Ethan Larson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan Larson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan |
| FAMILY NAME | Larson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | History University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Champaign Illinois USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3704-5208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Open to the Public: Serbs and Ethnic Crossover in the United States
Diasporas are often imagined as impermeable communities. Yet the boundaries of the Serbian diaspora in the United States were surprisingly porous to certain outsiders, such as Ruth Mitchell, who routinely dressed as a Chetnik to address Serbian immigrants. Mitchell’s act of ethnic crossover, this paper argues, fits into a broader pattern of ethnic outsiders joining Serbian organizations in the United States. Four case studies besides Ruth Mitchel…
That Tesla of ours: Modular nationalism and the cult of Nikola Tesla
This paper uses a comparative case study of Nikola Tesla's use as a symbol in interwar Yugoslavia and the contemporary United States to build upon Anderson's theory of modular nationalism. The modularity of national symbols, I argue, is driven by their utility in addressing similar social, political and economic transformations in different countries and may be transmissible through emigrant communities—albeit not without some changes in substanc…
The new ‘old country’ and its ‘tenth province’: Yugoslav pavilions and the ‘Emigration Question’
What can three exhibitions in the 1930s tell us about diaspora nationalism and Yugoslavia? During the interwar period, the newly-formed Kingdom of Yugoslavia struggled to win the loyalty of its overseas population, which it called its ‘tenth province’, through symbolic displays at World Fairs and International expositions in the United States. Although initially emigrant activists controlled these exhibitions, over the decade the Yugoslav foreign…
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The new ‘old country’ and its ‘tenth province’: Yugoslav pavilions and the ‘Emigration Question’
What can three exhibitions in the 1930s tell us about diaspora nationalism and Yugoslavia? During the interwar period, the newly-formed Kingdom of Yugoslavia struggled to win the loyalty of its overseas population, which it called its ‘tenth province’, through symbolic displays at World Fairs and International expositions in the United States. Although initially emigrant activists controlled these exhibitions, over the decade the Yugoslav foreign…
Open to the Public: Serbs and Ethnic Crossover in the United States
Diasporas are often imagined as impermeable communities. Yet the boundaries of the Serbian diaspora in the United States were surprisingly porous to certain outsiders, such as Ruth Mitchell, who routinely dressed as a Chetnik to address Serbian immigrants. Mitchell’s act of ethnic crossover, this paper argues, fits into a broader pattern of ethnic outsiders joining Serbian organizations in the United States. Four case studies besides Ruth Mitchel…
That Tesla of ours: Modular nationalism and the cult of Nikola Tesla
This paper uses a comparative case study of Nikola Tesla's use as a symbol in interwar Yugoslavia and the contemporary United States to build upon Anderson's theory of modular nationalism. The modularity of national symbols, I argue, is driven by their utility in addressing similar social, political and economic transformations in different countries and may be transmissible through emigrant communities—albeit not without some changes in substanc…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Central European national history (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Emigration (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)