American Culture (University of Michigan)

2009

Dean Saranillio “Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai`i Statehood.”

2008

Jan Bernabe “Improbable Visions: Filipino Bodies, U.S. Empire and the Visual Archives.”
Lloyd Buss “Religion and Culture: Detroit’s Open Housing Movement.”
Lorgia Garcia Pena “Dominicanidad in Contra (Diction): Marginality, Migration, and the Narration of a Dominican National Identity.”
David Julyk “The Trouble With Machines Is People. The Computer as Icon in Post-War American 1946-1970.”
Justine Pas “Finding Home in Babel: Transnationalism, Translation, and Languages of Identity.
Rachel Peterson “Adapting Left Culture to the Cold War: Theodore Ward, Ann Petry and Correspondence.”
Deidre Wheaton “Seeking Salvation: Black Messiahs, Racial Formation, and Christian Thought in Late 20th Century Black Cultural Texts.”

2007

Robert Hill 'As a man, I exist: as a woman—I live': Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Gender and Sexuality in Postwar America.
Kathy Jurado Alienated Citizens: "Hispanophobia" and the Mexican Im/migrant Body
Shawn Kimmel "Freedom’s Police: The Constitution of the Liberal Police State in the Early Republic’s Theater of Civil Society." .
Anne Kustritz "Productive (Cyber) Public Space: Slash Fan Fiction’s Multiple Imaginary."
Anastasia Pratt "Home: A 20^th Century American Construction."
Ellen Scott "Race and the Struggle for Cinematic Meaning: Film Production, Censorship, and African American Reception, 1940-1960."

2006

Dolores Ines Casillas: "Sounds of Belonging: A Cultural History of Spanish-language Radio in the United States, 1922 - 2004."
Lisa Harris: "In Vitro Fertilization in the United States: A Clinical and Cultural History."
Robin Li: "Being Good Chinese": Chinese Scholarly Elites and Immigration in Mid-Century America.
Michele Morales: "Persistent Pathologies: The Odd Coupling of Alcoholism and Homosexuality in the Discourses of Twentieth Century Science."
Tracie Rubeck: "Racial Harmony Through Clenched Teeth: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Newsweek & the CBS Evening News, 1990-99."
Carla Vecchiola: "Detroit's Rhythmic Resistance: Electronic Music and Community."

2005

Paul Ching: “Work in the New Economy: Internet Business and a Revolutionary Status Quo, 1995-2000.”
Catherine Daligga: “Claiming Legitimacy for Female Expertise in Motherhood: The Women of the Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit, 1918-1930.”
Maria Teresa Pool: “Behind the Chair: The Experience and Meaning of Work in the Lives of Hairdressers.”
Katrina Mann: "Ambassadors of Good Will:" American Race Relation s and Global Geopolitcs in Postwar Racial Problem Films.
Jennifer Moon: "Cruising and Queer Counterpublics: Theories and Fictions."
Shani Mott: “Masquerade Narratives: Writing Blackness and Imagining Democracy in American Literature, 1930-1955.”
Nicholas Syrett: “The Company He Keeps: White College Fraternities, Masculinity, and Power, 1825-1975.”
Jess Rigelhaupt: “Education for Action” The California Labor School, Radical Unionism, Civil Rights, and Progressive Coalition Building in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1934-1970
Grace Wang: “Soundtracks of Asian American Identity: Music, Race, and National Belonging.”
Shawan Worsley: “Cultural Misbehavior: Identity Politics and Contemporary Black Popular Culture.”

