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Applicants must submit a brief statement outlining their qualifications and experience and a maximum two page vita by email as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment. Do not submit length academic resumes.

Letters suggesting or recommending a candidate should also relate the candidate’s experience to the committee’s work. In addition to the letter, nominations must include the nominee’s brief statement outlining his or her qualifications and experience and a maximum two page vita by email as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment for each candidate. Do not submit multiple nominations in a single document.

Materials are due on or before April 1, 2010. Send to the Executive Committee, American Studies Association, e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Standing Committees:

Committee on American Studies Programs and Centers: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments and programs, and has the responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s institutional membership. Two positions, three-year terms.

Committee on Ethnic Studies: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current activities, interests, and professional concerns affecting Ethnic Studies programs, departments, and scholars; to act as a liaison among association standing committees; to be responsible for liaison with other ethnic studies organizations, and to have responsibility for special tasks involving Ethnic Studies scholars and scholarship. Two positions, three-year terms.

Committee on Graduate Education: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current issues affecting graduate education in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and other interdisciplinary graduate-level instruction; to act as a liaison between the association and national organizations concerning graduate education in the field, such as, but not limited to, the National Research Council; to act as a liaison among association standing committees on issues concerning graduate education; and shall have responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s institutional members that have Ph.D. and M.A. degree granting programs concerning graduate education. Two positions, three year terms.

Committee on Regional Chapters: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current activities, interests, and needs of the regional chapters; acts as a liaison between the association and the regional chapters; and has responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s regional chapters. Five positions (one each from the Chesapeake, Great Lakes, Hawai’i, Kentucky-Tennessee, and Southern regions), three-year terms. Nominees are also presented by the chapters.

Committee on K-16 Collaboration: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional orientations of K-16 educators involved with American Studies programs or curricula. Two positions, three-year terms.

International Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting international scholars and students in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving international scholars and students in the membership. International members of the ASA especially are encouraged to apply. Three positions, three-year terms.

Minority Scholars’ Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting minority scholars in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving minority scholars in the membership. Two positions, three-year terms.

Students’ Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and orientations of American Studies students. Four positions, two-year terms.

Women’s Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting women in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving women in the membership. Two positions, three-year terms.

Prize Committees (2011):

The Prize Committees for 2011 start work during the fall of the 2010-2011 academic year and complete their work by September 2011.

John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee: Selects the best-published book in American Studies submitted each year to the Committee by authors and publishers. Three positions, one-year terms.

Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee: Selects a person for the best-published first book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation. Three positions, one-year terms.

Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee: Selects the best completed dissertation in American Studies submitted to the Committee by graduate programs in American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, and American Women’s Studies. Three positions, one-year terms.

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President-Elect:  Priscilla Wald, Duke University

Council:

Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Robert Lee, Brown University
Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego
Cynthia Young, Boston College

Student Councilor: Sarah Melton, Emory University

Nominating Committee:

Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Meredith Raimondo , Oberlin College

The Council extends its appreciation to all those who agreed to run for office, congratulates the new leaders of the Association, and wishes them success in their undertakings over the next three years.

The Council also extends its gratitude to those who are completing their term of service.

The councilors whose terms expire on June 30, 2010 include Carolyn T. de la Peña, University of California, Davis; Philip J. Deloria, past president, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota; Alvina Quintana, University of Delaware;  Carisa Worden, student councilor, New York University; and Henry Yu, University of British Columbia.

The Nominating Committee members whose terms expire on June 30, 2010 are María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University and John Howard, King’s College, University of London.

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The American Studies Association is pleased to announce the scholars participating in its Distinguished Speaker’s Bureau.. Speaking on a wide range of topics, the ASA Distinguished Speakers’ Bureau brings leading scholars to your institution.

Speakers listed below are willing to give at least one lecture in the academic year on behalf of the ASA. Speakers donate their time to the ASA in order to participate. Host institutions pay a $1,000 speaker’s fee directly to the ASA, in addition to the speaker’s travel and lodging expenses.

All speakers’ fees are deposited into the ASA’s Community Partnership Fund. The Community Partnership Fund supports a competitive grants program open to members of the American Studies Association. The Fund encourages projects developed in collaboration with community-based organizations, school districts, public libraries, local historical societies, community museums, and other non-profit entities.

If you or an institution you know would like to arrange a lecture or need further information, please contact the Distinguished Speakers’ Bureau Coordinator at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). In some cases the scholars may be willing to speak on topics other than those listed here. The earlier arrangements are made the better chance you have of obtaining the speaker of your choice. Please do not contact lecturers directly.

The following individuals are available to lecture.

• Randy Bass, Georgetown University
• Joanne Braxton, College of William and Mary
• Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland, College Park
• Paul Buhle, Brown University
• George Chauncey, Yale University
• Arlene Davila, New York University
• Carolyn de la Pena, University of California, Davis
• Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Julie Ellison, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Ann Fabian, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California
• Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine
• Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California
• Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
• Mary Kelley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
• Paul Lauter, Trinity College
• Eric Lott, University of Virginia
• Susan Manning, Northwestern University
• Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
• Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University
• Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
• Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles
• Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park
• Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota
• Janice Radway, Northwestern University
• David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
• George J. Sánchez, University of Southern California
• Stephen H. Sumida, University of Washington
• Patricia A. Turner, University of California at Davis
• Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia

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Individual subscriptions are an attractive option for those whose institutions don’t already have a subscription to HEB or for American Studies Association members who might not be affiliated with a subscribing institution. Individual annual subscriptions are $35.00. Please visit http://www.humanitiesebook.org/subscribinginsts.html to see if your institution subscribes.

You may purchase an individual subscription to HEB at http://www.humanitiesebook.org/subscription_purchase.html. Please choose American Studies Association from the “Society Affiliation” pull-down menu and, in the space that says “Society Membership Number,” provide your American Studies Association membership number. If you do not know your membership number, you may request it here http://asa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/member_number_lookup.cgi

You may also call the Johns Hopkins University Press at 1-800-548-1784 for your membership number, or email JHUP Customer Service at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For inquiries about HEB, please e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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This website provides scholars with a one-stop shop for the latest research published in American studies journals throughout the world. Organized by the International Initiative of the American Studies Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this site is the outcome of a collaboration between numerous journal editors around the world.

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The term American studies encompasses a vast range of disciplines, all of which, in one way or another, are trying to describe the cultures of the United States. In recent years American studies has also incorporated comparative studies of Canada and Latin America; and indeed a transnational, global perspective on American culture has become one of the leading currents in the field as we begin the twenty-first century. Where, after all, do the borders of America stop, when its influence was, throughout the twentieth century, so pervasive on world cultures?

This month’s featured articles include American Studies in China; American Studies in France; American Studies in Germany

Members of the ASA have access to the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online as a membership benefit. Register here at the Johns Hopkins University Press website for free access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia (current ASA members only). Simply enter the member log in and password that you create or have already created for the JHU website to gain access to the EAS.

If you have questions about your membership or difficulties logging in to AQ or EAS online, please contact the customer service dept of the Johns Hopkins University Press at (410) 516-6987 or 1-800-548-1784, or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Many of you have a user name and password for the JHUP site and are trying to use those here at the ASA website (or vice versa).  To do so, you must create the same user name and password at both sites.

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Since 1995, the American Studies Crossroads Project has provided a comprehensive and integrated platform for pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies community.

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