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Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness (2011)
Journal Article

Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the most critically and commercially successful dancers of the twentieth century. She established and ran the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the earliest self-supporting predominantly black dance company and o... Read More about Dance anthropology and the impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham's scientific and artistic consciousness.

Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil (2010)
Journal Article

Existing views of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration’s policies in Latin America have tended to portray its approach as being either fixated upon waging the Cold War, or overly concerned with quelling outbreaks of Latin American economic nationa... Read More about Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil.

'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’ (2000)
Journal Article

Although a good deal of recent critical attention to Melville's writing has followed the lead of Robert K. Martin in addressing the issue of sexuality, the predominant themes in discussions of “Bartleby” remain changes in the nature of the workplace... Read More about 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’.

From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller (1998)
Journal Article

Agnes Heller recently described her position as 'postmodernist', suggesting a move from a political radical to a politically liberal or 'neoconservative' position. The aim of this paper is to assess the degree to which Heller can still be regarded as... Read More about From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller.

James Buchanan and the secession crisis
Book Chapter

An account of the actions, motives, successes and failure of President James Buchanan as he confronted the collapse of the American nation in 1860-1861

Respectable white ladies, wayward girls, and telephone thieves in Miami’s “Case of the Clinking Brassieres”
Conference Proceeding

This essay uses the 1950 “case of the clinking brassieres” to explore female theft in Miami at mid-century and the ways in which gender, race, class, respectability, and youth offered protections and shaped treatment within Florida’s criminal justice... Read More about Respectable white ladies, wayward girls, and telephone thieves in Miami’s “Case of the Clinking Brassieres”.