Warren Center Names New Visiting Scholars

October 28, 1999

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The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History promotes the study of American history through a fellowship program that brings a group of scholars to Harvard for a year to spend on writing and research. These scholars, who come from faculty positions at other institutions, are engaged in research projects that relate to a common theme; they form the core of a workshop, directed by a Harvard faculty member, which is open to the community and attracts scholars, including students, from departments and centers in the Faculty of Arts and Science as well as the professional schools.

The workshop for 1999-00, directed by historian Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, focuses on the theme "Beyond 'Base and Superstructure': Economy and Culture in American Society." The Charles Warren Fellows and their projects are:

Regina L. Blaszczyk (Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1995), assistant professor of history, Boston University: "Business, Consumers, and Cultural Production: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Economy and Culture in American Society"

Howard Brick (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983), associate professor of history, Washington University in St. Louis: "Beyond the Bourgeoisie: Theories of Capitalism and Society Development in the United States, 1920-1970"

Laura J. Briggs (Ph.D., Brown University, 1998), assistant professor of women’s studies, University of Arizona: "Reproducing Empire: Discourses on Gender, Health, and Reproduction in the U.S. Imperial Project in Puerto Rico" (fall term)

Kathryn M. Dudley (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1991), associate professor of American studies, Yale University: "Economic Representation and the American Middle Class"

Michael Elliott (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1998), assistant professor of English, Emory University: "Culture and Narrative in the Age of Realism"

Patricia A. Johnston (Ph.D., Boston University, 1988), associate professor of art history, Salem State College: "Representation, Religion, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Elite and Popular Arts"

Christina Klein (Ph.D., Yale University, 1997), assistant professor of literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Cold War Orientalism: Globalization and the Cultural Politics of Anti-Racism, 1945-1961"

Kathleen Newman (Ph.D., Yale University, 1987), assistant professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University: "Critical Mass: Advertising, Audiences and Consumer Activism in the Age of Radio" (fall term)

Rebecca Zurier (Ph.D., Yale University, 1988), assistant professor of the history of art, University of Michigan: "Picturing the City: The Ashcan School, the Mass Media, and the Imaging of Modern New York."