Core Faculty

  • Denise Albanese
  • Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies
  • Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature, Stanford (1987)
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Early modern cultural studies; Shakespeare and film; Feminism; Foucault; Science and technology studies
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  • Publications:
  • New Science, New World (Duke University Press, 1996)
  • Extramural Shakespeare (Shakespeare as a non-academic formation) (In progress)
  • Forbidden Knowledges (Sodomy and the investigation of nature in early modern England) (In progress)
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Denise Albanese has worked on Francis Bacon, Cindy Sherman and early modern historiography, and is currently working on early modern mathematics.
  • "The Shakespeare Film as Global Commodity"
  • "Black and White, and Dread All Over: The Shakespeare Theater's Othello and the Body of Desdemona"
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Whiting Dissertation Fellowship
  • Mellon Research Fellowship, Huntington Library
  • Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Wesleyan University
  • Folger Library Research Awards and Grants-in-Aid
  • Zofia Burr
  • Assistant Professor of English
  • MFA & Ph.D. Cornell University
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  • Studies the construction and the uses of poetry and the idea of the "poetic" in twentieth-century North American; reception theory and history. Poets treated in current project include Emily Dickinson, Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou. Areas of interest: American studies; women's studies; radio and poetry; poetry in performance.
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  • Publications include:
  • Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues, by A.R. Ammons (Editor, Michigan Poets on Poetry Series, 1996); "Assent Without Credence: Reading Audre Lorde and the Situation of Poetry in the U.S." in Cultural Studies/Cultural Politics: Articulating the Global and the Local (1996).
  • Dina M. Copelman
  • Associate Professor of History.
  • History Ph. D., Princeton University, 1985
  • Area Specialties:
  • Modern British and European History, History of Women and Gender, Social and Cultural History, Historiography and Theory
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  • Book:
  • London's Women Teachers: Gender, Class and Feminism, 1870-1930 (Routledge, 1996)
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  • Articles:
  • "Victorian Subjects" Review Essay Journal of British Studies September (1995).
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  • "The Gendered Metropolis: Fin-de-Siecle London" Radical History Review 60 (1994):34-50.
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  • "Liberal Ideology, Sexual Difference and the Lives of Women: Recent Works in British History"Journal of Modern History 62 (June 1990): 315-345.
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  • "'A Masculine Reward for Feminine Qualities': Victorian Women's Quest for Work and Personal Fulfillment" Feminist Studies 13 (Spring 1987): 185-201.
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  • "'A New Comradeship between Men and Women': Family, Marriage and London's Women Teachers, 1870-1914" in Labour and Love, Jane Lewis, ed., pp. 175-93; Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • British Council Prize for best book on 19th Century British history
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  • North American Council on British Studies, 1997
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  • Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Residency Grant, 1990
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  • National Academy of Education Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard, Graduate School of Education, 1987
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  • American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship for Recent Ph.Ds, 1987
  • Marion F. Deshmukh
  • Associate Professor, Department of History
  • Ph.D. History, Art History minor, Columbia University, 1975
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  • Area Specialties:
  • modern Germany, 19th and 20th century European cultural and intellectual, 20th century Europe
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  • Publications (Selected):
  • "Red and Blank: The American Reception of East German Art," in Marion Deshmukh, Editor, Cultures in Conflict: The Visual Arts in Eastern Germany since 1990, Washington, DC, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, with contributing essays by Matthias FlYgge, Eckhart Gillen, Richard Pettit, Jost Hermand, 1998.
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  • "Max Liebermann als Jude," Max Liebermann [exh. Cat. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin], (Berlin, 1997) Co-editor (with Jerry Z. Muller), and Introduction, Fritz Sterm at 70, An Appreciation, Occasional Papers, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 1997.
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  • "The German War Art Collection," Occasional Papers, No. 17, (Geoffrey Giles, ed.), German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 1996.
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  • "Politics is an Art," The Cultural Politics of Max Liebermann in Wilhelmine Germany, Imagining Modern German Culture, 1989-1910. Studies in the History of Art, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1996.
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  • "Cultural Migration: Artists and Visual Representation between Americans and Germans during the 1920s and 1930s," in David Barclay & Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, (eds.), Mutual Images and Multiple Implications: American Views of Germany and German Views of America from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge UP, 1997.
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  • "Recovering Culture: Berlin's National Gallery and the US Occupation, 1945-1949," Central European History, 27:4, 1994, 411-439. (Translated and published in a revised version as: ŇDie Wiederherstellung der Kultur: Die Nationalgalerie und die amerikanische Besatzug (1945-1949), in Claudia Ruckert & Sven Kuhrau (eds.), ŇDer Deutschen KunstÉNationalgalerie und nationale IdentitSt, 1976-1998, (Verlag der Kunst, 1998) Entries for Encyclopedia of German History (Berlin Secession, Painting, Museums, Hans Baluschek), NY, Greenwood Press, 1998.
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  • "Max Liebermann after 60 years," Introduction to the Exhibition Brochure, Max Liebermann, Portrait of an Artist, Leo Baeck Institute, 1995.
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  • Honors & Awards:
  • George Mason University Grant 1976
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  • German Academic Exchange Service Visitor's Grand (DAAD), 1977, 1981
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  • Faculty Grant 1979
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  • American Historical Association/Bradley University Grand, 1981
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  • GMU Study Leave 1982
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  • Virginia Women's Cultural History Project, 1985
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  • American Historical Association, Teaching Alliance, 1987-88, 1988-89
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  • Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, 1988-89
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  • Collegiate Study Leave, 1992
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  • JP Getty Research Grant, summer 1996
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  • George Mason Foundation Grant, summer 1999
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  • Fulbright Grant, summer 2000
  • John Burt Foster, Jr.
  • Professor of English and Cultural Studies.
  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University 1974.
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Comparative and Intercultural Studies; Modes of Narrative; Modernity and Postmodernity; Immigrations, Diasporas, Transnationalisms.
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  • Books:
  • Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton UP, 1981; paperback, 1988).
  • Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism (Princeton UP, 1993).
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  • Culture/s in Contention: Differences, Affiliations, Liminalities (forthcoming Northwestern UP), edited with Wayne Froman.
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  • Selected Articles:
  • John Foster has published articles in Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, Poetics Today, Slavic and East European Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Stanford Literature Review, and in a variety of books. A selected list of recent essays follows:
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  • "Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel," in Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community, Lois Zamora and Wendy Faris, eds. (Durham: Duke UP, 1995), 267-283.
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  • "Tolstoy, Cultural Difference, and Russian Imperialism," an Introduction to Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad, trans. Aylmer Maude (Washington DC: Orchises, 1996), 7-14.
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  • "Reading Nabokov with Jameson: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Intertextual Litmus Test," Southern Humanities Review 31.3 (1996): 201-13.
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  • "Working with Nietzsche, Nabokov, and Tolstoy: Cultural Variables in the Literary Reception of Philosophy," REAL: The Year book for Research in English and American Literature (Berlin), 16 (1997): 201-18.
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  • "Why is Tadzio Polish? Kultur and Cultural Multiplicity in Death in Venice," in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, ed. Naomi Ritter (Boston: Bedford, 1998), 192-210.
