News

February 17, 2020
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies has selected Charles Musser as the recipient of its Distinguished Career Achievement Award. The award honors a scholar who has made “...
February 4, 2020
Congratulations! Albert Laguna is the recipient of the 2020 LARR-Pitt Best Article Award for his article “Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture” ...
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January 7, 2020
In honor of Hazel Carby and her most recent publication, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso, 2019), this conference assembles a group of thinkers, writers, and...
January 2, 2020
Bench Ansfield is a PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University. In March 2020 their article, “The Broken Windows of the Bronx: Putting the Theory in Its Place,”...
December 11, 2019
American Studies Holiday Reception will be held on December 11th at 4:00 p.m. in Davenport College, Common Room area.
November 6, 2019
Candace Borders, a second year PhD student in American Studies and African American Studies, received an award this month for a paper presented at the National Conference of...
November 1, 2019
I write with the wonderful news that Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas, a volume co-edited by Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner (recent Ph.D.,...