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Current Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellows in American Culture Studies Matthew Bailey My focus is on twentieth-century American art, European modernist painting, and art of the Latin American avant-garde, with particular interests in issues of materiality and visuality in modernist painting. My recent projects include writing for the exhibition catalogue Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, and I am currently writing for the catalogue The Art of Two Germanies during the Cold War. In 2005 I became the recipient of the Naomi Schor Memorial Award for the outstanding graduate student essay at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, as well as the 2006 recipient of the Daniel Walden Award for Best Graduate Paper at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Studies Association Conference. Clara Elizabeth Barnhart My art history research interests are wide-ranging, yet I tend toward art that focuses in some way on its political climate and was created within a framework of war. For example, I plan to continue analyzing representations of 'penny press' newspapers in antebellum genre scenes. In essence, the penny daily generated a public more aware of contemporary social and political issues than ever before, and I am interested in contextualizing genre scenes that feature the newspaper and carry a politicized agenda. With this research, I hope to explore the intersections between reading and looking, and writing and painting. I am also fascinated by shifting representations of the American city during the interwar period and would like to see where this interest takes me. Emily Burns My art history research interest is early twentieth century American modernism. My methods include historical context as a way of framing my understanding of artistic practice. I am siliminarly interested in looking at literature and music, as well as theater and contemporary leisure, as other perspectives for my research. Specifically, I would like to readdress the traditional narrative of realism taht gives way to abstraction between the Ashcan School and the Stieglitz Circle in the first two decades of the twentieth century, espeically as I examine the intersections between the artists in both circles. Kevin Butterfield In my dissertation work, "Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic," I ask what the concept of voluntary membership meant in the early years of the United States, what sorts of rights and duties and human relationships were comprised in words such as "association" and "membership" in the decades leading up to Alexis de Tocqueville's famous observation about Americans' propensity for joining together for every conceivable purpose. I am currently teaching a related course for American Culture Studies that takes on the topic of secret societies in American life, from the Revolution into the twentieth century. Jerome Camal I am interested in studying areas of cultural contacts and the music which results from these exchanges. In particular, these areas provide an opportunity to study the ways in which music is used to construct and express racial, ethnic, or national identities. In the past, this interest has led me to study the music of the Muskogee and that of the Civil Rights Movement. My dissertation will offer the first full length academic study of Guadeloupean gwoka. This study will focus more specifically on the strategies developed by gwoka musicians since the 1960s to maintain the vitality of their music in a post-colonial and global environment. Aside from my academic work, I am still active as a professional jazz performer. For more information, please visit my website: website. Bryna Campbell My research focus is primarily in nineteenth-century American art. My interests are wide-ranging, but I am drawn to art that engages in issues of national and local identity. I am particularly interested in how contested ideas about nature, commerce, place, and community shape art, and in my research I would like to explore how constructions of gender intersect with representations of nature and place. I also have a broader interest in art that is by or about women, as well as politically engaged art, and have recently applied these interests to a project on Chicana artists active in the farm labor movement of the 1970s. Christine Cavalier Specializing in nineteenth-century American literature, I have been consistently drawn to the intersecting topics of spirituality, domesticity, and social activism in literature by and about women. After taking a summer seminar that explored American Indian oral traditions, belief systems, and arts, my research has increasingly reflected my interest in issues closely linked to American Indian Studies, including Native authors’ strategic appropriation of Anglo-American literary conventions, cultural symbols, and socio-political ideologies. I am currently completing my dissertation “Sentimental Ideology, Women’s Pedagogy, and American Indian Women’s Writing: 1815-1920” which examines the acquisition of effective literacy and the inculcation of the cult and literary genre of sentimentality within bicultural domestic circles, the Cherokee and Chickasaw female seminaries, and federally funded Indian boarding schools. I am paying particular attention to the poetry and prose of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, E. Pauline Johnson, S. Alice Callahan, and Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). I