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  • "Poshlust, Culture Criticism, Adorno and Malraux," in Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives, ed. Julian W. Connolly (Cambridge UK: Cambridge UP, 1999): 216-35.
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  • "Zarathustrian Millennialism Before the Millennium: From Bely to Yeats to Malraux," in Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections On Drama, Culture, Politics, ed. Alan Schrift (Berkeley: U of California P, 2000): 99-117.
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (twice);
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  • Mellon Faculty Fellow (Comparative Literature, Harvard); American Council of Learned Societies Interdisciplinary Study Fellow (Intellectual History, Stanford);
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  • Editor (and previously Review Editor) of The Comparatist, an award-winning annual journal of comparative literature; Summer Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory;
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  • Joint Coordinator of the 1996 "Dramas of Culture" conference at George Mason University, held under the auspices of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature.
  • Cynthia Fuchs
  • Associate Professor of English
  • Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies film and television; queer studies; gender studies; Vietnam War and its context; African-American studies; queer theory; postmodern theory; popular/mass culture studies.
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  • Publications include:
  • Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian,
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  • Gay Documentary, co-edited with Chris Holmlond (1997)
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  • "Death is Irrelevant: Cyborgs, Reproduction, and the Future of Male Hysteria" (Genders: Special Issue on Cyberpunk, 1993)
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  • "The Buddy Politic" in Screening the Male: Masculinity in Hollywood Films, ed. by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark (1993).
  • Timothy A. Gibson
  • Assistant Professor Department of Communication George Mason University
  • Ph.D, Communication. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2001.
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  • Area specialties:
  • Critical media studies, political economy of communication, critical/cultural studies (particularly audience reception research), political communication, urban studies, ethnography.
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  • Books:
  • Gibson, T.A. (forthcoming). Securing the spectacular city: The politics of revitalization and homelessness in downtown Seattle. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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  • Hackett, R.A. & Gruneau, R., with Gutstein, D., Gibson, T.A., and NewsWatch Canada. (2000). The missing news: Filters and blind spots in Canada's press. Toronto: Garamond Press.
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  • Selected articles:
  • Gibson, T.A. (forthcoming). The myth of the organic city: Discourses of decay and rebirth in downtown Seattle. Space & Culture (volume/ issue, tba).
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  • Gibson, T.A. (2000). Beyond cultural populism: Notes toward a critical ethnography of media audiences. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 24(3), 253-273.
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  • Gibson, T.A. (1998). "I don't want them living around here": Ideologies of race and neighborhood decay. Rethinking Marxism, 10, 141-155.
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  • Carbaugh, D., Gibson, T.A., and Milburn, T. (1997). A view of communication and culture: Scenes in an ethnic cultural center and a private college. In B. Kovacic (ed.), Emerging theories of human communication. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  • Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
  • Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Director, Women's Studies Research and Resource Center
  • Ph.D. Sociology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
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  • Area Specialties:
  • cultural sociology, aesthetics, art and politics, sociology of music, feminist theory
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  • Courses Taught:
  • Graduate:
  • Feminist Social Theory;
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory;
  • Art, Artifacts and Institutions;
  • Sociology of Culture;
  • Critical Theory.
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  • Undergraduate:
  • Feminist Theory Across the Disciplines;
  • Classical Sociological Theory;
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory;
  • Art and Society;
  • Introduction to Sociology
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  • Publications:
  • The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture (with Mark Jacobs, ed., 2005)
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  • The Form of Difference: Reimagining Critical Theory," in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, vol. 22 , Jennifer Lehmann, ed., Elsevier Science: UK . 2002
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  • "The Institution of Art in Postmodernity: The Problem of Autonomy," International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 14, #2, (Winter 2000)
  • Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture (Praeger, 2000);
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  • "Negative Composition" (Philosophy and Social Criticism 1989)
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  • Affiliations:
  • American Sociological Association, Culture Section; Institute for Women's Policy Research
  • Contact Information: e-mail: nhanraha@gmu.edu; tel: 703-993-1433
  • Mack P. Holt
  • Professor of History
  • Ph.D. in History, Emory University, 1982
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Early modern European history (ca. 1400-1800), especially French history; the Reformation and religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; social and cultural history; history of food and drink
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  • Books:
  • Branches of the Vine: Reformation and Culture in Early Modern Burgundy (forthcoming)
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  • The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle during the Wars of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
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  • The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1628 (Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2nd ed. 2005)
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  • (As editor) Society and Institutions in Early Modern France (University of Georgia Press, 1991)
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  • (As editor) Renaissance and Reformation France, vol. 4 of the Oxford Short History of France (Oxford University Press, 2002)
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  • (As editor) Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Berg Publishers, 2006)
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  • (As editor) Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe (Ashgate Publishers, 2007)
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Mack Holt has published articles in Past & Present, French Historical Studies, Sixteenth Century Journal, Food and Foodways, and Histoire, fconomie et societe, among many others. A sample of his articles is as follows:
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  • "Wine, Community and Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy," Past & Present, no. 138 (February 1993), 58-93
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  • "Putting Religion Back into the Wars of Religion," French Historical Studies, vol.18 (Fall 1993), 524-51
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  • "Religion, Historical Method, and Historical Forces," French Historical Studies, vol.20 (Spring 1996)
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  • "Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth-Century France," in Michael Wolfe, ed., ChangingĘ Identities in Early Modern France ( Duke University Press, 1997), pp. 345-370
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  • "Culture politique et culture populaire au XVIIe siecle: L'fmeute de Lanturelu e Dijon en fevrier 1630," Histoire, fconomie et societe (December 1998)
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  • "Wine, Life, and Death in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy," Food and Foodways, vol.8, no.2 (1999)
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  • Honors and awards:
  • Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, 1986-1987;
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  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
  • 1994-1995;
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  • NEH Summer Stipend 1986 and 1993;
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  • American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid 1989;
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  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1996-97,
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  • National Huguenot Society Book Prize 1987,
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  • Nancy Lyman Roelker prize of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference 1994
  • He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, and in 1999 was the president of the Society for French Historical Studies.
  • Mark D. Jacobs
  • Assoc. Prof. of Sociology
  • Founding Director of Cultural Studies, 1992-99
  • Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1987
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Ethnography, institutional analysis, social theory, sociology of culture, rhetorical bases of disciplinarity/interdisciplinarity.
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  • Book:
  • Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990). Excerpted in Weisheit and Culbertson, eds., Juvenile Delinquency: A Justice Perspective, 3rd and 4th eds. (Waveland Press, 1995 and 2000).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • "'Not on a Friday or Saturday Night': Performance Anxieties of a College Arts Audience," Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 30:2, summer 2000.
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  • "Against Closure: Amplifying the Semantic Richness of the Section's Culture," Culture 14:1, fall 1999.
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  • "The End of Liberalism in the Administration of Social Casework," Administration and Society 18:1, May 1986.
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Member of Research Network, Center for Arts and Culture.
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  • Co-organizer, 1995 and 2000 Miniconferences on the Sociology of Culture.
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  • Executive Committee of Research Committee on Arts and Culture (RC 37) of the International Sociological Assn., 1994-1998.
