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Dustin Abnet is a historian and American Studies scholar who specializes in the cultural and intellectual histories of science and technology and work and leisure in the United States.  He is the author of The American Robot: A Cultural History  opens in a new window (U Chicago Press, 2020) which examines the development of the idea of the robot in America from the eighteenth century to the present as it relates to larger ideas of human identity and social power.  He is currently working on his next book project which is tentatively entitled, “So You Want to Be a Hero”: Power, Purpose, and Play in the American Multiverse.   In the book, he explores the larger cultural, social, and political implications of  tranformations of play since the 1960s.  At CSUF, he teaches courses on Popular Culture, Consumer Culture, Sports, Games, Technology, and Digital Culture.  

Ph.D., Indiana University, 2013

M.A., Miami University, 2006  

CV, Summer 2024 PDF file type

Courses Taught
M.A.  Examination Fields
  • Leisure and Consumption
  • Work and Class
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Institutions and Ideals
  • The National and the Global
  • Technology and Culture (Alternative Field)
Publications
  • The American Robot:  A Cultural History   (March 2020, U-Chicago Press)
  • “Escaping the Robot’s Loop: Power and Purpose, Myth and History in Westworld’s Manufactured Frontier” in Antonia Mackay and Alex Goody, eds. Reading Westworld, (New York:  Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).
  • “Americanizing the Robot: Popular Culture, Race, and the Rise of a Global Consumer Icon, 1920-1960” ICON, the Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Summer 2022
  • "Teaching the American Multiverse: Power, Agency, and Identity in an Age of Consumer Choice," in Paul Booth, ed. Entering the Multiverse: Perspectives on Alternate Universes and Parallel Worlds  opens in a new window, Routledge, 2024
Other Work

Dustin Abnet, Ph.D.

subfield

  • History of Technology
  • Digital Culture
  • Popular Culture
  • Intellectual and Scientific History
  • Material Culture
  • Consumer Culture
  • Work and Labor

      Mary Anderson

            Judson Barber

                  Christina Barbieri

                        Randolph Baxter

                              James Biggs

                                    Patrick Covert-Ortiz

                                          David Donley

                                                Sandra Falero

                                                      Biography

                                                      Sara Fingal is a historian and American Studies scholar who specializes in environmental history and borderlands. Her book manuscript and current research is centered on American beach culture and conflicts over coastal access in California and Baja California, Mexico during mid to late twentieth century. Additionally, she is working on an article on civil rights protests on the shoreline of Chicago during the 1960s. At CSUF, she teaches about California Cultures, Nature, the West, and research methods. 

                                                      Courses Taught
                                                      • AMST350: Seminar in Theory and Methods of American Studies 
                                                      • AMST395: California Cultures 
                                                      • AMST401T: American Culture and Nature 
                                                      • AMST404: Americans and Nature 
                                                      • AMST449: American West in Symbol and Myth
                                                      • AMST 495: Internship in American Studies
                                                      • AMST502T: American Space, Place, and Architecture 
                                                      • AMST 595: Internship in American Studies
                                                      • AMST596: Teaching Tutorial 
                                                      M.A.  Examination Fields
                                                      • Culture and Environment 
                                                      • Consumption and Leisure 
                                                      • Race and Ethnicity
                                                      • Alternative Fields
                                                      Publications

                                                      Articles, Peer Reviewed

                                                      • Latinx Environmentalism.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford  University Press. Article published January 2019: 1-20.
                                                      • “Your House es Mi Casa: American Homebuyers in the Baja California Borderlands, 1964-1989,” Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 49, Issue 1, Spring 2018: 17–41.

                                                      Essays and Chapters: 

                                                      • “Paraíso ‘for Sale”: Visions of Baja California in the Modern California Empire,” California History, Vol. 91, Number 2, Summer 2014: 74-75.
                                                      • “Designing Conservation at the Sea Ranch,” Environmental History, Vol. 18, Issue 1, January 2013: 185-190.  

                                                      Book Reviews

                                                      • Review of Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California’s Shore. By Thomas J. Osborne. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017, 227 pp., $34.95 paper). Reviewed by Sara Fingal. Southern California Quarterly Vol. 100, No. 3, Fall 2018: 375-377.
                                                      Other Work

                                                      Current Research Projects

                                                      • A Right to the Beach: Battles for California’s Coast and Making Postwar Environmentalism (ongoing book manuscript, under advanced contract with the University of Washington Weyerhauser Environmental Books Series)

                                                      Sara Fingal, Ph.D.

                                                      subfield

                                                      • North American Borderlands
                                                      • Culture and Environment
                                                      • California Cultures
                                                      • Race and Ethnicity

                                                          Biography

                                                          Adam Golub writes and teaches about popular culture, literature, music, monsters, and childhood in the United States. He is co-editor of Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us (McFarland, 2017) and the author of numerous essays on topics including fandom, true crime, zombies, the blues, the history of education, and 1950s film and literature. His scholarship has appeared in Film and History, American Quarterly, Crime Fiction Studies, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Hybrid Pedagogy, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, and elsewhere. He also writes fiction and teaches a course on creative work in American Studies. Professor Golub is a former high school English teacher who also worked in secondary teacher education before coming to Cal State Fullerton. His current book project is a study of the doppelgänger in American culture, from Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” to Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Jordan Peele’s Us.  

                                                          He was recently interviewed by ABC News, The Washington Post  opens in a new window,   Rolling Stone (on Jeffrey Dahmer) opens in a new window, Rolling Stone (on TikTok and the Idaho murders) opens in a new window,   The Independent  opens in a new window, USA Today  opens in a new window, HowStuffWorks opens in a new window, ITV Woo opens in a new window, dot.LA, opens in a new window and CSUF News opens in a new window on the topic of true crime and popular culture. 

                                                          Ph.D., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

                                                          M.A.T., English, Boston College

                                                          B.A., English, Vassar College

                                                          Courses Taught
                                                          M.A. Theses and Examination Fields
                                                          • Consumption and Leisure
                                                          • Institutions and Ideals
                                                          • The National and the Global
                                                          • Literature and Culture (Alternative Field)
                                                          • Childhood, Youth, and Education (Alternative Field)
                                                          • Creativity and Expressive Forms (Alternative Field)
                                                          • Monsters and Horror (Alternative Field)
                                                          Publications

                                                          Books

                                                          Book Chapters

                                                          • "Locating Monsters: Space, Place, and Monstrous Geographies," in Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us, ed. Golub and Hayton. 
                                                          • "Introduction: Monstrous Pedagogies," co-authored with Heather Richardson Hayton, in Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us ed. Golub and Hayton.

