academic Communities
CHAIR:
- Miles Orvell, Department of English, Temple University
PAPERS:
- Alison Piepmeier, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
"I Am a Woman's Rights": Sojourner Truth's Negotiations of Cultural Constraints
- Leigh H. Edwards, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Women in the Rotunda: The Suffragist Statue Controversy and "Public" Representations of Gender
- Suzanne Dietzel, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University
Whose French Quarter is it Anyway? Tourism, Identity, and Race in New Orleans
- Nancy J. Peterson, Department of English, Purdue University
Postmodernism and Holocaust Memory: Productive Tensions in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
COMMENTS:
- Miles Orvell
CHAIR:
- Jane Desmond, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
- Janice Radway, Program in Literature, Duke University
PANELISTS:
- Kathryn Dudley, American Studies Program, Yale University
Where is "the Social" in American Studies?
- Brenda Bright, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Ideas for Ethnography
- Joe Austin, Department of American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
Other Academies?: Ethnography, Networks or Circulation and Intellectual Labor
- Moshe Shokeid, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
Negotiating our Subjects' and Editors' Viewpoints
- Virginia Dominguez, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Appropriate Methodologies and the Romance of Ethnography
COMMENTS:
- Janice Radway
CHAIRS:
- Jean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of Delaware
- Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos, Department of American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
PANELISTS:
- Margara Averbach, Department of English, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Shirley Goek-lin Lim, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Elzbieta H. Olesky, North American Studies Center, University of Lodz, Poland
- Sangeeta Ray, Department of English, University of Maryland
- Titilayo Olufunmilola Ufomata, Department of English, University of Benin, Nigeria
COMMENT:
- Deborah Rosenfelt, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
This panel is an outgrowth of work the ASA Women's Committee initiated last year, a project designed to facilitate communication, exchange, and support among international women scholars in American Studies, especially those interested in women's studies. Panelists for this session will explore the central question: How do feminist thinkers in transnational and national sites beyond the U.S. borders interpret, construct, redefine, appropriate, and interrogate "American feminism(s)" as an object of knowledge? How do transnational feminist practices redefine America as a public space? "Feminism" is often associated in public discourse with certain North American assumptions about, for example, identity, family, community, sexuality, "traditionalism," economic status, and the state. How have these assumptions been modified, challenged, or rejected in locations outside the U.S.? To what extent is American feminism a permeable space; that is, open to other feminisms, other feminists?
MODERATOR:
- Sarah Deutsch, Department of History, Clark University
PANELISTS:
- Shane White, Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia
The Explosion of African American Culture in the Streets of the Early Republic
- David Waldstreicher, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Street and the Origins of American Politics
- Yvette Huginne, American Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Workers and Streets in Company Towns, 18701925
- Eduardo Pagan, Department of History, Williams College
The GeoPolitics of Los Angeles and the Struggles over Space and Territory Among Working-Class Youth in World War II
- Sylvie Murray, Department of History, University College of Fraser Valley
Militant Mothers: Baby-Carriage Parades in the 1950s
- Jane Williams, Department of History, George Mason University
Sit in For Justice: Analyzing the Justice For Janitors Campaign in Washington, D.C.
- Dan Moshenberg, Department of English, George Washington University
Cultural Theory and Community Organizing
COMMENTS:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Michael Bennett, Department of English, Long Island University
PAPERS:
- Adam Sweeting, Division of Humanities, Boston University
Getting There: Transportation and Literary Depictions of Suburbia
- Terrell Dixon, Department of English, University of Houston
Inculcating Wildness: The Movement to Re-Green the Suburbs in Contemporary American Nature Writing
- David Teague, English Parallel Program, University of Delaware
Desegregation and Nature, or White Flight Eats the Countryside
COMMENT:
- Michael P. Branch, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno
CHAIR:
- Jeffrey A. Tucker, Department of English Language and Literature, Ohio University
PAPERS:
- Monica Brown, Department of English, Ohio State University
Delinquent Citizens: La Vida Loca in East L.A
- Bruce Simon, Department of English, Princeton University
Racialism, Race Consciousness, Identity Politics: UnAmerican Activity?
