The papers and commentaries presented during this meeting are intended solely for the hearing of those present and should not be tape-recorded, copied, or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Recording, copying, or reproducing a paper/presentation without the consent of the author(s) may be a violation of common law copyright and may result in legal difficulties for the person recording, copying, or reproducing.

8:00 am – 1:45 pm

Business Meeting of the ASA National Council
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 3

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Oil Culture: Representations of the Petroleum Industry
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Nancy L. Quam-Wickham, California State University, Long Beach (CA)

Ross Barrett, University of Chicago (IL)
Oil, Bronze, and Stone: Sculptural Monuments to the Petroleum Industry

Daniel Worden, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (CO)
Fossil Fuel Futurity: Oil in Giant

Imre Szeman, University of Alberta (Canada)
Oil on Film: New Narratives of Oil Crisis

Nancy L. Quam-Wickham, California State University, Long Beach (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

High-Tech Sustainability and Socioeconomic Justice
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Scott Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Senior Reporter

Julie Sze, University of California, Davis (CA)
Contesting Social Equity, Environmental History, and Regional Change in Ecotopian Space and Time

Christina Cogdell, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Sustainability and Colonialism? Contradictions in Discourses of Genetic Architecture and Design

Jennifer Richter, University of New Mexico (NM)
Going Nuclear: Regional and National Perceptions of Nuclear Facilities in New Mexico

Scott Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Senior Reporter

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Domestic Environmentalism: Home, Nation, Globe, Planet
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11

Chad Lavin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA)

Stephanie Foote, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
At Home in a Toxic World: Domestic Policies and Green Lifestyle Media

Elizabeth Mazzolini, Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
Misguided: Environmental Rhetoric on Mount Everest

Chad Lavin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

New Ethics of Ecological Care and Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ecopoetics of Sustainability: Garbage, Toxicity, and Healing in the Works of Allen Ginsberg

John Gamber, Columbia University (NY)
Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.'s The Council

Min-hsiou Rachel Hung, National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan)
Emily Carr, Totem Poles, and the Politics of Belonging

Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai, Tamkang University (Taiwan)
Snyder, Ahimsa, and Ecological Citizenship

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Interpreting Images, Icons, and Intent: The White House Residence as Cultural Sphere
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North

Gail S. Lowe, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

Sally Sims Stokes, White House Historical Association
From Diary to Dramatization: White House Employee Memoirs as Cultural Practices

James Deutsch, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
The Strange Career of Jeremiah Smith: White House Worker Extraordinaire

William Bushong, White House Historical Association
A Mirror on America: Portraits of White House Workers

Gail S. Lowe, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Perverting Nationalisms: Discourses of Security and the
Crafting of Geopolitics
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium

Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)

Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College (NY)

Rupal Oza, City University of New York, Hunter College (NY)

Ann Pellegrini, New York University (NY)

Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Visualizing the Urban Jungle and the Urban Oasis:
Cities in the American Environmental Imaginary (sponsored by the
Visual Culture Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Catherine Zuromskis, University of New Mexico (NM)

Jennifer A. Greenhill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Wallowing in the Dirt with William Holbrook Beard

Dawn Biehler, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD)
Rats, Deviance, and Crowding: Ecological Visions of Race and Overpopulation in John Calhoun's
Rat Cities

Lisa Uddin, Brown University (RI)
Flight Distance: Zoo Design and Urban Anxiety in Postwar San Diego

Ursula McTaggart, Wilmington College (OH)
Zombies Rule: Anarchism, Environmentalism, and the Zombie Metaphor

Catherine Zuromskis, University of New Mexico (NM)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

The Work of Self in the Age of Digital Replication
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Kim Christen, Washington State University, Spokane (WA)

Lance Trevor McCready, OISE/UT Office
Digital Memoir: Reflections on Cultural Identity and Processes of Identification

Lisa Guerrero, Washington State University, Spokane (WA)
What Are You Doing Right Now? Facebook and the Question of Surveillance as Community-Builder