                                                          Journal Articles

                                                          Creative Work

                                                          Public Writing

                                                          Book Reviews

                                                          Other Work

                                                          Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

                                                          • 2022 Project upGRADS, Graduate Program Grant for Admissions Improvement, CSUF
                                                          • 2021 Summer Grant for Faculty Support on Scholarly Productivity, CSUF
                                                          • 2019 Explore Core Course Development Award, CSUF
                                                          • 2018  Faculty Legacy Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activity and Innovations in Pedagogy, CSUF
                                                          • 2016  Dean's Research Award for Associate Professors, CSUF 
                                                          • 2015  Recognition of Extraordinary and Sustained Service, CSUF
                                                          • 2011  Teacher Scholars Award for Exceptional Teaching Effectiveness, CSUF
                                                          • 2010  Award for Achievement in Scholarly and Creative Activities, CSUF
                                                          • 2009  CSU, Special Fund for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
                                                          • 2008  CSU, Special Fund for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
                                                          • 2007  HSSC/Haynes Research Stipend on Los Angeles and Southern California History
                                                          • 2005  Freeman Asian Studies Grant, Faculty development trip to Japan
                                                          • 2002  Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education
                                                          • 2001  University Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

                                                          Invited Lectures and Public Talks

                                                          • "The History and Ethics of True Crime," Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, CSUF, April 4, 2023.
                                                          • Panelist, "SERIAL, True Crime, and Podcasting's Golden Age," Webinar, Penn State Center for American Literary Studies, January 20, 2023.
                                                          • "Know Your Doppelganger: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Uncanny," Humanities and Social Sciences Lectures Series, California State University, October 2022.
                                                          • “Zombies Are Us: The Undead and our Imagined Community,” Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture Series, California State University, Fullerton, October 2018
                                                          • “Making Sense of Monsters: Pedagogy, Collaboration, Creativity,” CSUF American Studies Graduate-Faculty Colloquium, October 2015
                                                          • “American Youth Culture in the 1950s: On the Road and Around the World,” Teaching American History Grant workshop, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, January 2013
                                                          • “John Dewey vs. the Terrible Miss Dove: Education and Popular Culture in Postwar America,” CSUF American Studies Graduate-Faculty Colloquium, November 2011
                                                          • "The American Studies Habit of Mind," Pedagogical Keynote Address, The American Studies Institute, The Lovett School, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2010
                                                          • “Danger! They’re After Our Schools! Education, Popular Culture, and the Cold War,” CSUF American Studies Graduate-Faculty Colloquium, November 2008 

                                                          Conference Presentations

                                                          • "Seeking Doubles: Doppelgangers and the Digital Uncanny," Center for Monster Studies Festival of Monsters Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, to be presented October 2023
                                                          • "Creative Work as Equipment for Living," Northeast Modern Language Association, virtual conference, March 2021
                                                          • Discussant, “The Informal Educator: The Varied Educational Functions of Twentieth Century Popular Culture, 1920-1985, History of Education Society, virtual conference, November 2020
                                                          • "America's Shadow Self: The Cultural Work of the Doppelganger in Contemporary Literature and Film," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, April 2020
                                                          • "Monsters on Screen: American Culture and the Monstrous," Long Beach Indie International Film, Media, and Music Festival, September 2016 
                                                          • "Teaching Comics as Literature in the University Classroom," Comic Arts Conference, Comic-Con International, San Diego, July 2016
                                                          • “From Sleepy Hollow to the Shopping Mall: Space, Place, and Monster Pedagogy,” Monstrous Geographies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2015
                                                          • “Solving the Education Crisis in Popular Culture: A Cultural History of Why Johnny Can’t Read,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Washington, D.C., March 2013
                                                          • “Cultivating the American Studies Habit of Mind,” California American Studies Association, Long Beach, April 2010
                                                          • Chair and comment, “Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program, “American Studies Association, Albuquerque, October 2008
                                                          • “’Danger!  They’re After Our Schools!’: Education and Politics in Postwar Pasadena,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2008
                                                          • “Teaching the American Studies Habit of Mind,” American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 2007
                                                          • “American Studies and the Transnational Classroom,” American Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 2006
                                                          • “Secondary School Partnerships at a Small Liberal Arts College,” North Carolina Teacher Education Forum, Raleigh, September 2006
                                                          • “From The Blackboard Jungle to Battle Royale: Gakkyu Hokai (“Classroom Collapse”) in Japan,” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 2005
                                                          • “Japan’s Blackboard Jungle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth Violence,” Society for the History of Children and Youth, Milwaukee, August 2005
                                                          • Chair and comment, “American Studies and Composition,” American Studies Association, Atlanta, November 2004
                                                          • “Is Your School a Blackboard Jungle?": Mass Culture and Education Reform in Postwar America,” American Studies Association, Hartford, October 2003
                                                          • “Excitement, then Sociology: Marketing The Blackboard Jungle in 1950s America,” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2003
                                                          • “Reforming the 'Soft' Curriculum: Manliness and Education in the Cold War,” American Studies Association, Houston, November 2002
                                                          • “The Blues as Matrix: Using the Blues to Teach Writing in the Computer Classroom,” Computers and Writing, Fort Worth, TX, May 2000
                                                          • “Pullman Lessons: Railroads, Race, and Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” American Studies Association, Montreal, October 1999
                                                          • “Everybody's Protest Song: Gender Erasure in Invisible Man and Louis Armstrong's 'Black and Blue',” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, April 1998
                                                          • Student Mentoring
                                                            Faculty Sponsor, Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Program, CSUF, Awarded to Corrigan Vaughan, 2012-2013

                                                          MA Thesis Committees

                                                          • Aisha Monks-Husain, “Processes of Belonging: Immigrant Identity and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Ramy and Never Have I Ever," Fall 2021
                                                          • Christina Brown, "Shaping the Story: The Poetry, Television, and Dance of the #MeToo Movement," Spring 2020 (CHAIR)
                                                          • Susan Mitchell, “The Shadows of Assimilation: Narratives and Legacies of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School, 1879-1918,” Summer 2017
                                                          • Sukeinah Kassir, "Missions in Miniature: Cultural Constructions of California's Mission Past," Summer 2014 (CHAIR)
                                                          • Ekaterina Kuzmina, "Russians in Post-Cold War American Films: Still a Foe or a Friend-to-Be? Looking for a Cultural Reset," Spring 2014
                                                          • Yvonne England, "A Punk Practice: The Development of Punk Political Activism, 1974-2000," Spring 2013 (CHAIR)
                                                          • Ian Barraza, "Lend Me Your Ears: Attending to Deaf Culture and the Maneuverability of Identity," Spring 2013. *Winner of CSUF 2012 Giles T. Brown Outstanding Thesis Award
                                                          • Jason Cannon, "George Orwell's Animal Farm in the Post-Soviet Union Era," Spring 2012
                                                          • Matt Glassman, "The Ball Don't Lie: Cultural Tension and the Commodification of Hip-Hop Authenticity in the 1990s NBA," Spring 2010

                                                          Adam Golub, Ph.D.

