CONNECTIONS:
AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
IN AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
April 1996
Electronic Edition
PART 2:
RESEARCH MATERIAL REQUESTS
BOOKS/JOURNALS/MATERIALS/FELLOWSHIPS
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ALL INQUIRIES AND POSTINGS should be sent to: David Fisher,
Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan Street,
Bloomington, Indiana 47408; tel 812-855-8726; fax: 812-855-0696;
Email: fisher@oah.indiana.edu OR Deborah L. Owen, American
Studies Association, 1120 19th Street, NW, Suite 301,
Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202-467-4783 fax: 202-467-4786;
Email: yamstud@aol.com Previous issues are available upon
request. Quarterly issues are available at the ASA website:
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asanews/connects.html
RESEARCH MATERIAL REQUESTS
TURKISH-U.S. RELATIONS: I am working on a project on Turkey's
Foreign Relations 1923-1939. Since the U.S. did not recognize
the Turkish Republic officially until 1927, I would like to
collect information about Turkish-US relations from 1923 on. I
am interested in any data available from personal, missionary,
business or journalistic experiences of American citizens in
Turkey during that time, please contact Dr. Nur Bilge Criss.
Bilkent University, Department of International Relations, 06533,
Ankara, Turkey. Fax: 09-312-2664960. Email: criss@bilkent.edu.tr
LABOR HISTORY and the BRAZILIAN AUTO INDUSTRY: I am interested
in gaining access to archives of the Ford Motor Company and the
Kaiser-Frazer Auto Company for my research on workers history in
Brazil. Willys Overland was an American car company of Kaiser
Industries (also owner of Kaiser-Frazer auto company) that came
to Brazil at the same time it left the USA. It was the largest
auto firm of the country between 1956 and 1962 and was bought by
Ford in 1967. I would like to locate written documentation about
Willys do Brasil, particularly references to its labor policies.
Were Willys records sent to Kaiser Industries and if so are they
available for research? Does Ford keeps its documentation on
Willys in the USA and is it available? Did the Ford Company
express its opinion on Willys labor policies? Contact: Antonio
Negro, Unicamp, Brasil. Email: Negro@Turing.Unicamp.Br
DIVORCE RATES: I hold a Ph.D. in Psychology and am currently
doing post-doctoral research on divorce rates in India. I am
interested in any and all information about similar research on
divorce rates in the United States--factors responsible for
increases, and so on. Please contact: Padmaja Mallik, Legal Aid
Services--West Bengal, 5, Kiron Sankar Roy Road, Calcutta, 700
001.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS: I am writing an MA thesis and
need information and advice concerning the struggle of African-
Americans for their voting rights with particular emphasis on the
modern period. I want to analyze voting behavior, voting
strength, and elected African-Americans. Contact: Mr. Samir
Zerfa. Dept. of English, I.L.E. Annaba University, B.P. No. 12,
Elhadjar 23200, Annaba, Algeria.
CAPITALISM AND GAY MALE DESIRE: I am beginning preliminary
dissertation research concerning the nexuses between capitalism
and gay male desire in late nineteenth-century America and have
found an exiguous amount of information regarding male prostitu-
tion. I am interested in recommendations for texts. While I am
familiar with Chauncey's Gay New York and find it valuable in my
studies, I am looking for something with a little more cultural
and historical specificity (e.g., texts which have marshaled or
discuss historical and legal documents concerning male-male
prostitution at the turn--something akin to Jon Katz's Gay
American History). Contact: Geoffrey S. Saunders Schramm, 2105
Susquehanna Hall Dept. of English University of Maryland, College
Park, MD 20742 USA. Email: gschramm@wam.umd.edu
HISTORY OF AIDS: The AIDS History Group of the American Associa-
tion for the History of Medicine is seeking information on
research projects both in the United States and internationally
relating to writing on and documenting the history of the AIDS
epidemic and the scientific, moral, political, and cultural
response to the disease. The aim is to develop a database if
such projects and their sources of funding. Please send informa-
tion to either of the group's co-chairs: Dr. Victoria A. Harden,
National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Dr. MSC 2092, Bethesda,
MD 20892-2092; fax: 301-402-1434; Email: vharden@helix.nih.gov;
or Dr. Caroline Hannaway at the same mailing address; Email:
channa@helix.nih.gov
JAPANESE-AMERICAN MIDWIVES: I am interested in suggestions for
my research project on the history of Japanese-American midwives,
especially in Washington state and Hawaii. Related to this
project, I am also investigating the history of health workers
and the provision of health care within the American internment
camps of World War II for people of Japanese descent. Contact
Susan L. Smith, Assistant Professor of History and Women's
Studies, University of Alberta, Department of History and Clas-
sics, 2-28 Tory Bldg., Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4, Canada. Email:
Susan.L.Smith@ualberta.ca
ITALY and the SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: I am interested in any
information on Italian Asian policy 1894-1905, including espe-
cially Italo-American relations in 1898. Literature in any lan-
guage will be appreciated. Contact: Mr. Scott A. MacKenzie, c/o
Department of History, 401 Fletcher Argue Bldg., 28 Trueman
Walk, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5V5,
Canada. Email: mandison@mts.net.
