News

November 1, 2017
Sarah Haley (Yale AMST PhD 2010) won the 2017 Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize for her book, There’s No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim...
September 15, 2017
We are delighted to share the good news that Laura Barraclough has been awarded the Michael P. Malone Award for best publication on state or territorial history from the...
September 8, 2017
The Psychic Toll of Trump’s DACA Decision by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Ph.D candidate.   “I did not raise you to cry,” my father would say when I fell off my bike, as he...
August 21, 2017
Please join us to celebrate the new academic year.
July 26, 2017
Beverly Gage, Professor of History and the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy at Yale, joins American Studies after years of teaching courses of interest to our...
July 26, 2017
Albert Laguna’s book is a re-examination of the Cuban diaspora through he lens of popular culture.  In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book...
July 26, 2017
Daniel HoSang, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration and American Studies, comes to us from the University of Oregon where he was Assistant Professor of...