                                                          subfield

                                                          • Popular Culture
                                                          • History of Childhood, Youth, and Education
                                                          • Fandom
                                                          • Monster and Horror Studies 

                                                              Biography

                                                              Professor Gonzaba is a historian of race and sexuality  in America. His current research is focused on the politics of pleasure and leisure in the modern United States. He's currently working on a book manuscript on the history and culture of gay male nightlife since 1970. Gonzaba's work has previously been supported by grants and fellowships from the Point Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. 

                                                              Gonzaba is the creator of several public digital humanities projects. In 2014, he founded  Wearing Gay History , an award-winning online archive that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people through t-shirts. It won the National Council on Public History's top student prize in 2016.  More recently, he and Dr. Amanda Regan are working on a digital mapping project that investigates ignored queer geography and spaces since 1965 entitled  Mapping the Gay Guides.  In 2021, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the project a grant to fund a multi-year expansion of the site.

                                                              In January 2021, Gonzaba began his term as co-chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, an affiliated society of the American Historical Association.

                                                              Courses Taught
                                                              • AMST 201: Introduction to American Studies (Anxiety & the Making of America)
                                                              • AMST 350: Theories & Methods in American Studies
                                                              • AMST 401T: Race in American Culture
                                                              • AMST 401T: Civil Rights & American Culture
                                                              • AMST 401T: War in American Culture
                                                              • AMST 454: American Nightlife
                                                              • AMST 502T: Sex, Pleasure, and Desire in American Culture
                                                              M.A. Theses and Examination Fields
                                                              • Gender and Sexuality 
                                                              • Race and Ethnicity
                                                              • Consumption and Leisure
                                                              • Alternative Field (please consult with Professor Gonzaba)
                                                              Recent Presentations
                                                              • “The Queer Battle for Capitol Hill: Marines and Violence at D.C. Gay & Lesbian Nightlife,” Invited speaker, 2020 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2-5, 2020
                                                              • “Sex and Desire,” panel commentator, American Studies Association's 2019 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 10, 2019
                                                              • “The Queer T-shirt in Our National History,” Invited PLATO lecture, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, November 1, 2019
                                                              • “(In)Visible Histories: Roundtable Discussion on LGBT Rights 50 Years after Stonewall” Invited talk at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2019
                                                              • “Our Queer Closets: Understanding Global LGBTQ History Though T-shirts" Invited lecture at the Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, May 30, 2019
                                                              • “Protect the Blood: Visual Culture and Black Resistance to the Mid Atlantic AIDS Crisis," Committee on LGBT History's and the GLBT Historical Society's Queer History Conference 2019, San Francisco, California, June 17, 2019
                                                              • “Where Else Can We Go?: The Black Gay Bar in the Urban Mid Atlantic,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, January 6, 2019
                                                              Digital Projects

                                                              Eric Gonzaba, Ph.D.

                                                              subfield

                                                              • Race and Sexuality
                                                              • African American History
                                                              • LGBT history
                                                              • Pleasure and nightlife cultures

                                                                  Matthew Haskins

                                                                  subfield

                                                                  • Lecturer in American Studies

                                                                      Michael Hawkins

                                                                            Ariella Horwitz

                                                                                  Brande Jackson

                                                                                        Biography

                                                                                        My research, work, and teaching relate to the following areas: Ethnography and Community Studies of the U.S.; 20th century U.S. history; Prisons and Society; Cultures of Security and Militarism; Poverty and Inequality; Public Memory and Public Humanities; Theories and Methods of American Studies; Rural and Postindustrial Communities.

                                                                                        Courses Taught
                                                                                        • AMST 301 American Character
                                                                                        • AMST 350 Theories and Methods of American Studies
                                                                                        • AMST 405 Images of Crime and Violence in American Culture
                                                                                        • AMST 439 American Photographs as Cultural Evidence
                                                                                        • AMST 502T Public Memory
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                                                                                        Alison Kanosky, Ph.D.

                                                                                        subfield

                                                                                        • Crime
                                                                                        • Prisons and Society
                                                                                        • Cultures of Security and Militarism
                                                                                        • Community Studies

                                                                                            Biography

                                                                                            Dr. Carrie Lane studies the changing nature of work in the United States. Her most recent book, More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working, considers what the professional industry can teach us about how we live, work, and connect in contemporary America. Professor Lane teaches about work, community, gender, disability, and interdisciplinary research methods. She co-edits the Anthropology of Contemporary North American book series at University of Nebraska Press and is Associate Editor of the "Jobs We Had" at the online journal Exertions. Professor Lane has also led study abroad trips to South Africa, Denmark, and Indonesia.   

                                                                                            Courses Taught
                                                                                            M.A. Examination Fields
                                                                                            • Work and Class
                                                                                            • Institutions and Ideals
                                                                                            • The National and the Global
                                                                                            • Consumption and Leisure
                                                                                            • Gender and Sexuality
                                                                                            Publications

                                                                                            Books

                                                                                            Edited Volume

                                                                                            Journal Articles

                                                                                            Book Chapters

                                                                                            Solicited Articles

                                                                                            Book Reviews

                                                                                            • The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives by Jonathan Malesic, American Studies Journal (forthcoming 2023)
                                                                                            • My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries by Elizabeth Chin, American Ethnologist 45.1 (February 2018): 129-130.
                                                                                            • Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone  opens in a new window PDF file type  by Paul Osterman and Beth Shulman, Contemporary Sociology 42.3 (2013): 410-11.
                                                                                            • Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress by Candacy Taylor, Anthropology of Work Review (2012): 49-51.    
                                                                                            • The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work by Miliann Kang, American Ethnologist 39.2 (2012): 462-3.
                                                                                            • Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market by William Finlay and James E. Coverdill, Anthropology of Work Review24.1-2 (2003): 35-36
                                                                                            • Minding the Store and Quest for the Best by Stanley Marcus, Journal of South Texas 16.1 (2003): 119-121.
                                                                                            • Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace by Jackie Krasas Rogers, Anthropology of Work Review 22.2 (2001): 32-33.
                                                                                            Current Project

                                                                                            Professor Lane is completing a book on the growing field of professional organizing, in which organizers help clients organize their spaces, belongings, and schedules. Lane interviewed organizers and their clients in cities across the country (but especially in Los Angeles and Orange County), worked alongside organizers as an unpaid assistant, and attending professional meetings, industry conferences, and organizing workshops. This study considers what this fascinating and fast-growing industry can tell us about the changing nature of work and life in the contemporary United States. 