- Jeff Berglund, Department of English, Emory and Henry College
Focus on the (American) Family: Baby-Eating, "Gender Feminism," and the World Conference on Women in Beijing
COMMENTS:
- Jeffrey A. Tucker
CHAIR:
- Patricia Joan Saunders, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
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- Philip Brian Harper, Department of English, New York University
Out on the Street: Legible Identities and Relations of Public Exchange
- José Esteban Mut: , Performance Studies, New York University
Queer Chicanismos: Performative Mappings of "Downtown" in the Work of Luis Alfaro
- Jonathan Flatley, Department of English, University of Virginia
Melancholias of Place and Race
- Deborah E. McDowell, Department of English, University of Virginia
The Power of Sympathy: The Souls of Black Folk
COMMENT:
- Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia
CHAIR:
- Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
- Paul R. Mullins, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University
Racializing Materialism: An Archaeology of African-American Consumption and Whiteness, 18501930
- Kimberly Wallace Sanders, Women's Studies Program, Spelman College
Playing the Part: Black Dolls and Nineteenth Century African-American Material Culture
- Theodore C. Landsmark, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Assessing the Authenticity and Authority of Collections of Nineteenth-Century African American Vernacular Arts and Crafts
- Psyche A. Williams, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Interpreting History through African American Foodways
COMMENT:
- Michael Aaron Rockland, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
CHAIR:
- Jeffrey Belnap, Department of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University, Hawaii Campus
PAPERS:
- Susan Gillman, Literature Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marti's Our America and Du Bois's Pan Africa: The "Race Problem"
- Katherine Kinney, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
The 60's, The Wild Bunch and the Violent Return to Our America
- Raul Fernandez, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
The Recolonization of Latin America by the United States
- Manual de Jesus Valquez Leon, Department of History, University of Holguín, Cuba (Invited)
American Studies in Cuba
COMMENT:
- George Sanchez, Department of History, University of Southern California
CHAIR:
- Dale T. Knobel, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Southwestern University
PAPERS:
- Robert Milder, Department of English, Washington University
Melville: The Historicity of "Blackness"
- Carolyn L. Karcher, Department of English, Temple University
The Civil War Politics of Melville and Child
- Vivian R. Pollak, Department of English, Washington University
Dickinson's Civil War
- Kenneth M. Price, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
"Whitmans" and White Men in Reed's Flight to Canada and Heat Moon's Blue Highways
COMMENTS:
- Dale T. Knobel
CHAIR:
- Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, The American University
PAPERS:
- Melissa J. Homestead, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Public Access or Private Property Rights?: A Historical Perspective on the Public's Right of "Use" in Copyright
- David Sanjek, B.M.I. Archives, New York
"If It's Fixed, Please Break It:" The Collision Between the Fixed Form of Intellectual Property and the Aesthetics of Popular Music
- Siva Vaidhyanathan, American Studies Program, University of Texas
The New Imperialism: The Erosion of Fair Use, Free Expression and Public Discourse through International Copyright
COMMENTS:
- Peter Jaszi
CHAIR:
- Susan Lurie, Department of English, Rice University
PAPERS:
- Steven Classen, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, San Bernardino
Black and White Southern Journalism and Civil Rights: Struggles Over the WLBT-TV Controversy
- Aniko Bodroghkozy, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Studies, University of Alberta
Televising the Movement: Sixties Youth Readings of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and "The Mod Squad"
- Jane Rhodes, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Visualizing the Panthers: Race, Protest, and Television News
- Pamela Wilson, Department of Communication, Robert Morris College
AIMing at the Viewing Public: Television and Native American Radicals, 19721975
COMMENT:
- Susan Lurie
CHAIR:
- Linda Grant De Pauw, Department of History, George Washington University
PAPERS:
- Lisa Norling, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Treason was a Woman: Kezia Coffin and the American Revolution in Nantucket Memory
- Margaret Creighton, Department of History, Bates College
Telling Tales of Wartime: Women in Gettysburg's Public History
- Elizabth H. Tobin, Department of History, Bates College
The Context of Memory: Representations of Women in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
COMMENTS:
- Edward T. Linenthal, Department of Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
This session will examine how a university Education department and a high school English department used technology to develop and present interactive thematic literature units as a means of exploring American culture. Examples will include units on Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. By looking at the establishment and extension of these secondary-university links, the presenters will demonstrate how their experience can be replicated and/or modified.
CHAIR:
- Sara Foose Parrot, Mt. Hebron High School, Ellicott City, Maryland
PANELISTS:
- Nancy Traubitz, English Department, Springbrook High School, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Joanne Langan, English Department, Springbrook High School, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Joan Thompson, Education Department, Catholic University
- Monica Johnson, Education Department, Catholic University
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- The Audience
SPEAKER: Mary Helen Washington, Department of English,
University of Maryland
"Setting It Off": Non-Canonical Texts in the Secondary
Classroom.
A box luncheon will be available for purchase for secondary school
teachers and college faculty interested in issues related to secondary
education and American Studies.
CHAIR:
- Charles Keil, Department of American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo
PAPERS:
- Gena Dagel Caponi, American Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio
Jump for Joy! The Jump Trope in African America, 19371941
- Joel Dinerstein, American Studies Program, University of Texas
Streamlining and Swing Music: The Re-Tooling and Re-Grooving of the American Body, 19341941
- Dallas Clemmons, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
Ozzlin' Daddy Blues: Southwestern Dance Bands, Race, & Performance During the Swing Era
COMMENT:
- Charles Keil
CONVENOR:
- Ruth Rosen, Department of History, University of California, Davis
PANELISTS:
- Wang Zheng, Institute on Women and Gender, Stanford University
- Jirina Siklova, Department of Social Work, Charles University, the Czech Republic
Francesca Miller, Department of History, University of California, Davis, Washington Center, Washington, D.C.
