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A. Joan Saab
PhD (American Studies), New York University, 1999
Associate Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, Visual and Cultural Studies Program

jsaab@mail.rochester.edu

423A Morey Hall
585-275-7922

Interests: twentieth-century American cultural history, media and culture, urban and community studies; popular culture; cultural studies; aesthetic categories and values.

Publications
For the Millions: American Art and Culture in the 1930s, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Articles in American Visual Culture; New York Modern: The Arts and the City; Columbia Journal of American Studies; and Index Magazine.
Articles forthcoming in I'm Every Women: The Phenomenon of Oprah; Hollywood and Motherhood; and The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance.
Current book project: "How to Take a Picture: The Creation of Photographic Meaning in the United States."

Graduate Courses
AH 256/456 Vernacular Architecture in the USA
AH 266/466 African American Visual Culture
AH 274/474 Cultural History of American Architecture
AH 292/492 The Modern City
AH 320/520 Politics of Space


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