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University of Texas at Austin
American Studies Department

Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: in-state graduate $483 per credit hour; out-of-state $704 per credit hour Deadlines: Graduate admissions 1/1; financial aid 1/1

Financial Aid: Assistant instructorships, teaching assistantships, preemptive (recruiting) fellowships, continuing fellowships

Affiliations and Internships: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center houses a large collection of American drama, literature, and photography holdings; it is internationally known for its rare book and manuscript library. The Center for American History has extensive manuscript holdings in the history of Texas and the South.

Program Specializations: Cultural, intellectual, and social history; literature; issues of race, class, gender; art and architecture; religion; the American West.

The American Studies Program at the University of Texas, Austin focuses on the cultural and intellectual life of the United States. Its students analyze the American past and present, using interdisciplinary methods that lead to or enrich a wide variety of careers. Most of our students become teachers and scholars at the university level, but others go into journalism, broadcast media, film, museum curating, law, public relations, editing, advertising, government service, and creative writing. We aim to provide a reasonably comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary study of American cultures as well as a critical posture that allows students movement within and well beyond the interests of faculty members.

American Studies Faculty

ABZUG, Robert H. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1977) Professor; 19th- and 20th-century American social and cultural history, religion and society

BURNHAM, Patricia (PhD, Boston Univ., 1984) Senior Lecturer; art history

DAVIS, Janet (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998) Assistant Professor; American popular culture and empire, American social movements, working class, modern South Asia

FOLEY, Neil F. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1990) Associate Professor; borderlands history, Mexican American history, the American Southwest, race and ethnicity in the U.S., comparative civil rights

GOETZMANN, William H. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1957) Professor; American intellectual and cultural history, history of the West, history of science, art and American culture

HOELSCHER, Steven D. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1995) Assistant Professor, cities and regions, landscape and nature, ethnicity and race, tourism, cultural history of photography

MEIKLE, Jeffrey L. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1977) Professor; American design and architecture, technology and culture, contemporary literature

MICKENBERG, Julia L. (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 2000) Assistant Professor; twentieth century cultural and social history, history of childhood and education, the Popular Front and McCarthyism, regionalism and folk cultures, progressive reform movements, women’s history

PARK, John S. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2000) Assistant Professor; immigration law and history, race and ethnicity, Asian American History, American constitutional law, Anglo-American political theory

ROSTOW, Elspeth D. (MA, Cambridge Univ., 1949) Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Stile Professor Emeritus in American Studies; presidential politics and biography, political culture

SMITH, Mark C. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1980) Associate Professor; history of social science and social work, drugs and alcohol in American culture

STOTT, William M. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1972) Professor Emeritus; strategies of popular nonfiction writing, photohistory, autobiography, literature

THOMPSON, Shirley E. (PhD, Harvard Univ, 2001) Assistant Professor; nineteenth-century cultural history, narratives of slavery and freedom, race and ethnicity, African American literature, historiography

WEDDINGTON, Sarah (JD, Univ. of Texas, 1967) Adjunct Professor; gender-based discrimination, leadership in America
Affiliated Faculty

AINSLIE, Ricardo (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1979) Associate Professor of Psychology

BARNOUW, Jeffrey (PhD, Yale Univ., 1969) Professor of English

BROCKETT, Oscar G. (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1953) Distinguished Teaching Professor, Z.T. Scott Family Chair in Drama

BURNHAM, Walter Dean (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1963) Professor of Government, Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Chair in State Government

COLSON, James B. (MA, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1961) Professor of Journalism

GRAHAM, Don (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1971) J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor in American and English Literature

HENDERSON, Linda Dalrymple (PhD, Yale Univ., 1975) Professor of Art History

MONTEJANO, David (PhD, Yale Univ., 1982) Associate Professor of History

PELLS, Richard H. (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1969) Professor of History

SCHATZ, Thomas G. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1976) Professor of Communication, Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication

STAIGER, Janet (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1981) Professor of Communications

STALEY, Thomas F. (PhD, Pittsburgh Univ., 1962; DHL, Regis College, 1979) Professor of English, C.B. Smith Sr., Nash Phillips, Clyde Copus Centennial Chair Honoring Harry Huntt Ranson

STROVER, Sharon L. (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1982) Associate Professor of Communications

TODD, Janice S. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1990) Assistant Professor of Kinesiology

TULIS, Jeffrey K. (PhD, Chicago Univ., 1982) Associate Professor of Government

TYLER, Ron C. (PhD, Texas Christian Univ., 1968) Professor of History

WOLITZ, Seth L. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1965) Professor of Judaic Studies, L.D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies

Contact

American Studies Department
303 Garrison Hall
Austin, TX 78712
Phone: 512/471-7277
Fax: 512/471-3540
E-mail:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/ams/

Chair/Director: Janet M. Davis
Graduate Advisor: Mark C. Smith

Admissions

University of Texas, Austin
Graduate and International Admissions Center
P.O. Box 7608
Austin, TX 78713-7608
Telephone: 512-475-7390
Fax: 512-475-7395
e-mail:
http://www.utexas.edu/student/giac/