This roundtable will address many of the important subjects inherent in the comparative study of political culture and feminism. Collectively the panelists will explore the historical conditions and political cultures that have produced different kinds of women's movements (including anti-feminist women's movements), different discourses on citizenship, and the obstacles to creating societies that understand why gender justice is precondition for social and economic justice.
CHAIR:
- Jean-Francois Cote, Department of Sociology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
PANELISTS:
- Isidro Morales, Escuala de Ciencias Sociales, Departemento de Relationes Internationales e Historia, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
- Donald Cuccioletta, Department of History, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Edward Griffin, Department of English, University of Minnesota
This workshop takes the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the publication of Joel Garreau's Nine Nations of North America to examine how (or whether) the cultural geography of North America has been reshaped through the North American Free Trade Agreement--NAFTA. The perspective taken by this workshop is self-consciously international, both because Garreau's work is still one of the more widely used texts in American Studies classrooms outside the United States and because other regions of the world--notably the territory defined by the European Union--represent other opportunities to view the coalescing of geography, capital, and cultural styles into areas that transcend and challenge political borders. Some questions asked are: Can North America be viewed through Garreau's popularized geography? How has a change in political and economic relationships been manifested in the cultural dynamics among the three nation states and the culture regions that may or may not conform to national boundaries? Is the Nine Nations of North America still a good introduction to North American land and culture or are we now dealing with new and suspect terrain?
CHAIR:
- Andrea Volpe, Department of History, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
- Lisa Knauer, American Studies Program, New York University
Public Culture and Urban Space in New York, Atlanta, and Bogota
- Michelle Moravec, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Protest, Propaganda, and Provocation: Feminist Art in Public Spaces
- Donna Graves, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California
Inside Out: Public Art and Prisons
COMMENTS:
- Andrea Volpe
CHAIR:
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, American Studies Program, University of Texas
PAPERS:
- Nerissa S. Balce, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Public Images, Emergent Histories: Narrating Empire and Filipino American History
- Jean Vengua Gier, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Incorporating Filipinios into the War Effort: The Bataan Films
- Jim Zwick, Interdisciplinary Social Science Program, Syracuse University
The Contested Public Memory of an American Icon: Mark Twain's Anti-Imperialist Writings
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- James P. Ketterer, Rockefeller College, State University of New York, Albany
PAPERS:
- Timothy Marr, American Studies Program, Yale University
Bloomers and Zouaves: Islamic Orientalism in the Fashioning of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Gender Roles
- Kate Baldwin, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
From Home to Harem: Langston Hughes and Politics of the Veil
- Brian Edwards, American Studies Program, Yale University
Diamond in the Rough: Disney's Magical Islamic Kingdom
COMMENT:
- James P. Ketterer
CHAIR:
- Maggie Sale, Women's Studies Program, Columbia University
PAPERS:
- Seth Clark Silberman, Program of Comparative Literature, University of Maryland
Reading Black Gay Male Visibility: Mapping the "Queer" in African-American Literature
- Marcy Knopf, Department of English, Miami University
Going Public/Going Private: Closeting 1930s Lesbian Sexuality
- Yvonne Keller, History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
Spies and Closets: Subterfuge as Identity in Lesbian Life, 19501965
COMMENT:
- Maggie Sale
CHAIR:
- Gordon Hutner, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
PAPERS:
- Lori Merish, Department of English, Miami University
"We do all this and Against our wishes too": Public Rhetorics of Class, Race, and Gender in the Writings of the New England Factory Girls
- Jean Carwile Masteller, Department of English, Whitman College
The Walla Walla Woman's Reading Club: A Local Club, a National Movement
COMMENT:
- Elaine Orr, Department of English, North Carolina State University
- Gordon Hutner
CHAIR:
- Janet Hutchinson, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
PAPERS:
- Daniel Bluestone, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Highways to History: Public Memory and Private Promotion in Virginia
- Timothy Davis, HABS/HAER, National Park Service
Sorry Ladies This is a Man's Job: Gender, Professionalization, and the Design of Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
- Catherine Gudis, American Studies Program, Yale University
Scenic Sisters and the Arbiters of Taste: Highway Beautification and the Aesthetics of Landscape Reform
COMMENT:
- Janet Hutchinson
CHAIR:
- Jason Young, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
- Cynthia Young, American Studies Program, Yale University
Will the "Real" Intellectuals Please Stand Up?
