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Annual Meeting Events
Friday, October 17, 2008
Breakfast Forum Co-sponsored by the ASA Students’ Committee and the ASA Minority Scholars’ Committee: “"Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Their Pedagogical Strategies
Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Place: TBD
Chair: Jenny Moffitt, Florida State University
Presenters:
Andrea Smith, University of Michigan
AnaLouise Keating, Texas Woman’s University
Lynn Itagaki, Ohio State University
Breakfast Forum Co-sponsored by the ASA Students’ Committee and the ASA Ethnic Studies Committee: “The Futures of American Studies and Ethnic Studies”
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Place: TBD
Chair: Sharon Heijin Lee, University of Michigan
Presenters:
Maria Cotera, University of Michigan
Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Breakfast Forum: “Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies”
Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Place: TBD
Chair: Joan Fragaszy Troyano, George Washington University
Presenters:
Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago
Breakfast Forum: “Getting Great Advising: A Breakfast Forum Workshop for Grad Students”
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Place: TBD
Facilitators:
(Chair) Ami Sommariva, University of California, Davis
Joan Fragaszy Troyano, George Washington University
Jenny Moffitt, Florida State University
Roundtables
*Dates and times to be determined.
American Studies Outside the Academy
This workshop is designed to offer useful advice and information to current graduate students planning to pursue careers other than university teaching. The panel brings together a variety of professionals working in the broader field of American Studies. Panelists include the editor-in-chief of the University of New Mexico Press, the director of the University of California, Riverside’s Public History program, a historian at the New Mexico State Historian’s office and a curator of photography at the Amon Carter Museum, Texas. In a workshop format, panelists will take questions from current graduate students, discuss their own career experiences and the different opportunities that are available to those intending to work outside the academy.
Chair: Tom Perrin, University of Chicago
Presenters:
Jessica May, Amon Carter Museum
Pato Hebert, AIDS Project, Los Angeles
Dennis Trujillo, Office of the New Mexico State Historian
W. Clark Whitehorn, University of New Mexico Press
Molly McGarry, University of California, Riverside
TA to Tenure: Re-Thinking Academic Labor and Unionization
This workshop is meant to facilitate discussion about the struggles, benefits, and risks of unionization for academic laborers, and to situate these concerns within the context of a larger series of changes being observed in the way universities operate. While addressing the stakes of unionization for graduate student workers, we hope to consider obstacles to just academic labor practices that affect not only graduate students, but also adjuncts, junior and senior faculty, and staff. We are particularly interested in discussing how race, sexuality, and citizenship status affect hiring and tenure decisions as well as labor organizing. We also hope to explore how conflicts around these issues connect to other aspects of teaching, working, and studying in the “corporate” university, such as threats to ethnic studies programs and assaults on the integrity of academic decision-making.
Chair: Carisa Worden, New York University
Presenters:
Gary Okihiro, Professor of History, Columbia University
Rana Jaleel, PhD Candidate and UAW Staff Organizer, New York University
Shana Redmond, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Be A Better Writer: How to Produce Strong Abstracts, Proposals, and Cover Letters
This roundtable focuses on writing. It seeks to help students produce stronger abstracts, proposals, cover letters, and to better students’ chances of winning competitive fellowships, securing jobs, and publishing articles. Some of the questions addressed include: What are the best organizational structures for abstracts, proposals, and cover letters? How do you compose compelling and memorable pieces? What are some common writing mistakes that students make? Where can students go to find additional resources?
Presenters:
(Chair) Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Carolyn de la Pena, University of California, Davis
Elaine Lewinnek, California State University, Fullerton
Mock Job Interview Workshop
This panel is a demonstration workshop sponsored annually by the Students’ Committee of the American Studies Association for graduate students about to enter the job market. The workshop begins with a mock job interview, in which a dissertating graduate student has a conference interview with a “search committee” of senior scholars. This year, the position in question is a tenure-track appointment in American Studies at a research university. Our “job candidate” is Jee-Eun Song, a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. After the mock interview session, the faculty panelists provide feedback on the candidate’s written materials and performance, and then field questions from the audience about the job market and interview process.
Chair: Tom Perrin, University of Chicago
Presenters:
Patricia Hills, Boston University
Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware
Yvette Piggush, Florida International University
Jee-Eun Song, University of California, Davis
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Arizona State University
Reception for Graduate Students
Coming soon…
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