  • Rosemary Jann
  • Professor of English
  • Ph.D., English, Northwestern University, 1975
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Intellectual History; Historiography; History of Science; Construction of Class and Gender Difference
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  • Books:
  • The Art and Science of Victorian History (Ohio State University Press, 1985).
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  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order (Twayne, 1995).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Rosemary Jann has contributed chapters to several collections and published articles in journals such as Victorian Studies, English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Studies, The Journal of British Studies, and Victorian Literature and Culture including:
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  • "Hardy's Rustics and the Construction of Class," forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture, Fall 2000.
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  • "Eliza Burt Gamble: Revising the Descent of Woman," in Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, ed. Barbara Gates and Ann Shteir (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 147-63.
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  • "Darwin and the Anthropologists: Sexual Selection and Its Discontents," in Sexualities in Victorian Britain, ed. Andrew Miller and James Eli Adams (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 79-95.
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  • "Animal Analogies and the Construction of Class," Nineteenth-Century Studies 8 (1994): 89-103.
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  • "Sherlock Holmes Codes the Social Body," ELH 57 (1990): 685-708.
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  • "Abbott's *Flatland*: Scientific Imagination and 'Natural Christianity'," in Energy and Entropy: Science and Culture in Victorian Britain, ed. Patrick Brantlinger (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 289-306.
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Tim Kaposy
  • Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
  • Ph.D. McMaster University, 2008
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Visual Culture, The Politics of Need, Global Political Economy, Urbanization, The Frankfurt School, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, Contemporary Continental Thought, East European History
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  • Edited Volume
  • Cultural Theory: An Anthology (with Imre Szeman), Blackwell, 2009.
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  • Articles and Entries
  • "What is Cultural Theory?" (with Imre Szeman). Introduction to Cultural Theory: An Anthology. Blackwell, 2009.
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  • "Walter Benjamin and the Space of Childhood" in New Essays in the Frankfurt School. Ed. Alfred J. Drake. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
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  • "Georges Bataille" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Cultural Theory. Gen. Ed. Michael Ryan, 2009.
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  • "Georg Lukacs" in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel. Gen. Ed. Peter Logan, 2009.
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  • "Franco Moretti" in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. Michael Groden, et al., 2007.
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  • Reviews
  • Reviews published in the following journals: Cultural Studies, Politics and Culture, Review of Canadian Sociology, and Canadian Literature.
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  • Awards
  • Visiting Professor, North American Studies Program, Universitat Bonn, 2007-8.
  • Roger N. Lancaster
  • Professor of Anthropology and Director of Cultural Studies.
  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, 1987.
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Gender/sexuality; lesbigay studies; marxism and critical theory; political economy; social movements and cultural change; Latin America and the U.S.
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  • Books:
  • Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua (Columbia University Press, 1988).
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  • Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua (University of California Press, 1992).
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  • The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy (Routledge, 1997). (Co-editor, with Micaela di Leonardo.)
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  • The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture (California, 2003).
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  • Sex Panic: How Fear Undermines Democracy in America (forthcoming, University of California Press). (in progress).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Roger Lancaster has published articles in American Anthropologist, The Americas, American Ethnologist, Christopher Street, Ethnology, NACLA Report on the Americas, New Politics, The Progressive, Sexualities, Signs, and other places, including:
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  • "Preface" and "State of Panic." Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams, eds., New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America. School for Advances Research Press, 2008, xi--xiv and 39--64.
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  • "Sex, Science, and Pseudoscience in the Public Sphere." Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture 13 (2006): 101-138.
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  • "Sex and Race in the Long Shadow of the Human Genome Project," Is Race "Real"? A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council: http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Lancaster/
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  • "Tolerance and Intolerance in Latin American Sexual Cultures." Brad Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson González, eds. Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration. David Rockefeller Center on Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. 255-274.
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  • "Text, Subtext, and Context: Strategies for Reading Alliance Theory." American Ethnologist 32 (1) (2005): 22-27.
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  • "Interdiktion und Introjektion: Technologien des Selbst in Altem und Modernem Kult," Die Zehn Gebote. Herausgegeben von Klaus Biessenbach (für das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum). Dresden: Deutches Hygiene-Museum und Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004.
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  • "Rigoberta's Testimonio." NACLA Report on the Americas. Vol. 32 no 6 (May/June) 1999.
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  • "Transgenderism in Latin America: Some Critical Introductory Remarks on Identities and Practices." Sexualities 1 (3) (1998): 263-276.
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  • "Bodies/Politics: Caveats and Second Thoughts on 'Categories'." The Americas. July 1997: 1-16.
  • "Guto's Performance: Notes on the Transvestism of Everyday Life." Lead essay in Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy, eds. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America. NYU Press: 1997. (Various reprints and translations.)
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  • "'That We Should All Turn Queer?' Homosexual Stigma in the Making of Manhood and the Breaking of a Revolution in Nicaragua." Richard Parker and John Gagnon, eds. Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World. Routledge, 1995. (Reprinted.)
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  • "Subject Honor and Object Shame: The Construction of Male Homosexuality and Stigma in Nicaragua," Ethnology 27(2): 111-125 (April, 1988). (Various reprints and translations.)
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  • Awards and Honors:
  • Life is Hard was published under the "Centennial Book" imprimatur of the University of California Press. It won the C. Wright Mills Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems) and the Ruth Benedict Prize (Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists). Lancaster has also received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship, and was the keynote speaker at the Conference on Latin American History (a division of the AHA).
  • Extracurricular:
  • Lancaster has served on the Executive Committee of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology. He has also been a guest on KPFA's "Democracy Now," a number of public radio programs, and BBC TV International News.
  • Alison Landsberg
  • Title: Associate Professor of American Cultural History and Film
  • Home Department: Department of History and Art History
  • Degree: PhD Literature and Film, University of Chicago, 1996
  • Research Interests: Cultural Memory, Early American Cinema, Visual Culture, Museum Studies, US Immigration History, and the Frankfurt School
  • Her book, entitled /Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture /(New York: Columbia UP, 2004) argues that mass cultural technologies such as the cinema and the experiential museum have made it increasingly possible for individuals to take on memories of events through which they did not live, memories that have important ramifications for their subjectivities, politics, and ethics. She is currently working on a book-length project entitled /Squaw Men and Indian Wives: Mapping Gender, Race and National Belonging, 1870-1930/, which explores the evolution of the category "squaw man" and uses it as an analytical prism through which to read the period from 1870 to 1930, a time during which both racial segregation was juridically sanctioned and institutionalized, and women's "place in society" was actively being scripted. In so doing, the book will make visible changing assumptions about racial identity, gender, national belonging and citizenship. Recent publications have appeared in /The Liquid Metal Reader/, ed. Sean Redmond (2004), /Film and Popular Memory/, ed. Paul Grainge (2003) and The Cyberculture Reader (2007).
  • Peter P. Mandaville
  • Associate Professor of Government & Politics
  • Co-Director, Center for Global Studies (cgs.gmu.edu)
  • Ph.D. in International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1998.
  • Area specialities: comparative society and politics in the Muslim world; transnational studies; new media and society; cosmopolitanism
  • Books
  • Global Political Islam, London: Routledge, 2007. (www.globalpoliticalislam.com)
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  • Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma, London: Routledge, 2001 (new paperback edition 2003).