Aureliano Maria DeSoto, Metropolitan State University (MN)
Through a Glass Darkly: The Rainbow Electronicus and the Dystopia of Gay Online Sexual Cultures

Kim Christen, Washington State University, Spokane (WA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College (OH)

Amy Lucinda Brandzel, University of New Mexico (NM)

Karma Chávez, University of New Mexico (NM)

Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

The U.S. Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Its Discontents
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Myrl Beam, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Are You in an Unfair Relationship? Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Nonprofit Antiviolence Interventions in Queer Communities

Kate Boyd, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Follow the Money: Imagining Radical Social Change beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Soniya Munshi, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
Making Belonging through Exclusion: Violence against South Asian Women, Nonprofit Organizations, Methodologies of Culture

Alex Urquhart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Target(ing) HIV: Branding an Epidemic at the Minnesota AIDS Walk

Craig Willse, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
Race-ing Homelessness: Social Science and the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Exploring the Unsustainable: Feminist, Radical, Queer Politics
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

Mimi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

Sora Han, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Sara Clarke Kaplan, University of California, San Diego (CA)

Roshanak Kheshti, University of California, San Diego (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Pedagogical and Story Circle Workshop with Students at the Center, New Orleans
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Catherine C. Michna, Boston College (MA)

Jim Randels, Students at the Center

Students from Students at the Center, secondary education program in the New Orleans Public Schools

Erica DeCuir, Georgia State University

Catherine C. Michna, Boston College (MA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Training Sights: The Visual Pedagogies of American Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Ann Holder, Harvard University (MA)

Victoria M. Grieve, Utah State University (UT)
Constructed Citizenship in Troubled Times: WPA Juvenile Literature, 1937–1942

Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
Making an American Citizen: Teaching Citizenship in Social Problem Films of the Progressive Era

Seth Feman, College of William and Mary (VA)
The Dragon in the Suburbs: Art Education's Consumer-Citizens at the National Gallery,
1941–1956

Kimberly Kay Lamm, Duke University (NC)
Seeing the "We": Showing History, Writing Citizenship in 12 Million Black Voices

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Susan H. Lurie, Rice University (TX)

Juliana Chang, Santa Clara University (CA)
Perverse Citizenship: The Anti-domestic Death Drive and Suki Kim's The Interpreter

Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (CA)
In Liberty's Shadow: Refugees, Asylum, and the Bridges That Critical Race Theory Can Build

Paul Smith, George Mason University (VA)
Belonging to Capital, Belonging in Capital

Susan H. Lurie, Rice University (TX)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College (PA)

Jonna Eagle, Duke University (NC)
Enlisting in America's Army: The Embodied Practice of Violence and Belonging

Charity Fox, George Washington University (DC)
Mercenaries and Migrants: Issues of Citizenship and Belonging in Private Military Contracting

Rachel Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (LA)
Disappearing Service: The Circulation of Postmortem and Portrait Photographs of U.S. Military Personnel

Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College (PA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Angela D. Dillard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Jackleen S. M. Salem, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (WI)
Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Religion: Muslims in Chicago in a Global Context

Eva-Sabine Zehelein, University of Frankfurt (Germany)
Fifty-five Plus: Active Adult Communities, Age Segregation, and the American (Social) Landscape

Alexandra C. K. Seitz, University of Pittsburgh (PA)
Arriving at the Proper Moral Choice: Pittsburgh Catholics for Obama and the Question of Abortion

Angela D. Dillard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

International Partnership Luncheon
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A

This lunch will introduce directors of and faculty from U.S. programs interested in international partnerships to program directors and faculty from programs outside the U.S. interested in establishing such relationships.

