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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.

News

January 14, 2025
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) is pleased to invite applications for the 2025/26 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian...
November 18, 2024
Dr. Aanchal Saraf, alumnae of the Ph.D. program in American Studies and now Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College, has won the American...