News

November 7, 2017
We proudly announce Pedro Regalado, PhD student, as the winner of the best research paper on planning history submitted by a full-time student.  The Society for American City...
November 6, 2017
Please join me in congratulating Jean-Christophe Agnew, the 2017 winner of the ASA’s Mary C. Turpie Prize, which recognizes “outstanding achievement in American Studies...
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...