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Dr Tim Hickman

Senior Lecturer

Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1997

Current Teaching

HIST270, 271, 364

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Research Interests

Dr. Hickman's research is concerned with the cultural history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is engaged in an investigation of the concept of 'modernity,' and particularly in its textual enunciation as 'cultural crisis.' He has recently completed the first phase of this study, which is an examination of the addiction concept of habitual narcotic use within the rapidly changing, turn-of-the-century technological environment. His next project will look more broadly at the period's cultural production, examining the way that a sense of cultural crisis resonated differently within the written and visual texts produced by various groups and individuals, divided by race, class and gender difference. This study is a historical investigation that also hopes to theorise differing, contested notions of modernity as both a temporal and a spatial concept.

Selected Publications

• (With David T. Courtwright)"Modernity and Anti-Modernity: Drug Policy and Political Culture in the United States and Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in Geoffrey Hunt, Maitena Milhet, Henri Bergeron eds., Drugs and Culture: Understanding Patterns of Use and Regulation (Forthcoming, Ashgate)
• "Gendering Modernity: Frances E. Willard's Politics of Technological Sentimentality," in Janet Floyd, Alison Easton and R. J. Ellis, eds., Becoming Visible: Women in View in Late Nineteenth-Century America, (Rodopi, 2010)
• "The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days": Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007)
• (With Virginia Berridge) "History and the Future of Psychoactive Substances," in Drugs and the Future: Brain Science, Addiction and Society, Edited By David J. Nutt, et. al. (The Academic Press, Sept. 2006)
• '"Mania Americana": Narcotic Addiction and Modernity in the United States, 1870-1920', Journal of American History (March 2004), 1269-1294.
• "The Double Meaning of Addiction: Habitual Narcotic Use and the Logic of Professionalizing Medical Authority in the United States, 1900-1920," in Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline J. Acker eds., Altering American Consciousness: Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-1997 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004)
• "Heroin Chic: The Visual Culture of Narcotic Addiction," Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 16.2 (2002), 119-36.
• "Drugs and Race in American Culture: Orientalism in the Turn-of-the-Century Discourse of Narcotic Addiction', American Studies, 41.1 (2000)," 71-91.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

• United States Cultural and Intellectual History, particularly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Modernity and modernism.
• Postmodernity.
• Drug and alcohol use, policy and culture.
• Cultural History of American medicine.

Associated Keywords: Alcohol and illicit drug use, Art, Culture, History, Literature, Medicine, Modernism, Modernity, New historicism, Postmodernism, United States

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