                                                                                            Carrie Lane, Ph.D.

                                                                                            subfield

                                                                                            • Work and Careers
                                                                                            • Ethnography
                                                                                            • Disability
                                                                                            • Research Ethics
                                                                                            • American Communities

                                                                                                Biography

                                                                                                Elaine Lewinnek is an urban historian and American Studies scholar who also coordinates the Environmental Studies Program opens in a new window at California State University, Fullerton. She is co-author of A People’s Guide to Orange County  opens in a new window (University of California Press, 2022) and author of The Working Man’s Reward: Chicago’s Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl (Oxford University Press, 2014), as well as the author of articles on environmental history, public memory, and suburban history. She teaches courses on California’s cultural history, the built environment, the natural environment, food, theory, public memory, and the American dream.

                                                                                                Courses Taught
                                                                                                • AMST 101, Questioning America
                                                                                                • AMST 201, Introduction to American Studies
                                                                                                • AMST 345, The American Dream
                                                                                                • AMST 350, Theory and Methods of American Studies
                                                                                                • AMST 395, California's Cultural History
                                                                                                • AMST 401T, Research Seminar in Suburban Culture
                                                                                                • AMST 401T, Research Seminar in Stories of Los Angeles
                                                                                                • AMST 404, Americans and Nature
                                                                                                • AMST 416, Southern California Culture
                                                                                                • AMST 418, Food and American Culture
                                                                                                • AMST 444, American Placemaking
                                                                                                • AMST 449, Frontiers and Borderlands in American Culture
                                                                                                • AMST 488, Race, Sex, and the City
                                                                                                • ENST 520, Research Methods in Environmental Studies
                                                                                                • ENST 595T, Sustaining Southern California 
                                                                                                • HONR 303T, Food Studies
                                                                                                • Internship, thesis, and independent study courses in AMST and ENST
                                                                                                M.A. Examination Fields
                                                                                                • Culture and Environment
                                                                                                • Work and Class
                                                                                                • Race and Ethnicity 
                                                                                                Publications

                                                                                                BOOKS

                                                                                                BOOK CHAPTERS

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                Elaine Margaret Lewinnek, Ph.D.

                                                                                                subfield

                                                                                                • Urban History
                                                                                                • Suburbanization
                                                                                                • California History
                                                                                                • Public Memory

                                                                                                    Craig Loftin

                                                                                                          Ashley Loup

                                                                                                                Amanda Perez

                                                                                                                      Natasha Popowich

                                                                                                                            Arlene Ring

                                                                                                                                  Biography

                                                                                                                                  Kristin Denise Rowe (“Kris”) is a teacher and interdisciplinary scholar of body politics, beauty culture, race, gender, and popular culture.

                                                                                                                                  Her forthcoming book project examines narratives within art and popular culture of Black women’s experiences with natural hair, within the context of the contemporary natural hair movement. Kris's work has been featured in journals including Journal of American Culture, Women and Language, Open Cultural Studies, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Her work has been supported by entities such as the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, funded by the Mellon Foundation. 

                                                                                                                                  Kris has been quoted in publications such as   The Washington Post opens in a new window ,   Refinery 29  opens in a new window,   Travel Noire,  opens in a new window  “The Lily opens in a new window” by The Washington Post, “Unbothered opens in a new window”  by Refinery 29,  Byrdie opens in a new window, and The Orange County Register  opens in a new window. She was also featured in the docu-series The Black Beauty Effect opens in a new window produced by FaceForward Productions and now streaming on Netfix. Kris has written for outlets such as CRWN opens in a new window magazine, The Body is Not an Apology, CurlyNikki opens in a new window , and The Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion  opens in a new window

                                                                                                                                  Kris has also taught in African American Studies at CSUF, where she is listed as a faculty affiliate. Kris earned her doctorate in African American and African Studies (with a certification in Women's and Gender Studies) at Michigan State University in May 2019. 

                                                                                                                                  Courses Taught
                                                                                                                                  • AMST 300: Introduction to American Popular Culture 
                                                                                                                                  • AMST 377: Prejudice in American Culture
                                                                                                                                  • AMST 401T:  Proseminar in American Studies - “The Body in American Culture”
                                                                                                                                  • AMST 401T: Proseminar in American Studies - “Drugs in American Culture”
                                                                                                                                  • AMST 412: Women, Race, & Ethnicity in American Culture
                                                                                                                                  • AFAM 356: African American Music Appreciation
                                                                                                                                  M.A. Theses and Examination Fields
                                                                                                                                  • Race and Ethnicity
                                                                                                                                  • Gender and Sexuality
                                                                                                                                  • Consuption and Leisure
                                                                                                                                  Publications
                                                                                                                                  • Rowe, Kristin Denise. “Embodied Absence: Black Womanhood, Beauty, and Exploring “Body Neutrality.” Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty Special Issue: “Black Beauty: Perspectives, Views and Representations” (Forthcoming, TBA). 
                                                                                                                                  • Rowe, Kristin Denise. “‘Unmanageable’: Exploring Black Girlhood, Storytelling, and Ideas of Beauty.” Open Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (October 2022).
                                                                                                                                  • Rowe, Kristin Denise. “Rooted: On Black Women, Beauty, Hair, and Embodiment” in The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics Ed. By Maxine Leeds Craig (Routledge, 2021).
                                                                                                                                  • Rowe, Kristin Denise. "'Beyond 'Becky with the Good Hair’: Hair, Beauty, and Interiority in Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s ‘Sorry.'” eds. Baade. C, Smith, M., and McGee, K. Beyoncé in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times (Wesleyan University Press, 2021).
                                                                                                                                  • Rowe, Kristin Denise. “'Nothing Else Mattered After That Wig Came Off’: Black Women, Hair, and Scenes of Interiority.” Journal of American Culture, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2019): 21-36.
                                                                                                                                  • Rowe, Kristin Denise. “Beyond ‘Good Hair’: Negotiating Hair Politics Through African American Language.” Women and Language, Vol. 42, No. 1 (May 2019) doi: 10.34036/WL.2019.004
                                                                                                                                  • Randolph, Antonia, Holly Swan, and Kristin Denise Rowe. “That $hit Ain’t Gangsta’: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018): 609-639.
                                                                                                                                  Awards
                                                                                                                                  • Career Enhance Fellowship, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Mellon Program (Research leave 2022-2023)
                                                                                                                                  • Inaugural Article of the Year Award (2019). Women and Language. Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 
                                                                                                                                  • Dean’s Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award, California State University Fullerton, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                                                                                                  Kristin Denise Rowe ("Kris"), Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                  subfield