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  • The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory From East to West, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001 (co-edited with Stephen Chan & Roland Bleiker).
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  • Meaning and International Relations, London: Routledge, 2003 (co-edited with Andrew Williams)
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  • Globalizing Religions, Newbury Park: Sage, forthcoming 2008 (co-edited with Paul James)
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  • Selected articles & book chapters
  • 'Globalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the Muslim World,' Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2007.
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  • 'The New Transnationalism: Globalizing Islamic Movements' in Robert Hefner (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 6, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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  • 'Islamic Education in Britain: Approaches to Religious Knowledge in a Pluralistic Society' in Robert Hefner & Muhammad Qasim Zaman (eds.), Schooling Islam: Madrasas, Modernity & Muslim Education, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
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  • 'Sufis & Salafis: The Changing Boundaries of Transnational Islam' in Robert Hefner (ed.), Remaking Muslim Politics: Toward a Civil Democratic Islam?, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
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  • 'Muslim Diasporas: Information Technology and the Changing Boundaries of Political Islam' in Ali Mohammadi (ed.), Islam Encountering Globalization, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
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  • 'Towards a Critical Islam: European Muslim and the Changing Boundaries of Religious Discourse' in Stefano Allievi and Jorgen Nielsen (eds.), Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003.
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  • 'Reading the State from Elsewhere: Towards an Anthropology of the Postnational', Review of International Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2002.
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  • 'Reimagining the Ummah? Information Technology and the Changing Boundaries of Political Islam' in Ali Mohammadi (ed.), Islam Encountering Globalization, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
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  • 'Europe's Muslim Youth: The Politics of Pluralism' in Shireen Hunter (ed.), Islam, Europe's Second Religion, Westport, CT.: Praeger Press, 2002.
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  • 'Territory and Translocality: Discrepant Idioms of Political Identity,' Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 28. No. 3, 1999.
  • Lisa M. Rabin
  • Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
  • Ph.D. Spanish, Yale University 1993 Spanish American literature (poetry and the colonial period)
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  • Area Specialties:
  • comparative literature; interdisciplinary studies of literature and art; literary theory; women's studies
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Articles on poetry and historiography of the Spanish American colonial period, and on nineteenth-century modernista poetry, including:
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  • "The Poet and the Statue: Jose Asuncion Silva's Engagement With History and Art in 'Al pie de la estatua,'" forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispanicos (Washington University, St. Louis), summer 2000
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  • "Marble Heroes and Mortal Poets: Jose Mart's Dream of Statuary," forthcoming in Romance Quarterly, 2000
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  • "Figures of Conversion and Subjectivity in Colonial Narrative," Hispania 82 (1999): 40-45
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  • "Speaking to Silent Ladies: Images of Beauty and Politics in Poetic Portraits of Women from Petrarch to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz," MLN (formerly Modern Language Notes) 112 (1997): 147-165
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  • "Mito petrarquista y transformaci-n criolla en un romance de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz," Tema y variaciones de literatura 7 (Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco Division de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 1996), reprinted as "Petrarca y Sor Juana" in Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociacion Internacional de Hispanistas, 21-26 agosto de 1995 Birmingham: Tomo III, Estudios Aureos II, ed. Jules Whicker (Birmingham, England: Department of Hispanic Studies, The University of Birmingham), 147-154
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  • "The Blason of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Politics and Petrarchism in Colonial Mexico," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies LXXII (1995): 29-37
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  • "The Reluctant Companion of Empire: Petrarch and Dulcinea in Don Quijote," Cervantes 14 (1994) 81-91
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant (1998)
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  • Fenwick Library Fellowship, George Mason University (1998-1999)
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  • George Mason Nomination for American Association of University Women Emerging Scholars Award (1994)
  • Debra Lattanzi Shutika
  • Ph.D. Folklore and Folklife
  • Graduate Certificate in Urban Studies
  • University of Pennsylvania, 2001
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of English
  • Director, the Mason Project on Immigration
  • Research:
  • International Retirement Migration
  • New Destination Immigrant Settlements in the eastern U.S.
  • Immigrant Incorporation
  • Paul Smith
  • Professor of Cultural Studies
  • Ph.D. 1981 University of Kent (American Studies)
  • personal website
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  • Books:
  • Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy. U. Minneosta P. (2007)
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  • Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North. Verso (1997)
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  • Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture. (Ed.). Westview Press (1996)
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  • The Enigmatic Body: Selected Writings of Jean Louis Schefer. Cambridge UP (1995)
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  • Madonnarama: On "Sex" and Popular Culture. (Ed. with Lisa Frank) Cleis Press (1993)
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  • Clint Eastwood: A Cultural Production. U. Minnesota P. (1993)
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  • Discerning the Subject. U. Minnesota P. (1988)
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  • Men in Feminism. (Ed. with Alice Jardine) Methuen (1987)
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  • Pound Revised. Croom Helm (1983)
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  • Selected Work in Books:
  • "American History X," America First: Naming the Nation in US Film, ed. Mandy Merck, Routledge (2007)
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  • "Looking backwards and forwards at Cultural Studies," in Companion to Cultural Studies, ed. T. Miller, Blackwell (2001)
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  • "Terminator Technology: Hollywood, History, and Technology," in Keyframes, eds M.Tinkcom & A.Villarejo, Routledge (2001)
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  • "Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization," in No Sweat, ed. Andrew Ross, Verso (1997)
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  • "The Need for Cultural Studies," (with Giroux, Sosnoski, Shumway) in Cultural Studies: An Anglo-American Reader, ed. J. Munns & G. Rajan, Longmans (1997)
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  • "Unified Capital and the Subject of Value," in Mapping Multiculturalism, eds. A. Gordon & C. Newfield, U Minnesota P. (1996)
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  • "Vas" in Feminisms, eds. R. Warhol & D. Price Herndl. Rutgers UP. (1992)
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  • "The Secret Agent of Laclau and Mouffe," in Community at Loose Ends, eds. Miami Theory Collective. U. Minnesota P. (1991)
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  • "Annette Lemieux/David Salle: Notes towards a Narrative," in Interpreting Contemporary Art, ed. S. Bann. Reaktion Books (U.K.) (1991)
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  • "Pedagogy and the Popular-Cultural-Commodity-Text," in Popular Culture, Schooling & Everyday Life, eds. H.Giroux & R.Simon. Bergin & Garvey (1989)
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  • "Visiting the Banana Republic," in Universal Abandon? Postmodernism and Politics, ed. A. Ross. U. Minnesota P. (1989)
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  • Work in Journals:
  • Paul Smith has published many articles and translations in journals such as: American Literary History, Social Text, Art in America, Enclitic, Sub-Stance, Parachute, ArtForum, Wide Angle including recently:
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  • "Imperialism Redux?" New Formations, 52 (2004)
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  • "Exploring Reality: Cultural Studies and Knowledge," Liberal Education 90: 3 (2005)
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  • "Why 'We' Lovehate 'You'," Genre 37: 3 (Fall 2005)

Affiliated Faculty

  • Debra Bergoffen
  • Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
  • Director Women's Studies Research and Resource Center
  • Ph.D. Georgetown University, February, 1974
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Phenomenology, Existentialism, Contemporary Continental Thought, Feminist Theory
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  • Authored Books:
  • The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities, (New York: SUNY Press, Jan. 1997)
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  • Edited Volumes:
  • with Linda Alcoff and Merold Westphal, Remembrance and responsibility: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol.23, Philosophy Today, vol.41 Supplement (May, 1998).
