American studies is home to an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students committed to rigorous, socially engaged scholarship. We take a global and hemispheric approach to the study of the ...

Before his death in 2020, eminent Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones packed decades of Mexican American history into the ...

Were witnessing a momentous period in US history and culture. A second Donald Trump presidency promises to be just as turbulent, if not more so, than his first term in office. A proper understanding ...

Nick Kennedy is a high school English teacher from California’s Central Coast and a student in the Learning and Teaching in Social Contexts doctoral program through the University at Buffalo Graduate ...

The University of Iowa proposed creating a new School of Social and Cultural Analysis to the Iowa Board of Regents, closing ...

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies European Studies Latin American Studies Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Global Studies also collaborates with ...

The University of Montana will receive a $500,00 grant over three years from the Mellon Foundation for a new Democracy Studies Program.

American regional cultures, environmental humanities, borderlands, and the intersection of art, literature, and public policy. Benjamin Looker, Ph.D., undergraduate program coordinator and internship ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...