                                                                                                                                  • Body Politics
                                                                                                                                  • Beauty Culture
                                                                                                                                  • Hair Politics
                                                                                                                                  • Black and Women of Color Feminisms
                                                                                                                                  • Popular Culture
                                                                                                                                  • Cultural studies
                                                                                                                                  • Social Media

                                                                                                                                      Biography

                                                                                                                                      Terri L. Snyder is a historian and American Studies scholar whose research focuses on the history of gender, race, and the law in British North America. She is, most recently, a co-editor with Erica L. Ball and Tatiana Seijas of the collective biography, As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2020).  She has authored two books: The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (University of Chicago Press, 2015); and Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia (Cornell University Press, 2003). Her work has also appeared in the Journal of American History, the Law and History Review, and the William and Mary Quarterly. Professor Snyder is a member of the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and an OAH Distinguished Lecturer.  She teaches introductory courses on American Studies and advanced courses on early American history and culture, fashion, and the history of women and gender in the U.S.

                                                                                                                                      Courses Taught
                                                                                                                                      • AMST 201: Introduction to American Studies
                                                                                                                                      • AMST 451: Fashion in American Culture
                                                                                                                                      M.A. Examination Fields
                                                                                                                                      • Gender and Sexuality
                                                                                                                                      • Race and Ethnicity
                                                                                                                                      • Work and Class
                                                                                                                                      • The National and the Global
                                                                                                                                      • Institutions and Ideals
                                                                                                                                      Publications

                                                                                                                                      Current Book Projects:

                                                                                                                                      • "American Women in London in the Age of Revolution"
                                                                                                                                      • “Marriage, Slavery, and the Meaning of Freedom in Early North America""

                                                                                                                                      Books:

                                                                                                                                      • Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, eds. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of  Women and Emancipation in the Americas.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
                                                                                                                                      • Terri L. Snyder. The Power to Die:  Slavery and Suicide in British North America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.  Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 2016.
                                                                                                                                      • Terri L. Snyder.  Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 2003.

                                                                                                                                      Articles:

                                                                                                                                      • “The Trafficking of Elisha Webb: Black Freedom Claims in British North America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 79 (April 2022): 211-240.
                                                                                                                                      • Shawn Halifx and Terri L. Snyder. "Slavery, Resistance, and Memory in the Lowcountry: The Commemoration of the Stono Rebellion.” Edited by James O’Neil Spady, ed. with a Foreward by Manisha Sinha. Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press, 2022.
                                                                                                                                      • Terri L. Snyder and Cornelia Hughes Dayton. “Women in the Law in Early America," in A Companion to American Women’s History. Second edition. Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne Valk.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Suicide, Slavery, and Epidemics: A Perspective from Early Modern British America,” in The SHAPE of Epidemics: Socio-Historical, Artistic, Political and Ecological Expressions of Global Disease. Andrea Patterson and Ian Reed, editors. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
                                                                                                                                      •  "Women, Race, and the Law in Early British America," American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias (Oxford University Press, 2015), 1-17.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Jane Webb and Her Family:  Life Stories and the Law in Early Virginia,” in Virginia Women:  Their Lives and Times, vol. I,  eds. Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway (Athens, GA:  University of Georgia Press, 2015), 64-93.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Refiguring Women in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser. (July 2012), 421-450.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Marriage on the Margins:  Free Wives, Enslaved Husbands, and the Law in the Early American South,” Law and History Review, vol. 30 (February, 2012), 141-171.  Winner, A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2013.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America,” Journal of American History, vol. 97, no. 1 (June 2010), 39-62.  Winner, Judith Lee Ridge Best Article Prize, Western Association of Women Historians, 2011.  Reprinted in Edward T. Linenthal, James Sabanthe, and Jason Stacy, eds. Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History (New York: Oxford University, Press, forthcoming). 
                                                                                                                                      •   “’To Seeke For Justice’:  Mastery, Gender, and the Law in Early Virginia,” Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion,. Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs, eds. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2011: 128-157.
                                                                                                                                      •  “What Historians Talk About When They Talk About Suicide:  The View From Early Modern British North America,” History Compass 5 (March 2007):  658-674.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Sexual Consent and Sexual Coercion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia,” in Merrill Smith, ed., Sexual Coercion in Early America (New York, 2001), 46-60.
                                                                                                                                      •  [John G. Kolp, co-author] "Women and the Political Culture of Eighteenth-Century Virginia:  Gender, Property, and Voting Rights," The Many Legalities of Early America, eds. Bruce Mann and Christopher Tomlins (Chapel Hill, 2001), 272-292. *Reprinted in Major Problems in American Women’s History:  Documents and Essays, 5th ed., eds. Sharon Block, Ruth Alexander, and Mary Beth Norton (New York: Cengage Learning, 2014), 119-125.
                                                                                                                                      •  "'As if there was not master or woman in the land':  Gender, Dependency, and Household Violence Virginia, 1646-1720" in Over the Threshold:  Intimate Violence in Early America, eds.Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy (New York, 1999), 219-236.
                                                                                                                                      • "Legal History of the Colonial South:  Assessment and Suggestions," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., L (1993), 18-27.

                                                                                                                                      Essays, Forums, and Exhibition Reviews: 

                                                                                                                                      • Review of Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019) in Black Perspectives, the Blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, August, 2019.
                                                                                                                                      • “Life, By the Numbers,” A Forum Review of Richard S. Dunn’s, A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) in the William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., vol. 73 (October 2015), 665-671.
                                                                                                                                      • Terri L. Snyder and Sharon E. Wood.  “The African Burying Ground Memorial Park,” Journal of American History, vol. 102 (December 2015), 800-803.
                                                                                                                                      •  "Jane Webb," African American National Biography, volume 8 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 186-7.
                                                                                                                                      •  “Ordinary People,” Review Essay, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., vol. 60, (2003):  225-229.
                                                                                                                                      • "Lady Frances Berkeley," American National Biography, vol. II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 648-649 and in Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 1998), 450-451.

