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Events
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).
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University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Department of American Studies
Degrees Awarded: MA
Academic System: Semester
Tuition: In-state $3,014 per year; out-of-state $8,162 per year
Deadlines: Admissions 7/1 and 11/1; financial aid 3/1
Financial Aid: Teaching assistantships, research assistantships, Tate Memorial Scholarships, Graduate Council Fellowships
Enrollment: 14 graduate students
Admissions Requirements: GRE or Miller Analogy Test; ESL students must also take TOEFL.
Affiliations and Internships: Internships available at the Alabama Heritage magazine, and in the Bryant Sports Museum, Alabama Museum of Natural History, Moundville Native American Museum, Civil Rights Institute (in Birmingham), Center for Rural Services and Research, Central High School American Studies Center (Tuscaloosa), and in historic preservations
Program Specializations: 19th- and 20th-century social, cultural, and intellectual studies, Southern culture, music, African American culture, gender studies, popular culture
MA Requirements: Plan I requires a minimum of 24 semester hours plus a thesis. Plan II requires a minimum of 30 semester hours. Under either plan, all students take 15 semester hours of required course work within the department (including the American Experience sequence and two seminars) and write a comprehensive examination. Students may elect up to 12 semester hours of course work outside the department. In doing so, they may choose to focus upon a single discipline (literature, geography, history, art, etc.) or cognate area (Southern culture, women and minorities, urban studies, etc.) of particular interest or they may choose more broadly from a variety of relevant disciplinary and cognate course offerings. Students may also elect up to 9 hours of applied or professional course work (communications, business, education).
American Studies Faculty
ADRIAN, Lynne (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1984) Associate Professor; subcultures, women’s history, turn-of-the-century social and intellectual history
GLADNEY, Rose (PhD, Univ. of New Mexico, 1974) Professor Emeritus; the South, gender/sexuality, liberation movements
MEGRAW, Rich (PhD, Louisiana State University, 1990) Associate Professor; the West, social history, sports
MCELYA, Micki (PhD, New York University) Assisstant Professor; Cultural History, History of Women and Gender, History of Sexuality, Race and Culture, the U.S. South, Feminist Theory
MORGAN, Stacy (PhD, Emory University, 1999) Assistant Professor; visual arts and film, African American literature and art history, folklore, popular culture
SALEM, James (PhD, Louisiana State Univ., 1965) Professor; American drama, American popular music, mass culture
SHABAZZ, Amilcar (PhD, Univ. of Houston, 1996) Associate Professor and Director of African American Studies; African American history, African diaspora, media
TANG, Edward (PhD, New York Univ., 1996) Associate Professor; American intellectual and cultural history, Asian American studies, African American studies
Contact
Chair: James Salem
Department of American Studies
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
101 Ten Hoor Hall
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0214
Phone: 205/348-5940
Fax: 205/348-9766
E-mail:
www.as.ua.edu/american_studies
Admissions
The University of Alabama
Graduate School
102 Rose Administration Building
Box 870118
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0118
Telephone 205-348-5921
Fax 205-348-0400
e-mail:
http://www.ua.edu/academic/colleges/graduate/applic_info.html
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