Kristin Ann Hass

Kristin Ann Hass is an American writer and professor in the department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She studies memorialization and public humanities. ^{[1] [2]}

Education

After growing up in Northern California, Hass received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Michigan, as well as her Ph.D. in American Culture in 1994. ^[3]

Career

Hass is a professor in the department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is the faculty coordinator of the Michigan Humanities Collaboratory. ^[4] She lectures, teaches, and writes about cultural memory, nationalism, memorialization, militarization, racialization, museums, visual culture, and material culture. ^{[3] [1]}

Hass was the co-founder and associate director of Imagining America, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations. ^[5]

Publications

Hass has written three books:

• Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (2023): A field guide for identifying elements of everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which work to maintain powerful structures of inequity. ^[6]
• Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall (2013): A study of militarism, race, war memorials, and U.S. nationalism. ^[7]
• Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1998): An exploration of public memorial practices, material culture, and the legacies of the Vietnam War. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

Hass is also the editor of Being Human During COVID (2021), a collection of essays written during the COVID-19 pandemic that try to make sense of the event through a humanities lens. ^[11] It was published by the University of Michigan Press and is available online through open access. ^[12]

References

1. "PROMOTION RECOMMENDATION" (PDF). The Regents of the University of Michigan. 2022-05-19.
2. "Faculty Promotions 2022". University of Michigan Board of Regents. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
3. "Kristin Ann Hass". U-M LSA American Culture. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
4. "Collaboratory Staff". University of Michigan Humanities Collaboratory. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
5. "Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellowship". Imagining America. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
6. "Blunt Instruments by Kristin Hass: 9780807006719". PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
7. Wingate, Jennifer (2015). "Book Review: Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall" . The Public Historian. 37 (1): 138–140. doi:10.1525/tph.2015.37.1.138. ISSN   0272-3433. JSTOR   10.1525/tph.2015.37.1.138.
8. "Carried to the Wall by Kristin Ann Hass". University of California Press. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
9. Gopnik, Adam (2014-06-30). "Stones And Bones". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
10. Piehler, G. Kurt (2000). "Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial" . The Journal of American History. 87 (2): 754. doi:10.2307/2568914. ISSN   0021-8723.
11. "Being Human during COVID". University of Michigan Press. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
12. Hass, Kristin (2021). Being Human during COVID. University of Michigan Press. ISBN   978-0-472-03878-7.

Kristin Ann Hass
Academic background
Education	Michigan (Ph.D., M.A., B.A.)
Thesis	Remaking the nation with purple hearts and fishing lures: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and American memory  (1994)
Doctoral advisor	David Scobey

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