Sarah Miller-Davenport
Biographic Data
| ID | 455205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Miller-Davenport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller-Davenport |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER-DAVENPORT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8345-1787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Curating New York’s “Raw Material”
The Cultural Center of the World: Art, Finance, and Globalization in Late Twentieth-Century New York
This article explores why New York City’s municipal government, together with private benefactors, poured an unprecedented amount of money into the arts during the 1980s, a time of broader austerity. While other public expenditures saw dramatic cuts, the arts were considered essential to the city’s future as a center for global capital—as a way to lure financial elites and young professionals to the city, create new forms of revenue-raising consu…
The Third World in the Inner City: The Peace Corps and Multiculturalism
As liberal policymakers and education reformers set about tackling the problem of poorly performing urban schools in the 1960s and 1970s, they turned not only to the works of progressive education heavyweights like John Dewey or Maria Montessori, or popular radical pedagogues like Paulo Friere, but also to methods and ideas first developed in the Peace Corps—President John F. Kennedy’s experimental program “to promote world peace and friendship” …
Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
Reviewed by: Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio Sarah Miller-Davenport Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood. By Dean Itsuji Saranillio. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. xxvi + 282 p. Illustrated. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.95 paper; $99.95 cloth Unsustainable Empire works to de-naturalize the popular story of Hawai‘i statehood, in which a long-deservi…
Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
This book explores the development of Hawaiʻi as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawaiʻi statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nation's role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawaiʻi's remarkable transition from territory to state heral…
Gateway State: Hawai‘i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
Eric G.E. Zuelow, A History of Modern Tourism
From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
A ‘Montage of Minorities’: Hawai‘i Tourism and the Commodification of Racial Tolerance, 1959–1978
This article studies the Hawai‘i tourism industry's efforts to market Hawai‘i as a multi-cultural paradise where positive racial experiences could be bought and sold. With jet travel arriving in Hawai‘i the same year as statehood, the tourism industry, aided by the new state government, exploited Hawai‘i's newfound prominence, luring planeloads of American tourists who thronged its beaches, hotels, and cultural spectacles. Tourism helped turn rac…
Their blood shall not be shed in vain: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post-World War II Asia
A year after Japan's surrender to the Allied powers, Luther J. Holcomb, a Texas-born Baptist minister, heralded a new era of American supremacy in both world affairs and Christian evangelism. Calling on Christians to seize the postwar moment to bring “the message of Christ, with its transforming power” to “those who are starving for the Bread of Life,” Holcomb, in an article in the popular evangelical magazine Moody Monthly, gave a religious cast…
Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
Their blood shall not be shed in vain: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post-World War II Asia
A year after Japan's surrender to the Allied powers, Luther J. Holcomb, a Texas-born Baptist minister, heralded a new era of American supremacy in both world affairs and Christian evangelism. Calling on Christians to seize the postwar moment to bring “the message of Christ, with its transforming power” to “those who are starving for the Bread of Life,” Holcomb, in an article in the popular evangelical magazine Moody Monthly, gave a religious cast…
Their blood shall not be shed in vain: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post-World War II Asia
A year after Japan's surrender to the Allied powers, Luther J. Holcomb, a Texas-born Baptist minister, heralded a new era of American supremacy in both world affairs and Christian evangelism. Calling on Christians to seize the postwar moment to bring “the message of Christ, with its transforming power” to “those who are starving for the Bread of Life,” Holcomb, in an article in the popular evangelical magazine Moody Monthly, gave a religious cast…
Eric G.E. Zuelow, A History of Modern Tourism
From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
A ‘Montage of Minorities’: Hawai‘i Tourism and the Commodification of Racial Tolerance, 1959–1978
This article studies the Hawai‘i tourism industry's efforts to market Hawai‘i as a multi-cultural paradise where positive racial experiences could be bought and sold. With jet travel arriving in Hawai‘i the same year as statehood, the tourism industry, aided by the new state government, exploited Hawai‘i's newfound prominence, luring planeloads of American tourists who thronged its beaches, hotels, and cultural spectacles. Tourism helped turn rac…
Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
This book explores the development of Hawaiʻi as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawaiʻi statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nation's role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawaiʻi's remarkable transition from territory to state heral…
Gateway State: Hawai‘i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
The Third World in the Inner City: The Peace Corps and Multiculturalism
As liberal policymakers and education reformers set about tackling the problem of poorly performing urban schools in the 1960s and 1970s, they turned not only to the works of progressive education heavyweights like John Dewey or Maria Montessori, or popular radical pedagogues like Paulo Friere, but also to methods and ideas first developed in the Peace Corps—President John F. Kennedy’s experimental program “to promote world peace and friendship” …
Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
Reviewed by: Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio Sarah Miller-Davenport Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood. By Dean Itsuji Saranillio. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. xxvi + 282 p. Illustrated. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.95 paper; $99.95 cloth Unsustainable Empire works to de-naturalize the popular story of Hawai‘i statehood, in which a long-deservi…
The Cultural Center of the World: Art, Finance, and Globalization in Late Twentieth-Century New York
This article explores why New York City’s municipal government, together with private benefactors, poured an unprecedented amount of money into the arts during the 1980s, a time of broader austerity. While other public expenditures saw dramatic cuts, the arts were considered essential to the city’s future as a center for global capital—as a way to lure financial elites and young professionals to the city, create new forms of revenue-raising consu…
Curating New York’s “Raw Material”
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Annexation to the United States (2 works)