News

October 5, 2015
September 21st, Professor Zareena Grewal’s relatives in Mosul, Iraq were drone-attacked in the middle of the night and four of them died and others were injured. For...
August 13, 2015
Congratulations to Megan Asaka (PhD 2014) for her outstanding dissertation, “The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle’s Urban Landscape” in winning the...
May 12, 2015
Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies was recently honored with Yale College’s oldest award for outstanding...
April 15, 2015
We are pleased to announce that Mary Lui will be the next master of Timothy Dwight College. Mary is currently the director of graduate studies in American Studies and...
April 1, 2015
The department is delighted to announce that Jonathan Holloway has recently been named the Edmund Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies...
March 31, 2015
Joshua Glick designed programming and contributed to the book catalogue for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008. The traveling exhibition is the first...
March 31, 2015
Joshua Glick, John F. Kasson, and Charles Musser wrote for the catalog edited by Robin Jaffee Frank. “America’s playground,” Coney Island is a world-famous resort and...