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

U.S. Reproductive Citizenship in a Global Context
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15

Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University (RI)
The Contradiction of Bio-citizenship: The Transnational Politics of Birth Control Programs

Gillian Frank, Colby College (ME)
Social Reproduction, Childhood, and the Regulation of Citizenship in the Age of Nixon

Laura Briggs, University of Arizona (AZ)
Foreign and Domestic: Stratified Reproduction, Adoption, Migration

Wendy Kline, University of Cincinnati (OH)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

José David Saldívar, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Claire Fox, University of Iowa (IA)
Latina/o American Visual Culture and Citizenship at HemisFair '68

Melissa Garcia, Yale University (CT)
Sights of Rape and the Delineation of Modern Borders

Rebecca Schreiber, University of New Mexico (NM)
Placing Pictures: Oaxacan Migrants and the Visual Economy of Intimacy

Rosa Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Early America, Asia, and the Pacific (sponsored by the
Early American Matters Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Martha Rojas, University of Rhode Island (RI)

Tatiana Seijas, Miami University of Ohio (OH)
A Slave Woman's Transpacific Journey

Jim Egan, Brown University (RI)
What's Chinese about China in Revolutionary America? Benjamin Franklin's Fine and Noble China Vase

Gwenn A. Miller, College of the Holy Cross (MA)
Visions of Empire in the Pacific World: Russia's Colonial Stages in North America

Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara University (CA)
Trade and Time in Eighteenth-Century Pacific Travel Writing

Martha Rojas, University of Rhode Island (RI)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Three Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging: African Americans, Conquered Mexicans, and Immigrant Chinese
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

Mark Elliott, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)

Carolyn Karcher, Temple University (PA)
Albion W. Tourgée and the National Citizen's Rights Association

Brook Thomas, University of California, Irvine (CA)
The Squatter and the Don's Construction of Railroads and Citizens in the Age of Reconstruction

Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia (Canada)
The "Thrill" of Not Belonging: Sui Sin Far on Citizenship

Mark Elliott, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Photography: Imaging the Future of Race in America
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North

Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware (DE)

Alvina E. Quintana, University of Delaware (DE)

Deb Willis, New York University (NY)

Ed V. Guerrero, New York University (NY)

Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware (DE)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Thinking Globally: American Environmentalism and Global Society in the Postwar Era
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

William McAllister, independent scholar

David Kinkela, State University of New York, College at Fredonia (NY)
Regulating Nature in a Global Age: Science, Borders, and the Politics of DDT

Thomas Robertson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)
Placing Humans in Nature: American Environmentalists and Global Population Control

Paul Rosier, Villanova University (PA)
"What the world will need to survive": American Indian Environmental Citizenship in Post–World War II America

William McAllister, independent scholar

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

CANCELLED
On the Virtues of Academic Citizenship: Pedagogy and Practice in the American Studies College Classroom
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Robert George Lee, Brown University (RI)

Adam Golub, California State University, Fullerton (CA)

Matthew Pratt Guterl, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)

Lynn Mie Itagaki, Ohio State University (OH)

James Vernando Gatewood, Antioch University, Los Angeles (CA)

Edward Melillo, Amherst College (MA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Circulatory Systems: Affects and Economies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Lydia Brawner, New York University (NY)

Biba Bell, New York University (NY)
Shifting Site, Affective Virtuosity: Meditations on a Posturban Parking Garage

Jacob Matthew Doherty, New School University (NY)
Urbanizing Crisis: On the Performativity of Finance and Planning

Jonathan Keith Mullins, New York University (NY)
Intimate Frequencies: Radio Alice's Broadcast of Transnational Belonging

Alex H. Pittman, New York University (NY)
Broken Affects

Lydia Brawner, New York University (NY)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

The Intimate Bonds of Citizenship: The Citizen as
Neighbor and Friend
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Marianne Noble, American University (DC)

Carrie Bramen, State University of New York, Buffalo (NY)
Neighbors, Niceness, and Citizenship

John Stauffer, Harvard University (MA)
Symbols of Democracy: Interracial Friendships

Benjamin Soskis, Columbia University (NY)
The Good Citizen and the Good Christian in Gilded Age Social Thought

Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Why Walk When You Can Fly? The Living Stage Praxis of Community Engagement and Mobilization, 1966–2002
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B

Lisa Biggs, Northwestern University (IL)

Erica Mott, independent scholar

Tanisha Christie, artist

Lisa Biggs, Northwestern University (IL)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Intersections of Native American and Japanese American Scholarship: Dispossession, Citizenship, Belonging, and the State
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University (AZ)

Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Removals and Other Americans: John Collier's "Pale Promise of Democracy" at the Poston Relocation Center

Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College (MA)
Going Native? Japanese Internment Narratives and the Politics of Cross-Racial Identification

Laura Sachiko Fugikawa, University of Southern California (CA)
Containment through Dispersal: The Assimilation Project Inherent in Citizen Making

Myla Vicenti Carpio, Arizona State University (AZ)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Performance Re/Visions: American Theater and National Identity
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Jill S. Dolan, Princeton University (NJ)

Shane Vogel, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)
Global O'Neill

David Román, University of Southern California (CA)
Reviving Odets

Priscilla Peña Ovalle, University of Oregon (OR)
When Rita Moreno's Voice Changes

Jill S. Dolan, Princeton University (NJ)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Internment, Redress, and Reparations
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Karen Shimakawa, New School University (NY)

Heather Hathaway, Marquette University (WI)
Silence and Citizenship in Japanese Internment Camp Writing

A. Naomi Paik, Yale University (CT)
The Unfinished Business of Redress and the Afterlife of Internment

Cathleen Kiyomi Kozen, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Never Again! Tracing a Politics of Japanese Latin American Redress and Reparations as Global Justice

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego (CA)

Birgit Brander Rasmussen, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI)
Captured by Iraqis! The Reemergence of American Captivity Narratives in the Twenty-first Century

Kimberly O'Neill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The Hot Cold War: Central America in U.S. Literature

Rick Baldoz, Oberlin College (OH)
Another Mirage of Democracy: War, Nationality, and the Asymmetries of Allegiance

Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego (CA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Ronald Radano, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI)

Lori Lynne Brooks, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Ragging the American Body: Race, Citizenship and the Bodily Economy of Ragtime

Shana L. Redmond, University of Southern California (CA)
One Nation . . . Indivisible: Double Consciousness and Black Musical Performance

Patricia R. Schroeder, Ursinus College (PA)
Passing for Black: Coon Songs and the Performance of Race

Ronald Radano, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Transnational Bodies, Performances, and Enactments
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University (CA)

Lourdes Alberto, University of Utah (UT)
Mexican Beauties, Indian Queens: Indigenous Citizenship, Gender Politics, and the Diosa Centeotl Pageant in Los Angeles

Norma Cantu, University of Texas, San Antonio (TX),
Cordelia Barrera, University of Texas, San Antonio (TX)
Recreating What Never Was: The George Washington's Birthday Celebration in Laredo, Texas

David William Seitz, University of Pittsburgh (PA)
Defending Illegal Immigrants: The Liberty Wall, the Diatribe, and Perspective by Incongruity

Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University (CA)

1:45 pm – 4:45 pm

Business Meeting of the Regional Chapters' Committee
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina (Book/CD signing in Foyer 4PM-4:45PM)
Auditorium

Clyde Woods, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

Jordan Thomas Camp, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

Shana Griffin, New Orleans Women's Health Clinic, Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy Project, New Orleans Women's Health and Justice Initiative, INCITE! Critical Resistance

Brenda Marie Osbey, artist

Kalamu ya Salaam, artist

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Business Meeting of the Women's Committee
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 6

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Business Meeting of the International Committee
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 7

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

En-gendering U.S. Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Randy Ontiveros, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)

Sobeira Latorre, Southern Connecticut State University (CT)
Women, Borders, and Nation: Ana Maurine Lara's "Erzulie's Skirt"

Elena Machado Sáez, Florida Atlantic University (FL)
Edwidge Danticat's Dewbreaker as Postcolonial Tragedy

Margaret G. Frohlich, Dickinson College (PA)
Fukú and Zafa: Writing as a Unifying Process in Junot Diaz's "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

Marion Rohrleitner, University of Texas, El Paso (TX)
"To Brush History against the Grain": A Benjaminian Reading of Maroon Identities in Maria-Elena John's Unburnable