- Jerry Herron, American Studies Program, Wayne State University
Media, Cultural Studies, and the Making of Intellectual Publicity
- Grant Farred, English Department, Williams College Pugilistic Publicity: Muhammad Ali as Black Public Intellectual
COMMENT:
- Jason Young
CHAIR:
- Roy Rosenzweig, Department of History, George Mason University
PAPERS:
- Ivy Schroeder, Department of Art and Design, Southern Illinois University
Behind Tilted Arc: Minimalism and the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program
- Gregory Sholette, School of Contemporary Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Transformations in the Concept of Site-Specificity: From Tilted Arc to REPOHistory
- Karen Mary Davalos, American Cultures, Loyola Marymount University
Whose Public Space is it Anyway? Latino Expressive Cultural Practices in White Public Space
COMMENT:
- Juanita Marie Holland, Department of Art History, University of Maryland
CHAIR:
- Catherine Lavender, Department of History, The College of Staten Island, City University of New York
PAPERS:
- Cyrus R.K. Patell, Department of English, New York University
Heathen Chinee and Dirty Injuns: A Case Study in Comparative Cultural Emergence
- Deborah L. Williams, Department of English, Iona College
Politics of the Margin: Sisterhood and Authority Among Women Writers
- Christopher F. Packard, Department of Liberal Studies, Parsons School of Design
Queer Cowboys: Some Saddle-Buddies in the "Blood-and-Thunder" Tales
COMMENT:
- Catherine Lavender
CHAIR:
- Melissa Cole, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
- Michael A. Elliott, Department of English, Columbia University
Telling the Difference: Legal Narratives of Racial Taxonomy
- Jo Ann Woodsum, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Of Pastoralism and Pueblos: Nineteenth Century Legal Cases Constructing Pueblos as "Non-Indians"
- Mark Weiner, American Studies Program, Yale University
Teutonic Constitutionalism: Defining Race and Nation in the Spanish-American War
COMMENT:
- Melissa Cole
CHAIR:
- Brett Williams, Department of Anthropology, American University
PAPERS:
- Kelly Quinn, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Helping and Housing Women: A Consideration of Shelters and Temporary Housing for Women in the Washington, DCBaltimore Region
- Rebecca Anne Allahyari, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
From "Dining Rooms" to "Overflow Meals": The Working Arrangements of Feeding the Homeless
- Maribeth DeLorenzo, Social Welfare Program, University of Pennsylvania
American Dreams: Immigrants as First-Time Homebuyers in the Nation's Capital
COMMENT:
- Brett Williams
CHAIR:
- Michele Hilmes, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
PAPERS:
- Jason Loviglio, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Blasting at the Borders: Dr. Brinkley and the Talking Cure
- Barbara Dianne Savage, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Radio and the Rise of a Public Discourse of Race and Ethnicity in the World War II Era
- William Barlow, Department of Radio, T.V., Film, Howard University
Radio and Racial Ventrilogy: Criss Crossing the Color Line on the Airways
COMMENT:
- Michele Hilmes
GUIDE:
- John Fondersmith, Chief (Downtown Section), District of Columbia's Office of Planning
This panel is an outgrowth of The National Resource Guide to American Studies Programs in the Secondary Schools that will be published by ASA in fall 1997. Representatives from four high schools in different regions of the country will offer a range of models for developing curriculum in American Studies at the secondary school level. Panelists will discuss program development, philosophy, and pedagogy; team-building and curriculum design; and reflect on their challenges, failures, and successes. The programs represented encompass the following: a one-semester American Studies course housed in an off-campus American Studies Center that is an historic site in Tuscaloosa, serving racially mixed students from Alabama's largest school; a year-long, multi-sectioned team-taught American Studies course that integrates art, film, music, drama, and oral history with literature and social studies for a relatively homogeneous school population in Lebanon, New Hampshire; a Pan-American Studies program thematically organized to incorporate the histories and cultures of North, Central, and South America that is taught in a private school in Miami; an integrated Humanities team (American literature/American history) that teaches students from predominantly immigrant backgrounds in East Los Angeles.
CHAIR:
- Lois Rudnick, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PANELISTS:
- Janet Crowder, American Studies Center, Central High School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Jeff Donnelly, Miami County Day School, Miami Beach, Florida
- Mary Ellen Cassini, Miami County Day School, Miami Beach, Florida
- Marsha Ehlers, Montebello High School, Montebello, California
- Art Pease, Lebanon High School, Lebanon, New Hampshire
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Sandhya Rajendra Shukla, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
- Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine
"Korean American Women Saving Korean Women from American Men?": Documenting US Military Prostitution in Korea
- Maylei Blackwell, History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
US Third World Feminisms and the Engendering of Transnational Publics
- Michelle Habell-Pallán, Chicana and Chicano Studies Program, Arizona State University
"El Vez is 'Taking Care of Business": Chicano Performance and the Formation of Horizontal Affiliation
COMMENT:
- Sandhya Rajendra Shukla
CHAIR:
- Sterling Stuckey, Department of History, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
- Ronald Radano, Afro-American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin
Racial Difference and the Changing Same
- Angela Y. Davis, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Blues Women
- Robin D.G. Kelley, Department of History, New York University
Ugly Beauty: Thelonious Monk and the Postwar Avant Garde
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Shirley Wilson Logan, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
- W. Edward Orser, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Quandaries of Desegregation: Prelude to Brown in Baltimore County
- Richard Ver Wiebe, Department of History, Syracuse University
Contesting Images: The Battle over Public Imagery and Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Carole Blair, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Passive Resistance Reproduced and Rewritten: The Public Rhetorical Performances of the Civil Rights Memorial
COMMENT:
- Ralph E. Luker, Department of History, Morehouse College
CHAIR:
- Caroline K. Hall, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus
PAPERS:
- Scott D. Trafton, Department of English, Duke University
The Dead Shall Be Raised: Death, Race, and Bodily Control in American Egyptomania
- Carolyn J. Lawes, Department of History, Old Dominion University
Arousing The Body: Gender and Tales of the Undead
- Russ Castronovo, Department of English, University of Miami
Political Necrophilia
COMMENT:
- Gary Laderman, Department of Religion, Emory University
CHAIR:
- Katharine Martinez, Research Libraries Group, Inc.
