By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
A Deeper Science explores how novelist Richard Wright and psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, along with an interracial group of intellectuals, doctors, clergy, and artists, attempted to …
This dissertation, a social and cultural history of media and education in postwar Philadelphia, examines the concurrent struggles against racial discrimination on American Bandstand and …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
This dissertation looks at different forms of historical practice to argue that the 1970s saw a significant transformation in the ways that individuals, groups, and …
My dissertation entitled, "Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program," focuses on the historically largest guest worker program …
Based upon archival research at the Bancroft Library, Stanford, Harvard and UCLA and oral histories conducted with several prominent booksellers on the West Coast, my …
Working at the intersection of queer studies and public history, Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics focuses on queer archives in …
This dissertation explores how a transnational movement for women’s reproductive freedom became, by the Cold War era, a state-sponsored effort of population control targeting racially …