                                                                                                                                      Published Conference Proceedings:

                                                                                                                                      • [Anne S. Lombard and Lynn Robson, co-authors], "Violence and Masculinities in Early Modern England and British North America," in Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men. Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium, eds. Amy E. Leonard and Karen L. Nelson (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2010), 215-217.

                                                                                                                                      Book Reviews: 

                                                                                                                                      • Journal of the Early Republic; Journal of Southern History; Journal of American History; Law and History Review;Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
                                                                                                                                      Other Work

                                                                                                                                      Selected Recent Fellowships and Awards:

                                                                                                                                      • Andrew Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library (Short-Term), 2015
                                                                                                                                      • National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, 2014-2015. Project Title: "Marriage, Race, and the Meaning of Freedom in Early America"
                                                                                                                                      • Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, 2013, 2014
                                                                                                                                      • Elizabeth A. Taylor Best Article Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2013
                                                                                                                                      • Program in African American History Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2011
                                                                                                                                      • Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Best Article, Western Association of Women Historians, 2011
                                                                                                                                      • Appointment to Distinguished Lectureship Program, Organization of American Historians, 2011-2013, http://lectures.oah.org/lecturers/lecturer.html
                                                                                                                                      • National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Research Award, 2007

                                                                                                                                      Recent CSUF awards include Award for Exceptional Levels of Service (2018-2019); Faculty Enhancement and Instructional Development Grant (2017-2018); College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Summer Research Stipend (2018, 2015, 2014); Senior Faculty Research Grant (2018-2019, 2015-2016), HSS Outstanding Research Award (2012); Faculty Incentive Grant (2013); Milton A. Gordon Fund for Scholarly and Creative Activities, (2012); Senior Faculty Research Grants (2013, 2012, 2012, 2009), H&SS Dean's Support for Summer Research, (2011); and the H&SS Dean's First Book Award (2007).

                                                                                                                                      Invited Lectures and Symposia:

                                                                                                                                      • Ancestries of Enslavement Lecture Series, Center for the Lowcountry and Atlantic World, College of Charleston, November 2019, Charleston, South Carolina.
                                                                                                                                      • Keynote Address, “Women and the Law in Early America,” TENACITY: The Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, September 2019, Williamsburg, Virginia
                                                                                                                                      • Comment, “Digital Research in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly-University of California, Irvine Workshop, October 2018, Irvine, California
                                                                                                                                      •  Convener, “Women in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly-University of Southern California Early Modern Studies Institute Annual Workshop, May 2011, Huntington Library, San Marino, California

                                                                                                                                      Selected Recent Conference Activities:

                                                                                                                                      • Moderator, Roundtable, “Women Claiming Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Resistance Across the Americas,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
                                                                                                                                      • Presenter, “Slavery, Resistance, and Memory in South Carolina and Georgia,” at The Vesey Conspiracy at 200:  Black Antislavery in the Atlantic World, February 2019, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
                                                                                                                                      • Moderator, Roundtable, “Women Claiming Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Resistance Across the Americas,” Part I. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2019, Chicago, Illinois
                                                                                                                                      • Moderator, Roundtable, “Early American Women: Refiguring Presence and Absence,” Western Association of Women Historians Annual Meeting, May 2018, Davis, California
                                                                                                                                      • Chair and Commentator, “Mental Illness and Racialized Medicine in the Slave South,” Society of Historians of the Early Republic Annual Meeting, July 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
                                                                                                                                      • "The Trafficking of Elisha Webb, 1737-1742," Human Trafficking in Early America, McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2014.
                                                                                                                                      • Co-Organizer , "A World of Citizens: Women, History, and the Vision of Linda K. Kerber," a symposium honoring the work of historian Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2012
                                                                                                                                      • Program Committee , Omohondro Institute of Early American History and Culture Eighteenth Annual Conference, held in honor of Robert (Roy) C. Ritchie, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research emeritus, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, June, 2012
                                                                                                                                      • Convener , “Women in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly-University of Southern California Early Modern Studies Institute Annual Workshop, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, May 2011
                                                                                                                                      • Co-organizer and co-author , with Anne S. Lombard and Lynn Robson], "Violence and Masculinities in Early Modern England and British North America," A Workshop; also published in Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men. Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium, edited by Amy E. Leonard and Karen L. Nelson. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, (2011).
                                                                                                                                      •  “Local Legal Culture, Women and the Margins of Freedom in Early Virginia,” Ab Initio: Law in Early America, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June, 2010
                                                                                                                                      •  "Marriage and Gender on the Margins of Freedom in the Early Chesapeake," Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, The Early Chesapeake: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward, Solomon's Island, Maryland, November, 2009
                                                                                                                                      •  “’Wretched, Desperate and Determined to Be Free’: Suicide and Slavery in Early Modern British North America” at the European American Studies Association Meeting, Venice, Italy, December 2008
                                                                                                                                      •  “Researching and Writing the Lives of Unfree Women” Roundtable, 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2008

                                                                                                                                      Terri Snyder, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                      subfield

                                                                                                                                      • Early American Studies
                                                                                                                                      • Gender and Race in Early America

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                                                                                                                                                Biography

                                                                                                                                                Carolyn Thomas graduated from CSU Fullerton in 1994 as an American Studies (and German) major. She’s happy to be back in the department that changed her life and helping today’s American Studies students find ways to make positive change for themselves, their communities, and society. She previously was Fullerton’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs (2020-2023) and before that spent nineteen years as AMS faculty at UC Davis where she also served as department chair, Humanities Institute director, and Undergraduate Education Vice Provost. She received her PHD in 2001 from UT Austin (hook ‘em horns!)

                                                                                                                                                Thomas’ research and teaching has explored material culture, business culture, and the relationship between technology, food, and Americans’ definitions of “health.” She has been featured on NPR and the BBC and is the author of Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweetener from Saccharin to Splenda and The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American as well as two co-edited volumes and over 40 articles on topics including the origins of weight training, the mechanization of tomatoes in California, the fondness for Krispy Kreme donuts in the South, and the ineffectiveness of “diet” foods as weight-loss tools. 

                                                                                                                                                Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin (2001), American Studies

                                                                                                                                                B.A., California State University, Fullerton (1994), American Studies and German (High Honors).

