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American Studies Programs and Centers Committee
Report from the American Studies Programs Committee 2003
The Committee on American Studies Programs was not as active as it might have been in 2002. Building on the work of previous committees, we were happy to see that the program directors listserv continues to function well, although it has yet to catch fire fully as a furnace for stoking collaborative work in program development. We are pleased to recognize the continued growth in programs that bring together Ethnic Studies and American Studies. We worked closely with the Students Committee to prepare a roundtable discussion for this year’s annual meeting on PhDs outside the academy. American Studies programs have an interest in developing and expanding the possibilities for non-academic employment of their graduates, even as we need to resist the powerful drive towards vocational training that is distorting higher education across the country. This year’s roundtable discussion will focus on non-academic opportunities that enable holders of the doctorate in American Studies to continue to grow intellectually, to use their highly developed skills of research, writing, speaking and training others about the complexities of cultural conflicts and collaborations in the United States and the Americas generally. As the United States government continues to demonstrate its unwillingness to respond to the concerns of its citizenry, non-governmental organizations provide an important and necessary set of opportunities for the types of work for persons holding an American Studies PhD. We hope that our exchange will provoke program directors to consider the extension of our traditional interdisciplinary impulse to explore the construction of dual degree programs, as well as to promote the viability and usefulness of American studies training in non-traditional careers. Among the items on our agenda for the coming year is our desire to increase the visibility of the Committee on American Studies Programs for the following year’s meeting.
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