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Work in Progress | Recent Publications | Major Works

Work in Progress

Chester Gillis

  • “American Catholicism Since 1945,” in Columbia History of Roman Catholicism in America, edited by James Fisher, Columbia, forthcoming.
  • Roman Catholicism in America, second edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
  • Two Shall Become One? Interreligous Marriage in America, book manuscript.

Ronald Johnson

  • “Historic Black Neighborhood: LeDroit Park,” in the re-issued book Washington at Home, edited by Kathryn Smith, to be published in 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • The primary research effort of recent by Professor Johnson has been the completion, along with co-author Abby Arthur Johnson, of a book-length manuscript entitled “The First National Burial Ground: Congressional Cemetery and the Memory of the Nation.” This study examines the role of memorialization and historic preservation in 19th and 20th century United States. The book prospectus is now under review at various academic presses and the Johnsons hope to find a home for this work shortly.

Michael Kazin

  • Big Dreamers: A History of the American Left, under contract with Knopf.

Erick Langer

  • “Taking Pears from the Elm Tree: A History of the Franciscan Missions among the Chiriguanos, 1830-1949,” finished manuscript sent to Duke University Press.

Adam M. Lifshey

  • Specters of America: Hauntings of a Hemispheric Literature (book).

Dana Luciano

  • Unfamiliar: Nonsynchronous Sexualities, Narrative Form, (Trans)National Futures, book.

Chandra Manning

  • Wisconsin’s War: The Civil War in Documents, for Ohio University Press.

Bryan McCann

  • "Two Tales of One City: The History of Community Development in 20th Century Rio de Janeiro," book project.

Joseph McCartin

  • “Americanism, Catholicism, and Historicism in the Work of David J. O’Brien,” for U.S. Catholic Historian.

Angelyn Mitchell

  • The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Writing, co-editor, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Eusebio Mujal-León

  • “Is Castroism a Political Religion?,” article to be published next year.

Ricardo Ortiz

  • “Edwidge Danticat’s Latinidad: The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge,” in Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2007) (article, forthcoming).

Joseph Palacios

  • “Bringing Mexican Immigrants into American Faith-Based Justice and Civic Cultures,” in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo forthcoming from Rutgers University Press 2007.
  • The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Professor Palacios has done continuous research on the Catholic Church in Mexico and the United States since 1996. In 2006 he has expanded his research on the social doctrine of religion to include Chile as part of a project entitled “Free Trade Religion: American Civil Religions and the Formation of Latin American Leaders.”

Joanne Rappaport

  • “Génesis y transformaciones del mestizaje: Siglos XVI y XVII,” article.
  • Beyond the Lettered City: Alphabetic Literacy and Visuality in the Andes, 16th to 18th Centuries, co-edited with Tom Cummins and Dana Leibsohn, under contract with Duke University Press.

Recent Publications

Chester Gillis

  • “American Catholics: Neither Out far Nor in Deep,” in Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States, edited by Yvonne Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and John L. Esposito (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2003), 33-51.
  • “Cultura Americana e Cultura Cattolica,” in Storia Della Chiesa: I cattolici e le Chiese cristaine durante il pontificato de Giovanni Paolo II (1978-2005) (Milan: San Paolo, 2006), 174-211.
  • “Post-Vatican II Catholicism,” in Faith in America: Changes, Challenges, and a New Spirituality, edited by Charles H. Lippy (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006).
  • “Vatican II,” in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expression, edited by Gary Laderman and Luis León (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 1: 94-96.

Michael Kazin

  • Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, co-edited with Joseph McCartin (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Adam M. Lifshey

  • “Bordering the Subjunctive in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon,” Journal X, 9:1 (Autumn 2004), 1-15.

Erick Langer

  • Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America, editor (Wilmington: SR Books, 2003).

Dana Luciano

  • Arranging Grief:  Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America, forthcoming from New York University Press (Fall 2007).
  • “Bodies in and Out of Time: Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite and the Sexual Politics of History,” in Philosophies of Sex: New Essays on The Hermaphrodite, edited by Renee Bergland and Gary Williams, forthcoming.
  • “Coming Around Again: The Queer Momentum of Far From Heaven,” forthcoming as part of a special double issue on “Queer Temporalities,” edited by Elizabeth Freeman, in GLQ, 13:2-3 (Spring/Summer 2007).
  • “Cultural Studies” and “Lesbian Culture,” entries in The Reader’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies (Fitzroy-Dearborn Press, 2000).
  • “Freemasonry,” entry in Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier, 2001).
  • “Love’s Measures,” contribution to roundtable on Brokeback Mountain, edited by Scott Herring, forthcoming in GLQ, 13:1 (Winter 2006).
  • “Loving the Alien,” in Queer Temporality, Queer Becomings, edited by E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, forthcoming.
  • “Mourning,” in American History through Literature, 1820-1870, edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer (Scribner, 2005), 761-65.

Lucy Maddox

  • “Politics, Performance, and Indian Identity,” American Studies International, xl: 2 (June 2002), 7-36.
  • “Questions of Class in Contemporary American Indian Women’s Writing,” in Feminine Identities, edited by Luisa Maria Flora, Teresa F.A. Alves, and Teresa Cid, (EdiHtes Colibri, 2003), 161-178.
  • “Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Primer,” in Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works, edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson (University of Georgia Press, 2000).