2004

Libby Garland: "Through Closed Gates: Jew and Illegal Immigration to the United States.”
Nhi Lieu: “Private Desires on Public Display: Vietnamese American Identities in Entertainment."
Merida Rua: "Claims to “The City”: Puerto Rican Latinidad amid Labors of Identity, Community, and Belonging in Chicago.”
Jennifer Tilton: "Dangerous and Endangered Children: Representations of Youth and Political struggles to Shape the State and City.”
Cynthia Wu: “The Mystery of Their Union”: Cross-Cultural Legacies of the Original Siamese Twins”

2003

Colin Johnson: “Columbia’s Orient: Gender, Geography Orient: Gender, Geography in Rural America.”
Patricia Kim: "Watching from the Other Side: Latin American Telenovelas and Latina Audiences."
Charlotte Pagni: "Hollywood Does Kinsey: Cinema, Sexology, and Cultural Regulations, 1948-1968."
Rebecca Poyourow: "From Working Girl to Adolescent: The Detroit YWCA and the Transformation of Sociability Among Working-Class Young Women, 1900-1930."
Alejandra Marchevsky: “Flexible Labor, Inflexible Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and the Politics of Welfare Reform.”
Pablo Ramirez: “Borderlands Ethics: Visions of Incorporation in Chicana/o Fiction.”
Angela Winand: "Weighed Upon a Scale: African American Women, Class and Consumer Culture."

2002

Estevan Rael Galvez: "Identifying and Capturing Identity: Narratives of American Indian Servitude, Colorado and New Mexico, 1750-1930."
Anna Pegler-Gordon: "In Sight of America: Photography and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1880-1930."
Alex Textor: "American Marriage in Modernity: Cultural Reproduction, Relationality, and Dissidence."

2001

Anthony Macias: "From Pachuco Boogie to Latin Jazz"
Daryl Maeda: "Forging Asian American Identity"
Kate Masur: "Reconstructing the Nation's Capital"
Jonathan Metzel: "The Freud of Prozac"
L. Ariella Zeller: "Jewish Women Remembering their Bodies"

2000

Leslie Paris: "Children's Nature: Summer Camps in New York State, 1919-1941"
Rapeepanchanok Thongthiraj: "'To Be or Not To Be...Is the Question?' Race and Identity Transformations in Asian American Literature"
Martha Umphrey: "Dementia America"

1999

Joseph Moreau: "Schoolbook Nation"

1998

Christine Bass: "'It was more like home than a Hospital': Women's Experiences as Patients at Peterson Hospital, Ann Arbor Michigan, 1902-1933"
Elizabeth Brent: "Domestic Horrors: Family Values and the Intruder"
Michael Epstein: Detectives, Therapists, Fathers, and Hired Guns: A Cross-Examination of Lawyer Images on American Television"
Wallace Genser: "'A Rigid Government Over Ourselves': Transformations in Ethnic, Gender, and Race Consciousness on the Northern Borderlands-Michigan, 1805-1930"
Karen Majewski: "Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1865-1880"
Joseph Moreau: "Schoolbook Nation Imagining the American Red Blooded Americans: Mulattoes and the Melting Pot in U.S. Racialist and Nationalist Discourse, 1890-1930"

1997

Heidi Ardizzone: "Red Blooded Americans: Mulattoes and the Melting Pot in U.S. Racialist and Nationalist Discourse, 1890-1930."
Reshela DuPuis: "Documenting Community: Activist Videography in Hawai'i."
Duane Niatum: "Shamanism, Sacred Narratives, The Sea, and the Cedar in the Art of John Hoover, Aleut Sculptor."
Eric Porter: "Out of the Blue: The Challenge of Black Creative Music, 1940-1995."
Mark Rogers: "Beyond Bang! Pow! Zap!: Genre and the Evolution of the American Comic Industry"

1996

Marsha Ackermann: "Cold Comfort: The Air Conditioning of America"
Shi-Qui Cui: "Gender and Representation in Chinese New Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis."
Mary McGuire: "Disciplining the State: Organized Civil Servants, State Formation and Citizenship in the United States and Germany, 1880-1925."
James Pringle Morris-Knower: "No Place Like Home: Discourses of Adolescent Identity and the Politics of Space in Contemporary American Coming of Age Narratives."
Susanne Shavelson: "From Amerike to America: Language and Identity in the Yiddish and English Autobiography of Jewish Immigrant Women."
Jeanne Theoharis: "This is Not a Human Interest Story: Black Teenagers, Urban Schools, Writing and the Politics of Representation."
Joseph D. Won: "Yellowface Minstrelsy: Asian Martial Arts and the American Popular Imaginary."

