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CSUF American Studies students presented an impressive array of papers at the recent California American Studies Association (CASA) Annual Conference at UC Santa Barbara.

CSUF American Studies students who presented papers for a CASA panel entitled, "The Quest for Community, Nostalgia, and Escape in the Built Environment." From left: Matt Nelson, Shawn Cady, Jamie Ayako Hirami, and Anita Rice.

From left to right: AMST Professor Michael Steiner, AMST graduate student Josh Legere, ENVST graduate student Colin Ramsey, and AMST grad student Matt Glassman.   

Student papers included:

• Joshua David Legere, “Racial Landscapes in Los Angeles: Two Case Studies”
• Matt Glassman, “Urban Rust: Image, Identity, and the Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest”
• Wendy Llamas, “The Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement in America: Feelings of Distrust, Betrayal, and Loss of Control”
• Mary Anderson, “You Can’t Mass-Produce Quality: Martin Diedrich and Diedrich Coffee”
• Steven Estrada, “A Divisive Public Persona: Representations of Noam Chomsky in American Media”
• Sam Sousa, “The Shape of Punk to Come”
• Matt Nelson, “The Future of Folk Culture”
• Julia Y. Jun, “Asian against the Grain”
• Shawn Cady, “Nostalgia, Landscapes, and Theme Towns: Why Americans Get Up and Go”
• Jamie Ayako Hirami, “Rick Caruso: Imagineering California’s Outdoor Lifestyle Centers”
• Anita Rice, “Nostalgia for the Future: The Quest for Utopia in Disney’s Tomorrowland”

Faculty Advisor, 2008-09, Erica Ball Office: UH-408; (714) 278-3595 American Papers 2008 Editorial Board Heather Brown Maria Cortes Patrick Covert Brendan Gaughen Brittany Daugs Paul Saiedi Allison Wanger Layout Jimmy Stroup Call for Papers for the 2009 edition of American Papers Table of Contents-2008 American Papers Table of Contents-2007 American Papers Table of Contents-2006 American Papers Table of Contents-2005 American Papers (American Papers not published in 2004) Table of Contents-2003 American Papers Table of Contents-2002 American Papers Table of Contents-2001 American Papers Table of Contents-2000 American Papers Table of Contents-1999 American Papers Table of Contents-1998 American Papers Table of Contents-1997 American Papers Table of Contents-1996 American Papers

WWhat to do with your outstanding essay exams, book reviews, response and research papers? Wishing for a wider audience for your work? Interested in getting your writing published? The American Papers wants you; at least, it wants your best essays.

T The American Papers is the journal of the CSUF American Studies Student Association. We want to publish the best essays written in any American Studies course at CSUF class in the past year. We want to publish you. Every American Studies student may submit up to two essays a year, so look over what you have written recently, choose your best, and submit it to The American Papers .

S ubmissions will be read anonymously, so please take your name off the paper itself. On the paper, all we need is the title and what class it was written for. On a separate cover sheet, write your name, paper title, what course you wrote it for and when, and also how to reach you by email and phone, good through the end of the summer, 2009. Mark your submission “Erica Ball : American Papers” and turn it in to the American Studies office in UH-313. You may submit any time before June 1, 2009.

B y the end of the summer, you will receive a letter of acceptance or decline from the Editorial Board. Accepted essays will require you to submit a revised final copy in electronic format.

Any questions? Contact Erica Ball, (714) 278-8273

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Fall 2007 ASSA Newsletter

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