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March 2, 2023
We proudly announce Sylvia Ryerson has been awarded the 2022 Jack Spadaro Documentary Award for her film documentary, Calls From Home. The judges commented that Calls From ...
February 22, 2023
Congratulations to Jacinda Tran, doctoral candidate in Yale’s American Studies program! Tran’s paper, “‘When the Landscape is the Enemy’: U.S. Visual and Ecological Warfare...
February 9, 2023
The short documentary, “CANS Can’t Stand,” by Matt Nadel ‘21 and Megan Plotka is featured as a favorite in the New Yorker. This work began as an award-winning senior...
February 1, 2023
There’s a reason Ron De Santis feels threatened by AP African American Studies. Read the Op-Ed here.
January 30, 2023
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) is pleased to invite applications for the 2023/24 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian...
January 9, 2023
Yale’s American Studies department congratulates UNITE-HERE Local 33 organizers and members for winning this historic right to form a graduate workers’ union. This win is a...
January 5, 2023
Congratulations to Charlotte Hecht on her recent publication, “Between Destruction and Beauty: Exhibiting Photographs of Militarized Landscapes.” A review of a 2022 exhibit...