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  • with John Caputo, Other Openings: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, vol.22, Philosophy Today,vol.41(no.1/4 April, 1997).
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  • with Babette E. Babich and Simon E. Glynn, Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science, (Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • The articles listed below give a sense of the range of my works and interests, e.g. my reading of Lacan, Nietzsche, and Sartre, my continued interest in the implications of Simone de BeauvoirŐs thought, my attention to the issues of witnessing, remembering and memorializing The Final Solution.Ę What may not be evident from the titles of these articles is the way in which my thinking is influenced by Irigaray and the "French" feminists, and my concern with the problem and politics of the autonomous subject.
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  • "Disrupting the Metonomies of Gender," Feminist Enactments, ed. Dorothea Olkowski, Cornell University Press (forthcoming 2000)
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  • "Improper Sites," Representations of Auschwitz, ed. James Watson, Humanities Books, (forthcoming 2000)
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  • "Autonomy, Marriage and the Feminine Protest," Hypatia: Special Issue, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir ed. Margaret Simons, vol.14 no.4, Fall 99, pp.18-35.
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  • "Mourning, Woman and the Phallus: Lacan's Hamlet," Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier, Hugh Silverman, ed. (New York: Routledge,1998) pp. 140-153.
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  • "Nietzsche's Women," Journal of Nietzsche Studies (Autumn,1996, Issue 12), pp.18-26.
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  • "Sartre and the Myth of Natural Scarcity," The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1982), pp. 15-25.
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Distinguished Faculty Award - George Mason University - 1989
  • Teaching Excellence Award - George Mason University - 1993
  • Johanna Bockman
  • Title: Assistant Professor of Sociology
  • Degree: Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, San Diego
  • Area Specialties: Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism.
  • Selected Publications:
  • With Michael Bernstein. 2008. "Scientific Community in a Divided World: Economists, Planning, and Research Priority During the Cold War," Comparative Studies in Society and History 50(3): 581-613.
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  • "The Origins of Neoliberalism between Soviet Socialism and Western Capitalism: 'A galaxy without borders,'" Theory and Society 36(4) (2007): 343-371.
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  • "Scientific Community in a Divided World: Economists, Planning, and Research Priority During the Cold War," Comparative Studies in Society and History 50, Forthcoming. Co-authored with Michael Bernstein.
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  • "The Unexpected Ideas of Economists: Response to Monica Prasad's The Politics of Free Markets," Political Sociology: States, Power, and Society, newsletter of the ASA Political Sociology Section, Summer 2007, pp. 19-20.
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  • "Humanitarian Issues for Post-War Iraq: An Overview for Congress," CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, March 18, 2003. Co-authored with Rhoda Margesson.
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  • "Reconstruction Assistance in Afghanistan: Goals, Priorities, and Issues for Congress," CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, Feb. 26, 2003. Co-authored with Rhoda Margesson.
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  • "United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)," CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, Jan. 6, 2003. Co-authored with Rhoda Margesson.
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  • "Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Economic Knowledge: The Transnational Roots of Neo-Liberalism," American Journal of Sociology 108 (2002): 310-352. Co-authored with Gil Eyal.
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  • Awards, Honors, and Activities:
  • Book Review Co-Editor, H-Soyuz, the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies, 2007-08.
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  • Organizer, "Sociology and the Post-Communist Condition" panel, accepted for the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 2008. Panelists: Michael Burawoy, Craig Calhoun, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Margaret Somers, and Ivan Szelenyi.
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  • Center for Global Studies Faculty Research Grant, George Mason University, 2006-07.
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  • International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Short-Term Travel Grant, April - May 2002.
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  • Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2000-01.
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  • Junior Scholars' Training Seminar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, East European Studies, August 1999.
  • Jack R. Censer
  • Professor and Chair, Department of History and Art History
  • Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1973
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  • Area Specialties:
  • France in the 17th and 18th centuries, press and communication history, European social and cultural
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  • Selected Books:
  • Prelude to Power: The Parisian Radical Press, 1789-91 (1976)
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  • The Press in the Age of the Enlightenment (1994)
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  • Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, coauthor with Lynn Hunt (forthcoming, 2001, also published with a cd-rom and website)
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Jack Censer has published in journals including: American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Social History, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Eighteenth Century Life
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Grants from NEH, ACLS, American Philosophical Society, Max Planck Institut fur Geschichte, Ecole pratique des hautes études en sciences sociales
  • Michael Chang
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Home Department: Department of History and Art History
  • Research Interests: Late Imperial and Modern China; social and cultural history
  • Michael G. Chang received his A.B. in sociology from Princeton University (1992) and his Ph.D in East Asian history from the University of California, San Diego (2001). He is the author of "A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785" (Harvard, 2007) as well as articles appearing in Late Imperial China and in an edited volume, "Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943" (Stanford, 1999). He is currently researching the political and material cultures in and through which High Qing rule (1680-1820) was constituted, especially as revealed in practices of tribute and material exchange. His broader interests include Chinese film and popular culture, comparative research on early modern empires, ethnicity and race, political culture, material culture, and socio-historical processes of state formation. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on global history, East Asian history, women's history, and nationalism(s) as well as traditional, modern, and contemporary Chinese history.
  • Email: mchang5 (AT) gmu.edu
  • Phone: 703.993.1564
  • Office: Robinson B 377C
  • Other affiliations: Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Wayne Froman
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
  • Ph.D. Fordham University, 1976
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies twentieth-century European continental philosophy; phenomenology; hermeneutics; post-Heideggerian French philosophical thought.
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  • Books:
  • MERELAU-PONTY: LANGUAGE AND THE ACT OF SPEECH (Bucknell, 1982)
  • THRESHOLDS OF WESTERN CULTURE: IDENTITY, POSTCOLONIALITY, TRANSNATIONALISM, co-edited with John Burt Foster and based on the 1996 IAPL conference at George Mason, "Dramas of Culture" (Continuum, 2002)
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  • RESTAGING CULTURAL THEORY: POLITICS, TRAGEDY, HISTORY, co- edited with John Burt Foster and based on the 1996 IAPL conference at George Mason, "Dramas of Culture" (Continuum, forthcoming).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • "Heidegger and the Essence of Technology" in DIE METAPHYSIK DER PRAKTISCHEN WELT (Festschrift zum siebzigsten Geburtstag Otto Poeggeler's), edited by A. GroBmann and W. Jaeschke (Rodolpi, 2000)
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  • "Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenological Philosophy" in special edition of E'TUDES PHE'NOME'NOLOGIQUES devoted to Merleau-Ponty and edited by Jacques Taminiaux (2001)
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  • "Equilibrium and the Paradox of Rationality" in special edition of AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS devoted to Alfred Schutz (2001)
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  • "The Strangeness in the Ethical Discourse of Emmanuel Levinas" in ADDRESSING LEVINAS, edited by E. Nelson and based on 1999 conference at Emory
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  • "Levinas on Phenomenology, Ethics, and Judaism" (Northwestern, 2002)
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  • "The Suspense: Jean Franc,ois Lyotard on Barnett Newman's Painting" in READING THE LYOTARD READER, edited by H. Silverman and G. Aylesworth (Routledge, 2002).
