ASA Delegates

ASA Delegates to the JAAS Annual Conference

Funded by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission

 

Year

Name(Affiliation)

Keynote Speech Title or JAAS-ASA Workshop Appearance

 

2023

Anna Mae Duane(University of Connecticut)

Workshop: Transnational Contact and Human Mobility 

 

Simeon Man(University of California, San Diego)

Workshop: Transnational Contact and Human Mobility 

 

Patricia Ventura (Spelman College)

 

2022

Jason Ruiz (University of Notre Dame)

Workshop A: Queer Futurities: Utopias, Disruptive Transnationalism: Gender, Environment and Religion I

 

Martin F. Manalansan IV (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Workshop B: Queer Futurities: Utopians, Dystopias and Disruptive Transnationalism: Gender, Environment and Religion II

 

2021

Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

2020

Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

2019

William Nessly (West Chester University)

Workshop A: Walled Worlds: Sovereignty, Nationalism and Globalization: JAAS-ASA-OAH Collaborative Workshop

 

Jolie Sheffer (Bowling Green State University)

Workshop B: Walled Worlds: Sovereignty, Nationalism and Globalization: JAAS-ASA-OAH Collaborative Workshop

 

2018

Junaid Rana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Workshop A: Transpacific Overtures: The Black

 

Jay Garcia (New York University)

Workshop B: Transpacific Overtures: The Black Atlantic and Settler Colonialism II

 

2017

Eric Tang (The University of Texas at Austin)

Workshop A: Framing the “American Century”: Movements for Social Justice I

 

Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University in St. Louis)

Workshop B:  Framing the “American Century”: Movements for Social Justice II

 

2016

Krysyn R. Moon (University of Mary Washington)

Workshop A: Framing the “American Century”: Migrations across a Globalizing World I

 

Moustafa M. Bayoumi (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

Workshop B: Framing the “American Century”: Migrations across a Globalizing World II

 

2015

Paula Rabinowitz (University of Minnesota)

Workshop A: Wars of the Twentieth Century and Beyond I: Wars and Minorities

 

Rachel Ida Buff (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Workshop B: Wars of the Twentieth Century and Beyond II: Wars and Immigration

 

2014

Daryl Joji Maeda  (University  of  Colorado,  Boulder)

Workshop A: Embodiment and the Boundaries of the Human

 

Yu-Fang Cho (Miami University of Ohio)

Workshop B: Pacific Worlds: Empire, Environment, Embodiment

 

2013

Matthew Frye Jacobson (ASA President, Yale University)

“From Nixon’s Southern Strategy to Obama’s Victory: Debating the ‘Post’ of ‘Post-Civil Rights'”

 

Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington)

Workshop A: “Pacific Worlds: Shared Environments, Sustainable Futures” (I)

 

Anita Mannur (Miami University)

Workshop B “Pacific Worlds: Shared Environments, Sustainable Futures” (II)

 

2012

Pricilla Wald (ASA President, Duke University)

“Biophobia: Fear of Life in the Age of Biotechnology”

 

Meg Wesling (University of California, San Diego)

Workshop A: Comparative Empire and the Making of the Pacific World: Ways of Encounters 

 

Chia Youyee Vang (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Workshop B: Comparative Empire and the Making of the Pacific World: Views from the Other Side

 

2010

Kevin K. Gains (ASA President, University of Michigan)

“Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race”

 

Scott Kurashige (University of Michigan)

Workshop B: Change and Reconciliation

 

Rick Bonus (University of Washington)

Workshop A: Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations

 

2009

Philip J. Deloria (ASA President, University of Michigan)

“Toward an American Indian Abstract: Mary Sully’s Vision of Mid-Twentieth-Century American Culture”

 

Susan J. Douglas (University of Michigan)

Workshop A: How Change I: As Seen through the Social Sciences and American Studies

 

Imani Perry (Rutgers University)

Workshop B: How Change Happens II: As Seen through Arts, Humanities, Cultural Studies, and American Studies

 

2008

Vicki Ruiz (ASA President, University of California, Irvine)

“Nuestra América: Latino History as U.S. History”

 

Nikhil Pal Singh (University of Washington)

Workshop A: American Democracy: Myth and Reality

 

Linda Trinh Vo (University of California, Irvine)

Workshop B: From Downtown to Uptown: Social Mobility in Ethnic Communities

 

2007

Emory Elliot (ASA President, University of California, Riverside)

“Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities: The Politics of Astonishment”

 

Natalia Molina (University of California, San Diego)

Workshop A: Migrating Cultures

 

Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)

Workshop B: Whose “America” in American Studies?

 

2006

Karen Halttunen (ASA President, University of Southern California)

“Postnationalism and American Studies in Place”

 

Curtis Marez (University of Southern California)

Workshop B: New Dynamics between the United States and the Asia/ Pacific Community

 

Paul Kramer (Johns Hopkins University)

Workshop A: Relocating “America” in American Studies

 

2005

Shelley Fisher Fishkin (ASA President, Stanford University)

“The Transnational Turn in American Studies: Asian Crossroads”

 

Patricia P. Chu (George Washington University)

Workshop A: Hip-hopping America: Dimensions of Mainstreaming Subcultures

 

Carla Peterson (University of Maryland)

Workshop B: Negotiating the National and International in the American Experiences 

 

2004

Amy Kaplan (ASA President, University of Pennsylvania)

“Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today”

 

Jonathan Auerbach (University of Maryland)