Randy Ontiveros, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Waging War, Shaping Identity: Exploring Ethnic and Racial Formation during the First and Second World Wars
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Richard Cándida Smith, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Jessica Cooperman, Muhlenberg College (PA)
World War I and the Boundaries of "Jewishness" in the American Military

Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University (MI)
Representing and Regulating Chinese American Servicemen during World War II

Thomas A. Guglielmo, George Washington University (DC)
The World War II Draft and the Struggle over the Boundaries of Nonblackness

Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University (MI)
Kaz, Cohen, or Montmorency? Name Changing in the United States during World War II

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Marlon Ross, University of Virginia (VA)

Chinua Thelwell, New York University (NY)
The Blackfaced Atlantic: McAdoo's Jubilee Singers and McAdoo's Minstrels in South Africa, 1890–1898

Uri McMillan, Yale University (CT)
Performance Art, Racism, and Audience Confrontation: Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being

Tracy McMullen, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
"Yes, It's Ladies' Night and Our Rhymes Is Tight": Women Rappers Remix Cultural Memory and Black Female Identity

Alwin Jones, Sarah Lawrence College (NY)
Dusting Off Black Shotguns and Race(d) Scrolls:
Anti-essentialism or (Essential) Resistance in Saul Williams' Poetry?

Marlon Ross, University of Virginia (VA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Children and Youth in History: Belonging in the Past and the Present (sponsored by the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City (MO)

Kelly Schrum, George Mason University (VA)

Ilana Nash, Western Michigan University (MI)

Mary McMurray, University of Missouri, Kansas City (MO)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Patriotic Investments in Victimhood, Vengeance, and Violence
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11

CHAIR: Alyson M. Cole, City University of New York, Queens College (NY)

Steven Johnston, University of South Florida (FL)
Patriotism, Stillborn

Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University (DC)
The Venomous Eye: Melodrama and the Discourse of American Democracy

Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
The War on Terror in Post-9/11 TV Drama: Scripting Terrorists, Victims, and a Post-Race United States

Alyson M. Cole, City University of New York, Queens College (NY)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Under the Influence: Affective Historiographies of Queer Nightlife
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15

Lucas Hilderbrand, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Lucas Hilderbrand, University of California, Irvine (CA)
History Was Made at Night: The Pedagogy of Queer Nightlife

Karen Tongson, University of Southern California (CA)
Behind the Orange Curtain

Ricardo Montez, Princeton University (NJ)
Nelson Sullivan and His Archive of Fabulous

Homay King, Bryn Mawr College (PA)
Queering the Velvets: A Reading of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable

Karen Tongson, University of Southern California (CA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Theorizing Prison/Space/Resistance in Post–World War II America
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North

Michael Flamm, Ohio Wesleyan University (OH)

Toussaint Losier, University of Chicago (IL)
"If you are black, you were born in jail": Stateville Penitentiary and Racialized Incarceration, 1957–1967

Dan Berger, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Race-Making in the Shadows: Action and Authenticity in 1970s Prison Radicalism

Lee Bernstein, State University of New York, College at New Paltz (NY)
Cell Block Theater: Entertainment, Liberation, and the Politics of Prison Theater in the 1970s

Joy James, Williams College (MA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

A New Exceptionalism? Citizenship, Identity, and Belonging in Obama's America
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College (MA)

Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like? Obama Exceptionalism and the Future of American Feminism

David Gutterman, Willamette University (OR)
America's Joshua? Barack Obama and the Next Chapter of Exodus in the United States

Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon (OR)
The King's Two Bodies: Obama, Executive Power, and the Reinterpretation of American National Identity

Simon Stow, College of William and Mary (VA)
Lincoln 2.0: Barack Obama, Citizenship, Belonging, and the Politics of Racial Drag

Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College (MA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Girls of Color and Performance Ethnography: Imagining New Spaces of Empowerment and Inclusion
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Aimee Cox, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

Dana Edell, New York University (NY)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Hollywood in the 1950s: The Spectacle of Cold War Citizenry
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Susan Carruthers, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

Colleen Glenn, University of Kentucky (KY)
The War in the West: Red River and the Spectacle of Postwar Masculinity

Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky (KY)
The UN as Popular Front: North by Northwest and the Global Bid for Cold War Citizenship

Dina Smith, Drake University (IA)
Scopic Citizenship: Aerial Cinematography in 1950s Hollywood

Susan Carruthers, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Open the Door: Race and Citizenship in Popular Music
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Jerma Jackson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

Diane Elizabeth Pecknold, University of Louisville (KY)
Only in America: The Racial Politics of Country Music in a "Postracial" Age

David Sanjek, independent scholar
Who Has the Right to Sing the Blues? Investigating the Invisibility of Central Avenue

Charles McGovern, College of William and Mary (VA)
Let Me In: Markets, Membership, and the Civics of Black Popular Music, 1948–1963

Jerma Jackson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Evan Heimlich, University of California, Riverside

Karla A. Erickson, Grinnell College (IA)
Belonging Toward Death: Interaction Ritual and the Production of Community in a Midwestern Hospice Organization

Kerwin Kaye, New York University (NY)
Creating Normal, Ordinary, Responsible Persons: Drug Courts and the Biopolitics of Citizenship

Carol Mason, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater (OK)
Meth/Purity, Pregnancy, and Whiteness: Belonging and Citizenship in Oklahoma

Evan Heimlich, University of California, Riverside (CA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

John Caughey, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)

Kyla Schuller, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Breeding Better Citizens: The Eugenic Origins of U.S. Foster Care

Mary Battenfeld, Wheelock College (MA)
Mothers for the Motherless: Adoption and Belonging in Nineteenth-Century America

Erica Fretwell, Duke University (NC)
Sonographic Youth: Fetal Sonograms, Photo Albums, and National Affiliation

Emily S. Mann, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Theorizing Teenage Sexual Citizenship

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Haiti as Icon in Transnational Discourse
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Robert Fanuzzi, Saint John's University (NY)

Jana Braziel, University of Cincinnati (OH)
Klowox, se asid bateri: Haitian Hunger, Food Economies, Global Divides

Gwen Bergner, West Virginia University (WV)
Vodou Economics: Haitian-American Transnational Relations

Stephen P. Lucasi, University of Connecticut (CT)
Contagion and the National Menace: Charles Johnson's "The Plague" and John Edgar Wideman's "Fever"

Robert Fanuzzi, Saint John's University (NY)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Transnational Imagined Communities
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Lisa Thompson, State University of New York, Albany (NY)

Manan Ramchandra Desai, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
They Called You Negro, They Called Me Untouchable: Translating America in Dalit Literary Criticism, 1965–1978

Rachelle Sussman, New York University (NY)
From Band-Aid to Product Red: Constructing Africa through Philanthropic Consumerism

Lisa Thompson, State University of New York, Albany (NY)

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 3

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Business Meeting of the Students' Committee
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 1

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

American Studies Journal Editorial Board Meeting
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 7

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Institutional Strategies of Empowerment and Belonging:
Intersections of Union, Community, and Philanthropic Organizing
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Arizona State University (AZ)

Ligaya Rene Domingo, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
For Every Dark Moment There Is Always a Glimmer of Hope: The Rank-and-File Movement in the Alaska Cannery Workers Union

Adam Dalton Reich, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
With God on Our Side: Labor Power in the Catholic Hospital

Erica Kohl-Arenas, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Like Oil and Water: Philanthropic Collaboratives and Farmworker Organizing

Estella Habal, San Jose State University (CA)
Revolutionary Brotherhood and the Gran Oriente Filipino Masonic Organization in the United States

Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Arizona State University (AZ)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Vulnerable Bodies, Ecological Citizenship, and the Making of Environmental Publics (sponsored by the Environment and
Culture Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16

Bernard Mergen, George Washington University (DC)

Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (IL)
A Question of Trust: Nuclear Disaster, Citizenship, and the State at Three Mile Island

Finis Dunaway, Trent University (Canada)
From Silkwood to Alar: Meryl Streep and the Ecological Body in U.S. Public Culture

