Past Workshops
FALL 2008
Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University and Eric Rauchway, Professor of History, University of California-Davis.
New Narratives for the Century's Turn: Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Sam Freedman, Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
The Big Game: Football and Freedom in the Civil Rights South - focusing on the 1967 football season at Grambling and Florida A&M
Leigh Bienen, Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law and Director, Chicago Historical Homicide Project
The Life and Times of Florence Kelley, Factory Inspector in Chicago, 1890-1899: 55,000 Documents and the Challenges of the Digital Age
John Palattella, Literary Editor, The Nation
Book Reviews are Dying, Long Live Book Reviews: Literary Journalism Today
Josh Kun, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
The Treasure Hunt of Tradition: Re-visiting the archives of Jewish-American music
Barbara Welke, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
No One Thought Children Might Die: Owning Hazard in the Twentieth Century U.S. Consumer Economy
SPRING 2009
Susan Coutin, Professor, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and Department of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine and Director, UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture
Citizenship and Membership at Odds? Legal Histories of One-and-a-half Generation Salvadoran Migrants
Jose Emmanuel Raymundo, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for African American Studies
Unbreakable Cord: Dogs, Lepers and Other Colonial Animals in the US Occupied Philippines
April Masten, Associate Professor of American History, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
'Man and Money Ready': Challenge Dancing in Antebellum America
Emily Thompson, Professor, Department of History
'Two Turntables and a Microphone': The Curious Proto-History of D.J. Technology
Eduardo Canedo, Link-Cotsen Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and Lecturer, Department of History
George Stigler, Ralph Nader, and the Ideological Origins of American Deregulation, 1962-1973
Christine Desan, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Making Money: the Measure of the Market Reconsidered
Jennifer R. Uhlmann, Washington University in St. Louis, History Department
Reflections on the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement
FALL 2007
Dan Tarlock, Distinguished Professor of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law
Anatomy of a Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology and Dirty Politics
Bonnie Martin, The Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition, Yale University
Poetry and Peril: Mortgaging Slaves in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Kimberly Smith, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities
Understanding Environmental Justice
Catherine Fisk, Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law, Duke University
Attribution, Intellectual Property, and Professional Reputation in the 20th Century
Melani McAlister, Visiting Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University and Marie Griffith, Professor of Religion and Director, Program in the Study of Women and Gender
Religion and Politics in Contemporary America
SPRING 2008
Imani Perry, Visiting Professor of Center for African American Studies and Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Exceptionally Yours: Racial Escape Hatches in Contemporary U.S. Culture
Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita
Was Marie White?: The Trajectory of a Question in the United States
Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University
The Mystical World of Colonial American Jews: From Colonial Judaism to American Judaism
Lisbeth Haas, Visiting Fellow, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and Associate Professor, History, University of California-Santa Cruz
Politically Defeated but with Power: The writing of Luiseño Indian Scholar Pablo Tac, l821-41
Joshua Dubler, Visiting Instructor of Religion, Haverford College
Religious Practice in a Maximum Security Prison
Scott Deveaux, Associate Professor, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia
"Fusion" as an Alternative Narrative for Jazz History
FALL 2006
David Treuer, novelist, essayist and Associate Professor of Literature, University of Minnesota
Culture as Style in Native American Literature
Robert Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
The Legal Profession, 1870-2000
Sarah Whiting, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory
Thinking Big: Chicago's Modern Urbanism
David Ball, English Department
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Failure, and American Modernism
Chin Jou, Department of History
"Your Stomach Must Be Disciplined:" Lulu Hunt Peters and the beginnings of Calorie-Counting in Corporeal Self-Regulation, 1886-1924
Peter Nabokov, Visiting Professor of the Council of the Humanities, Stewart Fellow in Anthropology; World Arts and Culture and American Indian Studies, UCLA
A Life Behind a Myth: The Passages of Edward Proctor Hunt
Rachael Z. DeLue, Department of Art and Archaeology
Diagnosing Pictures and the Science of Seeing in America circa 1900
Thorin Tritter, Department of History
Carving a Different Path: New York City’s Newspaper Industry and their Business Model, 1830-1930
SPRING 2007
Elizabeth Crist, Assistant Professor of Music
"Of Rage and Remembrance," Music, and Memorials: The Work of Mourning in John Corigiano's Symphony No. 1 (1989)
Alec Dun, Lecturer in History
Elizabeth Drinker's Haitian Revolution
Michael Kammen, Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture, Cornell University
How the Mall in Washington Became the Nation's Most Venerated Civic Space
FALL 2005
Laura Stark, Department of Sociology
Changing the Subject: The Science and Ethics of Deception in American Psychology, 1966-1973
Randall Bauer, Department of Music
A Certain State of Surrender: Toward a Jarrettian Landscape of Spontaneity
Jennifer Legath, Department of Religion
For Love or Money: Deaconesses, Consecration, and Cold, Hard Cash
SPRING 2006
Joanna Dyl, Department of History
"The Class War is Raging:" San Francisco After the 1906 Earthquake
Danielle Elliott, Department of English
Middle Passage Sensibilities in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton
Prof. Daniel Richter, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
Two Medieval Civilizations
Kyoko Sato, Department of Sociology
It's Like Any Other Food: How Genetically Modified Food Has Become Normalized in the United States
Craig Barton Upright, Department of Sociology
The Rural-Urban Connection in Co-operative Food Movements
Belinda Huang, Department of History
Redefining Chineseness in the Trans-Pacific Community: Curriculum and Activities of Chinese-language Schools in San Francisco, 1907-1919
Fall 2004
Laura Clawson, Department of Sociology
Going Hollywood: Participation, Performance, and the Commercialization of Sacred Harp Music
Thorin Tritter, Department of History and Program in American Studies
New York's Newspaper Buildings: The Fall of Park Row and the Rise of Modern Journalism
Christopher Roy, Department of Anthropology
"Canadian Indians": Histories of Abenaki Residence Off the Reserve and South of the Border
Jennifer Greeson, Department of English
Expropriating The Great South: Global Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction
SPRING 2005
Traci Schlesinger, Department of Sociology
The Limits of Colorblind Anti-Discrimination Law: An Empirical Assessment of Determinate Sentencing Policies
Drew Levy, Department of History
Recovering the Folklore of the Camera: MoMa's "The American Snapshot" (1944) in Historical Perspective
Bryan Shelly, Department of Politics
Gold Towns and Shark Pools: The Effect of School Finance Reform on Vermont's School Boards
Mariah Zeisberg, Department of Politics
Interbranch Conflict and Constitutional Fidelity: A Relational Understanding of Executive War Power
FALL 2003
Carol Sanger, Columbia Law School
Compelling Narrative: Judicial By-Pass Hearings and the Misuse of Law
Margaret L. Usdansky, Department of Sociology and the School of Population Research, Princeton University
Defining Harm: Depictions of Single-Parent Families in U.S. Magazines, 1900-1998
Tamar Zinguer, School of Architecture, Princeton University
The Toy, Charles and Ray Eames, 1951
Elizabeth Boyle Machlan, Department of English, Princeton University
'Do We Need All That Space?': Architecture and Anxiety in Henry James' "The
Jolly Corner" and David Fincher's "Panic Room"
SPRING 2004
Linda Gordon, Stone Visiting Professor of History
The Photography of Dorothea Lange and Diane Arbus:
Political Culture, Gender Studies
Brooke Blower, Department of History
Politics on Parade: The American Legion Returns to Paris
Nicole Sackley, Department of History
Take-off Dreams: American Social Scientists and the Promise of India, 1947-1961