Justin Nordstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Nordstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nordstrom |
| SIGNATURE | NORDSTROM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0265-4644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Raging Erie
The “Kitchen Debate” Revisited
This article examines two conflicting perspectives on home cooking in Cold War America. The 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow featured a vocal exchange between Richard Nixon and his Soviet rival Nikita Khruschev, during a tour of a model American home. This "Kitchen Debate," positioned American food and cooking as part of an outpouring of consumerism, demonstrating capitalist superiority by providing for the conveniences and comforts of…
A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America
This article focuses on the 1954 short story “Frozen Foods 2000 A.D.,” which predicted that frozen meals and microwave cooking would ensure global cooperation and reduce domestic labor, “emancipating” women and inspiring new technologies. This frozen fantasy both reflects the structure of earlier utopian motifs and challenges their essential arguments, particularly when examined alongside Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel Looking Backward and mediev…
The Provisions of War
The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various con…
The Provisions of War
Provisions of War
Food Is History of the Deepest Kind
This article examines Lyman Sargent's article “The American Cockaigne” alongside the 2017 novel Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Both Sargent and Sloan examine modern approaches to food and utopianism that build on earlier Cockaigne tales—medieval “peasant utopias” imagining abundant magical foods and satisfying laziness. Sargent contends that similar stories remained prevalent in America among socially marginalized groups. Sourdough imagines how a grou…
And Serve the Cause of Freedom”
This article argues that the United States Food Administration (USFA) employed contradictory imagery and rhetoric to motivate Americans to conserve wheat, beef, sugar, pork, and other essential foods during the First World War. While USFA posters emphasized patriotism, solidarity, and euphoric national loyalty, they simultaneously employed dystopian portrayals of hunger, chaos, and madness. Yet neither uplifting nationalism nor overt fearmongerin…
Julia Child's The French Chef
Speaking of Jews
Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German‐Jewish Identity – By Jonathan M. Hess
What the Rabbis Said
Utopians at the Parliament
This article examines the Columbian Exposition and World's Parliament of Religions, both held in Chicago in 1893. While both events drew on nineteenth‐century beliefs in the superiority of Western Christianity, they reflect divergent views on technology, social inequality, and urban reform. The Exposition's “White City” offered visitors a temporary, otherwordly escape, whereas the World's Parliament emphasized the importance and possibility of co…
Unlikely Utopians
Research Article| January 01 2009 Unlikely Utopians: Solomon Schindler, Henry Mendes, and American Judaism in the 1890s Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (2): 275–297. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719949 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Unlikely Utopians: Solomon Schindler, Henry Mendes, and American Judaism …
Moses Levy of Florida
Book Review| January 01 2008 Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. Monaco, C. S. Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2008) 19 (2): 358–362. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719912 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Moses Levy of Florida: Je…
Looking Backward's Utopian Sequels
Research Article| January 01 2007 Looking Backward's Utopian Sequels: “Fictional Dialogues” in Gilded-Age America Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (2): 193–221. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Looking Backward's Utopian Sequels: “Fictional Dialogues” in Gilded-Age America…
Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls
Book Review| January 01 2007 Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls. Cohen, Steve Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (2): 270–273. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719869 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Deportation Is…
Embodying the Spirit
Book Review| December 01 2005 Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American RevivalismMcClymond, Michael J. Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 454–459. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718769 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Embody…
Yankees Now
Speaking of Jews
Utopians at the Parliament
This article examines the Columbian Exposition and World's Parliament of Religions, both held in Chicago in 1893. While both events drew on nineteenth‐century beliefs in the superiority of Western Christianity, they reflect divergent views on technology, social inequality, and urban reform. The Exposition's “White City” offered visitors a temporary, otherwordly escape, whereas the World's Parliament emphasized the importance and possibility of co…
Yankees Now
Embodying the Spirit
Book Review| December 01 2005 Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American RevivalismMcClymond, Michael J. Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (3): 454–459. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718769 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Embody…
Looking Backward's Utopian Sequels
Research Article| January 01 2007 Looking Backward's Utopian Sequels: “Fictional Dialogues” in Gilded-Age America Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (2): 193–221. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Looking Backward's Utopian Sequels: “Fictional Dialogues” in Gilded-Age America…
Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls
Book Review| January 01 2007 Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls. Cohen, Steve Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (2): 270–273. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719869 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Deportation Is…
Moses Levy of Florida
Book Review| January 01 2008 Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. Monaco, C. S. Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2008) 19 (2): 358–362. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719912 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Moses Levy of Florida: Je…
Utopians at the Parliament
This article examines the Columbian Exposition and World's Parliament of Religions, both held in Chicago in 1893. While both events drew on nineteenth‐century beliefs in the superiority of Western Christianity, they reflect divergent views on technology, social inequality, and urban reform. The Exposition's “White City” offered visitors a temporary, otherwordly escape, whereas the World's Parliament emphasized the importance and possibility of co…
Unlikely Utopians
Research Article| January 01 2009 Unlikely Utopians: Solomon Schindler, Henry Mendes, and American Judaism in the 1890s Justin Nordstrom Justin Nordstrom Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (2): 275–297. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719949 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Justin Nordstrom; Unlikely Utopians: Solomon Schindler, Henry Mendes, and American Judaism …
What the Rabbis Said
Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German‐Jewish Identity – By Jonathan M. Hess
Speaking of Jews
Julia Child's The French Chef
And Serve the Cause of Freedom”
This article argues that the United States Food Administration (USFA) employed contradictory imagery and rhetoric to motivate Americans to conserve wheat, beef, sugar, pork, and other essential foods during the First World War. While USFA posters emphasized patriotism, solidarity, and euphoric national loyalty, they simultaneously employed dystopian portrayals of hunger, chaos, and madness. Yet neither uplifting nationalism nor overt fearmongerin…
Food Is History of the Deepest Kind
This article examines Lyman Sargent's article “The American Cockaigne” alongside the 2017 novel Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Both Sargent and Sloan examine modern approaches to food and utopianism that build on earlier Cockaigne tales—medieval “peasant utopias” imagining abundant magical foods and satisfying laziness. Sargent contends that similar stories remained prevalent in America among socially marginalized groups. Sourdough imagines how a grou…
The Provisions of War
The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various con…
The Provisions of War
Provisions of War
A Frozen Fantasy for Cold War America
This article focuses on the 1954 short story “Frozen Foods 2000 A.D.,” which predicted that frozen meals and microwave cooking would ensure global cooperation and reduce domestic labor, “emancipating” women and inspiring new technologies. This frozen fantasy both reflects the structure of earlier utopian motifs and challenges their essential arguments, particularly when examined alongside Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel Looking Backward and mediev…
The “Kitchen Debate” Revisited
This article examines two conflicting perspectives on home cooking in Cold War America. The 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow featured a vocal exchange between Richard Nixon and his Soviet rival Nikita Khruschev, during a tour of a model American home. This "Kitchen Debate," positioned American food and cooking as part of an outpouring of consumerism, demonstrating capitalist superiority by providing for the conveniences and comforts of…
The Raging Erie
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