Academics

Faculty & Staff

Patricia Raub, PhD

  • Senior Lecturer of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6772
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00012

Areas of Expertise

U.S. Social and Cultural History, History of American Photography, History of American Architecture, Popular books

Degrees

PhD Bowling Green University

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • “True to Life: Life Magazine’s Coverage of African Americans, 1936-1940,” Prospects 25 (2000).
  • Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • "A New Woman or an Old Fashioned Girl? the Portrayal of the Heroine in Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties," American Studies 35 (Spring 1994).
  • "Issues of Passion and Power in E.M. Hull's, The Sheik,” Women's Studies 21 (1992).
  • "Another Pattern of Urban Living: Multifamily Housing in Providence, 1890 1930," Rhode Island History, Feb. 1990.
  • “The National Geographic Magazine’s Portrayal of Urban Ethnicity,” Journal of Urban History 14:1 May 1988.
  • "The Making of an Urban Landmark: Media Images of the St. Louis Gateway Arch," Gateway Heritage, Winter 1987-88.

Additional Information


 

Teaching and Research Interests:

Professor Raub teaches a variety of American Studies courses, both on campus and online.  Her teaching and research interests center upon topics relating to popular literature, documentary photography and social history.

For the past decade, she has helped spearhead an effort to keep all nine branches of the Providence public library system open.  She assisted in the formation of a new non-profit organization, the Providence Community Library, that has taken over the operation of all of the neighborhood libraries.  She has recently begun to research the early years of urban libraries and the transformation and integration of small libraries maintained by local neighborhood organizations into municipal libraries at the turn of the last century.

Courses Taught:

AMST 110 G  US Society and Culture since 1945
AMST 101 Popular Culture in America
AMST 203 The Thirties
AMST 210 American Society and Culture 1600-1860
AMST 211 US Society and Culture 1860-1940
AMST 215 America on Film
AMST 250  Tourism in the US
AMST 278L  US Documentary Photography
AMST 375 Best Sellers in American Society