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  • Fellowships, Awards, and Honors:
  • Senior Fulbright Research Professorship in Philosophy, Hegel Archive, Ruhr University/Bochum, Germany, 1995-1996
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  • Extracurricular:
  • Director, International Phenomenological Symposium, Perugia, Italy, 2002-- Executive Committee, International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), 1995-2001
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  • Secretary-Convener, Heidegger Conference of North America, 1988-1989
  • Paula Ruth Gilbert
  • Professor of French, Canadian, and Women's Studies: Department of Modern andĘ Classical Languages/Women's Studies
  • Ph.D. in French, Columbia University, 1973.
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Violence and gender; representations of violence; feminist and postcolonial theory; Quebec, Canada, France, and the United States.
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  • Books:
  • The Aesthetics of Stephane Mallarme in Relation to His Public (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976).
  • The Literary Vision of Gabrielle Roy: An Analysis of Her Works (Summa Publications, Inc., 1984; Second printing, 1993).
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  • Traditionalism, Nationalism, and Feminism: Women Writers of Quebec. Editor. (Greenwood Press, 1985).
  • Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s. Co-editor with Roseanna Lewis Dufault (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, in press).
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  • Violence and Gender: A Critical Reader. With Kimberly Eby (New York University Press, under revision).
  • Violence and the Female Imagination: Quebec Women Writers Confront Gendered Cultures (in progress).
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  • Video:
  • Voice, Vision, Violence. With Lorna Irvine. (Canadian Film Distribution Center, 1995).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Paula Gilbert has published articles in The French Review, Quebec Studies, The American Review of Canadian Studies, Voix et Images, Etudes Litteraires, The Colby Quarterly, Essays on Canadian Writing, Modern Fiction Studies, etc.
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  • "Altering the Principles of Mapping: Teaching Canadian and Quebec Literature Outside Canada," with Lorna Irvine. Studies on Canadian Literature: Introductory and Critical Essays. Ed. Arnold E. Davidson. New York: Modern Language Association, 1990. 323-37.
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  • "The Daughter Below: A Double Parody of Mother-Daughter Bonding in Michele Mailhot's Beatrice vue d'en bas." The American Review of Canadian Studies 22.4 (1992): 511-32.
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  • "All Roads Pass Through Jubilee: Gabrielle Roy's La Route d'Altamont and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women." Colby Quarterly 22.2 (1993): 136-44.
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  • "'The Killer Awoke before Dawn': The Multiple Mirrors of Helene Rioux's Eleonore." Quebec Studies 20 (1995): 56-65.
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  • "Pre and Post-Mortem: Regendering and Serial Killing in Rioux, Dandurand, De, and Atwood," with Lorna Irvine. The American Review of Canadian Studies 29.1 (1999): 119-39.
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  • "Neurotic Disorders: Gendered Inner Violence in Selected Short Stories by Monique Bosco and Helene Rioux." Forthcoming, Quebec Studies 29 (2000).
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellowship, 2000-2001, for book project, "Violence and the Female Imagination."
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  • Canadian Government Faculty Research Grant, 2000, for "Public and Private Violence: The Novels of Infanticide of Aline Chamberland and Suzanne Jacob."
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  • Teaching Excellence Award, George Mason University, 1999.
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  • Paula Gilbert has won a number of other grants and fellowships in the past for her research, teaching, and conference planning.
  • Michele Greet
  • Assistant Professor of Art History
  • Department of History and Art History
  • Ph.D. in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2004
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Twentieth-century European and Latin American art; colonial Latin American art
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  • Books:
  • Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960, Penn State University Press, Refiguring Modernism Series, forthcoming 2009.
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  • Contributor: Art and Globalization, Stanford University Press. Book resulting from the Stone Summer Theory Institute, forthcoming.
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  • Journal articles:
  • "Manifestations of Masculinity: The Indigenous Body as a Site for Modernist Experimentation in Andean Art." Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos. Art and Encounters. December 2007, vol. 6 no. 1.
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  • "Pintar la nación indígena como una estrategia modernista en la obra de Eduardo Kingman." Revista de Historia Procesos, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. October 2007, no. 25.
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  • "Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris in the 1920s." Global Studies Review, Fall 2006, vol. 2, no. 3.
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  • "Inventing Wifredo Lam: The Parisian Avant-Garde's Primitivist Fixation." Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture. Issue 5: Visual Culture and National Identity, http//www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html , Jan. 2003.
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  • Conference papers:
  • "A Transhemispheric Vision of American Art: Ecuadorian Murals at the New School for Social Research," American Studies Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2007
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  • "The Polarization of American Modernism at the 'American Art Today' Exhibition at the 1939 New York World's Fair," College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, 2007
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  • "From Matta to Gego: Modes of Abstraction in Latin America," Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, 2006
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  • "'Freedom' Above All Else: Exhibiting Indigenism in the United States During and After World War II," Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006
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  • "Indigenism in 20th Century Latin American Art," Cultural Studies Faculty/Student Colloquium: "Representing Race and Identity in Postcolonial Contexts," George Mason University, 2005
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  • "Visualizing Latin America: Origins of the Survey Exhibition of Latin American Art," Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies XXVI Annual Conference, Richmond, VA, 2005
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  • Co-Chair: "Association for Latin American Art. Alternative Spaces: Modern Artists in Latin America and the Creation of Intellectual Forums," College Art Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2005
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  • "Ecuador's First Art Journal and the Vanguard Roots of Indigenism," College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, ALAA Open Session on Latin American Art, 2003
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  • "Painting the Indian Nation: Rivera's Mythical Mexico Deconstructed," American Identities Symposium, State University of New York, Potsdam, 2001
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  • "Titillation or Subjugation: Race and Sexual Deviance in Orientalist Painting," Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, New York, 2000
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  • "Inventing Wifredo Lam: The Parisian Avant-Garde's Primitivist Fixation," Imagining the Space Between: Constructing Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 Annual Conference at the University of Western Ontario, 2000
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  • "Transformation and Transcendence: Andean Depictions of the Virgin Mary," College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, Open Session on Latin American Art, 1999
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  • Awards & Honors
  • Fellow: Stone Summer Theory Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007
  • Summer Research Funding for Tenure-Track & Tenured Faculty, George Mason University, 2007
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  • Hazel Junior Faculty Award: research grant for one semester leave, George Mason University, 2006
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  • Alan and Gwen Nelson Award: travel grant, George Mason University, 2006
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  • Institute of Fine Arts nominee for the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities Prize, New York University, 2005
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  • Alumni Association of the Institute of Fine Arts Fellowship, 2003
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  • Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship, 2000
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  • Shelby and Leon Levy Fellowship, 1999
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  • Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, 1998
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  • William Graf Memorial Scholarship, 1997
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  • Barbara Meister Memorial Award, 1995
  • Gregory Guagnano
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology
  • Ph.D. University of California, Davis
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies altruism and market-like behavior; role of human agency in land use decisions; effect of incentives on attitude/behavior relationships; environmental sociology; evolutionary theory; research methods and design.
