Working Groups are a vital element of graduate student life at Yale University because they allow interested students the opportunity to delve more deeply into a topic of interest. Meeting weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, working groups are typically overseen by one or more graduate students working in concert with a faculty advisor. The nature of each meeting runs the gamut from group reading/discussion to paper workshopping, from guest speakers to primary source exploration around campus.
Please check back regularly as we work to create an online home for all of the working groups of which graduate students in American Studies are members. These include:
- Asian American Studies Working Group (Contact: Prof. Mary Lui)
- American Religious History Working Group (Contact: Kati Curts)
- Department of English’s Americanist Colloquium (Contact: Prof. Alanna Hickey, Jeong Yeon Lee)
- Digital Humanities Working Group (Contact: Prof. Laura Wexler )
- Ethnography and Oral History Initiative (Contact: Prof Kathryn Dudley)
- Ethnography & Oral History Working Group (Contact: Prof. Kathryn Dudley)
- Material Culture Working Lunch Group (Contact: Prof. Edward Cooke, Jr.)
- Performance Studies Working Group (Contact: Alex Ripp)
- Photographic Memory Workshop (Contact: Prof. Laura Wexler)
- Public Humanities Working Group (Contact: Prof. Karin Roffman, Candace Borders, Charlotte Hecht)
- Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Colloquium/Working Group (Contact: Jacinda Tran, Patricia Ekpo)
- Working Group on Globalization and Culture (Contact: Prof. Michael Denning)
- Working Group on Marxism and Culture (Contact: Prof. Michael Denning, Simon Torracinta)