PAPERS:
- Sarah Burns, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University
Party Animals: Thomas Nast, William Beard, and the Bears of Wall Street
- Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Darwin in Rochester: Popular Models of Evolution in Nineteenth-Century America
- Katherine C. Grier, Department of History, University of Utah
"The Beautiful Objects in Their Care": Middle-Class Masculinity and the Pigeon Fancy, 18501910
- Joy S. Kasson, American Studies Program, University of North Carolina
Animals in Buffalo Bill's Wild West
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Elizabeth Lunbeck, Department of History, Princeton University
PAPERS:
- Lola Ellis, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
Racial Coding in Women's Bodies: Notions of the Public and Private in 19th Century Gynecological Practice
- Elizabeth Abrams, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University
Disciplining the Public Body: William Stewart Halstead and the Radical Mastectomy
- Thatcher Carter, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Write It! Film It! Photograph It!: Published Autobiographies of Breast Cancer Survivors
COMMENTS:
- Elizabeth Lunbeck
CHAIR:
- Sarah Way Sherman, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
PAPERS:
- Lisa Brawley, Department of English, Loyola University of Chicago
Before Cowboys: Or, the First Dime Novel's Nostalgia for the Dollar Days of Women's Fiction
- Lisa Long, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Homemakers and Criminals in Nineteenth-Century America
- Deidre Murphy, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
As Child, As Woman, As (Ex-)Slave: Representing the Immigrant in Nineteenth-Century Genre Printing
COMMENT:
- Linda A. Morris, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Davis
CHAIR:
- Maureen E. Montgomery, Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
PAPERS:
- Hiroko Sato, Department of English, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan
Choosing Text Books for American Literary History: A Case Study of Teaching "America" to Japanese Students
- Stephen Hiro Sumida, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
Interdisciplinary American Studies in India
- Rita Terezinha Schmidt, Department of Modern Languages, Universidade Federale do Rio grande do Sul, Brazil
Between Resistance and Affiliation: Placing American Studies in the Brazilian Context
- Adele Newson, Department of English, Florida International University
Interpreting U.S. Popular Culture in South Africa
- Andrew M. Lakritz, Independent Scholar
The American Studies Libraries Overseas Project
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Judith Fryer Davidov, Department of English, University of Massachusetts
PAPERS:
- Geoff Cohen, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
I Hear the Musketry of the Falls: Tourism, War, and the Call of America
- David Mazel, Department of Languages and Literature, University of West Alabama
The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Identity Politics of Yosemite Park
- Susan Bernardin, Division of Humanities, University of Minnesota, Morris
Claiming Place in the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Karuk and Euro-American Stories of the Klamath River Region
COMMENT:
- Philip G. Terrie, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
CHAIR:
- Robert Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
PAPERS:
- Brian Locke, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Different Shades of Dark?: Representations of Asians and the Construction of United States National Identity
- Christina Klein, Literature Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Race Tourism: Americans in Asia During the Cold War
- Michele Janette, Department of English, University of Minnesota
The 'Truth' About Japanese War Brides: Velina Hasu Houston's Dramatic Trilogy of AfroAsian Intermarriage
COMMENT:
- Robert Lee
CHAIR:
- Audrey Chia, Department of Organisational Behaviour, National University of Singapore
PAPERS:
- Kathleen M. Campbell, Department of Organizational Behaviour, National University of Singapore
Images of America in Asia: the United States as a Utopia for Employed Women
- Huang Hoon Chng, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
Work versus Family: A Case of Separate Existence
- Judith Livingston, Independent Scholar
The American Foreign Service and the Diplomatic Spouse: Employment Issues and Initiatives
COMMENT:
- Wendy Bokhorst-Heng, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
CHAIR:
- Lonnie G. Bunch III, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
PANELISTS:
- John Michael Vlach, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Back of the Big House: Narrating Plantation History, Negotiating Public Presentation
- Maryanne Vollers, Author, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Ghosts of Mississippi: The Uneasy Marriage of History and Hollywood
- James Oliver Horton, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Mickey Mouse and Smokey Bear: History in the Public Eye
- Paul Boyer, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Historian as Textbook Author, Public Lecturer, and Media "Expert"
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Nancy Page Fernandez, Department of History, California State University, Northridge
PAPERS:
- Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina
Quilts, Race, and Public Space: African-American Quilting Parties 18451945
- Joyce Miller, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