1995

Angela Dillard: "From the Reverend Charles A. Hill to the Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr.,: Change and Continuity in the Patterns of Civil Rights Mobilizations in Detroit, 1935 - 1967."
Tom Fujita Rony: "'They Did Me A Great Wrong': History and Meanings of the Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration."
Michael W. Kline: " The Politics of Knowledge in a 'Post-Industrial' City: Intellectual Work and Political Struggle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 - 1992."
William Frank Mitchell: "Jungle Fever and Other Ethno-Racial Myths: Generation, Cultural Production and the Maintenance of Ethnicity."
Richard Nation: "Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870."

1994

Corey Dolgon: "Innovators and Gravediggers: Capital Restructuring and Class Formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan."
Kristin Hass: "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and American Memory: Remaking the Nation with Purple Hearts and Fishing Lures." (1994)
Michelle Johnson: "Juju Leaves in the Center of a Whirlwind: African American Nature/Culture Mediation." (1994)
Timothy Shuker-Haines: "Home is the Hunter: Representations of Returning World War II Veterans and the Reconstruction of Masculinity, 1944-1951." (1994)

1993

Patrick LeBeau: "The Codical Warrior: The Codification of American Indian Warrior Experience in American Culture."
David Mitchell: "Conjured Communities: The Multiperspectival Novels of Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia."

1992

Margarita De la Vega Hurtado: "A Foreigner's Gaze: The American Films of Louis Malle."
Jane Holzka: "The Limits of Dissent: Liberal State Building and Political Repression in New York, 1917-1929."
Peggy A. Kusnerz: "Picturing the Past: Photographs at the Library of Congress, 1865-1950."
Barbara Scott Winkler: "A Comparative History of Four Women's Studies Programs, 1970-1985."
Laura Wendorff: "Race, Ethnicity, and the Voice of the 'Poetess' in the Lives and Works of Four Late-Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: Frances E.W. Harper, Emma Lazarus, Louise Guiney, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox."

1991

Brian Lloyd: "A Miserable Fit of the Blues: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Failure of American Marxism, 1900-1922."
Catharine O'Connell: "Chastening the Rod: Sentimental Strategies in Three Antebellum Women's Novels."
Stacy L. Spencer: "The Geography of Gender: Women Writers and the Literary Journey, 1820-1860."

1990

Paul Bernard: "The Making of the Marginal Mind: Academic Economic Thought in the United States, 1860-1910."
Neil F. Foley: "The New South in the Southwest: Anglos, Blacks, and Mexicans in Central Texas, 1880-1930."
Shannon Richards-Slaughter: "The Blossoms of Jazz: A Fictive Treatment of Black Female Entertainers of the 1930s and 1940s."
William Shea: "The Role and Function of Technology in American Popular Music: 1945-1964."
E. Jeffrey Vaughn: "America's Pop Collector: Robert C. Scull - Contemporary Art at Auction."
Wayne Wilke: "Changing Understanding of the Church-State Relationship: The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, 1914-1969."

