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Register and Attend 2020 Annual Meeting Freedom Courses

Freedom Courses scheduled for November 12-15 will bring ASA members together around urgent topics related to unfolding crises. From "COVID-19, Abolition, Disability Justice" to "Cops Off Campus: A Teach-In on Anti-Blackness, the University, and Policing," these courses aim to sustain our intellectual community during difficult times. 

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2021 Annual Meeting

Creativity within Revolt

October 7-10 // San Juan, Puerto Rico

In the current moment, people are drawing from multiple legacies of rebellion, protest, survival, and revolution to confront forms of dehumanization and ecological degradation that are foundational to the making of “America.” What might it mean to apprehend and respond to the creative acts of people in revolt? How might creativity enable other ways of envisioning and making sociality, community, bodily and spiritual integrity, and radical futurity?

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Arriving to San Juan, Puerto Rico by Francisco Jose Carrera Campos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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12/18

ASA Members Receive 2020 Awards for Books on Music, Literature, and History

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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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October 26, 2020

2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Award Winner

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October 16, 2020

Palestine Writes Festival Features Leaders in World Culture and Politics

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September 14, 2020

Webinar: How to Advocate for Humanities Departments to Senior Administrators

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May 15, 2021

Deadline: Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize

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May 15, 2021

Deadline: Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty

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May 15, 2021

Deadline: Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award

Posted by Minority Scholars' Committee in Deadline

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American Quarterly

December 2020

Volume 72, Number 4

The eight hundred steel pillars hang suspended from the ceiling of the pavilion at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Photo credit Equal Justice Initiative / Human Pictures.

This issue includes five essays that address globalism and American expansionism, Black social movement and the arts, logistics of empire, and technologies of settler colonialism, followed by an extensive review section that includes three event reviews, a digital projects review, and three book reviews that cover diverse scholarship on various themes.

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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.

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...

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.

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. 

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...

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.

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...

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.

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