Workshop A: Transmission of Culture(s)

 

Marita Sturken (University of Southern California)

Workshop B: Gateless of Gated?: New Social Stratification in American Society

 

2003

Stephen H. Sumida (ASA President, University of Washington)

“America at War Again: Issues of Ethnicity and Unity”

 

Carla Kaplan (University of Southern California) Workshop A: Language and Power

 

Ramon Saldivar (Stanford University)

Workshop B: Patriotism, Old and New

 

2002

George Sanchez (ASA President, University of Southern California)

“Race and Immigration in Changing Communities of the United States”

 

Joshua Brown (The City University of New York)

Workshop A: Technology and Society

 

Jane Desmond (University of Iowa)

Workshop B: Citizenship and Participation

 

2001

Michael Frisch (ASA President, SUNY Buffalo)

“Relocating American Studies at the Millennial Moment: The Uses of Multivalence”

 

Amy Kaplan (Mount Holyoke College)

Workshop A: Transnationalism, Globalism, and American Studies

 

Susan Smulyan (Brown University)

Workshop B: United States-Asian Relations: Politics, Economy, Culture

 

2000

Mary C. Kelley (ASA President, Dartmouth College)

“Taking Stands: American Studies at Century’s End”

 

Robert Dawidoff (Claremont Graduate University)

Workshop A: Globalization and American Studies: Community

 

Michele H. Bogart (The State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Workshop B: Globalization and American Studies: Art and Culture

 

1999

Janice A. Radway (ASA President, Duke University)

‘What’s in a Name?: Rethinking the “American” in American Studies for the Twenty-First Century’

 

Elaine Kim (University of California, Berkeley)

Workshop A: Globalization and American Studies: Ethnicity

 

Beth Bailey (University of New Mexico)

Workshop B: Globalization and American Studies: Gender

 

1998

Mary Helen Washington (ASA President, University of Maryland)

‟Desegregating the 1950s”

Gary Y. Okihiro (Cornell University)

Workshop A: U.S. Enters the Pacific World

Patricia A. Turner (University of California, Davis)

Workshop A: U.S. Enters the Pacific World

Sarah J. Deutsch (Clark University)

Workshop B: Renarrating American Stories

Herman S. Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Workshop B: Renarrating American Stories

 

1997

Patricia Limerick (ASA President)

“Rethinking Continuity and Change in the American West”

 

Roy Resenzweig

Workshop A: Public Education

 

May Ann Wynkoop

Workshop A: Public Education

 

Jan Shipps

Workshop B: Religion in Post-World War II America

 

Philip J. Deloria

Workshop B: Religion in Post-World War II America

 

1996

Elaine Tyler May (ASA President, University of Minnesota)

 

William H. Chafe (Duke University)

Workshop A: Transformation of the Family in the Post World War II Period

 

Judith E. Smith (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Workshop A: Transformation of the Family in the Post World War II Period

 

Gary Gerstle (Catholic University of America)

Workshop B: How People of Color and Other Minorities Experience Modern American Society

 

George J. Sanchez (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Workshop B: How People of Color and Other Minorities Experience Modern American Society

 

1995

Paul Lauter (ASA President)

”Studying War in ’44: My Junior High School Songbook”

 

Doris Friedensohn

Workshop A: Images and Symbols of World War II: Home Front

 

Stephen Sumida (University of Michigan)

Workshop A: Images and Symbols of World War II: Home Front

 

William Tuttle (University of Kansas)

Workshop A: Images and Symbols of World War II: Home Front

 

Peter B. Hales (University of Illinois)

Workshop B: Images and Symbols of World War II: Military and Diplomacy

 

1994

Cathy N. Davidson (ASA President)

 

Thadious Davis (Brown University)

Workshop A: Images and Symbols of the American Republic

 

Dell Upton (University of California, Berkeley)

Workshop A: Images and Symbols of the American Republic

 

Lucy Maddox (Georgetown University)

Workshop B: Images and Symbols of the American Republic: Teaching Methods

 

Allan M. Winkler (Miami University)

Workshop B: Images and Symbols of the American Republic: Teaching Methods

 

1993

Alice Kessler-Harris (ASA President)

”Breaking Ground: Gender in the Construction of National Identity”

 

James O. Horton (George Washington University)

Workshop A: Symbols and Images of Political and National Power in Presidential Campaigns

 

Vivien G. Fryd (Vanderbilt University)

Workshop A: Symbols and Images of Political and National Power in Presidential Campaigns

 

James B. Gilbert (University of Maryland, College Park)

Workshop B: Visual Images of American Culture

 

Richard Yarborough (University of California, Los Angeles)

Workshop B: Visual Images of American Culture

—- Every year since 1993, the JAAS and the ASA have organized workshops at JAAS annual conferences. 

The workshops have been supported by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. 

 

1992

Cecelia Tichi (ASA President)

 

Robert Marquez (Mount Holyoke College)

 

Vicki Ruiz (University of California, Davis)

 

Robert Sklar (New York University)

 

1991

Martha Banta (ASA President)

 

Sean Wilentz

 

David Mayer

 

Lary May

 

Susan M. Hartmann

 

1990

Allen F. Davis (ASA President)

 

Annette Kelodny

 

John Mack Faragher

 

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

 

Irene Hirano

 

1989

Linda K. Kerber (ASA President)

“The Development of Women’s Studies in the United States”

 

1975

William H. Goetzmann (ASA President)