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  • Publications include:
  • Human Ecology: Crossing Boundries (1993)
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  • "Locus of Control, Altruism and Agrntic Disposition" (Population and Environment 1995)
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  • "Willingness to Pay for Public Goods: A Test of the Contribution Model" (Psychological Science 1994)
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  • "Whose City? Economy of Development in Sacramento" in Unequal Partnerships, ed. Gregory Squires (1989)
  • Devon Hodges
  • Professor of English
  • Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies early modern culture; feminist theory; theories of subject formation and the discourses of feminism.
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  • Publications include:
  • From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother with Janice Doane (1992)
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  • Nostalgia and Sexual Difference: The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism with Janice Doane (1987)
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  • Renaissance Fictions of Anatomy (1985)
  • Deborah Kaplan
  • Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University
  • Ph.D. English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 1979
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Early Modern Literature and Culture; Twentieth Century Drama; Performance Studies; Pedagogy
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  • Books:
  • Jane Austen among Women, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Deborah Kaplan has published articles on Jane Austen and other women writers and on revivals of Restoration comedies, including:
  • "Learning 'to Speak the English Language': The Way of the World on the Twentieth Century American Stage," Theatre Journal 49 (1997): 301-321
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  • "Representing the Nation: Restoration Comedies on the Early Twentieth-Century London Stage," Theatre Survey 36:2 (November 1995): 37-61
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  • "Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen's Female Friendships," in Approaches to Teaching Austen's Pride and Prejudice ed. Marcia Folsom (MLA Press, 1993), 81-88
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  • "Representing Two Cultures: Jane Austen's Letters," in The Private Self: Theory and Practice in Women's Autobiographical Writings, ed. Shari Benstock (University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 211-229.
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1986-87
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  • NEH Travel to Collections Grant (for research at British Archives Offices), 1985
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  • Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1980-81
  • Cynthia M. Lont
  • Professor and Chair, Communication
  • PhD, University of Iowa, 1984
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Women and Media, Mass Communication Theory (critical and traditional), Women's Music, Visual Communication Theory.
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  • Books:
  • (Ed.) (1995). Women and media: Content, careers, criticism. Wadsworth.
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  • Lont, C.M. & Friedley, S.F. (Eds.) (1989). Beyond boundaries: Sex and gender diversity in communication. George Mason University Press.
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  • Book Chapters:
  • (forthcoming). Frances Benjamin Johnston: Mother of Photojournalism. In Theresa Carilli & Jane Campbell's Women and the Media: National and Global Perspectives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
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  • Lont, C.M. & Bridge, M. J. (2002). "The Face of the Front Page: A Content Analysis of U.S. Newspapers." In Rebecca Lind's Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content , and Procedures. AB-Longman.
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  • Lont, C.M. (2000). The Impact of Media on Gender Construction. In Dana Vannoy's Gender Stratification: Social Construction and Structural Accounts, Roxbury Press, Los Angeles.
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  • (1993). "A feminist critique of mass communication theory." In Nancy Wyatt and Sheryl Bowen's Critiques in communication: A feminist perspective. Hampton Press.
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  • (1992). "Women's music: No longer a private party." In Reebee Garafolo's Rockin the boat: Mass music and mass movements. South End Press.
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  • (1988). 'Redwood records: Principles and profit in women's music." in Anita Taylor and Barbara Bates' Women communicating. Ablex. Traudt, P.J. & C.M. Lont
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  • (1987). "Media-logic-in-use: The family as a locus of study." In Thomas Lindlof's Natural audiences: Qualitative research in media uses and effects. Ablex.
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  • Selected Articles:
  • Anne A., Kehoe, S., Lont, C.M. and Palkovich, A. (February 23, 1999). Learning and Teaching in a Learning Based Community. Inventio: Creative Learning, (http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/inventio).
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  • Lont, C.M. (Spring 1999). Between the Covers: A review of Cris Williamson and Tret Fure's album. Women and Language.
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  • (1997, Winter). "Using technology to increase face-to face interaction." The Speech Communication Teacher.
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  • (1990, Winter). "Analysis of the terms surrounding the commodification process." Communication Quarterly.
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  • (1990, May/June). "Roles assigned females and males in non-music radio programming." Sex Roles. Decker, W. & C.M. Lont
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  • (1990, April). "The capstone course in speech communication:Ę Format and purpose." Association for Communication Administration Bulletin.
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  • (1988, Spring). "Subcultural persistence: The case of Redwood Records." Women's Studies in Communication.
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  • Awards and Grants:
  • Lisa Sparks, Tai Du and Cindy Lont (2002). Department of Communication GMU TAC Grant for Three-phase/Three year implementation of technology enhanced presentations in COMM 100 and COMM 101 General Education Courses.
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  • 1996, 1998 "Award of Distinction" presented by the national Communicator Awards. Received for a video module created for Theories of Visual Communication.
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  • 1998 "Best Take Award" presented by the International Television-Video Association- Washington, DC Chapter. Received for video module created for Theories of Visual Communication.
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  • 1997 National Communication Association (NCA) Funding ($4000) for a series of videotaped interviews with past NCA Presidents.
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  • 1997 "Educational Video Finalist" presented by the national Telly Awards. Received for video modules created for Theories of Visual Communication.
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  • 1997 "Faculty Grant" presented by College of Arts and Sciences for the creation of a web site entitled Women Creating Media Web Site.
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  • 1997 "Video Award of Excellence" presented by the national Communicator Awards. Received for a video module created for Theories of Visual Communication.
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  • 1996 "University Faculty Leave" presented by George Mason University, Fall.
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  • 1994 "Student Activities Grant" presented by College of Arts and Sciences and Student Activities Office of George Mason University to enhance the GMView, video yearbook.
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  • 1993 "Computer Editing Grant" presented by the Instructional Development Office of George Mason University.
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  • 1993 "Activities Grant" presented by George Mason University to provide services for the video project Voice, Vision, Violence.
  • Robert Matz
  • Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies
  • Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, English and American Literature, 1993
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Early modern literature and culture; sociology of literature; gender and sexuality studies
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  • Book:
  • Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
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  • Selected Articles:
  • "Slander, Renaissance Discourses of Sodomy, and Othello," ELH 66-76 (1999): 261
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  • "Poetry, Politics and Discursive Forms: The Case of Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie," Genre 30 (1997): 195-214
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  • "The Politics of Pleasure: Sidney's Defence of Poesie," English Literary Renaissance 25 (1995): 131-47
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  • "Speaking What We Feel: Torture and Political Authority in King Lear," Exemplaria 6 (1994): 223-41
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • George Mason, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997
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  • Summer Stipend for Junior Faculty Research
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  • Assistant Editor, ELH, 1989-1991
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  • Johns Hopkins Fellowships, 1986
  • John O'Connor
  • Associate Professor of English
  • PhD. University of Virginia
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies computer-based writing; the developing rhetorical conventions in group and individual on-line writing and in fiction and non-fiction hypertext; effect of multimedia on writing.
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  • Publications include:
  • Writing With PC-Write (1988)
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  • Free. Adult. Uncensored: The Living History of the Federal Theater Project, with Lorraine Brown (1978).
