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For more than 75 years, American Studies at Yale has promoted scholarship on the cultures and politics of the United States. We emphasize the interdisciplinary study of history and culture, national identity, and the construction of local, indigenous, borderland, and diasporic communities.

American Studies offers a broad-ranging curriculum to introduce students to critical scholarship and methods from multiple disciplines.  The program has a national and international reputation for its faculty and graduates and its commitment to public humanities.

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September 25, 2024
American Studies PhD alumnus Joey Plaster (Ph.D. 2018), who is now Curator in Public Humanities and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns...
September 23, 2024
American Studies faculty member Daniel Martinez Hosang has been named a 2024 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation in recognition of his extensive record of...
August 27, 2024
Camille Owens, alumna of the combined PhD program in American Studies and African American Studies and now Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, has published...