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Joe Austin, Associate Professor

Office: Holton Hall 391
Phone: (414) 229-4531
E-mail: jaustin@uwm.edu
Vita: pdf 36K

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1996
B.A., University of Houston, 1986

Research Interests:
Youth Cultures and Subcultures, 1945-present.
Visual Cultures and Popular Culture: Film, Magazines, Photography, and Alternative Media.
Cultural Theory and Everyday Life.
20th Century U.S. Cultural and Urban History.

Recent Publications:
Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001).

Austin, Joe, & Willard, Michael N. (eds.) Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth Century America. (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

"Youth, Neoliberalism, Ethics: Some Questions." Rhizomes (refereed e-journal), Issue 10, Spring 2005. [http://www.rhizomes.net/issue10/austin.htm]

"Rome is Burning (Psychedelic): Traces of the Social and Historical Contexts of Psychedelia." In Christoph Grunenberg (ed.) Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era. (London: Tate Publishing, 2005).

"Youth Culture." In Paula Fass (ed.) Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society. (New York: MacMillan Reference, 2004), 910-916.

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