"Outsider" Art Inside the Marketplace: Region, Race, and the Romanticization of Southern Visionary Art
COMMENT:
- Patricia Turner, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
CHAIR:
- John Walter, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
PAPERS:
- Teresa Shelton Reed, Department of Music, University of Tulsa
Crossing Boundaries, Fusing Styles: Music of the Black Renaissance
- Michele Birnbaum, Department of English, University of Puget Sound
Langston Hughes' Jews: Amy Spingarn & the Art of Race
- Anne Stavney, Department of English, University of Tulsa
(Un)Settling Sexuality and the Territory of Langston Hughes
COMMENTS:
- John Walter
CHAIR:
- Jim Mancall, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University
PAPERS:
- Doug Battema, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
The Bums and the 'Boys': America's Teams and American Dreams
- Frances S. Johnson, Department of Composition and Rhetoric, Rowan College
The Rise and Fall of America's Team: The Cultural Iconography of the Dallas Cowboys
- Mark David Howell, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Heroes From the Hills: National Identity and the N.A.S.C.A.R. Winston Cup Series
COMMENT:
- Jeffrey T. Sammons, Department of History, New York University
CHAIRS:
- Erika Doss, American Studies Program, University of Colorado
PAPERS:
- Gretchen Buggeln, Early American Culture Program, Winterthur Museum
Selling Religion to America: English Transfer Printed Earthenwares in the Early Republic
- David Morgan, Department of Art, Valparaiso University
The Visual Crusade for a Protestant America,
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- Sally M. Promey, Department of Art History and Archeology, University of Maryland
The Many Lives of Sargent's Prophets
- Paul Gutjahr, Department of English, Indiana University
Graphic Faith: Making the Bible Believable Through Pictures, 18181997
COMMENT:
- Erika Doss
CHAIR:
- Walter Johnson, Department of History, New York University
PAPERS:
- Stephen Mihm, Department of History, New York University
"A Limb Which Shall be Presentable in Polite Society": Prosthetic Technologies in the Age of Appearances, 18401900
- David Serlin, American Studies Program, New York University
The "Other" Arms Race: The Politics of Prosthetics During the Cold War
- Steven Kurzman, Anthropology Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
Prosthetics and Able-Bodiedness
COMMENT:
- Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
CHAIR:
- Jennifer Tebbe, New England ASA, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences
PARTICIPANTS:
- Lynne Adrian, Southern ASA, University of Alabama
- Shelley Armitage, Hawaii ASA, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Thomas Blues, Kentucky-Tennessee ASA, University of Kentucky
- Sarah E. Chinn, Metropolitan New York ASA, Columbia University
- James Farrell, Mid-America ASA, Saint Olaf College
- Scot Guenter, California ASA, San Jose State University
- Sherry Lee Linkon, Great Lakes ASA, Youngstown State University
- Richard Mastellar, Pacific Northwest ASA, Whitman College
- Bernard Mergen, Chesapeake ASA, George Washington University
- Bruce A. Ronda, Rocky Mountain ASA, Colorado State University
- Louise Stevenson, Mid-Atlantic ASA, Franklin and Marshall College
- Richard Tuerk, Texas ASA, East Texas State University
The Phillips Collection will lead a panel that discusses the museum's interdisciplinary, inter-institutional collaboration that resulted in the Dorothea Lange Summer Teacher Institute, held in June 1995. Based on the special exhibition, "Dorothea Lange: American Photographs," the Institute focused on Lange's compelling and influential series of photographs documenting migrant families for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration during the Depression and the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans. Lange's imagery and medium bring together a wide range of subjects pertinent to curricula of many local school districts, while the economic and social conditions she captured in her photographs relate to contemporary issues such as unemployment, homelessness, and racial discrimination. Teachers will discuss how the Institute's ideas and activities helped them to integrate material from other disciplines to enhance the study of their own subject area.
CHAIR:
- Donna McKee, Education Director, The Phillips Collection
PANELISTS:
- Valerie Babb, Department of English, Georgetown University
- Therese Thau Heyman, Guest Curator, National Museum of American Art & Research Associate, Oakland Museum
- Jean Grefe, Photography Teacher, McLean High School
- Beverly Rawlings, English Department, Hayfield Secondary School
- Suzanne Wright, Assistant Education Director, The Phillips Collection
- Beverly Brannan, Curator of Photographs, Library of Congress
COMMENT:
- The Audience
PANELISTS:
- Howard Gillette, Jr., George Washington University
- Melissa McLoud, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
- Keith Melder, Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Timothy Davis, National Park Service
Sponsored by the National Building Museum and the Chesapeake Chapter of ASA. The session will take place at the National Building Museum, (401 F Street, N.W.), which can be reached on foot or by public transportation. Participants are invited to see associated exhibits, including the museum's permanent show, "Washington, D.C.: Symbol and City." A reception will follow the panel discussion. (See General Information, page 17, for further details.)
