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PhD. American Studies
Yale University, 1994
Daniel Belgrad is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Humanities and American Studies. His research focuses on post-World War II American culture. His book, The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America, describes the intellectual and social currents underpinning the trend toward spontaneous improvisation in American art, music, and literature in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s that resulted in such movements as Abstract Expressionism, bebop jazz, and Beat poetry. He is currently working on a second book, about cross-cultural influences between the United States and Mexico during the same historical period. In 2002 he won the Oscar O. Winther Award from the Western Historical Association for his article “Power's Larger Meaning” exploring the use of ecology as a historiographical paradigm.
Dr. Belgrad teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century American cultural and intellectual history, as well as on cultural and literary theory. His graduate-level courses include “Nineteenth-century American arts and letters,” “American culture in the 1970s,” “Theories and Methods of Cultural Studies,” “Cultures of the American Southwest,” and “Wilderness in the American Imagination.” He currently serves as the department’s Graduate Director.
The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
“The 1950s and 1960s” in A Companion to American Cultural History, ed. Karen Halttunen (Boston: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2006).
"Performing lo chicano." MELUS 29:2 (Summer 2004): 249-264.
"The Transnational Counterculture: Beat-Mexican Intersections" in Reconstructing the Beats, ed. Jennie Skerl (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 27-40.
"Power's Larger Meaning: The Johnson County War as Political Violence in an Environmental Context." Western Historical Quarterly 33:2 (Summer 2002): 159-177.
"Square Ring: The Boxing Paintings of Thomas Eakins and George Bellows." Intellectual History Newsletter 23 (2001): 24-34.
"The Rockwell Syndrome," Art in America (April 2000): 61-67.
"SANE and Beyond Sane: Poets and the Hydrogen Bomb, 1958-1960" in The Writing on the Cloud: American Culture Confronts the Atomic Bomb, eds. Chris Geist and Alison Scott (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997), 80-94.
2006 “Greenwich Village in the Fifties and Sixties.” Museum of Fine Arts. Saint Petersburg, FL.
2005 “The Humanities and Public Policy.” Conference on the Humanities and Expertise. Carnegie-Mellon University.
2002 "Art and the Transformation of American Consciousness." Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium, "Art Matters: Visions for the Arts in the 21st Century." Middlebury College.
1998 "The Art of Spontaneity." Virginia Film Festival, University of Virginia.
2005 “Labor Law in the United States and Mexico.” Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.
2004 “Feedback, Phenomenology, and the Ecology of Cultures.” American Studies Association.
2002 "Work Cultures in Conflict: The U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico, 1942-47." American Studies Association.
1999 "Hybrid American Grains: Pan-Americanism and the Rockefeller Foundation's Agricultural Project in Mexico." Fourth Congress of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
1999 "Performing Lo Chicano." California American Studies Association.
1998 "The Choices of Norman Rockwell." Institute in American Studies, Dartmouth College Humanities Research Institute.
1998 "Octavio Paz in the City of Angels." California American Studies Association/Rocky Mountain American Studies Association.