  • Ann Palkovich
  • Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • PhD. Northwestern University
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies the ways in which meanings are constructed with special reference to material culture, its ambiguity and reconstructions of the past; ways in which theoretical constructs are used across disciplinary boundaries; complex adaptive systems, as conceptualized by scientists and humanists.
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  • Publications include:
  • "Quandries in Cultural Evolution," in Crossing Boundaries in Human Ecology
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  • "Asymmetry and Recursive Meanings in the 18th Century," in The Recovery of Meaning (1988)
  • Karen Rosenblum
  • Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Ph.D. University of Colorado
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  • Area Specialities:
  • Studies the social construction of stigmatized master status in the domains of race, sex, sexual orientation, and social class; sex and gender studies; deviance; language.
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  • Publications include:
  • The Meaning of Difference (forthcoming).
  • Linda J. Seligmann
  • Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1987
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Latin America, Andean region: political economy, anthropological theory and methods, issues of development, anthropology and history, gender, class and ethnicity, migration/immigration, U.S.-Latin America, transnational adoption.
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  • Books:
  • Peruvian Street Lives (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2004)
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  • Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes (Stanford University Press, 1995)
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  • Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares (Stanford University Press, 2001). (Editor)
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  • Articles:
  • "Market Places, Social Spaces in Cuzco, Peru." Urban Anthropology. In press.
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  • "Anthropology, Highland, Ethnology: South America," Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 59. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress. In press.
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  • "A Woman of Steel: The Life Story of a Peruvian Market Woman." in Judith Mart' and Tamar Diana Wilson, eds. Women in the Informal Sector: Case Studies and Theoretical Approaches. Albany: SUNY Press. In press.
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  • "Systems of Knowledge and Authority in the Huanoquite Landscape." in Gary Urton and Deborah Poole, eds. Structure, Knowledge and Representation in the Andes: Studies Presented to Reiner Tom Zuidema on the Occasion of His Retirement. Special Issue of the Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, 25(2): 27-55. 1999.
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  • "Survival Politics and the Movements of Market Women in Peru in the Age of Neoliberalism," pp. 65-82. in Lynne Phillips, ed. The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism. Jaguar Books (SR). 1998.
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  • "Between Worlds of Exchange: Ethnicity among Peruvian Market Women" (Cultural Anthropology, 1993)
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  • "The Burden of Visions: Peasant Relations to Law in the Peruvian Andes" (American Ethnologist, 1993)
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  • "To Be in between: The Cholas as Market Women in Peru" (Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1989)
    • "The Quechua Concept of Wallpa: The Chicken in Andean History and Myth" (Ethnohistory, 1987)
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Various editorships: Society of Latin American Anthropology Section News; Handbook of Latin American Studies Board member, Society of Latin American Anthropology, and editorial board of Journal of Latin American Studies
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  • Wenner Gren Foundation grants (2) for Anthropological Research
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  • Fellow, Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies
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  • Fulbright Grant
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  • Organization of American States Grant
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  • Interamerican Foundation Grant
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  • Tinker Foundation Grant
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  • Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship
  • Suzanne E. Smith
  • Department of History, George Mason University
  • Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University, May 1996.
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  • Area Specialties:
  • African American Studies, 20th century Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Urban and Film History
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  • Books:
  • 'Dancing in the Street': Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (Harvard University Press, January 2000).
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  • Selected Articles:
  • "The Civil Rights Era" in The African American Experience. Part of The American Journey on CD ROM Series. Michele Stepto, General Editor. (Research Publications International, 1995).
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  • "'Please Correct Me, If I'm Wrong': Teaching Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Age of the Politically Correct" in Teaching a New Canon, James Hall and Bruce Goebel, eds.Ę (National Council of the Teachers of English, 1995).
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  • Awards & Honors:
  • Mathy Junior Faculty Fellowship, George Mason University, 1998.
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  • NEH Summer Institute on the History of Death in America, Columbia University, 1998.
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  • Pew Foundation Summer Fellowship, Yale University, 1994
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  • Bentley Library Travel Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1993
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  • Henry P. Kaiser Travel Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1993
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  • John P. Enders Travel Grant, Yale University, 1993
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1987-1991.
  • Margaret R. Yocom
  • Associate Professor of English, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
  • Co-coordinator of Folklore and Mythology Minor
  • Ph.D. in English (Folklore specialty), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1980
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Folklore and folklife / tradition / social memory: family folklore, material culture, gender, oral narrative, occupation, ethnography, museums. Maine, logging culture, Pennsylvania Germans, northern Virginia, Alaskan Inuit.
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  • Books and Selected exhibits:
  • Working the Woods. Co-curator of exhibit with Kathleen Mundell; editor of exhibit catalogue, primary author, one of featured photographers) Augusta: Maine Arts Commission. 1999.
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  • Rangeley Lakes Region Cultural Inventory. (Co-editor with Kathleen Mundell, author of introduction) Augusta: Maine Arts Commission. 1998.
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  • Logging in the Maine Woods: The Paintings of Alden Grant. (Producer, editor, principal author; with Stephen Richard, assistant editor). Rangeley, ME: Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum. 1994.
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  • Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit: King Island Tales. (Assistant editor, with editor Lawrence Kaplan, collectors and translators Margaret Seeganna and Gertrude Analoak). Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, Alaska Native Language Center. 1988.
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  • Articles and Photographs:
  • Margaret Yocom has published articles in folklore journals, edited books, Smithsonian Folklife Festival publications, newspapers, and magazines as part of her academic and public folklore work. Selected articles follow:
  • "Exuberance in Control: The Dialogue of Ideas in the Tales and Fan Towers of Woodsman William Richard of Phillips, Maine." Northeast Folklore. Forthcoming, 2000.
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  • "The Yellow Ribboning of the USA: Contested Meanings in the Construction of a Political Symbol." (Co-author, with Linda Pershing). Western Folklore 55(1) (1996):41-85.
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  • "'Awful Real': Dolls and Development in Rangeley, Maine." In Feminist Messages, edited by Joan Newlon Radner, 126-154. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
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  • "Fieldwork, Gender, and Transformation: The Second Way of Knowing." Southern Folklore 47 (1990):33-44.
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  • "Woman to Woman: Fieldwork and the Private Sphere." Women's Folklore, Women's Culture, ed. Susan Kalik and Rosan Jordan, 45-53. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
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  • "Regionalism, Negative Definitions, and the Suburbs: Folklife in Northern Virginia." Folklore and Folklife in Virginia 3 (1984):57-83.
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  • "Family Folklore and Oral History Interviews: Strategies for Introducing a Project to One's Own Relatives." Western Folklore 41 (1982):251-274.
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  • Honors and Awards:
  • Edited books that Yocom's essays have appeared in won the Elli KsngSs-Maranda Award of the American Folklore Society.
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  • A recipient of the GMU Distinguished Teacher Award, she serves on the State of the Profession Committee of the American Folklore Society.
  • Rosemarie Zagarri
  • Professor of History
  • Ph.D. Yale University
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  • Area Specialties:
  • Studies gender and federalism in the early republic; colonial and revolutionary America; early republic; early American women.
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  • Publications include:
  • A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (1995)
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  • The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States 1776-1850 (1987).