Cheryl J. Fish, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
Environmental Justice Makeovers: Ethnicity, Documentary, and Eco-Justice in My Year of Meats and Blue Vinyl

Bernard Mergen, George Washington University (DC)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Barbecue Eating, Gospel Singing, and Bridge Building:
Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in the U.S. South
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Sarah Robbins, Texas Christian University (TX)

David Wharton, University of Mississippi (MS)

Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Lisa Jordan Powell, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Sarah Robbins, Texas Christian University (TX)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

American Literature as Political Theory: Reimagining Citizenship, Bodies, and Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

George Shulman, New York University (NY)

Jason Frank, Cornell University (NY)
Promiscuous Citizenship

Susan McWilliams, Pomona College (CA)
Melville’s Militarized Individualism

Melvin Rogers, University of Virginia (VA)
Between Admiration and Contempt: Emerson, Democracy, and the Problem of Greatness

George Shulman, New York University (NY)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Performing Publics and Counterpublics: Belonging and Boundaries in Early American Theater Culture
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Annemarie Bean, independent scholar

Amy E. Hughes, City University of New York, Brooklyn College (NY)
Specters of Insanity: The Delirium Tremens Reprised and Recycled on the Antebellum Stage

Heather S. Nathans, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Wandering Jews and Strangers in Strange Lands: Representing the Jew in the Early National Theater

Peter P. Reed, University of Mississippi (MS)
Recruiting Counterfeit Blackness in T. D. Rice's Virginia Mummy

Annemarie Bean, independent scholar

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

The Cultural Productions of Oil in the Americas
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Douglas Rogers, Yale University (CT)

Miguel Tinker Salas, Pomona College (CA)
Foreign Oil and Civil Society in Venezuela

Karen R. Merrill, Williams College (MA)
The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Oil in Dallas

Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
How Imperial Oil Haunts Our Present

Douglas Rogers, Yale University (CT)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Speculative Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Time, Affinity, and Desire
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

Bruce Burgett, University of Washington, Bothell (WA)

Peter Coviello, Bowdoin College (ME)
Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love

Molly McGarry, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Divining the Past, Voicing Futurities

Dana Luciano, Georgetown University (DC)
The Revery Alone

Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis (CA)
Connecticut Yankings

Bruce Burgett, University of Washington, Bothell (WA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

A Critical View from Hawai'i: Pedagogy and Curriculum Workshop
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

Konrad Ng, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

Karen Kosasa, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

Lois Harder, University of Alberta (Canada)

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

Hokulani Aikau, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Everybody's Disabled Nowadays: Reconfiguring American Studies through Disability
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11

Jeffrey Brune, Gallaudet University (DC)
Disability and the Not-So-Strange Career of John Howard Griffin

Joseph J. Murray, Gallaudet University (DC)
Belonging through Sign Language: Deaf Americans and the Development of a Transnational Citizenship Discourse

Margaret Price, Spelman College (GA)
All in Our Minds: Naming and Claiming Psychosocial Disability

Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Performing Health, Narrativizing Racialized Bodies: AIDS, Cancer, and Medical "Knowledge"
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Gretchen Case, Duke University (NC)
Apoptosis Is My Favorite Word

Marlon Bailey, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)
Performing Sex, Facing AIDS: A Point at Which Public Health and Performance Ethnography Can Meet

Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Virginia (VA)
Creating Health on the Superbody: Enslaved and Irish-Immigrant Women and Antebellum-Era Modern American Gynecology

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Transnational Markets and Communities: Comparative Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Nhi Lieu, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Maria Elena Cepeda, Williams College (MA)
Latina Digital Beauty: Collective Aesthetics, Commerce, and Cultural Citizenship on the Internet

Grace Wang, University of California, Davis (CA)
The ABCs of Chinese Pop: Celebrity and the Performance of Ethnic and Transnational Identities

Dolores Ines Casillas, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
"Do-It-Yourself" Spanish: Rosetta Stone, Translation Texts, and the Politics of Language

Nhi Lieu, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Beauty and Ethnicity in Wedded Bliss: Rites and Romance in the Transnational Asian/American Bridal Industry

Lok Siu, New York University (NY)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University (TN)

Nghana Lewis, Tulane University (LA)
When a (Black) Man Loves a (Black) Woman:
The Cool Way Barack and Michelle Redefine Black (Man-Woman) Love

Joel Dinerstein, Tulane University (LA)
Barack Obama: The First Cool President

Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University (NC)
Obama: A (Nearly) Flawless (Black) Masculinity?