CHAIR:
- Ann duCille, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
- Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California
Ventriloquizing the Other: Voicing Whiteness in Early Commercial Radio
- Shannon Jackson, Department of English, Harvard University
Sounding White Privilege/Publicizing White Sounds
- Miranda Joseph, Women's Studies Program, University of Arizona
Consolidating White Community: Sex, Race, and Property
- Amy Robinson, Department of English, Georgetown University
Soul Sisters: Liberal Humanism and the Fantasy of the Exceptional White Person
- Mia Bay, Department of History, Rutgers University
Maria Stewart's Public Lectures
COMMENT:
- Jennifer DeVere Brody, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
I Heard it Through the Grapevine: African American Constructions of Whiteness
CHAIR:
- Robyn Wiegman, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
- Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College
The Post-Colonization of American Studies
- Steven Mailloux, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
Pragmatic Relativism and Comparative American Studies
- Susan Jeffords, Division of Social Sciences, University of Washington
American Studies and Social Sciences
COMMENTS:
- Robyn Wiegman
Trans-Discipline/Trans-National Mediations
CHAIR:
- Nancy L. Struna, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
- Douglas Deal, Department of History, State University of New York, Oswego
Race and Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake
- Ann Smart Martin, Research Associate, Colonial Williamsburg
Foodways and Urban Economies in the Chesapeake
- Jim Rice, Department of History, Central Washington University
Whither the Backcountry?: Adventures and Misadventures in Chesapeake Regionalism
COMMENT:
- Beatriz Hardy, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University
CHAIR:
- John Alberti, Department of Literature and Language, Northern Kentucky University
PAPERS:
- Katherine Pandora, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma
Legacies of the "Vassar School of Social Critique": Interdisciplinary Experiments in Cultural Criticism in 1930s America
- Victoria Morris Byerly, Department of Social Science, San Jose State University
Recovery of American Resistance Culture
- Hans Bak, Departments of English/American Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The Fall and Rise of Malcolm Cowley: the Political Afterlife of a Man of Letters
COMMENT:
- Paul Jerome Croce, Department of American Studies, Stetson University
MODERATOR:
- Roberta M. Moudry, History of Architecture, Cornell University
PANELISTS:
- Katherine Solomonson, Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota
The Chicago Tribune Tower: Publicity, Reception and the Construction of Community
- Isabelle Gournay, School of Architecture, University of Maryland
Lewis Hine's Photographs of Skyscraper Steel Workers: Public Culture versus Labor Issues
- Keith Revell, School of Policy and Management, Florida International University
Arguing Public Space: Law, Architecture and the Skyscraper, 18701930
- Aurora Wallace, Department of Communications, McGill University
Skyscraper Desire: Representations of Women and Place Ville Marie, Montreal, Quebec
- Thomas J. Misa, Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology
Skyscrapers: Constructing Private and Public Spaces
- Louisa Iarocci, Department of Art History, Boston University
Monument and Monster: The Skyscraper's Construction in Popular Literature and Film
- Sarah Lyons Watts, Department of History, Wake Forest University
Built Languages of Class: Skyscrapers and Labor Protests in Victorian Space
COMMENTS:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- David Scobey, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
- Robin Bachin, Department of History, University of Miami
"The Lakefront By Right Belongs to the People": The Politics of Public Space in Chicago, 18901910
- Alison Isenberg, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Philadelphians May be Whirled to the Sea": Recreation at the Jersey Shore, 1880s1950s
- Gregory Bush, Department of History, University of Miami
From Stateroom to Skybox: The Miami Arena and the Promotion of Contemporary Spectacles
COMMENT:
- David Scobey
CHAIR:
- Shirley Hune, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
- Ayanna Yonemura, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
Planning and the Internment of Japanese Americans: The Hidden History of Planning's Influence in the Creation and Administration of the Internment Camps
- Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
Shaping American Cities: The Untold Story of Jewish Women's Contributions to Urban Development in the 1940s
- Blanca Gordo, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Knowledge, Action, and Power: A Case Study of Latina Organizations in Los Angeles and Their Influence on Planning Policy
COMMENT:
- Martha J. McNamara, Department of History, University of Maine
CHAIR:
- Tommy L. Lott, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis
PAPERS:
- Annette Debo, Department of English, University of Maryland
Discourse of Race in the 1930 Film Borderline: Americans on the Racial Border
- Alden L. Nielsen, Department of English, San Jose State University
Which of the Masks is Cool? Populist Modernism and Projective Jazz in the Poems of the 1950s
- John Lowney, Department of English, St. John's University
Dream Within a Dream: Langston Hughes, Post World War II Harlem, and Black Counter Public Spheres
COMMENTS:
- John A. McCluskey, Jr., Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University
CHAIR:
- Nancy D. Kates, Documentary Filmmaker, San Francisco, California
PANELISTS:
- Nancy Cook, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
- Lydia Fish, Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project, Buffalo State College
- Ann Kelsey, Learning Resources Center, College of Morris
- Christian Appy, History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This panel's centerpiece is the Academy-Award winning 23 minute documentary film Their Own Vietnam. Shot in 16mm, this film focuses on experiences of American women who served in the Vietnam War. Featuring interviews with five veterans, along with rare archival footage, home movies, and archival stills, the film explores their day-to-day experiences as young nurses and officers, as well as the war's impact on their lives today. Includes original music by Michael Lande, and traditional Vietnamese folk music arranged and recorded by ethnomusicologist Dr. Phong Thuyet Nguyen of Kent State University. Immediately following the viewing of the film a roundtable discussion will be held over the issues raised by the documentary.
