MARA KEIRE
Researcher
Mara Keire is interested in the cultural, intellectual, and legal history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States. Her previous scholarship focused on red-light districts, vice reform, and the development of the new commercial popular culture in the early twentieth century. She is currently working on two projects: Under the Boardwalk: Rape and Popular Culture in New York, 1900-1929 and Apocalypse Americana: How Americans Have Imagined the End of the World Since the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb.
