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Sean Vanatta

Modern Cultural and Economic U.S.; Consumer Credit

Graduate Student
Office: 116 LeConte
Office Hours: T,F 12:30-1:30pm
svanatta@uga.edu

My research examines the explosion of consumer debt in the late 20th century, looking specifically at credit cards and the role they have played as a facilitator of middle class lifestyle and consciousness.

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[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[Capitalism]
[Cultural & Intellectual]

MA Thesis

"Working Title: "House of Cards: Plastic Money, the Logic of Reagan, and the Rise of the Credit Class in America"," supervised by Dr. Stephen Mihm (In Progress)

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