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                                                                                                                                                Courses Taught
                                                                                                                                                • AMST 101: Introduction to American Culture Studies
                                                                                                                                                • AMST 332: Science and Modern America
                                                                                                                                                M.A. Theses and Examination Fields

                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                Publications

                                                                                                                                                Books

                                                                                                                                                Articles/Chapters

                                                                                                                                                • “Navigating a virtual provost search during the pandemic,” with David Forgues in Academic Impressions, March 10, 2021.
                                                                                                                                                • Also published as “Two Perspectives on Navigating A High-Level Search in the  Middle of the Pandemic,” in HR Magazine (Spring 2021).
                                                                                                                                                • “Being Honors Worthy: Lessons in Supporting Transfer Students,” with Eddy Ruiz, Heidi Van Beek, J. David Furlow, and Jennifer Sedell, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 20:1 (Spring/Summer 2019): 79-105.
                                                                                                                                                • “Playing the Long Game: Surviving Fads and Creating Lasting Student Success through Academic Advising,” with Brett McFarlane, in W. Troxel and J. Joslin, Academic Advising Re-Examined, New Directions in Higher Education, vol. 184 (Winter 2018): 97-106.
                                                                                                                                                • “Improving Student Learning through Faculty Empathy in a Hybrid Course Community: A Case Study,” with Jennifer Sedell, Liberal Education, vol. 104, n. 3 (Summer 2018): 48-55.
                                                                                                                                                • “Opinion: UC Davis to First-gen Students: ‘You Belong Here,’” The Hechinger Report, September 26, 2017 (http://hechingerreport.org/opinion–uc–davis–first–gen–students– belong/).
                                                                                                                                                • “Academic Advising and Institutional Success,” Academic Advising Today, March 2017.
                                                                                                                                                • “Advocating for Academic Advising,” with Brett McFarlane, in T.J. Grites, M.A. Miller and J. Givans Voller (editors), Beyond Foundations: Developing as a Master Advisor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, September 2016: 199-224.
                                                                                                                                                • “Healthy, Vague: Exploring Health as a Priority in Food Choice” with Sara Schaefer, Charlotte Biltekoff, and Roxanne Rashedi, Food, Culture, and Society, June 2, 2016: 227- 250.
                                                                                                                                                • “Abundance, Control, and Water! Water! Water!: The Work of Eating at Work,” with Jennifer Sedell, Charlotte Biltekoff, and Sara Schaefer, Food, Culture, and Society, June 2, 2016: 251-271.
                                                                                                                                                • “Don’t Divide Teaching and Research,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2015.
                                                                                                                                                • “Good to Think With: Another Look at the Mechanized Tomato,” Food, Culture, and Society, 16.4, December 2013: 603-631.
                                                                                                                                                • “Thinking Through the Tomato Harvester,” Boom: A Journal of California, 3.1, Spring 2013: 30-33.
                                                                                                                                                • “A Roadmap for Research: Characterizing the Impacts of Uncertainty in the Policy Process: Climate Science, Policy Construction, and Local Governance Decisions,” with Debbie A. Niemeyer, Thomas Beamish, Alyssa Kendall, Ryken Grattet, Jonathan London, and Julie Sze. In Harry Geerlings, Yoram Shiftan, and Dominic Stead (editors) Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility: The Role of Instruments, Individuals, and Institutions. Ashgate: Rotterdam, 2012.
                                                                                                                                                • “Just Like a Peach: Visions of Nature in U.S. NutraSweet Marketing,” Technikgeschichte, Vol. 78, No. 8 (Fall 2011): 1-20.
                                                                                                                                                • “The Frontiers of Food Studies,” with Charlotte Biltekoff, Amy Bentley, Warren Belasco, Psyche Williams-Forson, Forum Section, Food Culture and Society, Vol. 14, No. 3 (September 2011): 301-314.
                                                                                                                                                • Q & A with winemaker Randall Graham, Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 1, No.1 (Spring 2011): 20-24.
                                                                                                                                                • “Traversing the Local/Global and Food/Culture Divides,” Introduction to Special Double Issue on “Food Globality and Foodways Localities,” Food and Foodways, Vol. 19 no. 1-2 (2011): 1-10.
                                                                                                                                                • Introduction to Special Issue on the Engaged Humanities, Western Humanities Review, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Fall 2010): 3-14.
                                                                                                                                                • “The History of Technology, the Resistance of Archives, and the Whiteness of Race,” Technology and Culture, Vol. 51, No. 4 (October 2010): 919-937.
                                                                                                                                                • “Sweet Nothings; Do Artificial Sweeteners Help You Lose Pounds-or Gain Them? Why, After Fifty Years of Research, We Still Don’t Know the Truth,” Ms. Magazine, October 2010 (Winter): 48-49.
                                                                                                                                                • “Artificial Sweetener as A Historic Window on to Culturally Situated Health,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1190, No. 1, (Blackwell Publishing, March 2010): 159-165.
                                                                                                                                                • “Saccharin Sparrow,” in The Object Reader, Raiford Guins and Fiona Candlin, Eds. (NY: Routledge, 2009): 506-9.
                                                                                                                                                • “American Studies Training,” Main Currents, UT Austin American Studies Program Magazine (Fall 2008): 6-7.
                                                                                                                                                • “The Slipperiness of Objects: Putting the Past in the Present in a Class of One Hundred,” Transformations: A Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, Material Culture issue, Vol. 18, No.2 (2008): 14-25.
                                                                                                                                                • “The Origins of Cybex Space: Gustav Zander’s Amazing Gymnastic Devices,” Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture No. 29, (Spring 2008): 27-31.
                                                                                                                                                • “Mechanized Southern Comfort: Touring the Technological South at Krispy Kreme,” in Dixie Emporium: Consumerism, Tourism, and Memory in the American South, A. Stonis, Ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008, 234-263.
                                                                                                                                                • “WHA Symposium: The Relevance of the Humanities,” Western Humanities Review, (November 2007)
                                                                                                                                                • "Risky Food, Risky Lives: The 1977 Saccharin Rebellion," Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Summer 2007): 100-105.
                                                                                                                                                • "Leaving the Intellectual Parking Lot," preface to Explorations, UC Davis Undergraduate Research Journal (2006): iii-iv.
                                                                                                                                                • "Slow and Low Progress: Why American Studies Should Do Technology," American Quarterly Vol. 58, No. 3 (September 2006): 915-941.
                                                                                                                                                • "‘Bleaching the Ethiopians’": Desegregating Race and Technology through Early X-ray Experiments," Technology and Culture, Vol. 47, No. 1 (January 2006): 27-55.
                                                                                                                                                • "Plugging into Modernity: Wilshire's I–ON–A–CO and the Psychic Fix," The Technological Fix, Lisa Rosner, Ed. (New York: Routledge, 2004): 31-59.
                                                                                                                                                • "Ready–to–Wear Globalism: Decoding the Prada GPS," Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 38, No. 2/3 (2003): 109-129.
                                                                                                                                                • "New Voices Conference at the University of Wyoming – The Materials of American  Studies: Reading Electric Belts" in American Studies, Vol. 44, no. 1-2, (Spring/Summer 2003): 219-251.
                                                                                                                                                • "Dudley Allen Sargent & Gustav Zander: Health Machines and the Energized Male Body," Research in the Philosophy of Technology– Sport Technology: History, Philosophy, and Policy, Andy Miah and Simon Eassom Eds. Vol. 21 (Summer 2002): 9-47.
                                                                                                                                                • Reprinted in Iron Game History (2003): 3-19.
                                                                                                                                                • "Designing the Electric Body: Sexuality, Masculinity and the Electric Belt in America,  1880–1920," Journal of Design History, Vol. 14, No.4 (2001): 275-289.
                                                                                                                                                • "Recharging at the Fordyce: Confronting Machine and Nature in the Modern Bath," Technology and Culture, Vol. 40 (October 1999): 746-767.
                                                                                                                                                Other Work