SYLLABUS EXCHANGES/TEACHING METHODS
TEACHING AMERICAN STUDIES ABROAD -- SYLLABI EXCHANGE, NETWORKING
POSSIBILITIES: The following scholars participated in the ASA's
"Teaching American Studies Abroad" Survey. We offer here a brief
summary of each respondent's interests and syllabi resources as a
means of fostering communication between scholars interested in
teaching abroad. Only participants who were willing to share
their syllabi in this forum are included. Connections subscrib-
ers can contact the respondents directly. Each entry contains:
scholar's area of specialization; countries/regions in which
scholar has experience or interest; syllabi title(s); contact
address. This constitutes the second set of respondents; the
first set was included in the March edition of Connections.
1. Areas of specialization: American Cultural and Intellectual
History; History of Film, Popular Culture; American Literature.
Country of interest/experience: Austria, Germany, France, Nether-
lands, United Kingdom. Syllabi available to share: Political
Extremism in the United States; Landscapes: Internal and Exter-
nal; History of American Humor; Film Noir; Counter Visions --
China and America; Poe, Bierce, and Lovecraft; Screening American
History. Contact L. J. Kern, History, Hofstra University, 104J
Heger Hall, Hempstead, NY 11550.
2. Areas of specialization: American Literature. Country of
interest/experience: Spain, England, Ireland. Syllabi available
to share: American Literature, minority and women writers;
American humor. Contact W. Morgan; email: morgan@edgewood.edu
3. Areas of specialization: 19th-century American literature and
culture, with a focus on African-Americans, women and radicals.
Country of interest/experience: The Netherlands, United Kingdom.
Syllabi available to share: Nineteenth-century African-American
Women and the Discourses of Reform; American Novel; Women and
American Literature; Understanding Diversity; Ethnic Literature.
Contact J. F. Yellin; email: yellin@pacevm.dac.pace.edu
BOOKS/JOURNALS/MATERIALS/FELLOWSHIPS
FREE VOLUMES. HISTORY OF THE U.S. SENATE: The U.S. Senate
Historical Office has a limited supply of three recent publica-
tions for complimentary distribution to any subscriber who sends
a self-addressed mailing label to Senate Historical Office,
Washington, DC 20510-7108. Send one label for each volume you
would like to receive and specify which one(s) you would like.
They are: Guide to Research Collections of Former U.S. Senators,
1789-1995 (743 pages); Senators of the United States: A Histori-
cal Bibliography, 1789-1995 (356 pages) and Senate Election,
Expulsion and Censure Cases, 1793-1990 (486 p). Also available
is a reprint edition of Roy Swanstrom's The United States Senate,
1787-1801 (1961, 325 pages).
U.S. HISTORY BOOKS NEEDED: The Delta Teachers Academy of The
National Faculty, a non-profit bringing K-12 teachers and univer-
sity faculty together for content-based professional development,
asks for your review, desk, or simply spare copies of recent
books in any field of US History. The fellows of the Delta
Teachers Academy often work in rural, under-developed areas, and
finding resources for curriculum development is a frequent
challenge. DTA fellows attend two-week institutes in the summer,
and we'd like to organize a free "book shop" at least one insti-
tute . We'll reimburse you (within reason) for your shipping
expenses. Contact: Martha Boonin-Vail, Program Officer, The
National Faculty, Southern Region, 200 Carondelet St., Suite
1700, New Orleans, LA 70130-2900 USA. Tel: (504) 524-7644, ext.
