James I. Deutsch

Current Research Projects

Occupational culture of National Aeronautics and Space Administation (for 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival).

Current or Projected Exhibits

• Traveling exhibition, "The Working White House: Two Centures of Traditions and Stories" (opening 2008).

• Traveling exhibition and website, based on "Forest Service, Culture, and Community" program at 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (on tour 2006-07).

Recent Publications

• "Memorializing ‘The Good War’ and ‘The Greatest Generation,’" in Tales of the Great American Victory: World War II in Politics and Poetics, ed. Diederik Oostdijk and Markha G. Valenta (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006), 157-165.

• "The Best Years of our Lives (1946) and the Cincinnati Story," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 26 (June 2006), 215-25.

• "Bulgarian Communities" and Washington, D.C.," in Encyclopedia of American Folklife, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006).

• "Bad Man," "Maya Deren," and "John Michael Vlach," in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006), 67-68, 317-18, 1352-53.

• "Peyton Place," in Encyclopedia of New England Culture, ed. Burt Feintuch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 785.

• "Non-Traveling Subjects and Their Non-Journeys: The Phenomenon of Homelessness in the United States," in Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time, ed. Dominika Ferens, Justyna Kociatkiewicz and Elzbieta Klimek-Dominiak (Kraków: Rabid, 2004), 275-84.

• "Cattle Mutilations," in Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, ed. Peter Knight (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 153-55.

• "Veterans," in Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society, eds. Carl E. Van Horn and Herbert A. Schaffner (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 577-79.