UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies
UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland | Director: Professor Liam Kennedy
Dr. David Gray
David Gray received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2007.
His work focuses on labor, aesthetics and emotion.
His dissertation, Visualizing a Classless America: Motivational Campaigns in the Industrial Workplace, 1920-1955, explores the use of posters and other motivational aesthetics in American factories and upon the management of workers’ emotions and affective states.
He is currently developing his dissertation into a book project tentatively titled, Inventing the Classless Workplace: Motivational Campaigns in the American Factory, 1920-1960.
His publications include “New Uses for Old Photos: Renovating FSA Photographs in World War II Posters,” American Studies Fall/Winter 2006.
Email: David.Gray@ucd.ie
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