Gilda is I a Ph.D. candidate. Her research interests include environmental history, Colonial American history, and environmental health policy. Her dissertation is on environment, health, society and politics in Philadelphia, 1682-1793 - it is an interdisciplinary analysis.

Sarah is a Ph.D. student concentrating on cultural landscape studies and historic preservation. She is interested in how we present our cultural history to the public at historic sites. She teaches AMST 205: Meaning in Place: Cultural Landscape Studies. See her Fall 2001 syllabus here.

Debra is a doctoral student and co-chair of the American Studies Association's Students' Committee. Her research coalesces around performance theory, the body, and technologies.

I am ABD in American Studies at UMCP (John Caughey is my advisor). Dissertation title: "Negotiating Business: the Strategies of Amish Women Entreprenuers in the Lancaster County, Pa., Tourist Market"

Research interests include: gender and material culture, women and religion, women's work and small-business entreprenuership

Status: M.A. Candidate
Interest: film theory/production with a specific focus on documentaries and ethnographic film

Bailey is a 1st year student enrolled in the Ph. D program. Her research interests include the intersections of gender, class, race, and sexuality. She focuses on the connections, contradictions, and the meshing of queer and working class cultures.

Ed is a doctoral student and graduate instructor. His interests include 20th Century U.S. history, schooling and American culture, and cyberculture. Ed's dissertation argues that the United States actually won the American War in Vietnam by fighting another war, which he calls "The American War on Vietnam 1975-1995." He's also involved in the Chesapeake Chapter of the ASA and the Cyberculture Working Group.

Larry's main interest is Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies and Native American Studies. He studies gender, race, and sexuality issues across various fields. Specifically, he has completed research in the areas of advertising, linguistics, postmodern culture, "cyber-education," and the politics of coming-out. His main research, however, focuses on turn-of-the-century gay autobiography. He currently has a fellowship with the American Studies Association and hopes to teach a class in Native American issues.

Krista Park is a doctoral student concentrating on ethnography and the collision of rural and urban cultures. She is also interested in queer studies and cyberculture.

Barbara Shaw Perry is working toward her Ph.D. Her dissertation examines Caribbean women's migration narratives to and from the metropoles of the US (New York) and UK (London). General research interests include: women's literature, Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Studies and feminist theory. Teaching interests span women's studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and social justice issues.

Maura is a masters student and is the History Producer at C-SPAN. She works with media liaisons, curators, and other specialists at the Library of Congress, National Archives (including the presidential libraries), the Smithsonian, and other institutions where history is preserved and archived to provide visual information on past events.

Donna Rowe is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the ways in which current imprisonment policies in the United States provide a sexist, racist and classist response to social problems caused by poverty, mental illness, and drug dependence. By focusing on contemporary prison narratives of incarcerated women, Rowe explores the invisibility and attempts to give voice to a class of women whose experiences are absent from discourses about race, gender and criminal justice public policy.

Shelby's academic interest include Ethnic Studies & Immigration, in particular the Yiddish press. For the past several years he has done research on two Yiddish middle-class women's magazines published in New York City, one from 1913-14, the other from 1922-23. He has lectured on Jewish gangsterism in the U. S., as well as Jazz & Blues diversity.

Deborah is a high school English teacher and a Ph.D. candidate. Her dissertation focuses on three Jewish women's philanthropic volunteer groups: the NCJW; Hadassah; and the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. She examines how these organizations, from 1893-1925, encouraged their members to write works of fiction and poetry, and how these organizations served as a springboard for publication with Jewish presses and more secular, mainstream presses. Deborah lives in San Diego with her husband and new daughter, Anna.

Donald Snyder is a ph.d. student interested in cyberculture and popular culture. His current project examines the practice and practicing of sex and sexuality on the Internet.

Judy is working on her dissertation in her limited free time after spending her day as a librarian at George Washington University. At Gelman Library, she is responsible for government documents as well as being the subject specialist for the communication program, the school of media and public affairs and the graduate school of political management. Her dissertation focuses on mystery and detective fiction readers and their engagement in fan activities.

Yumei Sun is a Ph.D. student in American Studies, specializing in early twentieth century Chinese American history. Her dissertation studies the role of a Chinese-language newspaper in the transformation of San Francisco's Chinatown from 1900-1920.

Tara is a doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on using archaeology and material culture to interpret the lifeways of early African Americans. She is interested in how American culture grew out of traditions introduced by Africans and Europeans.

Catherine is a Master's student concentrating on 18th and 19th century material culture and historic preservation. She also has full-time job as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Sandor Vegh is a Ph.D. candidate working on his dissertation ("Control and Resistance Online") that deals with the (un)democratizing uses of the Internet in the theoretical framework of a dialectical power struggle between the elite and the public, invoking concepts of control and hegemony, resistance and subversion. His specific research focuses on online political activism ("hacktivism") and its media representation.

Greg is interested in Popular Culture, especially popular music and genre fiction. His dissertation in progress is on _The Bridges of Madison County_ and its impact on Iowa.

Psyche Williams-Forson is a doctoral candidate in the area of African American material culture. Her dissertation research focuses on the stereotypes of African American consumption of chicken and explores how objects are manipulated to exert power and control. The dissertation also examines a relative feminine domain, foodways, to argue how African American women used "kitchen culture" as part of the many political strategies aimed at reinscribing and reshaping vestiges of American American heritages and traditions. She has published portions of her work in the article, "Suckin' the Chicken Bone Dry": African American Women, Fried Chicken, and the Power of a National Narrative," Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food, Sherrie Inness, ed. Psyche is currently teaching at Western Maryland College in the Department of English as an Assistant Professor.