William Jelani Cobb, Spelman College (GA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Envisioning a Sustainable Transnational Cultural Policy:
Lessons and Inspirations from Across the Hemisphere
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Catherine Laure Benamou, University of California, Irvine (CA)

PRESENTERS: Catha Paquette, California State University, Long Beach (CA)

Seth Fein, Yale University (CT)

Cristina Venegas, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Belonging: Citizenship and the
Cultural Politics of Rhyming
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium

Diana Paulin, Trinity College (CT)

Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
From Will-i-am to William Shakespeare: Hip-Hop Poetics and the Rhetoric of Citizenship

Adam Bradley, Claremont McKenna College (CA)
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop Canonization: Editing the Yale Anthology of Rap

Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, Montclair State University (NJ)
Performing the Scripts of Lyrical Citizenship: Saul Williams and Other Poemcees

James Braxton Peterson, Bucknell University (PA)
Citizenship Imagined: Prosopopeia and Narratives of Nation in Hip-Hop Culture

Diana Paulin, Trinity College (CT)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Ashley Lucas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

Emily Klein, Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Constructing Citizenship through Political Theater

Talaya Adrienne Delaney, Vassar College (NY)
The Playwright as Historian: Ideas of Citizenship and History in the Plays of Charles Mee

Lindsay Cummings, Cornell University (NY)
From Presidential Politics to Grassroots Theater: Performing National (Dis)Unity in Appalachia

Ashley Lucas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Racial Productions of the Borderlands
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego (CA)

L. Chase Smith, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Chinese Labor and the Diversions of "Progress" in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

David Drysdale, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Bandit Citizenship and Outlaw Violence in John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta

Alberto Varon, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Before and After the Gringo Came: Mexican American Masculinity and the New California Literary History

Emily Garcia, Grand Valley State University (MI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Ruby Tapia, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)

Greg Robinson, L'Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
The Resurrection and Life of Thomas Jefferson's Bible

Mark Rifkin, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
White Woman or Clan Mother? Mary Jemison, Race, and the Contours of Seneca Peoplehood

Kimberly Juanita Brown, Northeastern University (MA)
Saving Mr. Jefferson: Slavery, Historiography, and the Sustainability of National Identity

Ruby Tapia, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Business Meeting of the Politics and Policy Caucus
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 2

5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Business Meeting of the Environment and Culture Caucus
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 3

5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Business Meeting of the Caucus on Community and Academic Activism
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 5

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Business Meeting of the Minority Scholar's Committee
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Business Meeting of the Humor Studies Caucus
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 6

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Business Meeting of the Science and Technology Caucus
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 7

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Welcome Reception
National Museum of the American Indian, Potomac Atrium
Join with fellow ASA members in a welcome reception at the National Museum of the American Indian. All members and guests are encouraged to attend. This event requires only a conference badge for admission. For more information on the NMAI, please visit http://www.nmai.si.edu.

NMAI on the National Mall
Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20560
202-633-1000

DIRECTIONS [MAP]
The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., is located on the National Mall between the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum and the U.S. Capitol Building.

Metro
L’Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange/Green/Yellow lines).
Exit Maryland Avenue/Smithsonian Museums.

Parking
The museum does not have parking. Parking is available by meter on the surrounding streets and in local paid parking garages.

9:00 pm –11:00 pm

Reception of the Students' Committee
An informal reception for graduate students will be held on Thursday, November 5, 9:00-11:00pm at Capitol City Brewing Company. We will walk from the NMAI-- site of the ASA Welcome Reception --around 8:30. The SC will be unable to provide food and drinks, but we hope to create a nice opportunity for students to network with and meet one another. Please plan on joining us!

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