have presented papers derived from my dissertation at the 2007 annual meetings of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (“Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Sentimental Lessons”) and American Studies Association (“Hybridity, Dispossession, and Culpability: The Metis/Sentimental Rhetoric of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and E. Pauline Johnson”). In addition to my scholarly activities, I have designed and taught my own interdisciplinary course, “Nineteenth-Century American Indian Literature: Representation and Self-Representation,” which was cross-listed with the American Cultural Studies and English departments. David Chancellor My research interests focus on 19th and 20th century United States history. Much of my study to date has centered around culture, nationalism, and identity, and in particular, the ways that shifting cultural metaphors and meanings change the ways that Americans relate to others. Erika Conti My interests are wide-ranging, but I intend to focus my study on the possibilities of literary creations in times of war in the 20th century, particularly around World War II. I am also fascinated by the relationship between Italian and American literature during the Fascist domination, by trauma theory, the issue of artistic representation of traumatic events, and the relations between memory and literary works. After taking the summer seminar in South Dakota which explored the history and culture of Lakota Indians, I have also started to look at 20th century American Indian literature written in English, with a specific interest for the themes of war, alienation, and spirituality. My MA research paper examined the way in which Pueblo Indian writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Paula Gunn Allen chose to include the traumatic events related to the production of the atomic bomb into Pueblo cosmologies through their literary works. Joseph P. Conway My field of study involves American literature written between 1830-1950, with emphases in the antebellum and post-WWI, Modernist eras. My personal research engages questions concerning the material production of money in the United States and the material production of literary texts. How are economic and literary values established, regulated, and circulated? Who can judge what is the real, what is the counterfeit? Some authors I may look to concerning these questions are Herman Melville, William Wells Brown, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Cultural texts to draw from include the various counterfeit manuals of the nineteenth century, economic legislation concerning banks and currency regulation, as well as political debates surrounding the monetary standard: Should value be grounded in gold, silver, or simply in a communal trust in the government’s good word? Katharine Fama Research Interests: *Shared perceptions of twentieth century American civic and cultural identities, middle-class identity in relation to concepts of “Americanization”, homogenization, and conformity, subjectivity in modern fiction in relation to urban spaces and the development of a contemporary alienation from culture, tradition, and history. Broader interests: Italian-American culture and whiteness studies, as well as the culture of the postindustrial city and its urban subjects. Bertin Magloire Louis, Jr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. His research interests include Cultural Identity, Diasporas, Haitian Protestantism, Transnationalism and Diversity in Graduate Education. He has lectured on these topics in Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and Southern Africa. At Washington University he is a Chancellor’s Fellow and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American Culture Studies. In 2007 he became an Inaugural Member of the Washington University Chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at Yale University. Some of his other most recent awards are a Fulbright Award from the International Institute of Education, the National Dean’s List Award, a Lambda Alpha Collegiate Honor Society for Anthropology Award, and the Washington University International and Area Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant. With his Fulbright award for the 2005 academic year he completed his doctoral dissertation research in Nassau, Bahamas focusing on religious conversion and denominational choice among Protestant Haitians in Baptist, Nazarene and Interdenominational churches. He is currently completing his dissertation titled: “PROTESTANT OR CHRISTIAN”: SYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES AND LONG-DISTANCE NATIONALISM AMONG PROTESTANT HAITIANS IN NASSAU, BAHAMAS. For information about his research go to his website at: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~bmlouis. Nicholas Miller My scholarly interests are perhaps best shelved under the title of Early American Literature, though I find myself resisting both ‘early’ and ‘American’ as useful terms. Instead, I am interested in developing a new sense of ‘early America’ by rethinking the various geographies of identity that shaped this hemisphere prior to the nineteenth century, and by mapping the influence of its literature abroad. Other research interests include religion, race mixture, the digital humanities, gender performance, cartography, and the literature of travel. During the academic off-season, I enjoy reading Wilkie Collins, Mikhail Bulgakov, Lorrie Moore, and Charles Brockden Brown.
