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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs
University of Maryland, College Park
American Studies
Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD
Academic System: Semester
Tuition: In-state graduate $393 per credit hour, out-of-state $820 per credit hour
Deadlines: Graduate admissions and financial aid 12/15
Financial Aid: Graduate assistantships, graduate fellowships
Affiliations and Internships: Access to resources of Washington, DC, area, including Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian Institution; member of Washington Metropolitan Consortium of Area Colleges and Universities
Program Specializations: Cultures of everyday life; cultural constructions of difference and identity; cultural studies
Teaching and research in American Studies is shaped by two principal intellectual themes: cultures of everyday life and cultural constructions of difference and identity. These themes recur in subareas, including cultural studies, ethnography, material & visual culture, popular culture & media studies, intersectionality, and multiracial identities. Faculty consist of 11 core departmental faculty and approximately 70 affiliate faculty
MA Requirements: The Master’s program requires completion of 30 credit hours. Students who elect to write a thesis take 24 hours of course work and 6 hours of thesis credit (AMST 799). Students who elect the non-thesis option take 30 hours of course work and submit a scholarly paper based on independent research in lieu of a thesis.
PhD Requirements: Students entering with a Master’s degree take at least 30 hours of coursework, plus at least 12 hours of dissertation credit (AMST899); students entering with a Bachelor’s take 42 hours of course work and the dissertation credits. Coursework is organized around two core areas. Students must also take a series of three examinations, and after submitting a detailed prospectus, write and defend a dissertation employing two or more disciplines to address a topic or problem contributing to our understanding of American culture past or present.
American Studies Faculty
Core Faculty
CAUGHEY, John L. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1970) Professor and Chairperson; ethnography, culture of consciousness, life history research, comparative cultures
KELLY, R. Gordon (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1970) Professor; literature and society, popular fiction, children’s literature
LOUNSBURY, Myron O. (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966) Associate Professor; film, science fiction, electronic media, contemporary culture theory
PAOLETTI, Jo B. (PhD, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 1980) Associate Professor; material culture studies, clothing and culture, culture of childhood
PARKS, Sheri (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1985) Associate Professor; popular aesthetics, mass media, race, gender, family
SIES, Mary Corbin (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1987) Associate Professor; material culture, cultural history, architectural, urban, and planning history
STRUNA, Nancy L. (PhD, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 1979) Professor; social history, popular culture, leisure and sport history, critical theory
Affiliated Faculty
CARAMELLO, Charles (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1978) Professor of English; 20th century American fiction, modern literary theory, post-modern culture
GILBERT, James B. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1966) Professor of History; American cultural and intellectual history
HANHARDT, Christina (Ph. D., New York Univ., 2007) Queer theory; material & visual culture; gentrification; race, gender, ad sexuality in urban policy; LGBT activism; international human rights advocacy; politics of crime and punishment
LEONE, Mark P. (PhD, Univ. of Arizona, 1968) Professor of Archaeology; North American archaeology, historical archaeology, African American archaeology, outdoor history museums
MCCUNE, Jeffrey Q. (Ph. D., Northwestern Univ., 2007) Performance studies; Black queer theory; popular culture; critical race/gender/sexuality theory; masculinities; whiteness studies; 20th-century African American culture
PETERSON, Carla L. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1976) Professor of English; 19th century African American women writers
ROSENFELT, Deborah S. (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1972) Professor of English; women’s writers and social change in the modern U.S., diversity and curricula change in higher education
SHINAGAWA, Larry Hajime (Ph. D. Univ. of California, Berkley, 1992) Asian American studies; demography; multiracial identity; public policy; Asian American rights & advocacy
WILLIAMS-FORSON, Psyche (Ph. D., Univ. of Maryland,2002) Material & visual culture; food as cultural work; diasporic culture; cultural production; Black women’s experiences
Contact
American Studies
University of Maryland
1102 Holzapfel Hall
College Park, MD 20742-5620
Phone: 301/405-1355
Fax: 301/314-9453
E-mail:
www.amst.umd.edu
Chair: John Caughey
Graduate Director: Mary Corbin Sies
Admissions
University of Maryland, College Park
Office of Graduate Admissions
2117 Lee Building
College Park, MD 20742-5121
Telephone: (301)405-4198,
Fax: (301)314-9305
e-mail:
http://www.umd.edu/prospective/grad.html
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