110; (800) 524-6672. Fax: (504) 524-7592. Email:
mboonin@wave.tcs.tulane.edu.
AMERICAN STUDIES MATERIALS NEEDED: Voronezh State University
needs books and other teaching and resource materials. In
response to great student demand a new course in American culture
has been developed but we badly lack resources. Any form of
assistance will be greatly appreciated, especially books by
landmark American thinkers and public figures of the past and
present; and any advice on new teaching approaches, curricula
development, syllabus preparation. Contact: Prof. Vera
Gouchtchina. Dept. of Cultural Studies, Voronezh State Universi-
ty, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394693, Russia. Email:
hc@vucnit.voronezh.su
TRANSLATED AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTS: I am looking for information
on standard college level texts on American history that have
been translated from English into other languages. I am also
interested in finding translations of monographs that are typi-
cally used as required readings in introductory American history
classes. Any suggestions (and comments about the merits of the
translations) will be appreciated. This information is being
compiled for the H-Net discussion list H-USA. Contact Brad
Burke. Email: BURKE@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU
"MISSIONARY IMPULSE" RESEARCH GRANTS: The Institute for the
Study of American Evangelicals (ISAE) at Wheaton College has
received a three-year grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to
fund a study of the "Missionary Impulse in North American Histo-
ry." Grants of $2,500 each will be awarded to support several
article-length studies. Deadline is May 15, 1996. Contact Larry
Eskridge, ISAE, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187; (708) 752-
5437; isae@david.wheaton.edu
SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE: The
Supreme Court Historical Society invites submissions for the 1996
Hughes-Gossett Award. The prize carries a cash stipend and
publication in the Journal of Supreme Court History. The paper
must be on some aspect of the Supreme Court's history, and this
includes institutional matters as well as biographical studies of
individual Justices. Because the Journal is concerned primarily
with historical questions, papers focusing mainly on doctrinal
matters will not be eligible. Authors must be students at the
time they write the paper, and may be either undergraduate or
graduate students or attending law school. Papers should be
submitted on plain paper, with appropriate annotation; if accept-
ed, a diskette will be necessary. Papers should be submitted no
later than July 1, 1996 to Clare Cushman, Managing Editor,
Journal of Supreme Court History, Supreme Court Historical
Society, 111 Second Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE: The Review
announces competition for the Student Essay Prize on Michigan
history or on themes in American, Canadian, and Midwestern
history that explore issues related to Michigan's past. The
winning essay will be published in the Spring 1997 issue of the
Review and will be awarded a cash prize of $500. Manuscripts
should not exceed 7000 words and should be double spaced, includ-
ing endnotes, and must be received by 15 July 1996. This compe-
tition is open to graduate and senior undergraduate students.
CONTACT: Carol Green-Devens, Editor, Michigan Historical
Review, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University,
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA. Tel: (517) 774-6567. Email:
mihisrev@cmich.edu
SPANISH CIVIL WAR STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE: The Abraham Lincoln
Brigade Archives (ALBA) announces the establishment of the ALBA
George Watt Memorial prizes for the best college student essays
about the Spanish Civil War, the anti-fascist struggles of the
1930s, or the lifetime histories of the Americans who fought in
Spain from 1937-1938. Two prizes of $500 each will be awarded
each year--one to the best undergraduate paper and one to the
best graduate student paper. Papers must incorporate use of both
primary sources and secondary commentary by scholars. The paper
must have been written to fulfill an undergraduate or graduate
course or degree requirement. For more information contact:
Peter Carroll, ALBA Chair, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, Box
LII, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254.
LONGFELLOW INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIPS: The Institute announces its
ongoing seminar on "Languages of What is Now the United States"
with short-term and long-term fellowships. The fellowships
include a) one full-time residential postdoctoral position; b)
grants for dissertation-writing; c) research support; d) travel
grants for scholars from abroad. Applications are reviewed
periodically. Forms and information about deadlines are avail-
able upon request from The Longfellow Institute, Dept. of English
and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, Warren
House, 11 Prescott Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; tel: 617/ 496-
9400; fax: 617/ 496-8737; email: lowinus@fas.harvard.edu.
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David C. Fisher, Editor
CONNECTIONS: American History and Culture
in an International Perspective
Organization of American Historians
112 North Bryan Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-4199
Tel: (812) 855-8726 Fax: (812) 855-0696 Email: fisher@oah.indiana.edu
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