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American Civilization Department
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 | Mari Jo Buhle, Emerita
American Civilization Department
Mari Jo Buhle works in the fields of U. S. women's/gender history and cultural/intellectual history. She has published books and articles on women and American radical movements and is the co-author of "Out of Many," a college-level text designed for introductory history courses. "Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis," concerns the relationship between psychoanalytic and feminist theories in the United States since Freud's visit in 1909. |  | Paul Buhle, Emeritus
American Civilization Department
My current research covers several different areas: a history of Jewish Americans and popular culture (forthcoming three volumes to be edited for publication, and a coffee table volume, Jews and American Comics, for a university press); vernacular visual culture (a forthcoming biography of editor/artist Harvey Kurtzman); ecological history (essays in the eco-journal CNS); U.S. labor history (essays in various journals) and political history. |  | Robert P. Emlen
American Civilization Department
Robert P. Emlen studies issues of historical representations of place. He is the author of Shaker Village Views: Illustrated Maps and Landscape Drawings by Shaker Artists of the Nineteenth Century (University Press of New England, 1987), and has published his research on the material life of 18th- and 19th-century America in the leading journals of American material culture. He is presently working on a companion book to his Shaker Village Views. His book project, Picturing the Shakers, explores how Shaker life was depicted in the popular illustrated press of 19th-century America. |  | Matthew Garcia
American Civilization Department
Race and Ethnicity in America, Center for the Study of
Professor Garcia's research interests include Chicano/Latino identity and community formation, race and ethnicity in the U.S. labor history, Latina/o education, American popular culture, and urban/suburbanization. He is currently at work on a project that documents the struggle for worker rights and educational equity in Southern California rural communities. |  | Elliott Gorn
History, Department of
American Civilization Department
I specialize in the social and cultural history of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I am especially interested in iconic figures, from John L. Sullivan to Mother Jones, from Butcher Bill Poole to John Dillinger. Working-class life, masculinity, and the history of violence are themes that run through much of my research. |  | Beverly Haviland
American Civilization Department
Beverly Haviland works in19th-century American, English and French literature, 20th-century American literature and film, cultural history, and feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene and essays on various literary and cultural topics, including two that have won prizes: one treats Bret Easton Ellis as a novelist of manners and the other is on the accusation of plagiarism that ended Nella Larsen's brilliant and brief career. |  | Robert G. Lee
American Civilization Department
Robert Lee studies the history of Asians in the United States, racial formations, and relations between Asia and America. Three books include: Dear Miye, Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946 (Stanford, 1995; Japanese edition - Asahi, 1999); Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Temple, 1999, Japanese and Chinese editions, 2006); and Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas (Rutgers 2005). |  | Steven Lubar
American Civilization Department
Professor Lubar directs Brown's Public Humanities program, building on his interests in issues of culture, community, and public history. Present research projects include work in the history of museums, material culture, 19th-century invention and technology, and digital humanities |  | Patrick Malone
American Civilization Department
Patrick Malone's primary interests are the urban built environment and the history of industrial communities. He also does a great deal of work in public humanities, focusing on museum interpretation, park development, and the recording of engineering structures. Much of his work examines American rivers and hydraulic engineering. His present research interests include waterpower in Lowell, MA, and the history of manufacturing at Springfield Armory. |  | Richard Alan Meckel
American Civilization Department
Richard Meckel's research is centered in the intersections between historical demography and epidemiology, the history of public health and medicine, and the history of child social and medical welfare. He is especially interested in the role of the state in promoting child health and is currently examining a century and a half of largely unrealized plans to use the public school to improve the physical and emotional well-being of the nation's young. |  | Rhacel Parrenas
American Civilization Department
Rhacel Parrenas examines the feminization of labor and migration in globalization. She has done fieldwork in Italy, Japan, the Philippines, and United States. Her latest book, The Force of Domesticity (NYU Press, 2008) considers how processes of globalization simultaneously reinforce and challenge traditional gender norms. It draws from her research on migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, migrant entertainers in Tokyo, and transnational migrant families in the Philippines. She is currently writing a book on the labor and migration of Filipina hostesses in Tokyo's nightlife industry. |  | Ralph Rodriguez
American Civilization Department
Race and Ethnicity in America, Center for the Study of
I am currently writing a book on pleasure and contemporary U.S. literature. My project has its antecedents in the works of scholars such as Roland Barthes, Janice Radway, and Fredric Jameson. I am particularly interested in how the category of pleasure is produced, represented and received in a variety of popular literary forms, such as the detective novel, the graphic novel, and the queer novel among others. |  | Susan Smulyan
American Civilization Department
Professor Smulyan is currently researching an anthology, Major Problems in American Popular Culture (Houghton-Mifflin, forthcoming 2009) with Kathy Franz, Department of History, American University. She collaborates with Japanese colleagues and the Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library, on the website, "Perry Visits Japan." Interested in digital scholarship, she is preparing an article comparing two websites about U.S./ Japanese cultural relations. She is also working on a book manuscript, The Most Flexible Medium: Radio After Television. |  | Barton St. Armand, Emeritus
English, Department of
American Civilization Department
Barton Levi St. Armand's research interests include the relationship between American painting and literature, American artists at home and abroad, British and American environmental literature, and the "Green tradition" in American thought. He is currently working on a book project titled "Haunts of Nature: Essays on American Literature and the Ecological Spirit from Bradstreet to Borroughs". | | | Samuel Zipp
American Civilization Department
Urban Studies Program
My current work offers a new look at the politics and culture of urban renewal in Manhattan in the twenty years after World War II. I focus on the ways that superblock planning and modernist architecture remade the cityscape of the postwar city and were themselves remade by resistance to their overweening imposition on the lives of ordinary New Yorkers. Urban renewal, I show, was at the heart of New York's simultaneous rise to "world city" status and fall into the "urban crisis." |
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