Mary Corey

Mary Corey

Mary Corey

Senior Continuing Lecturer

Email: mcorey@ucla.edu

Office: 9345 Bunche Hall

Phone: 310-825-2416

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Field of Study

United States

Research

Work in progress: “EMPIRE BURLESQUE: THE CULTURE OF REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1966-1978″

Publications

  • The World Through A Monocle: The New Yorker Magazine at Mid-Century, Harvard University Press, (Spring, 1999).
  • “Daniel Coker, Co-Founder of the A.M.E. Church,” American National Biography (Oxford University Press).
  • “Mixed Messages: Representations of Consumption and Anti-Consumption in the New Yorker Magazine, 1945-1953,” American Periodicals, Volume 4, 1994.
  • “Irresolute Spirits: Drink and Drinking in the Postwar New Yorker Magazine.” Dionysus: Journal of Culture and Addiction, Winter, 1997.”
  • Review Essay: Joe Gould’s Secret,” Journal of American History, December, 2000

Papers

  • August 1991, Pacific Branch of the American Historical Association, “Men and Women of Distinction: The New Yorker Magazine and the Meaning of Alcohol.”
  • May, 1992, American Literature Association, “Mixed Messages: Representations of Consumption and Anti-Consumption in the New Yorker Magazine, 1945-1953.”
  • February, 1993, Southern American Studies Association Biennial “All That We Are Not: Others and the New Yorker World, 1945-1953.”
  • March, 1994, Smithsonian Institution, “A Stranger in the House: The New Yorker Culture and its Domestic Help.”
  • February, 1996, Addiction and Culture Conference, The Claremont Graduate School, “Distinguishing Spirits: Changing Meanings of Drink in the Postwar New Yorker Magazine.”
  • May, 1997, UCLA Colloquium, “Un-American Activities: Anti-Anti-Communism in the Postwar New Yorker.”
  • September, 1998, The Clark Library, “Historical Explanations of Racial Inequality,” Grand Crossings: A Symposium to Honor the Life and Work of Alexander Saxton.
  • August, 1999, PB/AHA, Maui, Hawaii, “A Fine Romance: White Radicals and the Black Panther Party.”
  • September, 2000, Economic History Association Annual Meeting, “Celluloid Capitalism.”

Associations

  • Historians’ News Service
  • Film Teacher’s Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • American Historical Association
  • Teachers For Social Responsibility
  • Representative on OAH Committee on The Position of Women in the Historical Profession
  • Member Western Association of Schools And Colleges Self-Study Committee (Fashion Institute)
  • American Studies Association

Awards & Grants

  • Distinguished Teaching Award 1984 (Fashion Institute)
  • Mabel Wilson Richards Award 1988-1989/ 1992-1993
  • Charles F. Scott Award 1988-1989/ 1989-1990/ 1992-1993 Jean Nidetch Dissertation Award 1989-1990
  • UCLA Dissertation Award 1990-1991
  • Carey McWilliams Fellowship 1991-1992
  • Hortense Fishbaugh Award 1992-1993
  • UCLA School of Journalism Award 1993-1994
  • Fashion Institute Scholar’s Year Award 1993

Degrees

  • Ph.D. UCLA, 1996