Dr Ethan Blue

BA, University of Virginia; MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Tel: (61 8) 6488 1227

Fax: (61 8) 6488 1069
Email: evblue@arts.uwa.edu.au

Teaching & Research Interests
United States history; crime and punishment; race and ethnicity; working class history; cultural history; critical social theory; US-Mexico borderlands; the American West; the racial and gender politics of fear.

Selected Publications

'The Strange Career of Leo Stanley: Manhood and Medicine at San Quentin State Penitentiary, 1913-1951', Pacific Historical Review, forthcoming.

"'A Dark Cloud Will Go Over': Pain, Death and Silence in Texas Prisons in the 1930s," Humanities Research, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 2007. Available at http://epress.anu.edu.au/hrj/2007_02/html/frames.php

Editor (with Patrick Timmons), Punishment and Death: Radical History Review, Issue 96, September 2006.

"National Trauma, Church Drama: The Cultural Politics of Christian Fear," Bad Subjects, February 2005. www.bad.eserver.org.

"Beating the System: Prison Music and the Politics of Penal Space," in Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford, eds, Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (London: Routledge, 2003). Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=tscV5wYZdQQC

Memberships
Organization of American Historians
American Studies Association
American Historical Association
Australia/New Zealand American Studies Association