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...
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,”...
American Studies Holiday Reception will be held on December 11th at 4:00 p.m. in Davenport College, Common Room area.
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...
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.,...
Congratulations! Contemporary Literature’s editors have selected Albert Laguna’s essay, “Edgardo Vega Yunqué and the Comedy of Race,” volume 59, number 3 as the winner...
“Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography,” a team project that included our colleague Laura Wexler and our former colleague Leigh Raiford. The Closing Workshop...