Joseph McCartin

  • “Public Sector Labor Activism: The Unheralded 1960s Movement,” in Heather Thompson, Speaking Out with Many Voices: Documenting American Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s, forthcoming from Prentice Hall, 2007.
  • “Re-Framing the Crisis of U.S. Labor: Rights, Democracy, and Political Economy,” Labour/Le Travail, forthcoming Spring 2007.
  • “Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal,” co-authored with James P. McCartin, forthcoming in Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 4:1 (Spring 2007).
  • “Managing Discontent: The Life and Career of Leamon Hood, Black Public Employee Union Activist,” in The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation, edited by Eric Arnesen, forthcoming from University of Illinois Press, 2007.
  • “Estranged Allies on the Margins: On the Ambivalent Response of Labor Historians to Catholic History,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 21:2 (Spring 2003): 114-120.
  • “Turnabout Years: Public Sector Unionism and the Crisis of Labor Liberalism,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, edited by Julian Zelizer and Bruce Schulman, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • “Utraque Unum: Finding My Way as a Catholic and a Historian,” in Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives, edited by Nick Salvatore, forthcoming from University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Angelyn Mitchell

  • “Arthur P. Davis: The Literary Anthologist as Cultural Conservator and Cultural Worker,” CLAJ, 49:2 (December 2005): 127-143.
  • “Not Enough of the Past: Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia Butler’s Kindred," MELUS, 26:3 (Fall 2001): 51-75.

Eusebio Mujal-León

  • "Charismatic Post-Totalitarianism: The Castro Regime in Comparative Perspective," published in Problems of Post-Communism.

Ricardo Ortiz

  • “Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Québec and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of Our (New) America(s),” in The Futures of American Studies, edited by Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman (Duke University Press, 2002).

Joseph Palacios

  • “Reconfiguring American Civil Religion: The Triumph of Values,” Contemporary Sociology, 35: 4 (2006): 351-354.

Joanne Rappaport

  • ¿Qué pasaría si la escuela…? Treinta años de construcción educativa, co-authored with Graciela Bolaños, Abelardo Ramos, and Carlos Miñana, (Popayán: Programa de Educación Bilingüe e Intercultural, Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca, 2004).
  • “Between Sovereignty and Culture: Who is an Indigenous Intellectual in Colombia?,” in “Framing Protest: Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (19th-20th Centuries),” edited by Michiel Baud and Rosanne Rutten, supplement to the International Review of Social History, 49 (2004): 111-32
  • “El espacio del diálogo pluralista: Historia del Programa de Educación Bilingüe,” in Políticas de identidades y diferencias sociales en tiempos de globalización, edited by Daniel Mato (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela [FACES], 2003), 257-81.
  • “El espacio y los discursos culturalistas del movimiento indígena caucano,” in (Des)territorialidades y (no)lugares: procesos de configuración y transformación social del espacio, edited by Diego Herrera Gómez and Carlo Emilio Piazzini S. (Medellín: La Carreta Social-Universidad de Antioquia [Instituto de Estudios Regionales], 2006), 247-259.
  • “Escritura y convenciones literarias: Los retos de la intelectualidad indígena,” in La etnoeducación en la construcción de los sentidos sociales (Popayán: Universidad del Cauca-Instituto Caro y Cuero-CCELA-PROEIB Andes, 2003), 107-19.
  • “Imaginando una nación pluralista: Intelectuales y la jurisdicción especial indígena,” Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 39 (2004): 105-38.
  • “Imagining Colonial Culture,” Ethnohistory, 49: 3 (2002): 687-701.
  • “Investigación y pluralismo étnico: El encuentro académico-indígena,” in Utopía para los excluidos: El multiculturalismo en África y América Latina, edited by Jaime Arocha (Bogotá: Facultad de Ciencias Humanas UN, 2004), 261-85.
  • “Manuel Quintín Lame hoy,” in Manuel Quintín Lame, Los pensamientos del indio que se educó dentro de las selvas colombianas (Cali and Popayán: Universidad del Valle-Universidad del Cauca, 2004), 51-101.
  • “Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia,” in After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas, edited by Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 310-46.
  • “The Indigenous Public Voice: The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Indigenous Cauca,” co-authored with David D. Gow, in Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America, edited by Kay B. Warren and Jean Jackson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 47-80.
  • “Una historia colaborativa: Retos para el diálogo indígena-académico,” co-authored with Abelardo Ramos Pacho, Historia Crítica, 29 (2005): 39-62. Bogotá.
  • Retornando la mirada: Una investigación colaborativa interétnica sobre el Cauca a la entrada del milenio, editor (Popayán: Universidad del Cauca, 2005).

Miléna Santoro

  • “Influences réciproques: Le féminisme des années 70 en France et au Québec,” in Francophonie en Amérique: Quatre siècles d’échanges Europe-Afrique-Amérique, edited by Justin K. Bisanswa and Michel Tétu (CIDEF-AFI, 2005), 207-19.

Major Works

Chester Gillis

  • Roman Catholicism in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).
  • Catholic Faith in America (New York: Facts on File, 2003).

Michael Kazin

  • The Populist Persuasion: An American History (Basic Books, 1995; revised paperback edition, Cornell University Press, 1998).

Bryan McCann

  • Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).

Angelyn Mitchell

  • The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
  • Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, editor (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Joanne Rappaport

  • The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; paperback edition, Duke University Press, 1998; Spanish translation, Popayán: Universidad del Cauca, 2000).
  • Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994; Spanish translation, Bogotá and Popayán: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia-Universidad del Cauca, 2005).
  • Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).

Joseph McCartin

  • Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, co-edited with Michael Kazin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
  • Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
  • Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, editor and introduction, abridged edition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
  • American Labor: A Documentary History, co-edited with Melvyn Dubofsky (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004).

Lucy Maddox

  • Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).
  • Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline, editor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Ricardo Ortiz

  • Cultural Erotics in Cuban America (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

Joseph Palacios

  • “Reading Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography with a General Overview,” co-authored with Moira Alexandra Perez, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, Working Paper B 002. October 1999, website: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/pubs.html.