Scott Taylor Morris The orientation of my research in Revolutionary American legal history has incorporated the cultural implications of religion and republican virtue in lawmaking and enforcement. Law itself can be a textual window into the political and the cultural trends current with a society. The study of law in a historical context requires an investigation of the cultural climate from which the law originated. These ideas guided my master's paper '"For the Suppression of Vice and Immorality: Vice, Community, and Law in Revolutionary America," which explored the practical legal effects of the emphasis on "republican virtue" as well as some of the guiding principles and conflicts behind the legal arguments. This is the line of research that I hope to continue in the dissertation. Eric Repice I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department, and a MFA Candidate in the School of Art. My interests and research are grounded in my training in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and my practice as an artist. I have studied and participated in community mural projects and public art forms in St. Louis, Missouri and San Francisco, California. My dissertation research combines my interests in contemporary art practice, education, and cultural theory. For this research I am studying art training at the graduate level and exploring questions of pedagogy in the arts by going through the Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking at Washington University. In the process, I am foregrounding questions of agency, practice, and experience in trying to understand how and in what contexts artists approach their work and the idea of work. I am very influenced in my thinking by the writings of John Dewey on art and experience. I am also interested in exploring non-textual strategies for exploring these questions. Finally, for the last two years I have taught the Rodriguez scholars’ seminar titled “Latino Experiences in the U.S.” in which we explore a range of topics and approaches to thinking about how Latinos are shaped by and reshaping life in the United States. Michelle Repice My research interests deal with the effects of the automobile on American urban development and culture during the interwar period. More specifically, I plan to explore how the move to private transportation in the early and mid-twentieth century affected residential development and conceptions of time and space in American cities as the increasingly widespread use of the automobile allowed for individual commuting. My dissertation research will focus on the car not only as an important consumption good, but also as a means of transforming cities and ideas of mobility and privacy in American culture. Daniel Scallet I intend to focus my studies on the Second Seminole War, occurring from 1836-1842. The longest of many Indian Wars, the Seminole War represented a unique cultural, political, and physical battleground in which racial and national identities shifted and evolved for whites, Indians, and African-Americans in the state. I hope to chart the cultural effects of this war within Florida and throughout the rest of the nation. Jennie Sutton Race and representation in turn-of-the-century popular culture pose questions that interest me: What was the social context of visual culture, such as comic strips? How were race, class, and gender drawn across the pages of Hearst and Pulitzer’s papers? How did images of Africans in popular culture shape Americans’ self-understanding at this time? Whose visions of Africa were portrayed and whose interests did these representations serve? I have pursued these questions, which will shape my dissertation, in two recent research projects (sponsored by American Culture Studies courses). First, I closely analyzed the characters, plot, and visual delight of the early comic strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland.” Second, I researched archives to learn about a concession at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the Traansvaal Spectacle, in which hundreds of Boer War veterans reenacted key battles twice daily. Braden Welborn I am curious about how representations (and realities) of place and space are connected to language, gender, class, and race in American history and literature. Right now, I am interested in the literary portrayal pf the Great Migration of African Americans (and, later, Appalachian whites) to Midwestern cities during the first half of the 20th century. I also want to examine the role of both tangible and imagined boundaries in personal narratives of the 20th-century American protest movements. An eclectic career has initiated these interests in cultural geography: working with oral history interviews at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; addressing educational adequacy and equity at the A+ Education Foundation of Alabama; and empowering undergraduates to ask -- and answer -- compelling questions about place. For example, one first-year writing course that I designed, titles "Southern Belles and Southern Bellies," raised connections between race, gender, class, and various manifestations of Southern-ness, including Gone With the Wind, WPA-era folk music, food, "redneck" jokes, outsider art, and similar topics. Former Fellows
Scott Hendrickson, Ph.D., 2006 I am currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA. My research focuses on American politics and institutions, with a specific emphasis on judicial politics and law. My dissertation examines the role the constitutional guarantees of tenure during good behavior and protection from salary reduction play in the decision making of federal judges. Existing studies of decision making have not yet addressed this question because they focus on life tenured judges and, thus, are unable to manipulate the key independent variable—the tenure and salary protection status of judges. From historical research on the U.S. federal judiciary, I identify two areas of law (tax and customs) in which Congress has created a court system that allows judges who receive the benefit of these guarantees Article III court judges), as well as judges who do not receive the benefit of these guarantees (Article I court judges), to decide legally and factually similar cases. I then use statistical analysis of original data to compare the decisions of these judges in these cases in order to determine what effect this institutional difference has on judicial decision making. My teaching interests also focus on American politics, judicial politics and law. In addition to teaching an introductory course in American politics, I have also taught a class on civil rights law. For more information about my scholarly interests, see my website. Heidi Kolk, Ph.D., 2003 I am currently Head of Writing I and Director of Writing Courses, for the Department of English and a lecturer in English who teaches in American Culture Studies. Before returning to Washington University in May 2004, I was Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, where I taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Early American literature and culture. In January 2005, I started a 6-month research residency, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, at the Winterthur Library in Delaware, where I worked with an archive of travel-related material culture. I am currently working on a book that treats the subject of antebellum America’s cultish fascination with the souvenirs and artifacts of travel. These include guidebooks, travel diaries, portfolios, sketchbooks, and illustrated gift-books that were part of a complex ritual of literary pilgrimage and collecting she relates to performances of social and cultural connoisseurship. |
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