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                                                                                                                                                Carolyn Thomas, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                                subfield

                                                                                                                                                • History of Technology
                                                                                                                                                • Food and Nutrition Cultures
                                                                                                                                                • Material Culture
                                                                                                                                                • Consumer Culture
                                                                                                                                                • Corporate Culture
                                                                                                                                                • Higher Education

                                                                                                                                                    Biography

                                                                                                                                                    Susie Woo is an American Studies scholar whose research focuses on US militarism in the Pacific, race, and migration. Her book, Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire (New York University Press, 2019), traces how Korean children and women became central to US involvement in the peninsula during and after the Korean War. She analyzes how the figures of the Korean orphan, “GI baby”, adoptee, birth mother, bride, and prostitute revealed the intimate reach of US empire. Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, American Studies Journal, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, and the edited volume, Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017). Her current research project examines prosthetics, interracial blood transfusions, and mixed-race children to explore how bodies changed by war altered the landscape of US involvement in the Pacific. Professor Woo teaches classes on race, memory, and immigration. She coordinates the CSUF-Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School Diversity Reading Program and contributes to programs aimed at bringing US-Korean history into K-12 classrooms. 

                                                                                                                                                    Degrees

                                                                                                                                                    • 2009, Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University
                                                                                                                                                    • 2002, M.A., Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
                                                                                                                                                    • 1995, B.A., Art History, University of California, Irvine
                                                                                                                                                    Courses Taught
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 131 Explore Core: Migrant Lives
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 201 Introduction to American Studies
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 324 American Immigrant Cultures
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 395 California Cultures
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 401T Race in American Studies
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 445 The Cold War and American Culture
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 488 Race, Sex, and American Urban Cultures
                                                                                                                                                    • AMST 502T Theorizing Race in American Studies
                                                                                                                                                    M.A. Theses and Examination Fields
                                                                                                                                                    • Race and Ethnicity
                                                                                                                                                    • The National and the Global
                                                                                                                                                    • Gender and Sexuality
                                                                                                                                                    • Immigration (Alternative Field)
                                                                                                                                                    Publications

                                                                                                                                                    Book

                                                                                                                                                    Articles and Book Chapters

                                                                                                                                                    • “Transpacific Adoption: The Korean War, U.S. Missionaries, and Cold War Liberalism,” in Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings, ed. Lon Kurashige (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).
                                                                                                                                                    • “When Blood Won’t Tell: Integrated Transfusions and Shifting Foundations of Race in 1950s America,” American Studies Journal 55.4 (2017): pp. 5-28. Winner of the 2017 Mid-America American Studies Association Stone-Suderman Prize for best essay.
                                                                                                                                                    • “Imagining Kin: Cold War Sentimentalism and the Korean Children’s Choir,” American Quarterly 67:1 (March 2015): pp. 25-53.

                                                                                                                                                    Other Scholarly Works

                                                                                                                                                    • “The Korean War and US Militarization of Korean Women and Children,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 28, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2024)

                                                                                                                                                    • “Reading Archives Against the Grain,” in Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives, editors Yuting Dong, R.A. Kashanipour, Joana Konova, Seth Stein LeJacq, Ania Nikulina, Diane Oliva and Naomi Ruth Pitamber. Alexandria, VI: Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2023, 42-45. 

                                                                                                                                                    • “Korean Americans and the Early Cold War,” reference essay in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, January 2023. 
                                                                                                                                                    • “Korean Americans in the Cold War,” in Asian American Encyclopedia Project, ABC-CLIO, 2014.
                                                                                                                                                    • Interviewed by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, “Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire,”   Society for the History of Children and Youth Podcast  16:11, March 2023.

                                                                                                                                                    Book Reviews

                                                                                                                                                    • Kori Graves, A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War (New York: New York University Press, 2020), in Diplomatic History 46:2 (April 2022), 411–414.
                                                                                                                                                    • Richard Lentz and Karla K. Gower, The Opinions of Mankind: Racial Issues, Press, and Propaganda in the Cold War (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010). In Journal of American Ethnic History 34, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 125-127.
                                                                                                                                                    • Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War (New York: New York University Press, 2013). In The Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (June 2014): 330-331. 
                                                                                                                                                    Other Works

                                                                                                                                                    Select Presentations

                                                                                                                                                    • “Rehabilitating Body and Soul: American Prosthetics in Postwar Korea,” Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, March 2023.
                                                                                                                                                    • "Institutionalizing Race: Sociology and the Study of Japanese Brides at the University of Hawai’i," American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, November 2019.
                                                                                                                                                    • “Cold War K-Pop: Korean Singers and Cultural Border Crossings in 1950s America,” CSUF Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Conversations on Crossing Borders Lecture Series, May 2017.
                                                                                                                                                    • “Making Bodies Whole: Korean Citizen Subjects in America’s Cold War Pacific,” Militarism and  Migration Conference, UC San Diego, April 2017.
                                                                                                                                                    • Korean Americans, Past and Present,” USC Korean Studies Institute Web Lecture Series, January 2014.

                                                                                                                                                    Select Grants and Awards

                                                                                                                                                    • Outstanding Untenured Faculty Award, Humanities and Social Sciences, CSUF, 2019
                                                                                                                                                    • Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars Award, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, 2017
                                                                                                                                                    • American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2011-2013 

                                                                                                                                                    Susie Woo, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                                    subfield

                                                                                                                                                    • Race and Ethnicity
                                                                                                                                                    • Immigration
                                                                                                                                                    • US Militarization
                                                                                                                                                    • War and Memory

                                                                                                                                                        position
                                                                                                                                                        advisor
                                                                                                                                                        subfield