CHAIR:
- Rosa Linda Fregoso, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
- Ray Telles, Co-Director of The Fight in the Fields
Translating Academic Research for a General Audience
- Lorena Oropeza, Department of History, University of California, Davis
His Story and Beyond: Cesar Chavez, Vietnam and the Chicana/o Movement
- James Green, College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts
Movement Story Telling and Documentary Film Making
- Dionne Espinoza, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Making It Public: A Visual Archive of Chicana/o Activism
COMMENTS:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
- Martha Banta, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
The Roosevelt Corollary: Going Public With Private Conduct on the International Scene
- Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Department of History, University of Maryland
Mr. Moto and Racial Inscrutability: History-Genre
- Jeffrey A. Geiger, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Searching for Moana: American Modernity and the Ethnographic Spectacle
COMMENTS:
- Kandice Chuh
CHAIR:
- Pamela Warford, Department of English, Georgetown College
PAPERS:
- Andrew B. Smith, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Race, Region, and Realism: Spectatorship and the Nickelodeon Western
- Marguerite Hailey Rippy, Department of English, Indiana University
Exhuming Dorothy Dandridge: Performances of Blackness and Female Sexuality in Classic Hollywood Cinema
- Laura Baker, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
Boyz 'N the Mall: Responses to Theater Violence at Boyz 'N the Hood and New Jack City
COMMENT:
- Danille Taylor-Guthrie, Afro-American Studies Department, Indiana University, Northwest
CHAIR:
- Ronald Walters, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
PAPERS:
- John Fairfield, Department of History, Xavier University
Planning and the Public: John Dewey and the Modern City
- Ari Kelman, Department of History, Brown University
"The Second Battle of New Orleans": New Orleans, the Mississippi Riverfront Expressway Controversy, and the Battle Over Public Space
- Lucy Barber, Department of History, University of California, Davis
The Value of National Public Spaces: Debating the Use of the Mall in Washington for Mass Demonstrations, 19631971
COMMENT:
- Mary Ryan, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
CHAIR:
- Kathryn Helgesen Fuller, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
PAPERS:
- Jenine Dallal, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
Catherine Beecher and "the Black Hole of Calcutta"
- James Emmett Ryan, Department of English, University of North Carolina
The Blind Authoress of New York: Sarah Helen De Kroyft and the Uses of Women's Authorship in Antebellum America.
- Susan M. Ryan, Department of English, University of North Carolina
The Racial Politics of Charity in New York City, 1863
COMMENT:
- Bruce Dorsey, Department of History, Swarthmore College
CHAIR:
- Kenneth Silverman, Department of English, New York University
PAPERS:
- Meryem Ersoz, Department of English, University of Oregon
Mediums, Magicians, and the Emergence of Popular Science
- Robt Cox, Department of History, University of Michigan
Spirit and Image: Technology and Representation in Spirit Writing
- Lisa Gitelman, Thomas Edison Papers Project, Rutgers University
Automatic Writing
- Mark Sussman, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
First Contact: American Mesmerism and Sacred Technology
COMMENT:
- Kenneth Silverman
CHAIR:
- Jill Dolan, Theatre Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
- Carol Batker, Department of English, Florida State University
"Why Should You Ask for Ease?": Transforming Americanism in Acculturated Jewish Women's Journalism of the 1920s
- Ann Pellegrini, Department of Women's Studies, Barnard College
Notes on Jewish Camp: The Crisis of "Convertablity"
- Stacy Wolf, Department of English, George Washington University
Streisand, Funny Girl, and the Disruptive Star Body
COMMENT:
- Laura Levitt, Department of Religion, Temple University
All faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the program are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served, and a cash bar will be available.
American Studies professionals in all settings face a variety of social, educational, and political challenges to their work. Agendas such as political correctness, economic restructuring and downsizing, institutional reconfiguration, and special interest lobbying threaten to transform the fundamental conditions of employment as well as the content and processes of professionalism. While current struggles over curriculum and the movement toward national and state standards are publicly debated, substantial institutional and local battles are often unknown. This panel will begin a conversation about these issues through descriptions of individual case studies and reflection on their implications for similar conflicts and assaults on the profession in general.
CHAIR:
- Michael Cowan, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:
- Mary V. Bicouvaris, Christopher Newport University
- Doris M. Meadows, Wilson Magnet High School, Rochester, New York
- Kenneth P. O'Brien, Department of History, State University of New York, Brockport
- David Roediger, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
- James Slevin, Department of English, Georgetown University
COMMENT:
- The Audience
The University of Michigan's program in American Studies invites students, alumni, faculty, and friends to attend. Refreshments and a cash bar will be served. Sponsors for the Michigan Program reception include the Program in American Culture and the Programs in Asian/Pacific American Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Native American Studies.
All students and professionals working in or interested in sexual minorities studies are invited to attend. This is a meeting to form a sexual minority studies network within the American Studies Association.