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WELCOME TO AMERICAN STUDIES


Leila Zenderland

Leila Zenderland
Professor of American Studies

Email: lzenderland@fullerton.edu
Office: UH-414
Phone: (657) 278-3800

Dept. of American Studies
California State Univ., Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834-6868

Office Hours:
-Fall 2011: Tu 11:30-12:30; Th 11:30-1:30 & by appt.


Courses Usually Taught

  • AMST 201 - Introduction To American Studies
  • AMST 300 - Introduction To American Popular Culture
  • AMST 401T - American Culture Through Social Science
  • AMST 438 - American Minds: Images of Sickness and Health
  • AMST 465 - The Culture of the American South
  • AMST 501 – Graduate Seminar on American Studies Theories and Methods

Research Interests and Publications


Books:

Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing (Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback 2001).

Editor and Introduction, Recycling the Past: Popular Uses of American History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978).

Current Book in Progress: 

Finding the ‘Class of 1933’: Studying Culture, Personality, and Nationality in an Age of War.

Articles:

“Representing German Sociology:  Willy Gierlichs and Walter Beck in 1930s America.” In Transnationalism and Society: 100th Anniversary Volume of the German Sociological Association. Frankfurt: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, forthcoming.

“Constructing American Studies: Culture, Identity, and the Expansion of the Humanities.” In David Hollinger, ed., The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since 1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, pp. 273-313.

"The Parable of the Kallikak Family: Explaining the Meaning of Heredity in 1912.” In Steven Noll and James Trent, Jr., eds., Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2003, pp. 165-185.

"Contextualizing Documents, Data, and Controversies: Working with the Henry Herbert Goddard Papers." In David Baker, ed., Thick Description and Fine Texture: Studies in the History of Psychology. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2003, pp. 76-107.

"Biblical Biology: American Protestant Social Reformers and the Early Eugenics Movement." Science in Context, 11: 3-4 (Fall and Winter 1998), pp. 511-525.

"The Bell Curve and the Shape of History." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 33 (Spring 1997), pp. 135-139.

"Henry Herbert Goddard," in Encyclopedia of Psychology (New York: Oxford University Press and American Psychological Association, forthcoming).

"Henry Herbert Goddard," in John Garraty, ed., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press and American Council of Learned Societies, 1999), Vol. 9, pp. 133-135.

"On Interpreting Photographs, Faces, and the Past." American Psychologist, 43 (September 1988), pp. 743-744.
"Education, Evangelism, and the Origins of Clinical Psychology: The Child Study Legacy." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 24 (April 1988), pp. l52-l65.

"The Debate over Diagnosis: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Medical Acceptance of Intelligence Testing." In Michael Sokal, ed., Psychological Testing and American Society, 1890-1930 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987; paperback, 1990).

External Grants, Awards, and Appointments:

Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2007-2008
Fulbright Professor of American History, University of Bremen, Germany, Spring 2002
Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant, Summer 1999
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, Visiting Academic, Spring 1997
National Science Foundation Research Grant, Summer 1991
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant, Summer 1988

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