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2023 Annual Meeting

Solidarity: What Love Looks Like in Public

November 2-5 // Montreal, Quebec

Our annual meeting’s location in Montreal presents the perfect opportunity to put some pressure on the meaning of solidarity across a number of communities, modes of engagement, and national boundaries. We invite our colleagues in Canada and the Americas, writ large, as well as those beyond to join us as we think through these engagements. We want to actively participate in building a practice (of love, of solidarity, of justice) in the space of contestation and radical difference.

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ASA Welcomes Newly Elected Officers and Representatives for 2023

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American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers

The Committee on Departments, Programs and Centers keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments, programs, and centers.

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Call for Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award Nominations

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July 26, 2022

2022 Critical Ethnic Studies Prize Nominations Open

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American Quarterly

March 2023

Volume 75, Number 1

This issue inaugurates the seventy-fifth year of American Quarterly. In the past three-quarters of a century, the field of American studies has been a site of vibrant exchange of ideas and gone through dynamic changes in terms of the agents of knowledge production and objects of study, the approaches to archives and tools of analysis, and the framing of questions and articulations of arguments. The six essays in this issue perfectly exemplify the kinds of scholarship enabled by both the accumulation of knowledge through the generations and the bold challenges to, and departures from, existing modes of analysis. The six essays all interrogate, in various contexts and through diverse approaches, the politics and expressions of the nation, state, capital, rights, body, and life. 

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Featured ASA Working Papers

The 2014-2015 Working Papers Series provides practitioners in American studies with tools to create, position, and sustain American Studies programs within the current landscape of higher education.

Some Best Practices for Recruiting Students to American Studies Programs

Rebecca Hill (Kennesaw State University) offers 20 tips on "laying the groundwork" for recruiting students to undergraduate and graduate MA programs, as well as recruiting strong PhD students.

Strategies for Programs, Departments, and Centers under the Threat of Budget Cuts

Karen Leong (Arizona State University) and Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University) suggest ways that American studies departments can respond to threats of program dismantlement and offer proactive strategies to develop departmental security by illustrating the assets of American studies...

The Nature and Meaning of Research in American Studies

Ben Chappell (University of Kansas) explores how the “interdisciplinary rigor of American Studies” fosters diverse research topics and methodological approaches, and notes how researchers in the field share their scholarship within the academy and with the broader public.

What is American Studies?

George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara) examines the genealogy of American studies in tracing the history of the field, from the nascent interdisciplinary inquiries into cultures of the United States during the 1930s to the eclectic array of paradigms in today’s American studies...

Writing Mission Statements for American Studies Departments and Programs

Matthew Mancini (Saint Louis University) posits topics to assist individuals and departments in developing a mission statement that reflects the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the diversity of American studies, and aligns to the college or university’s mission statement...

Creating Goals and Outcomes for American Studies Programs

Mark Rice (St. John Fisher College) offers guidance on how American Studies programs can craft student learning goals and measureable outcomes that align to an institution’s educational mission and clearly articulate the program’s contributions.

How to Position American Studies as Vital to Your Institution

Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello (Salem State University) and Karen Leong (Arizona State University) present extensive strategies for articulating the value of American studies programs to the missions of their institutions and to broader national and global trends in higher education. 

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