1980s

Joanne Bock: "Ethnic Vision: A Romanian-American Inheritance." (1986)
Ruth Bradley: "The Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1963-1982: A History Illustrating the Genres of American Avant-Garde Cinema." (1985)
Howard Brick: "The Crisis of Evolutionary Socialism: Daniel Bell and the Rise of Modernist Sociology." (1983)
Martin Burke: "The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America." (1987)
John R. Chavez: "The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest." (1980)
Amy Cherry: "Crowded Lives: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the Novels of Hurston, Arnow, Morrison, and Kingston." (1986)
Jeffrey P. Chown: "The Auteur in Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola." (1982)
Nancy R. Davison: "E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era." (1980)
Earleen DeLaPerriere: "Afro-American Indirection: Issues in the Signifyin' Monkey and the Art of Coping." (1987)
Thomas F. Flynn: "John Dos Passos: Fixed Moral Principles in a Changing World." (1982)
Howard A. Good: "Acquainted with the Night: The Journalist in American Fiction, 1890-1930." (1984)
Rosemary Gooden: "The Language of Devotion: Gospel Affection and Gospel Union in the Writings of Shaker Sisters." (1987)
Michael J. Graham: "Lord Baltimore's Pious Enterprise: Toleration and Community in Colonial Maryland, 1634-1724." (1983)
Nancy J. Groce: "Musical Instrument Making in New York City during the 18th and 19th Centuries." (1982)
Paul Harris: "The Missionary Experience: Self-Denial and Social Change in the Autobiographical Writings of American Protestants." (1985)
LeRoy Harvey: "Days of Confidence: The Early Life of Henry Seidel Canby." (1984)
Wen-ching Ho: "Miscegenation in William Faulkner: A Synecdoche for Slavery/Caste System." (1989)
Gloria House: "Tower and Dungeon: A Study in American Spatial Politics." (1986)
Elizabeth Jameson: "High-Grade and Fissures: A Working-Class History of the Cripple Creek, Colorado, Gold Mining District, 1890-1905." (1987)
John M. Jordan: "Technic and Ideology: The Engineering Ideal and American Political Culture, 1892-1934." (1989)
Jeremy Kilar: "The Lumbertowns: A Socioeconomic History of Michigan's Leading Lumber Centers - Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905." (1987)
Zaneta Kosiba-Vargas: "Harry Gamboa and ASCO: The Emergence and Development of a Chicano Art Group, 1971-1987." (1988)
Rosemary A. Kowalski: "A Vision of One's Own: Four Women Film Directors." (1980)
Helen F. Levy: "No Hiding Place on Earth: The Female Self in Eight Modern American Women Authors." (1982)
Robbie Lieberman: "'My Song Is My Weapon': People's Songs and the Politics of Culture, 1946-49." (1985)
Harry Luton: "Wainwright, Alaska: The Making of Inupiaq Cultural Community in a Time of Change." (1986)
Lisa MacFarlane: "The Mild Apocalypse: Domestic Millennialism in the Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe." (1987)
Patricia J. McAskin: 'These Trifling Matters' - Letters of Mary Craig Cumming, 1811-1815." (1988)
Richard A. Meckel: "The Awful Responsibility of Motherhood: American Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant and Child Mortality before 1913." (1980)
G. Steve Moore: "Modes of Black Discourse in the Narrative and Structure of James Baldwin's Fiction." (1989)
Marilyn F. Motz: "The True Sisterhood: Networks of Female Kin in Nineteenth-Century Michigan Families." (1981)
Pauline Norton: "March Music in Nineteenth-Century America." (1983)
Barney Pace: "An Experimental Novel About the Columbian Exposition of 1895: The Fame and Fortune of Jimmie Dawson." (1982)
David Papke: "Framing the Criminal: Crime, Cultural Work and the Loss of Critical Perspective, 1830-1900." (1985)
Mark A. Pittenger: "Science and the New Social Order: American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1918." (1984)
Paula Rabinowitz: "Female Subjectivity in Women's Revolutionary Novels of the 1930's." (1986)
John Reiff: "Human Dignity under Attack: The Political and Military Socialization of Vietnam Veterans." (1982)
Jane E. Schultz: "Women at the Front: Gender and Genre in Literature of the American Civil War." (1988)
Mary C. Sies: "American Country House Architecture in Context: The Suburban Ideal of Living in the East and Midwest, 1877-1917." (1987)
Marcia Swenson-Davis: "From Sex Queen to Cultural Symbol: An Interpretation of the Image of 'Marilyn Monroe'." (1980)
Satoko Tachiki: "Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) and Boston Brahmins." (1986)
Lillian Trettin: "Traprock Workers: The Culture of Work and Risk at an Underground Copper Mine, 1900-1945." (1987)
Jonathan Tyman: "Film in Science, Education, Propaganda: Examples of Its Use in America, 1940-1950." (1988)
George Vargas: "Contemporary Latino Art in Michigan, the Midwest, and the Southwest." (1988)
Zaragosa Vargas: "Mexican Auto Workers at Ford Motor Company, 1918-1933." (1984)