35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Table of Contents President’s Welcome ............................................................................. 2 Officers and Committees ................................................................. 3 – 7 SSHA Information ............................................................................. 8 – 9 Book Exhibit ........................................................................................... 9 Network Representatives............................................................. 10 – 11 Network Meetings ............................................................................... 12 Special Conference Events ................................................................... 13 Presidential Address and Reception .................................................... 13 Association Business Meeting .............................................................. 13 SSHA Committee Meetings .................................................................. 14 Presidential Sessions ............................................................................ 14 Program Committee Sessions .............................................................. 15 Session Listing by Network................................................................... 16 Program at a Glance ............................................................................. 17 Conference Program .................................................................. 18 – 127 Author Index ............................................................................. 128– 139 Chicago Information ................................................................. 140 – 143 Cover design by Dennis Laffoon, Bloomington, Indiana 0 1 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association President’s Welcome Officers and Committees Social Science History Association Welcome to the 2010 meeting of the Social Science History Association! 2009-2010 SSHA is returning to the Palmer House for the 7th time – for returning SSHA members I hope this means a pleasant trip down memory lane for you as it does for me, as well as an President opportunity to sample the newest scholarship. For our many first-timers, welcome -- I Ann Shola Orloff hope this occasion proves as rewarding for you as it was for the many SSHA members who Northwestern University (Sociology, Gender Studies, and Political Science) return year after year to renew ties with colleagues across our constituent disciplines and to engage in the spirited intellectual exchanges for which SSHA is known. I hope to see Vice President many of you at the Welcome Reception on Thursday evening. George Alter University of Michigan (History) Kudos to all for authoring such interesting papers and comments, and particular thanks to the 2010 program committee co-chairs, network representatives and SSHA and Indiana University Conferences officers and staff for helping us to put together such a Treasurer multifaceted and intellectually engaging set of panels – over 230 in all! This year’s theme is Philip VanderMeer Arizona State University (History) “Power and Politics,” and will feature a number of Presidential panels in the form of roundtable discussions on various aspects of these topics. SSHA programs are built by the networks, and you have the opportunity to get involved from the outset of next year’s Executive Director program by attending the network meetings, which will be held on Friday, from 12:30pm- William C. Block 1:15pm and 1:15pm – 2:00pm. Cornell University (CISER) Please join me at Saturday’s business meeting to hear more about SSHA’s Past President fortunes and to applaud our honorees, and at the Presidential Reception that follows. I Julia Adams would like to thank several units at Northwestern University for their generous support of Yale University (Sociology) the Presidential reception: the Department of Sociology, the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, the Graduate School and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. On behalf of all of us, I would also like to thank the Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly Fund for Social Science History, which is administered on our behalf by the Social Science Research Council, for their generous support of graduate student travel grants. Graduate students are the future of SSHA, of course, and we are extremely fortunate to have such enthusiastic partners in supporting their scholarship. Have a wonderful meeting, and enjoy each other and Chicago. Ann Shola Orloff 2010 SSHA President 2 3 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Executive Committee Publications Committee Term Expires 2010 Term Expires 2010 Peggy Hargis Lisa Dillon Georgia Southern University (Sociology and Anthropology) University of Montreal (Demography) Ian Gregory John Murray Lancaster University (Digital Humanities) University of Toledo (Economics) Birgitte Søland Ohio State University (History) Term Expires 2011 Nancy Green Term Expires 2011 L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (History) Lyn Spillman Robert Lieberman University of Notre Dame (Sociology) Columbia University (Political Science) Thomas J. Sugrue University of Pennsylvania (History) Term Expires 2012 Ruth Crocker Thomas Maloney Auburn University (History) University of Utah (Economics) Mary Louise Nagata Term Expires 2012 Francis Marion University / EHESS (History / CRH) Sylvia Pedraza, University of Michigan (Sociology) 2010 Nominating Committee Alice O’Connor Lyn Spillman, Chair University of California Santa Barbara (History) University of Notre Dame (Sociology)) Trent Alexander Elizabeth Faue University of Minnesota (Minnesota Population Center) Francis Marion University / EHESS (History / CRH) Katherine Lynch Immediate Three Past Presidents Carnegie Mellon University (History) Julia Adams Ajay Mehrotra Yale University (Sociology) Indiana University (Law/History) Donna R Gabaccia Dan Slater University of Minnesota (History) University of Chicago (Political Science) David Kertzer Brown University (Anthropology) 4 5 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Allan Sharlin Memorial Award Committee 2009 SSHA-Rockefeller Travel Award Selection Committee Term Expires 2010 Dorothee Schneider, Chair University of Illinois (Sociology) Vincent Louis University of Minnesota (Sociology) John Reynolds University of Texas-San Antonio (History) Sigrid Schmalzer University of Massachusetts Amherst (History) 2010 Program Committee Term Expires 2010 Monica Prasad Northwestern University (Sociology) Anne McCants, Chair Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History) Jennifer Mittelstadt Rutgers University (History) Philip Brown Ohio State University (History) Kimberly Morgan George Washington University (Government) President's Book Award Committee Term Expires 2010 2010 SSHA-Tilly Award Selection Committee Thomas Maloney, Chair University of Utah (Economics) Ann Shola Orloff Northwestern University (Sociology, Gender Studies, and Political Science) Greta Krippner University of Michigan (Sociology) William C. Block Cornell University (CISER) Term Expires 2011 2010 Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly Prize for the Best Graduate Paper Leslie Page Moch in Social Science History, Award Committee Michigan State University (History) Kimberly Johnson Julia Adams Barnard College (Political Science) Yale University (Sociology) Chris Tilly Editor, Social Science History University of California, Los Angeles (Urban Planning) Douglas L. Anderton Leslie Page Moch University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Sociology) Michigan State University (History) Donna R Gabaccia Conference Manager University of Minnesota (History) Judy Warner Ron Aminzade Indiana University Conferences, Senior Conference Coordinator University of Minnesota (Political Science) William Roy Duke University Press University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) Rob Dilworth Journals Editorial/Administrative Manager, and Chief Administrative contact for SSHA 6 7 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association SSHA Membership SSHA 2011 Annual Conference The Social Science History Association is an interdisciplinary group of scholars that shares The Social Science History Association will hold its 36th annual conference in Boston, interests in social life and theory; historiography, and historical and social-scientific Massachusetts, November 17-20, 2011. The conference will be held at the Boston Park methodologies. SSHA might be best seen as a coalition of distinctive scholarly Plaza. The organization’s long-standing interest in methodology makes SSHA meetings communities. Our substantive intellectual work ranges from everyday life in the medieval exciting places to explore new solutions to historical problems. We encourage the world – and sometimes earlier -- to contemporary global politics, but we are united in our participation of graduate students and recent PH.D.s, as well as more-established scholars, historicized approach to understanding human events, explaining social processes, and from a wide range of disciplines and departments. developing innovative theory. Future dates and sites: November 1-4, 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia,